How this directory is put together

If you start a paid plan after following an affiliate link, The AI Shelf may earn a commission from that vendor. You pay the same price as buying directly, because commissions come out of the vendor's margin.

A commission never changes three things: the price printed on a listing, the order tools appear in, and whether a tool is included at all. Tools inside a category sit in a fixed order that did not consider who pays a commission, and a tool with no affiliate programme sits next to one that has.

No vendor pays to be listed, to be ranked higher, or to have a limit left out. Where a vendor has no programme, the outbound link is a plain link.

Where a listing carries no tracking link yet, that is because the programme needs the site owner's own entity, tax or payout details before it can be joined. Those applications are pending, and no tracking link is invented in the meantime. Until a programme approves this site, every outbound link goes to the vendor's own page with no tracking parameter attached.

No star ratings, no review scores, no review counts and no traffic estimates. None of those can be checked from a vendor's own pages, so a directory that prints them is guessing. What is printed is what a vendor says about price, plan structure, limits, platforms and audience, plus where the product falls short for a specific job.

Email [email protected] with the tool name, the listing, and what the vendor's page says today. Corrections are re-read from the vendor page before anything changes.

To suggest a tool, send its name, the vendor's pricing page and one public demo video. It is judged against the five rules above, and offering to pay does not help.