Knowledge work
AI-native products that help you find, organize, and act on information. Search and research engines, note-taking systems, and meeting assistants live here.
Search and research
Answer engines and retrieval APIs that find, cite, and synthesize sources instead of returning a list of links.
- Claude Science - Anthropic research workbench for scientists, pre-configured with scientific databases, coding tools, and compute.
- Exa - Neural search API designed for agents and retrieval-heavy applications rather than human browsing.
- Perplexity - Answer engine that retrieves, cites, and synthesizes web sources in place of a traditional results page.
- You.com - Multi-mode AI search with agent workflows and enterprise deployments.
Knowledge management
Notes and knowledge bases that ground AI in your own documents and surface what's relevant.
- Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) - Google's research and note-taking tool that grounds answers in your uploaded sources and generates audio and video overviews.
- Mem - Self-organizing notes app that surfaces related notes and drafts follow-ups on demand.
- Notion MCP - Notion's official MCP server that lets AI agents and assistants search, read, and update a Notion workspace.
- Obsidian - Local-first markdown knowledge base with a large plugin ecosystem for AI assistants, semantic search, and note generation.
Meetings and voice
Assistants that record, transcribe, and summarize meetings, then draft the follow-ups.
- Fathom - Meeting recorder that produces action items, CRM updates, and follow-up emails from a conversation.
- Fireflies - Meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and answers questions across a team's call history.
- Granola - Notepad that listens to your meetings and turns your rough notes into structured summaries.
- Otter - Live transcription and meeting summaries with a chat interface over meeting history.