AI tools directory

Tools we use in the courses and recommend, with a note on what each is genuinely for.

We have no commercial relationship with any tool listed here. Nothing is a paid placement, and inclusion is not an endorsement of a company — only of a tool for a specific job.

Backend

Supabase

Hosted Postgres with authentication, storage and row-level security.

Database, auth and storage for applications and agents.

Chat assistant

ChatGPT

OpenAI’s assistant, with image generation and a large ecosystem in the same window.

General tasks, image generation, broad tool ecosystem.

Claude

Anthropic’s assistant. Strong on long documents, careful reasoning and writing that does not read as generated.

Research, analysis, writing, code review, working through long documents.

Coding agent

Claude Code

A terminal-based coding agent that reads, edits and tests code inside your actual repository.

Building and changing real projects, debugging, refactoring, running tests.

Codex

OpenAI’s coding agent for repository-level work.

Repository tasks, pull requests, debugging.

recommendedIncluded with paid plans

Development

GitHub

Where your code lives, with history, branches and pull requests.

Version control — the safety net that makes coding agents usable.

Email

Resend

Transactional email with a straightforward API and domain verification.

Sending receipts, notifications and sequences from your application.

Hosting

Vercel

Deployment platform with preview environments per pull request.

Deploying web applications, preview deploys, scheduled functions.

Integration

Model Context Protocol

An open standard for connecting models to tools and data sources.

Giving assistants and agents scoped access to your systems.

trendingOpen standard, free

Payments

Stripe

Payments, subscriptions and billing, including Apple Pay and Google Pay through Checkout.

Taking payments and running subscriptions.

recommendedPer-transaction fees