The tools I keep coming back to — what I actually run on, day to day. The rest of tooling is the newer stuff I’m still kicking the tires on.
thinking & planning
- notion — all-in-one workspace
- obsidian — local-first markdown vault
- notebookLM — source-grounded research
- claude — favorite LLMs
- perplexity — quick answers
- miro — visualize ideas and processes
build
- cmux.dev — coding assistant
- cursor — coding assistant
- vercel — next-gen CDE
- replit — agentic IDE
design
- framer — landing pages
- pencil.dev — AI design tool
- higgsfield — image & video generation
- gpt image 2 — image generation
agent orchestration
- langchain — composable agent framework
AI employees
- openclaw — open-source computer-use agent
- nemoclaw — NVIDIA’s secure, on-prem agent runtime
infra
- supabase — open-source Postgres backend
- nebius — GPU cloud
- paperclip — open-source AI-agent orchestration
project management
- linear — modern PM tool
- google suite — go-to startup product suite
go-to-market
- clay — data enrichment
- granola — AI meeting notes
finance
- Excel — perfect for everything
- Copilot Money — personal finance tracker