The Startup AI Tech Stack
The Ultimate AI Tech Stack: How to use the latest tools and the platforms that matter
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Hey Founders 👋
With new AI tools emerging every day, the way you build (and rebuild) your tech stack is changing — both in how you adapt and how you use these tools internally and externally.
To help, we’ve published the first comprehensive Startup AI Tech Stack: a guide to the tools that can speed up functions, processes, and daily tasks — and how to put them to work.
Let’s dive in 🚀
The Startup AI Tech Stack Landscape
Our latest landscape highlights the tools startups can use across their tech stack, organized into the following categories:
Row 1: Marketing, Dev Tools, Product teams, and GTM & Sales.
Row 2: Productivity, Compliance, HR Management, and Create AI Agents.
Row 3: Legal, Manage Payments, Banking, and Fundraising.
Row 4: Design Tools, Team Syncing, Vibe Coding and customer support.
Row 5: CRM, Generate Content, Automations, and Databases.
Row 6: Taking Notes, AI Models, Cloud, and Data.
Note: There are countless tools, and not every platform is featured. Share your favorites in the comments if we missed them. Some platforms span multiple categories — we’ve placed them where they fit best.
This is how you can use each tool within your tech stack 👀
Row 1
Marketing
The Prompting Company: Be found through ChatGPT and similar platforms.
Substack: Publish your newsletters.
Product Hunt: Launch your project and get fans.
Passionfroot: Find creators for your business.
Opus Clips: Automatically create short viral clips.
MarkeTeam: Your AI marketing agents.
Framer: Publish your website.
Eleven Labs: Translate your content into multiple languages.
Beehiiv: Publish your newsletters.
Dev Tools
Windsurf: Code editor.
Traderoot: AI agents that automatically fix production bugs.
Starsling: Agentic developer homepage that helps you ship faster.
Stagewise: The frontend coding agent for real codebases.
Keystone: The AI engineer that understands your product.
DX: Helps organizations measure developer productivity, accelerate velocity with data, and navigate the shift to AI-augmented engineering.
Docket: Vision-first end-to-end testing for scaling coverage, eliminating flaky tests, and catching bugs before customers encounter them.
Conduct: Measure developer productivity.
CodeRabbit: Cut code review time and bugs in half — instantly.
Product Teams
WorkOS: Modern identity platform for B2B SaaS, free up to 1 million MAUs.
PostHog: How developers build successful products.
Mobbin: UI & UX design inspiration for mobile & web apps.
Mixpanel: Product analytics & robust event tracking.
Linear: The system for modern software development — streamline issues, projects, and product roadmaps.
Kestral: Automating product development.
Hotjar: Track user activity.
Hera: Your AI motion designer.
Great Question: Empower everyone to run great research.
GTM & Sales
Swan: Turn any GTM idea into an agentic workflow in seconds, from prompt to pipeline — hire an AI GTM engineer today.
Orange Slice: AI agents that find you customers who already want to buy.
JustCall: AI-powered customer communication for sales and service teams.
Gong: The #1 AI platform for revenue teams.
Equals: GTM analytics you trust, insights that drive revenue today.
Enterpret: Turn feedback chaos into actionable customer intelligence.
Clay: Go to market with unique data — and the ability to act on it.
Candytrail: Reveal insights from every conversation.
Ambral: Supercharge every account manager with AI.
Row 2
Productivity
Willow: Save 1 hour every day with voice typing.
VoiceOS: Forget the keyboard — just talk.
Superhuman: Productive email app.
Notion: The AI workspace where teams and AI agents get more done together.
Loom: Free screen recorder for Mac and PC.
Clarm: Your team’s AI technical support.
Calendly: Free online appointment scheduling software.
Cal.com: Open scheduling infrastructure.
April: Manage email and calendar while you walk, drive, eat.
Slashy: Connects to all your tools to complete entire tasks.
Compliance
Wiz: Protect everything you build and run in the cloud.
Vanta: Automate compliance, manage risk, and accelerate trust with AI.
Socratix: Enterprise-grade, autonomous AI analysts for fraud and risk teams.
COTOOL: Composable AI agents for every security team.
Cloudflare: Connect, protect, and build everywhere.
1Password: Secure all sign-ins to every application from any device.
HR Management
Warp: Payroll and HR that runs itself.
Tecto: Vet, manage, and monitor AI employees.
Sira: Your AI HR Manager — time tracking, scheduling, and HR automated.
Rippling: Increase savings, automate busywork, and make better decisions by managing payroll, HR, IT, and spend in one place.
Remote.com: The HR and payroll engine for growing teams.
Oceans: Hire proactive global talent for your team.
Mercor: Find top-tier, remote AI roles for your expertise.
Handshake: The better career platform for Gen Z — changing how, where, and why the next generation of talent builds their career.
Deel: Payroll for global teams.
Create AI Agents
Sana: Building the next generation of AI-powered knowledge tools.
Orkes: The enterprise platform for reliable applications and agentic workflows.
Motion: Create hundreds of AI employees inside Motion's work management platform.
Hugging Face: The platform where the machine learning community collaborates on models, datasets, and applications.
Dev Agents: Operating system for AI Agents.
Crew AI: Streamline workflows across industries with powerful AI agents.
Cresta: Transform, automate, analyze, and augment every customer experience with AI agents.
11x: Digital workers, human results — for Sales, RevOps, and Go-to-Market teams.
Row 3
Legal
Papermark: Turn your documents into links and securely share data rooms.
PandaDoc: Making every day easier.
DottedSign: Tailored to teams of any size, with SaaS, API, and self-hosted deployment solutions — smart, swift, and secure legally binding eSigning.
DocuSign: Bringing agreements to life.
Docsend: Share business-critical documents with confidence — seamless and secure viewing with game-changing analytics.
Box: Secure your content and power collaboration on one platform.
Agree: An all-in-one agreements platform with better e-signature, smarter invoicing, and faster payment processing.
Adobe Sign: Power every agreement and accelerate approvals with fast, secure eSign and PDF capabilities.
Manage Payments
Stripe: Financial infrastructure to grow your revenue.
Skope: The best way to price your AI products.
Paloma: Put revenue on autopilot.
Paddle: The Merchant of Record for digital products.
Minerva: Bookkeeping and tax on autopilot.
Magnetic: Automate your practice with AI tax prep.
Lark: AI-native billing platform.
Finto: Turn invoice processing into cost savings.
Afternoon: Bookkeeping, taxes, and compliance for founders.
Banking
Wise: 160 countries, 40 currencies — get the account built to save you money worldwide.
Rho: The all-in-one banking platform for startups.
Revolut: Move freely between countries and currencies — home or away, local or global.
Ramp: Easy-to-use corporate cards, bill payments, accounting, and more — all in one place.
Mercury: Powerful banking with simplified finances.
Every: All-in-one back office built for founders.
Brex: Spend smarter. Move faster.
Bill: Accounts payable, accounts receivable, and spend management.
Fundraising
Visible VC: Make a lasting impression on investors, stakeholders, and team members.
Seedlegals: The one-stop platform for the legals to grow your business, raise investment, and handle essential legal contracts.
Pulley: Cap table management for founders and finance leaders.
Ledgy: Compliant equity management with best-in-class automation.
Harmonic: The startup discovery engine.
Dealroom: Mapping the world's tech ecosystems.
Crunchbase: Find investors and get funding.
Carta: Helps people manage equity.
Brdg: Warm introductions at scale.
Row 4
Design Tools
Wombo: AI-powered entertainment.
Polymet: AI product designer, at your service.
Pollo AI: Your one-stop AI image & video creation platform.
Picsart: The only AI-powered creative companion you’ll ever need to grow your brand.
Photoroom: Create pro visuals that sell.
Midjourney: Create images.
Leonardo: The advanced creative toolkit for curious makers.
Figma: The collaborative interface design tool.
Canva: Visual suite for everyone.
Team Syncing
Slack: The communication platform for teams.
Monday.com: Streamline workflows across projects, CRM, IT, and development.
Miro: The innovation workspace where teams manage projects, design products, and build the future together.
Jira: The only project management tool you need to plan and track work across every team.
Coda: Summarize or generate tables so you can share your work faster.
Basecamp: Puts everything you need to get work done in one place.
Asana: Keeping remote and distributed teams focused on goals, projects, and tasks.
Vibe Coding
Vybe: Build internal apps 10X faster.
V0: Start building with a single prompt — no coding needed.
Replit: Turn your ideas into apps.
Lovable: Create apps and websites by chatting with AI.
Floot: Turn your ideas into products without coding, all on one platform.
Cursor: The best way to code with AI.
Bolt: Create stunning apps & websites by chatting with AI.
Bitrig: Build apps for your phone, on your phone.
a0.dev: Let’s build your mobile app!
Customer Support
Zendesk: Deliver beautifully simple service with Zendesk AI Agents.
Syncly: AI-native customer intelligence suite built for fast-growing brands.
Open: Automate your support in the next 30 days.
Minimal: Scale customer support without hiring.
Leaping: Automate your call center with voice AI.
Janet: The intelligent ticket management system.
Front: Complete control over AI and automation to deliver top-quality service you can trust.
Fin: The #1 AI agent for customer service.
Row 5
CRM
Salesflare: The CRM your team loves to use.
Salesforce: Grow faster and work smarter.
Pipedrive: Track your sales pipeline, optimize leads, and manage deals.
Pally: Know everything, about everyone.
Insightly: Grow faster with the modern CRM teams love.
Attio: The AI-native CRM for GTM builders.
Generate Content
Wondercraft: Create video and audio content through natural conversation.
Jasper: The AI platform that unifies the brand experience, accelerates content velocity, and automates marketing processes — at scale.
Gamma: Your AI design partner for effortless presentations, websites, social media posts, and more.
Copy.ai: Generate various types of content.
Chronicle: Create stunning presentations — no design skills required.
Beautiful AI: Present your best ideas beautifully with the AI presentation maker built for teams.
Automations
Zapier: Build and ship AI workflows in minutes — no IT bottlenecks, no complexity. Just results.
Superglue: Integrate your apps, APIs, and databases instantly with natural language.
Sidekick: Build full automations using only a chat interface.
N8n: Flexible AI workflow automation for technical teams.
Hubspot: Where go-to-market teams go to grow, scale, retain, thrive, and grow.
Clickup: A single workspace for projects, tasks, chat, docs, and more — where humans and agents work together.
Tray: The fastest, most flexible way to turn AI and agents into business performance.
Pipedream: Connect APIs, AI, databases, and more.
Databases
Supabase: Start your project with a Postgres database, authentication, instant APIs, and realtime subscriptions.
Stackby: Work platform that is as simple as a spreadsheet.
Rejot: Turn the write-ahead log of your database into an asynchronous communication channel for your services.
MongoDB: The database for dynamic, demanding software.
Helix: Feed your agents more relevant context with the fastest and most scalable graph-vector database, built in Rust.
Airtable: The AI-native platform for building trusted AI apps to accelerate business operations and deploy embedded AI agents at enterprise scale.
Row 6
Taking Notes
tldv: We take your meeting notes. You run the show.
Otter: Get live transcripts and automated summaries.
Hyprnote: AI notepad for private meetings.
Granola: The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings.
Fireflies: The #1 AI teammate for your meetings.
Avoma: An all-in-one AI to automate note-taking, scheduling, coaching, forecasting, and more.
AI Models
Perplexity: Free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.
Mistral: The most powerful AI platform for enterprises.
Gemini: Get help with writing, planning, brainstorming, and more.
Deepseek: A free AI chatbot rivaling GPT-4 — with zero hassle.
Claude: AI assistant built by Anthropic, trained to be safe, accurate, and secure to help you do your best work.
ChatGPT: Helps you get answers, find inspiration, and be more productive.
Cloud
LucidLink: Real-time cloud storage for teams.
IBM Cloud: Market-leading security, enterprise scalability, and open innovation to unlock the full potential of cloud and AI.
Google Cloud: Tools and modern applications — high-performance infrastructure for cloud computing, data analytics, and machine learning.
DigitalOcean: Simple, complete cloud infrastructure for even the most complex demands.
Azure: Build, deploy, and scale AI-powered apps and agents faster with your data flowing across a connected software lifecycle.
AWS: Reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services — free to join, pay only for what you use.
Data
Paradigm: A platform offering tools for marketing, product, GTM, sales, productivity, compliance, HR, AI agents, and more.
MangoDesk: Helps accelerate the creation of evaluations and data workflows.
Julius: Connects your data so you can ask questions in plain English and get insights in seconds — no coding needed.
Firecrawl: Powers your AI apps with clean data crawled from any website — open source.
Browse Data: Transforms any website into a live data pipeline using AI-powered data extraction.
Apify: A full-stack platform for web scraping.
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Interesting tool stack... and thanks for putting this together...
How about creating a tool to suggest the products you can use for a specific task... Today we can a millions of AI tools... and most of them do almost the same.
Just a thought here... 😅
im gonna save this