THE WORKING TOOLKIT
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The tools behind my products and content, plus a practical way to choose a starting stack for your own work.
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Filter by the work you want to do. “In my stack” means I use it in a regular workflow; “Exploring” covers tools I try and keep assessing.
50 tools
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Codex
Primary environment for exploring codebases and shipping.
Agents & harnessesUsed daily - ↗
ChatGPT
Daily thinking partner for research and writing.
Think & researchUsed daily - ↗
GitHub
Code, reviews, and the history behind each product.
Ship & runUsed daily - ↗
Vercel
Deployment and hosting for fast-moving web products.
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Claude
Long-context reasoning for specs, reviews, and drafts.
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Claude Code
Terminal agent that edits and ships inside a repo.
Agents & harnessesIn my stack - ↗
OpenClaw
Self-hosted agent layer for persistent automations.
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Hermes Agent
Agent environment for multi-step autonomous work.
Agents & harnessesIn my stack - ↗
Cursor
AI-native editor built around inline edits and agents.
Agents & harnessesIn my stack - ↗
v0
Prompt-to-interface generation that outputs React.
Agents & harnessesExploring - ↗
Lovable
Full-app generation from a single prompt.
Agents & harnessesExploring - ↗
Windsurf
Agentic IDE that holds whole-project context.
Agents & harnessesExploring - ↗
Replit
Browser IDE with agents and instant deploys.
Agents & harnessesExploring - ↗
Gemini
Multimodal assistant wired into Google’s stack.
Think & researchIn my stack - ↗
Grok
Assistant tuned for real-time information.
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DeepSeek
Open-weight reasoning models at a low price.
Think & researchExploring - ↗
Perplexity
Answer engine that cites its sources.
Think & researchExploring - ↗
Hugging Face
Open model, dataset, and demo hub.
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Manus
General agent that runs multi-step tasks end to end.
Agents & harnessesIn my stack - ↗
OpenRouter
One API key in front of every major model.
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ElevenLabs
My AI voice studio for narration, voice cloning, and dubbing.
CreateUsed dailyAffiliate - ↗
HeyGen
Video and avatar tools for founder-led content.
CreateIn my stack - ↗
CapCut
Quick editing, captions, and exports for short-form video.
CreateIn my stack - ↗
Descript
Edit recorded video and audio through a transcript.
CreateExploring - ↗
Google Flow
Google’s creative workspace for AI video.
CreateExploring - ↗
Higgsfield
Cinematic camera control for AI video.
CreateIn my stackAffiliate - ↗
Midjourney
Image generation with the strongest house style.
CreateExploring - ↗
Sora
Text-to-video generation from OpenAI.
CreateExploring - ↗
Runway
Video generation with a real editing suite around it.
CreateExploring - ↗
Kling AI
Video generation known for motion fidelity.
CreateExploring - ↗
Luma Dream Machine
Fast text- and image-to-video generation.
CreateExploring - ↗
Ideogram
Image generation that renders text correctly.
CreateExploring - ↗
FLUX
Open-weight image models from Black Forest Labs.
CreateExploring - ↗
Krea
Real-time generation and upscaling canvas.
CreateExploring - ↗
Nano Banana
Image editing that keeps a subject consistent.
CreateExploring - ↗
Suno
Music generation from a text prompt.
CreateExploring - ↗
Hedra
Talking-character video from an image and a voice.
CreateExploring - ↗
Figma
Where ideas become flows, interfaces, and direction.
Design & organiseIn my stack - ↗
Canva
Fast visual layouts for social posts and presentations.
Design & organiseExploring - ↗
Framer
Design and publish a site from one canvas.
Design & organiseExploring - ↗
Stripe
Payments behind billing and customer checkout.
Ship & runIn my stack - ↗
Brevo
Email delivery and marketing infrastructure.
Ship & runIn my stack - ↗
Cloudflare
DNS, edge, and infrastructure across web projects.
Ship & runIn my stack - ↗
n8n
Self-hostable workflow automation with AI nodes.
Agents & harnessesExploring - ↗
Supabase
Postgres, auth, and storage behind a product.
Ship & runExploring - ↗
Notion
Docs, databases, and an AI layer over both.
Design & organiseExploring - ↗
Linear
Issue tracking built for shipping speed.
Design & organiseExploring - ↗
Raycast
Launcher with commands and AI one keystroke away.
Design & organiseExploring - ↗
Obsidian
Local-first Markdown notes you own.
Design & organiseExploring - ↗
NotebookLM
Research notebook grounded in your own sources.
Think & researchExploring
These are editorial starting points, not a universal ranking. Check each tool’s current features, pricing, and terms before committing.
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