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Supertools: requirements, how to submit, and what you actually get

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The AI tool index attached to a two-million-reader newsletter, where the free way in is an email to support and nobody promises to answer it.

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Supertools homepage
Eligibility

Who Supertools accepts

You need
An AI tool: this is the whole premise and the index is not general software
A live URL
A one-sentence description, since that is roughly the length they publish
A category from the twenty or so they already run
You'll be rejected if
Anything that is not an AI tool
Anyone who needs a decision, or any reply at all, on a timetable
AI tools
What you actually get
If they take it, a card in an index of roughly a thousand tools across 83 pages, filed under one of about twenty categories, with a short editorial one-liner and a Visit button that carries a real dofollow link. The index is editorially curated rather than maker-populated, and much of what is in it is model and feature releases from large labs, so a listing sits among Alibaba and OpenAI rather than among indie launches.

How to submit to Supertools

  1. Check you are actually in category
    Supertools is an AI tool index. The submit page says so and the catalogue backs it up: model releases, agents, coding and content tools. Software that is not AI has nowhere to land here.
  2. Read /submit for the two lanes
    They set out exactly two: Recommend a Tool, which is free, and Newsletter Feature, which is advertising. There is no form on the page for either.
  3. Email the recommendation
    Send support@therundown.ai the tool's name, URL, category and a one-sentence description. Those four things are what the page asks for and there is nothing else to fill in.
  4. Wait without a receipt
    Nothing acknowledges the email, no queue is shown, and no review time is published anywhere on the site. The only way to know is to search the index later.

Supertools requirements

Tool name
A live URL
Description
one sentence
A category from the ones the index already runs
Email to support@therundown.ai
the whole submission

Gotchas

There is no form, no receipt and no published review time. The free route is an email to a support address, so nothing confirms it arrived, no queue position exists, and no review window is stated on the submit page, the advertise page or the footer. The only way to learn the answer is to find your own listing later.
The paid option sitting beside it is not a faster lane. Newsletter Feature is advertising in the newsletter and is sold separately, so buying it does not put you in the index.

Let your agent submit to Supertools

Connect SubmitMap to your AI over MCP and this page stops being something you read and copy. Your agent asks for the Supertools 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 6 Supertools 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.
Tells you what paying buys here, so you pick it on purpose: recommending a tool costs nothing: you email support@therundown.ai and their team decides. The paid route beside it is a different product, a Newsletter Feature sold through /advertise-with-us against a list they describe as 2.5M active readers and 10,000 new subscribers a day. Buying the feature is advertising in the newsletter, not a faster lane into the index.
Types it into Supertools 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 Supertools?".
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Supertools FAQ

How long does Supertools approval take?
Supertools does not publish how long approval takes.
How much does it cost to submit to Supertools?
Supertools has a free submission option plus paid placement (Recommending a tool costs nothing: you email support@therundown.ai and their team decides. The paid route beside it is a different product, a Newsletter Feature sold through /advertise-with-us against a list they describe as 2.5M active readers and 10,000 new subscribers a day. Buying the feature is advertising in the newsletter, not a faster lane into the index.).
Does Supertools give a dofollow backlink?
Yes, a listing on Supertools carries a dofollow link. The site has a domain rating of 70.
Does Supertools require a backlink to your site?
No, Supertools does not require a link back from your site.
What gets you rejected from Supertools?
Anything that is not an AI tool; Anyone who needs a decision, or any reply at all, on a timetable.