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A Clay lead list that actually has emails
Finding the right prospects and their contact info is slow.
So you stop hunting contact info by hand.
What it does: Clay pulls prospects from 150+ data providers, finds emails via waterfall lookups and writes AI first lines.
Free plan (100 data credits/mo); paid: see pricing; 14-day trial
Editor's pickDext reads your receipts and files them in your books
Paper and email receipts pile up until tax season.
So tax season isn't a shoebox panic.
What it does: Dext extracts vendor, date, amount and tax from snapped or forwarded receipts and publishes to QuickBooks or Xero.
See pricing
Editor's pickIntercom Fin answers repeat questions from your help docs
Repetitive pre-sales and how-to questions eat hours of a solo founder's day.
So routine questions stop eating your day.
What it does: Intercom Fin is an AI support agent that replies to customers using your help-center articles.
Fin $0.99 per resolution + Intercom from $29/seat/mo; 14-day free trial
Editor's pickNotion + Claude get your newsletter past the blank page
Weekly newsletters stall on a blank page.
So every issue ships on time.
What it does: You collect links in Notion all week, an AI drafts the outline, you edit in your voice and send with beehiiv.
beehiiv free plan; Lite $49/mo billed yearly
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