Claude
Daily UseThe A.I. I use more than anything else. Chat for strategy and content, Cowork for building agents and automations, Code for scripting and pipelines. Three products, one ecosystem. $20/month for Pro. Worth every dollar.
Try ClaudeThe Seed & Society™ Stack
Every tool, platform, and resource in the Seed & Society™ stack. Tested. Used. Recommended. Built by someone who has been in A.I. tools every single day for over 500 days, testing five new tools a week, and building an A.I.-powered business from a 10-acre homestead in rural Tennessee.
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The intelligence layer
The A.I. I use more than anything else. Chat for strategy and content, Cowork for building agents and automations, Code for scripting and pipelines. Three products, one ecosystem. $20/month for Pro. Worth every dollar.
Try ClaudeOpenAI's flagship A.I. assistant. Strong for ad-hoc tasks, image generation, and quick brainstorms. I keep both Claude and ChatGPT open to triangulate, especially on creative or visual work.
Try ChatGPTA.I.-powered search with live citations. Better than Google for research, competitive analysis, and finding information that needs to be current. I use it before almost every client call and every piece of content.
Try PerplexityThe no-code reasoning and workflow platform I use to build A.I. agents. Where Everfreely was built. The fastest path from "I want an agent that does X" to a working agent that does X.
Try MindStudioA.I. meeting notes that actually work. Runs in the background during any call, produces clean structured notes, captures decisions and action items. Removed the last manual task from my meeting workflow.
Try GranolaThe production stack
Professional voice clone technology. My A.I. voice clone sounds like me because I built it in ElevenLabs. Every podcast episode, every video, every piece of audio content is produced with my voice clone. I never have to record unless I choose to.
Try ElevenLabsA.I. avatar video generation. Em Bee, my A.I. content avatar, runs on HeyGen. Takes audio from ElevenLabs and renders a talking-head video that looks like me. The entire video content engine runs through this tool. Game-changing for volume content production.
Try HeyGenTurns long-form video into short-form clips automatically. I don't manually create shorts. Opus Clip pulls them from every long-form episode. The short-form content strategy runs on this tool entirely.
Try Opus ClipMulti-platform content distribution with a human approval layer. Finished content goes into Blotato, gets routed for review, then distributes to every platform simultaneously. The distribution layer of the content engine.
Try BlotatoStudio-quality recording for podcasts and video interviews. Separate tracks, local recording so bad internet doesn't ruin the session, automatic transcripts. The recording tool when recording is the right choice.
Try RiversideA.I. writing tool built for SEO. Long-form articles with real-time search data baked in. Part of the blog content production stack for The Connectors Market™.
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Try KoalaPodcast hosting for all five Seed & Society shows (English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Hindi). Unlimited shows on every plan, supports bonus episode types, and the API powers the automated episode publishing pipeline. The Apple Podcasts video support landing in spring 2026 sealed it.
Try CaptivateA.I.-powered course creation platform. Turns existing content and expertise into structured course modules. For service-based business owners who want to productize knowledge without rebuilding everything from scratch.
Try AICoursifySystems that run without you
Newsletter platform, podcast hosting, and subscriber management. The Seed & Society newsletter lives here. Clean analytics, solid deliverability, a growing discovery network, and an API that connects to the Claude Code automation pipeline.
Try BeehiivThe A.I. revenue-finding agent I built for myself and now offer to everyone. Finds grants, scholarships, fellowships, pitch competitions, speaking opportunities, and sponsorships matched to your profile. Drafts the applications. Gets everything submission-ready in a single click.
Founding member pricing on the waitlist
Join the WaitlistCreator-focused email and audience platform (formerly ConvertKit). Powerful automations, tagging, and a clean creator network for cross-promotion. Part of the Seed & Society audience-bridge stack alongside Beehiiv.
Try KitThe connective tissue between every tool that doesn't already talk to every other tool. I use it for lightweight glue work — moving form submissions, syncing data between platforms, triggering downstream automations on events.
Try ZapierFrom idea to live product
No-code app builder that actually works. The A.I. Employee Report at audit.seedandsociety.com was built in Lovable. Everfreely's frontend is being built in Lovable. You describe what you want, it builds it, you iterate. No developer required.
Try LovableOpen-source backend as a service. Database, auth, storage, and edge functions. The backend layer for Everfreely and the A.I. Employee Report. Free tier is genuinely usable for early-stage products.
Try SupabaseStatic site hosting and serverless functions. Everfreely.com runs on Netlify. Drag, drop, deploy. Free tier covers most early-stage use. The simplest path from code to live URL.
Try NetlifyThe combination I've used for seedandsociety.com. Showit handles the visual design with true drag-and-drop flexibility. WordPress powers The Connectors Market™ blog with full SEO control. Best of both worlds for a content-driven brand site.
Try ShowitThe operating layer
Checkout, sales pages, and course delivery. One-time payment for lifetime access, which is the only payment model that makes sense for an infrastructure tool. Handles digital product sales, upsells, and affiliate management in one place.
Try ThriveCartAll-in-one CRM, pipeline, and marketing automation platform built for agencies and service businesses. Replaces multiple tools with one system. Strong for client management, follow-up sequences, and sales pipeline tracking.
Try GHLBusiness formation and registered agent services. Where I recommend founders start when forming their LLC. Clean process, real humans if you need help, and the $39 formation package is the most straightforward path to a legally registered business.
Form Your LLCGmail, Drive, Docs, and Sheets for business. The foundation of every operating system I've built. If you're running a business without a professional email domain, this is the first thing to fix.
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Try Google WorkspaceWhere the reps happen
Jesse Itzler's speaker training program. Where I developed and refined the keynote. If you're a service-based business owner who speaks or wants to speak, this is the community and training program worth the investment.
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