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Flourish

3.2

Fleur, your AI wellness companion, offers evidence-based CBT exercises and reflective journaling – explicitly general wellness support, not a replacement for professional care.

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Create content

Generate writing, images, video, audio and design.

Chat & research

Get answers, talk to AI, and dig into sources.

Build & automate

Ship code, automate work, and analyze data.

Work & grow

Boost productivity, marketing and reach.

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  • DolphinDB

    4.1

    Time-series database and real-time computing platform with AI features on top: Chat-to-Query text-to-SQL, RAG-based Smart Q&A, native MCP support for LLMs, in-database ML inference and the DolphinMind assistant.

  • Site24x7

    4.3

    Observability platform for DevOps and IT operations with AIOps: anomaly detection that learns each monitor's normal, Zia forecasting, causal AI event correlation that groups alert storms, and Zia agents for automated fixes.

  • Patsnap

    4.4

    AI platform for IP, R&D and life sciences teams, with Eureka agents for novelty and freedom-to-operate searches, patent drafting, TRIZ problem solving and SAR data extraction over a patent and literature database.

    Freemium Research
  • Amberscript

    4.2

    Transcription and subtitling service from the Netherlands with machine-made speech-to-text in 90+ languages, human-reviewed transcripts and subtitles, a speech-to-text API and the Amber Notes AI meeting notetaker.

    Free Trial Audio
  • Headspace

    4.3

    Mental health app with guided meditation, sleep content, coaching and online therapy, plus Ebb, a conversational AI companion that helps members reflect by voice or text and recommends content from the Headspace library.

  • Lumin

    4.1

    Document workflow platform for creating, editing and signing PDFs and agreements, with Lumin AI for prompt-based contract drafting, clause review and summaries, and AgreementGen generators for NDAs, leases and employment contracts.

    Freemium Productivity
  • PatSeer

    4.2

    Patent search and IP analytics platform that combines Boolean and semantic AI search with AI summaries, the PatAssist assistant, an AI Classifier for sorting patents and agentic novelty checks in its IP8 modules.

    Contact for Pricing Research
  • Intapp DealCloud

    4.2

    Deal and relationship management platform for private capital, investment banking, legal and advisory firms, with conversational AI over firm data, agentic playbooks, AI deal summaries and automatic capture of emails and meetings.

    Contact for Pricing Sales & Revenue AI
  • Workflowy

    3.9

    Outliner for notes and tasks built on one nested list, with optional Workflowy AI features that generate, edit, summarize and improve content inside documents using OpenAI and Anthropic models.

    Freemium Productivity
  • Agiloft

    4.3

    Contract lifecycle management platform with Astra contracts AI, AI extraction of terms, risks and obligations, and configurable agents that review, negotiate and onboard contracts with auditable outputs.

    Contact for Pricing Legal AI
  • Mailshake

    4.2

    Sales outreach platform for cold email, phone and social sequences, with the SHAKEspeare AI email writer that generates several versions of copy from details about a business, plus warm-up and deliverability tools.

  • Leah

    4.2

    Agentic AI platform for contracting, legal, procurement and finance teams, formerly ContractPodAi, with domain agents, an agentic CLM that handles intake, review, redlining and renewals, and a builder for custom agent workflows.

    Contact for Pricing Legal AI
  • about.me

    4.0

    Personal homepage builder with an AI Twin, a chatbot trained on the owner's background that answers visitor questions, captures leads into a built-in CRM and books appointments from a single profile page.

    Freemium Marketing
  • Unbabel

    4.2

    Language Operations platform that translates customer service and business content with AI, routes work to human reviewers when needed, and scores output with AI quality estimation and an MT model comparison tool.

    Contact for Pricing Customer Support
  • Luminotes

    3.8

    AI presentation maker that turns plain text, a URL or an uploaded document into a slide deck with PPTX export, plus a Deep Research mode that gathers sources, adds inline citations and cross-checks facts across AI models.

    Freemium Productivity
  • BandLab

    4.4

    Free online music studio and social platform with AI tools: SongStarter generates royalty-free song ideas as editable MIDI, alongside automated online mastering, a stem Splitter and a library of loops and samples.

    Freemium Audio
  • Swifly

    3.6

    AI voice keyboard that turns speech into polished writing in any app on Mac, Windows and iOS, with Android planned, using press-and-hold dictation.

    Contact for Pricing Productivity
  • VeraDial

    3.7

    AI receptionist and business phone line that answers calls and texts 24/7 and makes calls for you on a verified US or Canadian number, from $14.99 a month.

    Free Trial Customer Support
  • BPM Finder

    3.6

    Free tempo and key detector that reads BPM, meter and beat positions from a track and turns the result into an original AI music brief with agent-guided revisions.

    Freemium Audio
  • Remove Background Noise

    3.6

    AI audio cleaner that removes wind, hum, echo, traffic and chatter from audio or video files up to 500 MB, with a free preview and pay-as-you-go packs.

    Freemium Audio
  • Datalyse

    3.6

    All-in-one platform that combines CRM, business telephony in 90+ countries, WhatsApp and email channels, AI agents and voice tools, with a free version.

  • Mew Design

    3.6

    AI design agent that generates and refines social posts, posters, flyers, menus and invitations from a plain-language brief, with an editable visual editor.

    Freemium Design
  • Lumo

    4.0

    Proton's privacy-first AI chat assistant with zero-access encrypted chats, open-source code, web search and image generation, on web, iOS and Android.

    Freemium Chatbots
  • Imgkits

    3.6

    All-in-one AI image and video platform for generating, editing, enhancing and upscaling pictures, with pay-as-you-go credits and a yearly Pro plan.

    Freemium Image Generation
  • TeachAny

    3.6

    AI teaching tools platform for educators with a quiz generator, lesson planner, worksheet generator, rubric generator, flashcards and report card comments.

    Contact for Pricing Education
  • Transmonkey

    3.7

    AI translator for documents, images, audio and video that keeps the original layout, sold as pay-as-you-go credit packs or a yearly Pro plan.

    Paid Writing
  • LumenFix

    3.7

    AI photo enhancer that unblurs, restores and colorizes photos and upscales to 4K or higher, with free daily credits and no sign-up required.

    Freemium Image Generation
  • Lip Sync Tool

    3.6

    AI lip sync generator that makes a photo or video talk from an audio track or typed text, with credit-based plans from $9.99 a month.

    Paid Video
  • SpriteFrame

    3.7

    AI sprite sheet generator that animates a character image into game-ready frames, plus free PNG-frame and MP4-to-sprite tools with PNG, JSON and ZIP export.

    Freemium Image Generation
  • EasyMusic.AI

    3.6

    AI music generator that creates songs from ideas and lyrics, exports MP3, WAV or MP4 with vocal separation, and includes a singer video generator and album tools.

    Paid Audio
  • HONO

    3.7

    AI-native HCM platform that runs recruitment, payroll, performance and analytics through a conversational layer, with an agentic assistant called ERA for HR tasks.

    Contact for Pricing HR & Recruiting AI
  • China AI

    3.6

    AI image and video studio that puts Chinese models such as Seedream, Kling, Seedance and Wan beside Veo, GPT Image and Nano Banana in one credit-based workspace.

  • BeadPattern

    3.6

    AI bead pattern generator that turns text prompts and photos into printable Perler, Hama and fuse bead patterns with color codes, bead counts and editable grids.

    Freemium Design
  • Frameow

    3.5

    AI pet portrait studio that turns a cat photo into art in styles such as watercolor, royal Renaissance and 3D cartoon, sold as credit packs valid for a year.

  • AILearnHub

    3.6

    AI learning tool that turns a topic, question or article into a structured lesson with practice checks, AI tutor and peer characters, and PDF or Notion export.

    Freemium Education
  • Atlas Workspace

    3.8

    Visual AI research workspace that answers questions with mind maps, traces answers to their sources and supports literature review across papers and uploaded files.

    Freemium Research
  • EShopSet

    3.6

    Shopify app bundle for SEO monitoring, AI visibility and product data sync, with an AI agent connection through Shopify Sidekick and MCP.

    Paid SEO
  • Selyune

    3.6

    Birth chart and astrology companion that calculates a chart from real birth data, then adds personal daily readings and an Ask Selyune chat grounded in your chart.

  • CharaSync

    3.7

    AI character consistency tool that keeps the same face, features and style across images and videos using reusable character and object references.

    Freemium Image Generation
  • EarnDraft

    3.6

    AI ebook creator that turns an idea into an outline, five chapters and a designed cover, with export to PDF and EPUB and a hosted book page on the Pro plan.

    Freemium Writing

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