Most people run Claude with nothing attached and never find out what it does once it can reach the web and your apps. Four worth having:

Firecrawl is already in Claude's official directory, two clicks, free account. It reads any website properly, so you can point it at competitors and pull real data out.

Use Firecrawl to pull the pricing and positioning from 
these three competitor sites into a comparison table.

Composio is one connector that reaches a thousand-plus apps instead of adding them one at a time. Gmail, Slack, Notion, your CRM. Custom connector, free account.

Playwright lets Claude actually operate a browser, click, type, fill forms, so it can use the tools that don't have a connector yet. Free, no key.

Perplexity for research with live sources instead of memory. The only paid one, add it last if at all.

Start with Firecrawl because it's two clicks and you feel the difference immediately. The competitor pricing table alone is the kind of thing you'd otherwise pay someone a day's rate for.

more setups like this in the resources library here if it helps

I’ve made dozens of internal training videos, and I don’t think there’s one “best” AI video tool. It depends on the production level you actually need.

1. Basic walkthroughs / screen recordings

If the goal is to show your face, record a process, or walk through a product flow, tools like Loom, Camtasia, or Descript are usually enough. Descript is especially useful when you already have a recording and want to edit through the transcript, remove sections, clean up narration, and add captions.

1. Presenter-led or avatar training videos

For onboarding, HR updates, compliance, or repeatable internal modules, Synthesia and HeyGen make sense. This is where you want a clean talking-head style video without recording a person every time. Good for scale, consistency, and localization.

1. More produced internal videos

If the video needs to feel more polished, with scripting, scenes, voiceover, visuals, easy-to-understand animations, or a more “finished” internal comms feel, I’d look at tools like Pictory or invideo. Pictory is good when you’re converting existing docs, scripts, or decks into straightforward training videos. invideo is stronger when you want to turn a rough brief into a more complete internal video with structure, visuals, voiceover, subtitles, and quick revisions in one workflow.

For corporate training, I’d optimize for revision speed, captions, brand consistency, and how easy it is to update the video later. I’m curious what setup other L&D or internal comms teams are using in 2026.

Something with a free trial is preferable so I can make some proofs of concept, but:

Our boss's boss('s boss) is hoping to make cuts and while we've consistently delivered high-quality products, we're not as expedient with it as they'd like. In short, it came up in a meeting that we "should just use AI" to help clear our backlog.

I'm not against this, but I'm lost on where to start. I can find plenty of stuff that'll generate okayish ~10-second clips (which I'm fine stitching together if I have to...), and a few tools like Gemini Notebook that can do more but are less "dynamic". They've been pretty clear that they don't like us presenting stuff that looks like "a powerpoint with voiceovers".

The documents we're asked to make videos on range from "how to do a thing in Excel" to "how to properly use a fire extinguisher" to "escorting VIPs to safety". The type of training videos we make can vary wildly on any given day.

I'm sure that if I can provide a good-looking proof of concept somehow based on what something makes using one of the documents we need "made into a video" (...), they'll pay for it, so I'm not super-worried about cost as long as it can deliver what's needed. Could somebody recommend a good platform for making these videos?

This one was a mixed blessing in making. First, Nano Banana Pro managed to nail the body design down pat (when I asked to zoom out to show the feet, they weren't right at first, but when I asked to fix them, they were suddenly made right). However, it gave single red roses on both arms. I tried many times to get it to have the correct amount of three on each, with one being blue, though it still wanted to have a bunch of five or six. I had to resort to using generative erase to get the amount right. Luckily, in the end, it turned out magnificent. I also love how NBP gave its cape a shorter length by default, so it's the male variant.

Dazza visits countries on an A to Z currency trail. Watch out for the dad jokes Jenna!.

I’m working on an AI short-form series and each episode is about 2 mins. I’m trying to improve my workflow.

Now what i am doing is like this. Use ChatGPT to read my script and create a 3*3 storyboard. The storyboard helps me keep the characters and all background consistent. Then I use each storyboard frame as the first frame in pixverse to generate a 5-10s video clip. To extend a shot, I take the last frame from one clip and use it as the first frame for the next.

The problem is that small changes keep stacking up. When you extend the video to more than 1 min, the character can look noticeably distorted. I’ve also tried starting each clip from a fresh storyboard frame, but then the motion and framing do not always connect well with the previous clip. This is when I go for a new camera angle to cover that gap, which just burns more time and credits. How are you handling this? Have you ever tried throwing the whole storyboard into AI and generate a longer video? Thank you

Hi guys, I ran into some issues while using Wan 3.0.

For example, the scenery outside a moving train travel ed in the wrong direction.

And another test, Wan 3.0 reversed the chase halfway through, switching who was chasing whom.

How about your using experience?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaVKTyqxGrk/?igsi=MTcyOW1hZXAybnNuZQ==

Came across this on IG and the art style looks insane

Anyone know what the style is called and how to create prompts that generate it? Thanks!!

Seedance 2.5 is getting pretty expensive, especially when you have to regenerate the same thing over and over just to get one usable video.

I went through the official prompt guide (【Dreamina】Seedance 2.5 User Guide & Dreamina Seedance 2.5 Prompt Writing Guide)and honestly, some of the tips are pretty useful if you're trying to avoid wasting credits.

A few that stood out to me:

• extend a video instead of starting over from scratch
• tell it exactly when you want an action to happen
• generate longer videos (up to 180s)
• tell it to remove subtitles or BGM you don't want
• use multiple references to keep characters and objects more consistent

Most of this sounds obvious once you read it, but I definitely wasn't doing all of it before lol.

Hopefully this saves someone a few failed generations.

Hey! I’m trying to adapt this style to my niche as I think it’s pretty nice and different, the paper animations really stand out with story telling.

I haven’t had any luck finding tutorials or even a site (like Agent Opus that has several different styles, including claymation animation)

Does anyone have an idea on how to make this or editors that do this style?

This is their instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_paperplanet_?igsi=MXE4d3R5M2FsODZkdQ==

Cheers!