This page explains how a tool gets into DaleelAI, how it stays in, and when it comes out. I write it down because that clarity is part of the trust: a reader who knows how listings are checked can judge for themselves how much weight to give any one entry.
Basic verification (every listing gets this)
Before a tool is added, and again whenever it is revisited, I check:
- Accessibility. Does the tool’s site actually work, or is it down or gone?
- Primary purpose. What the tool actually does, and which of the directory’s categories it belongs in.
- The tool’s own site and information. I read the tool’s own page — its description, its features, what it says about itself — before writing anything about it here.
That’s the floor every listed tool passes through. It confirms the tool exists and is correctly categorized — it is not a deep quality assessment.
Deeper editorial review (not yet done for everything)
Some tools — usually the most-visited ones, or ones readers specifically asked about — get a deeper pass: actually using the tool, comparing it directly against similar ones, and noting details that don’t show up on the tool’s own marketing page. The comparison articles on this site are the clearest example.
That deeper level does not yet cover all 1,300+ tools in the directory. Unless a listing says otherwise, assume it has been through basic verification only.
What happens after listing
Links don’t stay valid forever. When a tool’s site stops responding, or its purpose changes entirely, the listing is updated or marked discontinued — not left as-is for a reader to discover the hard way.
What listing does not mean
A tool being in the directory means it passed the basic verification above, and is a way to help you discover it. It does not mean DaleelAI guarantees the tool’s quality, endorses it, or takes responsibility for how you use it.
Found a problem?
If a tool is down, a listing is out of date, or a category is wrong, tell me and I’ll check it.
975 tool links passed a check in the last 30 days. This number is generated when the page loads, not typed in.
How the check runs
The link is fetched, not assumed
A scheduled job requests each tool's official site and records what came back: a working page, a redirect, a parked domain, a dead host, or a network error.
Roughly 25 links an hour, about 600 a day.
A redirect is read, not followed blindly
A redirect that stays on the same domain is still a working link. One that lands on a different domain may mean the product was acquired -- or that the domain was sold to someone else entirely. Those are held for review rather than published either way.
A parked domain is not a working tool
A domain that now shows a for-sale or holding page returns a perfectly healthy HTTP 200. It is detected by what the page says, not by its status code, so it is never counted as verified.
One failure is never enough
Sites go down for an afternoon. Before a tool is labelled discontinued it must fail repeatedly, over a sustained period, and the system first probes a known-good site to confirm the fault is not on our side.
At least 3 consecutive failures spanning at least 14 days.
The date is published, not just stored
Each tool page carries the date its link last passed. If a tool shows no date, it has not been checked yet or its last check did not pass cleanly -- in which case nothing is claimed at all.
When a tool shuts down
Most directories quietly delete a dead listing, or leave it up with a link that goes nowhere. Neither is honest, and both waste the visit.
- The page stays online, so links pointing to it keep working and the tool stays findable by name.
- The visit button is withheld. We will not send you to a domain that is dead or up for sale.
- A dated shut-down notice replaces it, and working alternatives from the same category take its place.
- Where a single obvious successor exists, the page may forward to it permanently. Where the choice is not obvious, it never guesses on your behalf.
What this does not tell you
A verified link means the tool's site was reachable on that date. It is not a review, and it is not a judgement of quality, pricing accuracy, or how well the tool handles Arabic. Where a tool has been tested for a specific task, that is stated separately on its page and dated. Everything else is documentation drawn from the tool's own official pages.
Found something wrong?
An automated check catches a dead domain. It does not catch a tool that changed its pricing, dropped a feature, or stopped supporting Arabic. If you spot something out of date, tell us and it will be corrected with the correction dated.
