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LightOn
✓ verifiedFreemium

Production RAG API for developers: parse, extract and search documents with SOTA OCR and cited retrieval, cloud or on-prem.

29K visits/mo
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Interview Coder
✓ verifiedFreemium

Undetectable desktop AI assistant that feeds real-time answers during coding and technical interviews.

167K visits/mo
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Interviews Chat
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI interview copilot delivering real-time answer suggestions and live transcription across video, phone and coding interviews.

120K visits/mo6.2K saves
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tambo
✓ verifiedFreemium

Open-source React toolkit that lets developers add a generative-UI AI agent to existing app components.

26K visits/mo
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Automateed
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI ebook creator that writes, designs and formats books, then adds publishing, storefront, audiobook and course tools.

212K visits/mo300K saves
Pricing
Starter: Free + usage (parsing €0.002/page)
Business: €149/mo + usage (100 GB storage, unlimited users)

Free trial available

No public pricing

No public pricing

Starter: Free (10K messages/month)
Growth: $25/month (200K messages/month included, $8 per additional 100K block)

No public pricing

Free trial available

Core features
  • Parse endpoint with SOTA OCR (LightOnOCR-2)
  • Extract endpoint for schema-based JSON
  • Search endpoint with hybrid retrieval and citations
  • MCP-native and LLM-agnostic
  • Workspaces and chunk-level access control
  • On-prem, VPC or air-gapped deployment
  • Real-time AI answers during technical interviews
  • Invisible to screen sharing and recording
  • Hidden from dock, tray and activity monitor
  • Click-through overlay
  • Live audio capture and transcription
  • Lifetime unlimited access license
  • Real-time answer suggestions
  • Live interview transcription
  • STAR and bullet response formats
  • Chrome extension for online assessments
  • AI interview prep and mock interviews
  • Multiple AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini)
  • Renders registered React components as AI-generated UI
  • Built-in conversation streaming and thread history
  • Inherits existing user authentication and permissions
  • MCP (Model Context Protocol) support
  • Multi-model support
  • Self-hostable open-source cloud package
  • AI multi-chapter book generation
  • AI covers and chapter images
  • Export to PDF, EPUB and DOCX
  • Built-in publishing, checkout and storefront
  • Audiobook and course creation
  • Translation into 100+ languages
  • Author websites and sales funnels
Use cases
  • Build production RAG without a long in-house pipeline
  • OCR and structure scanned documents
  • Grounded document search with citations for agents
  • Deploy secure enterprise document intelligence
  • Getting live help on coding interview problems
  • Answering technical questions in real time
  • Avoiding detection during screen-shared interviews
  • Getting live help during interviews
  • Answering online coding assessments
  • Practising with AI-generated questions
  • Handling phone and video interviews
  • Adding a chatbot-driven interface to an existing React product
  • Letting users query and manipulate app data through natural language
  • Building agent-powered dashboards that reuse a design system
  • Prototyping AI features without rebuilding the frontend
  • Writing and formatting ebooks fast
  • Publishing and selling books directly
  • Repurposing books into audio and courses
  • Building an author business and funnel
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