People arrive here with a concrete question: is switching worth it, or do I keep paying licence fees for an off-the-shelf product that is now retrofitting AI? Am I allowed to use the tool under my regulatory constraints, and does it fit my size? Every profile answers exactly that, with a source and a review date on every statement.
Not a directory, and no claim to completeness. A tool goes in when we use it ourselves, have replaced it, or have examined it in client work. We update and extend this page at least every two weeks.
27 profiles with our own verdict8 more in the register6 areas
BLP Digital AG, Zurich · document processes around the ERP
Runs the recurring document processes around an ERP system, namely incoming invoices, order confirmations, delivery notes and master data upkeep, and writes the result back into the ERP, which remains the system of record.
Off-the-shelf productAI-nativeSolo: not suitable, Mid-market: suitable with caveats, Enterprise: suitable
n8n GmbH · automation chains
Chains systems together without custom code and can be run in your own data centre.
Build toolEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
Register entry, no profile · n8n.io
Paddle.com Market Ltd · merchant of record
Resells your software in its own name and thereby becomes the buyer's contractual counterparty. Registration, calculation, remittance and liability for indirect tax in foreign jurisdictions then sit with the vendor rather than with the software company.
Building blockEstablishedSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
Pleo Technologies A/S · corporate cards and spend approval
Gives every employee a card with its own limit and ties the receipt to the transaction, instead of letting subscriptions and tools run through private cards that only surface weeks later in an expense report.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable with caveats, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
Sastrify GmbH, Cologne (owned by Deel since May 2026) · software and AI procurement
Pulls software inventory, actual usage and contract data into one register, flags notice periods before an auto renewal fires, and holds the price you pay against a benchmark database built from other companies' contracts.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: not suitable, Mid-market: suitable with caveats, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
Stripe, Inc. · payments and billing
Accepts payments, bills subscriptions and carries the tax logic without running your own payment operation.
Building blockEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable
Register entry, no profile · stripe.com
Infisical, Inc. · secrets management
Keeps credentials, keys and certificates in one place, hands them out only to verified humans and machines, and logs every issue. That takes passwords out of chat threads, spreadsheets and source code.
Building blockEstablishedSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
Langfuse GmbH, Berlin (owned by ClickHouse, Inc. since 2026-01-16) · model call logging
Once you build language models into a product, you cannot see what the model was asked, what it answered, what the call cost, or whether a prompt change improved or degraded quality. Langfuse records every model call, versions the prompts and scores answers against fixed test cases.
Building blockAI-nativeSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
Berrie AI Incorporated (BerriAI) · model gateway
Puts one uniform interface in front of many model providers, so keys, cost, limits and logs sit in one place instead of scattered across every service that calls a model.
Building blockAI-nativeSolo: suitable with caveats, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
Nudge Security, Inc. · AI usage visibility
Shows which AI and SaaS services are actually in use across a company, and what access rights those services hold on company data, without anyone having to survey the staff.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: not suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
Ory Corp (EU-Vertretung: Ory Germany GmbH, München) · identity and access
Sign-in, registration, sessions, multi-factor and access rights have to work in every product with more than one user. Ory supplies that layer either as a hosted service or as open source servers you run yourself.
Building blockEstablishedSolo: suitable with caveats, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
Tailscale US Inc. (Delaware) for contracts from 2024-09-03, before that Tailscale Inc. (Toronto) · internal system access
Ties access to servers, databases and internal services to a person's identity rather than to a network cable, a VPN account or a shared password. When someone leaves, access disappears with the account.
Off-the-shelf productEstablishedSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
Attio Ltd. · CRM
Keeps company and contact data editable through an API rather than only through a user interface.
Off-the-shelf productAI-nativeSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
Register entry, no profile · attio.com
Clay Labs Inc · enrichment and signal processing
A list of companies or people rarely carries the attributes you actually decide on. Clay is the workbench where you assemble those attributes, query several data sources in sequence and put your own scoring logic on top.
Build toolEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable with caveats, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
HubSpot, Inc. · CRM
Bundles marketing, sales and service in one platform whose price grows with contacts and seats.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable with caveats, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable
Register entry, no profile · hubspot.com
LEMPIRE SAS, Paris (RCS Paris 823 475 082) · outbound sequences
Runs cold outreach across email, LinkedIn, phone and SMS as a single sequence, manages the sending mailboxes and their deliverability, and writes replies, opt-outs and booked meetings back onto the contact record.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
tldx Solutions GmbH · call recording and analysis
Records what was actually said in sales, customer and hiring calls and makes it searchable and analysable, instead of leaving it to individual memory and hand-written notes.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
Astro-Projekt (MIT), getragen von Cloudflare · website stack
Builds a website into finished files at publish time, so no code has to load in the browser just to display the page.
Building blockEstablishedSolo: suitable with caveats, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable
Peec AI GmbH · visibility in AI answers
Shows whether and how a brand turns up in answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI mode, in which position, in what tone, and which sources those systems assemble the answer from.
Off-the-shelf productAI-nativeSolo: suitable with caveats, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
Plausible Insights OÜ · audience measurement
Measures reach without cookies or a consent banner, with data held in the EU.
Off-the-shelf productEstablishedSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
Register entry, no profile · plausible.io
Sanity AS · headless CMS
Separates content from its presentation and serves it through an API, so website, app and answer engines all read from one source.
Building blockEstablishedSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
Sulu GmbH · headless CMS
Manages content, multiple websites and translations in a self-hosted system built on Symfony.
Building blockEstablishedSolo: not suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable
Anthropic PBC · coding assistance
Works as an agent inside the project directory: reads, writes and checks code on instruction, rather than only suggesting text in an editor.
Build toolAI-nativeSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
Cloudflare, Inc. · hosting and edge
Delivers a website's files worldwide and runs small functions at the network edge, without operating your own server.
Building blockEstablishedSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable
Anysphere Inc. · coding assistance
Puts model assistance directly into the editor developers already work in.
Build toolAI-nativeSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
Register entry, no profile · cursor.com
GitHub, Inc., owned by Microsoft Corporation since 2018 · source control
Records the history of every change to the source code, merges parallel lines of work, and attaches review, issue and deployment to the same change. Without this layer nobody reliably knows which version is running, or who changed what and why.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
GitLab Inc. (Nasdaq: GTLB) · source control
Records the history of every change to the source code and brings review, issue, build run, security scanning and deployment into one system. The difference from the competitor is not in that list but in the fact that the core is open source and you are allowed to run it yourself.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable
Linear Orbit, Inc. · product and work management
Keeps a product team's issues, tasks and projects in one place and exposes them through an API in machine-readable form, so coding agents can work from structured tickets instead of prose buried in chat threads.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
Lovable Labs Inc. · app builder
Turns a description into a running web application including interface, data storage and sign-in, without writing code.
Build toolAI-nativeSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable with caveats, Enterprise: not suitable
Supabase, Inc. · database and auth
Provides database, authentication and file storage as a kit on top of Postgres instead of running each part yourself.
Building blockEstablishedSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
Register entry, no profile · supabase.com
Circle Creator Inc. · community and knowledge base
Runs member area, course content and discussion in one place, billing included.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: not suitable
Register entry, no profile · circle.so
Intercom, Inc. (trading as Fin since May 2026) · outcome-based ticket deflection
Answers inbound support requests on its own across chat, email, WhatsApp, SMS and phone, and hands over to a human when it gets stuck. You pay per case resolved rather than per seat.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable with caveats, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
Not Just Tickets Ltd · support built into the product
Routes customer requests from Slack, Teams, Discord, email and chat along accounts, customer groups and service level agreements instead of along channels, and makes every operation programmable through an API.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable with caveats, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
Zammad GmbH · self-hosted support
Brings requests from email, web forms, chat and messengers into one case system, so it stays traceable who promised what and when, instead of cases disappearing into a shared mailbox.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable with caveats, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
Zendesk, Inc. · helpdesk platform
Collects customer requests from email, chat, phone and social channels into one ticket store with ownership, deadlines and history, so that no request disappears in a shared mailbox.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable with caveats, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable
Nothing in the toolbox matches this selection.
Off-the-shelf product
You buy it and use it.
Build tool
You build with it.
Building block
You build out of it.
On three questions every profile answers: who stands behind the vendor and what does leaving cost? Am I allowed to use it under my regulatory constraints? Does it fit my size? Every profile puts the off-the-shelf product, the AI-native product and building it yourself side by side, with advice per company size.
Having the tool puts you nowhere ahead. Not having it puts you behind. The effect runs one way only. Every tool in this class has alternatives, so it is not an obligation but a category of effect.
It rates how well a point is evidenced, not how good the tool is. Green means documented with no condition, yellow documented but tied to a condition, amber documented but unfavourable, red open on a point that decides whether you can use it at all. The scale is defined per area.
No customer data is processed on your behalf, for instance because the software runs on your own machines. A data processing agreement would have nothing to cover. That differs from "DPA unclear", where it stays open whether the vendor offers one.
Every factual statement carries a source and a review date, shown at the statement and in the source list at the foot of the page. Where a source is missing, we say so instead of guessing.
A score about a named company would be a claim we cannot evidence. Instead each tool carries a plain-language verdict, suitability by company size and an evidenced finding on regulation. We deliberately do not forecast a vendor's solvency.
