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Use-case stack · side-hustle

Sales outreach (makers & shops)

Draft polite outreach for custom prints, repair services, or B2B maker work.

Personalize with a real observation about the recipient. Never spray generic AI spam.

Preferred / primary

Web LLM / chat

Claude

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

In this stack: Short, specific outreach drafts.

Strong alternatives

Web LLM / chat

ChatGPT

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

In this stack: Subject lines and follow-ups.

Supporting tools

Web Research

Perplexity

Answer engine oriented around cited web research.

In this stack: Research the recipient/org first.

Hybrid LLM / chat

LanguageTool

Grammar/style checking with self-host option — lighter privacy model than many SaaS editors.

In this stack: Tone/grammar check.

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