ChabadLabs AI FOR SHLICHUS
07 · AI Toolbox

The AI tools shluchim actually use

A curated directory drawn from the field, every tool here was recommended, debated, and battle-tested by shluchim in the “AI for Shlichus” community. 123 tools, 33 built by shluchim, sorted by what works.

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123 tools

Claude

Freemium

Anthropic's assistant, favored for serious writing, documents, spreadsheets and coding.

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ChatGPT

Freemium

The most-used all-rounder for letters, emails, spreadsheets, flyer prompts and quick research.

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Canva

Freemium

The go-to design suite for flyers, social posts and fixing AI-generated text.

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Nano Banana

Freemium

Google's image model (in AI Studio / Gemini) for flyers, infographics and renders.

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ElevenLabs

Freemium

The leading text-to-speech and voice-cloning tool for narration and audiobooks.

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Shluchim Exchange

Freemium

A Chabad platform that gives any AI vetted Torah and Shlichus sources plus shared prompts.

★ Shluchim Pick Built by Chabad
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Claude Code

Freemium

Anthropic's coding agent that builds websites, scripts and full apps from plain English.

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Claude Design

Freemium

Claude's design mode that compiles your brand into polished decks, infographics and PDFs.

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NotebookLM

Free

Google's research notebook; the group shares one loaded with the Rebbe's entire Torah, answered with citations.

★ Shluchim Pick
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berel.me

Free

A suite of vibe-coded micro-tools (raffle picker, JEM subtitles, weekly luach, donation links and more).

★ Shluchim Pick Built by Chabad
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Megillah.app

Free

A follow-along Megillah app with live synchronized group reading and translations.

★ Shluchim Pick Built by Chabad
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Wispr Flow

Freemium

Press-and-hold dictation that turns your speech into clean, formatted text anywhere.

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Sofer.ai

Freemium

Transcription built for Jewish content, handling mixed English, Hebrew and Yiddish shiurim.

★ Shluchim Pick Built by Chabad
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Lovable

Freemium

A no-code builder that creates and hosts web apps from a description.

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TurboScribe

Freemium

Bulk audio-to-text transcription with 3 free files a day.

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Google AI Studio

Free

Google's free developer playground with generous usage and the Nano Banana image model.

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Qwen

Free

Alibaba's model, rated the best for translating Hebrew and pesukim into English with etymology and context.

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GitHub Copilot

Paid

An AI coding assistant inside your editor or GitHub.

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i2OCR

Free

A free Hebrew OCR that converts scanned text to editable text.

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mikdash.live

Free

An interactive Beis Hamikdash portal with scheduling for visits and offerings.

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Perplexity

Freemium

An answer engine for fast web research with cited sources.

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Tally

Freemium

An embeddable form builder that connects to Stripe and lets AI build the whole form via MCP.

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Adobe Podcast

Free

Cleans up and enhances bad audio recordings.

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CapCut

Freemium

A popular editor for reels with AI subtitles and auto-cut.

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Dext

Paid

AI receipt and document capture that feeds your bookkeeping.

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Exa Websets

Paid

Bulk people and contact research, useful for high-value prospecting.

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Fathom

Freemium

An AI notetaker that records, transcribes and summarizes Zoom meetings.

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Opus Clip

Freemium

Automatically cuts long shiur videos into short captioned clips.

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PshatGPT

Freemium

Explains the pshat in Gemara, Rashi and Tosfos.

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Rows

Freemium

An AI spreadsheet that cleans, categorizes and OCRs data into Excel.

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Talk (ktix007)

Free

An Android app that turns text into MP3 narration in many languages and speeds.

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Tiller

Paid

Pulls all your bank feeds into Google Sheets for full-control bookkeeping.

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Zapia

Freemium

A WhatsApp assistant that transcribes long voice notes in seconds with punctuation.

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AI Galaxy

Free

Turns songs into acapella versions, handy for Sefira.

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Cursor

Paid

An AI-first code editor for serious vibe coding.

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Google Jules

Free

A free, browser-based coding agent that works from your phone.

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Grok

Freemium

xAI's chatbot with a looser tone, image/video generation and a phone-line option for filtered phones.

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SlideSpeak

Freemium

Turns a curriculum or transcript into a finished slide deck.

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Zoom AI Companion

Paid

Zoom's built-in AI that summarizes calls and produces a task list.

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nanoclaw

Free

An open-source, security-focused agent framework using Docker sandboxes.

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Base44

Freemium

A no-code app builder with API and WhatsApp integrations.

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Gemini

Freemium

Google's assistant, strongest inside Gmail, Drive and Sheets and for image generation.

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Suno

Freemium

Generates original songs and can turn any track into an acapella.

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Whisper

Free

OpenAI's open-source speech-to-text engine you can run yourself or build on cheaply.

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ChassidusAI

Free

Sichos visualized with AI, plus the annual Chassidus AI conference.

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GabAI

Freemium

A Shluchim-specific AI agent built on the nanoclaw stack with Chabad customizations, running in Slack.

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Gamma

Freemium

Turns a prompt or outline into a slide deck or simple website.

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Little Green Light

Paid

A donor-management CRM where an AI agent can run all your lists and reports.

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QuickBooks

Paid

The standard small-org bookkeeping software, now with a Claude connector.

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Salesforce

Paid

The enterprise CRM (with the nonprofit NPSP) that some Chabad systems run on.

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Descript

Paid

Edit audio and video by editing the transcript, plus make clips.

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Google Document AI

Paid

Google Cloud's engine for turning PDFs into structured data with columns preserved.

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Hecher

Paid

A Chabad CRM (~80 Shluchim in beta) that turns a voice note into emails, calendar events and records via MCP.

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Speechify

Freemium

Reads articles, PDFs and documents aloud across your phone and computer.

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Dicta Mekorotai

Free

A "rabbinic AI" search engine that finds verified Torah sources without hallucinating.

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Otter.ai

Freemium

Records and transcribes meetings with a searchable, chat-able transcript.

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Plaud

Paid

A recorder device and app for capturing phone calls and in-person notes.

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Rambam Kiddush Hachodesh

Free

A visual learning app for the Rambam's laws of Kiddush HaChodesh.

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Firecrawl

Freemium

Scrapes JavaScript-heavy sites and pages behind logins or captchas.

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Genspark

Freemium

An AI agent good at turning an idea into a slide deck or audio overview.

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Hebcal

Free

The Jewish-calendar and zmanim service, now with an API and MCP server.

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Minkowa

Paid

A Chabad-built service for custom CRMs, automations and AI buildouts.

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Motion

Paid

An AI calendar that auto-builds your day from tasks, priorities and work hours.

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Upmeet

Freemium

A meeting-summary app that members said understands Torah and Chassidus concepts.

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z.ai (GLM)

Freemium

A capable assistant for coding and HTML with lighter content filtering.

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Napkin AI

Freemium

Turns plain text into clean diagrams and visuals you can download.

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Spinach

Freemium

A meeting assistant the founder confirmed supports Hebrew and Yiddish.

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ChabadLabs.ai

Free

A Chabad AI hub hosting the Torah MCP walkthrough and resources.

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ChabadOne

Paid

The Chabad website, CRM, email and donation platform most Shluchim already run on.

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Claude PowerPoint Skill

Freemium

Anthropic's official skill for building real PowerPoint files from scratch with Claude.

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Torah MCP

Freemium

A connector that plugs vetted Torah sources into Claude or ChatGPT so answers stay sourced.

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AIFS Workflows

Free

A crowd-sourced collection of how Shluchim actually use AI.

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Airtable

Freemium

A spreadsheet-database hybrid good for lightweight CRMs and project tracking.

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Granola

Freemium

A notetaker that runs on your computer and can capture offline, in-person meetings.

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Make

Freemium

A visual no-code automation platform for multi-step workflows.

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Movers Referral Tool

Free

Matches NCOA "movers" to the nearest Chabad House and drafts referral emails.

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Notion

Freemium

A flexible notes, docs and database workspace with built-in AI.

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OpenAI Codex

Paid

OpenAI's coding agent, included with ChatGPT paid plans.

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Replit

Freemium

A browser IDE and AI agent that builds and hosts apps.

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wiki.shlch.us

Free

An AI-generated, interlinked wiki of this AI-for-Shlichus chat's links and threads.

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Zapier

Freemium

Connects thousands of apps to automate routine tasks without code.

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Fireflies

Freemium

Auto-joins Zoom and Meet calls to transcribe, summarize and build a searchable archive.

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Kling

Freemium

An AI video generator good for animations longer than ten seconds.

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n8n

Freemium

An open-source automation tool that's great for technical users.

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Supabase

Freemium

An open-source backend and database for AI-built apps.

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Veo

Paid

Google's high-end text-to-video model for cinematic footage.

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AlloColo

Paid

A Jewish camp and Gan Israel management platform for registrations, payments and parent comms.

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Bolt

Freemium

Generates and hosts full web apps from a prompt.

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bookeeping.ai

Paid

An AI bookkeeping startup with a nonprofit plan.

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ConnectYid

Paid

Matzah and mivtzoim delivery logistics with maps, volunteer delegation and live tracking.

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CountOmer

Free

A clean Sefiras HaOmer web app with location refresh, daily Daf Sotah and tzeis notifications.

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DaatTorah

Free

Structured learning of Shabbos laws in Hebrew, French and English with a "Daat Chat" Torah assistant.

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eScriptorium

Free

Open-source handwritten-text recognition built for ksav yad, including Hebrew.

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FoundJew

Free

A shared prompt that detects Jewish names from a list and returns confidence scores.

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Hercules

Paid

A CRM described as robust, fast and easy to work with.

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JEM AI

Free

An AI that understands the subtitles of the Rebbe's videos and returns references.

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Jotform

Freemium

A form builder, now a ChatGPT connector with voice-driven form creation.

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Microsoft Copilot

Freemium

Microsoft's assistant, best if you already live in Office, Excel and Windows.

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Netlify

Freemium

Hosting and deployment for the websites you vibe-code.

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Playwright

Free

An open-source library for controlling browsers in code.

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Shluchim Exchange Haggadah

Free

Generate customizable, printable Haggadahs and books.

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ShulCount

Free

A shliach-built tool for counting and tracking shul attendance.

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Sora

Freemium

OpenAI's text-to-video model for short cinematic and educational clips.

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Vercel

Freemium

A hosting platform for deploying AI-built web apps.

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WhatsApp Business API

Paid

The only sanctioned way to automate WhatsApp outreach without getting blocked.

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ChatTorah

Free

A Torah-search assistant being built to answer without inventing sources.

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dach.dev

Free

Summarizes and searches sichos and maamarim, with full plain-text Likkutei Sichos.

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Google Lens

Free

Phone OCR for reading small text and scanning documents.

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HeyGen

Paid

Creates talking-head avatar videos from a script.

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Maamorim.app

Free

An organized collection of the Rebbe's maamorim with intros, summaries, search and notes.

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RavDicta

Free

Dicta's rabbinic question-and-answer AI grounded in classic sources.

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Shabbos Times

Free

A Shabbos-times app built on chabad.org data for Chabad-accurate zmanim.

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Ticket Tailor

Freemium

Event ticketing with a Claude connector that can create and read events.

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YiddishLabs

Freemium

Transcribes Yiddish audio and can correct grammar, rephrase and translate it.

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Grammarly

Freemium

A writing assistant that fixes grammar and tightens emails, letters and posts.

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Hatch.ai

Paid

A Lubavitch-owned service for running background searches on baalei batim.

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Read.ai

Freemium

A comprehensive meeting transcriber and notetaker that joins every call.

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Midjourney

Paid

A high-quality AI image generator good for article and hero images.

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Rambam.life

Free

A scrolling Rambam speed-reader for focused daily learning.

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ComfyUI

Free

A powerful local node-based image-generation workflow you run on your own machine.

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Affinity

Freemium

A Canva-owned Photoshop alternative with strong AI upscaling for Canva Pro users.

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Captions

Freemium

An app for auto-captioning and adding B-roll to talking videos.

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Ideogram

Freemium

An image generator known for rendering readable text inside graphics.

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