Genspark vs ChatGPT, my brutally honest review

Today we're going to look at GenSpark, the super agent platform. You see it right now. It's got AI slides, AI

right now. It's got AI slides, AI sheets, download for me, deep research, call for me, factchecking, all these AI agents, and it's adding almost a million

dollars a day. Uh because it's going viral now. Is it hype or is this the new

viral now. Is it hype or is this the new manis new chatbt? Today, we're going to find out. I take you through it all

find out. I take you through it all around prompts that help you build your business. 0 to1. Uh, how to market your

business. 0 to1. Uh, how to market your business, how to sell your business, how do you create a deck that raises $2 million? Can GenSpark use its suite of

million? Can GenSpark use its suite of agents and super agents to help you uh have an unfair advantage in your business? Today, we're going to find

business? Today, we're going to find out.

[Music] Today, we're going to dig into Gen Spark. They call themselves the super

Spark. They call themselves the super agent platform and they're competing with chatbt Clo Manis. But is GenSpark

the new manis chatbt or is it hype? I

wanted to find out. Uh and that's what we're going to do today. We're just

going to go through a bunch of prompts to find out if GenSpark is super super valuable to people like us, people who are building zero to one, people who are looking to get more productive, people

are looking to make internet money. So,

if you've never heard of GenSpark, it used to be a search engine. I think it had about 5 million users. Uh, then they launched the agent platform

uh about 2 months ago. It hit 10 million ARR in 9 days. Now, they're at 36 million AR in 45 days. They're basically

adding almost a million dollars a day in ARR. Let's dig in to see if these agents

ARR. Let's dig in to see if these agents are any good. So, I went to uh GenSpark and I basically said, "Hey, I've done this video on Perplexity Labs where I

showed founders how to use Perplexity to replace their copywriters, salespeople, film directors. I want to do the same

film directors. I want to do the same for GenSpark, different use cases and stuff like that." And I basically asked it to give me gamechanging prompts. Um,

so, uh, it gave me a bunch. She gave me uh you know replacing a market research agency, replacing a business development consultant, replacing competitive analysis firm, replacing a content

marketing agency, replacing a growth marketing agency, replacing a sales consultant. You get the idea. Um I I

consultant. You get the idea. Um I I asked some I asked more. I was like, I want to make sure that these are the best uh prompts for 0 to10 million AR

founders, people who who are starting from scratch. It gave me some more. And

from scratch. It gave me some more. And

in this episode, we're just going to go through some of these and and just see, you know, I'm going to give you my honest opinion. I'm not

sponsored by GenSpark. I don't know anyone at GenSpark. Um I paid $25 for access to this. And we're going to go through this uh together. And by the end

of it, we're just going to see, you know, is it worth it and how to think about using Gen Spark because I have heard a lot of good things about it. Um but you never know in this day

it. Um but you never know in this day and age. So that's why I'm here. I'm

and age. So that's why I'm here. I'm

here to like basically help you uh figure out uh you know what's signal and what's noise. So let's get into it.

what's noise. So let's get into it.

So the first um uh prompt I did I said I'm raising a seed round for my company ideouser.com.

ideouser.com.

I say research it which is a suite of ideas, tools, trends for people looking to build startups. Create a compelling investor presentation that tells our story with datadriven slides. And then I

basically ask it to come up with uh you know uh some specific slides.

So it comes up with it and as you can see on the left hand side, GenSpark has like an AI slides uh product, an AI sheets product. Uh and so that's one of

sheets product. Uh and so that's one of the reasons why I picked this one. I

wanted to see can is it possible to create really good research slides? I've

used other products. I've used Gamma.

I've used Manis for slides. Uh, I'm

still looking for like a really good AI slides product. And, you know,

slides product. And, you know, if I if this can actually do it, design a 15-minute presentation that gets investors excited to write checks of two to three million, it's going to be helpful for a lot of people here

listening. So, I'm using ideabrowser.com

listening. So, I'm using ideabrowser.com uh, my startup just because I'm curious what it's going to say.

Um, but it first of all, the design does not look that awesome. It's I you know you know okay I'll call I'll call it

what it is. The design looks lame.

Super lame. But I'm reading here and you know the startup opportunity ideas are everywhere. I really like that. The

everywhere. I really like that. The

entrepreneurial explosion. Um you know a lot of this content is pretty good. Um

time spent on idea validation. like yes

like this is interesting to me as someone who's building you know this product um where it's a database of ideas and trends and and AI agents to

help people through the idea process you know that is interesting to me you know I've never thought about it like that the average founder spends 155 hours on validation before building so I'm liking

the research I'm not liking the design and I'm not going to go into every single slide, but just like looking at

it from a gut reaction perspective, it's done a really good job, better than most in the research, and from a design

perspective, mid, as the kids say. So,

I'm going to go and ask it to I'm just going to be like, "Hey, GenSpark, I find

the content of this presentation to be an 8 on 10, but the design is a super

mid 310.

I want something more similar to the design of my website ideab browser.com

which I find clean, fresh and crisp.

Can you redesign it with that in mind?

So, let's see what happens there.

I anticipate this is going to take some time. So, we'll come back to this.

time. So, we'll come back to this.

Um, and we will we will see. Quick break

in the pod to tell you a little bit about Startup Empire. So, Startup Empire is my private membership where it's a

bunch of people like me, like you who want to build out their startup ideas.

Now, they're looking for content to help accelerate that. They're looking for

accelerate that. They're looking for potential co-founders. They're looking

potential co-founders. They're looking for uh tutorials from people like me to come in and tell them how do you do email marketing? How do you build an

email marketing? How do you build an audience? How do you go viral on

audience? How do you go viral on Twitter? All these different things.

Twitter? All these different things.

That's exactly what Startup Empire is.

And it's for people who want to start a startup but are looking for ideas or it's for people who have a startup but just they're not seeing the traction uh that they need. So you can check out the

link to startupmpire.co co in the description and let's go to another prompt and see what happens. The next

prompt I said was create an interactive product demo experience for ideabser.com that converts prospects into customers.

Build a single page HTML demo that includes interactive product walkthrough showing key features, customer success stories with embedded testimonials, pricing calculator, shows ROI, lead

capture forms integrated throughout, social proof, etc., etc. make it load fast and look like it cost 25k to build.

So this is testing uh basically building apps on on Gen Spark.

And it created this. I think it took like a few minutes. Um and the funny thing is I I'm I'm looking at it and this is like I don't understand what

it's saying. Resolve conflicts without

it's saying. Resolve conflicts without breaking the bank. This like what? And

then I realized that um this is actually the idea of the day. So what happened was Jensen Spark actually went on ide.com. It found the idea of the day

ide.com. It found the idea of the day which is basically an AI powered alternative to hiring a a mediator or lawyer. It's this idea that you know for

lawyer. It's this idea that you know for $99 a month you can have this like SAS app that's AI powered that helps mediate uh for example uh couples who are uh

trying to get divorced and stuff like that.

So that's what it did. So it made that mistake, but then I'm re I'm like this is really interesting. So it it basically thinks

interesting. So it it basically thinks that that is the startup that you know is idea. So huge miss, but then I I'm

is idea. So huge miss, but then I I'm looking at this SAS app and this is is brilliant, right? So you upload your

brilliant, right? So you upload your documents. So let's just assume that you

documents. So let's just assume that you know it's trying to build out this idea, right? from idea browser. Um, securely

right? from idea browser. Um, securely

upload legal documents, emails, and relevant files. Our AI analyzes

relevant files. Our AI analyzes instantly. AI analysis and strategy. Get

instantly. AI analysis and strategy. Get

personal mediation strategy based on thousands of of successful cases.

Practice conversations. Role play

roleplay difficult conversations with AI coaching to build confidence. Then reach

an agreement. Generate fair proposals and track progress until both parties agree. So, it's basically taken the idea

agree. So, it's basically taken the idea from idea browser.

um and built a app that you know is like working which is

crazy um and gets me thinking that a lot of people are going to go onto idea browser look at some of our database of ideas and just use products like this to create it. So I think this is

create it. So I think this is interesting. What happens if I just

interesting. What happens if I just actually try this feature? Like, is this just the front end? Right. It's probably

just the front end. So, I asked it, does it actually work? It says, "Let me test the demo I create to see if it's actually working." Using the tool, it's

actually working." Using the tool, it's capturing the screen. That's pretty

cool. So, it's actually it's actually like going through the website and checking it. So, it says that it's working. The live demo works.

The ROI calculator works. That's cool. I

mean, pretty cool. I like what I saw there. Um, let's uh let's do one more

there. Um, let's uh let's do one more and then we'll go back to the slides.

So, this prompt is about social media.

So, I need to dominate social media to build my personal brand as a founder. I

know a lot of people listening here are trying to build their personal brand.

So, let's see what what we can do.

Create a complete visual content system including 20 quote graphics with the best insights about startup ideas. it.

Actually, I put startup ideas because that's my niche. So, you would, you know, whatever niche you're in, you would obviously put that there.

Infographics, templates for sharing, industry data, social media post templates for LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. Branded slide templates, yada

Instagram. Branded slide templates, yada yada yada. Generate actual images I can

yada yada. Generate actual images I can use immediately, and templates I can customize. Focus on content that

customize. Focus on content that positions me as a go-to expert in my niche, startup ideas. Okay, so it's given me 20 quote graphics, seven

templates, 90-day content calendar, all ready to use. Um,

every unicorn, every unicorn startup with this, well, look, they spelled, see how they spelled startup.

That's how you know that's could be AI, right?

So, you hate to see that. You you're

starting to see this here. Look for

solution flush, you know? No, no, no, no, no. Text is remarkably bad

no, no. Text is remarkably bad for um Yeah. Yeah. For, you know, with AI, you

Yeah. Yeah. For, you know, with AI, you want to limit the amount of text and just in general, here's like a tip for you. If you if you include the text in a

you. If you if you include the text in a JSON format, it's more likely to give you the right text.

So, this was a huge that sucked. Um, the

the the templates, like just looking at these templates, like they kind of look mid in terms of the design, but I will say like these things work, right? Like

five key startup metrics that matter.

Like, that probably will work.

Three-step frameworks, that's probably going to work on a LinkedIn carousel.

Like, they've got the framework right, but the design is not great. Um, that's cool. It gives

you a little content calendar, which I do I do think that's really cool. It gives you, you know, weekly

cool. It gives you, you know, weekly themes to think about. I think that's cool.

That's actually well done.

You know, behind the scenes content, like it's giving you a lot of good advice. The design's just not great.

advice. The design's just not great.

What to avoid? Don't post without adding your own perspective or experience.

Like, yes, this is good advice. Always

add personal commentary to quote graphics. This is really good advice.

graphics. This is really good advice.

Engage with comments within two hours of posting. Good advice. Use relevant

posting. Good advice. Use relevant

hashtags. I find hashtags to be cringe personally.

Um, but you know, tell me what you think in the comments.

Uh, target metrics like overall like interesting. I wouldn't like I don't

interesting. I wouldn't like I don't think this like replaces your social media manager. um

media manager. um in one prompt, but I you know it would be interesting to see if you can uh

if you can continue to prompt this to get this to uh like let's see if we can like Okay, so first of all, interesting thing it uses flux.

So it uses flux here um and it tells you what it uses. It

also it also gives you the ability to make it image to video. That's a really good feature. So,

good feature. So, I'm going to say I'm just going to prompt and say I don't like this quote. Use quote from

famous person who knows stuff about startup ideas and make the design fresh, clean,

and punchy.

And let's just see what happens.

Let's see if it goes and researches like what you know obviously a quote by Sam Alman about a startup idea is going to be better than Filipe K who I have no idea who that you

know obviously that's I don't think that's a real person so it's interesting it's using the tool and oh wow okay so it's it's creating

multiple of them Reed Hoffman Eric Reese Mark Cuban um and That's the thing with a lot of these tools honestly is like we expect

to one prompt it and it's perfect. And

the reality is it's it's not the case.

It's really really not the case. Like

people people one prompt and then they're like wow haha AI sucks cuz the you know look at how they spell love.

They put a one in it. But it's like, well, you if you continue prompting it, you could get it to a place that's better or you can't, you know, or you can't.

But, you know, it's good to see like, wow. Okay. So, basically, what have we

wow. Okay. So, basically, what have we learned here? We've learned that

learned here? We've learned that GenSpark basically can't do quotes or text on images.

So, that's a big miss. Um,

it's getting me excited. I'm literally

taking off my sweater because I was getting excited. You know, I was getting

getting excited. You know, I was getting really excited there. And All right.

Well, that's a miss from GenSpark on that one. Um, all right. Next prompt.

that one. Um, all right. Next prompt.

Actually, let's go back to see if our design worked for

our fundraising deck. Way cleaner.

Um, it it's not taking my idea browser logo, which I would have loved.

It's only it's taking the blue, which is cool.

Um, it's it's fine. This is it's fine.

Like, it went from a two or three on 10 to a five or six on 10. Um,

so this is, you know, this is like this is valuable to have. This is valuable to have. And at, you know, it's $25 for a

have. And at, you know, it's $25 for a monthly thing here. So, even that alone is valuable. Um, all right. Let's go to

is valuable. Um, all right. Let's go to create a comprehensive fundraising package that proves my startup ideabous.com is investable. Build a data room website

is investable. Build a data room website with organized financial documents and metrics. Traction visualized dashboard

metrics. Traction visualized dashboard showing growth trends. Market analysis

slides with compelling charts. Financial

model with scenar scenario planning visuals, customer testimonial showcase page, team credentials presentation, competitive analysis with positioning maps, and an

executive summary with key metrics highlighted. Make it look like we hired

highlighted. Make it look like we hired McKenzie to prepare our fundraising materials. So, I actually don't find

materials. So, I actually don't find this to be super helpful from a fundraising perspective, but if you're selling a company, and I've sold companies before, you're going to want a

data room. and making a data room is

data room. and making a data room is super lame. So looking at this, the fact

super lame. So looking at this, the fact that it's look conservative scenario, base case, aggressive, pretty cool. I mean, some

stuff that's not true. We don't have an advisory board or investors, but funny that all of these are my old investors for my last company.

So anyways, pretty interesting. Um,

like good to know. Good to know that you can basically build a data room um and on the fly in a web app and send this over

and then you can just um you know obviously this isn't real information.

Um but you would upload your documents to make sure that it puts your information in. So next time you want to

information in. So next time you want to create uh a data room uh GenSpark might be for you. Okay, I'm building. Okay,

next prompt. I'm building

ideabouser.com, a database of validated startup ideas, trends, and tools to build a business that's more likely to succeed. I need to understand my ideal

succeed. I need to understand my ideal customers inside and out. Super

important, by the way. Like, can we get GenSpark to uh basically create a report with um actionable insights for messaging, positioning, and outreach? Uh

researching, you know, I'm continuing the prompt. research and create detailed

the prompt. research and create detailed customer personas for my target market, including their biggest pain points, what they complain about online, where they hang out, what language they use to describe their problems, their buying

triggers, objections they typically have, and the exact moments they realize they need a solution like mine. So, so

key to have this insight. You know, when I'm building businesses, I want to know this. So, let's see uh if it was able to

this. So, let's see uh if it was able to do it for ideaber.com.

So it gives the demographic profile experience 0ero to2 previous startup attempts current status either pre idea validation or stuck in building within

validation phase like I find this really helpful major pain points direct quotes from research I spent six months building features nobody wanted to find problem find those problems what

if you don't know who the customer is I wish there was a website that just listed diff different real customer pain points by industry most no code tools available but

difficulty building their MVP.

Anyways, point is they nailed the pain points. The specific language they use,

points. The specific language they use, I'm looking for my next idea. Why is

this so key is that you can actually feed this in to say, you know, write copy on my landing page based on these pain points and

specific language they use. And that's

going to help you convert better on what whatever it is you're working on.

So, you know, exact moments they realize they need help. I really like that.

Emotional triggers, price, objectives, skepticism.

This is this is probably one of the best prompts. This is this is the best prompt

prompts. This is this is the best prompt I out of all of them I've seen so far.

Like, this is And then it says feature prioritization based on pain points. You

kidding me?

says what they'll pay for. Time savings,

risk reductions, avoiding another failed venture. I mean, this is all true. This

venture. I mean, this is all true. This

is all true. Must have features. Come

on. This is so good. This is really This is really good. This

I think Gen Spark is probably It's Yeah, it's if it wasn't worth it for the data room whenever you sell your company, I think it probably is just for this one.

And by the way, they have a free uh a free plan as well. Okay, let's do let's see if we have time for a couple more.

Um, I'm a bootstrap founder with ideabrowser.com targeting founders and solopreneurs.

Again, that's my space, but you would put whatever it is you're working on.

Map out every possible distribution channel and partnership opportunity for my business. include direct sales,

my business. include direct sales, partnership opportunities, platform integrations, affiliate programs, marketplace opportunities, and unconventional growth channels my competitors haven't discovered. For each

channel, estim estimate effort required, time to result, and potential acquisition cost. So, obviously super

acquisition cost. So, obviously super important complete. Um, let's see if

important complete. Um, let's see if they can do it. Complete distribution

channel map for ideas.com.

Okay, so the high highest impact they're saying is contentled growth.

I think that's right. Um, the content types 50 startup ideas from Reddit this week. That's good. Trend analysis

week. That's good. Trend analysis

reports, that's good. Founder journey

stories. That's good. That's on point.

This is what I'm learning about GenSpark is like the design of things, the images, not great, but the actual content pretty good. Uh, longtail

keywords around startup ideas and trends. Free tier with viral mechanics

trends. Free tier with viral mechanics approach daily idea email plus limited database access. So, we already have

database access. So, we already have that. People can get a free startup idea

that. People can get a free startup idea on ideab.com. So, I'm wondering why it

on ideab.com. So, I'm wondering why it gave me the same the same idea, but I'll skip that one. Um, or I'll uh I won't

judge you on too much on that one. Um,

but yeah, this is like okay. Platform

integrations and marketplace opportunities. Connect idea browser to

opportunities. Connect idea browser to Slack, Trell, and Ocean Notion, Air Table. Automate weekly idea delivery to

Table. Automate weekly idea delivery to team channels. Pretty interesting

team channels. Pretty interesting except, you know, do teams want new startup ideas in their channels? Yeah,

actually maybe. Who knows? Um,

app marketplace listings, create a Shopify app store, e-commerce business idea section, WordPress plug-in directory, Chrome extension store. This

is really good. This is really good. I

won't go through all this, but I'm thinking about idea browser a lot and you know, some of these some of these ideas I've had and some of these ideas are like, oh, I never thought of it that

way. And that's why it's interesting. My

way. And that's why it's interesting. My

gut take on GenSpark is, you know, is it the manis killer? Is it the chat GBT killer? No. But is it interesting and

killer? No. But is it interesting and something that you want to put as a part of like your cocktail of different tools that you're using just to get a diverse

opinion on a particular problem. Yes.

Like you know if you're trying to create a social media calendar or you're trying to do some market research um or you know you're you're trying to build a SAS

app like or or or a lead magnet, you might want to go to Manis, you might want to go to GenSpark. You might want to chat. you might want to go to

to chat. you might want to go to Perplexity Labs and just see what is working best for you, you know? And

that's kind of that's kind of how I see it right now. Like I'm in I'm I'm sort of in wait and see mode with GenSpark.

I've seen a couple interesting things.

I've seen some big misses. Seen some big misses like some the some of the design stuff that was that was horrible and it's kind of like missing it with respect to what you know what idea browser.com really is. So that you know

that was a miss and you have to like kind of reprompt it. you know, don't love that. Don't love that. But I think

love that. Don't love that. But I think a lot of the formatting, I think some of the research was really good. I think I I I also find they're not just like writing content for the sake of content.

So, um I found it like very concise and clear. So, overall, GenSpark,

clear. So, overall, GenSpark, it's worth a shot. It's worth trying. Um

and and seeing what and yeah, seeing what you get out of it. Okay. Okay,

after I recorded this episode, I tried to cancel my Gen Spark and just go down to the free version

and I literally couldn't figure out how to do it. Um, and so I went on GenSpark and I basically asked it, "How do you

cancel your GenSpark?"

And it basically says, "I couldn't find a self-service cancellation option directly on GenSpark's website." And then it gives

GenSpark's website." And then it gives you email support and a phone number, and there's no selfservice option. Um,

and that gave me an idea for a tweet.

Uh, never trust a company that makes cancelling your monthly subscription harder than signing up.

Um, not cool. Not cool. Gen Spark. Um,

not cool at all. Um, so I just wanted to let people know that. Um, there's a lot of good in the product. Um, but I just

feel like it's dishonest when companies hide the cancellation button. So, my

recommendation for people is try out the free version, see if it works for you.

Um, and if you do get in your workflow, definitely upgrade uh if you can use more of it. Um,

and uh, yeah, you know, it's just going to but it's going to be, you know, I don't know if I I wouldn't I probably wouldn't use sensitive data on this product. This is like, you know, Toby

product. This is like, you know, Toby from Shopify, founder of Shopify, has this really good um concept called the trust battery where

you trust a person. You know, you hire someone and you know, they might start at 50% and then they do a lot of good work and have high integrity and now they're 70%. Or maybe they do something

they're 70%. Or maybe they do something shady and they go to 30%. Well, I think we have trust batteries for companies, too. So, you know, I think

too. So, you know, I think Gen Spark lost 20% of my books. I don't

know about you. Um, but let me know in the comments what you think. And I just wanted to give you all a heads up about that. Not cool, right? Not cool. Thanks

that. Not cool, right? Not cool. Thanks

for listening to the episode. I think I think I need to do like a comparison episode like Manis, what's Manis good for? What's Chat GBT good for? Which

for? What's Chat GBT good for? Which

model for this? Which model for that?

and just do like it might be it might be like a two-hour episode, but breaking down what you should use what for. Um,

so if people are interested, let me think about that. Let me know in the comments. I read every single comment. I

comments. I read every single comment. I

appreciate every single like and uh I'm learning it alongside you and showing you what I learn along the way. So, I

hope it's helpful. Have a creative day, friends.