😸 Spielberg would love this

Good morning and happy Friday! In today's edition of the Leaderboard: an AI that makes video-editing less painful, a tool to spy on your competitors, and a product that wants to gamify the visa process. Let's dive in.

RivalSense: Receive daily updates on your competitors

RivalSense claims it can solve the “founder’s dilemma” — the idea that great founders focus on their users, not their competitors (but also have an in-depth understanding of the industry landscape). You plug in the names of companies you’re interested in following, and the app sends you a weekly AI-generated newsletter with commercially significant updates about the company, like pricing changes, new features or hires, content initiatives, or financial filings. I could see these updates triggering spirals in the hands of an especially neurotic founder, but overall this seems like a fairly low-effort way to stay abreast of the competition without having to doomscroll X or LinkedIn all day

Jumper: A video-editing AI that makes it easier to jump to the right scene.

Jumper tackles one of the most tedious parts of video editing—not adding effects or audio, but finding the right scene. Imagine knowing exactly where you want to cut or add an effect but having to scroll endlessly to find that moment on the timeline. With Jumper, you can skip the hassle by simply describing the scene in natural language, and it jumps right to it. This is where AI becomes a real ally for creatives, not by replacing creativity, but by speeding up those time-consuming tasks that keep you from getting to the good stuff.

Migroot: A game-like tracking tool for managing visa applications

Migroot turns immigration paperwork into a game—because, of course, everything’s gamified these days. But honestly, if it saves me from the usual scramble to find passport scans or figure out which form they need next, it might be worth it. I could see myself using this a lot for a couple of months, but once I’m settled in, I’d probably forget all about it until the next move. And while I do move a lot, paying for something I’ll only need once every two or three years? Not sure yet.