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In today’s newsletter: an age-old brainstorming technique gets an upgrade, workout tracking gets simplified, and cybersecurity for company-wide SaaS gets smarter.
Automating ideation in mind maps
Dissatisfied with the tools available for distributed work, maker Kaspars Dancis founded Whimsical in 2017.
The platform’s collaboration tools include flowcharts, wireframes, mind maps, sticky notes, and syncable documents — in an effort to end app-switching and challenge spreadsheet and slide deck dominance in remote team workflows.
Whimsical raised $30M in a Series A funding round in November 2021, with angel investments from GitHub’s CEO and COO, Stripe’s CPO, and Dropbox’s co-founder.
Today, the Whimsical team is launching Whimsical AI for Mind Maps in beta: an integration to the core product that generates ideas for mind maps, in response to simple text prompts.
Say you're thinking about building a fitness app. Whimsical AI can help you come up with a name for your product, logo ideas, brand values, and potential buyer personas. Using the provided suggestions, users can generate ideas and conduct research without ever leaving the app or losing their train of thought.
“We want to make it possible for anyone to use this technology directly where it has already proven to be most valuable — during the early stages of ideation,” explains Whimsical’s founder and CEO, Kaspars Dancis.
They’re also looking for feedback and “any other ideas you have for how we could apply AI to our products in the future.” Pitch in.
Your agents stopped answering and started doing
Your agents call tools, write to databases and move money, so a wrong answer is now a wrong action, which is a considerably worse meeting. Arcjet runs policy before every LLM call, tool call, query and API request: prompt injection, sensitive data, bots, rate limits, spend quotas, and your own rules in Rego on top. It reads the OpenTelemetry you already emit, so switching it on is one environment variable, no code changes and nothing to deploy. Each check also reads the earlier steps in the same workflow, so an agent's tenth action gets judged against the first nine and not on its own. JavaScript, Python and Go SDKs all at 1.0, agent framework guards included, free tier to start on.
Daily Top Products
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- Edit • Photo is a web-based photo editor with custom templates for every major social media platform.
- Twig AI uses GPT-3 to provide answers to complex customer queries based on documentation, knowledge bases, and historic customer support tickets.
- Brand Search API enhances search functionality by autocompleting brand names and matching them to their corresponding URLs on your site.