THE STARTUPWORKER DIRECTORY

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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.

Reviewed Aug 2026View →
AI Tool · Research

ChatGPT

Made by OpenAI

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

Reviewed Aug 2026View →
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.

Reviewed Aug 2026View →
AI Tool · Meetings

Granola

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

Reviewed Aug 2026View →
AI Tool · Knowledge management

Notion AI

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

Reviewed Aug 2026View →
AI Tool · Research

Perplexity

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

Reviewed Aug 2026View →
AI Tool · Marketers

Canva Magic Studio

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

Reviewed Aug 2026View →
AI Tool · Prototyping

Figma AI

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

Reviewed Aug 2026View →
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.

Reviewed Sep 2026View →
AI Tool · Create AI video

Higgsfield AI

An AI-native creative suite for generating and editing images, video, audio, visual effects, and marketing assets from prompts and references.

Reviewed Sep 2026View →