Over the years, my teams have known me as the guy who loves to find and try new tech, especially when it benefits the business.

When I left CoachNow, I got the chance to drop the legacy tools and keep only the old favorites.

Since then, I’ve tried a lot of new tech while also staying with some old favs, so I figured I’d share which tools have continued to stick around.

Hopefully this saves you some time and gives you a quick look at how and why I use each one.

I’ve recommended this a ton.

Most of my content starts as a voice note, which is exactly what I’m doing right now. I get the transcription, drop it into Claude, and make it readable with very simple prompts.

I’m also a huge fan of using this for vibe coding, or long prompt sessions.

I still type most of my emails but I’ll likely bring it there too.

Wispr Flow also just added meeting notes. I used Granola for quite some time and loved it, but since Wispr Flow now does the same job for a few bucks less, I’m moving my meeting notes over and leaving my Granola subscription behind.

I’ve been a diehard fan since it came out, and if you’ve been reading the newsletter you’ve heard me mention it before. It’s a video editing platform where you can record remote podcasts with other people, record straight into the app with a camera, or import whatever you like.

It’s an incredible editor, and more importantly for me, it’s our home base for collaborative editing. We now have two editors and multiple video creators, myself included, and nothing else I’ve used comes close.

Their customer support is great too. The one thing I wish they had is webinars and live streaming, and if they added that, this would be the mega tool.

I’ve liked Notion for a long time, but I only started using it well in the last six months, mostly because my team is growing and one of them loves organizing things.

We just onboarded three new people, and having our brand insights, our workflows, and essentially a wiki for the whole company in one place has been incredible. I also use it to track my programs and my one-to-one coaching, and to work with clients directly.

What I built in CoachNow is perfect for one-to-one skills coaching, golf coaching in particular, but Notion has become the platform where I deliver my new coaching and programming, along with our internal planning.

The only con is that it can do so many things that it gets unwieldy if you aren’t careful, and I think we’re only scratching the surface of what it can do.

Mercury is my banking solution. I stumbled onto them late in 2025 and they keep getting better. When you’re building a company, I believe in having multiple checking accounts which they allow for:

They also just released a bookkeeping feature, which matters to me because I’d avoided QuickBooks and Xero. I found them overly complicated and not very useful, so I was exporting data and building my own spreadsheets.

Now my banking and bookkeeping live in one spot, and I’m stoked about it.

Beehiiv is our newsletter platform, and the newsletter side is great. We’re not using a lot of its other features yet, though we’re thinking about it.

The weak spot is the website builder. Landing pages and product sales, which they also promote, don’t hold up, and I’m not a fan of how the scale.golf site was built or how long it took.

They do have an MCP with Claude that might tap into the builder, so we’ll see how good it gets over time. If they can get it to match the way you build a newsletter, I think they’ll have a major home run.

You can use Claude a million different ways as everyone knows. I keep a project for each business unit and each one-to-one client so I have a source of record, and I use the MCPs to tap into my other tools so all the context ends up in one spot.

Like many of you reading this, I’m not as bullish on Claude as I once was. In some ways the models feel like they’re getting worse. When I’m creating content or working through hypotheticals and planning, the consistency can slip in ways it didn’t before, and my trust is waning.

That said, I have a massive amount of history here and I’m hopeful they’ll improve the platform, and the MCPs are absolutely huge for me.

Some quick pro tips:

Canva has been around forever and we all know it. Someone like me, who isn’t incredibly skilled, can still get great results, and it lets my whole team collaborate on the media side.

Here’s how we do it:

That’s the core stack today, and some of it will look different by next year. I was a Granola loyalist right up until Wispr Flow added meeting notes, so I know how fast this changes.

Got something you love that I should try? Reply and let me know. If I add to the arsenal I’ll credit you in my next tech breakdown.

I’ve had the great fortune of working with the CHIP’d team for the past year or so as they bring the worlds first “launch monitor” in a ball to life.

As I’ve said before, “hardware is hard” but if you can get a product to market you’ve got an incredibly defensible position.

Not only has CHIP’d done this in golf as their first product, but they’ve already validated working versions in baseball and hockey. Their Intellicore™️ is the key, it can go into just about any solid core object.

If you’re a coach, fellow builder, or investor in the scale.golf network and want to try them out you can save $50 using code SPENCER.

Act fast though because they’re nearly sold out of this current batch of balls.

Keep fighting the good fight. See ya next week 👊

-Spencer

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