Aider AI
Aider
AI pair programming that lives in your terminal and commits its own diffs.
- Developer
- Open Source
- Underrated
Nakoda Intelligence · Products
AI worth discovering
Not another list of ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. This is underrated, unusual and emerging AI - developer tools, research assistants, creative software, and AI genuinely built in the UAE - chosen for what each product actually does, with the limitations stated as plainly as the strengths.
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Product of the Day · 2026-10-03
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LOVO
LOVO AI · Text-to-speech with 500+ voices and adjustable emotional delivery.
This date isn't part of Nakoda's hand-curated Product of the Day archive yet — the rotation below is a consistent, non-random pick rather than a genuinely dated editorial reason. Browse the archive for the real picks.
Discovery modes
Sixteen ways to look, not one filter bar
26 products
Zed Industries
Zed
A from-scratch, Rust-built code editor with AI collaboration designed in from day one.
- Developer
- Open Source
- Productivity
Warp
Warp
A terminal rebuilt around AI agents that write, run and debug commands with you.
- Developer
- Automation
- Productivity
Continue Dev, Inc.
Continue.dev
The open-source AI coding assistant you can point at any model, local or hosted.
- Developer
- Open Source
- Underrated
Elicit (Ought PBC)
Elicit
An AI research assistant that reads scientific literature and shows its citations.
- Research
- Education
Consensus
Consensus
An AI search engine over 220 million peer-reviewed papers, cited sentence by sentence.
- Research
- Education
Julius AI
Julius AI
Ask your spreadsheet a question in plain English and watch it write the code to answer it.
- Data
- Research
- Productivity
Hex Technologies
Hex
A data notebook where SQL, Python and an AI agent share the same workspace.
- Data
- Developer
- Business
Krea
Krea
A real-time AI creative suite where the image updates as you adjust the prompt.
- Creative
- Design
Photoroom
Photoroom
AI photo editing built specifically for product and commerce photography.
- Creative
- Design
- Marketing
Descript
Descript
Edit a video or podcast by editing its transcript.
- Video
- Audio
- Creative
Lightricks
LTX Studio
A generative AI filmmaking platform for storyboarding and producing short video from a script.
- Video
- Creative
LOVO AI
LOVO
Text-to-speech with 500+ voices and adjustable emotional delivery.
- Audio
- Marketing
- Creative
Gamma
Gamma
Generate a presentation, document or simple website from a prompt or an outline.
- Productivity
- Business
- Design
Clay
Clay
A go-to-market data platform where an AI agent researches every lead for you.
- Business
- Automation
- Data
Lindy AI
Lindy
Build an AI agent that runs a workflow for you, described in plain language.
- Automation
- Business
- Productivity
Glean Technologies
Glean
Enterprise search and an AI assistant that respects your company's permission structure.
- Business
- Data
- Productivity
Khan Academy
Khanmigo
An AI tutor built by Khan Academy that guides students to an answer instead of giving it.
- Education
Curipod
Curipod
AI-generated, teacher-controlled interactive lessons — no student chatbot access.
- Education
Diffit
Diffit
Turn any article or topic into reading material at exactly the level each student needs.
- Education
- Underrated
InceptionUAE
JAIS
The Arabic-first large language model built in Abu Dhabi, open-sourced for the region.
- Local UAE
- Open Source
- Developer
Presight AIUAE
Presight AI
Abu Dhabi's publicly listed big-data and AI analytics platform, built on 100+ ML models.
- Local UAE
- Business
- Data
Space42UAE
Space42 (formerly Bayanat)
The UAE's ADX-listed AI-powered geospatial and satellite intelligence company.
- Local UAE
- Data
nyblUAE
nybl
A Dubai-built, no-code industrial AI platform for teams with no data scientists.
- Local UAE
- Business
- Automation
TarjamaUAE
Tarjama
MENA's AI-first Arabic translation and localization platform, built in Dubai.
- Local UAE
- Business
- Productivity
MoznMENA
Mozn (FOCAL)
A Saudi-built, MENA-wide AI platform unifying fraud and anti-money-laundering detection.
- Business
- Data
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How this list works
Every product here is real, checkable, and picked for a specific reason
Nakoda reads each product’s own site directly before it’s added, and writes down exactly when that check happened. Nothing here is a paid placement: there is no sponsored slot in this catalog, only the reserved advertising inventory shown separately and always labelled as such. Where a fact - a price, a founder, a claim - couldn’t be confirmed, the page says so instead of guessing.
This is deliberately a UAE-aware list, not a UAE-only one: alongside global developer, research and creative tools sits a genuine slice of AI actually built in the region - an open Arabic-first language model out of Abu Dhabi, an ADX-listed geospatial AI company, a Dubai-founded industrial ML platform - the part of the AI landscape most “best AI tools” roundups never look for.