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Use-case stack · power users

Agentic research assistants

Multi-step agents that browse/summarize — useful, but easy to overtrust.

Keep a human checkpoint before actions that spend money, send email, or change infra.

Preferred / primary

Web Research

Perplexity

Answer engine oriented around cited web research.

In this stack: Cited browsing-style research loops.

Strong alternatives

Self-hosted Automation

Dify

Self-hostable LLM app builder (RAG, agents, workflows) with a polished UI.

In this stack: Hosted/self-host agent apps with guardrails.

Supporting tools

Hybrid Automation

CrewAI

Multi-agent orchestration framework for developers building agent teams.

In this stack: Multi-agent experiments for developers.

Web LLM / chat

Claude

Anthropic models strong at long-context writing, code review, and careful analysis.

In this stack: Synthesize multi-source notes you collected.

Web LLM / chat

OpenRouter

One API key to many model providers — useful for comparing models without N dashboards.

In this stack: Swap models behind an agent.

Web LLM / chat

ChatGPT

OpenAI’s mainstream chat + tools product for writing, code, and analysis.

In this stack: General agentic chat features when available on your plan.

Stacks are editorial starting points — swap tools when policy, budget, or hardware demands it.