Opening the ledger
Tools Ledger keeps a dated account of what software tools do, cost and change. The first entry explains the rules.
By Tools Ledger staff1 min read
A ledger is a plain record. Each line says what happened, when, and for how much. That is the shape we want for software coverage, where most of what gets written is either a vendor's own description or a comparison table that was out of date the week it went up.
Tools Ledger records tools the way a bookkeeper records transactions. One entry per tool. The entry says what the tool does, what it costs this month, what changed in the last release, who it suits and who it does not. When a price moves or a feature ships, we update the entry and add a dated line saying so.
The categories we cover
Marketing, sales, support, analytics, writing, and the AI layer that now sits on top of each of them. We cover the tools a team of two to fifty people pays for with a card, not enterprise suites with a sales process.
How an entry is checked
Prices are read from the vendor's pricing page on the day we write, and we keep the date. Features are checked in a live account where we can get one, or against the vendor's own documentation where we cannot, and the entry says which. A claim we could not check is marked as the vendor's claim.
Who publishes this
Tools Ledger is published by Good Standing Media. When an entry covers a company the publisher has a stake in, the entry says so at the top.
Corrections
Write to hello@toolsledger.com. We correct in place and leave a dated line in the entry.