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1. Issue 003 · 2026-10-06

   Twelve GTM tools benchmarked, and Mixmax drops its cheapest tier

   Our biggest ship yet: the GTM expansion, two new clusters covering the CRM and marketing-automation stack with crawler benchmarks and head-to-heads for the highest-demand pairs. Alongside it, pricing guides for opencode and Fathom and for the local-LLM desktop apps, a Bland voice-AI ladder we verified to the enterprise tier, and six dated market events from the news scan, including Mixmax's entry price moving from $29 to $49 a user.

   In this issue: Ollama pricing, free local models plus a $20 cloud tier , Bland — pricing, features, and fit , Best CRM platforms for startups (HubSpot, Pipedrive, Attio, Close, folk, Zoho) , Best marketing automation platforms (Klaviyo, Omnisend, Customer.io, ActiveCampaign, Mailchimp, Braze) , AI crawler access test: can answer engines read these vendors? , AI crawler access test: can answer engines read these vendors? , Pipedrive vs HubSpot — pipeline or platform , Klaviyo vs Mailchimp — ecommerce engine or email app , Jan vs LM Studio — the open-source app or the model workbench , opencode pricing, free software with a pay-per-request model gateway , Fathom pricing, a real free plan and paid tiers from $15 a user , Mixmax retires its SMB tier, leaving Copilot and Suite only , Aleph Alpha ships Kolibri: Apache 2.0 open-weight MoE with 1M-token context , DeepKeep ships AI Lens: a security control plane for coding agents , Underdog launches a fully local personal AI agent, no cloud , Deepslate raises €7.7M seed for European speech-to-speech models

2. Issue 002 · 2026-09-28

   Reclaim's pricing ladder verified, and Voiceflow stops publishing numbers

   Two new pricing guides: Reclaim, from a free Lite plan to $22 a seat, and Voiceflow, which no longer publishes tier prices at all. Also this week: our Netlify free-plan facts are corrected against Netlify's own billing docs, and Mailmeteor's Outlook support is now documented.

   In this issue: Reclaim pricing and review, free calendar defence from $12 a seat , Voiceflow pricing and review, governance for customer-facing chat agents

3. Issue 001 · 2026-09-24

   Six free hosts tested, and the crawlers vendors actually block

   The first issue: our free-hosting benchmark, the voice-agent head to head, and the crawler matrix asking which AI vendors let answer engines read their sites.

   In this issue: Best free web hosting for SPAs (tested) , AI crawler access test: can answer engines read these vendors? , Vapi vs Retell — raw control or a builder that ships , Research: how AI companies treat each other's crawlers