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The AI Gear Base Journal
Deep reads for builders.
Essays on how we score AI tools, which agents actually ship, and what the real monthly bill looks like. No sponsored posts — ever.
RUBRIC
The 7-criteria rubric we use to score every AI tool
Every AI tool on AI Gear Base gets scored the same way — by humans, against a 7-criteria rubric that weights what actually matters to working teams.
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Leo Cho · Editor
AGENT
Which "AI agents" actually ship — a 30-day test
We gave twelve agent platforms the same real support-ticket workload for thirty days. Four of them could not close a single ticket without a human rescuing it.
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Sarah Jain · Senior Reviewer
PRICE
Real monthly cost of running an AI-first ops team
Eight people. Twenty-seven AI subscriptions. $4,312 a month before we started trimming. Here's the full itemized bill, and where the fat actually was.
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Miguel Reyes · Ops Contributor