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Agents, copilots, agent infrastructure, developer tools, AI infra and data for AI.

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cheap to test: under $1,500 and 4 weeks

Cheap to test

93 ideas. Ideas whose test block fits in $1,500 and 4 weeks: the ones a small team can settle before the next month is out.

AI and software · AI infra and compute

Auralith

Over-the-counter hearing wearable with a speech model burned into custom silicon.

Auralith sells a consumer ear-worn device whose noise separation and speech reconstruction model is hardcoded into a low-power ASIC, so a full conversational model runs for a day on a coin-cell class battery with no phone and no cloud.

Score 87Active competitionVC 4/5HardwareConsumertest: $1.4k · 4w99% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Agent infrastructure

Socketry

The exchange where software vendors sell maintained, agent-ready API connections.

Socketry is a two-sided marketplace where SaaS vendors publish guaranteed-current, agent-callable versions of their APIs - tested sandboxes, auth, rate contracts, change notices - and enterprises subscribe to them for their internal agents with one bill and one security review.

Score 85Open competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceEnterprisetest: $900 · 4w98% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Agent infrastructure

Latchwork

Self-healing connectors for the long tail of small business software agents cannot reach.

Latchwork records a session against a vertical tool that has no usable API - a dental scheduler, a salon booking system, a freight dispatch app - and turns it into a connector that agents call like an API, then repairs itself when the vendor changes a screen.

Score 85Open competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall businesstest: $800 · 4w98% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · AI infra and compute

Meterline

The metering and chargeback rail for enterprise AI spend.

Meterline is a drop-in API proxy that meters every model call an enterprise makes - across providers, internal clusters, and agents - and turns it into per-team, per-product cost accounting with cross-customer price-performance benchmarks.

Score 83Open competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprisetest: $500 · 4w99% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Vertical AI agents

Bidcraft

Small contractors upload plans and get a priced, win-rate-tuned quote in twenty minutes.

Bidcraft is a self-serve subscription for specialty trade subcontractors and field service firms: drop in a PDF plan set, a site photo set or an inspection report, and the system does takeoff, prices materials from live supplier catalogs in the user's country, applies the firm's labour rates and returns a client-ready quote.

Score 81Warm competitionVC 5/5Software subscriptionSmall businesstest: $1.4k · 3w98% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Vertical AI agents

Fiscala

A licensed AI tax agent that files for cross-border workers in every country they touch

Fiscala is an AI agent that acts as the registered tax preparer for expats, remote workers, and digital nomads, ingesting payslips, broker statements, and residency records to prepare and file returns in multiple jurisdictions at once.

Score 78Open competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceConsumertest: $1.1k · 3w97% of 2 neighbours alive

AI and software · Agent infrastructure

Opsbox

A countertop appliance that gives every small business a local AI staff member.

Opsbox sells a small appliance that plugs into an SMB's phone line, cameras, and point of sale, and runs agents locally: it answers every call, takes orders and bookings, flags shrink and stockouts from the camera feeds, and files the day's numbers.

Score 76Warm competitionVC 3/5HardwareSmall businesstest: $800 · 4w97% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · AI infra and compute

Backline

Voice and back-office agents for small businesses, running on our own inference fleet.

Backline answers the phone, books jobs, chases invoices and updates the booking system for plumbers, clinics, garages and salons, billed per handled call with no software for the owner to configure.

Score 72Crowded competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceSmall businesstest: $700 · 3w99% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · AI infra and compute

Innervox

A neural wristband that turns silent speech into text for AI assistants.

Innervox builds a consumer wearable that reads surface EMG signals from subvocalized speech, letting people talk to AI assistants silently at conversational speed - in meetings, open offices, or public spaces.

Score 71Active competitionVC 4/5HardwareConsumertest: $1.1k · 3w99% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · AI infra and compute

Ledgerwatt

Metering and settlement API that turns AI spend into an auditable clearing layer.

Ledgerwatt sits between enterprises and every model provider, neocloud and GPU broker they use, meters each call at the token and job level, prices it against the contracted rate card, and settles a single invoice with per-team, per-product attribution that finance can audit.

Score 71Crowded competitionVC 5/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprisetest: $600 · 4w99% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · AI infra and compute

Wattlot

Small businesses with spare power host inference pods; we hold the permits.

Wattlot is a marketplace where small industrial businesses with unused electrical service and yard space, machine shops, grain handlers, cold stores, rural ISPs, host containerized inference pods and get paid for delivered compute hours.

Score 71Active competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceSmall businesstest: $1.1k · 4w99% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Vertical AI agents

Sonograde

A $99 car sensor that hears mechanical failure coming, trained on millions of vehicles worldwide.

Sonograde is a clip-in vibration and acoustic sensor plus OBD tap that consumers buy online anywhere in the world and install in two minutes.

Score 71Active competitionVC 4/5HardwareConsumertest: $900 · 3w84% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · AI infra and compute

Fluxbid

An autonomous agent that forecasts, buys, and resells your AI compute.

Fluxbid is an ML agent that enterprises connect to their cloud and inference billing with read access; it forecasts workload demand, buys GPU hours and future inference capacity across providers and trading venues, routes traffic to the cheapest qualified backend, and resells surplus commitments.

Score 71Crowded competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprisetest: $900 · 4w99% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · AI infra and compute

Plainforge

Regional AI pods running back-office agents for small businesses, sold through MSPs.

Plainforge builds and operates regional GPU micro-pods and delivers ready-made back-office agents - invoice chasing, quoting, bookkeeping prep, scheduling - to small businesses as a monthly service, sold and installed by managed service providers, telcos, and accounting-software channels.

Score 69Crowded competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceSmall businesstest: $1k · 4w99% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Agent infrastructure

Toolharbor

The governed registry every enterprise agent must pass through to touch a tool.

Toolharbor is a control plane that sits between an enterprise's AI agents and every tool, API, and MCP server they call, enforcing policy, credentials, and rate limits per agent.

Score 67Active competitionVC 5/5Software subscriptionEnterprisetest: $700 · 4w97% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Developer tools

Faultline

An incident agent that learns every production failure across its customers, then fixes yours.

Faultline runs as an on-call agent inside a large company's production environment: it reads traces, logs and deploys, reproduces the failure in a sandbox, and proposes or applies the fix.

Score 65Crowded competitionVC 5/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprisetest: $1.1k · 4w81% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Vertical AI agents

Prybar

An API that lets any AI agent operate the legacy Windows software small businesses actually run.

Prybar sells small businesses a small on-premise appliance plus an API: it drives the closed, keyboard-only applications that run auto body shops, repair companies, restaurants and brokerages, exposing read and write operations as typed endpoints with rollback and an audit trail.

Score 65Warm competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall businesstest: $1.2k · 4w98% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Agent infrastructure

Openstall

No-code layer that makes every small business readable and transactable for AI agents.

An SMB connects its booking, inventory, and payment tools (Shopify, Square, Calendly, QuickBooks) in a no-code dashboard, and Openstall publishes them as one hosted, self-maintaining endpoint that any AI agent can query and transact against.

Score 64Active competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall businesstest: $900 · 4w97% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Developer tools

Palmforge

Build private software for your own life that never leaves your phone.

Palmforge is a consumer subscription that lets one person describe a tool they need (a budget rule, a medication tracker, a school-schedule agent) and compiles it into a small program that runs entirely on their own device against their own data.

Score 63Warm competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionConsumertest: $1.2k · 3w95% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Vertical AI agents

Coderoot

Self-serve AI agents that maintain legacy enterprise code for a tenth of outsourcing cost.

Coderoot's agent connects to an enterprise's legacy estate - ABAP, COBOL, aging Java, ERP customizations - builds a behavioral map of the system, then works the maintenance backlog: patches, upgrades, regression tests and documentation.

Score 62Crowded competitionVC 5/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprisetest: $800 · 4w97% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Developer tools

Patchwright

An upgrade agent that keeps small software companies current, with a recipe store others fill.

Patchwright is a hosted agent that watches a small software vendor's repositories and does the maintenance work nobody staffs: dependency and framework upgrades, breaking API migrations, deprecation fixes, and the evidence trail for SOC 2, GDPR and accessibility questionnaires that their own customers demand.

Score 61Warm competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceSmall businesstest: $600 · 3w95% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Developer tools

Codeseal

Signed conformity attestations for AI-written code, issued by an accredited body through an API.

Codeseal ingests build artifacts, dependency manifests, test results and the full transcript of what a coding agent changed, then issues a cryptographically signed conformity attestation that a regulator, auditor or prime contractor accepts as evidence.

Score 61Open competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprisetest: $900 · 4w95% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Agent infrastructure

Mnemora

A private memory layer that follows you across every AI app.

Mnemora is a consumer subscription that builds one persistent, user-owned memory from everything you tell any AI assistant, then serves it back to ChatGPT, Claude, and every agent app through a standard connector.

Score 60Active competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionConsumertest: $1.1k · 3w98% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Data for AI

Groundfeed

A marketplace where ordinary people sell everyday real-world recordings to AI labs.

A consumer app plus an embeddable SDK that lets anyone record mundane real-world data - chores on camera, receipts, handwriting, phone screen sessions - and sell it into standing dataset orders from model builders.

Score 60Warm competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceConsumertest: $1.2k · 4w96% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Vertical AI agents

Meterbox

A $129 clamp that lets any repair company's AI agent hear your appliances failing.

Meterbox is a consumer-installed sensing device at the home electrical panel that reads current signatures per circuit and identifies which appliance is degrading, from a compressor drawing wrong to a dryer element cycling short.

Score 58Open competitionVC 3/5HardwareConsumertest: $900 · 3w97% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Horizontal AI assistants

Guildhall

The exchange where enterprises hire proven AI agents like contractors.

Guildhall is a self-serve marketplace where enterprises browse, trial, and deploy third-party AI agents - sales research agents, ops agents, finance-close agents - each listed with standardized, independently run performance telemetry instead of vendor claims.

Score 58Warm competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceEnterprisetest: $1k · 4w95% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Developer tools

Appcroft

The operating layer that keeps small businesses' AI-built apps running.

Appcroft hosts, patches, monitors and integrates the AI-generated apps that small businesses now get built by freelancers and dev shops using tools like Lovable.

Score 58Crowded competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall businesstest: $400 · 4w95% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Developer tools

Miniplex

The cloud built for a billion small apps.

Miniplex is purpose-built cloud infrastructure for agent-generated software: sub-second cold-start microVMs, per-app metering in fractions of a cent, and a deploy API that coding agents and app builders call directly.

Score 56Crowded competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall businesstest: $1k · 3w95% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Horizontal AI assistants

Piecework

A marketplace where enterprises hire third-party AI agents and pay per verified task.

Independent builders list agents with a declared task type, a price per completed unit and a verification rule; enterprise teams connect their systems through no-code connectors and buy agent labour without a procurement cycle.

Score 55Active competitionVC 5/5MarketplaceEnterprisetest: $1.5k · 4w95% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · AI infra and compute

Hearthware

A home AI appliance that pays for itself by selling idle compute.

Hearthware sells a plug-in home inference box that runs private assistants and open models locally for households, then rents its idle cycles into a coordinated mesh serving third-party inference demand.

Score 54Crowded competitionVC 3/5HardwareConsumertest: $1k · 3w99% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Vertical AI agents

Credenza

The marketplace where small businesses hire certified, insured AI agents for regulated work

Credenza is a self-serve marketplace where SMBs hire vertical AI agents for regulated back-office jobs: bookkeeping, medical billing, insurance filings.

Score 53Open competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceSmall businesstest: $1.1k · 4w97% of 2 neighbours alive

AI and software · Data for AI

Anvilnet

Capture appliances on factory lines, sold back as an industrial process API.

Anvilnet ships a rugged capture appliance that automation integrators bolt onto existing production and packing lines, tapping machine buses and fixed cameras.

Score 53Crowded competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprisetest: $1.5k · 4w81% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Horizontal AI assistants

Procura

API that gives any AI agent legally binding authority to act for a small business.

Procura is the mandate layer agent builders call before their agent signs, pays or files anything: the small business owner verifies identity once, grants a scoped, revocable power of attorney, and Procura issues a cryptographic credential that binds each agent action to that mandate with a qualified electronic seal and an immutable audit trail.

Score 52Open competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall businesstest: $1.5k · 4w78% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Developer tools

Appstead

A marketplace of personal software, built and maintained by machines.

Appstead is a consumer marketplace where people buy small bespoke apps - a budget tracker tuned to their exact accounts, a training planner for their specific race, tools for a niche hobby - at app-store prices instead of the five figures custom software costs today.

Score 49Crowded competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceConsumertest: $600 · 4w95% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Vertical AI agents

Odomate

A plug-in device that is your car's mechanic, negotiator, and fair-price network.

Odomate is an OBD-II device with a microphone and vibration sensor that any car owner installs in minutes.

Score 48Warm competitionVC 3/5HardwareConsumertest: $1k · 4w97% of 2 neighbours alive

AI and software · Vertical AI agents

Bondera

The underwriting and bonding layer that makes AI agent work trustworthy.

Bondera is an API that agent vendors embed to attach a performance guarantee to their agents' output: if the agent misfiles a return, botches an invoice, or mishandles a claim, Bondera pays the customer.

Score 41Open competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall businesstest: $1k · 4w97% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Horizontal AI assistants

Backline

Flat-rate AI back office for small businesses, running on our own GPUs.

Backline sells small businesses a set of working agents - phone answering, scheduling, invoicing, collections, vendor follow-up - for one flat monthly price with a self-serve signup that takes fifteen minutes.

Score 40Crowded competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceSmall businesstest: $700 · 3w95% of 4 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Bylaw Health

The licensed medical group behind your API call, in fifty states.

Bylaw Health holds the professional corporations, state clinician licenses, supervision agreements and payer enrollments in every US state, and exposes them as endpoints: create a clinician, attach a supervising physician, enroll a location with a payer, submit an encounter under a compliant entity.

Score 100Open competitionVC 5/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall businesstest: $1k · 3w97% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Ironhull

Compliant-by-construction cloud: inherit certification instead of earning it.

Ironhull runs its own hardened infrastructure - dedicated enclaves, HSMs, locked-down images, continuous monitoring - certified once against FedRAMP, SOC 2, and PCI, and sells it as a subscription on which enterprise software vendors deploy and inherit the compliance posture.

Score 92Active competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionEnterprisetest: $850 · 4w96% of 1 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Sentinet

Shared-defense agent for small firms: one member's confirmed fraud warns the whole network.

Sentinet connects in an afternoon to an SMB's mailbox, accounting system and bank feed, and runs an agent that screens invoices, vendor bank-detail changes and unusual logins.

Score 90Warm competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceSmall businesstest: $700 · 4w97% of 3 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Kinfold

An AI agent that runs the logistics of caring for an aging parent.

Kinfold is a consumer agent that families hire for about $20 a month to handle the non-clinical work around an older relative: booking and rebooking appointments, sitting on hold with insurers and pharmacies, chasing records between providers, ordering refills and equipment, filing benefit paperwork, and keeping siblings on one shared timeline.

Score 88Warm competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceConsumertest: $700 · 4w97% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Personaproof

A licensed proof-of-human agent that vouches for you online without exposing your identity.

Consumers enroll once through a partner bank branch, carrier store or notary, where a hardware-attested biometric capture binds them to a single personhood credential held in Personaproof's own HSM estate.

Score 86Open competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceConsumertest: $1.5k · 4w69% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

AgentLedger

The control plane where small businesses give AI agents money, limits and receipts.

AgentLedger is a subscription platform where a small business connects every AI agent it uses - procurement bots, ad-buying agents, booking assistants - and sets budgets, approval rules and merchant restrictions in a no-code dashboard, with every agent transaction reconciled back to its accounting system.

Score 84Open competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall businesstest: $600 · 4w94% of 2 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Corelane

A spot market for wet-lab experiments that software agents can order by API.

Corelane is a marketplace where pharma and AI-bio R&D teams buy idle bench and instrument time from academic core facilities, contract labs and instrument-rich startups.

Score 84Warm competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceEnterprisetest: $700 · 4w97% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Bookzero

Software that closes a small company's books for a tenth of a bookkeeper's price.

Bookzero is self-serve subscription software that connects to a small business's bank feeds, invoices and payroll and produces a finished monthly close - categorized ledger, reconciliations, financial statements - for roughly $100 a month against the $800-1,500 SMBs pay outsourced bookkeepers.

Score 83Warm competitionVC 5/5Software subscriptionSmall businesstest: $1.2k · 4w79% of 3 neighbours alive

Physical world · Robotics and physical world

Sortie

Airspace clearance and audit-grade flight records as one API for drone operators.

Sortie is an API that small drone operators and the software vendors serving them call to get a flight authorized, logged and provable: airspace and waiver checks, operator and aircraft credential validation, geofence rules per jurisdiction, and a tamper-evident flight record that insurers and regulators accept.

Score 83Warm competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall businesstest: $550 · 3w96% of 3 neighbours alive

Physical world · Climate and energy

Kilobid

Licensed AI agent that bids your home battery, EV and thermostat into wholesale power markets.

Kilobid is a consumer app that links a household's utility account, battery, EV charger and thermostat through existing APIs, then runs an agent that decides hour by hour when to charge, hold or discharge and submits those decisions into wholesale and utility program markets.

Score 83Warm competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceConsumertest: $1.1k · 3w96% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Kinshield

A personal AI agent that screens every call and message for deepfakes and scams.

Kinshield is an AI agent that sits in front of a consumer's phone line and inbox, answering unknown calls, detecting cloned voices and scam scripts in real time, and briefing the user before they ever pick up.

Score 81Active competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceConsumertest: $350 · 4w98% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Vouchline

One AI agent answers your security questionnaires and reviews the ones you send.

Vouchline is an agent that sits on both sides of the vendor security review: for a small supplier it reads the buyer's questionnaire, pulls evidence from Drive, ticketing and cloud consoles, and returns a completed response in a day; for the buyer it reads incoming responses and flags the answers that contradict prior filings.

Score 80Active competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceSmall businesstest: $600 · 3w98% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Ostend

An API giving small exporters local receiving accounts abroad at a tenth of bank cost.

Ostend is a licensed collections API: vertical software platforms embed it so their small business customers get named local receiving accounts in two dozen countries, with funds swept and converted on stablecoin rails and paid out to the home bank account the next morning.

Score 80Active competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall businesstest: $800 · 4w96% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Fiscari

A licensed AI tax agent that files small business returns in thirty countries.

Fiscari is an AI agent that holds registered tax agent status in each country it operates in and files indirect tax, payroll tax and annual returns of record for small businesses, with a licensed human reviewer signing off on flagged filings.

Score 79Active competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceSmall businesstest: $1k · 4w96% of 4 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Chartwire

An API that turns any clinical document into coded, payer-ready claims for small practices.

Chartwire is a per-call API: post a PDF, a fax, a scanned referral or a visit note, get back structured FHIR resources plus the coded claim lines (ICD-10, CPT, or the local equivalent) with a confidence score per code and a citation back to the source text.

Score 79Active competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall businesstest: $1.5k · 4w96% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Duebridge

Your collections agent settles invoices by negotiating with your customer's agent.

Duebridge gives a small business an AI agent that chases its unpaid invoices, and gives the customer a free counterpart agent that verifies the invoice against its own ledger, flags disputes and proposes a payment date.

Score 77Warm competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceSmall businesstest: $500 · 4w95% of 3 neighbours alive

Physical world · Robotics and physical world

Certline

An API that collapses hardware compliance from a consulting project to a build step.

Certline is an API and toolchain that takes a hardware company's CAD, BOM, and electronics design and generates the risk assessments, test plans, and technical documentation required for CE, FCC, and UL certification, then routes the physical testing through a network of accredited partner labs.

Score 76Warm competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall businesstest: $1k · 3w96% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Attestral

Agents that prove and verify vendor security continuously, replacing the questionnaire.

Attestral deploys agents inside an enterprise's stack that collect live control evidence and answer any customer's security review automatically; on the buying side, its agents interrogate a vendor's agents and check every claim against machine-readable evidence rather than prose.

Score 75Crowded competitionVC 5/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprisetest: $800 · 3w97% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Codewarden

Continuous security for the AI-written software small businesses now run on.

Codewarden is a self-serve subscription platform that continuously scans, exploits and patches the AI-generated applications small businesses now build and deploy without security staff.

Score 71Crowded competitionVC 5/5Software subscriptionSmall businesstest: $500 · 3w96% of 2 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

ChartRail

The consented medical-records rail every AI clinic runs on.

An API that lets AI-native care companies pull a patient's complete medical record with verifiable consent, by operating as a qualified participant in the national health information exchange framework and as a registered clearinghouse.

Score 70Crowded competitionVC 5/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprisetest: $1k · 4w97% of 4 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Claimsmith

The agent platform where healthcare's back office gets rebuilt by everyone but us.

Claimsmith is a no-code platform where hospitals, billing companies, and health IT vendors build and run AI agents for administrative work: eligibility checks, prior authorization, claims appeals, and records chasing.

Score 69Crowded competitionVC 5/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprisetest: $1.2k · 4w96% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Treska

A licensed autonomous treasurer that runs enterprise cross-border money on stablecoin rails.

Treska is a regulated e-money institution whose AI agents run corporate treasury end to end: forecasting cash across subsidiaries, choosing routes between bank rails and stablecoin rails, executing FX and settlement, and producing the audit trail.

Score 69Active competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprisetest: $1k · 4w79% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Countersign

Spend controls and audit trail for every dollar an enterprise's AI agents move.

Countersign sits between a company's agents and whatever rails they spend on - issued cards, wallets, stablecoin accounts - enforcing per-agent budgets, merchant allowlists and human approval thresholds before authorization, then reconciling each settled charge back to the agent run and prompt that caused it.

Score 68Crowded competitionVC 5/5Software subscriptionEnterprisetest: $700 · 3w96% of 4 neighbours alive

Physical world · Defense and space

Millrun

Marketplace for precision aerospace parts, quoted instantly from real machine shop capacity.

Millrun is a marketplace where hardware teams upload a CAD file and get a firm price and date within minutes, sourced from a vetted network of CNC, sheet metal and composite shops with idle capacity.

Score 68Active competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceEnterprisetest: $1.2k · 4w97% of 3 neighbours alive

Physical world · Climate and energy

Ampyard

A subscription that bids your home battery into wholesale power markets, in any country.

Consumers pay a flat monthly fee for software that takes control of whatever battery, heat pump, EV charger or hybrid inverter they already own and trades that flexibility in the local wholesale and balancing markets, keeping the earnings for the household.

Score 67Active competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionConsumertest: $800 · 3w96% of 4 neighbours alive

Physical world · Robotics and physical world

Fixloop

A subscription AI agent that runs all maintenance and repairs for your house.

Fixloop is a consumer AI agent that homeowners hire for about $30 a month to keep their house working: it ingests photos and camera feeds to spot damage early, diagnoses the issue, collects quotes, books and negotiates with local tradespeople, and verifies completed work from photos.

Score 65Warm competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceConsumertest: $1k · 4w95% of 2 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Passline

AI front desk for local trades that passes overflow jobs to nearby shops.

Passline answers calls, texts and web chats for small service businesses (auto shops, installers, salons, plumbers), books jobs into their existing calendar, and takes deposits.

Score 64Warm competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceSmall businesstest: $800 · 4w82% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Veriport

The compliance API that lets any consumer app pass age and safety laws everywhere.

Veriport is an API and no-code SDK that gives small app and game studios age assurance, parental consent, content gating, and sweepstakes eligibility checks mapped to every jurisdiction's rules.

Score 64Warm competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall businesstest: $1.1k · 4w77% of 3 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Rightsdesk

An AI agent that clears rights and splits royalties for small AI-native content studios.

Rightsdesk is an agent service for studios producing AI-assisted video, animation, music and comics: it reads a project's assets, identifies what needs clearing, negotiates and files licenses against a registry of participating rightsholders, and then computes and pays out splits per release.

Score 64Active competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceSmall businesstest: $700 · 3w94% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Payname

A global directory that turns a business tax ID into verified payout instructions any software can call.

Payname is an API and no-code directory where a small business claims its legal identity once and publishes how it wants to be paid: bank rails per country, stablecoin addresses per chain, invoice formats and the proofs behind each.

Score 64Warm competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall businesstest: $1.3k · 4w96% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Bookforge

The no-code platform where accountants build finance agents for every SMB client.

A subscription platform where accounting and bookkeeping firms assemble no-code agent workflows for monthly close, transaction categorization, AP and cash reporting, then deploy them across their whole SMB client roster; each small business pays a monthly seat on top of its QuickBooks and bank connections.

Score 61Crowded competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall businesstest: $900 · 4w79% of 3 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Handover Health

Agents that complete patient handoffs between independent practices, worldwide.

Handover gives every small practice - dental, physio, dermatology, private GP - an AI agent that manages the outbound and inbound side of referrals: it books the specialist slot, transfers the relevant records, chases the result, and closes the loop with the referring clinician.

Score 60Crowded competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceSmall businesstest: $500 · 4w96% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Ironvane

Autonomous security operations agents that managed service providers resell and extend.

Ironvane gives managed service providers a runtime where security agents triage alerts, patch endpoints, revoke credentials and close tickets across their whole book of small business clients, with the provider approving actions rather than performing them.

Score 60Crowded competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceSmall businesstest: $1.3k · 4w97% of 3 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Perpetua

A marketplace for persistent AI worlds that remember every player who visits.

Perpetua trains a real-time interactive world model with durable state, so a generated world keeps its geography, characters and consequences between sessions and across different visitors.

Score 59Active competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceConsumertest: $500 · 4w94% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Skirmish

The exchange where autonomous hacking agents compete to break enterprise systems.

Enterprises post scoped targets and bounties; independent builders of offensive AI agents connect their agents to compete on them inside Skirmish's isolated ranges.

Score 58Crowded competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceEnterprisetest: $1k · 4w98% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Tollbridge

The authorization layer banks use to let AI agents spend money safely.

Enterprise SaaS sold to US card issuers and issuer processors that adds an agent-payments control plane: banks define spend policies, verify which AI agent is transacting on whose mandate, and score every agent-initiated authorization in real time.

Score 55Crowded competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionEnterprisetest: $900 · 4w94% of 2 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Covenly

A licensed AI insurance agent every consumer app can embed.

Covenly builds a licensed AI insurance agent for consumers that continuously re-shops home and auto coverage, switches carriers when a better policy exists, and handles claims paperwork, earning standard producer commissions.

Score 55Crowded competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceConsumertest: $1k · 3w82% of 4 neighbours alive

Physical world · Robotics and physical world

Deckhand

AI agents that operate the software running factories, warehouses and yards.

Deckhand deploys AI agents that sit on top of the systems a plant or warehouse already runs (WMS, MES, ERP, ticketing, robot fleet consoles) and do the operator work between them: reconciling inventory exceptions, reassigning tasks when a line stops, chasing a stalled robot's ticket, closing the shift report.

Score 55Crowded competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprisetest: $650 · 4w96% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Helmsman

A subscription AI that runs your money end to end, registered as an advisor.

Helmsman is a flat-fee consumer subscription: an RIA-registered autonomous agent that moves idle cash to yield, refinances debt when rates move, cancels and renegotiates recurring charges, and rebalances across a user's linked accounts without being asked.

Score 55Warm competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionConsumertest: $1k · 3w79% of 3 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Clubrail

Booking and membership software for local clubs that shares demand between venues.

Clubrail is the operating software a small sports or hobby club runs on: memberships, court and tee time booking, dues, waitlists, leagues and payouts, assembled from no-code integrations with the payment and calendar tools operators already use.

Score 55Active competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall businesstest: $400 · 4w77% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Stocklight

A demand forecasting model any small merchant can self-serve, any app can embed.

Stocklight is a subscription forecasting layer for small merchants who make, move or sell physical goods: connect a store, a POS or a wholesale ledger and get SKU-level demand, reorder points and stockout risk that account for promotions, seasonality and local events.

Score 53Crowded competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall businesstest: $700 · 4w82% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Wayline

Registry and API that make enterprise catalogs, prices and policies readable by AI agents.

Wayline is an infrastructure layer where large brands, retailers and travel operators publish machine-readable manifests of their inventory, prices, eligibility rules and fulfillment terms, and AI agents query one API instead of scraping websites.

Score 52Active competitionVC 5/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprisetest: $500 · 4w97% of 4 neighbours alive

Physical world · Climate and energy

Neutrix

Regulatory-grade nuclear simulation, delivered as cloud software reactor engineers sign up for.

Neutrix builds a cloud platform of neutronics and thermal-hydraulics codes, accelerated by ML surrogates and qualified under the NQA-1 regime, that compact reactor developers and utilities use to produce license-ready safety analysis.

Score 51Crowded competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionEnterprisetest: $950 · 4w94% of 2 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Revisia

Agents that keep regulated enterprise documents permanently up to date.

Revisia runs AI agents that watch an enterprise's systems of record - ERP changes, engineering releases, policy updates - and continuously rewrite the controlled documents that depend on them: SOPs, quality manuals, training material, audit collateral.

Score 51Active competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprisetest: $500 · 4w79% of 3 neighbours alive

Physical world · Defense and space

Airlane

The global API where drone operators buy access to low-altitude airspace.

Airlane is a transaction API and no-code integration layer that lets small drone service businesses - inspection, agriculture, delivery - request, book, and pay for flight corridors over private sites, ports, and event venues worldwide.

Score 51Crowded competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall businesstest: $1k · 4w97% of 2 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Castmark

Global marketplace where brands license AI-ready characters, voices and likenesses per use.

Castmark lists characters, voice models and performer likenesses with machine-readable licence terms (territory, media, duration, prohibited uses) and sells them per generation or per campaign to game studios, publishers and consumer brands.

Score 48Active competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceEnterprisetest: $900 · 4w94% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Commerce and marketplaces

Ordwire

Turns any supplier's ERP into an endpoint AI purchasing agents can order from.

Ordwire is a no-code integration layer that exposes an enterprise distributor's catalog, contract pricing, stock and purchase-order intake as a standardized machine-readable endpoint for AI buying agents.

Score 47Crowded competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprisetest: $700 · 4w95% of 3 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Commerce and marketplaces

Provenor

Machine learning that proves where every imported good actually came from.

Provenor sells enterprise import and sourcing teams a subscription platform that traces the true origin of goods through transshipment: entity-resolution ML over global trade filings, vessel AIS tracks, and corporate registries flags when a shipment labeled Vietnamese was actually laundered through a third country.

Score 47Crowded competitionVC 5/5Software subscriptionEnterprisetest: $1.2k · 4w78% of 3 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Agewall

Age and safety inference as an API for consumer AI apps.

Agewall gives consumer app and game developers one API plus an on-device runtime that estimates a user's age band from voice, typing and interaction signals, then enforces per-jurisdiction rules on chat, spend and generated content.

Score 45Crowded competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprisetest: $800 · 4w94% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Commerce and marketplaces

Bondwright

Licensed customs broker built as software, so small importers file their own entries.

Bondwright holds the customs broker license, the national permit and the continuous bond itself, and exposes entry filing to small importers as a product: classify goods, price duty, file the entry, hold the bond, manage post-entry corrections and drawback claims.

Score 43Crowded competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionSmall businesstest: $1.1k · 4w96% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Wildframe

A subscription social world where friends generate and inhabit persistent AI game worlds.

Wildframe is a consumer subscription: pay monthly, and you and your friends describe worlds that render into persistent, playable multiplayer games in seconds.

Score 42Crowded competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionConsumertest: $800 · 3w94% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Clearframe

Marketplace where brands license AI-native characters and consented likenesses, cleared for generation.

Clearframe is a global self-serve marketplace where IP owners, creators and performers list characters, voices and likenesses with machine readable generation rights, and enterprise brand and studio teams license them by campaign or by output volume.

Score 40Crowded competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceEnterprisetest: $1.1k · 4w94% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Vaultline

Instant marketplace for vaulted collectibles: buy, sell and settle without ever shipping.

Consumers deposit graded cards and sealed hobby product into a partner bonded vault once; after that, ownership transfers instantly on Vaultline's ledger and nothing moves physically until an owner requests withdrawal.

Score 40Crowded competitionVC 5/5MarketplaceConsumertest: $1.3k · 4w94% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Commerce and marketplaces

Aftergate

An agent that resells your tickets everywhere for two percent, not twenty-five.

Aftergate is a self-serve agent for consumers holding tickets they cannot use: it reads the ticket, prices it against live supply across every resale venue and the primary seller, lists it in all of them at once, pulls listings when one sells, handles the transfer rules of the specific venue and pays out.

Score 39Open competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceConsumertest: $400 · 4w94% of 2 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Skillfair

The marketplace where integrators sell working enterprise AI agents.

Skillfair is a global marketplace where systems integrators and boutique AI shops package the agents they have already built for one client - claims triage, contract review, invoice matching - into installable, no-code-configurable listings other enterprises can buy.

Score 38Crowded competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceEnterprisetest: $800 · 4w95% of 2 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Commerce and marketplaces

Shelfwire

One API that makes any small store's catalog readable by AI shopping agents.

Shelfwire ingests a merchant's product catalog, inventory and policies once and serves a hosted, always-current machine endpoint per store: structured product data, availability, shipping and returns terms, and checkout handoff, in the formats AI shopping assistants and marketplace crawlers consume.

Score 38Open competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall businesstest: $900 · 3w96% of 4 neighbours alive

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