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Hello Ivy

If you’re looking for a new project management tool, check out Hello Ivy. It’s a collaboration hub for your team with big-picture organization and production roadmaps, interactive chat, discussion boards, interactive feeds, docs, wikis, and the works. It’s intuitive enough that you won’t need onboarding, and small teams can start for free.

Slick

Upload a video or drop a URL and Slick will generate engaging clips and subtitles for YouTube Shorts, like *that.* You can try it and create unlimited Shorts for free, or you can take advantage of the full suite of features with one of Slick’s paid plans.

Hurree

If there’s one dashboard to rule them all, it might be Hurree with its endless integrations that allow for a bird’s-eye view of all your data at once. Customize and visualize your data, build automated reports, measure against your KPIs, and collaborate with your team to make your data work for you.

Pitch 2.0

Start your pitch deck or presentation with a branded AI-generated template. Add text, images, and video; create cool animations; and collaborate with your team. Then, send off a live tailored link to each recipient and track their interactions.

Descript

Descript is an AI-powered audio repair tool for podcasts, video, and any other project that needs some polish. One click fixes tone, enhances dialogue, removes background noise, and smooths over cuts for a seamless edit.

Tona

If you’re not already creepin’ on your competitors, what are you doing?

And if you are, you’re probably working too hard on it. Tona helps you track and review changes to competitors’ websites and newsletters, providing snackable analytics and keeping you posted on every product launch, marketing strategy, and price change, and trend. Subscribe to your preferred update interval and forget about it.

Formless by Typeform

“Is this the right place?”

“No.”

…And that’s the extent of a traditional 404 page’s helpfulness. But what if it could guide users back to what they’re looking for on your site with a little help from an AI chatbot? Use the Formless conversation builder to set a tone of voice, welcome and end screen, conversation path, and visuals to answer users’ questions and keep them from leaving.

PageSpeed Insights Tool

While we’re at it, if you’re not familiar with Google’s free PageSpeed Insights tool, let’s catch you up.

Get an instant analysis of your website’s page speed and core web vitals on mobile and desktop. Google will give you a score between 0 and 100, plus some opportunities for improvement in the categories of performance, accessibility, best practices, and SEO. If you’re seeing green, you’re good to go.

Playbook

Get your assets in gear with Playbook, a digital asset management tool that helps you efficiently organize and share your files with your team, clients, freelancers, etc. The tidy visual UX and AI-powered file management let you browse and locate assets quickly, plus you can take advantage of collaborative features, 4TB worth of space, and beautiful galleries to share.