Productivity & Sales Ops Adjacent Tools

Sembly is a SaaS solution that enables managers and teams to record, transcribe, and generate AI meeting notes with meeting minutes, tasks, and automations. It works with Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams across 40+ languages.

Otter.ai is an AI-powered meeting transcription and notes platform. The Business plan offers unlimited meeting transcription capabilities with advanced features for teams with heavy meeting loads.

Laxis is an AI-powered meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes every conversation in real-time with secure cloud storage and automated action item tracking.

Supernormal is AI for client and project work that takes meeting notes automatically without a bot, then works from the context in your meetings, emails, and docs.

Spinach.io is an AI meeting assistant designed specifically for development teams that works like a scrum master, running meetings, summarizing conversations, and automating post-meeting tasks.

Circleback is an AI meeting notes tool that helps you get the most out of every meeting—whether online or in-person—with AI-powered notes, action items, automations, and search.

Krisp is an AI-powered voice platform that removes background noise and echo from audio during calls, recordings, and live streams while also providing transcription, summarization, and AI-powered note-taking.

Granola is an AI notepad that transcribes meetings, keeps your notes yours, and turns conversations into something you can actually use. Trusted by top founders, VCs, and recruiters for bot-free meeting intelligence.

Reflect is a beautifully designed, minimalist note-taking app that allows you to quickly capture ideas, notes, meetings and voice memos, and chat with your notes using AI to uncover new insights.

Sunsama was launched in late 2018 by co-founders Ashutosh Priyadarshy and Travis Preslar. The company went through Y Combinator in 2018-2019 and reached profitability in 2022.

Akiflow was founded in 2020 and has evolved from a simple task manager into a sophisticated productivity ecosystem emphasizing speed, efficiency, and intelligent automation.

Cron, rebranded to Notion Calendar in January 2024, is a next-generation calendar platform acquired by Notion in 2022. It provides deep integration between scheduled meetings and Notion's workspace ecosystem.

Missive was founded in 2015 in Canada. It's a unified messaging platform that centralizes email, chat, SMS, and social media communications in a single team inbox.

Spark Mail was founded in 2015 by Ukrainian productivity company Readdle, which also makes PDF Expert and Scanner Pro. It's an AI-enhanced email client for mobile and desktop with smart inbox and team collaboration features.

Shortwave Communications was founded in 2020 by Andrew Lee, Jacob Wenger, and Jonny Dimond in San Francisco. It's an AI-powered email platform designed for fast email management and team collaboration.

Superhuman was founded in 2014 by Rahul Vohra. It's an AI-powered email client designed for fast, productive email management with advanced features for sales and business teams.

Loom was founded in 2015 by Shahed Khan, Vinay Hiremath, and Joe Thomas. The company was acquired by Atlassian in 2023 for $975 million. It's a video messaging platform for creating asynchronous video communications.

Slack Technologies was founded in 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It's a leading team communication platform acquired by Salesforce in 2021.

Linear was founded in 2019 by Karri Saarinen, Jori Leinonen, and Tuomas Artman, engineers from Uber and Airbnb. It's a contemporary issue tracking and project management platform built for developers.

Trello was created in 2011 by Fog Creek Software founders and was spun out in 2014 with funding from Index Ventures and Spark Capital. It's a simple, visual project management tool for organizing tasks on boards.

Monday.com was founded in 2012 as dapulse and launched in 2014. It's a visual work management platform using customizable boards to organize and track work across teams.

Asana, Inc. was founded in 2008 by Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein with the product launching commercially in April 2012. It's a work management platform designed for team coordination and project execution.

ClickUp was founded in 2017 by Zeb Evans and Alex Yurkowski. It's a unified platform offering tasks, chat, whiteboards, spreadsheets, and document collaboration with a free forever plan.

Smartsheet is a cloud-based work management platform founded in 2005 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. It combines the familiar interface of a spreadsheet with project management functionality, used by over 90% of Fortune 100 companies.

Airtable was founded in 2012 by Howie Liu, Andrew Ofstad, and Emmett Nicholas. It's a database-first platform that combines spreadsheet simplicity with database power, headquartered in San Francisco.

Coda is a powerful all-in-one document editor designed to streamline collaboration, project management, and workflow automation. It combines documents, spreadsheets, and databases with a free plan and affordable paid options starting at $10/month.

Notion is a comprehensive management platform founded in 2016 that lets users write, plan, collaborate, and organize with over 30 million users worldwide. It combines documents, databases, and project management in one workspace.