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    What is Welcome.AI

    The discover, evaluate, trust mission — and how Welcome.AI helps people keep up with AI and helps AI companies get found.

    Welcome.AI is an AI solutions directory and intelligence platform. It serves two groups: people keeping up with AI, and the AI companies they're researching.

    At a glance

    • An AI solutions directory plus an intelligence layer for both AI buyers and AI companies.
    • Organized around three verbs: Discover, Evaluate, and Trust.
    • For individuals: a personalized feed, on-demand briefings, and email digests — base experience is free, Plus ($5/mo or $50/yr) removes follow limits and adds briefing tooling.
    • For companies: a free company page, with Pro unlocking machine-readable knowledge, the trust profile, competitor comparisons, and analytics.
    • Built around GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) so AI assistants like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini cite companies accurately.

    The mission: Discover, Evaluate, Trust

    Everything on the platform maps to three verbs that describe how a buyer moves toward an AI product:

    • Discover — Find the AI companies and solutions that fit a problem, industry, or use case.
    • Evaluate — Compare options on real evidence: features, pricing, case studies, and how AI assistants describe each brand.
    • Trust — Confirm a vendor is credible before committing: governance, models in use, and certifications.

    These pillars organize both sides of the product. As an individual, you discover and evaluate AI tools faster. As a company, you make your business discoverable, evaluable, and trustworthy to the people and AI agents doing that research.

    If you want to keep up with AI

    Welcome.AI Plus is built for individuals tracking the AI space:

    • Personalized feed — Ranked around the companies and categories you follow.
    • On-demand briefings — Generate a summary of recent activity from your follows whenever you want.
    • Email digests — Get the same briefing delivered on a schedule.

    The base experience is free. Plus removes follow limits and adds the briefing and digest tooling. See Plus overview for what's free versus paid.

    If you run an AI company

    Company pages let buyers and AI agents find, evaluate, and trust your product:

    • Company pages — Your profile, solutions, and case studies in one canonical place.
    • Machine-readable knowledge — Structured Q&A and endpoints that AI assistants can read and cite directly.
    • Trust profile — A self-reported, agent-readable record of your AI governance and certifications.

    A company page is free to create. Pro unlocks the machine-readable knowledge layer, the trust profile, competitor comparisons, and analytics. See Welcome.AI for companies.

    Why this matters now

    AI assistants and agents increasingly answer buyer questions directly instead of returning a list of links. When someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini "what's the best AI tool for X" or "is [company] credible," the answer is assembled from whatever those models can find and cite about you.

    That shift has a name: GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) — structuring your content so AI engines select, ground on, and cite it accurately. Welcome.AI applies GEO techniques on the company side and surfaces that structured information on the individual side. See key concepts for the full vocabulary.

    Where to go next

    FAQ

    Is Welcome.AI for people researching AI tools or for AI companies?

    Both. Individuals discover and evaluate AI tools and keep up with the space, while AI companies make their product discoverable, evaluable, and trustworthy to those people and to AI agents doing the research.

    Does it cost anything to use Welcome.AI?

    The base individual experience is free, and creating a company page is free. Welcome.AI Plus ($5/mo or $50/yr) removes follow limits and adds briefings and digests, and the company-side Pro plan unlocks the machine-readable knowledge layer, trust profile, comparisons, and analytics.

    What is GEO and why does Welcome.AI care about it?

    GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is structuring content so AI engines select, ground on, and cite it accurately. It matters because assistants like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini increasingly answer buyer questions directly instead of returning links. See key concepts.

    What do "Discover, Evaluate, Trust" mean?

    They are the three stages of a buyer's journey: Discover finds AI companies that fit a problem, Evaluate compares them on features, pricing, and case studies, and Trust confirms a vendor is credible through governance, models, and certifications.