Advertise to designers when they pick their next tool.
Reach designers on The Design Tools at one question: which tool should I use? They arrive from Google, and more and more from AI assistants. Put your product in front of them while they are still choosing.
- Pay once by card, secured by Stripe. Nothing renews by itself
- Cards go live the same day, no call needed
- Every placement is labelled Sponsored, and paying never changes a review, a ranking or a drawback
- Fair refund terms: full refund before your placement goes live
For a small team on a budget, these come up most in independent reviews:
- Maze: unmoderated tests, has a free plan1
- Lyssna: quick preference and five-second tests1
- Dovetail: tagging and synthesis of findings2
Pick a placement and book it in minutes
Six ways to reach our readers. One payment, no contract. Founding rates are held for as long as you keep the placement.
Founding sponsors: our first 3 sponsors get their first 4 weeks free, in exchange for a short, honest testimonial we can publish. Ask for a founding slot.
✓ Maker Verified listing
Skip the review queue. Your tool page goes live within minutes, written in our neutral voice, with a “Maker verified” label (marked as paid) and pinned at the top of this week’s new tools. Reply to our review and send up to 3 updates a month from your maker dashboard. Buying a homepage placement or the Launch package? You can add it to that order instead. Already listed? Claim your page free and upgrade from there.
Or pick a single placement. Click a card to book it:
Sponsor slots
One card, every page of the site. None of them moves a ranking or softens a drawback.
Choose, pay, go live. Usually the same day.
Choose a placement and pay
Choose what you want, add your name and website, pay by card on Stripe. You get a receipt by email. No call needed.
We write your draft
We write the copy from your website. You read it, and edit it from your dashboard if you like.
You launch
One click and your 4 weeks start. Articles go up when you approve them. We email you before anything ends. Nothing renews by itself.
Fair to you, fair to us
Full refund before it goes live; refund for days not used within the first 14 days. Full terms of sale.
Before it goes live
Full refund, any time, no questions asked. Just email us.
Live for under 14 days
Refund for the days not used. For a 4-week placement that is the price divided by 28, times the days left.
If we get it wrong
If we fail to run your placement as described and cannot fix it quickly, you get your money back for the affected days, or in full.
After 14 days
The placement has been delivered, so there is no refund unless the problem was ours.
Refund details (EU withdrawal, Maker Verified, bespoke)
Email hello@thedesigntools.site with the address you paid with. Refunds go back to the card you paid with within 14 days. One-time payments only: nothing renews, so there is nothing to cancel. EU/UK consumers: 14-day withdrawal right applies; since the service starts straight away at your request, you pay only for days already live. Maker Verified: full refund if we cannot publish your page; once live it counts as delivered. Bespoke placements follow the agreed quote. Full terms of sale.
Designers who are ready to buy
What we offer is a better moment, not just more impressions: visitors comparing prices and drawbacks, usually as the last step before signing up — on pages built to be read by people and AI assistants alike, next to reviews they trust because sponsors can never change them.
Straight answers
Does sponsoring change how my tool is listed or reviewed?
No. Rankings, listings and drawbacks are editorial and stay the same whether or not you sponsor. Paid links use rel="sponsored nofollow" — you pay for attention from people ready to buy, not link juice.
Will this get my product recommended by ChatGPT or other AI assistants?
Nobody can honestly promise that. This site is built to be easy for AI engines to read and cite, and a sponsored article is a normal page they can crawl, labelled as sponsored. Our AI briefing files (llms.txt) list only editorial content, so paying never puts you in them.
Can you promise visitors or sign-ups?
No. Designers comparing tools arrive from Google and AI assistants, usually close to a decision — whether they click depends on your product and offer. Not sure it fits? Ask us before you pay.
Prefer to talk first?
Not sure which placement fits, or want something custom? Tell us what you sell and we reply within 24 hours with an honest opinion. No pressure, no contract.