Post-money valuation, March 2026 round
ChatGPT and frontier AI models
From OpenAI and xAI to Y Combinator startups, 33 brands have partnered with Jack Roberts and his team to put their products in front of people who build with AI every day.



Ranked by company value
Public companies by market cap, private companies by their latest disclosed valuation. Parent-company market caps are labeled.
Post-money valuation, March 2026 round
ChatGPT and frontier AI models
Valuation in the SpaceX merger, February 2026
Grok and frontier AI models
Market cap, NASDAQ: MDB, September 2026
Database for modern applications
$12.3BMarket cap, HKEX: 0100 (HK$96B), September 2026
Growth-stage partners
Valuation not disclosed, so we show the latest raise or milestone instead.


Members and instructors share how they use these tools in real projects.
Live community call · Screen demonstration
A live screenshare shows Firecrawl extracting a website's colors, fonts, and typography.
Robert Bradley · Member experience
Robert builds client workflows in Clay tables so clients can work in natural language.
His agency is a Clay Solution Partner and also uses other tools for edge cases and integrations.
Community member · Member experience
A member connects from his laptop to a home development machine, keeping his code in one place.
Instructor · Instructor experience
A designer's Figma export did not match the application. The instructor describes using Figma MCP to pull in the design.
Kevin Farrugia · Instructor experience
Kevin describes keeping values in Doppler and syncing changes to Vercel.
He is unsure whether 1Password offers comparable syncing.
Community member · Member experience
A member's configured workflow pushes and pulls his project through GitHub across multiple computers.
Gus · Member experience
Gus connects his WordPress website and edits it through Antigravity.
Bryan Piard · Member experience
Bryan checks the performance of his organic posts, stops weaker content, and repeats better performers.
Partner tools in use
209 community posts and comments across 20 partner tools. Search for a tool and read the original Skool threads.
Automated pull request review
“The real magic is automated PR review”
Niche research and market reports
“Doing this with Claude + Apify mcp + n8n”
Using Abacus for automation and creative work
“Infinitely useful, has automation built in”
Building an initial website quickly
“base44 is a great tool for spinning something up fast.”
Publishing videos in an automated stack
“Blotato.com for the posting automation”
Designing with Figma Make
“I've been "vibe-designing" with Figma Make”
Making progress on website design
“just used the firecrawl skill and deffo getting further on without hitting a wall”
Adding voice modes to an AI workspace
“Fish Audio’s s2.1-pro-free is the default output across all three modes.”
Creating images for social ads
“just started with higgsfield and nanobanana after seeing this amazing tutorial on their channel.”
Hosting reliably over several years
“hostinger has also a good option, been using it for years and did not fail me”

Delegating tasks to MiniMax and Grok
“Astra delegates tasks to Grok and Minimax on her own to save her own tokens.”
Storing and publishing customer case studies
“help save to MongoDB & publish to FB/LinkedIn”
Researching and clarifying a website build
“Then I use ChatGPT to research the market, challenge the idea, clarify the structure, think about UX, pages, features, copy, conversion, SEO, etc.”
Comparing responses across model providers
“I also set up environments on OpenRouter and NVIDIA to analyze and compare the responses.”
Testing a website workflow with Relume
“I've been testing it out and I've been getting some pretty cool results from it.”
Choosing AI motion for ads
“For AI motion in ads, Runway Gen-3 is the strongest right now.”
Connecting a custom dashboard to Supabase
“connect it with the Supabase MCP and thanks to that I can freely do exactly what I want”
Creating reusable affiliate sites
“I've created a system based on Next.js and Vercel to replicate projects that will later be used to promote affiliate products.”
Apify masterclass
Sameh Jarour · June 11, 2026
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Building automations through MCP
“I usually ask claude code to make the automation through mcp with make/zapier”
Member opinion on a Grok release
“I've also been really impressed with the recent Grok release.”
Member reaction to CodeRabbit
“It's pretty awesome tool”
Building lead research workflows
“some lead scraping engines from google maps and LI Sales Nav using Apify”
Recommending an automation platform
“Abacus is another great option for you to look at”
Building a practical app in a Base44 competition
“It had everything to gamify my life lol”
Publishing approved content from Make
“i work with blotato. its Make integration can take the approved caption and media and handle the platform versions plus publishing”
Creating static ad variations
“I usually do it manually in figma”
Using Firecrawl during a website build
“I’ve been playing around with fire crawl and it deffo helps”
Creating imagery and motion for websites
“Imagery and motion ( mostly ) via Higgsfield.”
Running n8n and Hermes on a VPS
“already running VPS on Hostinger , n8n and Hermes with Traefik v3.”
Creating websites with GPT design skills
“with GPT 5.5 using certain skill combinations for design, including Jack's design skills adapted modestly for OpenAI:”
Using open models through OpenRouter
“I use open-source models a lot, both locally—such as Qwen3—and through OpenRouter”
Animating a background for a dance video
“Runway ML to animate the clouds”
Tracking marketing data in one dashboard
“one central dashboard I built myself with WeWeb/Supabase”
Hosting a client dashboard application
“One of the apps I have extracts all the data using MCP and private GHL integrations and pulls everything into the app's own dashboard. Some clients love that setup.”
Automating a Notion information system
“I had previously adapted it to the capabilities of Notion plus Zapier”
Comparing model speed and cost
“grok 4.5 is even faster that chat and more cost efficient”
Code review in a member’s AI build
“This is where CodeRabbit became insanely useful”
Connecting automation platforms and AI
“Apify ist just great. A big capability enhancer for every automation platform and via MCP to every LLM.”
Building a property maintenance dashboard
“Dropped into Base44 and within a matter of minutes it created an MVP that would rival a lot of systems I've seen in my career.”
Scheduling a 90-day content campaign
“Using Claude I set up a 90 day social media content creation and posting with Blotato. Daily postings on LinkedIn, Facebook & Instagram.”
Designing a client Shopify storefront
“built the rough draft in Figma.”
Creating reports for prospect outreach
“firecrawl and dataforseo used to create accurate reports”
Creating a video for client enquiries
“I created an AI Tradie anmed "Macca" then procedurally generated each clip and photo with him.”
Self-hosting an application backend
“Supabase on the back-end though I self-host it on a Hostinger VPS with Coolify.”
Adding a Codex interface to an AI workspace
“I used GPT-5.6 Sol High inside of the ChatGPT Codex app to add Codex and then used Fable 5 to review the code and improve it.”
Connecting models to a coding environment
“installed OpenCode too and connected OpenRouter”
Using Lovable's native Supabase integration
“We have come to like it and it all stays in one place.”
Deploying a subscription dashboard
“the back end which is then automatically updating in Vercel.”
Automating community onboarding and payments
“It handles her community onboarding, her welcome sequences, her payment flows”
Animating a collection of drawings
“This year I used Grok Imagine to bring all them to life!”
CodeRabbit in a GitHub review workflow
“reviews the diff for issues”
Using Apify across multiple projects
“Yes, I’ve used Apify several times already.”
Automating content scheduling
“i use it with Claude Code and then have it auto schedule to blotato and I am really enjoying it.”
Connecting a website to Figma MCP
“You can use Figma MCP and connect your site to a figma file”
Gathering content for competitor analysis
“Firecrawl handles that and returns clean markdown Claude can actually work with.”
Adding motion to creative projects
“I have and will be continuing to use Higgsfield”
Member opinion on Hostinger
“Love Hostinger”
Splitting agent tasks between GPT and Claude
“Right now I have the perfect agent team doing very heavy tasks without paying extra API cost or hitting my usage limit in Claude.”
Choosing tools for everyday AI work
“I am just using Claude and OpenRouter now”
Adding Supabase to an automation setup
“we integrated Supabase MCP into my setup.”
Building and hosting a collection of apps
“Claude + Vercel are just so powerful that non-coders can build fully functioning, full-stack apps”
A client onboarding workflow using Zapier
“At each step along the way, new tasks are created for us and assigned in Asana with deadlines for us. Then, we can personalize the email templates to meet each individual clients' needs.”
Building personal websites with xAI
“I am strictly using Hermes and xAI currently. Created a couple personal use sites as small projects and am happy with the results.”
Specialized agents for data extraction
“Apify - creating a peer/profile agent with an Apify specialty skill / set of skills is just next level”
Publishing social content with Blotato
“I have been using blotato for all other content which has been working great.”
Designing a business ROI calculator
“I started with the UI in Figma, using Cursor’s MCP to create smooth, dynamic interface animations.”
Collecting news for summarization
“Firecrawl + n8n is a solid combo for this.”
Connecting a coding agent to Higgsfield
“I integrated it with Higgsfield and the results are mind blowing!”
Recommending a VPS provider
“Hostinger is a good choice”
Trying the OpenAI Atlas browser
“I have to say it's an awesome browser, it's intuitive and as I have been a ChatGPT user for such a long time, it's incredibly familiar and easy to use.”
Recommending access to multiple models
“OpenRouter gives you Pay As You Go access to loads of models”
Testing Supabase create read update delete
“All 4 operations verified working.”
Deploying and updating websites
“I love the easy is to deploy something and do new deployments.”
Posting to Threads with free tool tiers
“I found a way to automatically posting to Threads, without any additional subscriptions, the free tiers are enough for this.”
Coordinating business assistants and connectors
“Grok is the bit that finally made the team-and-connectors shape stick.”
Collecting social video metadata
“yeah apify has solid actors for youtube/tiktok/instagram”
Comparing social publishing tools
“So far I've been most impressed by Blotato.”
Researching customers and competitor reviews
“n8n + Firecrawl + Claude. Pull competitor reviews, cluster pain points with Claude, build offers around what you find.”
Generating thumbnails B-roll and graphics
“I also have the Higgsfield MCP connected which then generates YT Thumbnails for me, b-roll and whatever other graphics I need based on the script.”
Connecting Hostinger email to Outlook
“Recently I connected it to the built-in Outlook email client on my computer, and it worked smoothly.”
Generating Instagram bios from form responses
“ChatGPT then processes the information and generates an engaging Instagram bio, which is automatically sent to the person who filled out the form.”
Choosing models for Hermes
“openrouter which lets hermes have access to choose between multiple models”
Building a community and training platform
“Databases in Supabase”
Creating content from coaching-call transcripts
“So I switched to Zapier, and everything worked seamlessly!”
Setting up a coding harness on Linux
“Claude refused to set it up for me on Linux, but grok did it without any issues.”
Researching language in Reddit comments
“apify is what we reach for on reddit comments specifically, posts alone miss most of the good customer language data”
Redeeming historical credits for scraping
“just claimed 🤑 this is so good, I'm doing a massive scraping project”
Creating designs for email marketing
“For that, I'm using mostly Higgsfield right now.”
Relaunching a self-hosted website
“very happy with the self hosting with Hostinger and the design, ease and execution it’s super smooth !!”
A client learning assistant with Code Interpreter
“provides great results”
Preparing content hooks through model routing
“I was able to come up with a month's worth of hooks to test, verify them against my ICP and VoC files”
Choosing essential subscriptions
“Right now I would keep Claude, Make and Supabase”
Keeping previous outputs in an automation workflow
“its memory key feature where it kept track of previous outputs from within the same workflow.”
Finding models compatible with a computer
“I normally just ask grok 4.6 and it comes back with models that will specifically run on my machine”
Storing results from a trend finder
“all the results are saved in apify and it can easily be extended to save all the data if you wanted”
Faster research with Firecrawl and Apify
“really speed this up.”
Member evaluation of generated output
“where Higgsfield shines is in the output, it generally just works”
Running a self-hosted automation lab
“For the past year I’ve been running everything on a Hostinger VPS”
Building a YouTube transcript extractor on a phone
“The code was created using the ChatGPT app on my mobile”
Model routing and workflow continuity
“Ultimately, OpenRouter is giving me a smart, cost-effective way to stay agile in my operations.”
Managing customer information for a studio
“We have booking and invoice automations and a database”
Cross-checking a real estate project
“I’m using GPT agents, Claude/Cowork, NotebookLM, Grok cross-checking, and structured trackers to help organize the complexity.”
Subscribing and trying data scraping
“just took a subscription! 😅 Did some scraping hehe approach is interesting so let’s go”
Researching websites before improving copy
“I then took their website URLs, dropped them into Firecrawl, and scraped all the information automatically.”
Choosing a visual dashboard for image work
“I still use higgsfield because of the dashboard make it really user friendly for me to visualize the image and place to store the image.”
Summarizing videos before deciding what to watch
“Here’s how I use ChatGPT to decide if a video is worth my time, or if I can just snag the key takeaways and bounce.”
Choosing models for different agent roles
“configured my API to use four specific AI agents based on specialty like coding thinking or just generalist”
Automating bookings and photo shoot scheduling
“Then all form data is sent to n8n and supabase.”
Researching trends for daily social briefings
“Grok bot is really useful for this.”
Building a lead enrichment workflow
“I used a similar setup with Apify.”
Researching competitors for demo websites
“it crawls those top sites using Firecrawl to figure out exactly why they rank so well”
Creating a first AI avatar video
“using Claude Cowork connected to Higgsfield to create my own AI Avatar.”
Creating personalized children’s stories
“Attached are PDFs of some of the stories I generated and include an image based on the story!”
Switching models to keep workflows running
“using OpenRouter within my Make scenarios as a way to combat ChatGPT servers being down by switching to other LLMs easily.”
Prototyping websites apps and dashboards
“I mostly prototype ideas with Next.js / Supabase / Vercel”
Using Grok Heavy in a research workflow
“I built a wrapper where Grok Heavy or Perplexity do research based on a prompt that Opus 4.7 reads and analyzes”
Researching ad data with Apify
“Reverse engineering winning ad data with Apify is so underrated.”
Pulling a transcript for a creative workflow
“I ended up getting Firecrawl to pull in the transcript and after it actually read the transcript, and understood what the video was about”
Producing images and clips in a video workflow
“Higgsfield CLI generates the images and video clips.”
Generating post titles and image alt text
“By adding an OpenAI completion after the Flux prompter, I'm now generating crazy awesome titles for my posts and detailed alt text for images.”
Managing member access to a supporting app
“The system I'm using is a 30 min poll on Skool members to update their state in my database”
Animating an artist’s Inktober work
“Every drawing comes with its own AI experiment. Last year I used Grok Imagine exclusively.”
Researching healthcare providers
“Healthcare provider scraping has been our best Apify use case.”
Researching a business for a website design
“This has been researched by Firecrawl and has real contact details for the business director”
Creating and translating a video
“Higgsfield → dapi transcription → Claude translation → Diffusion Studio styling → FFmpeg/ffprobe verification”
Generating blog summaries as JSON
“but I managed to create this prompt that works pretty well:”
Creating an ecommerce inventory dashboard
“I built one with Antigravity + Supabase that auto-generates the SKUs”
Using Grok for humorous content
“Put it on fun mode, and Grok 2 gives me great content to add to small post”
Redeeming past community credits
“I got the $100 credit from the JACK100 code though.”
Creating ad images for client content
“I'm definitely using Fable and Higgsfield now to create AI-generated images for Ads”
Using o3-mini in a video ideas automation
“I switched to OpenAI o3-mini, and the difference was immediate and remarkable. The module worked instantly, and the results were phenomenal.”
Connecting research data to a dashboard
“Data stored in Supabase, connected to a dashboard essentially.”
Using Apify for automation
“One of my favorite automation tools.”
Generating assets for client website examples
“List the exact images, graphics, and motion assets needed.”
Checking websites for accessibility issues
“Today, I used OpenAI Atlas to scan websites looking for accessibility deficiencies.”
Choosing SQL based memory for an agent
“I went with Supabase”
Prioritizing leads with qualification prompts
“I’m getting them from apify using a qualification prompt to bring me leads based on priority”
Using Higgsfield for a landscape business
“I've definitely been using Higgsfield, but I never thought about automating it. It's definitely a great start.”
Connecting ChatGPT to Google Sheets
“adding a car brand to Google Sheets automatically uses ChatGPT to find the fastest model and its top speed, then writes the results back into the sheet.”
Combining relational data and AI vectors
“I just use Supabase to make it easy”
Finding businesses for outreach
“I've been using apify as well to find US businesses that need work.”
Building a website through terminal tools
“It was all terminal work just claude, with higgsfield cli, and vercel cli”
Preparing for a lease negotiation
“I used ChatGPT to negotiate with the landlord and managed to get 25% off the lease and a whole bunch of other concessions”
Running automations for agency clients
“We run most client automations on Supabase + Vercel, way lighter than AWS for this kind of work.”
Choosing ready-made website scrapers
“Apify's actor marketplace also has ready-made scrapers for most of the sites you mentioned.”
Building an HTML presentation with Higgsfield
“subscribed just for that. making a presentation for a my wife with HTML + Higgsfield.”
Reviewing changes to a client website system
“with Codex as a second AI reviewing everything before it ships.”
Managing apps authentication and client data
“For client automations I mostly lean on Supabase for the app, auth and database side”
Member opinion on cost and value
“Apify is really good and fairly budget friendly too”
Creating a consistent character for car images
“then locked in her style and saved it in Higgsfield. From there I uploaded car photos and started testing different scenes with her.”
Updating Docker instances with Codex
“I updated two n8n Docker instances in 5 minutes without breaking a single workflow.”
Connecting agents to data and memory
“I already use Pinecone and Supabase and have a few agents connected to both.”
Researching prospects in an outreach system
“LinkedIn scraping: Apify.”
Creating an animation for a website
“I tried the short film prompt for an animation with Opus 5.5 and Higgsfield for my future website, and I absolutely love the result.”
Creating a rotating logo hero with Codex
“Between this and the real cattle video playing this made a pretty cool hero section.”
Applying data quality rules in Supabase
“I took your advice and started with the deterministic approach on Supabase.”
Turning video transcripts into useful knowledge
“send it to a specific Apify actor that will review the transcript.”
Creating image assets for a client site
“I also created all the required image assets using the Higgsfield connector.”
Building a portfolio using Claude Code and Codex
“Four days later, I think I pulled it off.”
Using Supabase in an agent memory stack
“I’m having pretty good luck with the Obsidian, Pinecone, Supabase, Notion memory combo.”
Monitoring wedding photography mentions
“An Apify agent watches for mentions for seven days starting at wedding date plus one”
A first YouTube video production workflow
“used PalmierPro and Higgsfield along the way too. It was my first real attempt at pulling all these tools together into a working pipeline”
Generating blog images with DALL-E 3
“to put in 4 images at different spots in the blog”
Storing campaign data for routine reports
“I have a supabase project that stores campaign data every day”
Instagram leads for a fitness business
“I tied it into apify so it's able to scrape my Instagram short-form content for people who constantly comment”
Trying the Higgsfield website builder
“one shotted a fantastic website which is probably better than anything I have yet made but with one prompt”
Trying DALL-E 3 in a video automation
“This is the version I tried using Dall-E 3 with instead of Leonardo”
Reviewing and auditing scraped data
“After building a deterministic set of rules in Supabase, I created a n8n workflow to retrieve, review, verify and audit the data.”
Researching local service businesses
“Already built an Apify to Notion scraper, pulled 51 qualified shops, and made my first cold calls this week, run as research not a pitch.”
Preserving family recipes from a handwritten book
“Having found an old and weathered hand written recipe book I was able to reconstruct it using ChatGPT.”
Building a website and admin panel
“It is all one Next.js project with Supabase”
Publishing an Actor after the masterclass
“48 hours later: ScriptureFlow has a published Apify Actor in the store.”
Checking generated images for text mistakes
“I've implemented an automated quality control system using OpenAI's image analysis capabilities right within Make.com.”
Choosing database hosting by project
“For projects that require it I use supabase instead of their D1.”
Collecting sources for a trend finder
“Sourcing done by HN adapter + 10 Apify Actors: Github, arXiv, Google AI News, Hugging Face, Product Hunt, Reddit, RSS AI news, YouTube creators, etc”
Summarizing reports for lead magnets and reels
“I had openai summarise every report into a spreadsheet to create bullet points around certain topics”
Classifying records in a first workflow
“After adding the deterministic rules in Supabase, I have my Claude analyse the remaining data and classify them accordingly.”
Building a client lead scraper
“I built for a client a Google Maps lead scraper in Antigravity using Apify and Companies house.”
Automating car dealership test drive inquiries
“I would then use Twillo and open AI to create a back and forth text message with the client”
Retrieving surrounding context for RAG
“I built the subworkflow that fetches exactly that information from Supabase.And after a bit of fighting, or maybe more than a bit, it finally works.”
Analyzing more than 4,000 LinkedIn posts
“I used apify to scrape the data and then built this dashboard with Claudius Maximus”
Repurposing images and social media carousels
“I built a very basic automation that does creative repurposing that uses Chat GPT and Placid”
Reranking search results in a RAG workflow
“I tested the results and compared them to yesterday. The answers are much more precise now.”
Collecting hotel reviews for a customer
“make will connect with Apify and scrape all hotels and for each hotel it will scrape aaaallll the reviews.”
Generating and refining artwork
“I generated the image on ChatGPT. Once I got something I liked I exported it to Canva”
Keeping a Supabase vector database current
“When something changes, the file gets vectorized again and appears in the database in its updated form.”
Researching topics for a Shorts workflow
“In Step 1 we scrape using APIFY for the most trending 5 videos for the 7 most viral going psychology topics.”
Redesigning a business logo with ChatGPT
“I redesigned our logo using AI — ChatGPT in a few different colors. That was cool !”
Testing generated RAG code on Supabase
“I tested it on a live Supabase instance and the generated code worked first time with zero edits.”
Automating social media competitor analysis
“Edit: managed to do most of it with apify!”
Building websites, apps, and 2D games
“i'm made 2d games this way too, its quite awesome”
Saving lead research and email history
“I connected Supabase to handle user accounts and data storage.”
A member’s client delivery toolkit
“I use this mainly for scraping and Apify specifically!”
Reviewing code in an agency security workflow
“that section gets passed to another agent ran by codex for security review”
Watching the Apify masterclass live
“I’m on the “Apify → Ads & AEO Rankings” call right now and this is actually insane.”
Running Hermes through a ChatGPT subscription
“I also run my Hermes agent inside my ChatGPT subscription and it saves me from buying more API credits.”
Choosing collection tools for a trend finder
“just stick with the ol' tried, true and tested Apify Actor systems”
Researching SEO before a project audit
“I asked ChatGPT to do some SEO research and then sent it to Claude Code to do an SEO audit on my project”
Validating Actors for a hackathon build
“we have validated all of the apify actors in the public repo and optimised all queries.”
Personalizing names on business invitations
“ChatGPT did it perfectly, while Hermes messed up the alignment and sizing of the font.”
Enriching leads with business contact information
“to scrape and pull in key business info”
Building a social intelligence dashboard
“I was blown away how easy Codex made this. I will continue to refine it, but I am super happy with this.”
Capturing insights from YouTube videos
“The automation uses Apify to extract the audio.”
Working with Shopify through Codex
“I have been working with the Codex Shopify CLI and it is really incredible!”
Fixing an Instagram scraper workflow
“Now it runs perfectly”
Summarizing community book recommendations
“Here's a list of all these books with links of summaries of each book using the latest ChatGPT Agent feature.”
Turning Instagram music discoveries into a playlist
“I created a scraper on Apify to extract Instagram posts.”
Creating a landing-page feedback lead magnet
“Using an Apify actor, we take a screenshot of the landing page.”
Using Apify to add Shazam songs to Spotify
“And it worked perfectly!”
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