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AI Stack: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get

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A directory attached to a stack tracker, where the form fills signed out and only fails at submit

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AI Stack homepage
Eligibility

Who AI Stack accepts

You need
A tool name, which is the only required field
An account, though nothing on the form says so until it refuses
You'll be rejected if
Nothing is published. The stated bar is a tool a builder would put in a stack, and the catalogue already stretches to WordPress and Cloudflare
AI toolsDev tools
What you actually get
A card in /tools with your name, a dofollow link to your site and the pricing tiers you supplied, once a human approves it. Every one of the 24 outbound links on that page carries rel="noopener noreferrer" with no nofollow, so the link is real. The catalogue is a few dozen entries and is not the point of the site: the main product is stacks synced from builders' machines, measuring token spend, and /tools is the vocabulary those stacks are built from. A listing nobody puts in a stack sits in the directory and nowhere else.

How to submit to AI Stack

  1. Sign in first, whatever the form implies
    /signin offers Google, GitHub, a magic link and email-and-password. Do this before touching the form: it renders and fills perfectly while signed out and throws everything away when you submit.
  2. Open Add AI Tool
    The button is on /tools and goes to /tools/new. Tool name is the only required field; website URL sits beside it.
  3. Expand Add more details
    Categories and pricing are hidden behind that link. Twenty-five category chips, and pricing tiers taking a name, a type of fixed, usage or mixed, a price and a period of monthly, yearly or one-time.
  4. Submit for review
    It posts and drops you back on /tools. Nothing confirms it, and the tool does not appear in the list: their own line is that it is reviewed before it appears publicly.

AI Stack requirements

Tool name
Website URL
Categories
any of 25
Pricing tier nameoptional
Pricing type
fixed, usage or mixed
Pricing period
monthly, yearly or one-time

Gotchas

The form renders, fills and validates while signed out, and only refuses at the submit click with a small "Not authenticated" line above the fields. Everything typed is lost, and nothing on the page asks you to sign in first.
Nothing records that you submitted. There is no my-tools page, no confirmation and no reference: the account menu holds only Views, Machines and Sign out, and the tool is held back until a human approves it. Searching /tools later is the only way to find out.
No review time is published anywhere, so there is no point at which a silent submission becomes a rejection you can act on.

Let your agent submit to AI Stack

Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the AI Stack playbook and gets the brief for this exact form, with the values already taken from your submission pack instead of placeholders you fill in by hand.

What it does for this platform
Checks your product against the 3 AI Stack rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 6 fields this form asks for, 1 of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Types it into AI Stack in your own browser, and stops for you when the form wants a sign-in.
Records what it sent, so the dashboard can answer "did I ever submit to AI Stack?".
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AI Stack FAQ

How long does AI Stack approval take?
AI Stack does not publish how long approval takes.
How much does it cost to submit to AI Stack?
Submitting to AI Stack is free.
Does AI Stack give a dofollow backlink?
Yes, a listing on AI Stack carries a dofollow link. The site has a domain rating of 1.
Does AI Stack require a backlink to your site?
No, AI Stack does not require a link back from your site.
What gets you rejected from AI Stack?
Nothing is published. The stated bar is a tool a builder would put in a stack, and the catalogue already stretches to WordPress and Cloudflare.