54 field notes about automation. Quick, practical, no fluff.
OpenMontage is an open-source system that takes a plain-language prompt and handles the research, script, footage, editing, and music — delivering a finished video.
Xiaomi just released a free AI coding agent that keeps its memory between sessions — and outperforms Claude Code on standard benchmarks.
Agent-Reach lets your AI assistant browse Twitter, Reddit, YouTube and more without paying platform fees — a small tool with a surprisingly large surface area.
Headroom quietly compresses what your AI reads before it reads it — slashing API costs by up to 95% without changing how anything works.
A widely-shared principles guide reveals that the most reliable AI products are mostly structured code, with AI sprinkled in at precisely the right moments.
Microsoft Research built a browser agent that writes reusable scripts instead of clicking blindly — so every task you solve once, stays solved forever.
Google's new WebMCP standard lets AI agents interact with websites cleanly — no guessing, no fumbling — and Booking.com, Shopify, and Expedia are already on board.
abogen converts EPUBs, PDFs, and text files into chaptered audiobooks with synced captions — offline, free, and surprisingly polished.
OpenWA lets you run WhatsApp automations from your own server — no per-message fees, no waiting on Meta's approval.
A $9 sensor and your existing WiFi router can detect people, measure breathing, and estimate body posture — through walls, in the dark, no camera needed.
OpenHuman quietly reads all your tools every 20 minutes and builds a private memory of your work — so it never starts from scratch.
CloakBrowser is a free, open-source browser built for AI agents that need to browse the web without getting blocked — and it costs nothing where competitors charge hundreds a month.
A small Mac app sits quietly in your menu bar, watches you repeat the same task three times, and then writes a detailed playbook your AI agent can follow — in your voice, with your logic baked in.
An open-source AI agent that can read and edit an entire codebase in one sitting — at a fraction of the cost of the big names.
Ruflo turns Claude into a self-organizing team of AI specialists that split the work between them, and it's free to run yourself.
Self-hosted AI gateway that puts the same assistant into WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, iMessage and more. Open source, MIT-licensed, runs on your own machine.
Sandcastle lets you spin up multiple AI coding agents at once — each working in its own isolated space — and then quietly merges everything back together.
OpenAI open-sourced a tool that turns a project management board into a team of coding agents — each ticket gets its own worker that runs until the job is done.
PentAGI is an open-source AI agent that runs full security tests on your systems autonomously — no specialist required to set it in motion.
Wanman runs a coordinated crew of AI agents on your own machine — each with a role, each talking to the others — while you sit back and watch it happen.
An open-source AI agent that reads academic papers, finds datasets, and trains machine learning models — without anyone holding its hand.
A new open-source tool turns plain web code into rendered video — which means AI agents can finally produce video content without touching a timeline.
Archon gives AI coding tools a fixed process to follow — so every task runs the same way, every time, no matter the model's mood.
A tiny AI agent that gets smarter and cheaper every time it completes a task — and reportedly built its own codebase without a human ever touching the keyboard.
Google open-sourced the AI it uses to scan billions of Gmail and Drive uploads — and it identifies file types with 99% accuracy in the blink of an eye.
An open-source project that works like a tiny film studio on your computer — you describe a video, it writes the script, plans the shots, and produces the whole thing while you sleep.
A small YC-backed agency figured out how to fix broken developer docs in weeks, not months — by letting AI do the tedious parts and humans do the thinking.
A tiny add-on makes Claude respond like a caveman — and somehow that cuts costs by up to 87% while keeping every useful answer intact.
Molted gives AI agents their own managed mailbox — with built-in safety rails so they can't spam your contacts or leak sensitive data.
Someone built an AI-powered job search system for themselves, used it to evaluate 740 offers and write 354 tailored CVs — then got hired as Head of Applied AI.
TaxHacker is a free, self-hosted app that reads any receipt or invoice — in any language — and turns it into clean accounting data, automatically.
A small open-source tool called OMX quietly turned a single AI coding assistant into a coordinated team of agents — and someone used it to do a week's worth of work in one night.
A new plugin for Claude Code gives you an instant team of 32 specialized AI agents — architect, designer, librarian, and more — without writing a single line of setup.
TinyFish built infrastructure for AI agents to interact with the live web at scale — and AgentQL lets you point at any element on any page using plain English instead of brittle CSS selectors.
A small Mac app quietly bridges the gap between Claude and your actual life — calendar, messages, contacts, reminders, and location included.
DeerFlow is an open-source AI agent that does not just answer questions, it plans the work and finishes whole projects on its own.
Lightpanda runs 11x faster than Puppeteer and uses 9x less RAM. An open-source headless browser purpose-built for AI agents and web scraping.
A new tool lets AI agents operate desktop software like GIMP or Blender the same way a human would — but faster, quietly, and without anyone touching a mouse.
Hermes Agent remembers past conversations, learns from mistakes, and connects to Slack, Discord and Telegram. Free, self-hosted, built by Nous Research.
100+ ready-made AI agent personas in one repo - frontend devs, brand managers, growth leads. Copy-paste into Claude, ChatGPT or any AI tool.
Andrej Karpathy just released a tiny tool that lets an AI agent run experiments on its own, all night, and hand you the results by morning.
IronClaw is an open-source runtime that lets AI agents do real work without ever seeing — or accidentally exposing — your API keys and secrets.
Paperclip lets you build a fully staffed AI organisation — with a real org chart, budgets, and accountability — that actually runs itself.
Shannon is an open-source AI that actually attacks your own web app to find real security holes — not just a list of warnings, but proof that something is broken.
A free, set-it-and-forget-it system that watches Reddit for your brand name and pings you when someone mentions it, so you don't have to.
Alibaba just open-sourced the safety layer that lets AI agents actually do things — without putting your real systems at risk.
A new open-source project turns an ordinary WiFi router into a sensor that can detect where people are, how they're breathing, and whether someone has fallen — no camera required.
Google quietly embedded a powerful AI forecasting model inside Google Sheets — and you don't need to know anything technical to use it.
Scrapling watches websites change and quietly updates itself — so your data pipelines don't break every time a competitor redesigns their homepage.
An open-source platform that takes your team's little scripts and automations and gives them a proper home — with scheduling, logs, and a real interface.
n8n lets you automate anything between your apps — Slack, email, CRM, spreadsheets. It's free, it's visual, and you own the whole thing.
Supabase can run tasks on a schedule — daily reports, data cleanup, reminders — without any extra tools or monthly fees.
Activepieces is like Zapier but free, open source, and its 280+ integrations work directly with AI agents like Claude.
Your CRM knows when you last talked to someone. AI can use that to write follow-ups that actually sound like you.
The AI tools and moves I actually use to win more business. A couple a week, nothing I haven't run myself.