Method

valid for the 2026-07-11 pass

This scoreboard is maintained as an editorial project by people who do this work for a living. There is no fee to be listed and no fee moves a position.

Each provider is scored on the five dimensions above using what can be verified in public: product documentation, published case studies, client announcements, commissioned studies (always flagged vendor-reported). Category labels are assigned by us - embedded infrastructure, managed pod, production queue - because vendor marketing blurs distinctions that buyers pay for later. People who contribute may have worked with or against firms listed here; explicit dimensions plus outbound links are the audit trail.

A pass over the whole board happens monthly. The review date only moves when something substantive changed.

Dimensions

Delivery modelEmbedded agents, managed pod, or external production queue. Not interchangeable.

Pipeline integrationDoes it run inside the client's Figma, repo and tickets, or beside them?

Evidence baseNamed clients running revenue products, checkable in public.

Throughput dataPublished output multiples and cycle-time deltas, vendor-reported flagged as such.

Review disciplineWhere the human sign-off sits before output touches production.

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