THE WEEKLY DROP · September 28, 2026Agents at work, and a place to startRead this week’s edition →
THE STARTUPWORKER DIRECTORY

The tools and know-how behind better work.

Discover the tools, AI skills, agents, and courses startup people actually put in their stacks.

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AI Tool · Research

Claude

Made by Anthropic

A thinking partner for research, analysis, writing, coding, and turning ideas into useful work.

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AI Tool · Research

ChatGPT

Made by OpenAI

A general-purpose AI assistant for questions, drafting, problem solving, research, and multimodal work.

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AI Tool · Software building

Cursor

Made by Anysphere

An AI code editor that can understand a codebase, propose edits, run commands, and work through development tasks.

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AI Tool · Meetings

Granola

An AI notepad that combines meeting transcripts with the notes you choose to write.

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AI Tool · Knowledge management

Notion AI

AI assistance embedded in Notion for workspace search, writing, research, meeting notes, and database tasks.

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AI Tool · Research

Perplexity

An AI-powered search engine that answers questions with links to the underlying web sources.

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AI Tool · Marketers

Canva Magic Studio

Canva's collection of AI-assisted design, image, video, writing, translation, and resizing tools inside its visual workspace.

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AI Tool · Prototyping

Figma AI

AI-assisted interface design for exploring layouts, editing content, finding assets, creating images, and producing interactive prototypes.

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Skill · Extract video subtitles

Agent Reach

An installer and configuration skill that gives command-capable AI agents access to web pages, search, social platforms, video subtitles, GitHub, and RSS.

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Skill · Implement incrementally

Agent Skills

A production-grade engineering skill library that organizes agent work across specification, planning, implementation, testing, review, and shipping.

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Skill · Define approval gates

Agent-Native Architecture

A 15-area architecture checklist for systems where AI agents are primary actors, spanning tools, context, approvals, permissions, and auditability.

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Course · Build an AI strategy

AI for Business Specialization

A four-course Wharton specialization on AI and big-data fundamentals, marketing, people management, governance, ethics, and business deployment.

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Course · Evaluate AI opportunities

AI for Everyone

Andrew Ng's seven-hour, nontechnical introduction to AI capabilities, project workflows, organizational strategy, and responsible adoption.

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Course · Evaluate AI output

Anthropic AI Fluency

A free foundational course for collaborating with AI effectively, efficiently, ethically, and safely through four durable competencies.

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AI Agent · Build a web application

Base44

An AI app builder that turns a written brief into a hosted web application with interface, data, authentication, permissions, and workflows.

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AI Agent · Automate a development workflow

Claude Code

Anthropic's coding agent for understanding repositories, editing files, running development tools, and completing software tasks across terminal, IDE, web, and cloud workflows.

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Course · Build machine-learning projects

CS50 Introduction to AI with Python

A project-based computer-science course covering search, knowledge, uncertainty, optimization, machine learning, neural networks, and language.

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AI Agent · Complete a software ticket

Devin

A cloud software-engineering agent that can plan, write, run, test, and deliver code for assigned development work.

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AI Tool · Build reusable generative workflows

FLORA

A collaborative generative-AI canvas for exploring, refining, and scaling image, video, and text workflows in one creative workspace.

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Course · Analyze information

Google AI Essentials

A beginner course on AI fundamentals, workplace productivity, prompting, responsible use, and adapting as the technology changes.

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