🧠 Get a Morning Brief Before You Even Start Working

#110 NTSOT | Find out the best tools of the week! Let your browser do the digging, 40+ AI models for pennies a day, and own your AI memory.

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LucaG
June 08, 2026

Hey friends!

Uber capped its engineers at $1,500 a month per AI coding tool this week after burning through its entire 2026 Claude Code budget in four months.

Ramp raised $750M partly to sell software that tracks runaway AI bills.

Everyone is waking up to the same thing at once. Tool spend creeps until it hurts.

I have lived this building ShortPen, my platform for branded links, QR codes, and conversion analytics, where I undercut incumbents charging five to ten times more for the same features.

This edition follows that thread.

Five tools and a few lifetime deals that punch above their price. Here's what I found.

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What Will You Find Today?

  • 5 Tools of the Week

  • Some Lifetime Deals I found this week (pay once and keep forever)

1. Dia - The browser for your best work

Dia reads across your open tabs and answers questions using what is on your screen.

It writes a morning brief from your calendar and inbox before you start.

It pulls scattered notes from your apps into one report you share in a click.

You stop hunting through tabs and let the browser do the digging.

🎯 Who is it ideal for?

Knowledge workers, founders, researchers.

💰 How much does it cost?

Free plan: ✅ 

Paid plans: from $20/month

🌐 Website

2. Keel - An AI assistant whose memory belongs to you

Keel stores everything as plain markdown on your own disk.

You bring your own model, Claude, GPT, or a local one through Ollama, and swap anytime while your context stays put.

It captures decisions, facts, and tasks as you work and pulls them back when you need them.

No account, no server, no telemetry. Your data never leaves your machine.

🎯 Who is it ideal for?

Privacy-focused users, developers, researchers.

💰 How much does it cost?

Free.

🌐 Website

3. Kelviq - Merchant of Record for SaaS and AI

Kelviq runs payments, usage billing, tax, and entitlements in one platform.

As your merchant of record it takes on global tax filing, chargebacks, and audits, so you stop dealing with VAT and GST yourself.

It meters tokens, API calls, and seats in real time.

You bill any model you want and get paid in 135 currencies.

🎯 Who is it ideal for?

SaaS founders, AI startups, indie developers.

💰 How much does it cost?

Free plan: ❌

Paid plans: transaction-based

🌐 Website

4. Articuler - AI-Powered Professional Networking Platform

Articuler matches you with the right people by intent, not keywords. It searches a network of 980M profiles and surfaces the contacts you should meet.

Before a call it builds a playbook with openers, talking points, and what to avoid. It writes your cold emails too.

You walk into every conversation prepared.

🎯 Who is it ideal for?

Founders, salespeople, job seekers.

💰 How much does it cost?

Free plan: ✅ 

Paid plans: from $25/month

🌐 Website

5. LumiChats - 40+ AI models in one tab, pay per day

LumiChats gives you 40+ models in one place, from Claude to GPT to Gemini, and lets you switch mid-chat.

Study Mode locks answers to the pages of your uploaded PDF, so you get cited answers with no made-up facts. It builds quizzes and notes from your files.

Agent Mode runs multi-step tasks on its own.

You pay for the days you use it, nothing more.

🎯 Who is it ideal for?

Students, developers, researchers.

💰 How much does it cost?

Free plan: ✅ 

Paid plans: from $14/month

🌐 Website

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🤯 Lifetime Deals of the Week

Exclusive offers that get you a lifetime subscription to the tools. Pay once and keep forever.

  • Headway ($69) - Get 15-minute reads of the best book and the best ideas in a nutshell based on your goals & needs.

  • Fluid CRM ($59) - Organize leads, manage follow-ups, and move deals forward with a calm visual CRM built for B2B teams.

Setapp - My Favourite Tool

Drowning in apps? Setapp offers a Netflix-style subscription for Mac & iPhone apps. Over 240 productivity, creativity, and utility tools for only $9.99/mo.

Check it out at Setapp.com (30-day extended free trial)

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