About AI Explorex

AI Explorex is a directory of AI tools. What makes a directory worth reading is not how many entries it has — anyone can scrape ten thousand names — but what was checked before each one went up, and what happens to an entry when the thing it points at changes. This page is about the method, because the method is the product.

How a tool gets on to this site

Four steps, and nothing is allowed to skip one.

1. It is found. Candidates come from public catalogues of AI tools and from submissions sent through our own form. Being found is not the same as being listed.
2. Its address is requested. Every candidate URL is actually fetched, not merely looked at. About one in eight of the addresses we checked never answered — and those were never turned into pages at all. They are not hidden entries; they are entries that do not exist.
3. The product behind the domain is checked. A URL answering is not the same as the tool still being there. Domains get sold, redirected and turned into something unrelated. That is a separate question and it is asked separately.
4. Only then is the page created, with its category, its pricing model and its own logo.

The rule underneath all four is that unknown is not alive. An address we have no verdict on is refused, the same as one that failed. It is the cautious direction to be wrong in, and it is why this catalogue is smaller than the sources it was built from.

What happens when a tool dies

Tools shut down. Directories usually deal with that by quietly deleting the entry, which is the worst available outcome for the one person it matters to: the reader who followed a recommendation and now gets a 404 with no explanation.

We keep the page and tell you instead — and we distinguish between two things a lazier site would call the same:

• The site did not answer. The address stopped responding when we last checked. That may be a permanent shutdown or it may be an outage, so the page says so in those words and still lets you try the link yourself.
• The domain changed hands. The address answers perfectly well, but what is there now is somebody else’s business, a domain-sale page or an unrelated site. That is a different fact and it gets its own sentence — and on those listings we remove the outbound link, because we can no longer vouch for where it goes.

Flagged listings stay in the archive, in their categories and in search results. They are only kept off the homepage’s “recently added” shelf, because that shelf is the site choosing on your behalf, and recommending something we know is broken would be a lie of arrangement.

Where the descriptions come from, exactly

This is the part most directories are vague about, so here it is plainly. Listings carry one of three kinds of text, and they are not the same thing:

• Written. Our own words, from knowing the tool: what it is, what it is good at, and where it disappoints. That third part is the only reason a page like this beats the vendor’s own marketing. These are the minority, and they are the ones we are still adding to.
• Generated. A summary of the tool’s own homepage, drafted by a language model and then checked against a set of rules before it is kept — long enough to be useful, written in English, and not a restatement of the vendor’s tagline. These are most of the catalogue. Saying so is the honest thing to do; calling them hand-written would not be.
• Composed. Verified facts — what it does, how it is priced, what category it sits in — plus, where one is available, a single quotation from the tool’s own site, attributed as a quotation.

A model is never allowed to state a limitation it cannot support. An early draft ended an entry with “it does not support video creation” about a tool that does, purely because a criticism had been asked for. Absence of evidence is not a fault, and a fault we cannot evidence does not get printed.

What we check, and what we do not

We check that the address answers, that the product is still the product, that the pricing model shown matches what the tool itself says, and that the logo is an image the vendor actually serves — every logo reference is fetched and confirmed before it is used, because a broken image tile looks worse than no image at all.

We do not test every tool ourselves, we do not run benchmarks, and we do not publish star ratings we have invented. Where a listing carries a rating it came with the source data, and the page says where that data came from.

What is refused outright

Non-consensual intimate imagery and adult content are blocked absolutely. That rule has no exception and no override, and it applies to updating an existing listing as well as to creating a new one. A tool whose purpose is undressing people in photographs does not belong in a catalogue, however many visitors it would bring.

Independence

A listing cannot be bought and a position cannot be bought. We do not charge for inclusion and we do not accept payment to rank a tool higher.

Some outbound links may earn a commission, and where that is true it is disclosed next to the button at the moment you are deciding whether to click — not only in the small print. We never carry anyone else’s referral code: addresses taken from other catalogues arrive with tracking parameters attached, and those are stripped before the link is recorded. Sending our readers through a competitor’s affiliate code is neither honest nor ours to do.

The full affiliate disclosure is here, and the figures on it are generated from the site’s own configuration rather than typed by hand, so it cannot quietly go stale.

Logos and names

Every logo on this site is the vendor’s own image, loaded from the vendor’s own address. Nothing is copied onto our servers and nothing is re-hosted. Product names, logos and trade marks belong to the companies that own them, and their appearance here is identification, not endorsement in either direction.

This site is not the vendor

We do not build, sell, host or support any of the tools listed. Prices, limits and features change constantly, and a directory entry is a starting point rather than a quotation — always check the tool’s own site before you buy. If you need support for a product, the company that sells it is the only place that can help you.

Corrections

Things go out of date and mistakes get made. If a listing is wrong, or a description is unfair, or a tool has changed in a way this site has not caught up with, we want to be told: a directory that cannot be corrected is not worth trusting. Tools you think should be here can be sent through the submission form, which a person reads.

This site was designed and built by Alvion.