The AI Tool Pick Card — Choose Between Two Tools Without a 40-Tab Spiral

A new AI tool appears every week, and every one of them has a demo that looks effortless. So you open forty tabs, compare feature lists that all say the same things, and end up paying for two tools — or picking the one with the loudest launch video.

The AI Tool Pick Card fixes that with a decision you can run in 30 minutes: write the exact job in one sentence, name your dealbreaker before you look at either tool, then trial both tools on the same real task and judge the outputs you would actually ship.

Inside the 4-page card: the three questions, in order (exact job, dealbreaker, switching cost); the main copy-paste prompt that compares two named tools on your job — and flags what it does not know instead of inventing prices or limits; the comparison worksheet (job fit, price and limits, output quality, learning curve, export and lock-in, privacy and support, dealbreaker check); the 30-minute trial plan (same task, both tools, judge on output first); one fictional worked example, start to finish (tool names invented; no real tool reviewed or ranked); five more copy-paste prompts (trial plan, switching cost, hidden limits, tiebreaker, 90-day review); and a 60-second version for the next tool decision.

You also get the prompts as a plain-text file, so you can paste them straight into your AI chat.

Scope: this card is a decision method, not a ranking. It names no real tool as best and takes no sponsorship. Prices, limits, and features change — verify them on the vendor's own page before paying for anything. A trial on your own task beats any review, including this card.

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