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.
ClaudeHouse Pick
Chat & SearchThe assistant we build our businesses with. Best-in-class reasoning, long documents, and the least "AI-sounding" writing of any model.
ChatGPT
Chat & SearchThe default for most people. Strong all-rounder with the biggest ecosystem of voice, image, and app integrations.
Gemini
Chat & SearchGoogle's flagship. The play here is integration — Workspace, Docs, Search, and YouTube all get smarter with it.
Perplexity
Chat & SearchAI search with citations. Reads multiple sources and synthesizes an answer — replaces Google for research questions.
NotebookLM
Chat & SearchDrop in your documents, chat with them, generate audio overviews. The most underrated free tool in AI right now.
Claude CodeHouse Pick
Coding & DevAgentic coding in your terminal. Reads your codebase, writes, tests, and commits. This entire site is built and maintained with it.
Cursor
Coding & DevThe AI-first code editor. Tab-completes entire refactors and chats with your whole codebase inline.
GitHub Copilot
Coding & DevAutocomplete inside VS Code and JetBrains. The safe default for teams already living in GitHub.
Replit
Coding & DevIdea to deployed app in the browser. The fastest path for prototypes, and the best on-ramp for non-developers.
v0
Coding & DevText to UI components. Describe the interface, get working React. The fastest way to get a frontend started.
HiggsfieldHouse Pick
Video & AudioCinematic AI video with real camera-move control. Our b-roll engine for daily video content.
Runway
Video & AudioThe original AI video suite. Generation plus real editing tools — motion brush, camera controls, pro workflows.
Sora
Video & AudioOpenAI's video model. Strongest at physics and long coherent shots. Lives inside the ChatGPT ecosystem.
HeyGen
Video & AudioRecord yourself once, generate talking-head video from text forever. The standard for AI avatars that don't look uncanny.
ElevenLabs
Video & AudioVoice cloning and text-to-speech that actually sounds human. The industry bar for AI audio, in 29+ languages.
CapCut
Video & AudioThe short-form editing standard. AI captions, auto-cuts, templates — the "make it look edited" button for social video.
Suno
Video & AudioFull songs from a text prompt. Background music, jingles, and soundtracks without licensing headaches.
Midjourney
Image & DesignStill the aesthetic king for stylized images and concept art. When the image needs to look designed, start here.
Ideogram
Image & DesignThe best model for text inside images — logos, posters, thumbnails, anything with typography.
Canva
Image & DesignAI-assisted design for everything else. Thumbnails, decks, and social graphics in minutes, no designer needed.
n8nHouse Pick
Automation & AgentsSelf-hosted workflow automation with deep AI integration. Runs our entire business — including the pipeline that publishes this site's daily pick.
Lindy
Automation & AgentsNo-code AI agents for email, scheduling, and ops. The easiest on-ramp if you want agents without touching a workflow editor.
Gumloop
Automation & AgentsDrag-and-drop AI workflows with scraping and enrichment built in. Strong for growth and data pipelines.
Browserbase
Automation & AgentsHeadless browsers as a service for AI agents. When your automation needs to click things on real websites.
beehiiv
GrowthThe newsletter platform built for growth — referrals, recommendations, and monetization baked in. Free to 2,500 subs.
Buffer
GrowthSchedule everywhere with AI post remixing. Cheap, reliable, and covers every platform that matters.
Submagic
GrowthAuto captions, zooms, and sound effects for short-form video. Makes raw clips look professionally edited in minutes.
Hugging Face
Chat & SearchThe open-source model hub. Try almost any model in the browser, free, before you commit to anything.