# The tools Corey is built for This is the default stack Corey builds on: 17 tools it knows properly, where it has the skills, the conventions and the setup guides, and where it will get further on its own. It works with any tool you prefer - this is simply what it reaches for when the choice is open. Below is what each one is for, why it is on the list, and how to start. Everything here is something we run ourselves, on this business, today. Tools we are actively migrating away from are deliberately absent: recommending a tool you are walking away from is how these pages usually go wrong. ## The numbers - Tools: 17 - The stack Corey builds on: 8 - Tools with native skills: 5 - Running the business: 4 ## The stack Corey builds on (8) When Corey builds you a site, an app or a database, this is what it reaches for. Every account is in your name, and it asks before it sets anything up. ### Cloudflare Workers, Pages, DNS, R2 storage, Registrar and Web Analytics. One account covers the hosting, the domain, the file storage and cookieless analytics with no cookie banner. It is where Corey deploys by default, because a Worker costs nothing until somebody actually uses it. Getting started: Open a free account, move your domain in, then ask Corey to deploy. It handles Wrangler and the DNS records. Link: https://www.cloudflare.com/ ### Neon Serverless Postgres that scales to zero. Postgres without a server to look after. It sleeps when idle, so a staging database costs nothing, and branching gives every preview its own copy of the data. Corey provisions in the EU by default so personal data stays there. Getting started: Create a project, copy the connection string, hand it to Corey. Link: https://neon.com/signup?refcode=XVC4PIBP (referral link) ### WorkOS Logins, single sign-on and directory sync. Authentication done properly without building it yourself, and SAML sitting there ready for the first customer who asks. Corey sets up one staging and one production environment per product so a test never touches real accounts. Getting started: Create an account, then ask Corey to wire AuthKit into your app. Link: https://workos.com/ ### GitHub Source of truth for code, and the CI that checks it. Every change Corey makes arrives as a commit or a pull request you can read before it ships. Nothing lands in your business that is not in your history. Getting started: A free account is enough. Give Corey one repository and watch the first pull request. Link: https://github.com/ ### Hetzner The always-on box. Serverless cannot host an agent that has to be awake at 03:00 to run your overnight jobs. A small Hetzner box can, for a few pounds a month, in an EU data centre. This is the one piece of the stack that has to be a real machine. Getting started: Take the smallest shared-vCPU box, then run Corey's Hetzner setup guide on it. Link: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud ### Doppler Somewhere to keep secrets that is not a laptop. Cloudflare handles the keys inside a Worker. Doppler handles everything outside one - the box, the cron jobs, your own machine - so an API key lives in one place and can be rotated in one place. Getting started: Create a project, import your existing .env file, then delete the file. Link: https://www.doppler.com/ ### Stripe Payments, subscriptions and marketplace payouts. The payments stack Corey knows end to end, including Connect for paying other people. Everything is built and tested in a sandbox first, and no live-mode change happens without you approving it. Getting started: Create an account, finish onboarding, then give Corey a restricted test-mode key. Link: https://stripe.com/gb ### Resend Transactional and marketing email. One service for the receipts and password resets and for the newsletter, with domain authentication set up properly so the mail actually reaches an inbox. Getting started: Add your domain, publish the DNS records it gives you, and Corey does the rest. Link: https://resend.com/ ## Tools with native skills (5) Corey does not just hold an API key for these. It has skills that know what to do with them, so you ask for the outcome rather than the integration. ### Granola Meeting notes that write themselves. It sits quietly in the background of a call and produces a summary you would actually send. Corey's /granola skill pulls those notes in, so what was decided on the call becomes tasks, follow-ups and memory rather than a document nobody opens again. Getting started: Install the app, let it join your next call, then ask Corey what was decided. Link: https://www.granola.ai/ ### Slack Where Corey tells you what happened. The morning brief, deploy results, and anything it needs a decision on, in a channel rather than an inbox. You approve in the thread and it carries on. Getting started: Add the Slack connector and tell Corey which channel gets what. Link: https://slack.com/ ### Firecrawl Web pages turned into something a model can read. Research that reads the actual page instead of guessing at it - a competitor's pricing, a supplier's terms, a directory of prospects. It is the difference between Corey citing a source and Corey inventing one. Getting started: Get an API key, then ask Corey to research something specific. Link: https://www.firecrawl.dev/ ### Miro Diagrams and boards. For the work that is a picture rather than a paragraph: a process flow, a customer journey, how the pieces of your business connect. Corey draws it on a board you can then move around yourself. Getting started: Connect the Miro connector and ask for the diagram you want. Link: https://miro.com/ ### Anthropic Claude The model Corey runs on. Corey is skills, memory and guardrails on top of Claude. That is why it runs in the Claude desktop app, in the terminal and in Cursor without being three different products. Getting started: Get a Claude subscription, then connect Corey as an MCP server. Link: https://claude.com/ ## Running the business (4) The admin layer. Corey reads these to tell you where the money went and what your week looks like. ### Revolut Business Business banking. Multi-currency accounts, cards you can issue per subscription so a runaway bill is obvious, and an API. It is what Corey reads to tell you what actually came in this month rather than what you invoiced. Getting started: Open an account, then give Corey a statement export to work from. Link: https://business.revolut.com/signup?promo=B2B-AUG1-26-AR-H1&ext=52f4bf42-4ce6-448c-8761-6695f646fb69&context=B2B_REFERRAL (referral link) ### QuickBooks Bookkeeping and VAT. The books your accountant expects to be handed, with Making Tax Digital already dealt with. Corey categorises, reconciles and flags the ones it cannot decide on rather than guessing. Getting started: Connect QuickBooks and give Corey read access. Link: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/uk/ ### Google Workspace Email, calendar and documents. Corey reads the calendar to plan your day and the inbox to triage it. Nothing goes out in your name without you approving it first. Getting started: Connect Gmail and Calendar, then ask for a morning brief. Link: https://workspace.google.com/ ### Cal.com Scheduling. An open-source booking link Corey can actually read and reason about, so a busy week is something it can tell you about in advance rather than a black box you check manually. Getting started: Create a booking link and put it in your email signature. Link: https://cal.com/ None of this is compulsory. If you are already on another host, database or bank, Corey builds on that instead, and every account is opened in your name. The shorter version for a site build: https://getcorey.ai/docs/recommended-tools What Corey knows, catalogued the same way: https://getcorey.ai/knowledge Full page: https://getcorey.ai/stack