Tools for building ambitious startups

ChartMogul unites subscription analytics, forecasting, and benchmarks into one real-time view for recurring revenue businesses. It handles multiple billing systems, currencies, and complex revenue models while automating workflows based on subscription events.

Chatfuel is an AI-powered platform that automates customer messaging, bookings, and ad responses across Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, and TikTok. It handles DMs, comments, lead qualification, and appointment management around the clock.

Alternative toMManyChat|Tidio|LLandbot

Chatra is a multichannel messaging platform for real-time communication with website visitors through live chat, email, Instagram, and Facebook. It includes chatbots, visitor tracking, and mobile apps for support and sales teams.

Alternative toTidio|Intercom|TTawk.to

Chorus by ZoomInfo is an AI conversation intelligence platform that records, transcribes, and analyzes sales calls and meetings. It surfaces coaching insights, deal risks, and next steps, enriched by ZoomInfo contact and intent data.

Alternative toGong|FFireflies.ai|AAvoma

Clari is an end-to-end revenue platform with AI agents that monitor deals across all sales stages and motions. It provides pipeline visibility, forecasting, sales engagement, and customer retention for revenue teams.

Alternative toGong|Salesloft|Outreach

Clear Books is cloud-based accounting software for UK small businesses, covering bookkeeping, invoicing, tax compliance, payroll, and CIS. It supports Making Tax Digital submissions to HMRC and multi-currency accounting.

Alternative toXero|QQuickBooks|FreeAgent

Online legal document service for startups that handles incorporation, fundraising documents, hiring paperwork, and ongoing corporate maintenance. It is software, not a law firm, and focuses on Delaware C corporations and seed-stage fundraising.

All-in-one work platform combining project management, docs, chat, time tracking, goals, and AI agents in one workspace. It aims to consolidate fragmented work tools for teams across many functions.

Alternative toAsana|MMonday.com|JJira

Browser-based screenshot tool (ScreenClip, the successor to Clipular) that captures full or partial web pages, then lets teams edit, annotate, blur, and comment on screenshots together. It preserves source links and stores captures in the cloud.

Time tracking and timesheet software that lets users monitor work hours across projects with timers, timesheets, project budgeting, attendance, reporting, and invoicing. It serves freelancers through enterprises.

Cloud-based time and attendance platform where employees clock in and out via several methods, track projects and tasks, manage PTO and shifts, and generate payroll reports. It supports geofencing, biometric clocks, and kiosks.

Sales CRM that combines built-in calling, email, and SMS with pipeline management, reporting, and an AI sales agent that qualifies leads, books meetings, and updates the CRM. It targets growing sales teams that do high-volume outbound.

Alternative toSalesforce|HubSpot|PPipedrive

Cloudflare is a global cloud platform offering CDN, DDoS protection, DNS, security, and a serverless developer platform (Workers) that runs code across hundreds of data centers worldwide.

CloudSponge provides a contact picker widget and Contacts API that let users import their address books from webmail and other providers, making it easy to build recipient lists for referrals, invitations, and friend-finding flows.

Coda combines documents, wikis, tables, and lightweight applications in one workspace, letting teams write, organize information, track projects, and automate workflows without switching tools.

Alternative toNotion|CConfluence|QQuip

Codacy is a code quality and security platform that enforces standards across the development workflow, from the IDE and AI coding agents through Git pull requests to production, with audit-ready compliance reporting.

CodeSandbox provides instant, isolated cloud development environments and programmatically controlled sandboxes that let developers and AI agents prototype, run, and safely execute code at scale.

Cognito Forms is an online form builder for creating customized forms with workflow automation, data collection, electronic signatures, document generation, and payment collection.

Alternative toJotform|Typeform|Google Forms

Think with Google is a free marketing insights hub with articles, case studies, reports, and data on consumer behavior, search, video, and AI in marketing. The original Consumer Barometer tool has been folded into this broader resource.

Alternative toHubSpot|FForrester|MMcKinsey

ContentKing, now Conductor Website Monitoring, is a real-time technical SEO and website monitoring platform that continuously tracks pages and alerts teams to search visibility issues. It offers page health prioritization and historical change tracking for root-cause analysis and compliance.

Alternative toSemrush|BBrightEdge|SseoClarity

Context by Sweetlabs is a browser extension that automates adding annotations to Google Analytics reports, including Google algorithm updates and global holidays. Advanced features add a Context API, Google Tag Manager connection, and six years of algorithm update history.

Kit, formerly ConvertKit, is an email marketing platform built for creators, bloggers, and small businesses. It offers email campaigns, automation workflows, signup forms, landing pages, and audience segmentation.

Copper is a CRM for service businesses that manages contacts, deals, pipelines, projects, and email campaigns in one place. It is deeply integrated with Google Workspace, including Gmail, Calendar, and Drive.

Alternative toHubSpot|Salesforce

Coralogix is an AI-native observability platform that ingests, stores, and queries logs, metrics, and traces across an entire stack. It features index-free querying, infinite retention, unified DataPrime queries, and consumption-based pricing.

Alternative toDatadog|SSplunk|New Relic