10 AI Tools to Streamline Your Marketing
Let’s be honest—most marketing teams aren’t short on talent. They’re short on time, systems, and sanity. If your content calendar lives in six places and your copy lives in Slack messages, welcome. You’re in the right place.
At Mise En Place Co, we help businesses bring order to creative chaos. And lately, a lot of that order has come from AI tools—the right ones. Not the hype-y ones promising to replace your whole team (rude). The practical ones that help your actual humans do their jobs faster, smarter, and with far fewer browser tabs.
Here are 10 AI tools, both free and premium that can take your team from frazzled to focused.
1. Notion AI
For: Organizing your brain and your backlog
If your team’s notes, briefs, and ideas are scattered like confetti, Notion AI is your calm-in-the-storm assistant. It can summarize meeting notes, draft first-pass content, and even suggest project plans. Best part? It all lives in one workspace. Elegant, like it should be.
Cost: Free plan available, AI features start at $10 per seat/month
2. GrammarlyGO
For: Making your team sound smarter (without sounding like robots)
More than a spell-checker, GrammarlyGO helps polish tone, rewrite content, and tighten up rambling Slack messages before they become office folklore. Helpful for teams juggling 17 brand voices and zero time.
Cost: Free basic plan, AI features in Premium starting at $12/month
3. Gamma
For: Presentations that tell a story, not just show slides
Gamma blends the clarity of a slide deck with the flow of a doc and the ease of AI. You write out your content, and it auto-generates clean, modern slides—great for creative briefs, strategy docs, or investor updates that don’t look like they were built at 2:00 AM in PowerPoint.
Cost: Free plan available, Pro starts at $8 per seat/month
For: Everything from ideation to editing
Yes, it’s the obvious choice—but for good reason. Need help naming a campaign? Turning dense notes into a brief? Creating ten variations of a headline? ChatGPT is your MVP, especially if you’ve trained it on your tone and workflows.
Cost: Free with GPT-3.5, $20/month for GPT-4 (which is worth it)
5. Descript
For: Video and audio editing that doesn’t require a production degree
Drag-and-drop editing, automatic transcripts, AI voiceovers—it’s like Google Docs for video. Ideal for repurposing podcast clips, creating short-form video, and not crying over Final Cut timelines.
Cost: Free plan available, paid plans from $12/month
6. Copy.ai
For: Quick-turn copy that doesn’t feel like filler
Great for brainstorming and fast content generation, especially if your team gets stuck staring at a blinking cursor. Use it for outlines, email sequences, even social captions. Just remember: AI writes first drafts. You still need a human to finesse.
Cost: Free plan available, Pro starts at $49/month
7. Surfer SEO
For: Content that actually gets seen (not just published)
Surfer takes the guesswork out of SEO without turning your blog into a keyword salad. It analyzes SERPs and helps you optimize in real-time while keeping your content readable. Perfect for content teams with performance goals.
Cost: Starts at $79/month
8. Beautiful.ai
For: Presentations that don’t look like a 2007 group project
No more last-minute deck disasters. Beautiful.ai uses AI to auto-format your slides so they look cohesive and sharp—without a designer babysitting every pixel. Just add your content, pick a theme, and breathe.
Cost: Free trial available, paid plans from $12/month
9. Midjourney
For: Original, artful visuals that stop the scroll
Midjourney is an AI image generation tool that’s less “clipart with opinions” and more “art director in a Discord server.” It’s perfect for concepting, moodboarding, and creating on-brand visuals when stock just won’t cut it. Yes, it takes a minute to learn the prompts—but once you do, it’s addictive. And stunning.
Cost: Plans start at $10/month
For: Design that doesn’t scream ‘we made this in Canva’
Canva’s AI features—like Magic Design, Magic Resize, and Magic Write—turn it into a real powerhouse. Your team can spin up on-brand graphics, resize for every channel, and write accompanying copy all in one place. It’s not a designer replacement. But it’s a very good start.
Cost: Free plan available, Pro starts at $12.99/month
The Bottom Line?
AI is not here to replace your team—it’s here to give them fewer tabs, fewer bottlenecks, and more brainspace for actual creative thinking. The real magic happens when your tools, systems, and humans are all working with each other, not in spite of one another.
And if that still sounds like a stretch? Let’s talk. Mise En Place Co helps marketing teams get organized enough to use AI well—so the tech serves the strategy, not the other way around.
