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the tools directory

The AI tools ASI would actually pick.

Most directories list everything and recommend nothing. This one is curated. Every tool carries a tier grade, a note on what it is genuinely best for, and current pricing, sorted by the job at hand.

No spam. The graded list and what changed each month.

Catalogue 86 tools curated and graded, not scraped
Organised by 17 jobs sorted by the job at hand
Graded S to C a tier grade from the firm on every tool
Cadence Monthly the list and what changed, each month
Grade

Showing 86 of 86 tools

ChatGPT

Chat & Research
S

The default general assistant. Broadest plugin and GPT ecosystem, strong at everyday reasoning, drafting, and code.

  • General
  • Multimodal
  • Plugins

Claude

Chat & Research
S

Long-context reasoning and the most natural prose of the major models. Built for document analysis and careful instruction following.

  • Long-context
  • Writing
  • Analysis

Claude Code

Coding Assistants
S

Anthropic's terminal-native agent. It reads your repo, plans, edits, and runs commands end to end.

  • Agentic
  • Terminal
  • Repo-aware

Clay

Marketing
S

Data enrichment and AI-driven outbound at the heart of modern go-to-market.

  • Enrichment
  • Outbound
  • GTM

Cursor

Coding Assistants
S

An AI-first editor built on VS Code. Codebase-aware chat and multi-file edits that hold context.

  • Editor
  • Multi-file
  • Codebase-aware

ElevenLabs

Audio & Music
S

The voice quality benchmark. Lifelike text-to-speech, cloning, and dubbing across languages.

  • Voice
  • Cloning
  • Dubbing

Google Veo

Animation & Video
S

Google's high-fidelity video model with strong physics and native audio.

  • Text-to-video
  • Fidelity
  • Audio

Granola

Productivity
S

Meeting notes that augment your own typing instead of a bot joining the call.

  • Meetings
  • Notes
  • Transcripts

Harvey

Legal
S

Domain-trained legal AI for elite firms and in-house teams.

  • Legal
  • Research
  • Drafting

Midjourney

Image Generation
S

The quality and aesthetic benchmark for generated imagery, with deep style control.

  • Text-to-image
  • Style
  • Quality

n8n

AI Agents
S

Open-source workflow automation with native AI nodes. Self-hostable, the serious builder's choice for agentic pipelines.

  • Automation
  • Self-host
  • Workflows
Free self-host / $24 a month cloud Visit

NotebookLM

Education & Training
S

A grounded research notebook that turns your sources into summaries and audio overviews.

  • Research
  • Sources
  • Audio

Runway

Animation & Video
S

The creative video benchmark. Text and image to video plus a deep editing suite.

  • Text-to-video
  • Editing
  • Creative

Adobe Firefly

Image Generation
A

Commercially safe generation trained on licensed data, native to Creative Cloud.

  • Commercial-safe
  • Creative Cloud
  • Editing
Free credits / $9.99 a month Visit

Apollo

Marketing
A

A sales database plus engagement, with AI writing and prioritisation.

  • Prospecting
  • Database
  • Outreach

Canva Magic

3D & Design
A

Design for everyone, with a deep set of AI generation and editing tools.

  • Design
  • Templates
  • Generative

DeepSeek

Chat & Research
A

Open-weight frontier reasoning at a fraction of the cost. R1 rivals far pricier models on maths and code.

  • Reasoning
  • Low-cost
  • Open-weight
Free / API from $0.28 per 1M tokens Visit

Descript

Animation & Video
A

Edit video by editing the transcript. The fastest podcast and talking-head workflow.

  • Transcript-edit
  • Podcast
  • Screen

Figma AI

3D & Design
A

AI features inside the design tool product teams already standardise on.

  • Design
  • UI
  • Collaboration

Flux

Image Generation
A

Open-weight model with excellent prompt adherence and realism. It powers many downstream tools.

  • Open-weight
  • Realism
  • Adherence

Gamma

Productivity
A

Prompt to polished decks, docs, and sites. The fastest first-draft deck.

  • Decks
  • Docs
  • Generative

Gemini

Chat & Research
A

Google's multimodal model, wired into Workspace and Search with a one-million-token context window.

  • Multimodal
  • Workspace
  • Long-context

GitHub Copilot

Coding Assistants
A

The incumbent autocomplete and chat, native to VS Code and JetBrains. Reliable and well integrated.

  • Autocomplete
  • Chat
  • IDE

Grammarly

Writing & Copy
A

The ubiquitous writing assistant, now with generative drafting everywhere you type.

  • Editing
  • Grammar
  • Generative

Hebbia

Finance
A

Document intelligence for finance, built for diligence over huge filings.

  • Documents
  • Diligence
  • Search

Hex

Data & Analytics
A

Notebook-style analytics with an AI copilot for SQL and Python.

  • Notebooks
  • SQL
  • Copilot

HeyGen

Animation & Video
A

Avatar and talking-head video at scale, with multilingual lip-sync.

  • Avatars
  • Lip-sync
  • Localisation

HubSpot AI

Marketing
A

AI across a full CRM and marketing suite, useful where your pipeline already lives.

  • CRM
  • Marketing
  • Pipeline

Ideogram

Image Generation
A

Best in class at legible text inside images. Strong for posters and logos.

  • Text-in-image
  • Posters
  • Logos

Jasper

Writing & Copy
A

A marketing copy platform with brand-voice controls and team workflows.

  • Marketing
  • Brand-voice
  • Teams

Khanmigo

Education & Training
A

Khan Academy's tutor, built on careful pedagogy rather than raw answers.

  • Tutoring
  • Pedagogy
  • K-12

Kling

Animation & Video
A

Long, stable shots and reliable image-to-video. A serious Runway rival.

  • Image-to-video
  • Stability
  • Long-shot

Luma

3D & Design
A

Capture and generate 3D, plus the Dream Machine video model.

  • 3D
  • Capture
  • Video

Make

AI Agents
A

Visual automation with granular control. More flexible than Zapier, with a steeper learning curve.

  • Automation
  • Visual
  • Workflows

Notion AI

Productivity
A

AI woven into the docs and databases many teams already run on.

  • Docs
  • Knowledge
  • Search

Paradox

HR & Recruiting
A

A conversational recruiting assistant that screens and schedules.

  • Recruiting
  • Chat
  • Scheduling

Perplexity

Chat & Research
A

An answer engine that cites its sources. Faster than a search-then-read loop for current questions.

  • Search
  • Citations
  • Research

Power BI Copilot

Data & Analytics
A

Natural-language analysis inside the Microsoft data stack.

  • BI
  • Microsoft
  • NL-query

Pressmaster

Marketing
A

Turns your expertise into authority content. It interviews you, finds the angles, and drafts articles and posts in your own voice.

  • Content
  • Personal brand
  • Thought leadership

QuickBooks

Accounting
A

Small-business accounting with AI categorisation and reconciliation.

  • Accounting
  • SMB
  • Reconciliation

Ramp

Finance
A

Spend management with AI that finds savings and automates expense work.

  • Spend
  • Expenses
  • Automation

Sora

Animation & Video
A

OpenAI's video model, strong on coherence and prompt control.

  • Text-to-video
  • Coherence
  • Storyboard

Spellbook

Legal
A

Contract drafting and review inside Microsoft Word.

  • Contracts
  • Drafting
  • Word

Suno

Audio & Music
A

Full songs with vocals from a prompt. The most usable music generator.

  • Music
  • Vocals
  • Songwriting

Synthesia

Animation & Video
A

Enterprise avatar video for training and comms in 140-plus languages.

  • Avatars
  • Training
  • Enterprise

Tableau Pulse

Data & Analytics
A

AI-driven metric insights on top of the enterprise BI standard.

  • BI
  • Metrics
  • Enterprise

Togal

Construction
A

Automated takeoffs and estimating from construction drawings.

  • Takeoff
  • Estimating
  • Drawings

Udio

Audio & Music
A

High-fidelity music generation with fine control over structure.

  • Music
  • Fidelity
  • Control

v0

Coding Assistants
A

Vercel's UI generator. Prompt to production-ready React and Tailwind components.

  • UI
  • React
  • Frontend

Whisper

Audio & Music
A

OpenAI's open transcription model. The accuracy baseline most tools build on.

  • Transcription
  • Open
  • Multilingual

Windsurf

Coding Assistants
A

An agentic IDE with a strong autonomous flow, a generous free tier, and fast iteration.

  • Agentic
  • IDE
  • Flow

Xero

Accounting
A

Cloud accounting with AI bank reconciliation, strong across Australia.

  • Accounting
  • Cloud
  • Reconciliation

Zapier

AI Agents
A

The widest app catalogue for automation, now with AI agents and steps. The easiest path from idea to live automation.

  • Automation
  • Integrations
  • Agents

AdCreative

Marketing
B

Generates and scores ad-creative variants for paid social.

  • Ads
  • Creative
  • Scoring

Adobe Podcast

Audio & Music
B

Studio-grade audio cleanup that rescues a bad recording in one pass.

  • Cleanup
  • Speech
  • Restore

ALICE

Construction
B

Generative scheduling that optimises construction sequencing.

  • Scheduling
  • Optimisation
  • Planning

Bolt

Coding Assistants
B

In-browser full-stack generation and deploy, built on StackBlitz.

  • Full-stack
  • Browser
  • Deploy

Brex

Finance
B

Corporate cards and finance ops with AI assistants for spend.

  • Cards
  • Finance-ops
  • Spend

Buildots

Construction
B

Computer vision that tracks site progress against the plan.

  • Vision
  • Progress
  • Site

CapCut

Animation & Video
B

A consumer editor with deep AI features for short-form social.

  • Short-form
  • Social
  • Editing

Copy.ai

Writing & Copy
B

Go-to-market copy and workflow automation for sales and marketing.

  • GTM
  • Copy
  • Workflows

Fireflies

Productivity
B

A meeting recorder with CRM-connected conversation search.

  • Meetings
  • Search
  • CRM

Grok

Chat & Research
B

xAI's model with live access to X. Useful for real-time social signal and looser guardrails.

  • Real-time
  • Social
  • Reasoning

Higgsfield

Animation & Video
B

Cinematic motion and camera-control video for ads and social.

  • Cinematic
  • Camera
  • Ads

HireVue

HR & Recruiting
B

AI-assisted interviewing and assessment at hiring scale.

  • Interviewing
  • Assessment
  • Hiring

Julius

Data & Analytics
B

Chat with your spreadsheets and run analysis without code.

  • Spreadsheets
  • Analysis
  • No-code

Leonardo

Image Generation
B

A generation suite aimed at game and product assets, with fine-tuned models.

  • Assets
  • Game art
  • Fine-tune

Lindy

AI Agents
B

No-code AI assistants for email, meetings, and CRM triage.

  • Assistants
  • No-code
  • CRM

Lovable

Coding Assistants
B

Prompt to full-stack app. A clean path for non-engineers shipping a first version.

  • Full-stack
  • No-code
  • Prototype

Manus

AI Agents
B

A general autonomous agent that plans and executes multi-step tasks in a sandbox.

  • Autonomous
  • Multi-step
  • Research

Meshy

3D & Design
B

Text and image to 3D models for games and AR.

  • 3D
  • Game-assets
  • AR

Microsoft Copilot

Chat & Research
B

Frontier models wrapped into Windows and Microsoft 365. Convenient if your work already lives there.

  • Microsoft 365
  • Office
  • Assistant

Otter

Productivity
B

Live meeting transcription and summaries with a long free tier.

  • Transcription
  • Meetings
  • Summaries

Puzzle

Accounting
B

AI-first accounting built for startups and real-time books.

  • Accounting
  • Startups
  • Real-time

Quizlet

Education & Training
B

Study tools with AI-generated practice drawn from your own material.

  • Study
  • Flashcards
  • Practice

Reclaim

Productivity
B

AI scheduling that defends focus time against meeting creep.

  • Scheduling
  • Calendar
  • Focus

Recraft

Image Generation
B

Vector and brand-consistent image generation built for designers.

  • Vector
  • Brand
  • Design

Relevance AI

AI Agents
B

Build and orchestrate teams of AI agents without code.

  • Agents
  • Teams
  • No-code

Replit

Coding Assistants
B

A browser IDE with an AI agent that builds and deploys without any local setup.

  • Cloud IDE
  • Agent
  • Deploy

Robin AI

Legal
B

Contract review and management for legal and commercial teams.

  • Contracts
  • Review
  • Management

Spline

3D & Design
B

Browser-based 3D design with AI generation and easy web embeds.

  • 3D
  • Web
  • Interactive

Sudowrite

Writing & Copy
B

A fiction-first writing tool built for long-form narrative.

  • Fiction
  • Long-form
  • Narrative

Superhuman

Productivity
B

Fast email with AI triage and drafting for high-volume inboxes.

  • Email
  • Triage
  • Speed

Surfer

Marketing
B

On-page SEO optimisation guided by live SERP analysis.

  • SEO
  • On-page
  • Content

Textio

HR & Recruiting
B

A writing tool that removes bias from job posts and reviews.

  • Writing
  • Bias
  • Hiring

Wordtune

Writing & Copy
B

Rewriting and tone control for clearer business writing.

  • Rewrite
  • Tone
  • Clarity

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