THE AI INSIDE TEST
How we verify
Every product in this directory passes five tests. Fail one and it isn’t listed, however loud the marketing.
The five tests. All five, every time.
The AI is the core, not a garnish.
Take the AI away and the product stops doing its main job.
Passes A meeting notepad that writes your notes from the call.
Fails A to-do app with an “AI summary” button.
It runs a real model.
Language, vision, speech or image models, on your device or in the cloud. Rules and if-this-then-that automation don’t count.
Passes On-device transcription.
Fails “Smart” sorting that’s a set of rules.
You can use it today.
Generally available or in an open public beta. Waitlists and demo videos wait.
Passes Public beta anyone can join.
Fails A waitlist-only launch.
You feel it directly.
The AI is in what you see and do, not a claim about back-office systems.
Passes An editor that writes code with you.
Fails “AI-optimised logistics” you never touch.
The maker is clear about it.
The product’s own site says what the AI does. A vague “AI-powered” sticker doesn’t qualify.
Passes Docs that explain the model features.
Fails A homepage badge with nothing behind it.
AI Native or AI Infused. Both pass the same five tests.
Every listing carries one label. It tells you how the AI got there, not how good the product is.
AI Native
Built around a model from day one.
There was never a version without AI. The model is the product: the main screen is a prompt, a canvas or a conversation.
In the directory:
AI Infused
An established product that made AI part of its core.
The product existed before. Now AI drives a headline feature you would miss if it went away.
In the directory:
Infused isn’t second best. It means the AI arrived in a product people already rely on.
Reading a listing. What each part tells you.
AI Native or AI Infused, as above.
Where you can use it.
Goes to the maker’s site. Some links earn us a commission; it never affects what gets listed.
What doesn’t make the list.
A chatbot bolted onto a help page.
“Smart” features that are really rules.
Waitlists, demos and roadmaps.
AI claims you can’t see or use.
Think we got one wrong?
Tell us. If a listed product fails a test, we review it and update or remove the listing.