The AI Chefs: AI tips for business

According to several estimates, direct enterprise spending on knowledge worker AI software and platforms reached approximately $18 billion to $22 billion in 2024. This spending is on a trajectory to exceed $45 billion in 2025.

And yet, especially for knowledge workers, many of the capabilities of these AI tools go unused.

Enter The AI Chefs, providing AI tips for business, what we call "recipes". David Maldow and I put on our digital chef's hats to deliver tasty (fun and informative) tips to help you, as a knowledge worker or individual, get the most from the free and paid AI tools you are using on a weekly (or daily) basis.

Whether you use Microsoft Copilot, Zoom AI Companion, Webex AI Assistant, Google Gemini, OpenAI ChatGPT , Claude from Anthropic , or another #AI tool, we serve up dishes that will help you be more effective.

Recent Favorite Recipes

Here are a few of my recent favorite tips and tricks for the AI kitchen.

Bangers and mash is a traditional British dish that consists of sausages ("bangers") served with mashed potatoes ("mash") and onion gravy. It's a menu staple in pubs in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Bangers and dopplegangers is all about how to use the Zoom AI Companion add-on to create your own video avatar. 

And here is an example of my avatar posting to LinkedIn in anticipation of the recent #ZoomPerspectives2025 analyst conference. 

Next, I fire up Microsoft Copilot in Excel to create some Lookup Lasagna, showing you how AI can help simplify creating complex XLookup functions.

Chef David shares his Roadmap Ravoli recipe, demonstrating how you can use Zoom Docs and Zoom AI Companion to jump-start a detailed project plan. He also makes us both start craving some good Italian food!

I'm back in the AI kitchen, powering up the Copilot Cooktop to share a recipe for PowerPoint Punch with Chef David. This tip is all about enhancing your PowerPoint presentations to make them more persuasive and engaging using Copilot.

Lots more recipes to savor

Our complete catalog of recipes (tips and tricks) can be found here https://aichefsshow.com/, and most Tuesdays at noon Eastern, we are LIVE discussing important AI news from the past week and answering any questions from the audience.

The AI Chefs in Person

For the first time, The AI Chefs will be serving up their saucy and mentally nourishing recipes in-person during the CEDIA / Commercial Integrator Expo, September 3 - 6, 2025, in Denver, Colorado.

We will be easy to spot as Chef David and I will be wearing our AI Chef custom aprons and hats. Look for two goofy guys and come by to say hi.

 We will be delivering 8 "cooking" sessions where we share AI tips and tricks focused on different topics. Think of it as learning from 8 different styles of "cookbooks".

Have An AI Recipe You Want to Share?

The AI Chefs are always looking for new tips and tricks to share. Have you done something super cool with AI? If so, please DM either me or Chef David Maldow to share. Alternatively, share your insights as a comment to this article.

And if you love to "cook" up great business results with AI, we are looking for some guest chefs to invite to the AI kitchen, where they can share their recipes for enhanced productivity with AI.