Jason Lemkin
26 things Jason uses or recommends, from 29 episodes.
Jason's top picks
What Jason uses or recommends most, ranked by how often and how strongly. Paid ads are left out.
Uses and recommends it · talked about in 11 episodes
"Haiku 5.5... it's almost as good for a lot of use cases as Sonnet. And it's a tenth or a twentieth the price. It's shocking, it's so cheap. Haiku 5.5 is like the first reasoning model, and you can dial up how much reasoning you want, where you can almost not care about what it costs... We haven't had a reasoning-level model where you didn't have to stress every token, every dollar."
Uses and recommends it · talked about in 8 episodes
"The biggest change for our little tiny team of two and a half humans is we run Replit between me and Amelia. We run it 20 hours a day now. When we started the show, it didn't quite work. At the end of last year, the models got better, and it'd be like an hour a day. Now, it's 10 to 12 hours a day. It is our partner, as our team."
Uses and recommends it · talked about in 2 episodes
"I'm actually willing to make that bet, because I'm using Jev a lot and I can already see that if it never changed, maybe I would swap it out, right? But if it gets better than the rest, there's no way I would change... Jev is super fast and super cheap. And it is accurate enough to use for maybe 10% of your AI use cases. If they make it hyper accurate, it changes the game."
Uses and recommends it · talked about in 3 episodes
"I love open router. I talked about it on the show like six months ago. I'm a customer. I'm a user. It was brilliant. It was one of these pieces of software like ElevenLabs which is just instantly easier to deploy. It's just elegant. It was just a beautiful piece of software."
Uses it · talked about in 3 episodes
"We run Salesforce entirely headless. We have our own agent, our own AI VP of revenue. It runs Salesforce under the hood. Pro is it makes Salesforce much more powerful than it ever was. It's like I didn't log into Salesforce for seven years. Now I log in every day because I have an agent."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"It's the first real ChatGPT competitor. It's one of the best pieces of software I've ever used. But it's also a Trojan horse to fight ChatGPT because the LLM's pretty good. It built me an entire CRM for every SaaS sponsor — it tracks every email about them, every item in real time. It updates it. And it cost zero."
What Jason warns against
Things Jason says to avoid or be careful with. Other experts don't always agree.
"OpenAI and Anthropic have the two worst models that exist. They're called OpenAI Mini and Haiku. They're terrible. Just go on Claude and switch to Haiku if you can and ask it a question — it doesn't remember anything, it's 2023, and it doesn't know where anything is."
"OpenAI and Anthropic have the two worst models that exist. They're called OpenAI Mini and Haiku. They're terrible. At least my little evals, they fail 100% of the time."
"Loom is not the breakout success of Atlassian. Getting rid of collaborative free seats — which is how we all grew up using Zoom — that's a sign of just how hard it is, even if you beat the quarter. Whenever I see the base getting overly monetized or harvested, it's a sign of stress in the organization."
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All 26 of Jason's picks
- Claude Uses and recommends it 11 episodes "Haiku 5.5... it's almost as good for a lot of use cases as Sonnet. And it's a tenth or a twentieth the price. It's shocking, it's so cheap. Haiku 5.5 is like the first reasoning model, and you can dial up how much reasoning you want, where you can almost not care about what it costs... We haven't had a reasoning-level model where you didn't have to stress every token, every dollar." +245 others
- Replit Uses and recommends it 8 episodes "The biggest change for our little tiny team of two and a half humans is we run Replit between me and Amelia. We run it 20 hours a day now. When we started the show, it didn't quite work. At the end of last year, the models got better, and it'd be like an hour a day. Now, it's 10 to 12 hours a day. It is our partner, as our team." +10 others
- Jev Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "I'm actually willing to make that bet, because I'm using Jev a lot and I can already see that if it never changed, maybe I would swap it out, right? But if it gets better than the rest, there's no way I would change... Jev is super fast and super cheap. And it is accurate enough to use for maybe 10% of your AI use cases. If they make it hyper accurate, it changes the game." +4 others
- OpenRouter Uses and recommends it 3 episodes "I love open router. I talked about it on the show like six months ago. I'm a customer. I'm a user. It was brilliant. It was one of these pieces of software like ElevenLabs which is just instantly easier to deploy. It's just elegant. It was just a beautiful piece of software." +8 others
- Salesforce Uses it 3 episodes "We run Salesforce entirely headless. We have our own agent, our own AI VP of revenue. It runs Salesforce under the hood. Pro is it makes Salesforce much more powerful than it ever was. It's like I didn't log into Salesforce for seven years. Now I log in every day because I have an agent." +9 others
- Meta AI Uses and recommends it "It's the first real ChatGPT competitor. It's one of the best pieces of software I've ever used. But it's also a Trojan horse to fight ChatGPT because the LLM's pretty good. It built me an entire CRM for every SaaS sponsor — it tracks every email about them, every item in real time. It updates it. And it cost zero." +2 others
- Claude Fable Uses and recommends it "I started accidentally using Fable 5.1 just because it got turned on. The first time I've had a partner for building, for coding, that just is great. Before Fable 5.1, any of these models since the start of the year could solve a simple bug. But I had a problem — why does the app work this way? It doesn't make sense to me. The LMs were arguing with me for like 9 months and I finally did it with Fable 5.1 and it said, 'You're right. Here's the issue that's been missed for months.' That's a step function." +12 others
- Waymo Uses and recommends it "In the Bay Area, I got rid of my car. So, I only do Waymo and autonomous driving. I don't drive. I'm done with it. I would certainly never go back. Never go back to driving a car. It's just archaic." +12 others
- Linear Uses and recommends it "I just started using Linear for the first time ever because I'm building an app with 448 tasks and to manage — it's just me and the agents — but Linear is the perfect tool for that. That's where they're getting a boost. It ends up being very agent-friendly." +19 others
- Higgsfield Uses it 2 episodes "Higgsfield, where Harry and I are both investors. I was one of the first 10 users or customers. Higgsfield just announced they're at 500 million in revenue, actually doing 2 million a day now just in credit card billings outside of the enterprise. You can run them all on Higgsfield — Kling, Sora, Veo — you can just run them all in videos." +1 other
- The Grazing Goat Uses and recommends it "What's the pub right behind your office that I really like, Harry? — The Grazing Goat. — Love that place. Five out of five." Only Jason
- Exa Uses and recommends it "It's just a great product, right? It's another one where I was a user before an investor, right? An early user" +6 others
- Canva Uses and recommends it "I think canvas is going to have a wildly successful IPO and they just launched their their agentic suite... it's actually very very good this Canva 2.0" +9 others
- Resend Uses it "The first agentic purchase we made was Resend for email. When I was trying to set up a bunch of agents last year, I kept getting recommended SendGrid, but I just couldn't get the damn SendGrid thing to work... So I asked my agent what I should use. It said use Resend." +4 others
- DeepSeek Uses it "When I'm in China for two weeks, it's DeepSeek and Gemini. Those are my friends. DeepSeek is intentionally crippled in China. It's not as good as it is here. It can't search the web and it is trained on different data as near as I can tell." +4 others
- Gemini Uses it "When I'm in China for two weeks, it's DeepSeek and Gemini. Those are my friends. It's a parallel universe." +71 others
- Suno Uses it "I do like Suno. I do pay for Suno. It's one of those ones that if I were more cost-sensitive, I would cancel my subscription because I think I pay 15 or 20 bucks a month for three songs." +8 others
- OpenAI Uses it "I've become on team Sam and OpenAI recently with my agents as my agents have taken control of my life. I've changed my allegiances to some extent." +7 others
- Stitch Uses it "I used Stitch. at least it can take context from a website and not and not hallucinate" Only Jason
- Claude Max Uses it "I'm on Claude Max. Amelia runs out of credits using Claude desktop" Only Jason
- Agentforce Uses it "We're like one of the few organizations of our size uses Agentforce. We unleashed Agentforce on all of our leads." Only Jason
- Nvidia Recommends it "you got to do Nvidia... If you want to bet on AI today because we can't buy anthropic or open AI just buy Nvidia. That's how you buy AI today. Just just buy Nvidia" +8 others
- Mac Mini Uses it "We're buying Mac Mini we're buying Mac Studio that can run a full model on the Mac" +16 others
- Monaco Uses it "I'm an investor in a company called Monaco that's the next AI SDR for us. It booked us a six-figure deal the first day" Only Jason
- Artisan Uses it "One that I'm not an investor in that I know that we use is called Artisan, which is just an AI SDR tool and more. They did 2 million last month." Only Jason
- Qualified Uses it "We have literally sent millions and millions of business to Artisan and Qualified because those were the first two ones we used." Only Jason