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AI Productivity My 47-Tool AI Stack
Every AI tool I actually use across creative work, writing, coding, and running client projects. If it's here, it earned its spot. If it's not, I either dropped it or never needed it.
Creative direction
- Midjourney for visual concepts and mood boards. I run most of my ideation here before touching Figma.
- DALL·E 3 when I need something quick inside a ChatGPT conversation. Not my main tool, but saves time.
- Adobe Firefly specifically for generative fill inside Photoshop. Good at extending backgrounds and fixing product shots.
Writing and content
- Claude is where I do my long form writing and strategic thinking. It holds context well and doesn't fight my voice.
- ChatGPT for quick brainstorms and loose first drafts. It's fast, not always deep.
- Gemini when I need something tied to Google's ecosystem, research or data heavy tasks.
- Perplexity for research I need to trust. It cites sources, which saves me from fact checking rabbit holes.
Coding
- Cursor is my daily code editor. It's a VS Code fork with AI built in, and it understands multi file projects better than anything else I've tried.
- Antigravity (Gemini CLI) for terminal based coding. This is what built this very website.
- GitHub Copilot for inline autocomplete. Good at boilerplate, less useful for architecture decisions.
Dictation
- Wispr Flow lets me talk instead of type, anywhere on Mac. I use it for first drafts, notes, and DM replies. It changed how I work more than most tools on this list.
Research
- Perplexity Pro for deep research where I need sources I can verify.
- NotebookLM when I want to upload a document and have a conversation about it.
- Google Deep Research for multi step research that would take me hours to do manually.
SEO
- Ubersuggest for keyword research and checking what competitors rank for.
- Ahrefs when I need backlink data or a full site audit.
- Google Search Console for tracking what's actually getting impressions and clicks.
Design
- Figma for UI design, prototyping, and handing off specs.
- Canva Pro when I need a social graphic or presentation fast and don't want to open Figma for it.
- Framer for interactive web prototypes that need to feel real before I code them.
Productivity
- Notion is my second brain. Projects, notes, client docs, SOPs, everything lives here.
- Bitrix24 for CRM. Keeps client communication and pipeline in one place.
- Loom for async video. I send Looms instead of scheduling 30 minute calls.
- Slack for team conversations. Nothing fancy, it just works.
Web development
- Astro for static sites. This site runs on it. Ships zero JavaScript by default, which keeps things fast.
- Cloudflare Pages for hosting. Free, global CDN, deploys from GitHub automatically.
- WordPress for client sites that need to be self managed after handoff.
Harshal Saraf
Creative Director + Orchestrates AI Workflow
Helping founders and agencies work smarter. As a Creative Director, he builds brand identities and orchestrates AI workflows for businesses. He also writes about productivity, the YourLife OS framework, and publishes Oh So AI, delivered every Tuesday and Friday.