NACE 2025 Resource Hub - Your AI for Catering & Events Toolkit
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Your AI for Catering & Events Toolkit
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1:1 AI Strategy Session
Create your AI Strategy with Custom GPT's and Automations. NACE Members get 15% off.
Custom AI Assistant Build
A tailored AI solution built around your business data, processes, and workflows to save you hours every week.
Exclusive for NACE members: 15% off your build.
The Foundation Package
Custom Pricing • 3-Month Contract
Your complete digital transformation, tailored to your business, mission, and goals.
What's Typically Included:
• Full Website Audit and Content Optimization
• SEO, GEO, AEO and conversion-focused design updates.
• Social Media Strategy & Content Calendar
• Custom 90-day calendar with branded post templates and platform-specific strategies.
• Google & Facebook Ads Setup + Management
• Targeted ad campaigns built for visibility and ROI, with ongoing optimization.
• E-commerce Integration for Amazon, Etsy, Shopify, and more—product listings, setup, and sync.
• Custom GPT Development built from your business data to function as your AI assistant for automation, content, and communication.
• Brand-Specific Canva Hub
• Editable templates and assets for seamless content creation.
• Training & Ownership
After the 3 month contract, you can choose to manage ads and content yourself with the Custom GPT or extend support with a monthly plan. We can also set up automations to streamline mundane tasks and free up your time!
NACE Members Receive 20% off the 3 month package.
Underpin Media - AI Tools Directory
August 2025
AI Chatbots & Assistants
ChatGPT
A highly versatile, multimodal AI assistant that handles text, code, images, and creative tasks in natural language.
Claude
An AI assistant by Anthropic known for nuanced, context-rich conversations and summarizing long documents.
DeepSeek
A Chinese-developed, open-source generative chatbot offering an all-in-one assistant experience for code, content, and Q&A.
Google Gemini
Google’s multimodal AI chatbot deeply integrated into its ecosystem, handling text, images, code, and voice queries.
ERNIE X1
Baidu's cutting-edge chatbot focused on deep reasoning and transparent decision-making, offered to the public for free.
Grok
The AI chatbot from xAI with real-time search integration and a distinctive, "rebellious" personality.
Meta AI
A personal assistant integrated across Meta's platforms (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) that can generate images and interact via voice.
Microsoft 365 Copilot
An AI workplace assistant embedded in Office apps like Word, Excel, and Outlook to draft emails, summarize documents, and analyze data.
Perplexity
An "answer engine" that provides concise, sourced answers to questions by pulling information from the web.
You.com
An AI search engine with a conversational chat interface, designed to provide private and personalized answers.
AI Writing & Content Tools
GrammarlyGO
A generative AI writing companion that not only corrects grammar but also helps compose and edit text across various platforms.
Jasper
A robust AI writing platform for generating long-form content, marketing copy, and emails with customizable tones and templates.
Copy.ai
A popular AI copywriter that offers a simple interface and many presets to quickly generate marketing copy and content.
Rytr
An affordable and user-friendly AI writing assistant with templates for short-form content in over 30 languages.
Sudowrite
A unique AI writing partner built for fiction authors and storytellers to brainstorm plots and overcome writer's block.
QuillBot
An AI writing tool suite known primarily for its paraphrasing, rephrasing, and summarization capabilities to improve clarity and tone.
JotBot
A smart research and drafting assistant that mimics your writing style and helps organize content and sources.
Anyword
A specialized AI copywriting tool for marketing that focuses on generating and predicting the performance of ad copy.
Writesonic
An AI writer known for ease of use and generating short-form copy with many templates.
Clippy AI
An AI email assistant that lives in your browser, drafting context-aware replies for Gmail or Outlook.
Friday AI
A mobile and web app that helps you write better emails by turning bullet points into well-written drafts and adjusting tone.
MailMaestro
A dedicated AI email composer for professionals that generates polished business communication from a few key points.
Shortwave
A modern Gmail client that uses AI to provide smart summaries of long email threads and help with drafting replies.
Superhuman
A premium email client with AI features to generate email replies and provide summaries, designed for speed and efficiency.
Gmail Smart Compose
Gmail's built-in AI that suggests completions as you type and now includes a "Help me write" feature to generate emails from scratch.
AI Creative & Design
Canva
A hugely popular design platform with over a dozen AI tools, including Magic Design for presentations and Magic Edit for photos.
Microsoft Designer
Microsoft’s DIY design tool that uses DALL·E 3 to generate social media posts, flyers, and other designs from your descriptions.
AutoDraw
A free tool from Google that uses AI to turn your rough doodles into polished, professional-looking drawings.
Framer
A web design and prototyping tool with an AI site designer that can generate a multi-section website from a text prompt.
Designs.ai
An integrated creative platform offering AI-powered tools for logo design, video creation, and marketing material generation.
Uizard
An AI UI designer that can transform hand-drawn wireframes or text prompts into digital UI design mockups.
Figma AI plugins
Various AI-powered plugins for Figma that assist with generating designs, images, icons, and copy within the design workflow.
Adobe Creative Cloud AI
Adobe’s integration of AI features like Firefly and Sensei across its products (Photoshop, Illustrator) to automate tasks and enhance creative workflows.
Adobe Firefly
Adobe's generative image model for creating commercial-quality visuals, integrated across Creative Cloud apps.
DALL·E 3
OpenAI’s latest text-to-image generator, known for creating detailed and coherent images from natural language prompts.
FLUX 1
An open-source model praised for exceptional image quality and legible text within images.
Ideogram
A generative image tool with a unique strength in producing stylized graphics, logos, and visuals that include readable text.
Midjourney
An acclaimed AI image generator beloved by artists for its creative, often surreal, and high-fidelity images.
Recraft AI
A design tool for professionals, offering more control for creating consistent logos, illustrations, and marketing graphics.
Stable Diffusion
The leading open-source text-to-image model with a large community and flexible customization options.
Playground.ai
An AI design tool for creating and editing images, logos, and graphics with a focus on ease of use and creative community collaboration.
AI Video & Audio
Descript
A powerful audio/video editor that uses AI to make editing as easy as editing text, including voice cloning and automatic filler-word removal.
Haiper
An AI video generator that can turn images or text into short, dynamic video clips for social media and marketing.
Kling
An AI model specialized in animating static images and creating short, semi-realistic videos with camera movements and effects.
Krea
An all-in-one generative AI for images and videos that creates animated sequences from text prompts and keyframe images.
LTX Studio
An AI-driven filmmaking platform that helps creators go from script to screen by generating storyboards and video renders.
Luma AI
An app that uses AI to turn real-world scenes captured with a phone into immersive 3D models and videos.
Pika Labs
A popular AI text-to-video tool for creating short, creative video loops and animated artwork.
Runway ML Gen-2
One of the most advanced text-to-video systems available, known for its ability to produce high-quality short video clips.
Sora
OpenAI's experimental video model that can reportedly generate long, coherent videos up to a minute in length.
Invideo.io
An AI-powered video creation platform with a library of templates and tools for generating professional-quality videos from text.
Veo 3
An AI-powered video generator that creates cinematic clips and unique visual content from user prompts and descriptions.
Pictory
An AI video creator that turns text or long-form content into short, shareable branded videos with automatic captions and voiceovers.
AI Automation
Zapier
A leader in no-code automation that now uses AI to draft workflows from natural language and handle unstructured data like emails.
Make.com
A visual automation platform with AI modules that can generate images or text as part of a multi-step workflow.
Integrately
A no-code automation tool that leverages AI to recommend and create ready-made automations for you.
n8n
An open-source workflow automation tool popular for building custom, AI-driven workflows and running GPT-4 prompts.
Monday.com
A project management platform with an AI assistant that can automatically update tasks, draft project updates, and summarize team progress.
Wrike
A project management tool that uses "Work Intelligence" AI to detect task sentiment, predict project delays, and auto-assign tasks.
AI Social Media Content
Blotato
An all-in-one AI content engine for creating, remixing, and distributing viral posts and videos across social media platforms.
Makeclips.ai
An AI video editing platform that simplifies creating faceless videos, clips, and social media content from a prompt or script.
AI Coding
GitHub Copilot
The pioneer AI pair programmer that suggests and autocompletes code as you type, deeply integrated into popular code editors.
Cursor
An AI-first code editor that understands your entire project and allows you to ask questions or make changes using natural language.
Replit Ghostwriter
Replit’s AI pair programmer for its online IDE, providing code completion and a chat helper for instant coding in the browser.
Codeium
A free, open-source alternative to Copilot that provides high-quality code autocompletion and a range of IDE support.
Amazon CodeWhisperer
Amazon’s coding assistant focused on AWS frameworks and APIs, providing real-time code suggestions and flagging open-source code similarities.
Qodō
An AI coding assistant focused on code quality, capable of generating unit tests and suggesting improvements during code reviews.
AskCodi
An AI toolkit for developers that can answer programming questions, generate code snippets, and help with documentation.
Lovable
An AI app builder that can generate entire web applications from a simple description, including front-end, back-end, and database.
Questions or Feedback?
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