AI tools catalogue: 54 companies by job

Pick any task you did by hand last year and somebody now sells a machine that does it. Writing the first draft, cutting the video, cleaning up the photo, taking notes in the call, answering the support ticket, writing the glue code between two systems. The list grows faster than anyone can read it, so our AI catalogue starts from the job instead of the technology.

The section holds 54 companies sorted into 10 jobs. Images has nine of them, video eight, writing six, then design, voice, platforms and automation with five each, code and dictation with four, and assistants with three. Each card describes a company: who built it, in what year, what it does, what it costs, and what you give up on the free plan.

“One place to match an AI tool to the job in front of you”

— Intokened, AI services catalogue

What the ten jobs are

The job is the entry point because that is how people ask. They want a video for an ad, a voice for a course, a transcript of yesterday's call, a landing page by Thursday. The technology underneath is somebody else's problem until it stops working.

Video is the deepest of the ten, with 29 filters across six groups: price and billing, what the free tier costs you, where it runs, teams and data, the video features themselves, advertising. Images comes next. Dictation and voice carry six filters each, enough to separate a tool that copes with accents from one that does not, and code carries five.

Assistants is the smallest group with three cards, which matches how people work: two or three general assistants, and a dozen narrow tools around them for the parts those assistants do badly.

How to find the right card

The filter is one way in. Type what you need and the catalogue narrows as you type, matching parts of words rather than whole ones, because somebody who typed «transcrib» has already said enough.

Search works across alphabets. Both sides of the comparison go through the same transliteration, so «элевен лабс» finds ElevenLabs without a synonym list that somebody has to maintain by hand. It forgives one typo in words of five letters or more and refuses anything shorter, because at three letters a single wrong key turns one word into another and fills the results with noise.

What the prices tell you

The catalogue carries 187 pricing plans. Forty-three of the 54 companies run a free tier, and the median entry price for a paid plan is $15 a month. The cheapest paid entry is $2.25 and the most expensive starting plan is $75, a thirty-three-fold spread inside one catalogue.

Every price carries the date we checked it against the company's own pricing page, and all 54 cards carry today's date. Pricing pages change without announcements, screenshots of old prices circulate for years, and a number without a date is a rumour.

The filters know about money too. Past the facets each job defines, the catalogue derives its own from the plans: free tier or none, under $12, under $25, above that, billed per seat, billed by usage. Per seat and by usage decide whether a tool fits a team of fifteen or eats the budget in a month, and automation is where that question bites hardest.

What the cards say

Each card names the founding year, and the span runs from 2006 to 2025 with a median of 2020. The oldest names here never started as AI startups. They are companies that added a model to a product people already used, which is a different risk profile from a two-year-old lab with one feature.

The description explains the bet the company made rather than listing features. One slide tool rebuilds the layout when you add a point instead of writing the text for you. One transcription service sells a recorder along with the software. Read five of those and you learn more about a market than any comparison table teaches.

What is not here

There are no scores. No 9.2 out of 10, no stars, no editor's choice badge. We have not run these tools through a bench of our own, and a made-up number costs more trust than it adds. Each selection page says how the list is ordered and what separates the entries, written out where you can disagree with it.

Where to start

If you know the job, open the selection page for it. If you know the name, type it into the catalogue search. If the vocabulary is the obstacle, the AI glossary runs to 22 terms and explains what a context window or an AI agent is without the sales pitch wrapped around it.

The section grows every week and the prices get re-checked on a schedule. What stays fixed is the shape of a card: a company, a job, a price, and the date somebody looked.

Informational material, not investment or purchasing advice. Counts and prices describe the catalogue on 13 October 2026; companies change their plans without notice, which is why every card carries the date we last checked.