The template
Everything you're looking at, running for you by tomorrow
This site is not a demo of the template — it is the template. The 30-tool directory, the daily news desk, the price tracker, the operations console, the agent API: one self-hosted codebase that publishes, verifies, and audits its own content. Deploy it, rebrand it from the admin panel, and own a working AI intelligence platform instead of an empty starter kit.
One-time purchase · license key + private GitHub repo · deploy on any VPS you own
Automation
A site that runs itself
Directory sites die of manual upkeep. This one maintains itself — six of the ten pipelines you would otherwise be doing by hand:
A news desk that never sleeps
Pulls the ecosystem's feeds around the clock, ranks candidates by editorial authority, and writes an original digest for every story it publishes — your site posts fresh, indexable coverage daily without you touching it.
Self-verifying catalog
Every listed tool is re-crawled on a rolling schedule. Pricing is normalized from the vendor's own pages, dead tools are caught within three failed checks, and every page shows when it was last verified.
An editorial engine, not a scraper
Descriptions, comparisons, workflow guides, and profession pages are generated against real crawled data with quality gates — and every prompt is editable from the console, no deploy needed.
Nightly data audit
A deterministic audit sweeps the whole catalog every night — broken references, pricing contradictions, stale entries, duplicates — and repairs what has exactly one correct fix.
Coverage radar
The pipeline mines its own news corpus for hot tools you don't carry yet and queues them for one-click review. Your directory grows where the market's attention actually is.
Price tracker built in
Every observed price and status change becomes a data point, a page, and an RSS item — the kind of citable, always-fresh surface search engines and AI assistants reward.
What's inside
Three products in one deploy
The public site
- Tool directory with facets, categories, tags and rankings
- Head-to-head comparisons and alternatives pages
- Curated workflow stacks with step-by-step playbooks
- Profession pages anchored to official occupation data
- Live market statistics and per-tool pricing pages
- News, blog, topic hubs — SEO-complete with JSON-LD, sitemaps, llms.txt
The operations console
- Dashboard, review queues, and full CRUD for every content type
- Site identity — name, color, links, pricing — applied instantly
- Built-in Stripe monetization: paid fast-track reviews and featured placements
- Every pipeline tunable from the browser, prompts included
- Team roles (owner / admin / editor) with an append-only audit log
The agent layer
- Scoped API keys: read / content / publish / admin
- Complete OpenAPI 3.1 reference, live at /api/docs
- A built-in MCP server — manage the site from Claude or Cursor in natural language
- Install and rebrand Skills in the repo: your coding agent does the setup
Agent-native delivery
Your coding agent does the installing
No forty-step tutorial with screenshots that were outdated last month. The template ships with agent Skills: open the repo in Claude Code or Cursor, and your agent deploys the stack, seeds the content, wires your domain, and rebrands the whole site to your identity — while the text-first docs give humans the same path in plain language.
- Setup Skill — from clean server to running site
- Rebrand Skill — your name, brand, and content everywhere
- MCP server — operate the live site in natural language
- Full template source + seed content
- Built-in Stripe monetization
- Setup & rebrand agent Skills
- Docs + update workflow via git
- Deploy unlimited sites you own
License key + private GitHub repo, delivered in minutes. Code you deploy is yours forever.
Frequently asked questions
What exactly do I get?
The complete source code behind AI Directory — public site, admin console, all automated pipelines, built-in Stripe monetization, and the agent API — as a production-grade Next.js monorepo, plus seed content so you launch with a populated directory, not an empty shell. Delivery is a license key and a private GitHub repository invite.
How is it delivered?
Minutes after payment you receive a license key and an invite to the private GitHub repository. The repo carries the full docs (the same ones at /docs on this site) and agent Skills that install, deploy, and rebrand the site for you. Point Claude Code or Cursor at the repo and your agent walks through the whole setup.
Is this a subscription?
No. One payment, and the code you ship is yours forever. Template updates are delivered through the repository — pull them in with plain git whenever you like.
Do I need to be a developer?
It helps, but the template is built agent-first: the included Skills let a coding agent handle deployment and rebranding, and day-to-day operations happen in the admin console, not in code. If you can run a guided setup and use a dashboard, you can run the site.
How do I make money with it?
Stripe monetization ships in the box: paid fast-track submission reviews and paid featured placements work as soon as you add your own Stripe keys. Beyond that you own the code — affiliate links, sponsorships, newsletters, whatever fits your niche.
What does it cost to run?
A single VPS (roughly $10-30/month) runs the whole stack — app, Postgres, and cron pipelines — or use the Vercel + Neon path. The AI editorial layer runs on your own LLM API key; typical content operations cost a few dollars a month.
Can I resell the code or launch it for clients?
You can deploy unlimited sites you own. Reselling or redistributing the source — including as another template or an open-source repo — is not allowed, and a client project needs the client's own license. The full terms ship with the code.
Does it have to be an AI tools directory?
No. Tools, categories, and pipelines are data, not code — point the crawler and the taxonomies at any niche where products, prices, and news change faster than humans can track them.
Want to see what buyers build with it? Visit the showcase — or compare plans on pricing.