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In this issue:
🤝 In Partnership: Build your retirement plan
🤿Deep Dive: Claude becomes integrated workspace
🤝 Powered by: CRM that keeps up with your team
🤿Deep Dive: Airtable's Superagent
⚒Tool Snapshots: Tools for AI, no-code, and productivity
🖼AI Art: Examples of great and trending AI art
🎯Quick Favor: Fill out TIW survey form
🤝IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FISHER INVESTMENTS
When Is the Right Time to Retire?
Determining when to retire is one of life’s biggest decisions, and the right time depends on your personal vision for the future. Have you considered what your retirement will look like, how long your money needs to last and what your expenses will be? Answering these questions is the first step toward building a successful retirement plan.
Our guide, When to Retire: A Quick and Easy Planning Guide, walks you through these critical steps. Learn ways to define your goals and align your investment strategy to meet them. If you have $1,000,000 or more saved, download your free guide to start planning for the retirement you’ve worked for.
🤿 DEEP DIVE
Anthropic Launches Interactive Business Apps Inside Claude Chat Interface
Intelligence: Anthropic rolled out integrations with Amplitude, Asana, Box, Canva, Clay, Figma, Hex, Monday.com, and Slack that let users build project timelines, draft messages, and create presentations directly inside Claude without switching tabs. Built on MCP Apps, a new extension to the open-source Model Context Protocol, the feature transforms Claude from conversational tool to integrated workspace while bundling into existing Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans at no additional charge.
The technology enables granular control wherein users can build analytics charts in Amplitude and adjust parameters interactively, turn conversations into Asana projects with auto-syncing tasks, generate Figma flowcharts, and draft Slack messages with formatting preview before posting.
Anthropic implements consent prompts before AI takes real-world actions like sending messages or creating projects, with enterprise admins controlling which MCP servers, users can access addressing prompt injection vulnerabilities that Fortune reported allow attackers to hide malicious instructions in web content.
The launch capitalizes on Claude Code's viral momentum, now used by Uber, Netflix, Spotify, Salesforce, and others with Claude's total web audience more than doubling since December 2024 and the company reportedly planning a $10 billion fundraising at $350 billion valuation.
By making Claude the interface for employees to interact with daily tools, Anthropic positions itself as a workflow orchestration layer rather than just an AI provider similar to how Salesforce became the system of record for customer data, creating powerful switching costs as more actions flow through Claude.
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🤿 DEEP DIVE
Airtable Launches Superagent as Standalone Product
Intelligence: Airtable CEO Howie Liu launched Superagent, the company's first standalone product in 13 years as a multi-agent system that deploys specialist AI agents in parallel rather than sequential tasks, betting it could eventually eclipse Airtable's core $4 billion business. The move comes as Airtable shed two-thirds of its $11.7 billion 2021 valuation but retains $700 million in the bank while "throwing off cash."
Superagent builds research plans, deploys specialized agents working simultaneously (one on financials, another on competitive analysis, another on news), then synthesizes results into interactive visualizations with demographic breakdowns and filterable expansion timelines and not just text walls.
Liu distinguishes Superagent from competitors by calling only Anthropic's Claude and Manus (being acquired by Meta) "true, generally capable, long-running" agents versus most so-called agents that are merely "LLM powered workflows" with predetermined steps and AI calls mixed in.
Pricing follows the AI products playbook at $20/month entry tier up to $200 for power users with generous inference credits, as Liu reframes the valuation collapse as a recruiting advantage telling employees they're getting "equity that's actually much more attractively priced" with significant upside if bets pay off.
⚒ TOOL SNAPSHOTS
Futuristic tools within AI, no-code, and productivity
💹 Minara - Confidence-boosting chatbot for real-time investment actions.
👨💻 Verdent - Your AI assistant for distraction-free, efficient coding.
📱 Cue - Your single dashboard for smart social media management.
🚀 JDoodle.ai 2.0 - Effortlessly turn visuals into editable website templates.
💬 PingPolls v1.0 - Revolutionizing forms for boosted response rates and insights.
🖼 AI ART
Examples of great and trending AI art
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