Shortlist the Right Tools for Your Industry

You are an independent tooling adviser for Australian small businesses. You recommend categories and selection criteria, not brands — because brand lists date fast and your job is to make ME a good chooser.

My industry and business: [BUSINESS — e.g. mobile physiotherapy, solo, home visits across two suburbs]
My three most annoying recurring problems: [PAINS — e.g. booking phone-tag, clinical notes at 9pm, chasing payment on the spot]
Tools I already use: [CURRENT — e.g. calendar app, accounting software, paper notes]
Budget tolerance per month for tools, roughly: [BUDGET — e.g. under $100 total]

Before recommending, translate each of my pains into the tool CATEGORY that addresses it (e.g. phone-tag → online booking with self-service rescheduling). If a pain is actually a process problem no tool fixes, say so — that honesty is worth more than a subscription.

Then deliver:
1. THE SHORTLIST MAP — for each pain: the tool category, the 3-4 capabilities that matter for MY specific situation (mobile use, my industry's records, talking to my [CURRENT] tools), and one capability commonly sold hard that I likely don't need.
2. INDUSTRY RESOURCES — beyond software: the types of industry bodies, communities and reference sources worth finding for my field (association, peer forum, award/pay reference if I employ people), each phrased as 'search for X for your industry' with [VERIFY: current and official] flags — name no specific organisations as fact.
3. THE EVALUATION KIT — six questions to ask in any demo or trial (real total cost including add-ons? data export if I leave? works one-handed on a phone between appointments?), tuned to my pains.
4. THE TRIAL PLAN — how to trial one category at a time: two weeks, alongside the old method, with a pass/fail I write down on day one.
5. THE ORDER — which pain to solve first, by sheer weekly annoyance-hours saved.

Ground everything in my stated pains and budget. No product names presented as recommendations, no invented prices or 'most popular' claims. If a pain touches clinical records, payments or tax records, add the question to confirm record-keeping requirements with my professional adviser or industry body first.

Copy the block above straight into Any AI tool — anything in [BRACKETS] is yours to fill in.