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E-commerce tooling, procurement and supply chain, consumer products and services.

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24 ideas, by Idea Score

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Yearmark

Certified on-device age assurance and minor-safety controls, shipped as one SDK for consumer apps.

Yearmark is a subscription SDK that consumer app companies drop into signup and payment flows to estimate a user's age band on-device from face, voice and interaction signals, then enforce the right minor-safety rules per jurisdiction without sending biometrics to a server.

Score 82Warm competitionVC 5/5Software subscriptionEnterprise94% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Phonika

Speech practice for kids at one tenth the cost of a therapist.

Phonika is a subscription app that gives children with articulation delays daily speech practice, using on-device speech models trained to score child phoneme production - a problem general ASR handles badly - and adapt drills the way a speech-language pathologist would between sessions.

Score 76Open competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionConsumer92% 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

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Fibrena

Certified microplastic-free fiber materials for hygiene and food-contact products.

Fibrena engineers bio-based nanocellulose materials that replace plastic films and absorbents in hygiene products and food packaging, and sells them to consumer-goods enterprises as drop-in inputs.

Score 70Active competitionVC 3/5HardwareEnterprise90% of 1 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Scanmark

A scanner and shared registry that fingerprints physical collectibles, one scan at a time.

Scanmark sells a countertop optical scanner that captures the microscopic surface grain of a card, coin or sealed pack and writes an unforgeable fingerprint into a shared registry, so the same physical item can be re-identified anywhere later.

Score 66Active competitionVC 3/5HardwareEnterprise94% 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

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

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Listwire

One API that lists any secondhand item everywhere and prices it from real comps.

Small resellers and secondhand shops connect once to Listwire and their inventory appears, correctly categorised and priced, across every consumer resale marketplace, with orders, cancellations and payouts flowing back through the same endpoints.

Score 62Active competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business94% of 3 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

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

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Seatline

Marketplace for licensed childcare seats that files each provider's subsidy claims automatically.

Seatline lists real-time open seats at licensed home-based and small centre childcare providers, matches them to families by age band, hours and subsidy eligibility, and then does the paperwork: enrolment records, attendance capture, background-check status and state subsidy claim filing.

Score 54Warm competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceSmall business90% of 1 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Gatherdeck

The operating platform local experience businesses run on, open to outside builders.

Gatherdeck is the horizontal operating system for venues, clubs, and event businesses - memberships, bookings, scheduling, and payments in one free core - with an open plugin layer where third-party developers ship no-code vertical modules for poker clubs, wedding venues, run clubs, and supper clubs.

Score 53Active competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionSmall business92% of 2 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Somacore

The FDA-cleared sensing module every wearable brand builds on.

Somacore designs a fingernail-sized multi-sensor module - optical, bioimpedance, temperature - with on-device ML, and takes the core measurements (heart rhythm, blood-pressure trend) through FDA clearance once so its customers never have to.

Score 52Crowded competitionVC 4/5HardwareEnterprise94% of 3 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Clubrail

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

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

Score 52Active competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall business77% 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 · 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 · Consumer

Foliograph

A global copy-investing network built on ML-verified track records.

Foliograph is a consumer subscription that connects to a user's existing brokerage account, verifies and risk-normalizes their real returns with ML across brokers and asset classes, and lets subscribers automatically replicate top verified portfolios sized to their own risk limits.

Score 44Crowded competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionConsumer92% 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 · 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 · 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

Commerce and marketplaces

18 ideas, by Idea Score

Consumer and commerce · Commerce and marketplaces

Verolane

Shared supplier verification network for importers facing forced-labor enforcement.

Verolane is an enterprise subscription that maps an importer's tier-2 and tier-3 suppliers, scores each site against forced-labor and illegal-fishing enforcement criteria, and produces the evidence file customs authorities ask for when a shipment is detained.

Score 69Warm competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionEnterprise96% 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

Consumer and commerce · Commerce and marketplaces

Switchyard

Marketplace for long-lead datacenter power gear, graded by ML from electrical test data.

Switchyard is a marketplace where operators, EPCs and refurbishers trade transformers, switchgear, breakers and chillers with multi-year lead times, including surplus and decommissioned units.

Score 68Active competitionVC 5/5MarketplaceEnterprise96% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Commerce and marketplaces

Ampyard

The stocked marketplace for the power equipment behind the datacenter buildout.

Ampyard is a US marketplace for transformers, switchgear, generators and other electrical infrastructure, aimed at small electrical contractors, EV-charging installers and small datacenter operators who cannot get manufacturer allocation.

Score 63Active competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceSmall business96% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Commerce and marketplaces

Originary

An API that computes duty, origin and eligibility for any product on any lane.

Originary compiles customs tariff schedules, binding rulings, rules-of-origin texts and trade-remedy orders from every major customs regime into one executable rule engine, then exposes it as a self-serve API that returns a landed cost and an origin determination with the citation chain behind it.

Score 56Active competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprise96% 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

Consumer and commerce · Commerce and marketplaces

Lotwork

Graded pallet-level surplus marketplace with an open API resellers build their tools on.

Lotwork is a self-serve marketplace where brands and distributors list surplus, overstock and returned goods by pallet, and small retailers, discounters and online resellers buy them.

Score 53Warm competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceSmall business96% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Commerce and marketplaces

Ordwire

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

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

Score 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 · Commerce and marketplaces

Millrun

A marketplace that prices custom manufactured parts from CAD in seconds.

Enterprise hardware teams upload CAD files and get firm, guaranteed quotes in seconds from geometry models trained on part-price-outcome data, with jobs routed to idle capacity at US machine shops.

Score 46Crowded competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceEnterprise95% of 3 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

Consumer and commerce · Commerce and marketplaces

Cartpool

Consumers pool orders to buy factory-direct at importer prices.

A US consumer marketplace where shoppers join live buying pools for a single SKU - furniture, fitness gear, lighting - and when the pool hits the factory's minimum, the order ships direct from the manufacturer at 40-60% below retail.

Score 43Crowded competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceConsumer94% of 2 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Commerce and marketplaces

Revern

An API-first network of robotic facilities that processes retail returns for a tenth of the cost.

Revern gives enterprise retailers a self-serve API: send a returned item to the nearest Revern hub, where computer vision and robotic handling inspect, grade, re-box and route it to restock, recommerce or recycling, priced per item.

Score 42Active competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprise94% of 2 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 · 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 · Commerce and marketplaces

Lotwise

Buying network and live price index for independent US pharmacies.

Lotwise gives independent pharmacies a free inbox that ingests their serialized inbound shipment data and wholesaler invoices, reconciles what they actually paid per drug per lot, and shows them what comparable pharmacies in the network paid for the same item that week.

Score 38Active competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall business96% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Commerce and marketplaces

Proofhouse

The licensed secondary marketplace for collectible wine and spirits.

A consumer marketplace where collectors buy and sell rare bourbon, whiskey, and wine legally.

Score 35Warm competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceConsumer

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B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Humanrail

A licensed personhood and KYC API any small merchant can turn on in an afternoon.

Humanrail is an API that answers two questions for small online businesses: is this a real, unique human, and does this customer clear the anti-money-laundering checks the merchant is legally on the hook for.

Score 99Warm competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business83% 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Score 82Warm competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceGovernment and public sector95% of 3 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Benchflow

Order any preclinical assay from inside your ELN; labs sell spare instrument time.

Benchflow is a marketplace for preclinical research services and instrument capacity.

Score 82Warm competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceEnterprisetest: $1.2k · 6w97% 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

Physical world · Robotics and physical world

Certmill

Marketplace putting export-controlled parts work into small machine shops.

Certmill holds the ITAR registration, the NIST 800-171 data environment and an AS9100 umbrella quality system, then lets six-person machine shops quote defense and aerospace jobs they are otherwise locked out of.

Score 81Warm competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceSmall business82% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Kinshield

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

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

Score 81Active competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceConsumer98% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Carepuck

A $99 puck that watches a parent's home, with an app store for care.

Carepuck is a plug-in device with millimeter-wave motion sensing and on-device audio that adult children buy online and mail to a parent living alone; it learns the household routine and texts the family when something breaks the pattern, with no cameras and no medical claims.

Score 80Warm competitionVC 4/5HardwareConsumer95% of 2 neighbours alive

Physical world · Robotics and physical world

Voltstack

A plug-in home battery that installs itself and joins the grid programs for you.

Voltstack is a 5kWh stackable home battery that plugs into a normal socket, needs no electrician, and handles its own grid paperwork: the unit detects its country and utility from meter signals, files the interconnection or notification form, and enrols the household in whatever demand-response or feed-in scheme it qualifies for.

Score 80Warm competitionVC 4/5HardwareConsumer68% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Vouchline

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

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

Score 80Active competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceSmall business98% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Vertical AI agents

Bidcraft

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

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

Score 80Warm competitionVC 5/5Software subscriptionSmall businesstest: $1.2k · 5w98% of 4 neighbours alive

Physical world · Robotics and physical world

Tactura

Tactile skin modules that give any industrial robot a sense of touch.

Tactura makes force-sensing skin panels and fingertip modules that bolt onto existing industrial arms and grippers, sold as catalog components with a dev kit ordered online and volume pricing after.

Score 79Active competitionVC 4/5HardwareEnterprise96% 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

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

Physical world · Robotics and physical world

Partprint

A shared physics fingerprint for every machined part, so factories stop destroying samples to trust them.

Partprint retrofits cheap acoustic, thermal and spindle-current sensors onto CNC machines, presses and furnaces, and turns each part's production signature into a predicted mechanical property card.

Score 77Crowded competitionVC 5/5Software subscriptionEnterprise96% of 4 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Pulsefold

A $40 home panel clinics accept in place of a routine lab draw.

Pulsefold is a consumer countertop device with disposable cartridges that returns a cardiometabolic panel (lipids, HbA1c, kidney markers) in minutes at home, sold through pharmacy chains, employers and Medicare Advantage plans rather than direct.

Score 76Active competitionVC 3/5HardwareConsumer96% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Flagline

Shared fraud and AML signal network for community banks and credit unions.

Flagline is a subscription screening layer that plugs into a community financial institution's core-system exports through no-code connectors, checks every new account and transaction against a live watchlist pooled from all member institutions, and produces SAR-ready case files.

Score 76Active competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionSmall business98% 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

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

Fintech · Fintech

Zerotill

A countertop terminal that drops card acceptance fees from 3 percent to 0.3.

A payment terminal for US small merchants that accepts pay-by-bank and stablecoin payments alongside cards, routing every transaction to the cheapest rail and cutting acceptance cost roughly 10x on non-card volume.

Score 74Warm competitionVC 3/5HardwareSmall business95% of 3 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

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

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

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

Physical world · Robotics and physical world

Skillnest

A subscription skill layer that teaches any home robot your house, learned from every other house.

Skillnest is a consumer subscription that rides on top of home robots sold by other manufacturers: the household demonstrates a chore once by phone or by guiding the arm, and Skillnest turns that demonstration into a policy that runs on their machine and, once anonymised and verified, on everyone else's.

Score 70Active competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionConsumer96% of 3 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

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

Physical world · Defense and space

Qualforge

Self-serve qualification for small machine shops entering the defense supply chain.

Qualforge is a subscription tool where a small shop uploads a part and a process sheet and gets a priced, scheduled path to first-article approval, backed by Qualforge's own metrology, coupon testing and materials labs.

Score 70Warm competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionSmall business98% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Attestry

The global registry that stops government payments to impostor suppliers.

Attestry is a shared registry of verified government suppliers and their real bank accounts: before a treasury or municipality releases a payment, its ERP checks the payee against the registry through a no-code integration.

Score 69Warm competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionGovernment and public sector95% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Lexrail

The licensed compliance layer any small platform builds stablecoin payouts on.

Lexrail is an API that lets small vertical SaaS companies, marketplaces and exporters send cross-border stablecoin payouts under Lexrail's own money transmitter and VASP licenses, so they never apply for one themselves.

Score 69Active competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business94% of 2 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Vitalane

A global marketplace for measuring your own biology, ranked by what actually changes with age.

Vitalane is a consumer app that sells at-home biology panels (blood, saliva, stool, wearable-derived) from independent labs and then sells the follow-on interventions - supplements, sleep and training protocols, coached programs - from vetted vendors in the same checkout.

Score 68Active competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceConsumertest: $2.3k · 5w82% of 4 neighbours alive

Physical world · Defense and space

Northfix

A cheap chip-scale inertial module that keeps consumer devices located when GPS is gone.

Northfix builds a photonic-MEMS inertial measurement unit and fusion stack that holds metre-level position for hours without satellite signal, at a target module cost around $30 against the several hundred dollars a tactical-grade unit costs today.

Score 68Active competitionVC 3/5HardwareConsumer97% 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

Physical world · Climate and energy

Wattbid

The marketplace where small businesses sell their flexible power to the grid.

Wattbid enrolls the HVAC systems, EV chargers, and batteries of restaurants, gyms, and retail shops through the electrical and HVAC contractors who already service them, then auctions that aggregated flexibility to utilities and grid operators hungry for peak capacity.

Score 67Active competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceSmall business93% of 1 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

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

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Coverpoint

A live exchange where counties buy crisis and psychiatric capacity by the hour.

Coverpoint is a procurement marketplace for public behavioral health: county behavioral health departments, jails, courts, EMS agencies and crisis lines post capacity they need right now (a mobile crisis dispatch, a psychiatric telehealth hour, a stabilization bed, a post-overdose bridge visit), and credentialed provider groups accept the request at posted rates.

Score 66Open competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceGovernment and public sectortest: $1.5k · 6w95% of 2 neighbours alive

Physical world · Defense and space

Forgeline

The global exchange connecting small machine shops to aerospace part demand.

Forgeline is a marketplace where small precision machine shops anywhere in the world take orders for non-export-controlled commercial aerospace and drone parts.

Score 66Crowded competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceSmall business97% of 3 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

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

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

Physical world · Defense and space

Nightglass

Subscription collision warnings for small satellite operators, from our own global sensor grid.

Nightglass builds and operates a worldwide grid of optical and passive RF sensor sites and sells the output as a per-satellite monthly subscription to small operators: custody tracking, orbit determination, conjunction warnings and maneuver screening in one console.

Score 62Crowded competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionSmall business83% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Agent infrastructure

Mnemora

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

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

Score 61Active competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionConsumer98% of 4 neighbours alive

Physical world · Climate and energy

Wattfolio

The autopilot subscription that runs every electric device in the home.

Wattfolio is a consumer subscription that takes control of heat pumps, EV chargers, solar inverters, and home batteries and runs them against dynamic electricity prices using learned thermal models of each house and ML price forecasts.

Score 61Active competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionConsumer79% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Partspec

Marketplace for industrial parts sold with measured, machine-readable qualification data.

Partspec runs its own metrology and test labs that tear down, scan and stress components (fasteners, castings, power electronics, sensors) and publishes the results as a structured qualification record attached to every listing.

Score 61Warm competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceEnterprise82% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Syndic

Machine-readable catalog, pricing, and entitlement endpoints for enterprises, hosted as an API.

Syndic is product data syndication infrastructure: it takes an enterprise's existing catalog, price books, availability, and policy documents out of its ERP and PIM and serves them as versioned, authenticated endpoints that any external system can query and transact against.

Score 61Warm competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprise97% of 4 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

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 · Data for AI

Groundfeed

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

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

Score 60Warm competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceConsumer96% of 4 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Vitalrail

One API that turns every consumer health device into a single calibrated data stream.

Vitalrail sells enterprises - digital health platforms, insurers' wellness arms, longevity clinic chains - a single API that ingests wearable, CGM, blood pressure, and sleep data from any consumer device and returns one normalized, bias-corrected stream.

Score 60Crowded competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprise97% of 4 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

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

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Ordermesh

The shared order network for wholesale suppliers and their retail buyers.

Ordermesh is a subscription network where physical-goods SMBs exchange purchase orders, confirmations, and invoices on one shared record instead of email and PDF.

Score 59Active competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall business79% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Stocklight

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

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

Score 58Crowded competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall business82% 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

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Tradewire

The ordering and payment network connecting independent distributors with the retailers they supply.

Tradewire is an API network that lets small US wholesale distributors and their retail customers exchange orders, invoices, and payment terms in one standard format, replacing faxed POs and legacy EDI.

Score 58Active competitionVC 5/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business79% of 3 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

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

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

Physical world · Defense and space

Fieldpost

Cheap satellite terminal plus a licensed anywhere plan, sold direct to consumers worldwide.

Fieldpost designs and contract-manufactures a low-cost fixed-beam satellite terminal for hikers, boaters, rural households and travelers, and sells connectivity as a monthly consumer plan.

Score 55Warm competitionVC 3/5HardwareConsumer97% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Keyfort

Custody hardware nodes that cut key management costs 10x and settle instantly.

Keyfort sells a rack-mount signing node built from commodity secure elements that holds threshold key shares for institutional digital asset and stablecoin custody at roughly a tenth of the cost of a legacy hardware security module deployment.

Score 55Crowded competitionVC 3/5HardwareEnterprise94% of 2 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

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

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Halomark

A wearable that reads hormones continuously, the way CGMs read glucose.

Halomark builds a subcutaneous aptamer-based sensor and patch reader that tracks cortisol, thyroid and reproductive hormones continuously instead of at single blood-draw timepoints.

Score 53Crowded competitionVC 3/5HardwareConsumer95% of 2 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

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Tallyport

A $250 ceiling gateway that counts every item in a small warehouse continuously.

Tallyport sells a plug-in RFID and vision gateway to small distributors, auto shops, and independent retailers, plus tag rolls and a per-site monthly plan.

Score 51Open competitionVC 3/5HardwareSmall business79% 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

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

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Shelfgrid

RFID shelf kits that link independent retailers and small brands into one live inventory network.

Shelfgrid sells a sub-$500 RFID reader kit plus cheap tags to independent retailers and the small consumer brands that stock them.

Score 51Active competitionVC 3/5HardwareSmall business96% of 3 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

Fintech · Fintech

Tenor

An exchange where suppliers bid to give small businesses payment terms, priced by a cash-flow model.

Small businesses connect bank and accounting feeds self-serve; Tenor trains a transaction-sequence model that forecasts each account's cash position and payment behavior 90 days out.

Score 48Active competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceSmall business82% of 4 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 · 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 · 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

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Tagfabric

One-cent batteryless tags and cheap readers that make every object countable.

Custom backscatter silicon and a $200 reader that bring item-level tracking to businesses that could never justify RFID: a hardware store, a hatchery, a small distributor.

Score 31Open competitionVC 4/5HardwareSmall business82% of 4 neighbours alive