SPOTTED, NOT YET TESTED
The Radar.
We read the AI tools newsletters that land in our own inbox, mainly There's An AI For That, so you don't have to. This page is where new launches go before they've earned an honest take.
The difference from the main Tool Directory matters: everything above has actually been used on a real task. Everything below has only been read about. When we've tried one enough to trust it, it graduates up and gets an honest take of its own. There's no fixed schedule for updating this page yet - we add to it when something looks genuinely worth knowing about, not on a timer.
| Tool | Category | What it does | Why we're watching | Spotted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pitch | Presentations | Turns call notes and customer records into on-brand slide decks through an AI assistant you can also use to find and share past decks. | We already like Gamma for outline-to-deck speed. This one leans more on CRM-style data as its input, a different enough use case to be worth a proper look. | 2026-09-19 |
| KnowInsideIQ | Research | Analyzes a product idea against customer reviews and search demand, then returns a risk score and next steps before you build. | The instinct (validate before you build) is right. Whether the scoring is actually reliable, or just confident-sounding output, is exactly the kind of claim worth testing before trusting. | 2026-09-19 |
| Revfer | Customer Support | Drafts review replies, social posts, and customer answers for local businesses, and learns from your edits over time while keeping final approval with the owner. | The approval-stays-with-you framing is the right instinct for anything customer-facing. Whether the drafts are actually good enough to save real time, versus needing a full rewrite, is what we'd want to see first. | 2026-09-18 |
| Acade | Research | Guides academic writing from source research through outlines, citations, and revisions to a finished paper. | The all-in-one promise, research to final draft, is exactly the kind of claim that tends to be strongest at one stage and weakest at another. Worth finding out which stage that is before recommending it to students. | 2026-09-18 |
| AgentGit | Coding | Saves a coding agent's full session, including instructions, reasoning, and tool calls, so someone else can pick up exactly where it left off. | A genuinely useful problem to solve if you hand off work between Cursor, Claude Code, or Copilot sessions. Whether it actually preserves enough context to matter is the open question. | 2026-09-18 |
| ZeroClick | Automation | Helps businesses structure their products and content so AI shopping agents can find and recommend them. | A genuinely new problem, being discoverable to AI agents doing the buying instead of just humans, rather than a repackaged old one. Too early to know if the tactics it recommends actually move the needle. | 2026-09-17 |
| Thread | Productivity | An AI-powered journaling app that helps organize scattered thoughts into something coherent. | Personal journaling tools live or die on trust and privacy, which matters more here than almost any other category. Worth understanding the data handling before recommending it to anyone. | 2026-09-17 |
| Toki | Meetings | An AI personal assistant that schedules meetings on your behalf and follows up automatically afterward. | A crowded space already covered by Otter, Fireflies, and Fathom on our main directory, all for the notes side. This one leans into scheduling instead, a different enough angle to be worth checking. | 2026-09-17 |
| Sacha | Automation | Writes and schedules social posts intended to sound like your own voice, rather than a generic AI draft. | The in-your-voice claim is the exact thing every AI writing tool promises and few actually deliver well. Worth a direct side-by-side of how it actually sounds versus how it's marketed. | 2026-09-15 |
| The Flux Train | Image | Trains a custom AI model on your own images so it can generate a consistent character or visual style across a whole batch of images and videos. | Consistency, the same character or product looking right across an entire set, is one of the more genuine remaining weak spots in image generation. Worth finding out whether the training step actually delivers that, or just narrows the same randomness. | 2026-09-15 |
| Open Greet | Customer Support | AI voice agents that answer sales, support, and customer calls. | A crowded and fast-moving category right now, with ElevenLabs' own Reception launching around the same time. Worth comparing a few of these side by side before recommending any one. | 2026-09-15 |
| Perplexity Personal Computer | Automation | Puts Perplexity's computer-use agent on Windows so it can work across your local files, Microsoft 365, and the web from one place. | A genuinely different pitch than Perplexity's search product: an agent acting on your own machine, not just answering questions. That's also exactly the kind of access worth understanding fully before trusting it with real files. | 2026-09-15 |
| Motion by Mosaic | Video | Takes a plain-English video brief and builds an editable motion-design cut, complete with storyboard, voice, music, and captions. | A more automated take than something like Runway or Descript, aimed at people who don't want to touch a timeline at all. Whether the auto-generated edit is actually usable, or just a rough starting point, is what needs testing. | 2026-09-15 |
| CrafterQ | Customer Support | Turns your existing website and documents into a chat agent that answers visitor questions and recommends products. | This category (turn your site into a chatbot) is crowded and quality varies a lot. It's here because we haven't tested this one against the others yet, not because it's proven better. | 2026-09-13 |
| Are You Found By AI | SEO | Checks what several AI chat engines say about your brand versus your competitors when someone asks, and suggests fixes to improve how often you're mentioned. | As more people ask AI instead of Google, this is a genuinely new category worth understanding. Too early to know if the fixes are real tactics or generic filler advice. | 2026-09-13 |
| Fotor Video Agent | Video | Turns a written idea into a product video, animated explainer, or talking-presenter video through chat, with editable motion graphics. | Fotor's photo tools have been around for years, so this isn't a fly-by-night launch. Video quality claims are the easiest thing for any tool to oversell, so it stays untested until we've seen actual output. | 2026-09-13 |
| Rankdesk | SEO | Researches your site, competitors, and target keywords, then writes SEO articles and refreshes older content automatically. | We already recommend Surfer SEO for scoring drafts against what's ranking. This one claims to also write and maintain the content itself, a bigger promise worth verifying before it sits next to Surfer. | 2026-09-13 |
| Reply.io | Sales | Finds prospects and runs multi-channel outreach - email, LinkedIn, calls, texts - with AI drafting follow-ups and booking meetings on your calendar. | A more established player than most newsletter finds, not a brand-new launch, so it's likely more battle-tested than average. Still on our to-test list rather than our recommended list. | 2026-09-13 |
| Cuey | Multi-model | A free Chrome extension that keeps one shared conversation memory across ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, so switching models mid-task doesn't mean re-explaining yourself. | Directly solves a problem our own Big 4 chart implies: most people bounce between assistants and lose context every time. Worth trying before recommending, since a browser extension reading your AI chats is also a privacy question worth asking first. | 2026-09-13 |