Method & disclosure

Every fact, checked by a person

VouchDex exists to give you accurate, current facts about AI and SaaS tools, so you can choose quickly and AI search can cite something true. This is exactly how a page gets made, scored and kept up to date.

100Tools checked
Nov 2Last check
48hReview time
0Paid rankings
The review

From a product's site to a checked page

  1. Read the source

    We start from the product's own website and pricing page, never a press release or another directory.

  2. Draft the facts

    Name, tagline, category, features and every plan with its price, written plainly. AI may help draft; it never decides.

  3. A person checks it

    Someone opens the site and checks each fact against it: the product works, the prices match, nothing is invented.

  4. Publish with dates

    The page goes live with the date each price was read, structured data, and a Markdown copy for AI crawlers.

  5. Re-check weekly

    A watcher re-reads every pricing page each week. A person confirms real changes before they are published.

Before anything goes live

What a person checks

The product works

It loads, you can sign up or download it, and it does what the tagline says.

Pricing matches their site

Every plan and price is copied from the official pricing page, in US$, and dated.

No hype, no invention

"Revolutionary", "best" and "#1" are removed. We never invent features, ratings or reviews.

The right category

Listed where people actually look for it, with up to two extra categories.

Who the maker is

Makers prove they own the product's site with a DNS TXT record or a meta tag on its homepage.

Fresh, or flagged

Prices older than 120 days are flagged on the page until we re-check them.

The Signal Score

One number, built from facts

Every page shows a Signal Score from 0 to 100. Until we test a tool hands-on, it is built only from things anyone can check. Once we test it, the hands-on result counts for 40%. Payment never changes it.

  • Pricing transparency25 pts
  • Free access15 pts
  • Platforms & API15 pts
  • Data freshness20 pts
  • Completeness10 pts
  • Maker verified15 pts
Worked example
Notion

Signal Score breakdown, from its live page

Pricing transparency25/25
3 plans with public prices
Free access15/15
Has a free plan
Platforms & API10/15
5 platforms
Data freshness20/20
Checked 11 days ago
Completeness10/10
Features and description
Maker verified0/15
Not claimed yet (claiming is free)
See the Notion page →
Independence

What money can't buy here

No paid scores or rankings

Payment never changes the Signal Score, the order of any list, or the weekly launch board. Listing is free, and free for the first 100 makers in every way.

Labelled if it's ever paid

If we ever sell a placement, it's marked "Featured" and its outbound link carries rel="sponsored". If a link ever earns a commission, it's labelled where it appears.

Makers can't edit freely

Verified makers send updates from their dashboard, and a person checks each change against their site before it goes live. Pricing is always re-read from the source.

The rules on money

What money can buy here

One thing is for sale: a labelled spot in the homepage Watch reel. Everything else below is free. A paid placement is always labelled Featured, sits apart from every ranking, and its links are marked as sponsored.

OfferPriceWhat you get
ListingFreeA person reviews it within 48 hours. A page with dated facts, built for Google and AI search, and your launch week on the Product of the Week board.
Founding MakerFreeFor the first 100 makers: a permanent spot on the homepage wall and a founder spotlight page.
DealFreeOffer VouchDex visitors a discount: a Deal badge on your cards and page, and a spot on /deals/.
Vouched badgeFreeFor every listed product. It updates itself: Featured on, Vote for us on, Vouched by.
Featured in the Watch reel$3.99 for 30 daysYour product first in the homepage reel and its stories, labelled Featured, for 30 days. Never a ranking position. Get featured
How featuring works: your product needs a live listing. Pay with the email you use on VouchDex (tax is added at checkout by Dodo Payments, our payment provider), and we add your product to the reel within one working day, for 30 days from when it goes up. Questions: [email protected].
What money can't buy: a Signal Score point, an upvote, a place on a launch board or the order of any list. If anyone offers to sell you one in our name, it's a scam: forward it to [email protected].
Claimed pages & spotlights

The maker confirms

Pages we write ourselves say so, with the date we checked them. A maker can claim their page by proving they work on the product (a DNS TXT record on its domain or a meta tag on its homepage). A person reviews every claim within 48 hours; approved pages show the "Vouched" mark.

Founder spotlights are written by the founders and lightly edited for length. We confirm the person works on the product before publishing.

How we use AI

AI drafts, people decide

AI can help draft a first version of a listing from the product's own website, and our weekly watcher flags pricing pages that changed. A person checks every fact before publishing, and every opinion or rating comes from our own testing. We don't invent features, reviews or ratings, and we don't use AI-written reviews.

Comparisons & lists

Built from the same checked data

Comparison, alternatives and best-of pages are generated from reviewed listing data, so they stay consistent when a price changes. They're only published when there's enough to be useful: an alternatives page needs at least 3 real alternatives, and comparisons are made only between tested tools in the same category.

For people and machines

Readable by AI search

Every page has structured data (JSON-LD), a clean Markdown copy, and an entry in our llms.txt, so assistants like ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity can read the facts and cite the source. The full index is open data at /api/tools.json.

Who runs VouchDex

Built by Suprabhat Mondal

VouchDex is created and run by Suprabhat Mondal, who reviews the listings and answers every maker email. Say hello, send a tip or flag a mistake.

Corrections

Spotted something wrong?

Email us and we fix factual errors within two working days, with the new date on the page. Makers can send updates from their dashboard.

Questions about our method

Who checks the listings?

A person checks every listing against the product's own website before it is published, and again whenever the maker sends an update or our weekly price check finds a change. Reviews take up to 48 hours.

Can a company pay for a better score or ranking?

No. Payment never changes the Signal Score, the order of any list, or launch-week rankings. If we ever sell a placement, it is labeled "Featured" and its link carries rel="sponsored".

How often are prices checked?

Every pricing page is re-read weekly by an automated check, and a person confirms any change. Each page shows the date its prices were last checked; anything older than 120 days is flagged.

Do you use AI to write listings?

AI can help draft a first version from the product's own website. A person checks every fact before publishing, and all opinions and ratings come from our own testing, never from AI.

How do I report a mistake?

Email [email protected]. We fix factual errors within two working days and update the date on the page. Makers can also send updates from their dashboard.

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