The skill: Brian answers your question on any topic using the most advanced LLM available: Improve your productivity and workflows to get complex tasks done – fast, creative and smart.

Without Brian: You could alternatively browse search engines, review 4-5 results, and then develop insights from them. Typically, this involves 2-3 steps.

Your time saving: Our users ask Brian a variety of GenAI questions, from small tasks like reformulating text to larger, time-consuming tasks like brainstorming on complex business problems. Without Brian, you’d conduct secondary research to generate insights, typically involving 2-3 steps and taking 5-20 minutes, with an average time of 12 minutes. With Brian, you can get your answers within seconds.

Consider: This skill is powered by GPT-4 Turbo running on Microsoft Azure Servers exclusively in Europe. As a result, GenAI provides unlimited access to the latest model while ensuring data GDPR compliance.

The skill: Brian provides detailed profiles of 50.000 publicly traded companies and millions of private companies for up to 6 years in Excel and some more information in PDF and PowerPoint within 3 minutes!

Without Brian: You could use a costly provider (e.g. Bloomberg), scrape unreliable data from various internet sites, and/or analyze the individual annual reports for the numbers and making them comparable (compared alternatives).

Your time saving: On average per company, available data exists for 8 periods (years and/or quarters). If a user prepares the company report from annual reports, it takes 30 mins of the user’s time to prepare financial data for one year. This translates to 240 mins of user’s time per company for 8 years of data. Calculating key financial ratios takes additional 30 mins. In total Brian saves 270 mins of user’s time per company.

The skill: You can ask Brian to convert files from PDF (native and scanned), PNG or JPG into all Microsoft Office formats, and expect all formatting to be kept, delivered in 3 minutes or less!

Without Brian: You could use some questionable free tools on the internet, type the documents down, or you could copy-paste individual sections of the document and rebuild it incl. formatting etc. (compared alternatives).

Your time saving: The average PDF file Brian receives for conversion has 11.86 pages with approximately 1,500 characters per page. We assume that approximately 80% of PDF documents are native (created digitally) and 20% are scanned. The elements of the native PDFs can be copy-pasted at the speed of 195 characters per 30 seconds, when typewriting, you need an average of 1 character per second. In both cases, you need to do some formatting requiring 20 minutes per document. The average document takes 116 minutes to manually ‘convert’, while Brian needs 3 minutes + a quick (optional) quality check.

Consider: Using free internet tools for file conversion represents considerable data security and privacy risks. Brian has you covered by providing GDPR-compliant services, even allowing you to convert and translate a complete file with one request doubling your time-saving!

The skill: Brian delivers comprehensive industry benchmarking reports with nearly 80 KPIs across 100 industries, using leading data providers.

Without Brian: The user needs to source the KPIs from Damodaran’s site. For the simplest industry KPI requirement, users either search for a specific KPI over 5 years or for 12 KPIs in a specific year. For these scenarios, the user needs 5 or 12 files, respectively, averaging 8.5 files.

Your time saving: It takes an estimated 10 minutes to source one file, requiring about 85 minutes for this exercise. With Brian, you can get the industry KPIs in under 3 minutes.

Consider: This skill encompasses 80 indicators from 8 categories, covering 100 industries across 18 sectors. Explore the detailed scope here.

The skill: Do you need cool templates for your PowerPoint presentation? Brian can send you one of 49 topic-related packages with 20-40 slide templates each!

Without Brian: You could build a slide from scratch or you could Google for PowerPoint templates. The difficulty that comes with this is finding templates directly editable in PowerPoint while also being free to use, as well as being creative and fitting the business environment (compared alternatives).

Your time saving: Using Brian, you can ask for a template instead of building your own template or searching for other sources. What costs time is creating a well-structured presentation, and finalizing the tailored look and feel. Our expert guesses that using Brian for a template request (as a skilled user) approximately equates to 20 minutes.

Consider: We can teach Brian to provide slides in your corporate identity design, just reach out to the team!

The skill: Brian can handle a variety of PDF-related, low-value, time-consuming tasks such as shrinking PDF size, deleting pages, extracting pages, merging multiple PDFs and more.

Without Brian: The alternative to using Brian’s PDF acrobatics is to research tools, register for them, and learn how to use them.

Your time saving: Based on our experience, we estimate a time savings of 30 minutes for these PDF-related, low-value, time-consuming tasks.

Consider: Using free internet tools for PDF related tasks represents considerable data security and privacy risk. Brian, has you covered by providing GDPR-compliant services.

Brian can do much more: Brian has over 15 skills – all designed to save the time of consultants and busy business professionals with tedious and time-consuming work!

Without Brian: In a world without Brian, professionals need to know the best services and data sources available, as well as have the ability/tools to convert these quickly into editable formats (like MS Office), and then structure the information for further use. All this comes at the cost of your precious time.

Your time saving: The greatest time savings in the ‘Other’ section come from providing project methods (including templates), generating transcriptions, sharing icons, summarizing files, and more.

Consider: At AskBrian, we never stop developing Brian’s current skills, increasing his skill set to fulfil even more tasks, and always have the user’s time on our mind!