🛠️ 5 Under-the-Radar AI Tools for your Production Week

The AI landscape moves fast, but the goal remains the same: moving from insight to production. Welcome to the first edition of the Sunday AI Brief at The Quantiq. Every Sunday, we’ll cut through the hype to give you 5 practical tools and one strategic ‘nugget’ to help you build faster and smarter in the coming week.

Kaedim: 2D to 3D in Minutes

While most people use AI to generate flat images, Kaedim is a game-changer for AR/VR designers. It uses generative AI to transform 2D images into high-fidelity 3D models.

• Why it’s useful: It bypasses hours of manual mesh modeling. You can sketch a concept or generate a character in Midjourney and turn it into a production-ready 3D asset with clean topology.

Gumloop (formerly Cheat Layer): The “AI Orchestrator”

Think of Gumloop as Zapier with a brain. It allows you to build complex “agents” that can browse the web, reason through data, and execute multi-step workflows across your apps without writing code.

• Why it’s useful: It can automate deep research or content pipelines. For example, it can scrape a competitor’s site, analyze their strategy, and draft a response—all in one automated flow.

Consensus: The AI Research Search Engine

If you need hard facts for your articles, Consensus is indispensable. It doesn’t just guess; it searches 200 million peer-reviewed scientific papers to answer your questions with cited evidence.

• Why it’s useful: It eliminates “AI hallucinations.” If you ask about the impact of Data Sovereignty on regional economies, it provides answers grounded in actual academic research.

Luma AI (Gen-3 Alpha / Interactive Scenes): Reality Capture

Luma AI is a leader in Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs). It allows you to take a video of a real-world object or space and generate a photorealistic 3D “Digital Twin” or a cinematic video from it.

• Why it’s useful: For AR, this allows you to bring real-world objects into your digital scenes with perfect lighting and texture.

5. Recraft.ai: The Professional Designer’s Vector AI

Most AI image generators produce pixels (rasters), which blur when resized. Recraft is one of the few that generates Vector graphics (.svg), which are essential for professional UI/UX and brand design.

• Why it’s useful: You can generate icons, logos, and illustrations that are infinitely scalable and can be edited point-by-point in tools like Figma or Illustrator.