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AI & Machine Learning
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Free Enterprise AI Readiness Scorecard
Score your organization's readiness to deploy AI in production across four dimensions: data infrastructure, talent and operating model, use-case selection, and security/governance. 12 questions, weighted scoring, and a tiered diagnostic from Not Ready to AI-Native. Built for CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and Heads of AI making the build-vs-wait decision.
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Free AI ROI Calculator
Build the business case for AI adoption. Model time savings, cost reduction, revenue uplift, and error reduction across your team. See payback period, 3-year ROI, and the cost of waiting.
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Free AI Training Cost Estimator
Estimate the GPU-hours and dollar cost to pretrain or fine-tune a transformer model. Uses the standard 6N FLOP-per-token compute proxy, plus realistic 2026 GPU rates for H100, H200, B200, and A100 across the major cloud providers. Supports full pretraining, continued pretraining, LoRA, and full SFT scenarios. Includes electricity, networking, and utilization assumptions.
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Free LLM API Cost Calculator
Project your monthly LLM API spend across GPT-5, GPT-5 mini, Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Haiku 4.5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Gemini 2.5 Flash, and Llama 3.3 405B (via Together AI). Models input + output token costs, prompt caching savings, and routing strategies. Includes annual projections and per-request cost.
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LLM Model Comparison: GPT-5 vs Claude vs Gemini vs Llama (2026)
Side-by-side comparison of the top 8 frontier and frontier-adjacent LLMs available in April 2026: GPT-5, GPT-5 mini, Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Haiku 4.5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Gemini 2.5 Flash, and Llama 3.3 405B. Compare context window, pricing, modality, agentic capabilities, knowledge cutoff, and recommended use cases.
Blockchain & Web3
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Free Crypto Tax Calculator (US 2026)
Estimate your federal capital gains tax on crypto sales for tax year 2026. Splits short-term vs long-term gains, applies the correct ordinary or LTCG bracket based on filing status and income, layers in the 3.8% Net Investment Income Tax for high earners, and surfaces tax-loss harvesting opportunities. State tax not included — see notes.
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DeFi Yield Calculator
Model yield farming returns with proper compounding, impermanent loss, gas costs, and token price scenarios. See projected returns under bull, bear, and flat conditions — not just the headline APY.
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Free NFT Creator Royalty Calculator
Project the realistic royalty income for an NFT collection in 2026, accounting for the post-OpenSea-royalty-optional reality. Models enforced royalties on Magic Eden, Blur Pro, Rarible, and OS Pro vs voluntary tipping on optional marketplaces. Includes secondary volume decay, marketplace mix, and net income after gas/fees.
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Free Smart Contract Audit Cost Calculator
Estimate the cost and timeline of a smart contract security audit based on lines of code, protocol complexity, total value locked, and audit firm tier. Models the 2026 market for top firms (Trail of Bits, OpenZeppelin, ChainSecurity, Spearbit) and mid-tier (Hacken, CertiK, Quantstamp). Includes recommendations for crowdsourced contests (Code4rena, Sherlock, Cantina) for additional coverage.
Fintech & Digital Payments
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Free Embedded Finance ROI Calculator
Model the 3-year ROI of adding embedded payments, lending, or banking to your platform. Compares Build (your own infrastructure) vs Buy (BaaS partner like Unit, Treasury Prime, or Synapse). Inputs: monthly active users, attach rate, revenue per attached user, BaaS rev share, build cost. Outputs: revenue uplift, ARPU lift, breakeven month, partner cost vs build cost.
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Free Fintech Valuation Multiples Tool
Estimate the enterprise value range for a fintech company using current public-comp multiples by vertical (payments, lending, neobanking, insurtech, wealthtech, crypto). Adjusts for ARR scale, growth rate, gross margin, and Rule-of-40 quality. Returns low/mid/high EV/Revenue and EV/Gross Profit ranges with comparable named public companies.
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Free KYC & Compliance Cost Estimator
Model your true KYC, AML, and identity verification costs. Includes vendor fees (Onfido/Persona/Jumio/Veriff/Alloy), manual review labor, sanctions screening, ongoing monitoring, and compliance team load. Calculates cost per onboarded customer and where automation would pay back fastest.
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Open Banking API Comparison: Plaid vs Yodlee vs MX vs Tink vs Finicity vs Akoya
Side-by-side comparison of the six major open banking and account aggregation APIs in 2026. Covers institution coverage, account types, payment initiation support, instant verification, data freshness, pricing model, geographic reach, and major customers. Built for fintech founders evaluating data partners.
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Free Payment Processing Fee Calculator
Compare monthly fees across Stripe, PayPal, Square, Adyen, Braintree, and Checkout.com using your real transaction mix. Models domestic vs international cards, refund recapture, and average ticket size — not the marketing-page rates. See exactly how much you'd save by switching processors.
Growth Hacking
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Free Cohort Retention & LTV Calculator
Project lifetime value and revenue decay from a single user cohort using realistic retention curves. Fits a power-law decay through your three observed retention points (M1, M3, M12) instead of assuming flat retention. Calculates 24-month LTV, payback period, magic number against CAC, and the cumulative revenue curve a board deck actually wants to see.
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Growth Readiness Scorecard
Assess your company's readiness for rapid growth across 8 dimensions: product-market fit, data infrastructure, experimentation velocity, channel diversity, team capability, unit economics, retention, and content/SEO. Get a score and a prioritized action plan.
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Free Product-Led Growth (PLG) Benchmark Scorecard
Benchmark your product against the PLG mechanics that actually drive efficient growth in 2026. 12 questions across four dimensions: time-to-value, expansion mechanics, viral and network effects, and self-serve revenue. Score yourself against the OpenView and a16z PLG Index. Diagnostic outputs from Sales-Led to PLG Best-in-Class with specific improvement priorities.
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Free Viral Coefficient (K-Factor) Calculator
Calculate your product's viral K-factor and project organic-only user growth from a seed cohort. Models invitation funnel (sent → opened → clicked → activated), cycle time per generation, and compounding through 12 generations. Identifies whether you have a true viral loop (K > 1) or a leaky bucket. Includes lever analysis: which input would most efficiently push K above 1.
Markets & Finance
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Free DCF Valuation Calculator (Discounted Cash Flow)
Compute enterprise value and equity value per share using a transparent two-stage DCF model. Stage 1: explicit forecast period with declining growth and margin expansion. Stage 2: terminal value via Gordon growth. Includes WACC components, sensitivity to terminal-growth and discount-rate, implied EV/Revenue and EV/EBITDA exit multiples, and a margin-of-safety price band. Inputs are public-company-style for analyst-grade modeling.
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Free Options Strategy P/L Calculator
Calculate maximum profit, maximum loss, breakeven points, and probability-of-profit for the eight most-traded options strategies: long call, long put, covered call, cash-secured put, vertical debit/credit spreads, iron condor, and short straddle. Uses Black-Scholes-based probability assuming lognormal price distribution. Built for retail and semi-pro traders who don't want to open a brokerage paper account just to model a position.
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Free Portfolio Risk Scorecard
Score your portfolio's risk profile across four dimensions that actually matter: diversification, drawdown tolerance, leverage, and concentration. 12 questions designed by combining traditional advisor questionnaires with the institutional risk measures (VaR, max-DD, Sharpe-aware sizing) that get glossed over in retail tools. Outputs a five-tier diagnostic from Capital-Preservation to High-Risk-Speculative, with the specific allocation bucket each tier matches.
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Trading & Market Analysis Tools Comparison
Compare the best trading tools for order flow, liquidations, on-chain data, and market analysis. Side-by-side breakdown of MarketCipher, ExoCharts, Velo, MarketMonkey, trdr.io, Coinglass, and aggr.trade.
Modern Sales
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Cold Email Generator
Generate sharp, 5-line cold emails with curiosity-driven subject lines and question-based CTAs. 8 proven frameworks optimized for reply rates. No fluff, no filler.
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Deal Qualification Scorecard (MEDDIC)
Score your deals against the MEDDIC framework to identify which opportunities deserve your time and which are dead on arrival. Stop wasting cycles on unqualified pipe.
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LinkedIn Outreach Message Generator
Generate concise LinkedIn connection requests, follow-ups, InMails, and re-engagement messages. Short, human, no pitch-slapping. Built for reply rates, not vanity metrics.
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Sales Commission Calculator
Calculate OTE, commission payouts, and accelerators based on quota attainment. Model different comp structures to see what you'll actually take home.
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Sales Pipeline Calculator
Calculate how many leads, meetings, and proposals you need to hit your revenue target. Reverse-engineer your pipeline from quota back to daily activity.
SEO & Content Marketing
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Free Backlink ROI Calculator
Quantify the ROI of a paid or earned backlink before you spend on it. Models the relationship between Domain Rating uplift, target keyword competition, current vs target SERP position, and the realistic CTR curves for top-10 positions in 2026. Outputs traffic uplift, revenue uplift, payback period, and the breakeven cost-per-link your strategy actually supports.
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Free SEO Content Brief Generator
Generate a complete SEO content brief tailored to your target keyword and search intent. Five proven brief frameworks: Informational, Comparison, Listicle, Pillar Hub, and Transactional. Each framework outputs structured sections for title, H2/H3 outline, entities to cover, internal link targets, on-page schema, search intent match, and a clear word count target. Built so a writer can pick it up and execute without follow-up questions.
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Free Keyword Difficulty Estimator
Estimate keyword difficulty without expensive SEO tools. Input what you can observe (SERP features, result types, brand presence) and get a difficulty score, estimated time to rank, and content strategy recommendation.
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Free Schema Markup Generator (JSON-LD)
Generate production-ready JSON-LD schema markup for the seven schema types Google actually rewards in 2026: Article, Product, FAQPage, HowTo, LocalBusiness, Course, and Event. Each template uses validated Schema.org properties and Google's recommended fields. Paste into your <head> and validate at search.google.com/test/rich-results.
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Free SEO ROI Calculator
Project the 3-year ROI of your SEO investment with compounding traffic growth, customer lifetime value, and monthly cost modeling. See break-even month, cumulative revenue, and true cost per acquisition from organic.
Tech & Innovation
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API Pricing Calculator
Model your API pricing to find the sweet spot between revenue and adoption. Calculate per-call costs, margins, and projected revenue across free and paid tiers.
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Cloud Infrastructure Cost Estimator
Estimate monthly and annual cloud infrastructure costs across compute, storage, bandwidth, and databases. Plan your cloud budget before committing to a provider.
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Cloud Provider Comparison Tool
Compare AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, DigitalOcean, and Hetzner across pricing, egress costs, support tiers, compliance, developer experience, and best-fit workloads. Real data for real decisions.
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Developer Hiring Cost Calculator
Calculate the true cost of hiring a software developer — recruiting fees, onboarding, lost productivity during ramp-up, and the fully loaded annual cost most companies underestimate.
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Digital Transformation Readiness Scorecard
Assess your org's actual readiness for digital transformation — not the boardroom version. Score across 8 dimensions that predict whether transformation initiatives succeed or become expensive shelf-ware.
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PRD Generator
Generate a structured Product Requirements Document from your feature details. Fill in the fields and get a ready-to-share PRD with problem statement, requirements, success metrics, and scope.
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SaaS Metrics Benchmark Tool
Benchmark your SaaS metrics against industry data. Input your MRR growth, churn, CAC, LTV, and NRR to see how you stack up against top-quartile companies.
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Solar Panel Savings Estimator
Estimate your monthly and annual savings from solar panels based on your location's sun hours, system size, and current electricity rates.
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Free Solar ROI Calculator
Calculate the return on investment for commercial or residential solar panel installations. Factor in system costs, energy savings, tax incentives, and payback period.
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Tech Stack Health Assessment
Evaluate the health of your technology stack across reliability, developer experience, scalability, security, and cost efficiency. Identify what to fix, replace, or keep.
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Technical Debt Cost Calculator
Quantify what technical debt is costing your engineering team. Factor in developer time lost to workarounds, slower shipping velocity, and increased bug rates to build the business case for refactoring.
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Technical Job Description Generator
Generate clear, compelling job descriptions for engineering roles. Input the role details and get a structured JD with responsibilities, requirements, and selling points — no corporate fluff.
Venture Capital & Startups
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Free Cap Table Dilution Calculator (Seed → Series B)
Project founder, employee, and early investor ownership across three rounds — Seed, Series A, and Series B — including option pool refreshes, pre-money pool top-ups, and pro-rata participation. Built to answer the questions founders actually ask: 'after Series B, what do I still own?' and 'what happens if I don't do my pro-rata?'
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Free VC Fund Economics Calculator
Model the full economics of a venture fund — LP and GP perspective. Inputs: fund size, management fee schedule, carry %, hurdle rate, deployment period, exit multiple, exit timing. Outputs: gross fund return, net LP return (DPI, TVPI), GP carry earnings, GP catch-up, fund-level IRR, and the gap between gross and net returns that's so often misunderstood.
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Free SAFE Note Calculator (Post-Money + Pre-Money)
Calculate SAFE conversion across both Y Combinator post-money and pre-money flavors with valuation cap, discount, MFN, and most-investor-friendly conversions. Inputs: investment amount, valuation cap, discount, next-round price/pre-money, current shares outstanding. Outputs: SAFE shares issued, conversion price, post-conversion ownership %, founder/early-investor dilution.
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Startup Valuation Calculator
Estimate pre-money valuation using three methods: revenue multiple, scorecard method (Payne), and the Berkus method. Adjust for stage, traction, team strength, market size, and competitive position. See a blended range, not a single number.
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