Every tool starts with a research pass: official docs, pricing page, signup flow, plus what real users say on Reddit, X, Hacker News, and YouTube in the last 30 days. Cards capture pricing tiers, special features, official links, and seed keywords from that research, not from the vendor's tagline.
A tool with a deeper review gets a linked article from its card. Tools without a review still appear if the research holds up, with the entry marked accordingly. Affiliate partners are disclosed on the card; the rest are unaffiliated and ranked by the same criteria.