Business Software
SaaS Requirements | Tech Decisions
Select a toolkit that enables your team to do the right thing at the right time for the right reasons.
Balance your toolkit as you would a rugby team, select players that can play to a vision and mission versus selecting the best possible talent and evolving a strategy to take maximum advantage of your platform and opportunities.
The company that needs a tool and hasn't bought it is already paying for it.
Business Essentials
What business tools are needed to run more effective cost centres?
- Which tools are essential to any business?
- Simplicity vs Utility vs Cost vs Lock-in?
- Where should you build vs buy?
| JTBD | Market Leaders |
|---|---|
| Business Suite | midday.ai |
| AI Search | Perplexity, Chat GPT, Claude |
| Spreadsheets | |
| Knowledge Base | Notion AI |
| CRM | HubSpot |
| Ecommerce Platforms | |
| Graphic Design | |
| Legal Assistance | donotpay.com |
| Project Management | |
| ERP Systems | |
| Marketing Automation | |
| Accounting | |
| Expense Management | |
| Online Backup | |
| Video Conferencing | |
| Video Production |
Maintain a decision journal to drive improvement of selection criteria.
Schema
Tools by Cost Centre
Cost Centre vs Jobs to be done.
| Cost Centre | Function | Tools |
|---|---|---|
| Commercial | Product Management | |
| Commercial | Marketing | |
| Commercial | Sales | |
| Commercial | Customer Success | |
| Compliance | Accounting | |
| Compliance | Legal | |
| Compliance | HR | |
| Management | Procurement and Supply Chain | |
| Management | Project Management | |
| Management | Knowledge Base | |
| Strategy | Data Driven Decisions |
Creator Tools
Leading AI tools for process automation.
- Airplane
- Bubble.io
- IFTTT
- Indie Game Dev
- Mattermost
- Paragon
- Replit.com
- Process.st
- Retool
- UI Path
- Zapier
Notes:
- Retool used at stability.ai
- Zapier pairs well with Hubspot, Tables and triggers
Directories
Curated lists of tools. See which apps are used to research, design, code, support, gather feedback and market the products you use.
| Database | Focus/Tagline |
|---|---|
| AI Tools Club | AI |
| AI Tools Database | AI |
| Alchemy Awards | Web3 Dapp Index |
| App Sumo | App Marketplace |
| Awesome Generative | AI |
| Capterra | AI |
| Companies Tools | |
| Dapp Radar | Web3 Dapp Index |
| DAO Tools | Web3 DAO Operations |
| Future Tools | AI |
| G2 | AI |
| Product Hunt | App Curator |
| Tiny Wow | Online tools |
| Tools For Humans | AI |
| Top AI Tools | AI |
| Top AI Tools GitHub | AI |
| The Rundown AI | AI |