When you’re growing a business, everyday tasks can slow you and your team down. Back-and-forth emails. Meetings on top of meetings. A never-ending to-do list. Enter today’s sponsor, Slack. A single space to connect with everything, share and search for information, and help your people do more with less. With Slack Pro, my team and I can: Keep conversations in one place: Whether we’re communicating internally or collaborating with partners outside our organization, Slack Pro brings all the right people and information together in one organized space. Find what we need, share what we know: From files to photos to conversations, everyone can access any message that’s ever been shared, so they have all the information they need to make decisions and move work forward. Connect instantly with huddles: Need to gather quickly to brainstorm or work through a complex problem? Start a huddle to talk instantly over audio or video. We can even share our screen and start a thread for notes.

Kill manual work with this no-code AI platform. AI is all the rage right now. Chances are you’ve already played around with ChatGPT–I’ve been messing around with it for bits of book research and it has been pretty useful! But how can you use AI beyond drafting some copy or creating a new Twitter avatar? ​Levity has the answer. Its no-code AI platform lets you automate the work you do manually: Analyze responses to your cold emails and add leads to your CRM. Tag customer support tickets and assign them to team members based on content. Recognize user-generated content like images, documents, and text in your apps. Levity integrates directly with your tools like Gmail, Dropbox, Google Sheets, Zendesk, and it allows you to connect your AI to thousands of apps with Zapier and Make.

Personally, I have spent enough time in spreadsheets to get my excel PHD. This also means I’ve spent enough time pounding my face into my keyboard in frustration while trying to import spreadsheets. Data onboarding is a MASSIVE headache. Flatfile fixes this. Flatfile is an unmatched toolkit for data import that is helping teams save precious time to focus on the business tasks that matter. Instead of staring at cell D47 and wondering how a missing comma just caused you to miss your lunch break, Flatfile does the work for you and sends you on your way. With over $44 million in funding and blue chip clients like Square, Zuora, and Clickup, Flatfile is making serious waves. To level up your data onboarding and improve your customer experience, schedule a risk-free demo of Flatfile today!

Retool is the fast way to build your own custom internal tools for your business. With a complete library of 100+ fully-featured, accessible UI components that you can drag and drop into any interface, Retool’s platform lets you build the custom internal tools your team needs, 10x faster. Thousands of teams at companies like Amazon, DoorDash, and NBC collaborate around custom-built Retool apps to operate faster and better. Also, teams of up to five can build Retool apps for free. We're huge fans of the product! If you want to learn more, go to https://retool.com/

Giving your business the tools it needs to deliver world-class customer support is essential - and that's where Help Scout comes in. They provide a simple, scalable platform that enables you to deliver email, live chat, self-service, and proactive support - all from a single tool. Unlike other support tools that are packed with ticket deflection features that often deter customers from getting help, Help Scout makes it easy for customer-centric companies to have conversations with their customers and deliver excellent support. Switching to Help Scout from other support tools typically saves business owners 30% per year on support tool costs. Plus, if you're in need of a team email collaboration tool, Help Scout reduces email volume by 30% compared to platforms like Gmail or Outlook. So if you're looking for an all-encompassing support tool that's easy to use, look no further than Help Scout. They're here to help your business build better relationships with its customers for an affordable, transparent price.

Let's face it, spreadsheets suck. The world runs on them, but the last time they got a major update was in 2006. For reference, in 2006, the Nokia 6070 was best-selling phone of the year... Rows reinvented spreadsheets for the Slack generation. It combines modern design, built-in integrations and a revolutionary sharing experience for teams to build, use, and share beautiful spreadsheets. I'm a huge fan of the product and use it every single day. Get started for free at rows.com and discover spreadsheets built by the Community at rows.com/community!

I have invested in ~80+ tech startups to date. What do they all have in common? They are constantly worrying about data compliance and security. Vanta is their modern solution. How are startups prioritizing and proving their security? To find out, Vanta asked startups to honestly and anonymously answer questions about their security posture, their security roadmap, and how satisfied they are with their security in general. Over 500 people took part in the survey. You can read the results in Vanta’s first annual State of Startup Security Report! Join thousands of other companies who have turned to Vanta to level up your security and compliance game at your company.