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Raycast
✓ verifiedFreemium
A fast, keyboard-driven Mac/Windows launcher with an extension store and built-in AI commands for power users who live in shortcuts.
1.1M visits/mo3.4K saves
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Bland.ai
✓ verifiedPaid
Enterprise voice-AI platform for building phone agents on dedicated infrastructure, with per-minute pricing and HIPAA/SOC2/PCI compliance.
226K visits/mo6.2K saves
Pricing
Development: Free
Standard: Starting from $68/month
Enterprise: Limited-time offer
Pro (with AI): $8/month
Free trial available
No public pricing
Start: $0/mo platform fee + $0.14/min
Build: $299/mo + $0.12/min
Scale: $499/mo + $0.11/min
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Fully SQL-compatible vector database
- ✦Fast and powerful queries (vector search, text search, filtered search, complex queries)
- ✦Enhanced RAG effectiveness
- ✦High-performance and cost-efficient MSTG vector engine
- ✦SQL/Relational Vector Database
- ✦Powerful Full-Text Search (BM25)
- ✦Integrates with AI Stack
- ✦Security and Compliance (SQL-based RBAC, SOC 2, ISO 27001 Compliance)
- ✦Extendable command-bar launcher for macOS and beta Windows support
- ✦Thousands of third-party extensions from a public store
- ✦Built-in AI chat and custom AI command automation
- ✦Clipboard history, window management, and calculator utilities
- ✦Text snippets and quicklinks for repetitive actions
- ✦Hotkeys and aliases for common apps and commands
- ✦Team plan for sharing snippets, quicklinks, and extensions
- ✦Automated AWS cost optimization
- ✦Commitment management (Reserved Instances & Savings Plans)
- ✦Cost allocation and chargebacks
- ✦Kubernetes cost management
- ✦Resource rightsizing and scheduling
- ✦Idle resource optimization
- ✦Real-time cost visibility
- ✦AI phone agents (inbound and outbound)
- ✦No-code agent builder (Norm)
- ✦Scenario testing before launch
- ✦Omnichannel voice, SMS, iMessage and chat
- ✦Telephony and CRM integrations
- ✦Enterprise compliance and on-prem options
Use cases
- →RAG for Domain Knowledge Base
- →Recommendations
- →Chatbot
- →Image Search
- →Launching apps and running quick commands without leaving the keyboard
- →Automating repetitive text and file tasks with snippets and quicklinks
- →Getting AI answers or writing help without switching apps
- →Sharing productivity tooling and extensions across a team
- →Reducing AWS costs for startups and enterprises
- →Optimizing EKS and ASG scalability and discounts
- →Maximizing Savings Plans and mitigating commitment risk
- →Automating time-consuming cost optimization tasks
- →Allocating AWS, Kubernetes, GenAI & SaaS costs
- →Automating customer-service calls
- →IVR replacement and appointment booking
- →Outbound sales and lead qualification
- →Regulated-industry voice automation
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