Looking to work smarter, not harder? Whether you’re running a shop, consultancy, trade business or a growing startup, these AI tools are a great choice to save you time, boost productivity, and help you grow faster. We’ve picked the best AI tools for SMEs in 2025, from content creation to scheduling and automation so you can focus on what really matters.
1) Get Response – The Ultimate Marketing AI Copywriter
Get Response helps SMEs create high-converting landing pages, sales funnels, emails, and ads in minutes. It’s like hiring a marketing team without the salary cost.
Best for: Landing pages, sales funnels and emails
Why we love it: Lots of templates and a beginner-friendly UI
SME use case: Write product descriptions, newsletters, or ad copy instantly
2) Filmora with Integrated Google Veo 3 – Promote Amazing Videos
Wondershare’s Filmora, with built-in Google Veo 3 AI video generation, offers an all-in-one user-friendly platform for creating and editing cinematic-quality AI videos. Users can generate stunning, high-resolution video clips using Google Veo 3’s advanced AI, then seamlessly edit, enhance, brand, and publish content, all within Filmora’s intuitive timeline interface. This integration streamlines the process from idea to social-ready video, eliminating the complexity of switching between separate generation and editing applications.
Best for: Social media content, YouTube, product explainers
Why we love it: The quality is incredible
SME use case: Add extra spice to your blogs or testimonials
3) Perplexity – Your 24/7 Business Assistant
From writing emails and generating ideas to drafting policies and handling customer replies, Perplexity is the powerhouse SME owners didn’t know they needed. We find this LLM to be better than ChatGPT as it handles complex requests in quicker timescales.
Best for: Admin, ideation, strategy, research and comms
Why we love it: We find this to be the best LLM for researching as it also gives you its sources
SME use case: Reply to customer complaints, write job ads, or create strategies
4) Setmore – Full-featured Booking System with AI Add-Ons
Setmore is a clean, beginner-friendly appointment booking system which offers calendar sync, video integrations (Zoom/Google Meet), and team scheduling.
Best for: Coaches, therapists, growing teams, and agencies looking for flexible, modern booking tools with video call integration
Why we love it: It does it all!
SME use case: Replace your website booking system with one tool
5) Webnode – Multi-lingual AI Website Creator
Webnode is a user-friendly website builder that lets you create multilingual sites without needing to code. It offers a clean drag-and-drop interface, pre-designed templates, and built-in tools for forms, blogs, and ecommerce.
Best for: Sales-focussed SMEs
Why we love it: It is great for those who need to also communicate in a foreign language.
SME use case: Expand your customer base by making your website in different languages
6) Tidio – Live Chat and Chatbots
Tidio combines live chat and AI chatbot technology to help businesses respond instantly to website visitors and automate answers to common customer questions. The platform also enables real-time conversations, automates support with its AI assistant (Lyro), and unifies chats from multiple channels in one dashboard.
Best for: SMEs on a small budget wanting round the clock customer service
Why we love it: It is very cost effective.
SME use case: Create a chatbot to automatically manage your simple customer queries
7) Grammarly – Professional Communication
Grammarly is a leading AI-powered tool for grammar, punctuation, spelling, and style checking. Use AI to correct, refine, and improve your writing instantly.
Best for: Everyone
Why we love it: It is gives you suggestions in real-time.
SME use case: Elevate emails, tenders, and website content, especially if English isn’t your first language
8) SE Ranking – Rank higher with search engines and LLMs
SE Ranking rack rankings, audit their websites, spy on competitors, and discover the keywords which bring in real business. It’s packed with features like AI-powered on-page SEO analysis, backlink monitoring, keyword suggestions, content optimisation, and even local SEO tools. It now also has an LLM (Large Language Models like ChatGPT) rankings section and helps identify natural-language search terms and long-tail keywords, which are highly aligned with how users phrase queries to LLMs.
Best for: SMEs which need to increase their online visibility.
Why we love it: It analyses your pages against top-performing competitors through its step-by-step recommendations.
SME use case: Optimise your blogs or landing pages to appear on page 1.
9) n8n – Automate Your Repetitive Tasks
n8n is an open-source, low-code workflow automation platform which lets users visually build and automate complex workflows by connecting various apps, services, and APIs through an intuitive drag-and-drop interface. It combines no-code simplicity with the power to run custom JavaScript or Python code, supporting scalable, multi-step automation processes with over 1,000 pre-built workflow templates and hundreds of native integrations. It can be self-hosted for full control or used via cloud hosting.
Best for: Admin-heavy or multi-app SMEs
Why we love it: It can handle all levels of complexity.
SME use case: Automatically add leads from forms to your CRM and email list
10) Teamwork – Simple Task and Collaboration Management
Teamwork is a powerful, client-focused project management platform designed to help SMEs plan, collaborate, and deliver work more efficiently, especially for service-based businesses. It goes beyond basic task tracking with integrated time tracking, billing, client permissions, and workload planning, all in one place. Unlike many project tools built just for internal teams, Teamwork is uniquely suited for businesses that work with clients — offering transparency, accountability, and streamlined communication.
Best for: Teams and planners
Why we love it: It also has time tracking and billing features to invoice clients directly from completed tasks.
SME use case: Assists your team to work more collaboratively.
Final Tip: Start Small, Win Big
You don’t need to master 10 tools overnight. Start with one or two that solve your biggest pain point — whether that’s content, time management, or customer communication.
Your first step? Download the Free AI Starter Guide for SMEs and let us show you how to put these tools to work — fast.
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