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A transparent look at the exact AI stack the ToolBees team uses in 2025 — what stuck, what we dropped, and what surprised us.
We run ToolBees — a directory of AI tools — so people assume we try everything. We do try a lot. But what we actually use every day is a much shorter list.
Here's the honest version.
Our go-to for anything that needs long, structured writing. Blog posts, documentation, email drafts. Claude follows nuanced instructions better than anything else we've tried and its outputs read more naturally.
Our entire dev team switched to Cursor from VS Code. The AI tab completion and the ability to ask questions about your own codebase in context is a genuine productivity unlock.
Replaced Google for research. When we need to understand a topic quickly with citations we can actually verify, Perplexity is faster and more trustworthy than a search results page.
Blog cover images, social graphics, concept mockups. Still the best quality-to-effort ratio for image generation in our experience.
Great product. Just too expensive for a small team when Claude does 90% of the same job for less. No shade — just honest math.
We got excited about AI video. The reality is we don't produce enough video content to justify the cost and the learning curve. Shelved for now.
We tried three. All of them created more work than they saved because the summaries needed heavy editing. We went back to just writing our own notes.
The tools we kept are the ones that fit into how we already work, not the ones that required us to change our workflow around them.
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