Tools that work together
AI tool stacks
A stack is a small set of tools that work well together for one kind of work. Start with the tier that matches where you are, master the first tool, and add the next when you can name the limit it solves.
Ready: start today, free or near-free. Competitive: the professional standard. World-Class: governed, at scale.
Founder stacks
The solo founder starter stack
For founders doing every job at once, on a budget that notices.
The founder build-and-sell stack
For founders past the idea stage: a product to ship and a pipeline to fill.
The founder growth engine stack
For funded founders industrialising go-to-market: programmable data, owned automation, a system instead of heroics.
Operations stacks
The operations starter stack
For the one person running the whole back office, who needs the operation documented before it can ever be delegated.
The professional operations stack
For an ops team running the business as a system: work managed in one place, recurring deliverables delegated, systems wired together and every change taught without a meeting.
The governed operations stack
For operations at organisational scale, where finding, trusting and proving become the work itself: answers with permissions attached, knowledge that maintains itself, and compliance run as a continuous system.
E-commerce stacks
The starter shop stack
For sellers making a storefront look credible before it can pay for help.
The operator stack
For operators whose shop has customers, and whose week has no slack.
The autonomous storefront stack
For brands running service and marketing at a volume no inbox survives.
Marketing stacks
The lean content stack
For solo marketers and small teams publishing consistently on a budget that notices.
The content and ranking stack
For marketing teams whose content must sound like the brand and rank on the metrics.
The governed brand content stack
For marketing organisations where brand, compliance and provenance are non-negotiable.
Sales stacks
The starter sales stack
For founders running their first outbound by hand, on a budget that notices.
The professional sales stack
For a small sales team running a repeatable outbound motion.
The revenue engine stack
For a scaled revenue org industrialising go-to-market.
Research stacks
The research-to-deck stack
For consultants, analysts and students who turn source material into presentable conclusions.
The evidence-grade research stack
For consultants and analysts whose conclusions get challenged, by clients, partners or peer review.
The governed knowledge ops stack
For organisations whose knowledge work must stay inside the tenant, under governance IT signed off.
Automation stacks
The starter automation stack
For a solo operator wiring up their first automations without code.
The professional automation stack
For an ops person building real multi-step workflows and a lightweight internal system.
The owned automation stack
For a team that wants automation it owns outright, with code-level control and AI agents.
Data stacks
The starter data stack
For anyone whose data lives in spreadsheets and should stay there.
The professional data stack
For analysts and operators who need real analysis without a data team.
The governed BI stack
For organisations whose numbers must be governed, permissioned and inside the tenant.
Video stacks
The starter video stack
For solo creators turning what they already record into a publishing rhythm.
The professional video stack
For content teams producing presenter-led video at volume without a studio.
The studio video stack
For brand and learning teams producing governed video at organisational scale.
Design stacks
The starter design stack
For anyone who needs things to look deliberate without hiring a designer.
The professional design stack
For marketers and creators whose visual quality is part of the product.
The studio design stack
For design teams that need control, brand training and commercial safety, not just output.
Legal & compliance stacks
The legal first-pass stack
For founders and lean teams doing first-pass legal work before counsel enters.
The professional contract stack
For legal teams and founders whose week runs on contracts.
The governed legal & compliance stack
For organisations running contracts and compliance as governed systems, not inbox work.
Meetings stacks
The starter meetings stack
For anyone whose calendar is full and whose notes are not.
The professional meetings stack
For professionals in back-to-back meetings who need the record and the time managed.
The meetings-to-work stack
For organisations that treat meetings as data and follow-through as a system.
Coding stacks
The starter coding stack
For developers getting their first leverage from AI, without changing editors or spending anything.
The agentic coding stack
For developers who want AI across the whole workflow, from keystroke to delegated task.
The delegation engineering stack
For engineering teams treating AI as headcount: work assigned, executed and reviewed, not just assisted.
Open-weight coding stacks
The open-weight coding starter stack
For developers who want to cut model cost without leaving the client they already use.
The open-weight coding agent stack
For teams that want a dedicated open-weight agent as the daily driver, with a frontier seat kept for the hard fraction.
The self-hosted coding stack
For teams whose code cannot leave their own infrastructure, running open weights they control end to end.
Private AI stacks
The desktop private stack
For individuals who want private AI on their own machine, through apps rather than terminals.
The private and local stack
For teams and individuals whose data cannot leave the building.
The production private AI stack
For organisations serving private AI to many users: regulated, air-gapped or simply sovereign by policy.
