Directory
Marketing and AI tools, rated.
A growing directory of the tools I use, test and review. Each entry has the maker's own description, what I actually think of it, and a rating out of 5.
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ElevenLabs
Official description
AI voice platform for realistic speech generation, voice cloning, dubbing, text-to-speech, sound effects, and voice agents.
What Chris thinks
The text to speech and speech to text systems on ElevenLabs are amazing. I've created my own cost effective transcription software, given voice to AI agents, and made images and videos in the platform. Highly recommend.
Claude Code by Anthropic Chris' favourite
Official description
Agentic coding assistant that works in terminal and IDE, understands codebases, edits files, runs commands, and helps developers ship faster.
What Chris thinks
It's been incredible using Claude Code to program websites, including this one, and building new skills and workflows within it to make better systems as you continue to develop.
Codex by OpenAI
Official description
OpenAI's coding agent for writing, debugging, refactoring, and reasoning about code.
What Chris thinks
Competes with Claude Code (well, until Fable 5 came out at least). It also still allows Codex subscriptions to be used with agentic frameworks.
Higgsfield
Official description
AI creative suite for generating and editing videos, images, voice content, and marketing-style assets from prompts or references.
What Chris thinks
Video, images, image to video, video to video. Some of the stuff you can do in here with models like Seedance 2.0 is simply incredible.
Hostinger VPS
Official description
Virtual private server hosting for deploying websites, apps, AI agents, automation tools, and developer projects with dedicated resources and scalable infrastructure.
What Chris thinks
A great VPS server to allow you to build out your own agentic harnesses like OpenClaw or Hermes. Safer than running on your local machine, and just as powerful.
Hermes Chris' favourite
Official description
Open-source AI agent from Nous Research that can use tools, automate workflows, remember context, and operate across desktop and chat apps.
What Chris thinks
Hermes as an agentic harness, connected with a frontier model, is unbelievably fun to work with, and so useful. From simple tasks, pulling things together, building things out, creating and editing, sense checking and testing. This framework even builds its own skills as it goes.
OpenClaw
Official description
Open-source personal AI assistant that runs locally and works through existing chat apps to help with automation, search, workflows, and daily tasks.
What Chris thinks
OpenClaw is super powerful, and a lot of fun to use once you've got it set up. As agentic harnesses go, it was the first we ever played with. The community are still trying to improve it on a daily basis.
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