🚀 AI Tools That Actually Boost Productivity – Daily Pick (Rev 56)

This 56th edition of “AI Tools That Actually Boost Productivity” introduces three new tools focused on leadership visibility, smarter scheduling, and healthier teams. Each one is new to your series and chosen to help you lead, coordinate, and protect productivity at scale.

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Kaya – Your CEO Copilot 🧭

Kaya is an AI‑powered “CEO copilot” that connects to tools like Slack, calendar, and Jira to analyze how your team is working. It quietly tracks anonymous patterns around burnout, workload, communication, and speed, then delivers a short weekly insight briefing with concrete recommendations.

Founders and leadership teams use Kaya as an early‑warning system for culture and execution problems. Instead of drowning in dashboards, you get just the signals that matter—plus three practical actions each week to improve alignment, performance, and wellbeing.

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Sidekick AI – Smart Scheduling Assistant 📅

Sidekick AI is an AI scheduling assistant that automates meeting coordination by reading requests and proposing times for you. You can forward emails to Sidekick, which parses the message, checks your availability, books the slot, and sends calendar invites with reminders.

Freelancers, agencies, and busy teams rely on Sidekick AI to eliminate back‑and‑forth scheduling threads. With support for multiple calendars and integrations like Gmail, Zoom, and Google Meet, booking becomes as simple as “forward and forget.”

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Kaya Team Health Insights 💚

Beyond leadership summaries, Kaya provides an ongoing pulse on team health using behavioral signals rather than surveys. It surfaces trends in stress, collaboration, and communication so you can address overload and conflicts before they turn into attrition or missed goals.

People‑focused leaders use these insights to design better workloads, improve meeting hygiene, and foster sustainable performance. The result is a team that moves fast without burning out, supported by an always‑on AI partner watching the patterns you can’t see day‑to‑day.

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Previous editions – full archive 📚

• Rev 55: Amie – AI Calendar & Tasks, Loopin – Meeting OS for Teams, eesel AI Work Hub
• Rev 54: Routine – Daily Planner & Routines, Ellie – Your AI Email Assistant, Trevor AI – Time‑Blocking Copilot
• Rev 53: Akiflow – AI Planner & Calendar, Mem – Your AI Thought Partner, Akiflow Automation & Integrations
• Rev 52: Tana AI Workspace, Rize AI Time Tracker, Tana Workflows & Supertags
• Rev 51: Supernormal, Magical, Zapier AI Automation
• Rev 50: Typedesk, tl;dv, Wordtune
• Rev 49: GrammarlyGO, Morgen Calendar, Evernote with AI Notes
• Rev 48: Rewind AI for Mac & Windows, Arc Max in the Arc Browser, Make.com AI Scenarios
• Rev 47: Gamma AI Copilot, Dropbox Dash, Softr AI Apps
• Rev 46: Glean, Slite AI, Stacker AI Apps
• Rev 45: Copilot Mode in Microsoft Edge, Asana AI, Curiosity AI
• Rev 44: Read AI, ChatPDF, Loom AI Companion
• Rev 43: Yuma AI, Formula Bot, Assista AI
• Rev 42: Workbeaver AI, doc‑e.ai, Coworker.ai
• Rev 41: Reclaim.ai, Beam Email Triage AI Agent, Cursor
• Rev 40: Saner.AI, Second Brain (Visual Board)
• Rev 39: Reflect, AskSurf, ChatSlide
• Rev 38: Plus Snapshots, Motion, Todoist with AI
• Rev 37: Paperguide, Microsoft Whiteboard + Copilot, Elicit
• Rev 36: Knowing®, AI Chrome Assistant, Boltic
• Rev 35: Docupilot, AI Spreadsheet Assistant, EARLY
• Rev 34: Clockwise, Timely, Novelcrafter
• Rev 33: Orvo, Clay, Habitify
• Rev 32: Miro Assist, Shelf AI, Jamie AI
• Rev 31: Skyvern, Buzz Mail by Hive, Jeeva Smart Inbox AI
• Rev 30: Knowmax, Document360, Teamwork.com (AI project features)
• Rev 29: Freedom, Saima AI, Granola
• Rev 28: Reclaim AI, Zoho Projects with Zia AI, Goblin Tools
• Rev 27: INK AI, Levity AI, Flair AI
• Rev 26: Frase AI, Workato AI, Content at Scale AI
• Rev 25: SEO Writing AI, RightBlogger, Kloudio AI
• Rev 24: Dashworks AI, Nextatlas, OpusClip
• Rev 23: Lindy AI, Gumloop, Vellum AI
• Rev 22: Typedream AI, Scribe AI, Slite AI
• Rev 21: Fireflies AI, Supernormal, Bardeen
• Rev 20: Compose.ai, Rationale, Harpa AI
• Rev 19: Lume AI, Writerly, Heyday
• Rev 18: SaneBox AI, TaskMagic, Respell
• Rev 17: Predis.ai, Vizard, AudioPen
• Rev 16: Krisp AI, Gamma Browser AI, Superflow AI
• Rev 15: Pika Labs (Pika 1.0), Durable AI, Hints AI
• Rev 14: JustDone AI, Qodo (CodiumAI), Manus AI Agent
• Rev 13: Flowise AI, Humata AI, Canva Magic Studio
• Rev 12: Flowise, Humata, Canva Magic Studio
• Rev 11: RunwayML Gen-2, Obviously AI, Drift AI
• Rev 10: Cognition Labs Devin, Glif.app, TypingMind
• Rev 9: Rewind AI, ChatGPT Voice, Uizard.io
• Rev 8: Jounce AI, Claude 3.5 Artifacts, Ideogram 2.0
• Rev 7: Tability, Gleap, Lex.page
• Rev 6: Perplexity AI, Descript, Taskade AI
• Rev 5: Superhuman Go, NotebookLM, Lumio AI
• Rev 4: Gamma.app, Mem.ai, ElevenLabs Dubbing Studio
• Rev 3: Tome, Otter.ai, Runway ML
• Rev 2: Google Gemini, ClickUp, Jasper
• Rev 1: Notion AI, Zapier, Claude