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

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A free listing whose last step is an email you have to send yourself.

aitooldiscovery.com
AI Tool Discovery homepage
Eligibility

Who AI Tool Discovery accepts

You need
Their badge on your homepage or footer
A logo, and a submitter name and email
A production-ready product, not an alpha or beta
You'll be rejected if
Anything still in alpha or beta, which their quality agreement asks you to confirm
AI toolsSaaS productsDeveloper toolsMarketing tools
What you actually get
A listing among the 1,851 tools they claim, appearing in search and category pages. They say the free lane takes 5 to 7 business days and publishes the same day the badge is verified.

How to submit to AI Tool Discovery

  1. Open the free form
    Submit Free Listing hands off to a Tally form on tally.so. No account anywhere.
  2. Fill it
    Name, URL, a one-line and a detailed description, category, use case, professions, pricing model, logo, key features, and your name and email.
  3. Add the badge
    Six designs, any of them, on your homepage or footer.
  4. Email them
    The listing does not publish until you email hello@aitooldiscovery.com the URL of the page carrying the badge, with the subject they specify.

AI Tool Discovery requirements

Their badge
200x54 SVG, six designs
Logo
PNG, transparent, up to 10MB
One-line description
one sentence
Key features
three to five
An email you send
to hello@aitooldiscovery.com

Gotchas

The submission does not finish on the site. After the form you must email them the URL of the page carrying their badge, with a subject line they specify, and nothing publishes until you do.
The form is a Tally form on another domain, so nothing about it is saved to an account and a mistake means starting over.
Primary Category and Use Cases look like text fields and are not: they are searchable dropdowns that reject anything not on their list, and the form fails validation without saying which two fields are wrong.

Let your agent submit to AI Tool Discovery

Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the AI Tool Discovery 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 4 AI Tool Discovery rules above, so you find out you would be rejected before you open a tab.
Hands your agent all 5 fields this form asks for, none of them optional, already filled from your pack.
Warns you that AI Tool Discovery looks for its badge on your site, so it has to be live before you submit rather than after.
Tells you what paying buys here, so you pick it on purpose: free with their badge. Premium is $29 one-time, rising to $49 in January 2027, and buys a 1 to 2 day review, screenshots and a newsletter mention. Payment is by PayPal.
Types it into AI Tool Discovery 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 Tool Discovery?".
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AI Tool Discovery FAQ

How long does AI Tool Discovery approval take?
AI Tool Discovery's typical time from submission to going live is about a week.
How much does it cost to submit to AI Tool Discovery?
AI Tool Discovery has a free submission option plus paid placement (Free with their badge. Premium is $29 one-time, rising to $49 in January 2027, and buys a 1 to 2 day review, screenshots and a newsletter mention. Payment is by PayPal.).
Does AI Tool Discovery give a dofollow backlink?
Yes, a listing on AI Tool Discovery carries a dofollow link. The site has a domain rating of 45.
Does AI Tool Discovery require a backlink to your site?
Yes, AI Tool Discovery expects a link back from your site as part of listing.
What gets you rejected from AI Tool Discovery?
Anything still in alpha or beta, which their quality agreement asks you to confirm.