Research and reports
Data studies of the AI tools market, built on a catalog we check rather than scrape. Every figure is frozen to its capture date, so a number you quote today still reads the same next year. Free to cite.
Featured reports
FEATURED16 Sept 2026What died, and where it went
A tool-by-tool liveness check of the whole catalog: 8.4% dead, 2.3% acquired, and a 12x spread between the safest market and the deadliest.
11 min read · free to cite
FEATURED16 Sept 2026The wrapper risk index
6,113 scored products, a sevenfold spread by market, and a measure that turns out to be a classification rather than a scale.
9 min read · free to cite
FEATURED16 Sept 2026The geography of AI
The Bay Area holds more than the next nine hubs combined. Israel is the densest ecosystem per capita. One hub is underwater.
9 min read · free to cite
Latest reports
8 Oct 2026What Are Y Combinator's 2026 AI Startups Building?
298 YC 2026 AI companies, read one by one: who sells to agent builders, which industries get operations agents, and the markets nobody entered.
7 min read · free to cite
16 Sept 2026Who funds AI, and at what stage
Series A leads at 1,569 products, named B and C rounds have all but vanished, and the stage you are at predicts the market you are in.
9 min read · free to cite
16 Sept 2026How AI prices itself
55% of the catalog is freemium. Pricing turns out to be downstream of the market you chose, and it predicts nothing about whether you last.
8 min read · free to cite
16 Sept 2026Ten founding cohorts
Founding peaked in 2022 at 911 companies. One in eight of that cohort is already gone, against one in fourteen founded five years earlier.
9 min read · free to cite
16 Sept 2026Which AI tools ship an API
Products with an API fail at 7.4%, without at 10.5%. Security ships one 95.6% of the time; Writing 14.5%.
8 min read · free to cite
16 Sept 2026What our columns can and cannot tell you
User rating is close to useless. Wrapper risk works but only as two buckets. And coverage, not measurement, is the real limit.
8 min read · free to cite
16 Sept 2026Where the catalog actually sits
The ten largest markets average 18.7 points of room. The ten smallest average 58.4. Building effort is concentrated where it is least needed.
8 min read · free to cite
16 Sept 2026Every AI market, scored
If you need to cite one number about an AI market, it is probably in this table. Free to use, and it will not move.
6 min read · free to cite
23 Apr 2026How many AI markets are still open?
Market saturation analysis: every scored category, the enterprise-gated open markets, and what we predict closes first.
10 min read · free to cite
6 Oct 2026AI markets 2026: which predictions held
Year-end retrospective. Grades our prior predictions against what actually happened, and sets the 2027 watchlist.
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