The tools we actually point people at.

Short list on purpose. Each one is here because it comes up in the course and it is the thing we would recommend anyway — not because a list of forty tools looks impressive.

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Netlify

Puts your finished website on the internet by dragging a folder onto a page — the simplest way we have found for someone deploying their first site, and free for what you will need.

Where it comes up: Website module — the deploy step

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Jobber

Quotes, scheduling, invoices and customer records in one place, built for service businesses — the paperwork side of contracting that eats your evenings.

Where it comes up: Recommended to trades cohorts alongside the AI tools

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Tidio

A chat widget with a shared inbox and a phone app, so messages from your site reach you wherever you are — a step up from the simple helper you build in the add-on.

Where it comes up: Add-on module 2 — optional upgrade once their own widget works

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Systeme.io

Landing pages, email lists and paid courses in one tool with a genuinely usable free tier — where to go when you want to sell something without stitching five services together.

Where it comes up: Capstone — building on what you made

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Beehiiv

A newsletter platform that handles the sending, the sign-up page and the growth tooling — worth it the moment you have something worth saying regularly.

Where it comes up: Capstone — building on what you made

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None of these are required to finish the course. Everything we teach can be done on the free tiers, and where a free alternative works just as well, we say so.