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Productivity guides, tool comparisons, and AI assistant insights from the Kai team.
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Productivity guides, tool comparisons, and AI assistant insights from the Kai team.
Kai handles your calendar, email, meetings, and follow-ups, so you can focus on what matters.
Six copy-paste meeting minutes templates, decisions-first, from the team whose AI writes minutes daily. Plus when the formal format is required.
Issue #006 of How We Grow: Jim built an analytics hub that pulls every channel, sign-up, activation and cost metric into one dashboard we can question in natural language. Why we built instead of buying, and where it can go wrong.
Copilot is already in Outlook. We build an AI assistant on Outlook's API, so here is an honest map of what it covers and when you need a layer on top.
What makes a meeting note useful, from the team building Kai's meeting AI. Capture decisions and owners live, and let a tool hold the transcript.
Issue #005 of How We Grow: we rebuilt every Kai feature page on the new brand, entirely in code with Claude and never opening Figma. Why the design system came last, why consistency kills a feature page, and the versions we cut.
Issue #004 of How We Grow: we renamed from Omnia to Kai and hired a branding specialist, then turned his creative process into rules and a pipeline our agents can run, so AI generates our brand on demand.
The executive assistant skill set split in three: the digital work AI now does, the logistics it still can't, and the judgment that is now the whole job.
Issue #003 of How We Grow: we launched our free meeting-transcription Chrome extension on Product Hunt and read the dashboards. The launch-day spike, where the signups came from, and the organic lift that keeps compounding long after launch day.
Bluedot vs Granola compared on recording, pricing, platforms, and the action-item handoff most reviews skip. Two botless notetakers, two opposite bets.
Issue #002 of How We Grow: why we ripped out Linear and Notion and run our whole sprint system inside Claude Code. The setup, the three skills (with the prompts), what breaks, and the closed beta we just opened.
How to permanently delete your Kai account from inside the app, what data is removed, and how to request deletion without the app.
The 8 best Calendly alternatives in 2026, sorted by what they actually replace: the booking link, the calendar chaos, or the work around the meeting.
Learn how to run a meeting in 2026. Decide it should happen, ship a pre-read, run a 30-minute decision sprint, leave with action items owned.
Issue #001 of How We Grow: what two people are actually doing to grow Kai before launch. The waitlist, going AI-native, social, free tools, and what broke.
How Read AI's meeting notes actually work, how to set them up on Zoom, Meet, and Teams, and the workflow gap that breaks most setups. Verified May 2026.
Learn how to ask for consent before recording meetings with an AI tool. The simple universal rule, what to say, where to verify your jurisdiction, what Kai keeps.
Learn how to write meeting minutes that get read, not filed. Four-part workflow, free template generator, 2026 rules for decisions and action items.
What AI executive assistants actually handle in 2026, where Lindy, Martin, and Saner fall short, and the 5 capabilities separating tools from demos.
Time blocking, the way I actually run it. 5 methods, a 3-step playbook, and a free generator that drops your day straight into your calendar.
AI meeting prep done right in 2026. The 4 ingredients of a real brief, why note-takers miss the point, and the workflow to run before every call.
Compare Fathom and Granola on pricing, bot vs botless capture, hybrid notes, integrations, and accuracy to pick the right AI meeting tool.
Hands-on Read AI review covering pricing, the visible bot tradeoff, the Speaker Coach controversy, and who should pick it over Otter, Granola, or Fathom.
Explore Granola AI's bot-free meeting transcription, hybrid note-taking, and pricing. See what makes it different from recording-based AI note-takers.
Compare the 5 best Otter AI alternatives in 2026 with pricing, features, and user reviews to find the right meeting assistant.
Compare the 7 best Superhuman alternatives in 2026: pricing, features, user reviews, and which email client best suits your workflow.
Compare 9 Cluely alternatives with pricing, features, and pros/cons to find a professional AI meeting assistant that fits your workflow.
Akiflow costs $34/mo, or $19/mo billed annually (verified 2026). See every plan, the hidden billing costs users run into, and whether it's actually worth it.
Compare Fathom and Otter AI on pricing, features, accuracy, and integrations to pick the right AI meeting assistant in 2026.
Compare Motion's AI auto-scheduling, 2026 pricing tiers, and real Reddit user feedback in our Motion app review to see if it's worth it.
Compare Motion vs Notion on AI scheduling, task management, and pricing to pick the right productivity tool for your workflow.
Compare Notion pricing plans, features, and limits in 2026. Learn about the AI add-on cost, per-user pricing traps, and when switching tools makes sense.
Explore Notion's workspace features, AI capabilities, and real user feedback to determine if this all-in-one productivity tool fits your needs.
Learn Otter AI pricing plans, hidden costs, and student discounts, plus pros, cons, and alternatives to find the best fit.
Read our 2026 Otter AI review covering features, pricing, pros & cons, and how it compares to top transcription alternatives.