Why we're building the AI Tool Refugee Center: a place to land when your tool dies

Sora shut down April 26 2026. Grok paywalled. Runway killed free video. Adobe Firefly removed credits. Every AI tool you currently use is on borrowed time unless its founder owns the GPUs. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not hyping. I'm telling you the same thing every infra engineer who has ever looked at the unit economics of generative AI has been muttering at conferences for two years: the free tier you love is a marketing line item, and marketing line items get cut. I'm Cemhan Biricik, founder of ZSky AI . This week we shipped something that might be the most important page on our entire site. It's not a feature. It's a promise. It's called the AI Tool Refugee Center , and it exists because I'm tired of watching creators get evicted from their own creative practice. The shutdown that broke me When OpenAI announced Sora was sunsetting on April 26, 2026, my inbox lit up. Not with curiosity. With grief. People had built workflows around Sora. Storyboards. Pitch decks. Client deliverables.