Liam Ottley
48 things Liam uses or recommends, from 22 episodes.
Liam's top picks
What Liam uses or recommends most, ranked by how often and how strongly. Paid ads are left out.
Claude
+245 other experts
Uses and recommends it · talked about in 10 episodes
"Claude, which is going to be the brain for this operation. It's going to be writing the prompts, the briefs, and the copy, researches competitors, refines the outputs, and orchestrates the overall pipeline."
Claude Code
+107 other experts
Uses and recommends it · talked about in 12 episodes
"Making this jump into Claude code will change your life, and I promise you that. In Claude code, there's absolutely no ceiling whatsoever — it can build its own tools. I use it daily to run my life and business, and I've rebuilt the deep research skill using Claude code so that it searches all of the web, YouTube, podcasts, socials, academic papers, X, and Reddit."
Apify
+4 other experts
Uses and recommends it · talked about in 3 episodes
"Froth needs to be able to see what other people are talking about online. We're scraping that information off the web. For that, we're going to be using one of my favorite tools called Apify."
ChatGPT
+155 other experts
Uses and recommends it · talked about in 3 episodes
"OpenAI just released a new ChatGPT business platform and today I moved my entire company onto it and all my team and tested every new feature. And it's clear to me that if you run a business, this is the one AI update that you can't ignore."
Codex
+96 other experts
Uses and recommends it · talked about in 6 episodes
"I use Codex a lot for everything. I have like an AI operating system that's a GitHub repo that I use in Claude Code, that I use in Codex."
Kylon
+1 other expert
Uses and recommends it · talked about in 2 episodes
"I saw a glimpse of where this stuff can go when I was doing the Kylon setup. Kylon has a CLI, which means that programmatically you can manage your client setup... I remember when we were doing the setup for Josh, that was super convenient having the whole CLI baked in."
What Liam warns against
Things Liam says to avoid or be careful with. Other experts don't always agree.
Canva
"They were doing it as Canva slideshows and then they export that to PDF and then send that around to people who are interested in trips. Now, with what we tried with Canva MCP, but we couldn't get the flexibility in design, the accuracy, the attention to detail."
Riley Brown, Christine DeMao and 8 others
recommend it
OpenAI
"we were doing custom coded development with the clunkiest OpenAI APIs you can imagine. Extremely hard to get anything really basic out of them in the early days."
Joe McCormack, Eric Anderson and 6 others
recommend it
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All 48 of Liam's picks
- Claude Uses and recommends it 10 episodes "Claude, which is going to be the brain for this operation. It's going to be writing the prompts, the briefs, and the copy, researches competitors, refines the outputs, and orchestrates the overall pipeline." +245 others
- Claude Code Uses and recommends it 12 episodes "Making this jump into Claude code will change your life, and I promise you that. In Claude code, there's absolutely no ceiling whatsoever — it can build its own tools. I use it daily to run my life and business, and I've rebuilt the deep research skill using Claude code so that it searches all of the web, YouTube, podcasts, socials, academic papers, X, and Reddit." +107 others
- Apify Uses and recommends it 3 episodes "Froth needs to be able to see what other people are talking about online. We're scraping that information off the web. For that, we're going to be using one of my favorite tools called Apify." +4 others
- ChatGPT Uses and recommends it 3 episodes "OpenAI just released a new ChatGPT business platform and today I moved my entire company onto it and all my team and tested every new feature. And it's clear to me that if you run a business, this is the one AI update that you can't ignore." +155 others
- Codex Uses and recommends it 6 episodes "I use Codex a lot for everything. I have like an AI operating system that's a GitHub repo that I use in Claude Code, that I use in Codex." +96 others
- Kylon Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "I saw a glimpse of where this stuff can go when I was doing the Kylon setup. Kylon has a CLI, which means that programmatically you can manage your client setup... I remember when we were doing the setup for Josh, that was super convenient having the whole CLI baked in." +1 other
- Upwork Recommends it 5 episodes "If you're from India, I'd recommend you go on something like Upwork, unless you have access locally. On Upwork you can put up your portfolio and then put your cost at basically nothing and try to land some deals that way. You'll need to optimize your profile and be grinding on Upwork, and then you'll start to get a few deals here and there for a very low cost or free, and then your reputation will start to build on there if you're actually good." +11 others
- Slack Uses and recommends it 3 episodes "I actually set up this kind of Slack-based AI agent for my clients all the time. It's a really, really good way of accessing your AI agents, and this is awesome to see OpenAI moving into this category and making the agents and dots accessible within Slack." +52 others
- Viktor Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "We use Victor in my Slack... Victor is in my Slack and I'm chatting back and forth with Victor. We set up automations. So I actually really, really like the form factor of Victor and how it works with you alongside in Slack." +3 others
- Railway Uses and recommends it 3 episodes "I'm more of a Railway guy these days, guys. Railway is my go-to hosting platform." +4 others
- Firecrawl Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "So, we're going to be using a tool called Firecrawl here, which again is a great one for you guys to learn how to use and get set up." +4 others
- Claude Design Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "I'm working on the app from Kylon. I'm using Claude design for the design and UX." +10 others
- Supabase Uses and recommends it 2 episodes "The second it's in a database like Supabase, you can ask it anything. To set up the database, we're going to be using Supabase. It's going to be free for you guys." +8 others
- Gemini Uses it 2 episodes "Check this out. I just downloaded the Gemini app. They've got this thing called speak to Windows, or whatever they call it. It's included Wispr Flow. We can use this in any chat window." +71 others
- Osprey Uses and recommends it "I want to counteract that with a tool called Osprey, which is a kind of new type of AI lead generation tool which you can hook into your website. Based off their numbers, it's about 40% of US traffic. If 100 US visitors landed on this website, about 40 of those people the system with Osprey could resolve them — give me their full name, email, LinkedIn, and phone number. I'm really freaking excited for this category of tools as a whole. To me, a platform like Osprey is a really exciting new tool." Only Liam
- Fireflies Uses it 2 episodes "It's connecting to my Fireflies which is my meeting recorder which tracks every single meeting that happens in my business every day. It logs it into a database that I store locally" +2 others
- Dots Uses and recommends it "So, creating our dot, it's built to take on complex work... So, this is going to be my personal assistant in the ChatGPT OpenAI ecosystem." +9 others
- 21st.dev Uses and recommends it "I came back with two tools that are not sponsoring this video in this design process. And that is 21st Dev, and it is also Mobbin. So, I got a subscription to each of these. When you give it the MCP access, it can then query 21st.dev and try to find a bunch of spheres or globes or orbs, which is what I did earlier, and to really explore what are all the existing components that I could bring into my website." Only Liam
- Mobbin Uses and recommends it "I came back with two tools that are not sponsoring this video in this design process. And that is 21st Dev, and it is also Mobbin. What they are is essentially UI libraries with some of the best examples — in this case on Mobbin — of some of the best websites from big brands, big companies around the world. And it allows you via MCP to plug into your Claude Code, and it can then query Mobbin and say, 'I'm looking for this kind of UI, do you have any examples for me?' And it's actually going to be able to pull the code from these websites." Only Liam
- Notion Uses and recommends it "We have Notion, which is the agency backend where every client, every ad, and every approval is going to get tracked." +37 others
- Airtable Uses and recommends it "Love Airtable. I honestly think it's one of the best apps ever. And I use it a lot for various things" +2 others
- N8N Uses and recommends it "This is a pretty good general purpose assistant that can be created quite easily on n8n, as I'm going to show you." +4 others
- SerpAPI Uses and recommends it "We're going to be using this SER API, which is a good one for you guys to learn how to use, which basically allows us to search Google and pull the search results." +1 other
- Wispr Flow Uses and recommends it "Man, if you guys aren't using Whisper Flow, I don't know what you're doing. I'm yapping to my computer all damn day at this point" +31 others
- Claude Cowork Uses it "Anthropic's Claude Cowork is probably the most polished workspace of the lot. If you're solo or a very small team, you're going to love it, but there's no shared context, there's no data layer. Based on my rubric and the testing I've done, it's about a three out of seven." +15 others
- Google Workspace Uses it "With our Google Workspace setup, all of the people that we add in, their identities, their emails, they access everything that I control within the Google admin panel. It's just natively built into this." +2 others
- Muse Uses it "That's how I felt with Muse when I first started using Muse." +16 others
- Higgsfield Uses it "You set up a proper Claude workspace like an AI operating system and you're using like scraping competitor ads, you've got Higgsfield, you've got all the sort of creative stuff in there, you can analyze the ads." +1 other
- Influence Recommends it "The Bible is called Influence by Robert Cialdini and that thing is a banger. That's basically the base of it." +5 others
- Three.js Uses it "Another thing that I incorporated into the design and build process is Three.js. It shows a bunch of examples of 3D websites and how to get really, really high quality or like premium looking design, particularly with 3D stuff." +1 other
- Cursor Uses it "I run my whole business from in Claude now within Cursor because I have everything plugged in and it knows everything about me" +57 others
- Da Vinci Uses it "I remember way back when I started it was using text completion models, Da Vinci 003 and wrapping things around them" Only Liam
- Google Geocoding API Uses it "Being able to call custom APIs, in this case, we're calling the Google Solar API and the Google geocoding API as well" Only Liam
- Google Solar API Uses it "based off the Google Solar API which is really the powerhouse of this build. We're going to convert their address into a latitude and longitude coordinate. We're going to pass that into the Google Solar API" Only Liam
- Lovable Uses it "We're going to be creating it on Lovable. So, we're going to be connecting an N8N workflow here to a custom front end on a vibe coded platform of your choice. We're going to be using Lovable here." +11 others
- Retell Uses it "We're going to want to go up to create a new agent. We're going to do a voice agent. We're going to click on a single prompt agent." Only Liam
- n8n Chat UI Uses it "this is the platform we're going to be using to take our n8n agent and put it on a website" Only Liam
- Bitly Uses it "What's given me an investigation into the connection between Bitly clicks, YouTube videos posted, and revenue. It can go and pull that data and do an analysis for me" Only Liam
- Vercel Uses it "I have it connected to Versell so I can build and deploy things easily" +11 others
- Instantly Recommends it "If you go into something like Instantly and you can buy a ton of email domains from them because they have them already warmed up, which is a huge huge bonus, then you can pull leads or scrape leads from a certain place, enrich them, analyze them, grade them." +2 others
- No BS Direct Response Marketing Recommends it "I read No BS Direct Response Marketing by Dan Kennedy. That's another like OG book." Only Liam
- The Boron Letters Recommends it "I read The Boron Letters by Gary Halbert. Gary Halbert too, one of the best copywriters of all time." Only Liam
- Udemy Recommends it "Buy a course on Udemy for like 20 bucks on how to build with these coding agents, or just find some free stuff on YouTube." Only Liam
- Lindy Recommends it "I think Lindy is so compliant. Lindy was one of the ones that I looked into that has got that compliance. So maybe check that out." +2 others
- All-In Podcast Recommends it "If you guys aren't already listening to the All-In Podcast, you're kind of stupid because it's like four billionaires sitting and we get to listen to their billionaires combo. You actually have like the head of AI for the US government in there, David Sacks. And so if you're not listening to them and you're in the AI space and tech and want to make money in this next decade and you're not listening to that every weekend, trust me." +5 others
- Claude Chrome Extension Recommends it "You can get the Claude Chrome extension, and now Claude will sit next to you while you do work on the internet. It can actually see the page that you're on and then act on it for you — read the thing, fill in the form, or click the buttons." +1 other
- Steelmanning and Strawmanning Recommends it "Make it argue. Say, 'Give me the strongest case for this idea and then give me the strongest case against it.' This is called steelmanning and strawmanning. Once it has given you both of these sides, it's far easier to evaluate which option is best. Now you're actually getting the truth instead of just having a cheerleader." Only Liam
- Acquired Recommends it "I recommend the Acquired podcast is great. Just like 4-hour long things talking about the best businesses in history and figuring out how they got to the point that they were." +3 others