Great stack overview. One pattern I see with professional service firms: the AI tech stack doesn't need to be complex. ChatGPT + Claude + Copilot for Excel covers 90% of use cases for accounting, law, and consulting firms. The remaining 10% is industry-specific tools. Most firms overcomplicate this — they need 3 tools, not 30.
I'd like to add OrganicNearby.com to your list of companies. We build showcase pages for family farms and product cards so customers can find fresh local food in their communities. We also do a substack newsletter and post their farms on social media. Think Google shopping from local farms.
My toxic founder trait is opening a list of 120 AI tools and immediately thinking I need 17 of them.
The irony is that startups probably have less of a tooling problem now and more of a tool debt problem: overlapping subscriptions, duplicated workflows and five apps quietly doing 60% of the same job.
This is a great market map. But now I want the brutal version:
If you were building a 3-person startup tomorrow and could keep only 7 tools from this entire list, which ones survive?
I've not bought (paid) any software in a year - that's novel 🤓
The stack is evolving fast, but the real advantage isn’t having more tools, it’s choosing the right ones and integrating them well.
Great stack overview. One pattern I see with professional service firms: the AI tech stack doesn't need to be complex. ChatGPT + Claude + Copilot for Excel covers 90% of use cases for accounting, law, and consulting firms. The remaining 10% is industry-specific tools. Most firms overcomplicate this — they need 3 tools, not 30.
This is very promising.
The real edge isn’t having more tools, it’s knowing which ones actually fit your workflow.
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This is a great read, I’ll try out framer.
Here’s a related article on fintech startup
https://iruafeimi.substack.com/p/fintech-mvp-development-explained?r=57lqd9&utm_medium=ios
I'd like to add OrganicNearby.com to your list of companies. We build showcase pages for family farms and product cards so customers can find fresh local food in their communities. We also do a substack newsletter and post their farms on social media. Think Google shopping from local farms.
120+ tools is wild.
Two years ago you could run a startup on maybe 8 tools.
At what point does the complexity of managing your AI stack become its own full time job?
Feels like we're heading toward "tool fatigue" as the next big problem to solve.
My toxic founder trait is opening a list of 120 AI tools and immediately thinking I need 17 of them.
The irony is that startups probably have less of a tooling problem now and more of a tool debt problem: overlapping subscriptions, duplicated workflows and five apps quietly doing 60% of the same job.
This is a great market map. But now I want the brutal version:
If you were building a 3-person startup tomorrow and could keep only 7 tools from this entire list, which ones survive?