Products I run / Live stack
No pay-to-play.
If it’s here, I run it.
Every product below is in my daily workflow, at TopSlot or inside client installs. Two-line verdicts: what I run it for, and who should skip it. Deep-dive reviews land on the blog.
DISCLOSURE
Some links are affiliate. If you buy through them I earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Nothing here is listed because it pays. It is listed because it survived my workflow.
§ 01
AI Visibility & SEO
MY PRODUCT
TopSlot
RUN IT FOR tracking share of answer across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, and turning gaps into a fix queue.
SKIP IF you won’t act on what it finds. Measurement without shipping changes nothing.
AFFILIATE
Ahrefs
RUN IT FOR the classic search baseline: backlinks, content gaps, and the citation footprint AI answers lean on.
SKIP IF you’re pre-revenue. Free tooling covers you until content is a real channel.
§ 02
Automation & Agents
AFFILIATE
Make
RUN IT FOR client-side lead automation. Visual enough that a marketing team maintains it without me.
SKIP IF your flows need deep custom logic or self-hosting. That’s n8n territory.
AFFILIATE
n8n
RUN IT FOR agent workflows and LLM chains that need real control. This is what runs under my own reporting.
SKIP IF no one on the team is technical. It rewards an owner who reads docs.
§ 03
Content
NO AFFILIATE
Claude
RUN IT FOR the drafting and editing engine inside every content system I install. Best long-form judgment of the frontier models.
SKIP IF you plan to publish raw output. Unedited AI content is exactly what models learn to ignore.
AFFILIATE
Notion
RUN IT FOR editorial operations: query maps, content calendars, and the playbooks every install ships with.
SKIP IF your team already lives happily in docs and sheets. Migration theater kills momentum.
§ 04
Analytics
AFFILIATE
Plausible
RUN IT FOR clean, privacy-first site analytics that a founder reads in thirty seconds. This site runs on it.
SKIP IF you need product analytics or deep funnel splits. This is web analytics, on purpose.
NO AFFILIATE
Looker Studio
RUN IT FOR the owner-level weekly report: visibility, pipeline, and spend in one page. Free, and clients keep it forever.
SKIP IF nobody owns the data sources. A stale dashboard is worse than none.
Before you buy anything
Deep-dive reviews land on the blog first, with the setups I actually use.