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Runway
4.4The category's pioneer for filmmakers, with traditional AI-VFX tools beyond generation
Zapier
4.5Still the widest app library after more than a decade
Cradle
3.8AI models that retrain on every round of your wet-lab data to guide the next protein design cycle – claimed 2-12x faster development, and your data never trains models for anyone else.
Surfer SEO
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Chatbots130 toolsAI chatbots hold natural conversations to answer questions, automate customer support, and act as everyday assistants…Show all Chatbots tools Research86 toolsThese tools help researchers, graduate students, and academics discover relevant papers, map citation networks, question documents,…Show all Research tools Customer Support168 toolsAI customer support tools answer questions, resolve tickets, and take actions across chat, email, and voice,…Show all Customer Support tools
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Noty.ai
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Parcha
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NXN Labs
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PandaChat
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Parky.AI
3.8Photographs a parking sign and explains in plain language whether you can park there.
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Observe.AI
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3.8Open-source observability platform that traces, evaluates, and monitors AI agents in development and production.
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Parseur
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Obsess AI
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Panjaya
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Parsio
4.1No-code document parser that extracts structured data from emails, invoices, and business cards.
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Ocient
4.2Hyperscale data warehouse built for petabyte-scale analytics workloads.
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Paperclips
3.9Turns notes, PDFs, and web pages into study-ready flashcards with exports to Anki and Quizlet.
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Parthean
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TextToPDF
3.5Convert text to PDF and extract editable text from PDFs or scans.
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Patlytics
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PDF Candy
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PDF.ai
4.2Chat-based PDF assistant and API for parsing, extracting, and splitting document data.
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Clout AI
3.5Create and monetize your own AI influencer.
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PDFGPT
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Paige
4.1Digital pathology AI co-pilot from Memorial Sloan Kettering researchers, acquired by Tempus in 2025
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Tandem Health
4.0Swedish AI medical scribe and prescription assistant that reached a $1B valuation from Northzone backing
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Origami
3.9Generates sales lead lists from a single plain-English prompt instead of manual filter-building
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Gojiberry AI
3.9Intent-based prospecting scaled to $1.4M ARR in 9 months by watching 30-plus buying signals
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Darrow
3.9AI legal intelligence platform that scans public records to surface class-action and mass-tort opportunities
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Relativity
4.0E-discovery platform since 2001 now runs AI-assisted document review on Microsoft Azure at massive scale
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Supio
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EvenUp
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Hyro
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