5 Ways to Build a Side Business with Gemini
Google has published a blog post on using Gemini to launch a side hustle or small business. It rounds up five ways AI can support the early stages of starting a business, from organizing ideas and researching the market to branding, day-to-day workflow automation, and pricing.
Details
- Turn ideas into a business plan: Gemini’s notebook feature organizes scattered notes and spoken brainstorming into a structured plan, pulling in links and files to act as a central command center
- Streamline market research: The Deep Research feature browses across many sources, surfacing competitor intelligence and market trends and compressing it all into a professional report in minutes
- Polish the brand look: Generates product backdrops, typography, and cinematic video ads. Integration with Canva makes it easy to reuse assets across platforms, and Pomelli from Google Labs can spin up a simple website
- Automate business logistics: Gemini Spark acts as a 24/7 AI agent, for example automatically capturing client inquiries and populating a spreadsheet without any manual data entry
- Optimize pricing strategy: Enter production costs and fees to calculate a break-even point, model different pricing tiers, and forecast the impact on profitability
How to try it
- Gemini’s notebooks, Deep Research, and image/video generation are available through the Gemini app
- Gemini Spark is available as a feature for Gemini AI Ultra subscribers
- Canva integration and Pomelli (from Google Labs) are available through their respective tools