This is a design mockup. The 5 notetakers' prices and data answers are real, from their own pages through SpendTruth. Their scores and ranks are samples.
AI1000The Guide

How we check.

Every tool in the Guide passes the same 4 tests, gets scored on the same 5 things, and gets checked again every week. Nobody can pay us for a place, a rank, or a kinder note.

Pass 4 tests to get in.

We only rank a tool once it passes these 4 tests. If you can't buy it, see what it costs, or read what it does with your data, it isn't ready for your team.

  1. Your team can buy it today.

    It's a real AI product you can sign up and pay for now. Waitlists, demos, and research previews don't count.

  2. You can find out what it costs.

    A public price page is best. “Talk to sales” counts only if there's a real way to get a number.

  3. Its privacy policy is public.

    You can read it without signing up. That's where most of our data safety answers come from.

  4. It still works when we check.

    If the site's down, sign-up is broken, or the product's gone, it drops out until it's back.

A tool that passes all 4 is in the 1,000, and its score decides where it ranks.

Know what we score.

Every tool gets a score out of 100, built from 5 things. Value, data safety, and whether it works count for a quarter each, because they're what you'd ask about first.

If a company won't say, it's a no.

A missing answer scores the same as a bad one. So if we can't find out whether a tool trains on your data, we score it as if it does.

Value

25%

What your team really pays, and what it gets for that, next to other tools that do the same job. A fair price for a good tool beats a low price for a weak one.

Data safety

25%

Whether it trains on your data, how long it keeps it, where it's stored, and whether you can turn training off. Every answer quotes the company's own words.

Does it work

25%

Whether it does the job it's sold for. We try it on that job and check that what it promises is really there.

Momentum

15%

Whether it's getting better. We look for new releases, more teams choosing it, and, for open tools, more builders on GitHub.

Track record

10%

How long it's been around, and how it's handled price rises and policy changes. A tool with fewer surprises scores higher.

Set your own weights.

Care more about your data than the price? Move the sliders, and these 5 meeting notetakers re-rank to match. The facts stay the same. You're only changing how much each one counts.

    The scores are samples. The prices and data answers come from each company's own pages, checked Oct 15, 2026.

    See where each fact comes from.

    Every price and data answer in the Guide is a sentence the company wrote, with a link to where they wrote it. Each one goes through 4 steps before you see it.

    1. An AI agent reads the company's own page.

      It copies the exact sentence that answers the question, with its link. It doesn't summarize, and it doesn't guess at what the company meant.

    2. A second model checks it's really there.

      It opens the same page and looks for the sentence, word for word. If it can't find it, the fact doesn't go in.

    3. Plain code works out the score.

      It's simple arithmetic on the checked facts, with no AI involved, so the same facts always give the same score.

    4. A person signs it off.

      Every week, one of us reads what changed before anything goes live.

    Fireflies' training answer looks like this in the Guide.

    You own your data. We don’t train on it by default unlike other AI companies.
    Fireflies doesn't train on your meetings by default.
    fireflies.ai/security, checked Oct 15, 2026

    Check back every week.

    We recheck every fact.

    Each week, we go back to every page we quote. If a sentence has changed or gone, we update the entry to match.

    The rankings move weekly.

    New facts mean new scores, so the order changes every week. The Monday email shows you every tool that climbs, drops, arrives, or leaves.

    The top 10 rarely moves.

    Tools reach the top by being fair on price, safe with your data, and good at the job for a long time, and that rarely changes in a week. If one does drop, something real changed, and we'll tell you what it was.

    Companies check their entry first.

    Each company sees a new entry 7 days before it goes live. If we've got something wrong, they can tell us and show us where.

    1. We send the company its entry.

      They get every fact, every source, and the score, a week before anyone else.

    2. They have 7 days to send a correction.

      It needs a link to a public page that shows the right fact. Their own pricing page or policy is best.

    3. A person checks the link.

      If the page backs them up, we change the fact. If it doesn't, the fact stays as it is.

    4. We tell them what we decided, and why.

      We write to them either way.

    If a company disagrees.

    A person handles every dispute, never a model. We change a fact only when a public page shows it's wrong. It doesn't matter how hard a company pushes or how much they spend with us. If a new page backs them up later, they can come back any time.

    What we never sell.

    Nobody can buy these from us, at any price. If someone offers you one in our name, it isn't us.

    1. A place in the Guide
    2. A rank
    3. A verdict
    4. A kinder note
    5. Taking down a true fact
    6. A review of a rival

    See how we make money.

    We make money in 5 ways, and none of them changes a score.

    Sales and scores stay apart.

    Code works out each score from the facts alone, so money can't go into it. Nobody who sells for us can edit an entry, a score, or a note.

    • Fast-track reviews$99$49 for now

      A company pays to have its tool checked within 7 days instead of waiting in the queue. It buys speed, never a rank or a kinder note.

    • Seal licensesPrice on request

      A tool that's already in the Guide can pay to show our seal on its own site. Tools that aren't in can't buy one.

    • Sponsor slotsAlways labeled

      They sit on category pages, beside the rankings and never inside them.

    • Monday email sponsorsAlways labeled

      The sponsor gets a block of its own in the email, apart from the week's rankings.

    • Affiliate linksAlways disclosed

      Some companies pay us a fee if you sign up through our link. We say so next to the link, and it never affects rank.

    Later, we'll add Pro and Teams plans for readers. Awards start in year 2, with no entry fees.

    Meet Noettic Labs.

    We make AI1000 and SpendTruth. SpendTruth reads price pages and works out what each tool really costs a team, and the Guide's prices and data answers come from that work.

    Think we've got something wrong? Tell us, and show us the page that says so. Fixing it is free, and it always will be.

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