7 Best Claude Cowork Alternatives in 2026
Claude Cowork only runs when your laptop is awake and focused. Here are 7 AI agent alternatives — including ones that work over email and on triggers.
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10 Best AI Secretary Tools for 2026 (Ranked by What They Actually Handle)
We tested 10 AI secretary tools — Carly, Motion, Reclaim, Notion AI, Granola, ChatGPT, and more — for two weeks each. Here's what handles the real admin work and what's just a fancy text editor.
How to Connect Apify to an AI Agent
Connect Apify to your Carly AI agent and run web scrapers, kick off Actors, and pipe scraped data into Sheets, CRMs, and more — all through email or chat commands.
How to Connect Instantly to an AI Agent
Connect Instantly to your Carly AI agent and add leads, launch campaigns, pull engagement metrics, and route replies to your CRM — all through email or chat commands.
How to Connect Jira to an AI Agent
Connect Jira to your Carly AI agent and create issues, update statuses, assign work, and pull sprint summaries — all through email or chat commands.
How to Connect Mem0 to an AI Agent
Connect Mem0 to your Carly AI agent and store, search, and update long-term memory for your AI workflows — all through email or chat commands.
How to Connect Mixmax to an AI Agent
Connect Mixmax to your Carly AI agent and add prospects to sequences, send tracked emails, pull engagement, and route booked meetings — all through email or chat commands.
How to Connect Postmark to an AI Agent
Connect Postmark to your Carly AI agent and send transactional emails, pull delivery stats, investigate messages, and monitor bounces — all through email or chat commands.
How to Connect SerpApi to an AI Agent
Connect SerpApi to your Carly AI agent and run Google searches, scrape Maps, track SERP rankings, and pull news mentions — all through email or chat commands.
The Best Alternative to OpenClaw (ClawdBot): Carly
OpenClaw has 512 security vulnerabilities, plaintext credentials, and $300+/month API bills. Carly does the same things — securely, for $35/month flat.
How to Connect Google Tasks to an AI Agent
Connect Google Tasks to your Carly AI agent to create, organize, and manage tasks through email or chat — no app switching or manual entry required.
How to Connect HubSpot to an AI Agent
Connect HubSpot to your Carly AI agent and automate contact creation, deal updates, and pipeline management — all through email or chat commands.
How to Connect Salesforce to an AI Agent
Connect Salesforce to your Carly AI agent in one click. Automate contact creation, opportunity updates, pipeline queries, and cross-tool workflows — by email or chat.
How to Connect Slack to an AI Agent
Connect Slack to your Carly AI agent to automatically send deal alerts, meeting summaries, project updates, and team notifications to any channel.
How to Use an AI Agent for Research
Use your Carly AI agent to pull reports, research companies, summarize documents, and organize findings in Google Drive — by email or chat.