I've built, and I am continuing to develop an AI agent that is easy to set up. No need for the terminal. How valuable do you think this is to businesses?

So far, I've found that a lot of prospects and users like that a lot. But it could be that only my circle and users value that a lot. I'm not sure if this applies to other businesses.

Let me know what you guys think.

I’m currently building an ebook around faceless business ideas — not just motivational stuff, but actual step-by-step systems people can realistically follow and execute.

So far I’ve added 46 free AI tools across different categories like:

1. video creation

2. writing

3. design

4. automation

5. research

6. voice/audio

7. productivity

8. marketing.

But honestly, I know there are still a lot of underrated tools out there that most people never hear about.

That’s mainly why I’m posting here.

If you know any free AI tools that deserve way more attention, drop them below 👇

Doesn’t matter what category they’re in — I’m especially looking for those “hidden gem” tools that make you think: “Why is nobody talking about this?”

I’ve probably already covered the obvious/popular ones, so the more underrated or niche, the better.

Would genuinely love to discover some tools most creators/business people are sleeping on right now.

Need some serious advice here. I'm drowning in crisis monitoring lately.

Right now, my daily routine is a total nightmare. I'm spending at least 5 hours every single day jumping across platforms just to look for and manually scrape discussions about our brand. Then I have to spend another 3 hours stitched together a postmortem report to analyze how the narrative spread and present it to my boss.

The biggest bottleneck is the chain of transmission. My boss want to know exactly how a rumor or trend travels-who started it, which subreddit or influencer amplified it, and how it hit mainstream media. doing this manually by tracing timestamps and cross-referencing URLs is killing my productivity, and it's still often inaccurate.

I am looking to automate this entire workflow with AI. Ideally, I need something that can:

1. scan these platforms automatically based on custom triggers.

2. Visualize the exact transmission (Source-platform-kol-media)

3. Help to auto-summarize the narrative growth for executive reporting.

Would love to hear what actually works for you guys. Please save me from this manual spreadsheet hell. Thanks!

noticed a lot of business owners try different ai tools but rarely get a structured way to compare them or see what actually works in practice.

most of the time it ends up being:
try tool -> maybe like it -> forget about it -> move on

so i’ve been experimenting with a small platform called Loopbase where people can test tools/products and leave more structured feedback (what worked, what didn’t, would they actually use it in their workflow).

still early, but it’s been interesting seeing how different the feedback gets when people actually try things instead of just reacting to a link.

if anyone here is actively testing ai tools for their business, curious how you currently decide what’s worth sticking with.

most attempts at running sales through openclaw collapse the same way: somehow wires up a local agent and watches it either spam linkedin into a ban or quietly do nothing.

sales is four very different jobs glued together, so a general-purpose agent ends up doing each piece worse than the specialist. I found 14 tools, grouped by the actual problem.

problem 1: building the lead list (data, enrichment, intent)

• clay for the data layer almost everyone ends up wiring openclaw to anyway. waterfall enrichment across 50+ sources, $149/mo starter. if you only adopt one sales tool, it is usually this
• persana for signal-based list building with ai-assisted prospecting, starts $85/mo. closest you can get to an agent that just builds the list for you
• hunter for email finding and verification, free for 25 searches, $34/mo starter. boring, works

problem 2: writing personalized outbound at scale

• octave for ai positioning and message generation that does not read like a template, $59/mo solo
• smartlead for cold email infrastructure (warmup, rotation, deliverability), $39/mo basic. the part most people ignore until they get blacklisted
• regie ai for ai-generated sequences plus an ai prospector that actually books meetings, starts around $89/mo per user. one of the more recent additions to this category and noticeably faster than the older sequencers
• jason ai by reply for an autopilot outbound mode, $59/mo per user. cheaper than the enterprise ai sdrs and surprisingly capable on first-touch

problem 3: linkedin outbound without getting your account torched

• heyreach for multi-account linkedin outreach managed from one dashboard, $79/mo starter
• la growth machine for multichannel sequences (linkedin, email, x) with safety limits, $60/mo basic. growing fast in 2025 and 2026 because of the multichannel angle
• the openclaw-in-a-browser approach is where most accounts get flagged. these two handle the rate limits so you do not

problem 4: handling responses, booking, and inbound (the bundle tools)

• lindy for a no-code agent that watches your inbox, scores replies, books meetings, and updates the crm, starts $49.99/mo plus
• relevance ai for assembling small sales workforces with cleaner debugging, $19/mo pro. better when you want to inspect and tweak each step
• arahi for memory-first single agents you spin up from a one-sentence description, starts $49/mo
• agent frank by salesforge for a fully autonomous outbound sdr, around $499/yr. closest hosted analog to handing an agent a quota and walking away
• marblism for a pre-built bundle covering lead gen with a 700m+ database, an inbound phone receptionist on real us/ca/uk numbers, and an inbox agent, $24/mo. trade-off: no customization

how to pick:

• solo, want one tool covering inbound and replies plus a separate outbound infra layer: a pre-built bundle plus smartlead
• real outbound motion with volume and data quality: clay plus smartlead plus regie ai stacked
• one hosted autonomous sdr and stop thinking about it: agent frank, accept the higher price for lower supervision

openclaw can technically do pieces of all four problems. each piece comes out worse than the specialist, and you are still the integration glue between them.

what is your experience in running sales process with openclaw?

How do you take care of security in your startup? With a low budget and limited resources, what are the best companies to perform security testing and hardening?

Anyone set this up as yet?

TLDR - building an AI to run my meta ads, and looking to see what you'd want it to do if you had this AI.

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So 2 months ago I noticed I was doing a lot of meta ads. Managing ads manager, creating campaign structures, making creatives, copy, monitoring performance, knowing when and what to do with my running campaigns. Id Google and YouTube things I didn't know - and it was getting effing stressful. Don't know how marketers do it...

Most of the time, I used AI. I briefed Claude on my business, downloaded meta performance reports for Claude to tell me what to do next and just repeated that.

With Claude code being such hype, I wondered if I could just build an agent myself to do all that. Like hiring an employee that knows my business, works for me, and comes to me for important decisions.

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Here's what I learned while building.

1. General AI is slop. While I was feeding data to Claude, it generally sucks because it doesn't know my entire business. My average order value, my customers, etc. So the advice it gives is an industry generic. At the time, I didn't know better and anything Claude said is "obviously" good because it's better than what I would do (Google, YouTube, and guessing + praying)

2. Give AI consistent and ongoing business context, product context, order context, meta context - suddenly the AI is extremely good and works in real time. It looks at your data compares it with research on like for like fields, and returns and recommends campaign structure, angles, budget, optimization...

The result is pretty crazy. I'm at the part where I'm building it to work 24/7, basically it'll monitor in real time how my ads are performing, and when I wake up it tells me what to do, and if I like the recommendations - it'll do it for me on meta.

I think one thing that's still missing from AI is the ability to generate compelling ads, so still trying to figure that piece out, but I have hope that I'll have an AI agent that'll run my meta ads better than I ever will.

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I guess I'm writing here to garner some feedback and ideas from the business community. If you had this AI, what's one thing you'd want for it to do for you?

After spending years using Shopify for ecommerce brands and product testing, one thing became obvious:

Modern ecommerce sellers spend too much time building infrastructure instead of selling products.

Typical Shopify workflow:

• Buy a theme
• Install apps
• Pay for plugins
• Configure checkout
• Connect payment providers
• Fix page speed
• Add translations
• Build landing pages manually
• Optimize mobile responsiveness
• Handle COD separately
• Connect upsell tools
• Configure analytics

By the time the store is ready, the product opportunity is already slowing down.

That’s why we built xPage.

xPage is an all-in-one AI ecommerce platform designed to replace most of that stack with a single system.

Main differences between xPage and Shopify:

1. AI-native platform

Shopify was built before AI existed.

xPage was designed with AI at the core from day one:

• AI-generated stores
• AI-generated landing pages
• AI-generated product copy
• AI-generated layouts optimized for conversion

1. Built-in ecommerce infrastructure

Instead of relying on dozens of external apps, xPage includes:

• Store builder
• Landing page builder
• CRO-focused sections
• Multi-language support
• Multi-currency support
• Built-in analytics
• Checkout optimization
• COD support
• AI generation engine

1. Faster launch speed

With xPage, users can generate a working store from a product link or product images in minutes instead of spending days configuring a store manually.

1. Designed for modern ecommerce models

A large part of global ecommerce still relies on:

• COD
• Fast product testing
• Viral products
• Multi-country selling

Most traditional ecommerce platforms are not optimized for that workflow.

1. Built-in payments infrastructure (xPage Drop)

One of the biggest barriers in ecommerce is payment processing.

Many sellers cannot easily access Stripe, PayPal, or stable payment infrastructure.

That’s why we started building xPage Drop:
A built-in payment ecosystem where sellers can launch and sell without needing their own payment processor setup.

The goal is simple:
Reduce operational friction so sellers can focus on products, marketing, and scaling.

Current users are mostly:

• Dropshippers
• Ecommerce brands
• COD sellers
• Agencies
• Fast product testers

Interesting trend:
A lot of ecommerce founders are starting to realize they no longer want “more plugins.”

They want fewer moving parts.

For creating and posting polished videos and I’m still stuck tweaking details for hours. What tools, shortcuts, or workflows are people using to refine visuals faster without making the content feel rushed or overedited?

I have been working on something. Here's it what it does

- Reads, drafts, replies to emails in your voice, unsubscribe, flags invoices. Learns from your edits over time.

- Find and qualifies prospects based on your ICP

- Monitors competitors, tracks their new features, watches their content, and surfaces what matters.

- Writes posts based on keyword clusters, competitor gap data and backlink signals

- Any other agentic work you point it at, scheduling, research briefs, follow-up sequences.

- Proactive -- It doesn't wait for you to ask it. It notices things and acts.

- You get a summary of all the relevant info you may need in each track

- Suggest ideas to grow and market your business.

**Question: Would you pay $50/month for this, assuming it does all of the above quite well and it's not vibecoded at all?**

Building this and want to know if the pricing makes sense, or whether the use cases are too broad or is it better that you get everything at one place.

Lately I’ve noticed that when people research products or companies, they end up trusting forum discussions and Reddit threads more than official marketing pages.

What’s interesting is that the same opinions tend to repeat over and over once a certain narrative starts forming around a brand. A few strong discussions can shape how people talk about something for months.

Makes me wonder how many companies are actually paying attention to those conversations consistently versus only looking at analytics dashboards and reviews.

i’ve tried a lot of ai tools… most of them felt exciting at first, then slowly faded out of my daily work.

but a few actually stayed:

ChatGPT → ideas, writing, thinking things through
Claude → cleaner, longer writing and structure
MiriCanvas → turning ideas into real visuals fast (posts, flyers, thumbnails, presentations)

miricanvas is the one that quietly made the biggest difference for me. not because it’s “fancy ai”, but because it helps me move from idea → finished design without overthinking or wasting time.

i think that’s the real win with ai tools. They help make work easier and also this tools are easy to navigate

not hype. not replacing people. just making it easier to create, show up, and stay consistent even on busy days.

ran my marketing workflow through openclaw for six weeks. it can technically do most of it, but you spend more time prompting and reviewing than you save. 16 specialist tools that, in my experience, do the job better, grouped by what part of marketing you are trying to automate.

for research and trend mining:

• perplexity for fast answers with sources, $20/mo pro
• exa for primary-source search instead of seo content soup, free tier plus pay-as-you-go
• notebooklm for synthesis across your own docs, free, audio-overviews are surprisingly useful

for long-form writing and seo:

• claude opus for the actual draft, $20/mo. still the only model i trust on a 2,000-word piece without rewriting half of it
• byword for seo articles at scale with keyword research baked in, $39/mo. closer to a content factory than a writing assistant

for social and distribution:

• typefully for writing, scheduling, and analytics on x and linkedin, $12.50/mo. clean, fast, the one most operators i know quietly switched to
• postiz for an open-source scheduler across instagram, linkedin, x, tiktok, threads, free self-hosted or $29/mo cloud. launched 2024, still gaining ground
• magai for multi-llm content workflows in one workspace, $19/mo solo

for repurposing one piece into many:

• opus clip for cutting long video into short clips with captions, $19/mo
• submagic for captioned shorts with on-brand styling, $16/mo. faster turnaround than opus clip on short edits
• castmagic for podcast and video repurposing into show notes, threads, and posts, $34/mo

marketing run for you, not a tool to drive yourself:

• arahi for memory-first single agents you spin up from a one-sentence description, starts $49/mo
• lindy for no-code agents with triggers from email, call, or slack, $49.99/mo plus
• relevance ai for assembling a small workforce of agents with cleaner debugging than openclaw, $19/mo pro
• manus for long autonomous tasks (research, drafting, light coding) on a credit model, $19/mo starter. still independent after the meta deal got unwound in april 2026
• marblism for a pre-built bundle covering email, blog, social, lead gen, inbound calls, and contracts, $24/mo. trade-off: no customization, take what is built

openclaw is fine if you enjoy building and supervising. for actual weekly marketing output, specialists plus a pre-built bundle pull ahead because the supervision cost disappears.

curious which part of marketing you were hoping openclaw would just handle for you, and whether it actually stuck or you also ended up using different tools like me?

I’ve been looking into AI tools for businesses that deal with deliveries, dispatch, routing, field teams, or last mile logistics. There are a lot of tools in this space and honestly a lot of them sound the same at first.

The ones that stood out to me:

1. Locus. sh: AI logistics platform for route optimization, dispatch planning, real-time visibility, and last mile delivery execution.
2. Onfleet: Last mile delivery software for dispatching drivers, tracking orders, proof of delivery, and customer notifications.
3. OptimoRoute: Route planning tool that helps schedule deliveries, optimize driver routes, and manage daily field operations.
4. FarEye: Enterprise delivery management platform focused on AI dispatch, delivery visibility, exception handling, and logistics automation.
5. Shipsy: Logistics management platform for shipment tracking, carrier management, route optimization, and supply chain visibility.
6. Route4Me: Route optimization software for planning efficient multi-stop routes and reducing manual route planning work.
7. Tookan: Delivery and field service management tool for dispatch, task tracking, driver coordination, and basic delivery workflows.

My rough take is that Locus. sh, FarEye, and Shipsy are better fits for larger or scaling operations, while Onfleet, OptimoRoute, Route4Me, and Tookan are easier to imagine for smaller teams or businesses that just need cleaner daily delivery operations.

Curious if anyone here is actually using AI tools for routing or dispatch. Are they really saving time, or do they still need someone babysitting the system every day?

Totally new to AI but I’m positive AI can help with this project. I’m looking to develop a site where we can schedule therapists and clients. It sounds simple but it needs to do far more than common calendars.

Can anyone recommend a good site that uses AI that I could use to help develop a scheduler?