Tools & Resources

Every tool I've tested, organised by use case — with honest notes on what each one is actually good for.

📧 Email & Calendar
🔧Free

n8n

Open-source automation. Build email triage + draft agent without per-task costs.

Automation
🤖Freemium

Claude

Classify emails and draft replies that sound like you.

AI
📅Freemium

Reclaim.ai

AI calendar agent that protects focus time and auto-schedules.

Calendar
📮

Superhuman

Premium AI email client with triage, summaries, and smart replies.

Email
📊 Research
🔬Freemium

Claude Deep Research

Built-in research mode — searches the web and synthesises multi-source reports.

AI Research
🌐Freemium

Perplexity

AI search engine. Ask a research question, get a cited answer instantly.

Search
📎Free

NotebookLM

Upload your own docs. Ask questions across all of them. Great for internal research.

Documents
🧩Freemium

Elicit

Research agent built for academic papers and deep analysis.

Academic
🛍️ Customer Support
💬Freemium

Tidio

Affordable AI chatbot for small businesses. Easy to embed on any site.

Chat
🧩Freemium

Voiceflow

Visual agent builder. Connects to Claude, GPT, and your data.

Builder
⚙️Freemium

Botpress

Open platform to build and deploy custom AI agents. Developer-friendly.

Platform
💬

Intercom Fin

Enterprise-grade AI that resolves tickets automatically at scale.

Enterprise
📣 Marketing
📅Freemium

Buffer AI

Write and schedule social posts. Suggests optimal posting times.

Social
📧Freemium

Mailchimp AI

Subject lines, body copy, and audience segmentation — automatically.

Email

Jasper

Marketing-focused AI with templates for ads, blogs, and social.

Content
🎬Freemium

Descript

AI video/podcast editor. Repurposes long content into short clips.

Video
💻 Coding
Freemium

Claude Code

Terminal agent that reads your whole codebase and makes changes autonomously.

Agent
🌊Freemium

Cursor

AI-native IDE. Best-in-class for agents that understand full project context.

IDE
🔮Freemium

Replit Agent

Describe an app in plain English. Replit builds and deploys it.

No-code
🐙

GitHub Copilot

Live code suggestions in your IDE. Agent mode writes entire features.

Assistant
🔗 Automation
🔧Free

n8n

Open-source, self-hostable. Most powerful free automation tool available.

Automation
Freemium

Zapier

Easiest to start. 6,000+ app integrations. AI step built in.

Automation
🔮Freemium

Make.com

Visual builder. More powerful than Zapier, still beginner-friendly.

Automation
🧩Freemium

Lindy

AI-native automation. Build agents in plain English — no code needed.

AI-native