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Brew

Brew is an AI-native platform for generating personalized cold emails, building sequences, and testing messaging in one place.

It’s best for lean teams that need to launch campaigns, iterate on positioning, and adapt messaging quickly. You can focus on strategy while the AI handles the repetitive execution layer.

Forum

Meta’s new app, Forum, is essentially a cleaner, standalone version of Facebook Groups designed to compete more directly with platforms like Reddit.

It removes Groups from the Facebook ecosystem and focuses entirely on community conversations and interest-based discussions.

Sign in with your Facebook account and your existing groups, activity, and profile automatically carry over into the app.

It also integrates Reddit-style discovery, nickname posting, and an AI moderation tools for admins.

Ask Advisor

Google’s new Ask Advisor tool is an AI-powered marketing collaborator across Google Ads, Google Analytics, and Merchant Center.

It connects data from each platform to provide recommendations, insights, and workflow automation.

The system can automatically pull product information, suggest campaign structures, and help launch ads faster.

It can also interpret performance trends, explain what influenced results, and recommend next steps.

Monocle

Monocle is a macOS tool that reduces your visual clutter by blurring everything on your screen except your active window.

It’s like visual noise-cancellation for your desktop, gently fading background apps so your attention naturally stays on the task in front of you. The blur effect resembles Apple’s UI, so it feels native.

You can also switch between softer ambient blur and deeper fullscreen focus modes, customize shortcuts, exclude certain apps, and use it across multiple displays.

Microsoft Clarity

Microsoft Clarity lets you watch real user sessions unfold in real time.

Its heatmaps reveal where users are focusing attention and where they completely lose interest. Session recordings expose friction points that are eating into conversions.

New automated summaries and conversational insights can surface patterns without requiring hours of manual analysis, too.

And it’s completely free, forever. No traffic caps.

Social Media Size Guide (2026)

You know the drill.

Updated social media image and video size guides for Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, Threads, Substack. And X, too, if you’re into that sort of thing.

Twilio’s Conversation Layer

Twilio announced a new “Conversation Layer” at SIGNAL 2026, designed to preserve customer context across chat, voice, SMS, and email.

Instead of forcing customers to repeat information every time they switch channels or agents, an identity-based conversation history will follow the interaction across touchpoints.

The system also enables real-time orchestration between AI and human agents, allowing businesses to automate portions of conversations while escalating more complex moments.

Jotform Claude App

The Jotform Claude app generates, edits, and manages forms conversationally.

You can use it to create surveys, registration forms, onboarding workflows, feedback forms, and other data-collection processes without leaving the Claude interface.

Refine layouts, update settings, reorder questions, and analyze submissions through AI-assisted prompts, too.

ChatGPT for Google Sheets

ChatGPT’s new integration lets you describe what you want in natural language and have ChatGPT build, edit, and analyze spreadsheets via a sidebar in Google Sheets.

It can generate full spreadsheets from scratch, update existing workbooks, and answer questions about data in real time.

You can also connect Apps from ChatGPT to bring context from Gmail, Stripe, and SharePoint into spreadsheet workflows.

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