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Claude in PowerPoint

Calling all weary deck builders. 🔨

Anthropic’s Claude now integrates directly into Microsoft PowerPoint, which means you can create and edit presentations with prompts instead of manually building out slides, layouts, diagrams, etc.

A cool part about this integration is that Claude uses your presentation’s slide master, layouts, fonts, and color schemes from the jump.

Norbert

Norbert is a lead-gen / email discovery tool that helps you find your prospect’s email address by entering a their name and company domain.

It verifies those addresses in real time to reduce bounce rates and protect sender reputation. There’s also data enrichment, like job titles and company information, which helps you personalize outreach.

You get the first 50 leads for free.

PrePostSEO

PrePostSEO is one-stop-shop platform for 150+ SEO tools and utilities, many of which are free to use.

There’s a plagiarism checker and paraphrasing tool, grammar checking, readability analysis, keyword density evaluation, backlink checking, domain authority lookup, plus various file conversion utilities… and a lot more.

Formaly

Multiple choice is dead. Maybe.

Formaly lets you create more engaging, conversational forms using natural-language prompts.

Respondents interact in a dialogue instead of ticking boxes or scrolling through long lists of fields, which can help boost your completion rates.

Formaly then extracts themes, sentiment, and key quotes automatically to help you understand your results.

Ordo

If you find yourself bookmarking Reels for inspiration or client references (or vibes) and then promptly losing track of them…

Ordo is an app that saves and organizes short‑form videos into a searchable library.

Save videos with a single click, and Ordo categorizes and tags content automatically to be revisited later, like when you’re trying to explain a brainrot meme to a coworker.

VForms

VForms embeds questionnaires directly inside your videos, so viewers can respond in context without having to jump to a separate survey form.

Integrate questions at specific timestamps to get real-time feedback. That means you can ask a viewer what they think about a product feature at the moment it’s shown, or test understanding during a training video.

It supports skip logic, so viewers jump to different parts of the video based on their answers, along with multiple question types (single choice, open-text, etc).

Apple Creator Studio

Apple’s new subscription-based suite of professional creative apps just dropped.

It bundles Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro, plus Motion, Compressor, and MainStage. Subscribers also get access to premium content, templates, graphics, and advanced AI-powered features across the iWork productivity apps (Keynote, Pages, and Numbers) as well as Freeform.

While obviously Adobe’s Creative Cloud is still the industry standard, Apple Creator Studio might be a good option if you’re looking for something more affordable or integrated within the Apple ecosystem.

Writizzy

Writizzy is a minimalist blogging platform for distraction‑free writing.

It’s got a clean editor, fast performance, and easy publishing, plus built‑in newsletter support, privacy‑friendly analytics, and threaded comments, if you want.

It lets you import from WordPress, Ghost, or Substack and export your content anytime. It also handles essentials like custom domains, automatic RSS feeds, and SEO‑ready output automatically.

There’s a free tier, with options to upgrade for more storage, analytics, and subscriber features.

Brand.dev

Brand.dev is a brand-data API that pulls logos, color palettes, fonts, company descriptions, social links, and more from any public domain, so you can use them to power personalized experiences and automated workflows.

Use it to automatically enrich onboarding, dashboards, CRM profiles, invoices, and AI content with accurate, up-to-date brand visuals, and metadata without manual asset gathering (the worst).

There’s also a simpler asset delivery option called Logo Link for easy logo embedding via a CDN without heavy API integration.

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