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Cogram
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AI platform for architects and engineers automating RFIs, submittals, meeting minutes, field reports, and email filing.
4.0K visits/mo4.5K saves
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DECipher
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Free AI assistant from I4DI that mines 13,000+ development documents to give tailored guidance for aid and NGO projects.
5.0K visits/mo
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ChatPDF
✓ verifiedFreemium
Popular tool to chat with PDFs and other documents, giving summaries and cited answers, with a free daily tier and no-signup start.
1.8M visits/mo43K saves
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Brainybear
✓ verifiedFreemium
No-code builder for AI chat agents trained on your content, deployable to web, WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram and Slack.
31K saves
Pricing
Individuals: $39/mo
Free trial available
No public pricing
No public pricing
Free: $0/mo (50 message credits, 1 agent)
Basic: $38/mo (1,000 credits, 3 agents)
Growth: $89/mo (3,000 credits, 5 agents)
Business: $189/mo (10,000 credits, 10 agents)
Core features
- ✦AEC-specific AI assistant for documents
- ✦Automated RFIs and submittals (Procore integration)
- ✦Meeting minutes automation
- ✦Voice-and-photo field reports
- ✦AI email filing and search
- ✦SOC 2 Type II security with private/on-prem options
- ✦Multi-agent CrewAI system
- ✦Insights from 13,000+ USAID/DEC documents
- ✦Specialized agents (methodology, technical, MEL, compliance, etc.)
- ✦Contextualized, prompt-based recommendations
- ✦Free public-good access
- ✦Chat with PDFs, Word, PowerPoint and text files
- ✦Summaries with cited sources
- ✦Multi-file chats via folders
- ✦Any-language upload and chat
- ✦Extra tools: AI writer, detector, flashcards, slides
- ✦No-signup quick start
- ✦No-code agent creation and training on URLs/files/APIs
- ✦Multiple models (GPT-5 tiers, o3, GPT-4o)
- ✦Deploy to web chat, WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram and Slack
- ✦Auto lead capture and smart scheduling
- ✦Custom tools and Google Drive auto-sync
- ✦Message-credit usage tiers
Use cases
- →Automate RFI and submittal logging
- →Generate meeting minutes in your templates
- →Create field reports from voice and photos
- →File and search project email automatically
- →Streamline contract administration
- →Designing development programs
- →Evaluating and monitoring projects
- →Ensuring USAID compliance
- →Structuring reports and communications
- →Understand research papers
- →Study and homework help
- →Review contracts and reports
- →Translate and summarize documents
- →Automating website customer support
- →Deploying AI assistants across messaging apps
- →Capturing and qualifying leads via chat
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