Series A SaaS Starter
15–80 seats8 toolsThe default kit for a fresh Series A — engineering, design, sales, and ops covered with tools that scale to 200 without re-platforming.
Linear keeps engineering velocity high without the Jira tax. Notion is the company brain. Cursor + Copilot cover the spectrum of AI coding (individual + team). HubSpot beats Salesforce for sub-200 seats by a mile on time-to-value. Vercel ships the product.
AI-Native Product Team
5–40 seats8 toolsFor teams building AI-shaped products. Heavy on inference, evals, and AI-native dev tools where the LLM is part of the workflow.
Cursor + Claude Pro is the modern coder's loadout. v0 + Vercel is the fastest path from prompt to production. Supabase covers Postgres + auth + storage with portability. PostHog + Langfuse are the observability layer most AI teams forget until something breaks.
Bootstrapped Solo Founder
1 seat7 toolsMaximum leverage per dollar. Free tiers and lean SaaS that don't bleed cash before revenue.
Every tool here has a real free or near-free tier that survives launch. Notion is your CRM, docs, and roadmap in one. Cursor + Vercel + Supabase is the entire product stack. Linear stays free up to 250 issues — most pre-revenue founders never hit that.
Mid-Market Sales Org
50–500 seats8 toolsA revenue org sized to hit $10–50M ARR. Outbound, conversation intelligence, and AI-augmented prospecting.
Salesforce is the spine for enterprise pipeline; HubSpot complements for marketing-led deals. Apollo + Outreach handle the cold-outbound machinery, with Clay layered on top for high-precision personalization. Gong reads every call so coaching scales beyond your VP Sales.
Engineering at Scale
500+ engineers8 toolsFor engineering orgs past 500 engineers — SOC 2-grade tooling, deep observability, multi-region infrastructure.
Linear scales surprisingly well past 500 if you commit to the workflow. Copilot is the safe enterprise AI coding pick (Cursor for individual ICs is fine but harder to roll out org-wide). Datadog + Sentry is the observability default. Snowflake for the warehouse. Vercel for any user-facing frontend.
Design-Led Product Team
10–60 seats8 toolsFor teams where design quality is the differentiator — agencies, brand-heavy SaaS, consumer products.
Figma is the spine. Runway + Midjourney + Descript cover the AI-creative gap that pure design tools don't. Cursor lets designers (and engineering counterparts) ship code faster from Figma specs. Linear keeps the design system actually shipping instead of accreting in Notion.
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