OpenAI
ChatGPT
A general AI assistant for writing, research, planning, data analysis, coding help, and everyday work.
Turning rough ideas into clear drafts
Explaining a topic before you read deeper
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Productivity AI tools that are useful for real work
Productivity tools help you summarize, plan, organize, and complete day-to-day work without jumping between too many apps.
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Anthropic
Claude
A conversational AI assistant often used for long documents, careful writing, coding help, and structured reasoning.
Working through long documents and messy notes
Drafting clear internal documents
Gemini
Google's AI assistant for search-style help, writing, productivity, image work, and Workspace-related tasks.
People already using Google apps
Quick research and drafting
Perplexity
Perplexity
An answer engine for researching topics with visible source links and fast follow-up questions.
Getting a source-backed starting point
Comparing several pages quickly
Notion
Notion AI
AI inside Notion for notes, documents, summaries, project pages, and knowledge work.
Teams that already use Notion
Summarizing notes and meetings
Zapier
Zapier
An automation platform for connecting apps and using AI to reduce repeated manual work.
Moving leads, forms, emails, and records between apps
Simple internal workflows
Make
Make
A visual automation platform for building more detailed workflows between apps and data sources.
Multi-step automations
Visual workflow building
Gamma
Gamma
An AI presentation and document tool for turning prompts, outlines, and notes into visual pages.
Fast first drafts of decks and explainers
Founder and sales materials
DeepSeek
DeepSeek
A low-cost AI assistant and open-weight model family from a Chinese AI lab, used for chat, coding help, and research at a fraction of the price of larger providers.
Getting strong reasoning and coding help without paying premium API rates
Running an open-weight model yourself when you need control over your data
xAI
Grok
xAI's AI assistant, built into X and available on its own web and mobile apps, with live web and X search, voice, and image generation.
Fast answers that pull in current web and X posts
Working inside X without switching to another app
NotebookLM
Google's research assistant that answers questions and builds summaries, audio overviews, and study material grounded in the sources you upload.
Turning your own documents, PDFs, and notes into answers with citations
Making an audio or video overview to review material without reading all of it
Lovable
Lovable
An AI app builder that turns plain-English chat into a deployed full-stack web app, with the database, login, and hosting wired up for you.
Shipping a working MVP or internal tool without local setup
Non-technical founders who want a live app from a description