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Editorial Standards

Last updated: August 17, 2026

A directory is only worth reading if its entries are still true. This page describes the checks aiwizard actually runs, in enough detail that you can verify them yourself.

How we check a tool still exists

Most of this catalog predates the current site by a couple of years, and a lot of AI tools from that era are gone. Checking for a 200 response is not enough to tell: expired domains get resold and answer perfectly happily with a parking page, dead hosts return a friendly “deployment not found”, and an abandoned product’s domain can end up pointing at something completely unrelated. So a tool’s link has to clear three bars before we treat it as working:

  1. It is reachable — a successful response after following redirects.
  2. It is not a placeholder — the page is scanned for domain-for-sale and parking markers, suspended-account notices, dead-deployment messages, default web-server pages, and “coming soon” holding pages. A near-empty page counts as a placeholder too.
  3. It is still the same product — the page names the tool, or it at least stayed on the domain we listed. A link that silently redirects somewhere else and never mentions the product is treated as a resold domain, not a working link.

What the verdicts mean

Each check records one of five verdicts against the tool, along with the date it was checked:

  • Live— cleared all three bars.
  • Dead— the domain no longer resolves, refuses connections, or returns an error.
  • Parked— it loads, but there is no product there.
  • Moved— it redirects to a different domain that never names the product.
  • Unsure— the check could not prove it either way (a timeout, a server error, a page that never mentions the tool). Nothing is published or deleted on the strength of a guess; these are left for a person to look at.

The two conclusive failures — dead and parked — change what you see. The tool’s page stays up, because “this one shut down” is genuinely useful if you came here looking for it, but the “Visit” button is replaced with a notice that the site is no longer reachable, and its card in the directory is marked the same way. We would rather tell you a tool is gone than hand you a link to an expired domain. Moved and unsure results are unresolved, so those links are left alone until someone checks.

Nothing publishes itself

Anyone can submit a tool, but a submission is not a listing. New submissions are stored unapproved, and every public page in the directory reads approved entries only — so a submitted tool is invisible on the site until an administrator approves it. The same applies to the taxonomy: a submitter can propose a new category, but the proposal goes into a review queue rather than into the live category list.

Where AI is used, it says so

Some of the summary content on a tool’s page — individual pros and cons in particular — is drafted with AI assistance from the tool’s own website. Those statements carry a small “AI” tag next to them, one per statement, so you can tell at a glance which lines were generated and which were written by hand. We would rather label it than let you assume.

Corrections

If a listing is wrong, out of date, or describes a tool you build in a way you disagree with, email info@aiwizard.ai. Corrections are free and do not depend on any commercial relationship — see the affiliate disclosure for how those are handled.