The AI Tools Directory

Not a 5,000-row spreadsheet. Every tool here is something we run our businesses on, something the daily picks keep surfacing, or the honest best in its category.

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ClaudeHouse Pick

Chat & Search

The assistant we build our businesses with. Best-in-class reasoning, long documents, and the least "AI-sounding" writing of any model.

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ChatGPT

Chat & Search

The default for most people. Strong all-rounder with the biggest ecosystem of voice, image, and app integrations.

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Gemini

Chat & Search

Google's flagship. The play here is integration — Workspace, Docs, Search, and YouTube all get smarter with it.

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Perplexity

Chat & Search

AI search with citations. Reads multiple sources and synthesizes an answer — replaces Google for research questions.

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NotebookLM

Chat & Search

Drop in your documents, chat with them, generate audio overviews. The most underrated free tool in AI right now.

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Claude CodeHouse Pick

Coding & Dev

Agentic coding in your terminal. Reads your codebase, writes, tests, and commits. This entire site is built and maintained with it.

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Cursor

Coding & Dev

The AI-first code editor. Tab-completes entire refactors and chats with your whole codebase inline.

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GitHub Copilot

Coding & Dev

Autocomplete inside VS Code and JetBrains. The safe default for teams already living in GitHub.

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Replit

Coding & Dev

Idea to deployed app in the browser. The fastest path for prototypes, and the best on-ramp for non-developers.

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v0

Coding & Dev

Text to UI components. Describe the interface, get working React. The fastest way to get a frontend started.

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HiggsfieldHouse Pick

Video & Audio

Cinematic AI video with real camera-move control. Our b-roll engine for daily video content.

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Runway

Video & Audio

The original AI video suite. Generation plus real editing tools — motion brush, camera controls, pro workflows.

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Sora

Video & Audio

OpenAI's video model. Strongest at physics and long coherent shots. Lives inside the ChatGPT ecosystem.

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HeyGen

Video & Audio

Record yourself once, generate talking-head video from text forever. The standard for AI avatars that don't look uncanny.

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ElevenLabs

Video & Audio

Voice cloning and text-to-speech that actually sounds human. The industry bar for AI audio, in 29+ languages.

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CapCut

Video & Audio

The short-form editing standard. AI captions, auto-cuts, templates — the "make it look edited" button for social video.

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Suno

Video & Audio

Full songs from a text prompt. Background music, jingles, and soundtracks without licensing headaches.

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Midjourney

Image & Design

Still the aesthetic king for stylized images and concept art. When the image needs to look designed, start here.

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Ideogram

Image & Design

The best model for text inside images — logos, posters, thumbnails, anything with typography.

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Canva

Image & Design

AI-assisted design for everything else. Thumbnails, decks, and social graphics in minutes, no designer needed.

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n8nHouse Pick

Automation & Agents

Self-hosted workflow automation with deep AI integration. Runs our entire business — including the pipeline that publishes this site's daily pick.

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Lindy

Automation & Agents

No-code AI agents for email, scheduling, and ops. The easiest on-ramp if you want agents without touching a workflow editor.

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Gumloop

Automation & Agents

Drag-and-drop AI workflows with scraping and enrichment built in. Strong for growth and data pipelines.

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Browserbase

Automation & Agents

Headless browsers as a service for AI agents. When your automation needs to click things on real websites.

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beehiiv

Growth

The newsletter platform built for growth — referrals, recommendations, and monetization baked in. Free to 2,500 subs.

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Buffer

Growth

Schedule everywhere with AI post remixing. Cheap, reliable, and covers every platform that matters.

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Submagic

Growth

Auto captions, zooms, and sound effects for short-form video. Makes raw clips look professionally edited in minutes.

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Hugging Face

Chat & Search

The open-source model hub. Try almost any model in the browser, free, before you commit to anything.