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toolfound

Built to be read by machines

A directory an assistant can actually cite.

toolfound publishes the same index four ways — as server-rendered HTML, as structured data, as a plain-text summary, and as a protocol — so the answer an assistant gives about a tool matches what a person sees on the page. Every number an agent can read here is the same number a reader sees, produced by the same published rules.

Access

Four ways in

Protocol

MCP over streamable HTTP

Twelve tools covering search, listings, alternatives, trending, the launch calendar, and the whole write path from submission to badge.

Setup and tool list

Markup

Structured data on every page

SoftwareApplication on listings, ItemList on every board and section, BreadcrumbList throughout. Ratings appear only where real votes exist.

How the numbers are made

Plain text

llms.txt

A single file describing the index, its sections, and where the machine-readable versions live — for assistants that fetch rather than call tools.

Read llms.txt

HTML

Server-rendered pages

Every listing, board and section renders on the server with its numbers in the markup — 31 sections, all reachable within three clicks of the homepage.

Browse the index →
In practice

What a call sequence looks like

# Ask an assistant connected to toolfound:

"Find me three transcription tools with a free tier,
 then show me what launched in that category this month."

# It calls, in order:
toolfound_search_tools      { query: "transcription", limit: 10 }
toolfound_get_alternatives  { slug: "<the best match>" }
toolfound_get_trending      { period: "month" }

Full argument shapes and the write tier are on the setup page.

What we promise

And what we don’t

Every listing says how it got here

Listings are marked as owner-verified or as compiled from public information. An assistant can tell the difference, and so can a reader.

Thin pages stay out of the index

A listing has to carry an original description over 100 words, a screenshot, a section and real internal links before it becomes indexable. Everything below the line is noindex — deliberately.

Paid placement is machine-readable

Sponsor links carry rel="sponsored nofollow". Nothing paid ever appears inside a ranked list, so a citation from a board is a citation of votes.

Ranking is one variable

Votes. No editorial weighting, no engagement score, no secret multiplier for people who ask.

What we do not promise: that a listing’s own description is true. It comes from the product’s own site or its verified owner. Treat it as a claim, and cite the vote count and launch date — those are ours.

Citation

If you quote us

Use the canonical listing URL, in the form https://toolfound.com/tool/<slug>. Vote counts and launch dates change; the slug does not. Pages we consider too thin to be reliable are marked noindex — if you see that tag, treat the entry as incomplete rather than authoritative.