Every agent is researched & quality-gated

The quality gate

Every listing must clear four bars before it can be published:

1. Structured research. A minimum set of structured fields (what it is, what it does, key features, pricing and real use cases) must be present and complete. A stub can't pass.
2. Sourced facts. Claims are backed by cited sources, not marketing copy. Pricing and capabilities reflect what the agent actually does.
3. On-topic fit-check. An agent that isn't genuinely relevant to this directory is rejected, however complete its record. Relevance is a gate, not a nice-to-have.
4. Freshness. Listings carry a last-verified date and are re-checked over time; the index you're reading was last updated August 27, 2026.

Why we don't score agents

We do not give agents a rating. No stars, no 0-10, no grade.

A rating is only worth reading if its input is independent of whoever publishes it. Review sites earn theirs from thousands of verified users; a testing lab earns its from measuring the product on a bench. We do neither. What we have is research — and any number we could compute from research would be measuring our own work: how many sources we found, how thoroughly we wrote the page up. Publishing that as a verdict beside somebody's company name would dress our effort up as their quality.

What we publish instead is everything a rating would stand in front of:

1. The sources, itemised. Every page lists the sources it is built from, each one labelled by what it is and by which claims on the page it supports, so you can open them and check us.
2. The date we last checked. Every page carries a re-verified date, and a changelog of what moved when we checked.
3. Who it is for, and who it is not. A specific "best for" and an explicit "not for", each one a judgement we can defend in a sentence.
4. Real weaknesses. Genuine cons and limitations are required to publish. A page that only flatters cannot pass the gate.

None of it can be bought: paid placement decides where an agent appears, never what we write about it or whether it earned a page.

How listings are ordered

Within a category, listings are ordered by editorial tier and then alphabetically, never by who paid. Any commercial placement is labelled as such. The label looks like this: Sponsored, and still has to pass the very same quality gate; money can move where an agent appears, never whether it earned a page.

Corrections & submissions

Anyone can submit an agent for review, but a submission is only ever a candidate. It enters the same research-and-gate pipeline before it can be published, and nothing a submitter writes becomes page copy unverified. Spotted something wrong? Tell us and we'll re-verify.