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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
AI and software · Data for AI
Registral
Accredited AI agents that turn government records into standardized, machine-readable datasets.
An agent workforce, sold to government agencies through system integrators, that reads scanned permits, inspection reports, court filings and statistical registers and converts them into certified, AI-ready datasets under a published schema.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.