Creative Agency Stack
Welcome to the secret weapon stash of creative agencies who get stuff done! 🚀
You know that feeling when you’re juggling client projects like a circus performer while trying to keep your creative mojo flowing? This stack is like having a personal assistant who’s also a design guru and a project management ninja all rolled into one.
We’ve packed this arsenal with everything you need to go from “OMG, how are we going to pull this off?” to “Did we just make something awesome?” in record time. It’s perfect for those moments when you need to impress clients, keep your team in sync, and still have enough creative energy left to argue about font choices (because that’s where the real battles happen, right? 😉).
Figma
Figma is a cloud-based design platform designed for teams to create, share, test, and ship user interface designs collaboratively. It offers a range of tools for UI flows, wireframes, and interactive prototypes, supporting vector graphics and responsive design principles. Figma is accessible on various operating systems, including Windows, macOS, and Linux, and is used by notable companies such as Airbnb, Netflix, and Microsoft.
Pricing
- Free: For individual users with limited features
- Professional: $15/user/month, with advanced features
- Organization: $45/user/month, includes advanced admin controls
- Enterprise: $75/user/month, tailored for large organizations
- Discounts & Promotions: 20% off with annual billing for Professional plan
Key features
- 🖌 Collaborative Design: Allows real-time collaboration on design projects, enabling multiple users to work together simultaneously.
- 📈 Vector Graphics Editor: Provides tools for creating and editing vector graphics, essential for UI and UX design.
- 🔄 Prototyping Tools: Enables the creation of interactive prototypes to test and refine designs.
- 📱 Cross-Platform Compatibility: Available on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS, ensuring accessibility across different devices.
- 📝 FigJam: A digital whiteboarding capability that allows users to collaborate using sticky notes, emojis, and drawing tools.
- 🔄 Dev Mode: Helps developers translate designs into code faster, bridging the gap between design and development.
Framer
Framer is a sophisticated website building platform that combines design, publishing, and scaling capabilities. It offers an intuitive design experience similar to Figma, with AI-powered features for quick website generation and a built-in CMS for content management. The platform has evolved since 2015 to bridge the gap between design and development, making website creation accessible to both professionals and beginners.
Pricing
- Free: $0 Forever
- Mini: $10 Per site/month
- Basic: $20 Per site/month
- Pro: $40 Per site/month
- Enterprise: Custom annual billing
- Discounts & Promotions: 25-50% off with annual billing
Key features
- 🎨 Design-first approach with familiar canvas and responsive layouts
- 🚀 One-click publishing with SEO optimization
- 🤖 AI-powered tools for translation and content generation
- 📱 Responsive breakpoints and flexible layouts
- 💻 Built-in CMS for content management
- 🌐 Advanced localization capabilities
- ⚡ High-performance and SEO-optimized output
- 🤝 Real-time collaboration tools
Webflow
Webflow is a visual website-building platform that enables users to design, build, and launch professional and custom websites without the need for extensive coding knowledge. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools, including a visual editor, content management system (CMS), hosting, and optimization tools, making it a robust solution for various types of websites, from simple portfolios to complex e-commerce sites.
Pricing
- Starter (Free): Ideal for small personal projects, includes Webflow.io domain and up to 2 pages.
- Basic ($18/month): Suitable for simple websites, with custom domains and up to 100 pages.
- CMS ($29/month): Great for content-driven sites, includes advanced CMS features and up to 2,000 items.
- Business ($49/month): Designed for high-traffic websites, with 10,000 CMS items and up to 400GB bandwidth.
- Enterprise (Custom pricing): Tailored for large-scale projects, offering unlimited customization, security, and support options.
- Discounts & Promotions: 22% off with annual billing.
Key features
- 🎨 Visual design editor: Build fully responsive websites with drag-and-drop ease, without writing a single line of code.
- 🛠️ Customizable CMS: Manage content dynamically with a built-in CMS, perfect for blogs, portfolios, or content-heavy sites.
- 💡 Built-in SEO: Includes built-in SEO tools like customizable metadata, automatic sitemaps, and schema markup for better search engine rankings.
- 🛒 E-commerce integration: Offers robust tools to create online stores, including shopping carts, checkout systems, and payment integrations.
- 🔐 High security and backups: Features include SSL certificates, automated backups, and a global CDN for fast, secure site hosting.
- 🚀 Hosting: Powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Fastly, providing high-performance hosting, backups, versioning, and advanced security features.
- 📊 Optimization Tools: Includes analytics, A/B testing, AI-driven personalization, and SEO tools to improve site performance and user experience.
- 🛠️ Custom Code: Allows users to extend the capabilities of Webflow by adding custom code to their builds.
- 🌐 Collaboration and Control: Features advanced roles and permissions, publishing workflows, design approvals, and team management tools.
Asana
Asana is an enterprise software designed to reduce "work about work," the administrative and logistical tasks that distract from the core work of an organization. Asana aims to streamline project management and enhance productivity. The platform offers a range of features to manage tasks, projects, and workflows efficiently.
Pricing
- Personal: $0/month
- Starter: $13.50/user/month; $10.99/user/month billed annually
- Advanced: $30.50/user/month; $24.99/user/month billed annually
- Enterprise: Custom pricing
- Enterprise+: Custom pricing
- Discounts & Promotions: Discount on an Asana Starter or Asana Advanced annual plan for eligible nonprofit organizations
Key features
- 🏆 Goals: Set and track long-term objectives.
- 📅 Timeline: Visualize project timelines and dependencies.
- 🗂️ Portfolios: Manage multiple projects and track progress across departments.
- 📊 Workload: Balance team workloads and prevent overallocation.
- 📝 Forms: Create custom forms to collect information and automate workflows.
- 🤖 Automation: Automate repetitive tasks and workflows.
- 🧠 Asana AI: Utilize generative AI for smart status updates, summaries, and chat.
- 📈 Project Dashboards: Monitor project progress with customizable dashboards.
- 🔍 Advanced Search: Use advanced filters to find specific tasks and projects.
- 📁 Custom Project Templates: Create and use custom templates for projects.
Airtable
Airtable is a pioneering enterprise software company that provides a robust platform for teams to create custom apps on shared data and manage workflows. The platform connects people and data to support critical business processes, enhancing efficiency and insights for businesses across various sectors. Airtable's solutions are designed to optimize operations and decision-making, leveraging advanced technologies and AI to drive impact.
Pricing
- Free: A basic plan for individuals and small teams, limited to 1,200 records per base and basic features.
- Team: $24/month per seat - Designed for growing teams, offering features like advanced calendar and Gantt views, and 5,000 records per base.
- Business: $54/month per seat - For established teams, providing additional features such as advanced reporting, custom branded forms, and 50,000 records per base.
- Enterprise: Tailored for large organizations, offering advanced security, compliance, and support, along with custom pricing based on specific needs.
- Discounts & Promotions: 20% off with annual billing.
Key features
- 🚀 Custom App Creation: Allows teams to create custom applications using shared data.
- 🔄 Workflow Management: Manages workflows to enhance business processes and efficiency.
- 🗣️ Voice of Customer: Uses AI to discover customer insights from various data sources, including customer support tickets and CRM.
- 📈 Planning and Strategy: Aligns teams to strategic priorities and provides total visibility on execution.
- 📊 Data Synthesis: Aggregates and synthesizes data trends using AI and interactive dashboards.
- 🤖 No-Code Benefits: Offers job-specific solutions with no-code benefits, making it accessible to a broader audience within enterprises.
Notion
Notion is a highly customizable productivity platform designed for individuals, teams, and organizations. It offers tools for project management, note-taking, databases, and collaboration in a unified workspace. With real-time collaboration features, customizable workflows, and integrations with popular tools like Slack and Google Workspace, Notion caters to a wide range of use cases—from personal organization to complex team projects.
Pricing
- Free: Limited to 5MB file uploads and up to 5 guests.
- Plus: $12 per user/month (billed annually), includes unlimited file uploads and 30-day version history.
- Business: $18 per user/month, supports private team spaces, advanced permissions, and 90-day version history.
- Enterprise: Custom pricing, offers advanced security features and unlimited version history.
- Discounts & Promotions: 20% off with annual billing.
Key features
- 📝 Note-taking: Create rich text notes with media and embedded links.
- ✅ Task management: Organize tasks using to-do lists, Kanban boards, and calendars.
- 🗂 Database management: Build customizable databases for tracking information like CRM, project management, and more.
- 💻 Real-time collaboration: Share workspaces and collaborate with team members in real-time.
- 🛠️ Templates: Use over 50 pre-built templates for tasks, projects, and databases.
Canva
Canva is a user-friendly online platform that empowers users to design anything from social media graphics to presentations, videos, and more. With its intuitive drag-and-drop interface, Canva offers access to over 100 million design assets, including templates, photos, and graphics. Its recent AI-powered tools, such as Magic Studio, further enhance creativity and productivity by simplifying tasks like image editing, content creation, and resizing designs for different platforms.
Pricing
- Free: $0/year, with access to 5GB cloud storage, basic templates, and assets.
- Pro: $15/month or $119.99/year, offering 1TB storage, access to 100 million+ premium assets, and AI-powered tools.
- Teams: $10/user/month (minimum 3 users), with additional collaboration tools and 1TB storage per user.
- Enterprise: Custom pricing for larger organizations with enhanced security features and unlimited storage.
- Discounts & Promotions: 16% off with annual billing, free for K-12, primary, and secondary school teachers and students.
Key features
- ✨ Magic Studio: Includes 20+ AI-powered tools such as Magic Media for text-to-image and video generation, Magic Resize, and Magic Write for content generation.
- 🖼️ Background Remover: Quickly remove backgrounds from images with a single click, ideal for product images or social media posts.
- 📊 Brand Kit & Collaboration: Manage brand assets and collaborate with teams in real-time, including feedback and approval workflows.
- 🎨 Drag-and-Drop Interface: Canva offers an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, making it easy for users to create designs without any prior design experience.
- 📚 Extensive Template Library: The platform provides thousands of customizable templates across various categories, including social media, marketing materials, and more.
Make
Make.com is a powerful automation platform designed to streamline workflows and integrate various applications seamlessly. It empowers creators, entrepreneurs, and businesses by providing tools to automate repetitive tasks, enhance productivity, and manage workflows in real-time. The platform is user-friendly, allowing users to create complex automations without extensive coding knowledge.
Pricing
Depends on the number of monthly tasks.
- Free: $0/month
- 1000 tasks
- No-code visual workflow builder
- 2000+ apps
- Core: from $10.59/month ($9/month billed annually)
- Unlimited active scenarios
- Minimum 1 minute interval between scheduled scenario executions
- Access to the Make API
- Pro: from $18.32/month ($16/month billed annually)
- Custom variables
- Scenario Inputs
- Full-text execution log search
- Operations usage flexibility
- Priority scenario execution
- Teams: from $34.12/month ($29/month billed annually)
- Multiple teams and permissions
- High priority scenario execution
- Create and share scenario templates
- Enterprise: Custom pricing
- Enhanced security and compliance
- Dedicated always-on support
- Enhanced manageability
- Advanced capabilities
- Discounts & Promotions: Custom discounts for non-profit organizations
Key features
- 🔄 Automation of Repetitive Tasks: Automate routine tasks to save time and reduce manual errors.
- 📈 Integration with Multiple Apps: Connect a wide range of applications, including CRM systems, email marketing tools, and social media platforms.
- 🛠️ Drag-and-Drop Interface: Create complex automation workflows using an intuitive drag-and-drop interface without needing coding knowledge.
- 🔄 Real-Time Data Synchronization: Ensure all integrated applications are up-to-date and functioning correctly with real-time data synchronization.
- 📊 Workflow Monitoring: Monitor and manage workflows in real-time to maintain efficiency and accuracy.
- 📁 Pre-Built Templates: Utilize a vast library of pre-built templates and integrations to simplify the automation process.
Miro
Miro is a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to collaborate, design, and build projects together. It provides a digital platform where teams can manage projects, design products, and solve real-world problems through various tools and templates. Miro is particularly valuable for remote teams, offering real-time data visualization, diagramming, and workshop facilitation capabilities.
Pricing
- Free: $0/month - Basic features with limited boards and visitors.
- Starter: $10/member/month - Unlimited and private boards, single workspace, 1-click collaborator access, and more.
- Business: $20/member/month - Includes all Starter features plus centralized account management, enterprise-grade security, and advanced collaboration tools.
- Enterprise: Custom pricing for large enterprises. Includes all Business features plus flexible licensing program, SCIM user provisioning, automated access and license requests, and advanced data security and governance features.
- Discounts & Promotions: 20% off with annual billing.
Key features
- 📋 Unlimited Boards: Create and manage unlimited boards for different projects and collaborations.
- 🔄 Miro AI: Utilize AI capabilities for content creation, modification, and interactive walkthroughs.
- 📢 Talktracks: Record and share audio or video walkthroughs of your board to provide context.
- 🛡️ Enterprise-Grade Security: Ensure security with SSO, domain control, data classification, 2FA, and more.
- 📈 Advanced Collaboration Tools: Includes features like timer, voting, video chat, estimation app, and private mode for engaging meetings.
- 🗂️ Spaces: Organize and find boards faster with dedicated Spaces.
- 🔄 Board Version History: Recover lost content and content versions to collaborate with confidence.
- 📊 Centralized Account Management: Manage insights for adoption and usage, and apply organization-wide controls for integrations.
You
You.com is an AI-powered search and productivity engine that focuses on delivering personalized, ad-free search results, prioritizing user privacy and customization. The platform integrates the latest large language models (LLMs) to provide up-to-date and verifiable responses, and it has evolved to assist users in complex problem-solving, in-depth research, and boosting daily productivity.
Pricing
- Free: $0/month
- Limited basic queries
- Real-time answers powered by live web search
- Pro: $20/month
- Access to all AI models, including GPT-4o, OpenAI o1, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet
- File uploads, up to 25MB per query
- Up to 64k context window
- Access to Research and Custom Agents
- Team: $30/month
- Unlimited queries, including all AI models and Research and Custom Agents
- Unlimited file uploads, up to 50MB per query
- Up to 200k context window
- Zero data retention and no-training for models
- Enterprise: Custom pricing
- Dedicated account team and prioritized support
- Fine-grained control over permissions and access
- Securely access all your data from 100KB to 100TB+ with Private RAG
- Discounts & Promotions: up to 20% off with annual billing.
Key features
- 🌐 Personalized Search: Choose preferred sources for news, social media, shopping, and more, ensuring relevant and trustworthy search results.
- ✨ AI-Powered Assistance: Generates responses with up-to-date information and citations, and assists in tasks like code generation, text creation, and AI image generation.
- 🤖 Multiple Models: Integrates with top AI models including GPT-4, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Gemini 1.5 Flash.
- 📈 Custom Agents: Create tailored AI experiences by giving specific instructions to top AI models and adding personalization or internet connections.
- 📊 Advanced Research & Reasoning: Analyzes up to 200 sources per query, providing comprehensive research workflows with real-time transparency and verification of sources.
- 🌐 Real-Time Web Access: Combines vector-based methods with traditional search approaches to offer extensive snippets of information, perfect for LLMs to consume and generate accurate answers.
- 👥 Community-Driven Development: Involves a highly engaged community of users and developers who contribute to the platform's continuous improvement.
- 🧮 Genius Assistant: Solve complex multi-step problems using Python code.
- 🔗 API access: Incorporate You.com's web access into your own projects.