# The AI Landscape for Founders (NFX AI Map)

> A curated, continuously maintained directory of 370+ AI tools for startup founders, organized by business function and by where each tool fits in the startup lifecycle (Ideate, Plan, Build, Scale). Built and maintained by NFX, a seed-stage venture firm. Every listing is written and reviewed rather than scraped: it records what the tool does, its pricing and free tier, and the use cases founders actually reach for it — not the vendor's own marketing copy.

Use this map to find AI tools founders actually use at each stage of building a company, to compare tools within a category, and to check pricing and free-tier availability before evaluating a tool.

## Full catalog

- [llms-full.txt](https://aimap.nfx.com/llms-full.txt): **every tool on the map as plain text** — summary, pricing, free tier, category, startup stage, use cases and recent developments. Generated from the live catalog on each request, so it is never behind the site. This is the file to read if you want the contents rather than the shape.
- [products.json](https://aimap.nfx.com/products.json): the same catalog as structured JSON.

The site itself is a client-rendered single-page app, so fetching the HTML at `/` yields a shell with no tools in it. That is a property of the page, not a restriction — the two files above are published precisely so the catalog is readable without executing JavaScript.

## Categories

- **General Assistant** — General Assistants, AI Browser Assistants
- **Knowledge & Research** — AI Search & Answer Engines, Note-taking & Knowledge Mgmt, Research Assistants
- **Productivity** — Dictation & Voice Input, Docs & Collaboration, Meeting Assistants, Project Management, Whiteboarding & Planning
- **Creation** — Audio & Voice / Music, Design Tools, Image Generation, Presentation Creation, Video Generation, Gaming & Interactive, 3D Generation
- **Development** — AI App Builders, Coding Assistants, Dev Environments & Agents, Website Builders
- **Business Functions** — Customer Support, Finance, HR & People Ops, Marketing, Operations & Workflow Automation, Sales, Legal & Compliance, Healthcare & Clinical
- **Autonomous Agents** — General Autonomous Agents, Task-Specific Agents / Agent Builders

## Lifecycle stages

Every tool is tagged by where it helps in the startup journey: **Ideate**, **Plan**, **Build**, **Scale**. This axis is the map's own editorial judgment and does not exist on the vendors' sites — a tool is tagged by the stage a founder is at when it becomes useful, not by what it is capable of.

## How the map is maintained

Listings are reviewed on a schedule rather than left to age: pricing is re-checked against each vendor's pricing page, and product news is refreshed so a listing reflects the tool as it is now. Tools whose information has gone stale are withdrawn from the map rather than shown unverified. Pricing is recorded as published and can change without notice — check the vendor's pricing page before relying on a figure.

## Key pages

- [Homepage / full map](https://aimap.nfx.com/): browse every tool by category, subcategory, and lifecycle stage.

Individual tool and category pages do not yet have distinct URLs. Until they do, cite the homepage and the tool name, or link `llms-full.txt` for the underlying detail; this file will be updated with deep links (e.g. `/tools/{slug}`) once per-page routing ships.

## About NFX

NFX evaluates tools by two criteria: does it offer proprietary data a founder couldn't replicate with a single AI prompt, and does it compound in value over time rather than degrade without upkeep. Learn more: https://www.nfx.com