My Stack
The Tools I Actually Use
Every tool in my daily workflow - from building AI products to creating content. Honest takes, no affiliate links.
AI & LLMs
The AI Models and Platforms
What I actually run tasks through - not what I demoed once. Daily drivers.
Claude (Anthropic)
My primary AI partner. Opus for complex reasoning, Sonnet for speed. The agent SDK changed how I build - it's the backbone of my entire automation system.
Gemini (Google)
Best for visual analysis, design feedback, and multimodal tasks. Pro model for heavy research. The 1M context window is actually useful for large document analysis - not just a marketing number.
ChatGPT (OpenAI)
Good for quick drafts and brainstorming. Plus tier. Less control than Claude for coding, but still useful for second opinions and comparing outputs on important decisions.
Cursor / Antigravity
AI-native IDE with Claude + Codex + Gemini plugins. Where all my code happens. Antigravity is the cross-IDE routing layer that keeps everything talking to each other.
Infrastructure & Deployment
The Foundation
Where everything runs and what keeps it up.
Modal
Serverless GPU compute. Deploy Python functions to cloud in seconds. Where all my automation runs - nightly jobs, webhook endpoints, batch processing pipelines.
Ghost
Powers this site. Clean, fast, membership-native. The best blogging platform for developers who want full control without managing WordPress complexity.
Google Workspace
Sheets, Slides, Drive. The backbone of enterprise deliverables. Every report, proposal, and data output from my automation stack lands here first.
Cloudflare
DNS, CDN, security. Configured once, forgotten forever. DDoS protection, caching, and SSL for everything I deploy.
Automation & Workflows
The Automation Layer
The tools that connect everything and run the pipelines. Where things actually become automatic.
n8n
Open-source workflow automation. Visual node editor for connecting APIs. Self-hosted gives full control - no vendor lock-in on the glue between my tools.
Slack
Team communication + webhook endpoints for all my automated notifications. Every Modal job, every pipeline run, every error surfaces here. My ops dashboard lives in Slack.
Apify
Web scraping at scale. Lead generation, competitive research, data collection. The actor marketplace means I rarely write custom scrapers from scratch anymore.
Instantly
Cold email infrastructure. Campaign management, deliverability, auto-reply. The AI-powered reply detection pairs well with my custom LLM-powered auto-responder.
Content Creation
The Content Stack
Building a content presence without it eating my schedule.
HeyGen
AI video generation. Training a custom avatar for explainer videos without camera time. Still early but the direction is obvious.
ElevenLabs
Voice cloning and text-to-speech. Pairs with HeyGen for end-to-end video content. Also useful for narrating long-form content for audio-first audiences.
Canva
Quick graphics, social media assets, presentation design. Not a designer, but Canva makes it possible to produce professional-looking visuals without hiring one.
Gamma
Fast deck creation for proposals and thought leadership. The AI layout engine is surprisingly good at making structured content look coherent without manual fiddling.
Research & Analysis
The Research Layer
Staying current with AI research across industries is a prerequisite for building credibly. These are the tools that make it possible without drowning in it.
PubMed / bioRxiv
Academic literature for healthcare AI. PubMed for peer-reviewed clinical studies, bioRxiv for preprints that haven't cleared the journal backlog yet but are often more current.
ClinicalTrials.gov
Trial design research, competitive intelligence, endpoint analysis. The primary source for understanding what the industry is testing, where it's investing, and what's failing.
Google Scholar
Cross-referencing papers, citation tracking, finding related work. The discovery layer when I need to go wide - start with Scholar, go deep in PubMed.