Tiers
- In our stack
- We run it on live client work today. Anything with this badge has a "How we run it" section written from actual use, not a trial.
- Recommended
- We evaluated it and would point a client to it in the right situation, but it isn't part of our daily stack. No hands-on usage claims appear on these pages.
- Previously used
- We ran it, then migrated away. The page says why.
Ease of use
Ease is judged for the majority buyer of the tool, and always ships with a one-line reason specific to that tool.
- Easy
- Self-serve. Productive in an afternoon.
- Medium
- Real configuration. Expect about a week of iteration before it earns its keep.
- Hard
- Needs an operator or engineering discipline. We say so plainly, because pretending a hard tool is easy helps nobody.
Best-for chips
Best-for chips are capped at two per tool. A tool tagged for everyone is a classification failure, so most carry one.
- Agencies
- Repeatable across clients: workspaces or sub-accounts for client isolation, and pricing that does not punish usage or client count. Flat or per-seat beats usage-metered.
- SMB
- Runnable without a dedicated ops person. Fast time to value, simple and forgiving pricing. SMB problems are different problems, not smaller enterprise ones.
- Enterprise
- Admin controls, permissions and SSO, security review readiness, team scale. Enterprise ops teams absorb complexity, so tech-heavy is acceptable here.
- AI-native
- Built for builder-first teams that prefer API-first, composable, scriptable tools. Docs and API quality matter more than UI polish. Correlates with the Agent-ready badge by design.
- B2B SaaS
- An in-house GTM team building its own motion: native CRM integrations, product-data hooks, per-seat pricing works fine.
Agent-ready
Agent-ready means the tool can be driven headlessly, through an API, CLI, MCP server, or webhooks, so a coding agent can operate it without a human clicking through a UI. It is the backbone of a code-run GTM system. The qualifying subset, assembled as a system: The Codified Stack.