Freshness
What changed, and when
AI tools change fast, so the guide is re-checked on a rolling basis. This page logs what we added and re-verified; the method behind it lives in how we review.
July 2026
Catalogue reaches 129 tools with an open-weight coding wave
Eight tools added: Kimi Code, OpenClaw, Kling, OpenRouter, Base44, Harvey, Genspark and Poe. The open-weight model families GLM, Qwen, Llama and Kimi were republished with current positioning, every fact verified on publication. A new open-weight coding stack family of three stacks and seven new head-to-head comparisons shipped with them, taking the catalogue to 129 tools, 130 written comparisons and 42 stacks.
July 2026
Catalogue expands to 115 tools
18 tools added across legal and compliance, operations, meetings, e-commerce and support, every fact verified on publication day. 25 new head-to-head comparisons and three new stack families (legal and compliance, meetings, e-commerce) shipped with them.
July 2026
Full re-verification sweep
Every why-it-fits assessment across the catalogue re-checked and re-edited in place against current official sources, with per-tool verification dates updated.
July 2026
Comparisons corpus completed
The written-verdict comparison set reached 98 pairs, each with an editorial verdict and grounded FAQs, and every tool page gained its by-area decision tables.
July 2026
Guide launches at 97 tools
The catalogue seeded with 97 published tools across 15 job and 15 task areas, each with per-area guidance, verified facts and a stated review method.
Tools by last verification
Derived live from every published tool's verification date.
| Last checked | Tools |
|---|---|
| July 2026 | 128 |
| June 2026 | 1 |