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 these questions, with a source and a check date on every statement.
A tool goes in when we use it ourselves, have replaced it, or have examined it in client work. We update this page at least every two weeks.
55 profiles with our own verdict8 more in the register6 areas
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
CodeRabbit, Inc. · testing and review
Reads every change in a pull request, comments on it line by line and proposes corrections before a human starts reviewing.
Off-the-shelf productAI-nativeSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
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 lies in the fact that the core is open source and you are allowed to run it yourself, not in that list.
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
PostHog, Inc., San Francisco, California, with the subsidiary PostHog GmbH (limited company), Munich · product analytics and feature flags
Records what people do inside an application, releases individual features to selected groups and works out whether the change had an effect, so the decision about the next step rests on measured numbers instead of the loudest opinion in the room.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
Functional Software, Inc. d/b/a Sentry, United States · error and performance monitoring
Receives exceptions and timing measurements from a running application, groups alike incidents into a single entry and shows the line of code together with the change that last touched it, so an outage surfaces inside the team before a customer reports it.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
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
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
Cloudinary Ltd., Petah Tikva (Israel), with Cloudinary Inc. (USA), Cloudinary UK Ltd. and Cloudinary Poland Sp. z o.o. · image and media delivery
Takes images and videos in once and delivers them through the URL in the right size and format over a delivery network, so variants no longer have to be produced and stored by hand.
Building blockEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable with caveats, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
DeepL SE, Köln · translation
Translates text and documents between languages using its own models, and lets company terminology be fixed through glossaries and style rules.
Off-the-shelf productAI-nativeSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
Eleven Labs Inc., New York · speech synthesis
Generates spoken audio from text, clones voices from recordings and transfers video and audio material into other languages, either through a web interface or through an API.
Building blockAI-nativeSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
Framer B.V. · website builder
Builds websites in a visual editor and runs them on the vendor's infrastructure, so a new page goes live without a development step.
Build toolEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
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
Semrush Inc., Boston (Delaware), owned by Adobe since 28 April 2026 · search visibility
Brings keywords, rankings, technical site errors and third-party backlinks together in one interface and, through the retrofitted AI modules, also measures whether and how a brand shows up in answers from AI systems.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable with caveats, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable
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
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
Cognigy GmbH (owned by NiCE Ltd. since 08.09.2025) · voice AI in service
Builds and runs voice and chat agents for customer service, connects them to the phone system and to the business systems behind it, and hands over to staff as soon as the case calls for it.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: not suitable, Mid-market: suitable with caveats, Enterprise: suitable
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
FrontApp, Inc. · shared inbox
Brings email, chat, SMS and social channels together in one shared inbox where every message carries an owner, an internal comment thread and a history.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable with caveats, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
GitBook Inc. · knowledge base
Publishes product documentation and help articles as a searchable website, keeps the text tied to the source code through a two-way sync with GitHub or GitLab, and answers reader questions in place through a language-model search.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
Help Scout PBC · helpdesk for small teams
Brings email, chat and social channels together in one shared inbox and puts a knowledge base beside it, from which a chatbot answers customer questions directly.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable with caveats, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: not suitable
Intercom, Inc. for orders with a US shipping address, otherwise Intercom R&D Unlimited Company, Dublin; the company has traded as Fin since May 2026 · support suite with an in-product channel
Brings chat inside your own product, email, phone and help centre together in one shared inbox, and sends proactive messages, product tours and checklists to users from that same place.
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
ZenLeads, Inc. d/b/a Apollo.io · contact data and enrichment
Apollo runs its own database of business contact data and attaches sequence sending, dialling and call recording to the same interface. You look up an address and reach out to it without leaving the tool.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: 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
Cal.com, Inc. · appointment scheduling
Provides booking pages that compute free slots from connected calendars, distribute incoming requests across a team by stored rules, and create the confirmed meeting with a video link and reminders.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
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
Docusign, Inc. · electronic signature
Sends documents out for signature, guides recipients through the signing flow, verifies their identity where requested, and records an audit trail for each transaction that is meant to evidence the signature later.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable
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
Dealfront Group GmbH, Karlsruhe (branded Leadfeeder since 24 March 2026, previously Dealfront) · visitor identification and buying signals
Leadfeeder matches the addresses of website visitors against a database of corporate address ranges and shows sales which companies looked at which pages and how often they returned.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable with caveats, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
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
PandaDoc, Inc. · proposal and closing rooms
Bundles the proposal, the price breakdown and the signature into a single document that the recipient opens in a browser, and reports back to the sender who read which section and for how long.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
RudderStack, Inc., San Francisco · customer data platform
RudderStack collects events from websites, applications and servers, checks them against a stored tracking plan and delivers them to the company's own data warehouse and to connected destination systems.
Building blockEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable with caveats, 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
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
Candis GmbH, Berlin · invoice approval
Takes in incoming invoices, reads out the invoice data, runs them through a multi-step approval flow with deputy rules, and hands the result to DATEV or another accounting system.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: not suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
Chargebee Inc., North Bethesda (Maryland), contracting entity · subscription billing
Holds subscriptions, price book, usage metering, invoice runs, tax and dunning in one system, and reports back to the product through an API which customer is entitled to which feature.
Building blockEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable with caveats, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable
DATEV eG, Nuremberg (Nürnberg) · accounting
DATEV runs bookkeeping, payroll and annual accounts on a shared data set that the tax firm (Steuerkanzlei) and the company access at the same time. The bookings sit in the DATEV data centre, and filings to the tax office and social insurance travel the same route.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
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
Personio SE & Co. KG, Munich · HR processes
Personio keeps the personnel file, absences, time tracking, applications and either preparatory or full payroll in one data set that HR, managers and employees reach with different permissions.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: not 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
QONTO SA, Paris, with a German branch (Zweigniederlassung) in Berlin · business payment account
Runs the payment account, cards, receipts and the handover to accounting in one place, with roles and approvals per person, instead of keeping the bank statement, the receipt pile and the coding apart.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: not suitable
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
AgileBits Inc., trading as 1Password, Toronto, Canada · credential management
Holds a company’s passwords, keys and credentials in vaults with permissions per person and group, so that access is withdrawn in one place when somebody leaves instead of living on in browsers, spreadsheets and chat histories.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable
Credo.AI Corp. · AI governance and model registry
Keeps every AI use case, model and AI vendor in one register, attaches to each entry the approvals and evidence a regulation or a customer asks for, and records who decided what and when.
Off-the-shelf productAI-nativeSolo: not suitable, Mid-market: suitable with caveats, Enterprise: suitable
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
Usercentrics GmbH, Munich, Germany · consent management
Blocks every script on a website that requires consent, shows visitors a dialogue in which they choose, and files each decision with its timestamp and version in a log that can be downloaded.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable
Vanta, Inc., San Francisco, California, USA · evidence automation
Continuously pulls the state of the connected systems, checks it against the control catalogues of SOC 2, ISO 27001 and further frameworks, and files the evidence so that an auditor can accept it without an intermediate step.
Off-the-shelf productEstablished, AI retrofittedSolo: not suitable, Mid-market: suitable, Enterprise: suitable with caveats
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. Green: documented, no condition. Yellow: documented, tied to a condition. Amber: documented, but unfavorable. Red: open on a point that decides whether you can use it at all. We set the scale 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 could not be evidenced. Each tool therefore carries a plain-language verdict, suitability by company size and an evidenced finding on regulation. We do not forecast a vendor's solvency.
