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Buyers stopped browsing. Now they just ask.

They write down what they need and expect one good answer back. Smart Match is what answers them, and your listing is the brief it reads to decide whether your tool belongs in that answer.

Written by our team · reviewed by a person · no subscription

What a session reads
What they write
Their situation, in their own words
What is read from it
Budget, team size, stack, the problem
What comes back
Three tools, ranked, with reasons
What decides your place
Your brief, and nothing you can pay for

Ranked on fit with what the buyer wrote. Placement is not for sale.

Get your AI tool listed on HokAI

Buyers increasingly describe what they need instead of browsing a directory. On HokAI that request goes to Smart Match, which returns a short ranked set of tools with the reasoning attached. Your listing is the brief Smart Match reads to decide whether your tool belongs in that answer.

What is Smart Match?

A buyer writes out their situation: the budget they have, the size of their team, the tools they use now, and what is not working. Smart Match compares that against structured facts held on every listed tool, including capabilities, price bands, integrations and limits. It returns three tools, ranked, each with the reason it was chosen. There are no ad slots and no promoted placements.

Why the listing is written by hand

A recommendation has to be defensible to the person reading it, so it can only be made from facts the platform actually holds. Marketing sites are written to impress; a brief is written to be compared. Our team researches your tool and records what it does and does not do, what it really costs, what it integrates with, and where it fits. When you ship something or change your pricing, send it over from your free vendor account and we publish the update. A brief that has drifted gets you matched on a product you no longer sell.

Does paying get me ranked higher?

No. Ranking follows fit with what the buyer described: team size, budget, current stack, and the problem they are solving. The fee buys a page, never a position. Placement is not for sale at any price.

Where else the listing works

  • The directory: buyers who prefer to compare for themselves browse to your page and read the same brief.
  • Search: indexed and schema-structured, with your own site linked from it.
  • AI answers: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews lean on clean, factual, structured pages when someone asks them what to use.

What does a HokAI listing cost?

A listing is a one-time $5 (down from $50 during our launch offer, until 30 November 2026). Nothing renews and there is no subscription. The fee covers the research, the writing, and keeping the page accurate afterwards. Every submission is reviewed by a person, and if your tool is not a fit for the directory we refund it in full.

How to get listed

Send your tool URL and a work email at hokai.io/business/vendors. No account is needed. Pages are usually live within a few business days and we email you the link when yours publishes. To talk first, email Hokai@aioasia.com. To buy buyer leads instead, see Declared-Intent Leads.