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No. Our editors' scores and ranking positions are never for sale. Every ad slot is labeled "PR" and shown separately from our editorial rankings. What you can do for free that is reflected in the score (accurate public information, clear Japanese support and so on) is explained in "How to improve your score" below.

Yes. You don't need a Japanese company or office. If your tool is already listed on AI PICKS, sign up on this page with a work email on your tool's domain. Card payments are handled by Stripe, so most international cards work.

Pick a plan, enter your tool, company name and work email in the form, and go straight to payment. No password, no account to create first, no sales call. After payment, we email a sign-in link for the vendor dashboard to the address you entered (no password needed). You submit descriptions, logos and screenshots from the dashboard; our editors review them before they go live and may ask for changes or decline them. Images are given as https URLs.

Yes. If your email's domain matches your tool's official website, your verification is confirmed and your paid plan starts when you sign in with the link we send after payment. If the domains differ (an agency or group-company email, for example), sign in and verify with a meta tag or a DNS TXT record on the official site; your plan starts once that's done. Until then, there's no badge, PR placement or vendor description. Your first billing period is counted from the day you're verified (for invoice payment, the day both your payment and verification are confirmed): your next billing date moves back by the days that took. If we can't confirm that you are the tool's vendor within 14 days of payment, we cancel automatically and refund you in full.

Without vendor verification, there's no badge and no PR placement. If verification doesn't happen within 14 days, we cancel and refund in full automatically. Once a company has verified a tool, only that company's account can sign up for it.

Japanese yen (JPY). The USD amounts on this page are rough guides at USD 1 = JPY 150; your card issuer sets the actual exchange rate. All prices are totals in JPY with tax included; there are no additional charges.

Yes. Choose "Bank transfer (invoice)" in the form and Stripe emails you an invoice, due 14 days after it's issued. Payment goes to a Japanese bank account in JPY, and transfer fees are on you. This form shows the exact invoice total before you order. Your plan starts once we have both confirmed the payment and verified you. If we can't confirm it within 7 days after the due date, the order is canceled. Vendor verification works the same way as with cards.

Your paid plan starts when your vendor verification is confirmed (for invoice payment, once we have both confirmed your payment and verified you). It shows on the site from the next site update after that (we usually update several times a day). Even if your email domain matches the official site, nothing starts until you sign in with the link we send. Your first billing period is counted from the day you're verified (for invoice payment, the day both your payment and verification are confirmed): your next billing date moves back by the days that took.

The dashboard and your listing are in Japanese, because our readers are in Japan. Your browser's translate feature works well on the dashboard, and you can always reach us in English through our contact form.

Cancel anytime from "Billing & cancellation" in the vendor dashboard. After canceling, your plan stays active until the end of the paid period. No prorated refunds.

As a rule, payments are not refunded (including mid-term cancellation, results you hoped for not materializing, copy or images we decline to publish, differences in PR impressions, and metric delays). We refund only: in full, if we cancel because vendor verification isn't confirmed within 14 days; the excess, for duplicate, excessive or post-termination charges; the undelivered part, if we end or can't provide the service for our own reasons or fail to provide the main paid features for a substantial period through our breach; and any amount required by law. We don't deduct fees from full refunds, billing-error refunds or refunds for our own reasons. See Article 13 of the Listing Plan Terms (in Japanese; the Japanese version governs).

If a renewal payment fails, Stripe retries every few days. If it still hasn't gone through 7 days after the first failure, we pause your paid features. For invoices, we pause them 7 days after the due date. Pausing doesn't cancel your plan; features come back automatically once payment succeeds.

Yes. Stripe issues them, and you can download them anytime from "Billing & cancellation" in the vendor dashboard. Amounts match this page. AI PICKS Inc. is not a qualified invoice issuer under Japan's invoice system.

Not because more companies sign up. Pro is limited to 3 companies per category, and you appear in the ranking and comparison PR slots (3 slots) on every view. We promise where you appear and how many slots there are; we don't guarantee impressions or clicks.

You can't order Pro in that category (the form tells you). Join the waitlist through our contact form and we'll offer spots in order as they open. Basic is always available, whatever the number of companies.

Paid plans ordered by December 31, 2026 keep the price at the time of order for 12 months from the start, even if the price list changes (the Top slot waitlist rule is separate).

Join the waitlist from the vendor dashboard (open to paid-plan subscribers). When a slot opens, the first company in line gets 72 hours to claim it (if you don't claim it in time, we offer it to the next company, and you can't rejoin that category's waitlist for 90 days). If there's a waitlist 7 days before renewal, the next month's price for that slot rises by 25 percent, and keeps rising at each renewal while the waitlist lasts; it resets to the base price when the slot frees up. If there's a waitlist, one company can hold the slot for up to 6 months in a row, and the slot passes to the next company at the end of month 6. With no waitlist, you can keep it.

No. Your vendor dashboard shows how your listing is doing, compiled once every morning. Rather than raw counts, it shows a level based on our own criteria (such as "growing", "well viewed" or "seeing activity") and, when they grow by a meaningful margin, the growth rate compared with the first count after your listing started or with the previous period. Growth rates appear only when there is growth; if both comparisons apply, we show the larger one together with what it is compared against. Right after you sign up they show as "pending". These are estimates; we decide how they are calculated and may change that without notice. They are not a measure of ad performance.

The "Vendor verified" badge: It means the listing is managed by someone we've confirmed works for the tool's vendor. It is not an editorial rating. Pro and Top slot placements always carry a "PR" label and sit apart from our editorial rankings. Pro is limited to 3 companies per category. On ranking and comparison pages, every Pro subscriber in the category is shown in the PR slots on every view, in a random order. The 1 PR slot on other tool pages in the same category shows one Pro subscriber chosen at random on each view (not on your own tool's page, other paid subscribers' pages, or our own products' pages). Impressions, clicks and position aren't guaranteed. Descriptions you write appear in a separate "From the vendor" box that says they come from the vendor, not our editors; our editors review them before they go live.