At 9x, we test hundreds of tools.

Here's what made the cut going into Q2:

๐‹๐‹๐Œ๐ฌ:
OpenAI's ChatGPT for brainstorming and strategy.
Anthropic's Claude for writing & debugging.
Gemini for AI within our Google workspace.

๐€๐ฎ๐ญ๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ:
Make ๐Ÿ’œ remains our core automation platform.
Relay.app for additional AI capabilities & actions.
Zapier for specific integrations & Zapier Agents.

๐€๐ˆ ๐€๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ:
Lindy โ†’ We're hiring! for super fast Agent development (it's so easy)
Relevance AI for creating specialized AI employees.
Airtop ๐Ÿ†• for browser agents.

๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง:
Gmail for email communication.
Slack for team collaboration & community.
Google Meet for internal meetings.
Loom for asynchronous video updates.
Circleback ๐Ÿ†• for AI meeting recordings.

๐‚๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ:
Thinkific for hosting and managing our online courses.

๐„๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ:
Zoom for our 9x Live workshops (webinars & virtual events).
Luma ๐Ÿ†• - currently testing for event registration and management.

๐–๐ž๐›๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ž:
Framer for designing and building our website.
Xano for authentication (login for our tutorials).

๐…๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ฌ:
Fillout and Tally remain our go-to form builders.

๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐œ๐ก:
Perplexity for quick, AI-powered research.

๐–๐ข๐ค๐ข:
Notion for knowledge, task management and documentation.

๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐“๐จ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฌ:
Airtable to build custom databases and internal tools.
Softr for portals with external users.
Glide ๐Ÿ†• for no-code app development.

๐๐ž๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ž๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ:
Customer.io for newsletters & transactional emails.

๐’๐š๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ:
Attio for managing our Sales pipeline and tasks.
lemlist for automated LinkedIn connections.
Clay ๐Ÿ†• for lead enrichment.

๐•๐ข๐๐ž๐จ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง:
Screen Studio for creating high-quality video tutorials.
Descript for editing videos and podcasts.
Riverside.fm for high-quality interview recordings.
Adobe Creative Cloud for advanced video production.

๐•๐ข๐ฌ๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ:
Figma for design and infographics.
Pitch for presentations.
Canva for quick graphic design needs.

๐’๐ฒ๐ง๐œ๐ฌ:
Whalesync for syncing data between tools.

๐๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ:
Wispr Flow ๐Ÿ†• for amazing AI voice-to-text (TRY THIS!).
Bitwarden for password management.

๐ƒ๐š๐ญ๐š & ๐€๐ง๐š๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ฌ:
RudderStack for our CDP (data pipelines and tracking).
BigQuery for our data warehouse.
dbt Labs for modelling our data.
Rows.com for spreadsheet analysis.

๐ƒ๐จ๐œ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ:
Google Sheets, Docs, and Drive for document management.
DocsAutomator for streamlining document workflows.
SignWell for e-signatures.

๐…๐ข๐ง๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž:
Qonto for financial management.
re:cap for financial insights.

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What new tools are you exploring this quarter?
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