AISOTools

Search the AISOTools catalog of AI tools by keyword, category slug, and pricing model. Returns ranked summaries with the canonical aisotools.com page for each result. Use it when the user asks which AI tool does something. `matched` is how many tools matched in total and `returned` is how many came back — when `truncated` is true there are more, so do not tell the user the catalog only contains what this page returned; raise `limit` (max 50) instead.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Free-text search, e.g. 'video editing', 'transcription', or a product name."
    },
    "category": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Restrict to one catalog category slug, e.g. 'video' or 'writing'."
    },
    "pricing": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "free",
        "freemium",
        "paid",
        "open-source"
      ],
      "description": "Restrict to one pricing model."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Maximum results, 1-50. Defaults to 10."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Full catalog record for one AI tool: description, features, pros, cons, who it is best for, pricing tiers, and alternatives. Accepts a slug or a display name.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "tool": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Slug ('claude-code') or display name ('Claude Code')."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "tool"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Every category in the AISOTools catalog with its slug, subcategories, and how many tools it contains.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {},
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Side-by-side comparison of 2-5 AI tools: pricing, rating, features, pros and cons. Use it when the user is choosing between named products.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "tools": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "description": "2-5 slugs or display names."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "tools"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Alternatives to a given AI tool, drawn from the catalog's curated alternative lists and falling back to same-category tools. Use it when the user wants to replace or switch off a product.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "tool": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Slug or display name to find alternatives for."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Maximum alternatives, 1-20. Defaults to 8."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "tool"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Use this when the user wants to know whether AI assistants recommend their product, brand or app — for example 'does ChatGPT mention my product?' or 'which competitors does ChatGPT suggest instead of us?'. It reads the product's homepage, asks ChatGPT five buying questions a customer in that category would ask, and reports which questions named the product and which rival products were named instead, with a 0-100 score. Takes 10-30 seconds; a check of the same product from the last 24 hours is returned instead of re-running. Results come from one run of one assistant and can vary between runs. Do not use it for questions about AI tools in general, for private or login-only sites, or to rank websites in search engines.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "product_name": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The product or brand name exactly as customers know it, e.g. 'Otter.ai'."
    },
    "url": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The product's public website, e.g. otter.ai or https://otter.ai"
    },
    "category": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Optional. The category or what buyers are shopping for, e.g. 'meeting transcription'. Read from the homepage when omitted."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "product_name",
    "url"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "product": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "url": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "category": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The category or buyer need the questions were about."
    },
    "engine": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Which assistant answered the questions."
    },
    "questionsAsked": {
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "namedIn": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "How many of the questions named the product."
    },
    "score": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "0-100 visibility score for this run."
    },
    "questions": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "question": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "productNamed": {
            "type": "boolean"
          },
          "rivalsNamed": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          }
        },
        "required": [
          "question",
          "productNamed",
          "rivalsNamed"
        ]
      }
    },
    "rivalsNamedInstead": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "name": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "questions": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "required": [
          "name",
          "questions"
        ]
      }
    },
    "checkedAt": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "fromRecentCheck": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "True when this is a check of the same product run in the last 24 hours."
    },
    "methodologyUrl": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "How the check works and its limits."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "product",
    "url",
    "category",
    "engine",
    "questionsAsked",
    "namedIn",
    "score",
    "questions",
    "rivalsNamedInstead",
    "checkedAt",
    "fromRecentCheck",
    "methodologyUrl"
  ]
}