Q: How many AI agents has Hlido reviewed?

342 reviewed as of 2026-05-08. Distribution by category: AI Agent (53), Infrastructure (44), Coding (32), Customer Experience (29), Productivity (28), Workflow & Automation (25), Voice (22), Image & Design (22). Full live registry at https://hlido.eu/data/review-registry.json (machine-readable JSON).

Q: What are the best Coding AI agents according to Hlido?

Top 3 reviewed Coding agents on Hlido (sorted by Laddoo Score): Aider — 90/100 (VITAL); GitHub Copilot — 90/100 (VITAL); Replit Agent — 90/100 (VITAL). Full Coding category listing at https://hlido.eu/reviews/category/coding/.

Q: What are the best Voice AI agents according to Hlido?

Top 3 reviewed Voice agents on Hlido (sorted by Laddoo Score): Synthesia — 90/100 (VITAL); Retell AI — 90/100 (VITAL); Vapi — 90/100 (VITAL). Full Voice category listing at https://hlido.eu/reviews/category/voice/.

Q: What are the best Research AI agents according to Hlido?

Top 3 reviewed Research agents on Hlido (sorted by Laddoo Score): Exa — 90/100 (VITAL); Mendable — 78/100 (STEADY); Scite — 78/100 (STEADY). Full Research category listing at https://hlido.eu/reviews/category/research/.

Q: What are the best Productivity AI agents according to Hlido?

Top 3 reviewed Productivity agents on Hlido (sorted by Laddoo Score): Mem — 90/100 (VITAL); Otter.ai — 90/100 (VITAL); Smartsheet AI — 90/100 (VITAL). Full Productivity category listing at https://hlido.eu/reviews/category/productivity/.

Q: Is Hlido independent? Are reviews paid for?

Hlido takes no equity in agents we review and does not sell score changes. There are no paid placements. The Verified Badge product is a separate after-review service for products that already passed a public review — it does not change the score. Disclosure at https://hlido.eu/legal/conflict-of-interest.html.

Q: How can I query Hlido programmatically?

Hlido exposes an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server at https://hlido.eu/mcp with 9 tools (trust_check, find_trusted, verify_claim, compare_agents, submit_agent, get_scorecard, report_review_issue, request_quick_audit, find_similar_agents). JSON-RPC 2.0, no authentication. The full review registry is also available as JSON at https://hlido.eu/data/review-registry.json and per-agent scorecards at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ankitkapur1992-hlido/hlido-public/main/scorecards/{slug}.json.

Q: How fresh are Hlido's reviews?

Reviews are dated and re-tested on a monthly reliability check. If an agent's score drifts more than 15 points on re-test (e.g. due to a website redesign or a product pivot), the review gets re-published. Stale reviews are flagged. Last 7 days of publishes are listed at https://hlido.eu/feed.xml (RSS) and at https://hlido.eu/sitemap-news.xml.

Question 1

What is Hlido?

Accepted Answer

Hlido is an independent review desk for AI agents. We test what AI agents actually do — in public, with C2PA-signed evidence — so buyers, teams, and other AI agents can decide which ones live up to their pitch. As of today, 342 agents are reviewed. No paid placements. Reviews are at https://hlido.eu/reviews/.

Question 2

How does Hlido score AI agents?

Accepted Answer

Each review produces a Laddoo Score (0–100) across four dimensions: Strategic Alpha (does it solve a real problem), Craft & Soul (UX quality), Execution Grit (reliability), and Value Signal (pricing transparency). Scoring weights are intentionally private to prevent gaming. Tier mapping: VITAL ≥ 90 (63 agents) · STEADY ≥ 70 (119) · FADING ≥ 40 (160) · FLATLINE < 40. Public scorecards include the claim-vs-evidence table — what the agent claims and what we found when we tested.

Question 3

How many AI agents has Hlido reviewed?

Accepted Answer

342 reviewed as of 2026-05-08. Distribution by category: AI Agent (53), Infrastructure (44), Coding (32), Customer Experience (29), Productivity (28), Workflow & Automation (25), Voice (22), Image & Design (22). Full live registry at https://hlido.eu/data/review-registry.json (machine-readable JSON).

Question 4

What are the best Coding AI agents according to Hlido?

Accepted Answer

Top 3 reviewed Coding agents on Hlido (sorted by Laddoo Score): Aider — 90/100 (VITAL); GitHub Copilot — 90/100 (VITAL); Replit Agent — 90/100 (VITAL). Full Coding category listing at https://hlido.eu/reviews/category/coding/.

Question 5

What are the best Voice AI agents according to Hlido?

Accepted Answer

Top 3 reviewed Voice agents on Hlido (sorted by Laddoo Score): Synthesia — 90/100 (VITAL); Retell AI — 90/100 (VITAL); Vapi — 90/100 (VITAL). Full Voice category listing at https://hlido.eu/reviews/category/voice/.

Question 6

What are the best Research AI agents according to Hlido?

Accepted Answer

Top 3 reviewed Research agents on Hlido (sorted by Laddoo Score): Exa — 90/100 (VITAL); Mendable — 78/100 (STEADY); Scite — 78/100 (STEADY). Full Research category listing at https://hlido.eu/reviews/category/research/.

Question 7

What are the best Productivity AI agents according to Hlido?

Accepted Answer

Top 3 reviewed Productivity agents on Hlido (sorted by Laddoo Score): Mem — 90/100 (VITAL); Otter.ai — 90/100 (VITAL); Smartsheet AI — 90/100 (VITAL). Full Productivity category listing at https://hlido.eu/reviews/category/productivity/.

Question 8

Is Hlido independent? Are reviews paid for?

Accepted Answer

Hlido takes no equity in agents we review and does not sell score changes. There are no paid placements. The Verified Badge product is a separate after-review service for products that already passed a public review — it does not change the score. Disclosure at https://hlido.eu/legal/conflict-of-interest.html.

Question 9

How can I query Hlido programmatically?

Accepted Answer

Hlido exposes an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server at https://hlido.eu/mcp with 9 tools (trust_check, find_trusted, verify_claim, compare_agents, submit_agent, get_scorecard, report_review_issue, request_quick_audit, find_similar_agents). JSON-RPC 2.0, no authentication. The full review registry is also available as JSON at https://hlido.eu/data/review-registry.json and per-agent scorecards at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ankitkapur1992-hlido/hlido-public/main/scorecards/{slug}.json.

Question 10

How fresh are Hlido's reviews?

Accepted Answer

Reviews are dated and re-tested on a monthly reliability check. If an agent's score drifts more than 15 points on re-test (e.g. due to a website redesign or a product pivot), the review gets re-published. Stale reviews are flagged. Last 7 days of publishes are listed at https://hlido.eu/feed.xml (RSS) and at https://hlido.eu/sitemap-news.xml.

Question 11

How can I submit an AI agent for Hlido review?

Accepted Answer

Submit at https://hlido.eu/submit/. The submission flow is rate-limited (1/IP/24h) but free — no payment required to be reviewed. After submission, the agent enters Hlido's pipeline and is reviewed within 1–7 days depending on tier and queue depth.

Question 12

What evidence does Hlido capture for each review?

Accepted Answer

Each review captures: public-surface screenshots from at least 5-6 standard URLs (homepage, pricing, docs, integrations, etc), C2PA-signed PNG evidence (cryptographic provenance), a structured claim-vs-evidence table mapping every product claim to what we observed, and (for CLI tools) terminal session recordings. All artifacts are linked from the review page.

Question 13

Where is the Hlido data published?

Accepted Answer

Hlido publishes to multiple surfaces simultaneously: hlido.eu (canonical), https://github.com/ankitkapur1992-hlido/hlido-public (per-slug scorecards as JSON), https://huggingface.co/datasets/hlido-eu/agent-benchmark (research dataset), https://huggingface.co/spaces/hlido-eu/leaderboard (live leaderboard), and the MCP server (machine-queryable). Same data, multiple formats, agent-readable everywhere.

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