The Past Six Months of Raq.com
On 10 April we published a recap of Raq.com's first two months. Six months and 44 blog posts later there are 78 tools and apps for iPhone and Android.
April
Fifteen launch posts in the three weeks after the last recap, most of them about working with agents. Nature Work and Orchestrator arrived, and Lean MCP gave agents a lighter way to connect.
Nature Work
Run Claude Code and Codex on your own machine and follow them from your phone. You see the terminal, type or talk back, and get a notification when an agent stops.
Server Monitor
A small agent on each Linux server reports load, CPU, memory, disk and processes. Cron jobs and scripts can check in at a heartbeat URL instead.
File Converter
Documents, images, audio and video, up to 50 files at a time, with progress for each file and private storage that expires.
Design Swarm
Describe a UI, tick the models and they all design it at once. Compare the results side by side and download the one you like as HTML or a PNG.
Secure Send
One-time links for passwords and API keys, and intake links for when you need someone to send a secret to you.
Image Optimiser
Compression and format conversion grew into AI upscaling, object and watermark removal, photo restoration and colourising, all in the same batch.
GPT Image 2
OpenAI's new image model went live in AI Image Lab on launch day, next to the other models in the same batch.
Market Intel
Name the companies and topics you follow. Raq.com gathers news and Companies House filings on a schedule and writes the briefings.
Brand Guidelines
Paste your homepage and get a brand workspace with logos, colours, fonts and voice, which any connected agent can read before it writes or designs.
Orchestrator
One chat launches and supervises several local agent sessions, queues prompts, chains work and tells you what needs your attention.
SEO & AEO Checker
Audits now cover answer engines, and monitors track whether AI answers mention your brand, cite your pages or get the facts wrong.
Multi AI Chat
Dual AI Chat became Multi AI Chat: up to ten models in one conversation, with web research, Python analysis and a consensus summary.
AI Benchmarker
Write the prompts you care about, run them across the models you use, rate the answers and publish the leaderboard at your own URL.
Page Watch
Track pricing pages, policies, RSS feeds and sitemaps, and see what changed and when. In June it learned to watch pages behind a login.
Lean MCP
A second MCP endpoint for Claude Code, Codex and other agents. They find tools as they need them rather than loading the whole catalogue up front.
Also in April
- AI Video Lab can continue a finished clip, carrying its look and motion into the next generation.
- Website Chatbox AI answers from live sources: web pages, JSON APIs, Knowledge articles and File Drop files.
- Task Board updates live, and each list can take new cards by email or webhook.
- Happy Horse video models arrived in AI Video Lab, and AI Image Lab gained brush-mask edits with GPT Image 2.
May
102.ai's website builder joined the platform, along with Marketing Campaigns, Client Portal and Top 20 AI Consensus.
102.ai Website Build & Host
Turn your URL into three full website redesigns, then launch and host the one you choose. It opens from Raq.com without a second login.
Marketing Campaigns
Describe what you're launching and who it's for. Raq.com plans the campaign, drafts the copy, builds the capture forms and sets up the follow-ups.
Client Portal
A private workspace for each client or project, with shared files and approval requests, opened with a magic link.
Top 20 AI Consensus
Ask one question and twenty leading reasoning models answer it at once, with a plain-language consensus at the top.
Also in May
- The raq command line: sign in through the browser, then search and call tools, upload files and hand work over from a terminal.
- Skill Library skills can carry versioned Python and Bash scripts, supporting files and encrypted environment variables.
- Vocalise can re-voice uploaded speech and keep its intonation.
- AI Image Lab can edit any uploaded image with a mask, and Image and Video Lab gained project folders.
- Automations can route email replies, with each step sending from its own address.
June
One launch post, Ghostwriter, and a set of upgrades to tools that were already here.
Ghostwriter
Build a draft one sentence at a time. Each line comes with ten options from leading models, ranked so the most natural one comes first, and it learns your voice as you go.
Page Watch behind a login
Page Watch can sign in before it checks a page, capture just the element you care about and email before-and-after images when it changes.
Website Chatbox AI
A slim bar launcher and an optional lead form before the chat starts, on top of the live sources added in April.
Also in June
- Orchestrator runs can be scheduled through Automations.
280daily moved in
280daily has been a daily journal of 280 characters since January 2011. In May its journal arrived in Raq.com with an iPhone app, Android followed, and in July we invited 280daily's members to move over. It keeps the name: 280daily on Raq.com.
The Journal is free and doesn't need a card. Members bring their entries and photos across with an import that runs in the background, send today's entry by email from a private address and export their journal to PDF or Word. This month it gained four overview layouts, one of them the original 280daily look.
July
Custom Tools and Custom Modules arrived, so a tool for your business can be built by your own agent or by us. Agent Operator HQ gave Nature Work a desktop face.
Branded CV
Upload your branded Word template once, then drop in any candidate CV and get it back in your layout. Nothing is stored.
Help Desk
Forward a support address into a shared ticket queue, reply from Raq.com and turn messages into Task Board work. AI can sort tickets, summarise threads and draft replies.
Page Feedback
Freeze a copy of any public page, pin comments on it and send the link to a client, who can reply with voice notes. Since 26 July one review can cover several pages.
Passkey Vault
Secrets stay encrypted with your passkey. An agent asks for one by name and you approve it on your phone.
Custom Tools
Point your own coding agent at Raq.com and describe a tool. It writes, tests and publishes it, and the tool runs in your account beside everything else.
Agent Operator HQ
Nature Work's desktop face: a full-screen keyboard workspace for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor. Qwen Code joined in August.
Custom Modules
Software designed and built for how one business works. It sits in that account next to the other tools, and we make changes on request for one monthly price.
Also in July
- File Drop upload requests let people outside your account send you files.
- AI usage top-ups from the billing page.
- A help and support assistant inside Raq.com, now called Raqoon.
- Seedream 4.5 in AI Image Lab and Seedance 2.0 video-to-video in AI Video Lab.
August
Voice Calls put an AI assistant on a UK business number, and Raq.com moved to a high-availability setup across two data centres.
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Use Raq.com from Microsoft 365 Copilot or Copilot Studio. Personal Copilot users can bring Raq.com data in with Context Export.
Social Scheduler
Connect your social accounts, plan posts on one calendar and let AI tailor each caption to its platform.
Seedance 2.5 through Hybrid
Seedance 2.5 makes a 30-second video with dialogue and plenty of reference material in one pass. Hybrid gives Raq.com users access before there's an API.
Voice Calls
Give a UK business number its own AI assistant for approved inbound and outbound calls, with a recording, transcript and summary of each. A browser softphone followed in September.
Creative Review
Compare the options your agent has made, leave precise feedback and keep every revision in one review.
Can You Spot AI Web Design?
We gave leading models the same homepage brief in Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, then compared their defaults with Raq.com's Design MCP. There's a quiz.
Also in August
- Raq.com now runs on two encrypted dedicated servers in separate data centres, with a third server as a witness, and the database fails over automatically.
- E-Sign keeps a tamper-evident audit trail for every signed document.
- Knowledge spaces can be limited to selected members.
- Priorities sends scheduled email updates and carries unfinished items over.
- Each team member can have a recurring AI allowance.
Meet Raqoon
On 23 September we swapped the rack in our logo for a raccoon. Raqoon answers help and support questions inside Raq.com, and he stars in our films.
September
Client Governance gave agencies separate rules for each client account, and agents gained temporary websites on raq.show.
Time Tracker
Track time from one timer, approve the week, then invoice the approved hours. A team release followed in October, with an Android app.
AI Decisions
Saved questions that sort enquiries and other incoming work. Test the answers, then use them in Automations, with uncertain results flagged for review.
HDR to SDR
Most phones record HDR video. File Converter and AI Video Lab now convert it to SDR first, keeping the colours.
Client Governance
Give each client account its own rules: agent connections limited to that client, required sign-in checks, EU or US AI processing and an audit trail.
Anti-slop Writer
Write from your sources, tidy your own words and review each suggested edit, in one workspace.
Web Previews
Ask your agent to publish a temporary website on raq.show. Share the link, update it in place and let it expire when you are done.
Films from September
At the end of September we started a series of short films in which Claude or ChatGPT does a job with a Raq.com tool.
Also in September
- Cyber Essentials certification for Vu AI Ltd, the company behind Raq.com.
- Your agent can set up Raq.com for you, with one-click Add to Claude and a page for IT teams.
- Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol, Gemini 3.8 Flash and GPT Image 2.5 joined the model lists.
October
Eleven days so far. Photoshoot and Shop Journey launched on the 1st, and most modules moved onto a new canvas layout.
Photoshoot
Make a photoshoot from a few reference pictures, in Raq.com or through your AI assistant. Choose one of 76 shoots or describe your own.
Shop Journey
CartDown's shop monitoring is now part of Site Uptime. Your agent sets up a verified product, basket and checkout journey, and Raq.com runs it from the regions you choose.
A new canvas across the modules
Nearly every module now shares one layout: your list on the left, the work on a canvas in the middle and the details on the right. Plenty gained features on the way, like cook mode in Meal Planner.
Films from October
Also in October
- Time Tracker for teams: utilisation, budgets, time off and geofenced clock-in. The Android app is out and the iPhone app launches this week.
- Screen Recorder adds transcripts, AI summaries, chapters and trimming.
- Every module film in one player at raq.com/guide.
- Journal has four overview layouts, including the Original 280daily layout.
Everything in Raq.com today
All 78 tools. The 29 with dark icons arrived after 10 April.