Tell us what you're doing
A role, a thing you're shipping, a date. Fifteen seconds, no account.
The truth about what to useand what to learn.
One pick. One runner-up. One thing to stop paying for. Dated, reasoned, priced in rupees.
One email when CuspAI opens. Nothing else.
See a real week on CuspAI
You pay for four AI tools. You don't know which one is waste. And every list that claims to tell you is paid by the tools on it.
“Position determined by bid amount.”
A verified check mark, sold for $497.
How it works
Three steps, then it gets out of your way.
Read what changed
Ninety seconds a day — a diff against what you already knew. Then it ends. Free forever.
Get the verdict
One pick, one runner-up, one thing to stop paying for. Dated rupee prices throughout.
For the sceptic
What CuspAI doesn't do.
- No inbox access. We never ask for it.
- No infinite feed. The daily list ends, on purpose.
- No full articles. We send you to the people who wrote them.
- No streaks, badges, levels, or red dots.
- No payment for placement. Not once, not for any reason.
- No blanket praise. Every set includes one thing we tell you to skip.
We take affiliate commissions — and we publish everything we refused to recommend, including the ones that pay us.
The Stack · On demand · Paid
What you should use, and what you should be paying.
Ask a real question — “do I need Lovable if I already pay for Cursor?” — and get one pick, one runner-up, and one card that says skip this.
The pick
Cursor · Pro
₹1,780/mo
Runner-up
Claude Code · Pro
₹1,700/mo
Skip this
GitHub Copilot
₹890/mo · unopened for six weeks
Verdict 26 Aug 2026 · prices checked 24 Aug 2026 · Cursor pays us a commission; the other two pay us nothing.
It usually finds more than it costs.
CuspAI Pro is ₹249 a month. Most people find more than that in the first audit.
The Signal · Daily · Free forever
What changed that affects you.
Three to five things, ninety seconds, then it ends.
Free forever. A commitment, not a promotion.
The Gap · Monthly · Paid
The one thing worth learning next.
One credential a month, with what it costs and what it's actually worth in Indian roles.
14 Indian role maps and counting.
I wanted a second opinion from someone who was not being paid by the thing being recommended.
Last year I paid for six AI tools and could not have told you which two were doing the work. Every list I found was written by someone the tools were paying.
So you pay me instead — which means I have to be right often enough to be worth ₹249. The Refusal List and the Decision Ledger exist so you can check whether I am.
Founder, CuspAI · Bengaluru
FAQ
Questions, answered plainly.
The Signal is free forever. The Stack and The Gap are ₹249 a month, or ₹499 once for a single Stack Audit.
No. CuspAI does not connect to your inbox — the most-requested thing we've decided not to build.
Editorially, and we say so on every verdict. The full method is published. We never take payment for placement.
Because the Refusal List includes tools that pay us and that we still tell you not to buy.
It goes in your Decision Ledger — dated, marked wrong, in our words, permanently.
Yes. India is Android-first and so are we.
Export and delete are self-serve, one tap, in the app. Built to the DPDP Act.
One verdict beats forty tabs.
We'll email you once, when it opens.