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AI infra and compute

14 ideas, by Idea Score

AI and software · AI infra and compute

Residua

Secondary market where enterprises resell unused committed cloud and GPU spend.

Residua is a self-serve exchange where enterprises list the unused portion of multi-year committed spend contracts with clouds and GPU neoclouds, and other enterprises buy that entitlement at a discount.

Score 98Warm competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceEnterprise99% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · AI infra and compute

Swingbus

An agent that clears utility interconnection queues for new data center load.

Swingbus sells public power utilities and system operators an agent service that runs grid interconnection and load studies: it ingests the network model, runs power flow, stability and protection studies with learned surrogates instead of overnight solver batches, and produces the signed study package a regulator will accept.

Score 97Warm competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceGovernment and public sectortest: $3.2k · 6w99% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · AI infra and compute

Sovergrid

The procurement marketplace where governments buy sovereign AI compute and models.

Sovergrid is a marketplace where ministries, national labs, and public universities buy accredited AI compute, models, and deployment tooling from vetted domestic and allied providers under pre-negotiated framework contracts.

Score 88Warm competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceGovernment and public sector99% of 2 neighbours alive

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: $1.5k · 5w99% 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 84Open competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprise99% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · AI infra and compute

Fallowgrid

Global exchange for idle GPU hours sitting in publicly funded research clusters.

Fallowgrid is a two-sided exchange where national labs, universities and public supercomputing centres list the cluster hours their allocation system leaves unused, and public agencies, grant-funded researchers and public-private consortia anywhere in the world buy them in standard units settled as credits or cash.

Score 83Warm competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceGovernment and public sectortest: $1.8k · 6w99% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · AI infra and compute

Gridshift

The marketplace where AI data centers sell their flexibility to the power grid.

Gridshift turns interruptible AI training load into a tradable grid product: data centers enroll clusters, Gridshift's ML forecasts and checkpoint-aware orchestration shift or shed training jobs on minutes of notice, and the flexibility is sold into wholesale electricity markets as demand response.

Score 74Crowded competitionVC 5/5MarketplaceEnterprise99% of 4 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: $1.5k · 5w99% 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: $1.2k · 6w99% 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: $1.8k · 5w99% 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 4/5HardwareConsumer99% 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 serviceEnterprise99% 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 70Crowded competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceSmall business99% 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 3/5HardwareConsumer99% of 4 neighbours alive

Agent infrastructure

12 ideas, by Idea Score

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 88Open competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceEnterprise98% 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 88Open competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall businesstest: $1.6k · 6w98% of 4 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 78Warm competitionVC 3/5HardwareSmall business97% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Agent infrastructure

Rubricon

An exchange where domain experts sell held-out eval suites that enterprises run on demand.

Rubricon is a marketplace for agent evaluation: radiologists, tax accountants, claims adjusters and network engineers publish task sets with graders, and enterprises pay per run to test their agents against them.

Score 76Warm competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceEnterprisetest: $1.9k · 6w83% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Agent infrastructure

Civitrace

Casework agents for US agencies that turn every verified fact into reusable public evidence.

Civitrace runs eligibility and permit casework as a managed agent service for US state, county and city agencies: it reads submitted documents, checks them against source systems, drafts determinations, and hands a human caseworker a decision packet with citations.

Score 75Open competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceGovernment and public sector98% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Agent infrastructure

Tenderline

Agent-run public tenders at one tenth the administrative cost, on a licensed vehicle.

Tenderline is a marketplace that runs compliant public tenders end to end: its agents draft the solicitation from the agency's requirement, publish it, answer bidder questions, score submissions against the stated criteria with full audit trails, and produce the award documentation.

Score 74Open competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceGovernment and public sector97% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Agent infrastructure

Certloop

Accredited hardware-in-the-loop cloud that certifies agent policies before they touch real machines.

Certloop builds racks of real PLCs, drives, sensors, and robot actuators wired into a cloud API; enterprise robotics and industrial teams upload agent policies and run them against physical hardware and vendor-published digital twins before deployment.

Score 72Warm competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionEnterprise97% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Agent infrastructure

Actledger

Signed action records for enterprise agents, with a policy pack ecosystem on top.

Actledger sits between an enterprise's agents and the systems they touch: every tool call is authorized against policy, signed, and written to an immutable action record mapped to audit controls.

Score 69Active competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionEnterprisetest: $1.4k · 6w98% of 4 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 68Active competitionVC 5/5Software subscriptionEnterprise97% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Agent infrastructure

Portico

Agents that work state legacy systems through their own screens, priced per case cleared.

Portico runs computer-use agents that log into the mainframe terminals, county portals and 1990s case management systems that state agencies still process benefits, permits and licences in, and complete the transaction the way a clerk would.

Score 68Open competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceGovernment and public sector98% 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 66Active competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall business97% of 3 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 61Active competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionConsumer98% of 4 neighbours alive

Data for AI

3 ideas, by Idea Score

Vertical AI agents

15 ideas, by Idea Score

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 80Warm competitionVC 5/5Software subscriptionSmall businesstest: $1.2k · 5w98% 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 76Open competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceConsumer97% of 2 neighbours alive

AI and software · Vertical AI agents

Camscribe

A plug-in camera unit that writes GMP batch records so humans stop transcribing them.

Camscribe is a validated hardware unit that clamps onto a pharmaceutical or medical device production line, watches the operator steps and equipment displays, and produces the electronic batch record and deviation log that quality assurance staff currently type and double-check by hand.

Score 76Warm competitionVC 3/5HardwareEnterprisetest: $900 · 6w98% 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 70Active competitionVC 4/5HardwareConsumer84% 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 business98% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Vertical AI agents

Ironfold

A plug-in appliance that runs AI agents inside regulated enterprises at a tenth the cost.

Ironfold builds a rack appliance that hospitals, insurers and banks order online, plug into their network, and use to run vertical AI agents on premises, with audit logs and patient or financial data never leaving the building.

Score 63Active competitionVC 4/5HardwareEnterprise97% of 3 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 serviceEnterprise97% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Vertical AI agents

Permitrun

Machine-run permitting and interconnection review for the agencies that hold up infrastructure.

Permitrun is a subscription system of record for public bodies that review infrastructure: state environmental agencies, utility commissions and grid operators running interconnection studies and NEPA-style reviews.

Score 60Warm competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionGovernment and public sectortest: $1.8k · 5w98% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Vertical AI agents

Nodewright

Automated grid interconnection review for utilities and state regulators, built on learned power-flow models.

Nodewright is subscription software for municipal utilities, co-ops and state public utility commissions that runs the interconnection studies now done by hand: it ingests the applicant's design, builds a validated model of the local feeder, and produces the impact study, curtailment conditions and hosting-capacity findings as a signed, auditable work product.

Score 59Crowded competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionGovernment and public sector98% 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 57Open competitionVC 3/5HardwareConsumertest: $2.8k · 6w97% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Vertical AI agents

Homelatch

A home entry and diagnostics hub that lets any repair company's AI dispatcher work your house.

Homelatch sells homeowners a $229 door hub with a camera, a credential reader and a listening module that records appliance and HVAC sound signatures, plus a $9 monthly subscription.

Score 55Warm competitionVC 3/5HardwareConsumer84% 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 business97% of 2 neighbours alive

AI and software · Vertical AI agents

Clinos

The certified clinical core that every consumer health agent builds on.

Clinos is a consumer subscription: a personal health agent that holds your records and wearable data and manages chronic-care routines, medication adherence, and post-discharge recovery.

Score 50Crowded competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionConsumer97% of 3 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 47Warm competitionVC 3/5HardwareConsumer97% 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 business97% of 3 neighbours alive

Developer tools

14 ideas, by Idea Score

AI and software · Developer tools

Redoubt

Pre-accredited software factory appliances for classified government development.

Redoubt sells rack-mounted appliances that put a complete accredited DevSecOps stack - build systems, CI/CD, artifact registry, coding agents - inside air-gapped classified networks.

Score 78Open competitionVC 3/5HardwareGovernment and public sector93% of 2 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 68Crowded competitionVC 5/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprisetest: $1.2k · 6w81% of 4 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 66Warm competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionConsumer95% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Developer tools

Reglet

Regulatory intelligence APIs that tell coding agents what the law requires.

Reglet is an API layer that maps code changes to regulatory obligations - HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR, banking rules - in real time, so a bank's or hospital's coding agents and CI pipelines know when a diff touches regulated data flows and exactly what evidence to attach.

Score 64Crowded competitionVC 5/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprise94% of 3 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 63Open competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprisetest: $900 · 5w95% of 4 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 63Warm competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceSmall businesstest: $1.6k · 5w95% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Developer tools

Veriseal

The certification authority for machine-written safety-critical code.

Veriseal builds a qualified toolchain and evidence-generation API that takes AI-authored code in automotive, aerospace, and medical devices and produces the traceability records, test evidence, and tool-qualification artifacts that ISO 26262, DO-178C, and IEC 62304 audits require.

Score 60Warm competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprise93% of 2 neighbours alive

AI and software · Developer tools

Mendrix

Autonomous agents that take over maintaining your legacy systems.

Mendrix builds an agent fleet that assumes responsibility for maintaining aging enterprise codebases - old Java, COBOL adjacents, brittle internal systems - fixing incidents, patching vulnerabilities and keeping dependencies current under an SLA, priced per system.

Score 60Crowded competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise93% of 2 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 60Crowded competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall business95% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Developer tools

Sovern

Air-gapped coding agent infrastructure for defense and banks; the code graph never leaves.

Sovern is an on-premise runtime and API that lets a defense program office or a bank run coding agents against its entire repository history without a single token crossing the network boundary.

Score 60Crowded competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprisetest: $1.6k · 6w95% 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 58Crowded competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business95% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Developer tools

Portway

A machine-readable catalogue of every internal enterprise app, so agents can use them.

Portway is a subscription platform where a large company describes its internal applications once, in a no-code editor, as capability manifests: what each app does, which actions it exposes, who may call them, and what the fields mean.

Score 53Warm competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionEnterprisetest: $1.4k · 6w95% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Developer tools

Govmodules

A cross-border marketplace for accredited, evidence-backed government software modules and agents.

Govmodules is a marketplace where vendors list software modules and coding agents that have passed government-grade checks, each shipped with a machine-readable evidence pack (provenance, dependency lineage, test and accreditation results, who reviewed what).

Score 52Warm competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceGovernment and public sector94% 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 51Crowded competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceConsumer95% of 4 neighbours alive

Horizontal AI assistants

10 ideas, by Idea Score

AI and software · Horizontal AI assistants

Subroclaim

Agents that negotiate insurer-to-insurer claim recoveries on both sides of the file.

Subroclaim runs subrogation and inter-carrier recovery as an agent service for US property and casualty insurers: the agent reads the loss file, builds the demand with liability evidence, and then negotiates directly with the other carrier's Subroclaim agent, escalating to a human adjuster only on disputed liability or amounts above a set threshold.

Score 71Warm competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprisetest: $2.6k · 6w78% 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 59Warm competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceEnterprise95% 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 56Active competitionVC 5/5MarketplaceEnterprisetest: $1.5k · 5w95% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Horizontal AI assistants

Ledgermesh

The network where enterprise finance agents settle reconciliations with each other.

Ledgermesh gives enterprise finance teams agents that handle inter-company work - invoice reconciliation, audit confirmations, dispute resolution - by negotiating directly with the counterparty's Ledgermesh agent instead of trading emails and spreadsheets.

Score 54Active competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise95% of 3 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 53Open competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall businesstest: $1.7k · 4w78% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Horizontal AI assistants

Registrum

Federated agent network for public agencies: every resolved case trains every jurisdiction.

Registrum runs caseworker agents for public agencies (permit review, benefits eligibility triage, procurement document checks) inside a sovereign compute enclave the agency controls.

Score 47Open competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceGovernment and public sectortest: $900 · 6w95% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Horizontal AI assistants

Bursar

A personal agent with a license to move your money.

Bursar is a consumer financial agent that does not just read your accounts - it pays bills, disputes charges, cancels subscriptions, negotiates rates, and switches providers, because the company holds money transmitter licenses and runs its own payment rails.

Score 45Crowded competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceConsumer95% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Horizontal AI assistants

Provenant

An agent runtime that turns every AI action into regulator-admissible evidence.

Provenant is an assistant for licensed professionals in supervised industries (broker-dealers, insurers, pharma commercial teams) that drafts, sends and acts, with each step passed through a jurisdiction rule pack and written to Provenant's own write-once retention infrastructure with cryptographic attestation.

Score 41Warm competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprisetest: $1.8k · 6w81% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Horizontal AI assistants

Vouchwork

The certified marketplace where enterprises hire audited, insured AI agents.

Vouchwork runs a two-sided marketplace where enterprises procure third-party AI agents the way they procure contractors: every listed agent has passed Vouchwork's audit battery, carries performance insurance underwritten through Vouchwork's carrier program, and bills through a single compliant contract.

Score 41Active competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceEnterprise95% 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 business95% of 4 neighbours alive

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Ideas from other sectors whose text clearly touches this one.

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: $1.5k · 5w97% of 4 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Kinware

The AI agent that runs the paperwork and logistics of caring for an aging parent.

Kinware is a subscription agent for adult children managing a parent's life: it books appointments, chases refills, requests records, files insurance paperwork, and schedules home services, reporting to the whole family in one thread.

Score 97Warm competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceConsumer97% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Claimyard

Marketplace turning scam, fraud and privacy losses into funded, aggregated consumer claims.

A consumer uploads what happened, screenshots of a romance scam, an unauthorized P2P transfer, a data misuse notice, and a no-code intake agent classifies the claim, pulls the paper trail from the bank or platform, and posts it to a marketplace of licensed attorneys, arbitration filers and litigation funders who bid to take it on contingency.

Score 93Open competitionVC 5/5MarketplaceConsumer83% of 4 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Substrate Exchange

The exchange where pharma buys the experimental data that trains biology models.

Substrate Exchange is a marketplace where biotechs, CROs and academic labs list assay results, screening runs and failed-experiment data in standardized, model-ready form, and pharma AI teams license it by the dataset or by subscription.

Score 92Warm competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceEnterprise97% of 4 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Labmesh

The shared execution-data network that tells pharma which protocols actually reproduce.

Labmesh is enterprise software that plugs into lab instruments and automation systems across pharma and biotech companies, normalizes every experimental run into a common schema, and gives each member benchmarking of protocol success and reproducibility rates against the anonymized network.

Score 91Warm competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionEnterprise82% 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 91Active competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionEnterprise96% of 1 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Vendorproof

An exchange where small vendors sell machine-verifiable proof that their security controls held.

Small software and services vendors connect their cloud, identity and endpoint tools once; Vendorproof produces cryptographic proofs that a named control held over a named time window, without exposing raw logs.

Score 90Open competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceSmall business98% of 4 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 89Warm competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceSmall business97% 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 89Warm competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceConsumertest: $1.8k · 5w97% of 4 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Corpus Bio

The pooled experiment exchange that teaches drug-discovery models what failed.

Corpus Bio sells pharma and biotech R&D organizations a subscription platform that captures every wet-lab experiment - including the roughly 90 percent that fail and never leave the notebook - in a structured, model-readable format.

Score 89Active competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionEnterprise97% of 4 neighbours alive

Physical world · Climate and energy

Milepost

AI agents that draft and check federal environmental reviews.

Milepost sells AI agents to US federal and state agencies that assemble NEPA-class environmental review documents: they pull prior assessments, draft the analysis, flag inconsistencies with case law and agency guidance, and track comment responses.

Score 88Warm competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceGovernment and public sector

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 88Warm competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceConsumer96% of 4 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Overturn

Agents that fight payer denials for health systems, then sell what wins.

Overturn deploys an agent workforce inside a health system's revenue cycle that reads each denial, pulls the governing payer medical policy, assembles the clinical record and files the appeal, working through existing EHR and clearinghouse integrations rather than new infrastructure.

Score 87Crowded competitionVC 5/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprisetest: $1.5k · 6w97% of 4 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 86Warm competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceEnterprisetest: $1.2k · 5w97% 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 85Open competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceConsumer69% of 4 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 business96% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Tollgate

A rack appliance that holds the spending keys for every AI agent an enterprise runs.

Tollgate is a hardware root of trust that sits in an enterprise's own data center or colo and signs every payment mandate an autonomous agent issues, enforcing per-agent limits, merchant allowlists and human approval thresholds in silicon rather than in a prompt.

Score 83Open competitionVC 3/5HardwareEnterprisetest: $1.8k · 6w96% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Accredix

An accredited AI assessor and enclave that makes federal-grade compliance 10x cheaper.

Accredix is an AI agent service that takes an enterprise through FedRAMP, CMMC, and StateRAMP authorization and then keeps it continuously compliant, running on Accredix's own authorized hosting enclaves.

Score 83Warm competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise97% of 3 neighbours alive

Physical world · Robotics and physical world

Interlock

AI agent that writes and maintains the safety case for every robot cell.

Interlock is an AI agent service sold to manufacturers and their integrators that produces the risk assessment, functional safety validation and change documentation a robot work cell needs before it can run next to people.

Score 83Active competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise96% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Baseplate

The record network linking contractors, engineers, and state DOTs on federal-aid projects.

A network of record for federal-aid construction: contractors submit materials certifications, test results, submittals and inspection records once, and Baseplate routes them in each agency's required format to state DOTs and engineers of record, with AI pre-review trained on previously approved submittals.

Score 83Active competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionEnterprise96% of 3 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Vialport

AI agents that run the vendor paperwork between pharma R&D and outsourced labs.

Vialport gives pharma and large biotech R&D operations teams a fleet of AI agents that handle the non-clinical work between a sponsor and its outsourced labs: sourcing quotes from CROs and CDMOs, chasing certificates of analysis, reconciling sample shipments and invoices, and keeping study logistics current across email, ERP and ELN.

Score 82Active competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprisetest: $1.2k · 5w97% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Advoq

An AI legal agent that runs consumer disputes end to end at one tenth the cost.

Advoq is a self-serve AI agent that handles the legal matters ordinary people currently abandon or overpay for: landlord disputes, insurance claim denials, debt collection defense, small-claims filings.

Score 81Active competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceConsumer56% of 2 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 serviceConsumer98% 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 81Active competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business96% of 3 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 business98% 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 78Open competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall business94% of 2 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Labmesh

Agents that design, order and run preclinical experiments across a global lab network.

Labmesh gives a biotech or pharma scientist an agent that takes a hypothesis, decomposes it into assays, prices and routes each assay to a contract lab on its network, tracks samples, and returns structured results with the raw instrument files.

Score 78Crowded competitionVC 5/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise97% of 4 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 78Warm competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business96% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Recoursely

An agent that fights your fraud disputes, distributed through credit unions and employers.

Recoursely is a consumer subscription where an AI agent files and pursues the regulated paperwork after a scam or identity theft: Regulation E disputes with the bank, FCRA disputes with the bureaus, police reports, creditor freezes and follow-up until the money comes back or the case closes.

Score 77Warm competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceConsumer98% 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 serviceEnterprise97% of 3 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 74Active competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business96% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Recourse

An AI agent that claws back your money and identity after fraud.

Consumers hit by scams, identity theft, or bad data pay a subscription for an agent that acts as their authorized representative: it files chargebacks, FCRA credit disputes, identity theft affidavits, data-broker deletions, and GDPR erasure requests across jurisdictions, then tracks each case to resolution.

Score 74Active competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceConsumer97% of 3 neighbours alive

Physical world · Robotics and physical world

Conforma

An accredited machinery-safety certifier that runs on software instead of auditors

Conforma is spending its first years winning accreditation as a conformity-assessment body for industrial and autonomous machinery, then issuing CE and functional-safety certificates through a no-code platform that plugs into the OEM's CAD, PLM and test-rig data.

Score 74Warm competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionEnterprise95% of 2 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 74Active competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceSmall business96% of 4 neighbours alive

Physical world · Defense and space

Sectorline

The certified low-altitude airspace system US agencies and drone operators both run on.

Sectorline is a subscription airspace management system for the public agencies that will own low-altitude flight: FAA field offices, state DOTs, port authorities and city public safety departments.

Score 73Open competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionGovernment and public sector98% of 4 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Echofield

Any ultrasound probe, any small clinic, one shared interpretation and overread network.

Echofield sells small clinics worldwide a subscription that turns an existing or Echofield-supplied low-cost probe into a guided scanner: the software coaches an untrained operator through a standard sweep, produces a structured report from a multi-vendor ultrasound model, and routes anything uncertain to a credentialed reader inside the network.

Score 73Crowded competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionSmall businesstest: $2.6k · 6w97% of 4 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 73Warm competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceSmall business95% of 3 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 73Warm competitionVC 5/5Software subscriptionSmall business79% of 3 neighbours alive

Physical world · Climate and energy

Ampsite

Marketplace where industrial sites sell spare grid capacity to data center developers.

Ampsite lists industrial and brownfield sites in the US that already hold energized interconnection capacity they no longer use, scores each one for real deliverable megawatts using utility queue data, feeder models and on-site meter history, and matches them to colocation and AI compute developers hunting for power.

Score 72Crowded competitionVC 5/5MarketplaceEnterprise96% of 4 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 72Active competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionConsumer96% of 4 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 71Crowded competitionVC 5/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprise97% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Fiscora

Machine learning that stops improper government payments before the money moves.

Fiscora is a payment-integrity platform for state and local government: deep entity-resolution and anomaly-detection models screen benefit disbursements, tax refunds, and vendor payments before funds are released, replacing after-the-fact audit with pre-payment interdiction.

Score 71Active competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionGovernment and public sector95% 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 70Crowded competitionVC 5/5Software subscriptionSmall business96% of 2 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Talvia

FDA-cleared autonomous AI therapy, sold to health plans at one-tenth the cost.

Talvia builds a clinically validated conversational AI that delivers protocolized CBT for anxiety and depression as a covered insurance benefit, replacing 150-dollar-per-session human therapy with a 15-dollar-per-member-per-month product.

Score 70Crowded competitionVC 5/5Software subscriptionEnterprise92% of 2 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 70Crowded competitionVC 5/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise96% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Bordera

AI clearance agents that file, bond, and finance customs entries across every major trade lane.

Bordera runs AI agents that classify goods, file customs entries, and advance duties for enterprise importers, executing through Bordera's own licensed brokerage subsidiaries and bonded entities in each jurisdiction.

Score 70Active competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise95% 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 69Warm competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceSmall business82% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Commerce and marketplaces

DutyRail

Landed-cost and customs-entry API that 3PLs and ERPs resell to small importers.

DutyRail is an API that takes a purchase order or a product feed and returns an HS classification, duty and tariff-schedule exposure, a landed cost, and a filed customs entry through its own licensed broker desk.

Score 69Warm competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business96% of 4 neighbours alive

Physical world · Robotics and physical world

Attestly

An agent that builds the qualification dossier for regulated physical work, priced per dossier.

Attestly is an agent service for owners and contractors in nuclear, pressure equipment, aerospace and heavy infrastructure.

Score 68Active competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise96% of 3 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 4/5MarketplaceEnterprise97% of 3 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Astrid

Monthly at-home blood cartridge that learns your baseline, not the population's.

Astrid ships a reusable reader and a monthly single-use microsampling cartridge that runs a panel of metabolic, inflammatory and hormonal markers from a few drops of blood at home, then charges a consumer subscription for the software that tracks how far each result has drifted from that person's own history and from matched members of the same age, sex and physiology.

Score 67Open competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionConsumertest: $2.4k · 6w97% 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 serviceConsumer95% of 2 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 64Active competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise79% of 3 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Datavena

The marketplace where your biology earns royalties from drug developers.

Datavena is a consumer app where people connect wearables, genomes and health records and license access to pharma and AI labs - and get paid recurring royalties every time their data trains a model.

Score 64Crowded competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceConsumer97% of 4 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 64Crowded competitionVC 5/5Software subscriptionEnterprise96% of 4 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 business94% 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 63Warm competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business77% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Complio

An accredited AI compliance officer for small regulated firms, on in-country confidential compute.

Complio runs an AI agent that does the recurring compliance work of small regulated businesses (introducing brokers, clinics, insurance agents, local payment firms): monitoring transactions and records, drafting filings, assembling evidence packs and answering examiner requests.

Score 63Active competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceSmall business98% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Alcuin

AI tutoring agents that give every enrolled student a personal tutor at 10x lower cost.

Alcuin sells AI tutoring agents to universities, textbook publishers, and online course operators, who deploy them across whole cohorts so every student gets unlimited one-on-one tutoring at roughly a tenth of what human tutoring lines cost institutions today.

Score 62Active competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise92% of 2 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Certiva

Accredited AI conformity assessment sold as a continuous enterprise subscription.

Certiva builds a certification scheme for enterprise AI systems and gets itself accredited as the assessment body that issues the certificate, then sells enterprises a subscription that keeps the certificate live.

Score 62Crowded competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionEnterprise98% of 4 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 62Crowded competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceSmall business96% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Riskauction

An exchange where wholesale brokers auction hard-to-place enterprise risk to carrier capacity.

Riskauction turns a messy submission packet for a risk nobody has a rating plan for - AI agent liability, cloud outage, compute plant downtime - into a structured, priced, comparable risk unit, then runs a sealed auction across carriers, MGAs and reinsurers for the layer.

Score 60Warm competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceEnterprise96% of 4 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 59Crowded competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceSmall business97% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Creditome

The foundation model for small-business credit, sold as underwriting software.

Creditome trains a transaction-native foundation model on bank, payments and accounting data, then sells a self-serve SaaS underwriting workbench to small lenders, credit unions and fintech lenders worldwide.

Score 59Crowded competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionSmall business95% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Underwatt

Underwriting software that prices AI data center risk from live power and thermal telemetry.

Underwatt sells a subscription platform to carriers, MGAs and reinsurers that prices property, business-interruption and outage risk on GPU data centers using a telemetry fleet Underwatt installs itself: power quality recorders, thermal and coolant sensors, and grid interconnect feeds at the insured sites.

Score 58Crowded competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionEnterprisetest: $2.4k · 6w96% 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 3/5MarketplaceEnterprise98% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Fidara

A licensed AI fiduciary that manages your entire financial life, legally on your side.

Fidara is a consumer AI agent registered as an investment advisor and licensed money transmitter, so it can actually move money, rebalance accounts, refinance debt, contest bills and file the paperwork - not just suggest.

Score 58Active competitionVC 5/5AI agent as a serviceConsumer92% of 2 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Yieldcore

The marketplace where GPU fleets become a financeable asset class.

Yieldcore is a financing marketplace that lets small AI clouds and GPU operators borrow against their hardware and contracted compute revenue, matched with private credit funds that price risk off Yieldcore's live fleet telemetry.

Score 58Crowded competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceSmall business96% of 4 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 58Crowded competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall business82% of 4 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 58Active competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceConsumer94% 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 58Warm competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall businesstest: $1.6k · 6w96% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Sigilbox

Rack appliance that hardware-signs every payment an AI agent tries to make.

Sigilbox is a co-signing appliance installed in the datacenter of any company running AI agents that spend money: each agent payment instruction must be signed by keys held in the box, which applies spend policy and an on-device behavioural model before emitting a portable attestation.

Score 58Open competitionVC 4/5HardwareEnterprisetest: $2.2k · 6w95% of 3 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 57Crowded competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall business79% of 3 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 57Active competitionVC 5/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprise97% of 4 neighbours alive

Physical world · Robotics and physical world

Drover

The operating system that makes cheap general-purpose robots employable in small businesses

Drover builds the software layer that turns sub-$2500 general-purpose robots into reliable workers for restaurants, small warehouses and repair shops: task templates, fleet monitoring, a certified-hardware program, and an app store where third-party developers publish skills.

Score 56Crowded competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionSmall business95% of 2 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 56Crowded competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise96% of 4 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 56Active competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise79% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Subrix

AI agents that settle claims between insurance carriers on one shared network.

Subrix runs autonomous agents that handle subrogation - the process where one insurer recovers claim costs from another at-fault party's insurer.

Score 56Crowded competitionVC 5/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise82% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Commerce and marketplaces

Dockmeter

Camera and lidar gate racks that price every truck move at freight terminals.

Dockmeter installs its own edge racks (stereo cameras, lidar, on-site compute) at transload yards, cross-docks and port gates, then sells terminal operators and large 3PLs a per-site annual subscription that turns every gate event into an audited record: dimensions, weight class, damage state, seal integrity, dwell start and stop.

Score 54Warm competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionEnterprise95% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Fiscala

A cross-border invoice-matching network where AI agents recover lost VAT for governments.

Fiscala deploys AI agents inside tax authorities that reconcile invoice-level e-invoicing data across borders to detect missing-trader and carousel VAT fraud, and is paid a share of recovered revenue.

Score 54Warm competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceGovernment and public sector93% of 1 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 54Crowded competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionEnterprise94% of 2 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 52Active competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall business77% of 3 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 51Warm competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionConsumer79% of 3 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 51Crowded competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceConsumer82% of 4 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 50Crowded competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business97% of 2 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 50Crowded competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionEnterprise94% of 2 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Halostrip

Passive sensor tags that survive salt, steel and concrete, with an open reader API.

Halostrip makes a printed passive tag and reader pair that keeps working where RFID normally fails: submerged in brine, bonded to metal, and cast into concrete.

Score 50Open competitionVC 3/5HardwareEnterprise96% of 3 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Cohortguard

Agent network that runs minor-safety compliance and shared risk signals across consumer platforms.

Cohortguard runs AI agents inside consumer platforms that handle youth-safety obligations end to end: age assurance flows, parental consent records, escalation of grooming and self-harm signals, and the audit files regulators ask for.

Score 49Crowded competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise94% of 3 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 48Crowded competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprise95% 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 48Crowded competitionVC 5/5Software subscriptionEnterprise78% of 3 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Commerce and marketplaces

Netback

An agent that recovers the money your supply chain quietly loses every week.

Netback connects read-only to a shipper's TMS, ERP and carrier portals and runs an agent that finds recoverable leakage: freight damage and shortage claims, detention and accessorial overbilling, retailer deductions, supplier short-ships.

Score 48Crowded competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise96% of 4 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 46Active competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceEnterprise94% of 4 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 APIsEnterprise94% 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 business96% of 4 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 42Crowded competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceEnterprise95% of 2 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 41Crowded competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionConsumer94% 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 40Open competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceConsumer94% of 2 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 39Crowded competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceEnterprise94% of 4 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 39Open competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business96% 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 38Crowded competitionVC 5/5MarketplaceConsumer94% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Canonbase

The rights and licensing API for AI-generated stories, characters and media.

Canonbase is an API that lets studios, game publishers and consumer AI apps pull licensed characters, story worlds and creator IP into generated content, with usage metered and royalties split automatically.

Score 37Active competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprise94% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Agentfront

The agent layer that makes consumer brands visible and transactable inside AI assistants.

Agentfront runs branded AI agents for large consumer companies so their products can be found, compared and bought inside ChatGPT-style assistants and voice interfaces.

Score 36Crowded competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise94% of 3 neighbours alive