Tools

The stack behind a six-person content company

Every tool here is one we pay for or built. The public card says what it is. Members get the part that matters: how we actually use it, what broke, and the partner deal when there is one.

  • Serge's open-source Claude Code skills for LinkedIn, X, Threads, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.

    Open source
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • Stripe

    Infra
    CCC

    Subscriptions, invoices, tax and a customer portal through one API; the billing layer of a membership.

    Paid
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • Codex CLI

    Agents
    CCC

    OpenAI's local coding agent; a second opinion in the terminal, sandboxed and read-only when you want it.

    Open source
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • CCC

    Anthropic's agentic coding tool in the terminal, IDE and browser; skills, hooks, subagents and MCP.

    Paid
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • Perplexity

    Research

    Search-grounded answers with citations, plus Search, Agent, Router and Embeddings APIs for your own research agents.

    Freemium
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • Slack

    Other

    The team chat that every tool and every agent can post into; channels as the audit log of a company.

    Freemium
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • ChatGPT

    Agents

    OpenAI's assistant with memory, projects, agent mode and custom GPTs; the second brain most teams already have.

    Freemium
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • A local Markdown vault for your notes; the knowledge base an agent can read with plain file tools.

    Freemium
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • DataForSEO

    Analytics
    CCC

    Pay-per-use SEO data APIs (SERP, keywords, backlinks, on-page, LLM mentions) for building your own dashboards.

    Paid
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • Notion

    Other

    Docs, wikis and databases in one workspace, with an API and MCP server for agents to read and write.

    Freemium
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • n8n

    Agents

    Visual workflow automation you can self-host, with AI agent nodes, human-in-the-loop steps and MCP support.

    Open source
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • CCC

    CI/CD in the repository; the only path to production in an agent-run codebase.

    Freemium
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • Granola

    Other

    An AI notepad that transcribes meetings without a bot in the call and turns them into notes and actions.

    Freemium
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • Linear

    Other
    CCC

    Issue tracking fast enough that humans and agents both keep it current; one session, one issue.

    Freemium
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • Claude

    Agents

    Anthropic's assistant with Projects, memory, connectors and Cowork; the thinking partner side of the AI OS.

    Freemium
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • Context7

    Agents

    Up-to-date library documentation served to agents over MCP, so they stop coding against stale training data.

    Freemium
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • Substack

    Publishing
    CCC

    Newsletter plus blog plus paid subscriptions, with the audience list you own.

    Freemium
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • CCC

    Channels, groups and a Bot API good enough to be the front door of a personal or company AI assistant.

    Free
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • Apify

    Research

    A store of ready-made scrapers ("Actors") with an API and an MCP server your agents can call.

    Freemium
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • CCC

    Open-source, edge-native Calendly alternative on Cloudflare Workers, MIT, no seat limits.

    Open source
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • Brevo

    Publishing
    CCC

    Email and SMS marketing, transactional email and a CRM in one account, with a free plan.

    Freemium
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • Edge compute, a SQLite database and S3-compatible storage under one CLI, with a generous free tier.

    Freemium
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • The open standard that lets any AI app connect to your tools and data; "USB-C for AI applications".

    Open source
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • CCC

    Free event-based web analytics; the Data API turns it into a feed an agent can read.

    Free
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • Hono

    Build
    CCC

    A small, fast web framework for Cloudflare Workers and every other JavaScript runtime.

    Open source
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • The adapter that runs a full Next.js app on Cloudflare Workers with the Node.js runtime.

    Open source
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • Ollama

    Agents

    Run open models locally with one command; the private, no-per-token layer of a personal AI OS.

    Open source
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • Publora

    Publishing
    CCC

    One HTTPS call posts to ten social platforms; agents post through its MCP server.

    Freemium
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • Co.Actor

    Publishing
    CCC

    LinkedIn writing that learns your voice, with a daily idea feed and team amplification.

    Freemium
    How we use it at CCCpaid
  • CCC

    Browser automation and end-to-end testing; also the camera behind every screenshot and clip in this catalog.

    Open source
    How we use it at CCCpaid