🧑‍💻 In a world quickly shaped by ‘big tech’, we often forget that they are not the only hubs of innovation and feature enhancements. Smaller tech companies, like Notion, Affinity, Brave, and for these purposes—Kagi remind us that breakthroughs can come from less known and capitalized firms.

🔎 Kagi, a pay search service that lets you choose LLM models and thrives on curation is a ‘come back to Earth’ moment with all the negative effects of AI-hype marketing.

🙋 There is still a time and place for human curated feeds, and at times we can all benefit from such work.

🛠️ As you search for new tools in the AI era for yourself, or your business—do not discount all of the other options out there. They may not have the market capitalization of an OpenAI or Microsoft, but there is also utility and productivity to be had elsewhere.

This was originally a post on LinkedIn on March 18, 2026.