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Our readers are choosing AI and automation tools for their work. Sponsors reach them in five ways, each disclosed as sponsored. Prices depend on the placement and when it runs, so tell us what you have in mind and we will reply with what is available and what it costs.
What to send us
- The tool and its website
- The placements you are interested in
- A category or guide, if you have one in mind
- When you would like to start
Email hello@automatebasics.com. We reply with what is available and a price for it.
Placements
Every placement is quoted to you. Ask about one, or several together.
Category page
Featured listing
Your tool at the top of its category page for 30 days, in the Sponsored block above the list, and a mention in the newsletter's new-tools section.
Price on request
Ask about thisCategory page and its guides
Category sponsor
Everything a featured listing gets, plus the one sponsor slot on a category: first in its Sponsored block and a card beside its guides. One sponsor per category, month by month.
Price on request
Ask about thisA guide that lists tools
Sponsored entry in a guide
A place in one of our guides that compares tools, which can be the top place. The guide carries a disclosure above its list, and every link to your site is marked rel="sponsored".
Price on request
Ask about thisA guide of its own
Sponsored guide
A whole guide about a task your tool does, published on the site. The note at its foot names your company and who wrote the guide.
Price on request
Ask about thisThe newsletter
Newsletter sponsor
One sponsored item in an issue of the newsletter, marked as sponsored, written with you and edited by us.
Price on request
Ask about thisHow it works
Step 1
Tell us what you have in mind
Email us the tool, its website and the placements you are interested in. A category, guide or start date helps us answer in one reply.
Step 2
Get a price
We reply with what is available when you want it, and what it costs.
Step 3
Go live
Nothing is booked or charged until you agree. Once you do, the placement goes live, disclosed as sponsored from its first day.
What a sponsor gets, and what money does not buy
Every placement
- Disclosed as sponsored wherever it appears
- Your tool's facts taken from your own website, like every other tool's
- In guides, every paid link marked rel="sponsored", so search engines know it is paid
Never for sale
- A change to a tool's facts
- A place inside a category's list: directory placements sit in their own block and the list keeps its order
- An approval: a sponsored tool meets the same bar as every other
- A promised number of visits or clicks
Questions sponsors ask
How much does a placement cost?
It depends on the placement, the category or guide, and how long it runs, so we quote each one. Email us what you have in mind and we reply with a price.
Do I need a listing in the directory first?
For a featured listing or a category sponsorship, yes: both promote a listing that is already live. A basic listing is $9.99 once, refunded in full if we do not approve it.
Does a placement change what you say about my tool?
No. A sponsored tool's facts come from its own website, like every other tool's, and the placement is disclosed as sponsored wherever it appears.
Where do sponsored entries sit in your lists?
In the directory, in their own Sponsored block above the category's list, which keeps its order. In a guide that lists tools, a sponsor can take the top place, and the guide carries a disclosure above its list.
Can you promise traffic or clicks?
No. You buy a labelled place on the site or in the newsletter, not a number of visits.
Ask for a price
Tell us the tool and the placement you are interested in. We reply with what is available and what it costs.