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Anu Verma
Tech and automation writer
Anu Verma is a tech and automation enthusiast who writes about AI tools and automation.
On Automate Basics she writes for people who use these tools at work rather than build them: what a tool actually does, what it costs, and the steps to put it to use.
Everything by Anu
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Coursera Alternatives for Practical AI Training
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Are AI Certifications Recognised by Employers? Compare Options
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AI Automation Implementation Checklist for Your First Workflow
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AI Automation ROI for Small Business: Get an Exact Quote
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AI Acceptable Use Policy: A Small-Business Checklist
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Send Microsoft Forms Responses to a SharePoint List Automatically
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Power Automate Alternatives for Teams That Aren't All-Microsoft
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Build a Power Automate Approval Flow Without Code
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Send Automatic Reminders From a SharePoint List With Power Automate
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Zapier Alternatives for When the Task Limits Start to Bite
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How to Prepare Properly for an AI Certification Exam
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How to Measure AI Training Results at Work Today
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AI Automation Training for Beginners: Choose Your First Path
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How to Check Your Business Visibility in AI Search Results
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Automatically Email New Files in a Folder for Your Team
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Best AI Automation Courses for Non-Technical Work
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How to Track Your Brand’s Visibility in ChatGPT
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How to Automate Email Classification Without Coding
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Save Gmail Attachments to OneDrive Without Coding
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Can Your Team Get Free AI Training and Certificates?
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AI Essentials and Certification for Non-Engineers
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Free ChatGPT Course With a Certificate: What to Check
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The Best Way to Learn Claude and ChatGPT at Work
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Affordable AI Certification With a Verifiable Certificate
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Automated Product Certification: A Practical Workflow
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How to Improve Your AI Chatbot Visibility This Week
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What ChatGPT Visibility Means for Your Brand Buyers
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What Does “Automate All the Things” Mean in AI?
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How to Automate Emails With Attachments Using AI
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Best AI Cost Visibility Tools for Small Businesses
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AI Training for Non-Engineers: A Practical First Week
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How to Get an AI Certification Online That Helps
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How to Compare AI Training Courses for Real Work
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Should You Pay for an AI Visibility Tracking Tool?
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What AI Visibility Trends Can You Automate in Reports?
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How AI Sees Your Company Brand: A Practical Check
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How Much Does an AI Visibility Platform Cost?
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Scrape a Web Page and Summarise It with Claude
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Automatically Save Email Attachments to a Folder
E-commerce
Automate Abandoned-Cart Emails in Shopify Without Code
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Route Form Leads to Your CRM Automatically, No Code
Content & Social
Auto-Post Google Docs to LinkedIn Without Writing Code
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How to Transcribe and Summarise Voice Notes Automatically
Content & Social
Connect Airtable to ChatGPT for Content Production
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How to Auto-Reply to WhatsApp Messages With AI
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Best AI Training Courses for Professionals Who Need Results
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AI Certification Under $100: What’s Worth Buying?
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Connect Claude to Google Sheets Without Writing Code
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Connect Claude to n8n: 3 Workflows to Try This Week
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Turn Gmail Emails into Notion Tasks Automatically
Content & Social
How to Turn One Blog Post Into Five AI Social Posts
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How to Automatically Categorise Support Emails With AI
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Connect ChatGPT to Slack Without Writing Code
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The AI skills gap, in numbers
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Which AI Visibility Tool Should You Actually Pay For? Pricing and Engine Coverage Compared
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Silent failure is the real enemy
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What to automate, and what never to
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Context beats clever prompts
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Automate the Boring Half of Your Job Hunt (Resume Tailoring, ATS, Tracking)
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Automate Your SEO Reporting: Search Console and AI Visibility in One Loop
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The 60-second verification pass
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AI Visibility Audit vs Traditional SEO Audit: What's the Difference?
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Your Brand Isn't Showing Up in ChatGPT: Why, and How to Fix It
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How to Get Cited by AI: llms.txt, Schema, and FAQ Pages That Work
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How to Improve Your Brand's Visibility in AI: A 7-Step Checklist
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How to Track Whether AI Mentions Your Brand (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini)
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What Is AI Visibility? How to Get Your Brand Seen by ChatGPT and AI Search
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Why AI makes things up, and the five places it happens
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How to Set Up an AI Chatbot to Answer Customer Questions on Your Website
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How to Use AI to Research Leads and Personalize Cold Emails (Beginner Guide)
E-commerce
Use AI to Draft On-Brand Replies to Customer Reviews (Good and Bad)
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Automate a Weekly Report From Google Sheets to Slack or Email
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Custom GPT vs Claude Project: Build an AI Assistant, No Code
Finance
Use ChatGPT to Categorize Expenses and Tidy Your Books as a Freelancer
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Plan a Month of Social Media Posts in One ChatGPT Chat (Content Calendar)
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How to Use ChatGPT for Meeting Notes and a Follow-Up Email
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ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini: Which AI Is Best for Work in 2026
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Extract PDF Invoice Data Into a Spreadsheet Automatically (No Typing)
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How to Write a Good ChatGPT Prompt for Work: The 4-Part Formula
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Turn Messy Notes Into a Clean SOP With AI (Beginner Guide)
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How to Repurpose One Long Video Into a Week of Short Clips With AI
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How to Stop ChatGPT Hallucinations and Fact-Check Its Answers
People & HR
Generate Tailored Interview Questions from a Job Description with ChatGPT
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Build an End-of-Day Shutdown Routine with Apple Shortcuts
E-commerce
Write Product Descriptions in Bulk with ChatGPT and Google Sheets
Finance
Auto-Categorize Your Expenses With AI (Right in Your Spreadsheet)
E-commerce
Build an Abandoned Cart Email Flow (Recover Sales You Already Earned)
Content & Social
Auto-Post Your Blog to Social With n8n + Claude
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Turn Messy Meeting Notes into Clear Action Items with AI
People & HR
Screen Job Applications Faster with AI (Beginner Guide)
E-commerce
Get Low-Stock Restock Alerts Automatically with Shopify Flow (No Code)
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Auto-Reply to New Leads in Under a Minute (n8n + Claude)
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How to Auto-Categorize Support Emails with AI (n8n Tutorial)
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How to Auto-Draft Sales Follow-Up Emails with n8n + Claude (No Code)
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How to Automate Invoice Reminders for Freelancers (n8n + Gmail + Sheets)
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How to Automate a Weekly Marketing Report with GA4 + AI (n8n)
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Build a Daily AI Briefing With ChatGPT Tasks (No Server, No Code)
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Email to Notion: Auto-Create Tasks From Your Inbox (n8n Workflow)
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Clean a Messy CSV and Build a PivotTable in Plain English (with AI)
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What Is n8n? A Beginner's Guide (+ Your First AI Workflow)
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Answer Questions From a 100-Page Policy Pack With NotebookLM (Cited, No Guessing)
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Triage a Flooded Inbox with AI, and Draft Replies (You Always Hit Send)
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Auto-File Email Attachments to SharePoint and Notify the Team (Power Automate)
Content & Social
Voice Note → LinkedIn Post with Apple Shortcuts + ChatGPT (No Install, No Server)
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How to Turn a Voice Note Into a LinkedIn Post Automatically (n8n + Claude)
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Which AI Chat Is Safe for Work Data? Copilot vs ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini
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