My Stack

What I'm actually using and why.

These are the tools I run every day, including the ones that build this site.

Claude

Pro £18/mo plus Code usage

Primary AI for thinking, writing, strategy, analysis, ghostwriting, and building. The full ecosystem: Claude.ai with Projects and Skills (chat), Claude Code (terminal agent that reads and edits your actual codebase), Cowork (desktop tool across local and Google Drive), Claude Design (on-brand visual generation), and custom skills for repeatable workflows, and scheduled Claude Code automations (which have replaced Make in this stack)

Building

Lovable

Pro £20/mo

AI web app builder. Describe what you want in plain English, get a working, deployable app connected to real infrastructure.

Vercel

Pro £16/mo

Deployment and hosting platform. Auto-deploys from GitHub, handles infrastructure, CI/CD, and environment variables.

GitHub

Free

Version control and code repository. The middle layer between Lovable builds and Vercel deployments. Every change is tracked and reversible.

Supabase

Pro £20/mo

Open-source backend platform. Database, authentication, storage, and APIs without writing backend code.

Plausible

Free (self-host) / Cloud from ~£7/mo

Lightweight, privacy-first web analytics. No cookies, no consent banner, GDPR-compliant, single-screen dashboard. Open-source.

Resend

Free tier (3,000 emails/mo) / Pro from ~£16/mo

Developer-first transactional email API. Send system mail from your apps with React email templates and strong deliverability.

Design

Canva

Pro £13/mo

Design platform covering social graphics, presentations, video, and print, with Brand Kit for consistent identity across projects.

Adobe Suite / Firefly

From £55/mo

Industry-standard creative tools including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Premiere. Firefly is Adobe's AI image and generative feature set embedded across the Suite.

Google AI Studio

Google's developer interface for accessing Gemini, Veo, Stitch, and Nano Banana (Gemini's native image model). Free API access, model testing, and prompt experimentation across Google's full model range.

Research

Perplexity

Pro £17/mo

AI search engine with cited sources and real-time web access. Deep Research runs multi-step research processes and returns cited reports.

Gemini Notebook

Free

Google's AI research tool. Upload documents and have a proper conversation with them. Audio Overview converts uploaded content into a listenable podcast-style summary.

Granola

Free (30-day note history) / Business ~£11/mo

AI meeting notes tool. Records, transcribes, and summarises meetings. Transcripts are interrogable and link directly to Claude for follow-up work.

Notion

Free tier / Plus from £8/mo

Connected workspace for notes, databases, and project management. The MCP connector lets Claude and other AI tools read and write it directly.

Writing

ChatGPT

Plus £16/mo

OpenAI's flagship AI assistant, strong on creative tasks, native image generation, voice mode, and broad general capability.

Gemini

Pro £19/mo

Google's AI assistant, deeply integrated with Google Workspace, strong on multimodal tasks, and very capable on long-context work.

Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft's AI assistant embedded across Microsoft 365, Teams, Word, Outlook, and SharePoint. Data stays within your organisation's Microsoft tenancy.

Google Workspace AI

Included in Workspace

AI features built into Google Docs, Sheets, Gmail, and Drive, including the Gemini side panel for pulling live data from Gmail and Sheets directly inside a document.

Wispr Flow

From £12/mo

AI voice dictation that works across any app. Speak naturally, get clean formatted text without switching modes or apps.