Tools
Free tools for the questions that come up before you build.
Five of them, each answering a question we get asked on nearly every first call. Free, and no sales call attached to any of them.
Are your developers doing a good job?
Fourteen things you can check without reading a line of code, how to check each one, and what to do when the answer is no. For founders who have raised money and have no CTO.
What you get
14 signals, each answered yes, no or cannot tell
Run itWill ChatGPT quote your page?
Fourteen checks on one page: whether the answer-engine crawlers are allowed in, whether there is an answer near the top to lift, and whether anything on it is sourced. Most sites fail the first one without knowing.
What you get
14 checks on one page, pass or fail each
Run itWhat does it cost to build an AI agent?
Answer seven questions and get the work split into engineering weeks, line by line, with the four items quotes routinely leave out marked. Put in what a week costs you and it becomes money.
What you get
A number of engineering weeks, itemised
Run itWill your AI feature pay for itself?
Tell it what your feature does and what you charge. It tells you what the feature costs you per user each month, and whether that leaves you a profit. Takes about a minute.
What you get
Cost per user per month, against what you charge
Run itWhat should you ask a company claiming AI?
The technical questions to put to a founder, each with what a strong answer sounds like next to what should worry you. Nothing behind a form.
What you get
16 questions, each with a good and a worrying answer
Run it
Worked examples
Already worked out, for nine common features
Each one opens with real numbers filled in, so you can see roughly what that feature costs before you enter anything of your own.
Customer support agent
A conversational agent answering customer questions against your help centre and ticket history.
See what it costsRetrieval-augmented search
Semantic search over your own documents, with a generated answer and citations.
See what it costsDocument summarisation
Turning long uploaded documents into a short summary or structured extract.
See what it costsAutomated code review
Reviewing pull requests for bugs and leaving comments.
See what it costsContent generation
Drafting marketing copy, product descriptions or long-form text.
See what it costsStructured data extraction
Pulling structured fields out of invoices, forms, emails or free text.
See what it costsMeeting notes and transcription summaries
Turning a call transcript into notes, decisions and action items.
See what it costsClassification and routing
Tagging, triaging or routing incoming items to the right queue or category.
See what it costsMulti-step agent workflow
An agent that plans, calls tools across several turns, and completes a task end to end.
See what it costs
Next step
A tool can tell you what one feature costs. Working out which of the nine on your list is worth building at all is the conversation.