Start Here: Your First AI Stack

ASSISTANT —

Claude + ChatGPT

One for thinking, one for formatting. Use both.

Claude handles reasoning and long documents. ChatGPT handles formatting, quick lookups, and everything else. Together they cover 90% of daily AI use.

SEARCH —

Cited sources, no hallucinated links.

Replaces most Google searches for research. Every answer links back to its source so you can verify before you trust.

NOTES —

Feed it documents, get a podcast back.

Upload a PDF, get a summary you can actually use. The audio overview turns dense material into something you can listen to on a walk.

OPTIONAL / BUILDERS ONLY —

Skip this until the first three are habit.

Model Context Protocol lets AI tools talk to your systems. Powerful, but only useful once you know what you're connecting and why.

Based on weekly tests in real enterprise workflows, documented in the newsletter and podcast.

If this stack helped you at work, hit reply on Substack and tell me what broke.