8 AI tools I actually use every day

hey — quick espresso check-in.

building with AI is the easy part now—one prompt, one deploy, done. The hard bit is what follows: getting users onboard and keeping the business on solid legal ground.

distribution is a craft; compliance is the foundation underneath it.

this issue is a tour of the AI-powered tools that let a solo founder stay on offense—products that cut the busywork so you can focus on traction. I’m opening with Skala because that’s the tool I lean on before a single line of code reaches production. They’re also the partner for today’s newsletter and they’re live on Product Hunt right now, so let’s give them the top slot.

Skala (Live on Product Hunt today)

Skala is a legal command-center built for founders who’d rather ship features than chase paperwork. Open the dashboard, pick your jurisdiction (Delaware, BVI, Panama, UAE, more coming), and Skala forms the company, drafts the necessary agreements, and schedules every compliance deadline. A built-in AI lawyer sits on call 24/7, ready to flag problems in any doc you drop in or suggest the right template on the spot—no hourly invoice attached. When the questions get hairy, human counsel steps in only when you ask.

Skala has already helped 300+ founders launch, and they’re pushing live on Product Hunt this morning. If you’ve ever stalled a release over cap-table confusion or trademark filing, support them on Product Hunt. Skala keeps my own side projects legit; it might save yours the same headache.

My Daily AI Line-Up

Cursor — the coding cockpit

• Chat with code right inside the editor; see every diff before it lands

• Handles refactors, tests, and doc-blocks while you watch

• Lets you peek under the hood if you want to get technical, but never forces it

Gamma — slides on demand

• Outline a few points, hit Generate, walk away with a polished deck

• Built-in themes that actually look modern

• Exports to PDF or web in seconds—no fiddling in Keynote

Skala — your legal startup advisor with an AI lawyer on call

• Form a company in Delaware, BVI, Panama, or UAE with one click

• 24 / 7 AI lawyer reviews contracts, drafts NDAs/SAFEs, flags red lines

• Compliance calendar and trademark filings live in the same dashboard

• Flat subscription—no hourly invoices

• Support Skala on Product Hunt today

Perplexity (Labs) — research engine

• Long-form market, user, or tech digs with sources attached

• Labs workspace lets you refine follow-ups without losing context

• Draft PRDs right in the doc, then drop them into any LLM for polishing

The LLM stack — ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini

• Different brains, different angles: run the same prompt across all three

• Great for consensus checks on complex or nuanced questions

• Swap in Gemini or another model whenever you need a fresh take

21st.dev — interface inspiration, ready to copy

• Community-curated gallery of React/Tailwind blocks

• See live code, paste into your repo, tweak with one prompt

• Perfect for “design-by-lunchtime” landing sections

Captions & Descript — reels in fifteen minutes

• Auto-transcripts, filler-word removal, and overdub narration

• Jump-cut, resize, and subtitle without opening Premiere

• Turns an afternoon edit job into a coffee break

n8n — perfect AI automations

• Connects to Google Sheets or Airtable, builds AI workflows in-line

• Good for one-off data clean-ups or recurring reports you’d rather not script

• Plays nicely with custom code from Cursor when you need deeper logic

Seen this week (stuff worth knowing)

• Cursor goes web-native. Same agent-powered IDE, no desktop install. Spin up a repo from your phone, merge a PR on the train.

• OpenAI o3-Pro lands. Their sharpest reasoning model so far—great for ripping through term sheets or sanity-checking market data without a $300-per-hour consultant.

• Skill bump, queued up. Rewatch Andrej Karpathy’s Neural Networks: Zero to Hero and the deep-dive series on LLMs/RAGs—real agent builds, zero fluff.

more coming next week.
until then:

stay caffeinated.
lead the machine.
launch anyway.

☀️ Miron