Collecting the shiniest AI tools around.
Curated AI tools for solo operators, startups, and small businesses, scored against a six-dimension rubric.
This week's Magpie picks
158 tools
ChatGPT
General-purpose AI assistant from OpenAI
$20/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
Cursor
AI-first code editor
$20/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
Claude
Anthropic's AI for nuanced writing and analysis
$20/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
ManyChat
AI chat automation for Messenger/IG/SMS
$15/mo·Solopreneur → Series A
Apollo.io
B2B prospecting with AI sequencing
$49/mo·MVP → Growth
Close
The CRM built for fast-growing sales teams
$19/mo·MVP → Series A
Fireflies.ai
AI meeting assistant with deep CRM sync
$10/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
Freshsales
AI CRM for SMBs with Freddy AI
$11/mo·Solopreneur → Series A
Ramp
AI-powered spend management
Free·MVP → Growth
Reply.io
AI cold email sequencer with Jason AI SDR
$60/mo·MVP → Series A
Synthesia
AI avatars for training and explainer videos
$30/mo·MVP → Growth
Tally
Free form builder with unlimited submissions
$24/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
tl;dv
Multilingual searchable meeting library
$20/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
Apify
Full-stack web scraping and data extraction platform
$29/mo·MVP → Growth
Canva Magic Studio
AI design suite for non-designers
$15/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
Freshdesk + Freddy
Helpdesk with AI Freddy assistant
$29/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
Kommunicate
No-code AI agent builder for support
$100/mo·MVP → Growth
Linear
Modern issue tracking with native AI agents and MCP
Free·Solopreneur → Growth
Pipedrive
Sales-focused CRM with AI assistant
$14/mo·Solopreneur → Series A
Slack AI
Native AI features for search, summarization, and recap inside Slack
$10/mo·MVP → Growth
Writesonic
SEO-focused AI content for blogs and ads
$20/mo·Solopreneur → Seed
Gemini
Google's AI assistant integrated with Workspace
$20/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
Intercom Fin
AI agent for customer support
$29/mo·MVP → Growth
Leonardo AI
AI image and video generation platform with fine-tuned models
$12/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
Make
Visual workflow builder with branching
$9/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
Pictory
Turn blogs and scripts into short videos
$19/mo·Solopreneur → Seed
Tidio Lyro
AI chatbot for ecommerce and SMBs
$29/mo·Solopreneur → Seed
Visible.vc
Equipping founders and investors to build
$59/mo·MVP → Series A
Zapier
Connect 8000+ apps with AI agents
$20/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
Akkio
No-code predictive analytics
$49/mo·MVP → Series A
Attio
AI-native CRM with MCP for the next era of companies
$34/mo·MVP → Growth
Fathom
Free AI meeting recorder for solos
Free·Solopreneur → Seed
Jasper
AI marketing copy with brand voice training
$49/mo·MVP → Series A
Krisp
Noise cancelling plus AI notes
$12/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
Lavender
AI email coach for sales reps
$29/mo·MVP → Series A
Notion AI
AI inside the Notion workspace
$10/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
Otter.ai
AI meeting transcription and notes
$17/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
Reclaim AI
AI calendar for tasks, habits, and meetings
$8/mo·Solopreneur → Series A
Tana
AI-native outliner workspace with supertags
$8/mo·Solopreneur → Seed
Zendesk AI
AI add-on inside Zendesk
$50/mo·Series A → Growth
Asana
Work management platform with AI Studio and V2 MCP server
Free·Solopreneur → Growth
Builder.io Visual Copilot
Design-to-code AI from Figma
$30/mo·MVP → Growth
ClickUp Brain
AI add-on for ClickUp project management
$9/mo·MVP → Growth
Descript
Edit video and podcasts by editing text
$16/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
Firecrawl
The web data API for AI
$16/mo·MVP → Growth
GitHub Copilot
AI pair programmer in your IDE
$10/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
Runway
AI video generation and editing
$15/mo·Solopreneur → Series A
Sentry
Error tracking with an AI-native MCP for agents
Free·Solopreneur → Growth
Anthropic MCP
The protocol itself, with reference servers
Free·MVP → Growth
Cloudflare
Edge platform with Code Mode MCP for infrastructure-controlling agents
Free·Solopreneur → Growth
Folk
Lightweight relationship-first CRM
$19/mo·Solopreneur → Seed
Grammarly
AI writing assistant for tone and clarity
$12/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
Lovable
Build full apps from prompts
$20/mo·Solopreneur → Seed
Motion
AI calendar that auto-schedules your tasks
$19/mo·Solopreneur → Series A
Claude Code
Terminal-based agentic coding by Anthropic
$20/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
Granola
Active note-taking AI assistant
$18/mo·Solopreneur → Seed
Hex
AI-augmented data notebooks
Free·MVP → Growth
HubSpot Breeze
AI built into HubSpot CRM
$9/mo·MVP → Growth
Lindy
AI agents for meetings, email, outreach
$49/mo·Solopreneur → Series A
Read AI
Meeting analytics and engagement insights
$19/mo·Solopreneur → Series A
Slite
AI knowledge base for small teams
$8/mo·Solopreneur → Series A
Stripe
Payments platform with an official MCP server for agentic commerce
Free·Solopreneur → Growth
Tactiq
AI meeting transcripts in Google Meet, Zoom, Teams
$8/mo·Solopreneur → Series A
Adobe Firefly
Commercial-safe AI in Adobe apps
$5/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
Browse AI
No-code AI web scraper and monitor
$19/mo·Solopreneur → Series A
Copilot (Microsoft 365)
AI inside Word/Excel/Outlook/Teams
$30/mo·MVP → Growth
Crawl4AI
Open-source LLM-friendly web crawler
Free·MVP → Growth
Gorgias
AI support for Shopify ecommerce
$10/mo·Solopreneur → Series A
Higgsfield
Cinematic AI video and character generation
$15/mo·Solopreneur → Series A
Julius AI
Chat with your spreadsheets
$20/mo·Solopreneur → Series A
Lemlist
Multichannel cold outreach platform
$39/mo·MVP → Growth
Pipedream
Event-driven workflows with MCP and AI
$19/mo·MVP → Growth
ScraperAPI
Proxy-based scraping API for developers
$49/mo·MVP → Series A
ScrapingBee
Managed web scraping API with proxies
$49/mo·MVP → Series A
Superhuman
Fast AI email client for power users
$25/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
Warp
Agentic AI terminal for developers
$20/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
v0 by Vercel
AI UI generator producing React code
$20/mo·Solopreneur → Series A
Artlist
Royalty-free music/footage/SFX library plus AI creator tools
$10/mo·Solopreneur → Series A
Booke.ai
AI bookkeeping co-pilot for QuickBooks/Xero
$19/mo·Solopreneur → Seed
Clay
GTM research and enrichment with AI
$149/mo·Seed → Growth
CodeRabbit
AI code reviews on every pull request
$24/mo·MVP → Growth
Composio
Hosted MCP server hub for 250+ apps
$49/mo·MVP → Growth
Copy.ai
GTM AI for sales and marketing content
$36/mo·MVP → Series A
DALL-E 3
OpenAI image gen via ChatGPT
$20/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
Diffbot
AI-powered web data extraction and knowledge graph
$299/mo·MVP → Growth
ElevenLabs
AI voice generation and conversational agents
$5/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
LlamaIndex
RAG and agent framework with managed cloud
$50/mo·MVP → Growth
Mem
AI-organised personal knowledge base
$8/mo·Solopreneur → Seed
Relevance AI
No-code multi-agent workforce builder
$29/mo·MVP → Series A
Windsurf
Agentic AI IDE for full-flow coding
$15/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
Akiflow
Time-blocking task aggregator across apps
$15/mo·Solopreneur → Seed
Brave Search MCP
Web search MCP server for agents
Free·MVP → Growth
Bright Data
Enterprise proxies and web scraping infrastructure
$499/mo·Series A → Growth
Continue
Open-source AI code assistant for IDEs
$10/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
Crew AI
Open-source multi-agent framework
Free·Solopreneur → Growth
LangGraph
Multi-agent orchestration framework with state graphs
$39/mo·MVP → Growth
LangSmith
Observability and evaluation for LLM apps
$39/mo·MVP → Growth
Perplexity
AI answer engine with cited sources
$20/mo·Solopreneur → Series A
PhantomBuster
Sales automation and LinkedIn scraping
$69/mo·MVP → Series A
ScrapeGraphAI
LLM-powered scraping with natural language
$19/mo·MVP → Growth
Sourcegraph Cody
Code intelligence and AI for large codebases
$59/mo·Series A → Growth
n8n
Open-source workflow automation
$24/mo·MVP → Growth
Aider
AI pair programming in your terminal
Free·Solopreneur → Growth
Augment Code
Context-aware AI agent for big codebases
$20/mo·MVP → Growth
Chatbase
Train a chatbot on your docs
$40/mo·Solopreneur → Seed
Instantly
Cold email at deliverability scale
$37/mo·MVP → Growth
Pabbly Connect
Budget Zapier alternative with lifetime deals
$19/mo·Solopreneur → Series A
Qodo
AI code review and test generation
$30/mo·MVP → Growth
Shortwave
AI email client built on Gmail
$9/mo·Solopreneur → Series A
Smartlead
Cold email outreach at scale with unlimited mailboxes
$39/mo·MVP → Growth
Smithery
Registry and runtime for MCP servers
Free·MVP → Growth
Zed
AI-native code editor built in Rust
$20/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
Activepieces
Open-source AI-first automation
$25/mo·MVP → Growth
Mintlify
AI-native technical documentation platform
$300/mo·MVP → Growth
Persana AI
Agentic prospecting with 75+ buying signals
$85/mo·MVP → Series A
Regie.ai
AI sales engagement and Auto-Pilot agents
$89/mo·MVP → Growth
Sema4.ai
Enterprise platform for Python AI agents
Contact·Series A → Growth
UserGems
Champion job-change tracking and AI prospecting
Contact·Series A → Growth
Vic.ai
AI accounts payable automation
Contact·Series A → Growth
Cline
Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code
Free·Solopreneur → Growth
Default
Inbound RevOps automation platform
$250/mo·Series A → Growth
Docyt
AI bookkeeping for SMBs
Demo only·MVP → Series A
E2B
Cloud sandboxes for AI agents
$150/mo·MVP → Growth
Gumloop
No-code AI workflow builder
$97/mo·MVP → Series A
OpenHands
Open-source autonomous software engineer
$20/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
Rossum
AI document processing for invoices
Contact·Series A → Growth
Stack AI
Enterprise AI agent platform
Contact·Series A → Growth
Vellum
Build agents from natural-language descriptions
$25/mo·MVP → Growth
Alta
Autonomous prospecting agent layer
Contact·Series A → Growth
Browser Use
AI agent that controls a real browser
Free·MVP → Growth
Pecan AI
Predictive AI for SMB leaders
Contact·Series A → Growth
Browserbase
Web browsers for AI agents
$39/mo·MVP → Growth
Elicit
AI research assistant for academic papers
$12/mo·Solopreneur → Series A
Replit Agent
Chat-to-deployed-app builder in the browser
$25/mo·Solopreneur → Seed
Twain
AI email coach for cold outreach
$19/mo·Solopreneur → MVP
Weavy
Collaborative AI canvas for image and video workflows
$19/mo·Solopreneur → Seed
Plus AI
AI presentation builder for Google Slides and PowerPoint
$10/mo·Solopreneur → Series A
Reflect
Encrypted AI note-taking for thinkers
$10/mo·Solopreneur → Seed
Sudowrite
AI for fiction and long-form creative writing
$19/mo·Solopreneur
Base44
Prompt-to-app builder for internal tools and SaaS, acquired by Wix
$20/mo·Solopreneur → Seed
Height
AI-native project management (sunset)
$7/mo·MVP → Seed
Hyperbrowser
Headless browser infrastructure for AI agents
$30/mo·MVP → Growth
Midjourney
Premier AI image generator
$10/mo·Solopreneur → Growth
Profound
Generative search analytics and brand visibility for AI answer engines
Contact·Series A → Growth
Castles
Structured memory for LLMs, accessed via MCP
Free·Solopreneur → Seed
Devin AI
Cognition's autonomous AI software engineer
$20/mo·Seed → Growth
Paradox
Conversational hiring software with Olivia, the AI assistant
Contact·Series A → Growth
Ashby
All-in-one ATS that evolves at the speed of AI
$400/mo·Seed → Growth
MultiOn
AI agent that browses the web for you
$20/mo·MVP → Series A
SaaStr.AI
AI Tools for B2B Founders & VCs
Free·Solopreneur → Seed
Affinity
Your next deal is in your network
Contact·MVP → Growth
Magic Patterns
Generate UI patterns from prompts with design-system awareness
$25/mo·Solopreneur → Seed
Artisan AI
Ava, the AI BDR
Contact·Series A → Growth
Tempo Labs
Production React with a visual + code hybrid editor
$30/mo·MVP → Seed
Bolt.new
Prompt-to-full-stack-app in the browser via WebContainers
$20/mo·Solopreneur → MVP
Employment Hero
Employment. Intelligently Run.
$7/mo·MVP → Growth
11x.ai
Alice, the AI SDR
Contact·Series A → Growth
Rork
Prompt-to-mobile-app builder producing real React Native apps
$20/mo·Solopreneur → MVP