The Creative Stack
Behind-the-scenes of ideas in progress.
This is where I keep track of experiments at the intersection of creativity and technology. It’s a mix of tools I’m testing, ideas I’m working through, and notes on what’s showing potential. Some of it’s practical, some just curiosity, but all of it is part of exploring how marketing and creative work are evolving.
Visual Tools
Creative tech tools are evolving fast. Sometimes faster than we can keep up. This space is where I track what’s new, what’s useful, and what’s worth experimenting with on the visual side of creative.
Midjourney
Midjourney is a text-to-image AI engine that creates highly stylized, artistic visuals. It runs through Discord and is popular for concept art, moodboards, and experimental creative work.
🔗 Visit Midjourney
DALL·E 3 (OpenAI)
DALL·E 3 generates detailed images from text prompts and is integrated directly into ChatGPT. It offers strong prompt understanding and seamless editing capabilities.
🔗 Explore DALL·E 3
Adobe Firefly
Part of Adobe Creative Cloud, Firefly brings generative AI features like image creation and in-context editing directly into tools like Photoshop and Illustrator.
🔗 Discover Adobe Firefly
Runway ML
Runway offers AI-powered video and image generation, best known for its Gen-2 model that turns text into moving visuals. It’s designed for creators working across video, motion, and mixed media.
🔗 Visit Runway
Leonardo.Ai
Leonardo is built for artists, designers, and game creators who want fine-tuned control over image styles and generations. It allows real-time prompt editing and consistent aesthetic control.
🔗 Explore Leonardo.Ai
Stable Diffusion (Stability AI)
An open-source image generation model that gives users full control over custom outputs, model training, and style blending. It’s a core tool for developers and tinkerers.
🔗 View Stable Diffusion
Ideogram
Ideogram solves the challenge of generating text within images—perfect for posters, typographic design, and branded visuals that include readable, styled copy.
🔗 Check out Ideogram
Artbreeder
Artbreeder lets you remix and evolve images using sliders and “genes.” It’s especially strong for portrait and landscape variations, making it ideal for iterative visual exploration.
🔗 Explore Artbreeder
The Written Toolkit
Writing + Research Tools
LLMs are evolving quickly. New models, features, and fine-tuned capabilities are being released all the time, changing how we write, brainstorm, and build.
ChatGPT (OpenAI)
ChatGPT is a conversational AI developed by OpenAI, known for generating coherent, contextual responses and content across a wide range of topics. It’s widely used for writing drafts, emails, blog posts, and ideation.
🔗 Explore ChatGPT
Jasper
Jasper is built specifically for marketers and content teams, offering templates for blog posts, ad copy, email sequences, and SEO-friendly writing. It also supports brand voice customization.
🔗 Visit Jasper
Copy.ai
Copy.ai is a versatile tool designed for short-form marketing content, including product descriptions, email copy, and social posts. It offers quick prompts and workflow automations.
🔗 Try Copy.ai
Notion AI
Integrated directly into Notion, this AI assistant helps users generate, summarize, and rewrite content within documents and project spaces—ideal for structured content planning.
🔗 Explore Notion AI
Sudowrite
Originally built for creative writers, Sudowrite helps with storytelling, character development, and descriptive writing. It’s especially useful for fiction and narrative-based content.
🔗 Visit Sudowrite
Writer
Writer is focused on enterprise use, helping companies enforce brand voice, tone, and writing guidelines while generating content at scale. It’s a strong choice for internal documentation and marketing teams.
🔗 Check out Writer
Claude (Anthropic)
Claude is a conversational AI similar to ChatGPT, with a focus on helpful, honest, and harmless responses. It’s strong at writing assistance, summarization, and structured ideation.
🔗 Use Claude
HyperWrite
HyperWrite acts like a digital writing assistant that predicts and completes sentences in real time, offering tools for brainstorming, editing, and content expansion.
🔗 Explore HyperWrite
Anyword
Anyword is tailored for performance marketing, using predictive scoring to help write headlines, social ads, and landing page copy optimized for engagement and conversion.
🔗 Visit Anyword
The Audio & Voice AI Toolkit
Audio & Voice AI Tools
Audio and voice AI tools are making it easier than ever to generate, edit, and experiment with sound, whether you’re creating voiceovers, composing music, or cloning your own voice for a project.
ElevenLabs
Known for ultra-realistic voice synthesis and voice cloning, ElevenLabs lets you generate lifelike speech in multiple languages and accents, or clone your own voice with minimal training data.
🔗 Visit ElevenLabs
Descript (Overdub)
Descript is an audio and video editor with powerful AI tools, including Overdub, which lets you clone your voice and generate new narration simply by typing text.
🔗 Explore Descript
Murf
Murf provides AI voiceovers with a professional polish, offering a library of realistic voices suited for videos, presentations, and eLearning content.
🔗 Try Murf
Resemble AI
A voice cloning and synthetic speech platform with real-time capabilities. It’s used for gaming, advertising, and interactive media where voice nuance matters.
🔗 Check out Resemble AI
Play.ht
Offers text-to-speech conversion with a library of high-quality, realistic voices and tools for managing spoken content. Commonly used for podcasts, voiceovers, and audio articles.
🔗 Explore Play.ht
AIVA
An AI music composer that creates original, royalty-free music across genres. You can customize mood, tempo, and instrumentation—great for background scores or experiments.
🔗 Visit AIVA
Soundraw
Generates customizable music tracks based on mood, genre, and length. Designed for creators who need fast, royalty-free music with AI assistance.
🔗 Explore Soundraw
Voicemod
A real-time voice changer and soundboard for streaming, gaming, or creative experimentation. It uses AI to transform voices in live environments.
🔗 Visit Voicemod
Adobe Podcast (formerly Project Shasta)
A suite of AI tools for podcasters, including noise reduction, voice enhancement, and auto-leveling. Designed to make amateur audio sound professional.
🔗 Check out Adobe Podcast