In the past few years, we’ve witnessed an explosion of SaaS products that are little more than a thin wrapper around OpenAI’s API. A whole new generation of developers and founders are churning out AI-based products that, at their core, are little more than API calls to ChatGPT with some spin—maybe a different interface, a niche prompt engineering trick, or some lightweight automation added on top. And while this has led to a proliferation of AI-based tools, many of them have a strangely familiar feel, which has led to an oversaturation of essentially identical tools.