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102 ideas. Ideas that belong to another sector but whose text clearly touches ai and software.

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

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