About Pist

Trust, but verify.

What Pist is

Pist is a living map of creative AI. Every day it matches each tool to the models underneath it and weighs it against what actually matters: features, integrations, capability, control, ownership, proof, cost and craft. Then it shows you the clearest path to a finished asset that looks and sounds like your brand.

We are independent. No vendor pays for coverage, placement or a score. Ever.

We exist for the people who make things — studios, agencies, brand teams and independent creators — so that you, not the tools, are in charge of how AI is used in your work.

How it works

• The index. Every creative AI tool we track, with the vendor, what it does, what it costs and who owns what you make with it.
• The model lineage map. Which models sit underneath which tools, so you can see when two "different" products are really the same engine.
• The claims ledger. Every vendor claim, labelled as a vendor claim, reported by a third party, verified, contradicted or outdated, with a source and a date.
• The Test Kitchen. Real tests against one shared brief for a fictional brand, published with the prompt, model, date and cost.
• The Pist Score. Proof, craft, control, cost clarity and creator ownership, weighted the same way for every tool. Read the method.

Our pledge

• No vendor money for coverage, placement or scores. Ever.
• No affiliate links.
• Every fact carries a source link and a date.
• Nothing gets a grade until it has actually been tested.
• When we're wrong, we publish the correction in the change log.

Why we do this: read the manifesto.

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Pist is a Needle Space Labs project.