8 AI Tools For Freelancers Running A Side Hustle In 2024

With the rise of the side hustle boom, more professionals are turning to freelancing to bring in a second or supplementary source of income, and to enable them to battle the inflated costs of living.

But freelancing is not easy; as a solopreneur you would be responsible for a range of tasks that sometimes are more time-consuming than providing the product or service itself. From tracking finances and completing year-end tax returns, to providing timely customer service support and dealing with complaints, to endless marketing activity to drive traction to your services—there’s so much to think about and only one pair of hands to do it all.

And to add to the complexity, you’re probably juggling this side hustle while also working a full-time day job. Here is a list of AI tools you can use to augment your work, boost the quality of your services and productivity as a freelancer, and bring you peace of mind:

Lyne AI

Lyne AI is a tool that helps you save time with your cold sales and marketing emails; it generates a personalized first line for your emails, and claims to generate hundreds in one hour alone. This helps boost traffic to your freelance service and improves your outreach through getting more emails opened and replies. The develop of this tool also features a separate AI tool, LinkedIn Scraper, that extracts hundreds of real-time work emails from your LinkedIn leads and makes it easier to generate a contact list for prospecting.

Logopony

In need of generating a fresh, attractive logo for your personal brand or to feature on your website? Logopony is a smart tool that doesn’t require you to be a design genius to create your logo. Simply input your brand colors, slogan, name of business, and any icons you’d like to include, and it will generate a plethora of options to pick from.

Scheduler AI

This clever meetings and appointments scheduler works differently to other meeting scheduling tools because it works based on intent analyzed from text. This reduces hassle for you as you book meetings with clients and potential leads. It also manages cancellations and reminders for you, which takes the hassle out of the back-and-forth of coordinating meetings that you could be using for productive work.

Supercreator AI

Supercreator allows you to shoot and create engaging short-form video content to build your personal brand. It is especially suited to edutainment—that is, videos that are informative while being enjoyable to watch. It helps you save a significant amount of time in video production and provides you with teleprompting, video backgrounds, and assistance with scripts.

ChatGPT

Well of course, this is an obvious one. Is there anything that ChatGPT cannot do? You can apply this handy generative AI application to a wide range of scenarios, from drafting emails, to creating short-form and long-form content, to generating new business ideas and income streams, and planning your workload.

Receipt Cat

Receipt Cat is a tool that enables you to track your expenses more efficiently without needing to manually input key information, such as details of receipts for example. You can also categorize business spend and feel better prepared for the tax return, or if the IRS decides to conduct an audit within the mandated seven-year period.

Simplified AI

This tool generates all types of content for you, saving you time with marketing, It can help with creating short form and long form content, social media quotes, product descriptions, photo captions, and YouTube video descriptions. You can customize the output to suit your brand voice. This comes very handy if you don’t consider yourself to be much of a creative person or have a mind block.

Canva

Canva is a graphic design tool that boasts AI-powered capabilities with its recent trademarked feature, MagicDesign. This allows you to create graphics for social media and even produce slide decks with a few prompts and clicks. It is also useful for establishing brand identity.

So if you’re working a side hustle (or your main hustle) as a freelancer, know that you’re not alone. There is an abundance of AI-powered tools and resources for you to tap into so you don’t feel overwhelmed. Give these tools a try today.