AI Platforms & Model Ops
369 AI tools · 9 subcategories
20.1%of all software purchases
Anthropic/Claude leads with 61% of the category's AI purchases, ahead of OpenAI/ChatGPT (5.9%). AI-native tools take >99%.
AI-native >99%Hyperscaler <1%
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The AI tools companies actually pay for, ranked by purchases across AI-native tools, AI-embedded software and hyperscalers. As of 6 November 2026, 13:16 UTC, Anthropic/Claude is the most-purchased AI tool on Cledara, ahead of OpenAI/ChatGPT and Google Workspace. On its own it outweighs every other category on the map, including all of Collaboration & Productivity (10.2%).
Share of all software purchases
2.1×Claude is bought 2.1 times as often as ChatGPT, across every purchase and renewal in the last 12 months.
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#2OpenAI/



#3Google Workspace3.5%1 in 28 purchases
#7Slack1.0%
Zoom0.83%
Notion0.73%
Miro0.67%
Loom













Figma1.3%
Webflow0.96%
Hubspot0.8%
Canva0.72%
Intuit Mailchimp0.53%



















#4Cursor3.2%1 in 31 purchases
#5GitHub2.1%
Zapier0.76%
Vercel0.76%
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AI Platforms & Model Ops · 20.1%
Collaboration & Productivity · 10.2%
Marketing & Growth · 9.4%
Engineering & DevOps · 9.3%
Data & Analytics · 1.2%
Sales & Revenue · 1.1%
Customer Success & Support · 1.1%
Legal, Risk & Compliance · 0.42%
Finance & Accounting · 0.15%
Operations & Supply Chain · 0.11%
IT & Security · 0.11%
People Ops & Talent · 0.078%
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The AI 20
The 20 most-purchased AI tools over the last 12 months. Anthropic/Claude accounts for 12.3% of all software purchases on Cledara, ahead of OpenAI/ChatGPT and Google Workspace.
Ranks count every purchase and renewal over the last 12 months. Shares are a percentage of all software purchases on Cledara, so AI tools can be compared directly with the rest of the software market.
| # | Tool | Type | Payment-activity share | 1 in N | Payment-activity rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anthropic/ClaudeAI Platforms & Model Ops | AI-native | 12.3% | 1 in 8 | #1 |
| 2 | OpenAI/ChatGPTAI Platforms & Model Ops | AI-native | 5.9% | 1 in 17 | #2 |
| 3 | Google WorkspaceCollaboration & Productivity | Hyperscaler | 3.5% | 1 in 28 | #4 |
| 4 | CursorEngineering & DevOps | AI-native | 3.2% | 1 in 31 | #5 |
| 5 | GitHubEngineering & DevOps | 2.1% | 1 in 48 | #7 | |
| 6 | FigmaMarketing & Growth | 1.3% | 1 in 78 | #10 | |
| 7 | SlackCollaboration & Productivity | 1.0% | 1 in 99 | #11 | |
| 8 | WebflowMarketing & Growth | 0.96% | 1 in 104 | #12 | |
| 9 | ZoomCollaboration & Productivity | 0.83% | 1 in 121 | #13 | |
| 10 | HubspotMarketing & Growth | 0.8% | 1 in 124 | #14 | |
| 11 | ZapierEngineering & DevOps | 0.76% | 1 in 131 | #16 | |
| 12 | VercelEngineering & DevOps | 0.76% | 1 in 131 | #17 | |
| 13 | NotionCollaboration & Productivity | 0.73% | 1 in 137 | #19 | |
| 14 | CanvaMarketing & Growth | 0.72% | 1 in 138 | #20 | |
| 15 | MiroCollaboration & Productivity | 0.67% | 1 in 149 | #23 | |
| 16 | Intuit MailchimpMarketing & Growth | 0.53% | 1 in 188 | #25 | |
| 17 | ElevenLabsMarketing & Growth | AI-native | 0.5% | 1 in 199 | #26 |
| 18 | LovableEngineering & DevOps | AI-native | 0.47% | 1 in 212 | #27 |
| 19 | TypeformMarketing & Growth | 0.47% | 1 in 215 | #28 | |
| 20 | OpenRouterAI Platforms & Model Ops | AI-native | 0.46% | 1 in 215 | #29 |
Of the 20 most-purchased AI tools, 6 are AI-native, 13 AI-embedded and 1 hyperscaler. Together they account for 38% of all software purchases and renewals on Cledara. Marketing & Growth is the most represented category, with 7 of the 20 tools.
"1 in N" turns a tool's share into plain odds: one in every N software purchases and renewals on Cledara goes to that tool. Payment-activity rank places each AI tool among every product bought through Cledara, AI or not.
twelve territories
Every AI product companies pay for through Cledara, mapped by category and classified as AI-native, AI-embedded or hyperscaler. Use it to see which AI tools dominate each part of the stack and where new challengers are breaking through.
369 AI tools · 9 subcategories
20.1%of all software purchases
Anthropic/Claude leads with 61% of the category's AI purchases, ahead of OpenAI/ChatGPT (5.9%). AI-native tools take >99%.
AI-native >99%Hyperscaler <1%
180 AI tools · 12 subcategories
10.2%of all software purchases
Google Workspace leads with 35% of the category's AI purchases, ahead of Slack (1.0%). AI-native tools take 13%.
AI-native 13%Hyperscaler 35%
485 AI tools · 11 subcategories
9.4%of all software purchases
Figma leads with 14% of the category's AI purchases, ahead of Webflow (0.96%). AI-native tools take 27%.
AI-native 27%
120 AI tools · 10 subcategories
9.3%of all software purchases
Cursor leads with 34% of the category's AI purchases, ahead of GitHub (2.1%). AI-native tools take 47%.
AI-native 47%Hyperscaler <1%
83 AI tools · 9 subcategories
1.2%of all software purchases
Datadog leads with 36% of the category's AI purchases, ahead of Hotjar (0.16%). AI-native tools take 6%.
AI-native 6%
154 AI tools · 7 subcategories
1.1%of all software purchases
Apollo.io leads with 31% of the category's AI purchases, ahead of Clay Labs (0.18%). AI-native tools take 90%.
AI-native 90%
96 AI tools · 7 subcategories
1.1%of all software purchases
Intercom leads with 30% of the category's AI purchases, ahead of Zendesk (0.27%). AI-native tools take 12%.
AI-native 12%
57 AI tools · 6 subcategories
0.42%of all software purchases
DocuSign leads with 85% of the category's AI purchases, ahead of Vanta (0.019%). AI-native tools take 4%.
AI-native 4%
43 AI tools · 6 subcategories
0.15%of all software purchases
Dext leads with 74% of the category's AI purchases, ahead of Monitr (0.011%). AI-native tools take 7%.
AI-native 7%
45 AI tools · 7 subcategories
0.11%of all software purchases
AfterShip leads with 26% of the category's AI purchases, ahead of SAP (0.021%). AI-native tools take 16%.
AI-native 16%
41 AI tools · 8 subcategories
0.11%of all software purchases
afi.ai leads with 39% of the category's AI purchases, ahead of TitanHQ (0.0094%). AI-native tools take 57%.
AI-native 57%
55 AI tools · 6 subcategories
0.078%of all software purchases
Metaview leads with 53% of the category's AI purchases, ahead of Peec AI (0.034%). AI-native tools take 98%.
AI-native 98%
Breaking through
Highperformr is the fastest-rising AI-native tool, up 1,442 places in the popularity ranking over three months, as of 6 November 2026, 13:16 UTC.
Highperformr
Marketing & Growth
+1,442places in 3 months
Anam
Customer Success & Support
+1,258places in 3 months
Kie.ai
Marketing & Growth
+1,224places in 3 months
Venice AI
AI Platforms & Model Ops
+1,180places in 3 months
Sphere
Finance & Accounting
+1,005places in 3 months
| Tool | Category | Rank 3 months ago | Rank now | Ranks gained |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highperformr | Marketing & Growth | #2,675 | #1,233 | 1,442 |
| Anam | Customer Success & Support | #2,725 | #1,467 | 1,258 |
| Kie.ai | Marketing & Growth | #2,588 | #1,364 | 1,224 |
| Venice AI | AI Platforms & Model Ops | #2,720 | #1,540 | 1,180 |
| Sphere | Finance & Accounting | #2,686 | #1,681 | 1,005 |
Three kinds of AI
Every product on this map carries one of three classifications. AI-native products are built primarily around AI models; Anthropic/Claude is one. AI-embedded products add AI features to an existing software platform, like GitHub. Hyperscalers are the large cloud platforms that ship AI services alongside everything else, like Google Workspace. Of the AI tools on the map, 68% are AI-native, 31.3% AI-embedded and 0.7% hyperscalers.
AI-native
Built around AI models. Anthropic/Claude, OpenAI/ChatGPT, Cursor.
Established software with AI built in. GitHub, Figma, Slack.
Hyperscaler
Large cloud platforms shipping AI alongside everything else. Google Workspace, Google One, Google Colab.
Origins
The class of 2023 dominates: more AI tools on the map were founded in 2023 than in any other year. The United Kingdom is the second-largest home for AI tools on the map, after the United States.
AI tools on the map by the year the company was founded.
AI tools on the map by recorded headquarters country.
The full catalogue
Filter the catalogue by founded year, category or headquarters country. PNG exports show up to six tools in each of the twelve largest categories; CSV and JSON include every matching tool.
1731 matching tools in 13 categories
Source: Cledara software payments data, classified by AI type and category. Published 6 November 2026, 13:16 UTC.
This table contains the tools on this catalogue page. Complete data is available in the CSV and JSON downloads. The activity ranking above always describes the full published population.
| Product | Category | Subcategory | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| SubEasy.ai | Operations & Supply Chain | E-commerce | SubEasy.ai offers AI-driven transcription and translation services, delivering accurate transcriptions and context-aware translations in over 100 languages. It features a built-in editor for refining transcripts and subtitles, along with AI-powered tools for generating summaries and other content from transcriptions. |
| Sostocked | Operations & Supply Chain | Inventory Management | Sostocked is a platform that provides inventory management and demand forecasting solutions for Amazon Marketplace. |
| Stacket Group | Operations & Supply Chain | Other | - |
| Voi | Operations & Supply Chain | Other | - |
| Walmart | Operations & Supply Chain | Other | - |
| Yango | Operations & Supply Chain | Other | - |
| Tenderb | Operations & Supply Chain | Procurement | TenderB is an AI-driven bid and tender management platform. The tool uses language models (such as GPT-4o and Claude 3 Opus) to analyse tender documents, summarise requirements for Go/No-Go decisions. |
| Tenderlake | Operations & Supply Chain | Procurement | Tenderlake is an AI-powered platform that automates tender discovery and management, translating tenders into English, covering 200,000+ organisations across 192 countries. |
| ShipsDNA | Operations & Supply Chain | Shipping & Logistics | ShipsDNA provides maritime digital solutions and software tools focused on vessel performance, emissions, voyage optimisation, and fleet analytics. It helps shipping companies monitor operations and improve efficiency through data-driven decision support. |
| ShipsDNA | Operations & Supply Chain | Shipping & Logistics | ShipsDNA provides maritime digital solutions and software tools focused on vessel performance, emissions, voyage optimisation, and fleet analytics. It helps shipping companies monitor operations and improve efficiency through data-driven decision support. |
| Uber | Operations & Supply Chain | Shipping & Logistics | - |
| Uber Eats | Operations & Supply Chain | Shipping & Logistics | - |
| Relay.app | Operations & Supply Chain | Workflow Automation | Relay.app automates workflows across different tools, integrating human inputs and AI-driven tasks, streamlining operations, and improving process efficiency. |
| Reworkd | Operations & Supply Chain | Workflow Automation | Reworkd is an AI-driven automation platform that allows for the automation of business processing workflows to achieve outcomes. |
| Soundiiz | Operations & Supply Chain | Workflow Automation | Soundiiz is a service that allows users to transfer playlists and favorites between various music streaming platforms, enabling the migration of music collections from one service to another. The tool supports numerous music services, ensuring users do not lose their curated playlists and collections when switching platforms. |
| Stable | Operations & Supply Chain | Workflow Automation | - |
| Thunderbit | Operations & Supply Chain | Workflow Automation | Thunderbit automates web tasks and processes using AI, enabling users to build and customise apps, scrape data, and integrate with various tools without coding. |
| UiPath | Operations & Supply Chain | Workflow Automation | UiPath provides an automation platform for businesses. It offers software used to build and run automated workflows and processes |
| wayin.ai | Operations & Supply Chain | Workflow Automation | wayin.ai is an AI-powered platform that helps businesses automate workflows and integrate AI agents into operational processes. It is positioned as software for improving productivity and execution across teams. |
| Fabulous | People Ops & Talent | Employee Engagement | Fabulous provides an AI-augmented behavioural science and habit-building platform available via mobile application and web interfaces. Incubated originally inside Duke University’s Center for Advanced Hindsight, the application uses behavioural economics to help users build structured routines, manage cognitive focus, and track physical wellness goals. |
| Harmonize | People Ops & Talent | Employee Engagement | Harmonize is an HR-based chat bot for employee engagement. |
| Liven | People Ops & Talent | Employee Engagement | Liven provides a personal growth and digital mental well-being platform that delivers AI-powered life coaching, mood tracking, and self-reflection exercises. |
| NameShouts | People Ops & Talent | Employee Engagement | NameShouts is a platform that provides audio pronunciations for names in 22+ languages. |
| Noom | People Ops & Talent | Employee Engagement | - |
| Zoios | People Ops & Talent | Employee Engagement | Zoios is a platform for employee engagement and well-being analytics. The tool uses surveys and artificial intelligence to monitor workplace culture and generate reports on organisational performance. |
| Metaview | People Ops & Talent | HR | Metaview is a platform that automates note-taking for recruiters and interviewers using AI-generated summaries of interviews and meetings, allowing users to focus on engaging with candidates and hiring teams. |
| Peec AI | People Ops & Talent | HR | Peec AI is a platform that collects real-time user feedback on websites and applications through embedded widgets. It organises and presents the feedback for analysis to support product and design decisions. |
| Coachable AI | People Ops & Talent | HR | Coachable is a platform that enables professionals to practice and improve skills through AI-driven mock interviews and role-play scenarios. It simulates real-world conversations and provides feedback based on user responses. |
| Deciphr AI | People Ops & Talent | HR | Deciphr AI is a platform that converts audio, video, or text files into various content formats, including transcripts, summaries, show notes, articles, and social media captions. It allows users to upload their media files, and the system automatically generates a content suite within minutes. |
| Effy AI | People Ops & Talent | HR | Effy AI is an employee management platform for managing performance reviews and 360-degree feedback. It aims to facilitate the collection and analysis of feedback through templates and a variety of questions. The platform integrates with Slack to manage engagement and automates follow-ups to collect responses. |
| Noon AI | People Ops & Talent | HR | Noon AI is a platform that uses artificial intelligence to automate the sourcing, evaluation, and engagement of job candidates for recruiting teams. The platform scans profiles, matches candidates to job criteria, generates outreach messages, and manages hiring workflows using AI models. |
| Cloverleaf | People Ops & Talent | Learning & Development | Cloverleaf is a platform designed to enhance team performance and individual development through Automated Coaching. It utilises assessment data to offer personalised insights and actionable steps, focusing on improving communication, managerial effectiveness, and collaboration within organisations. Cloverleaf integrates with daily work tools like Calendar and Slack, incorporating its insights and coaching tips into users' everyday workflow. |
| CopyMind | People Ops & Talent | Learning & Development | Copymind is an AI-powered personal development platform that creates a "personalised AI twin" to help users with self-reflection, decision-making, and emotional well-being. By analysing a user's language and patterns, it provides a "Second Mind" that offers real-time therapeutic support, automated daily reflections, and 3D visualisations of core values and habits (MindCores). |
| CopyMind | People Ops & Talent | Learning & Development | Copymind is an AI-powered personal development platform that creates a "personalised AI twin" to help users with self-reflection, decision-making, and emotional well-being. By analysing a user's language and patterns, it provides a "Second Mind" that offers real-time therapeutic support, automated daily reflections, and 3D visualisations of core values and habits (MindCores). |
| DeepLearning.AI | People Ops & Talent | Learning & Development | - |
| FastPrep | People Ops & Talent | Learning & Development | FastPrep is an AI-driven platform for interview and onboarding preparation, offering simulated practice, feedback, and role-specific training to help companies hire and onboard more effectively. |
| Finestro | People Ops & Talent | Learning & Development | Finestro is a platform that provides educational content, tools, and AI features to help users learn about finance, investing, and income generation. It allows users to access lessons, simulations, and AI-assisted guidance, as well as connect with financial experts for consultations and learning support. |
| Mindsmith | People Ops & Talent | Learning & Development | Mindsmith provides an AI platform for building realistic conversational agents and role-play simulations used for training, coaching, and evaluation. Teams can create custom AI characters to simulate customer, candidate, or prospect interactions for skills practice and assessment. |
| Muses Academy | People Ops & Talent | Learning & Development | MusesAcademy is an online learning platform that provides personalised educational and self-development content. The platform delivers learning content, recommendations, and user progress tracking through a subscription-based service. |
| Oliva | People Ops & Talent | Learning & Development | - |
| Quilgo | People Ops & Talent | Learning & Development | Quilgo is a software that integrates with Google Forms to add a timer and automated proctoring for online assessments, exams, and tests. |
| Rakoo | People Ops & Talent | Learning & Development | Rakoo is an AI-driven platform dedicated to personal and professional growth, helping organisations and individuals set and achieve their learning and performance goals. |
| Section | People Ops & Talent | Learning & Development | Section is an enterprise AI training and adoption platform designed to help organisations transition from individual AI use to large-scale workforce transformation. It provides a centralised command centre for tracking AI proficiency, personalised AI coaching for employees, and strategic services to help leaders automate workflows and measure the ROI of their AI investments. |
| Simply | People Ops & Talent | Learning & Development | Simply is a creative education platform that provides a suite of AI-powered apps, including Simply Piano, Simply Guitar, Simply Sing, and Simply Draw, to help users learn musical instruments and artistic skills. Its proprietary audio and visual recognition technology offers real-time feedback on performance, enabling learners of all ages to follow structured, personalised courses and practice with a library of popular songs and professional tutorials. |
| Spirio | People Ops & Talent | Learning & Development | Spirio provides an AI-augmented EdTech and digital mindfulness platform available via web interfaces and mobile applications. The platform blends ancient Eastern philosophy with modern interactive technology to deliver guided self-improvement structures, specialized audio sound healing, digital rituals, and video courses tracking areas like kundalini energy awakening, cognitive stress reduction, and sleep restoration. |
| Talkpal | People Ops & Talent | Learning & Development | Talkpal provides an AI-powered language learning platform accessible through web and mobile applications. Users can practice languages through text and voice interactions and manage learning progress through the platform. |
| Talkpal | People Ops & Talent | Learning & Development | Talkpal provides an AI-powered language learning platform accessible through web and mobile applications. Users can practice languages through text and voice interactions and manage learning progress through the platform. |
| Wayground | People Ops & Talent | Learning & Development | Wayground is a gamified learning and engagement platform that utilises artificial intelligence to create interactive quizzes, lessons, and assessments. The tool allows users to transform existing documents, videos, and prompts into educational content and provides real-time analytics to monitor participant progress. |
| Yousician | People Ops & Talent | Learning & Development | Yousician is a music learning app that teaches guitar, piano, singing, ukulele, bass, and music theory through interactive lessons and real-time feedback. It offers guided practice for individuals and can be used across mobile and desktop devices. |
| Snapheadshots | People Ops & Talent | Other | SnapHeadshots provides a platform for generating professional AI headshots. Whether for individuals or entire teams, users can easily create studio-quality headshots using advanced AI technology. |
| WorkSpark | People Ops & Talent | Performance Management | Workspark is a lean performance management platform designed to help growing companies build and manage high-performance teams through continuous feedback and automated review cycles. It provides tools for accomplishment tracking, engagement surveys, and AI-driven job architecture to streamline organisational alignment and talent development. |
| Quantive | People Ops & Talent | Performance Management | Quantive provides a strategy execution platform that enables organisations to develop and implement strategies through the use of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). The platform utilises artificial intelligence to assist in strategic decision-making. It aims to integrate strategy into the daily operations of all individuals within an organisation, employing OKRs to ensure alignment and using AI and data connectivity to keep initiatives on course. Quantive supports ongoing monitoring of strategy implementation, offering insights and forecasts to facilitate proactive adjustments. |
| Homie | People Ops & Talent | Recruiting & ATS | Homie is an AI-powered recruiting and candidate sourcing platform that helps hiring teams identify, engage, and qualify job candidates more efficiently. It streamlines outbound recruiting workflows and talent pipeline management for growing companies. |
| CodeSignal | People Ops & Talent | Recruiting & ATS | CodeSignal provides technical assessment and skills evaluation tools for hiring and workforce development. The platform enables companies to test coding skills, conduct technical interviews, and measure employee proficiency through online assessments and learning modules. |
| CoRecruit | People Ops & Talent | Recruiting & ATS | CoRecruit (formerly Quil) is an AI-powered notetaker designed for recruiting firms, automating note-taking during interviews and meetings, and integrating with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) to enhance hiring efficiency. |
| FidForward | People Ops & Talent | Recruiting & ATS | FidForward is an AI-driven platform that automates performance feedback collection and candidate sourcing. It integrates with Slack and Google Workspace, utilising an AI assistant named Fiddy to gather structured feedback. The platform supports customisable outreach sequences and filters candidates by various criteria. |
| GoHire | People Ops & Talent | Recruiting & ATS | GoHire Technologies is a company offering comprehensive recruitment software designed to simplify hiring processes for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Their main product includes features like job advertising, candidate screening, an applicant tracking system, and AI tools to optimise recruiting efforts. |
| Grayscale | People Ops & Talent | Recruiting & ATS | - |
| HireBOB | People Ops & Talent | Recruiting & ATS | - |
| Hirefly | People Ops & Talent | Recruiting & ATS | Hirefly.ai is a platform that uses AI to automate parts of the hiring process; sourcing, screening, and ranking candidates. It provides tools to help recruiters manage candidate pipelines, schedule interviews, and improve matching between job requirements and applicant profiles. |
| LinkedIn Talent Solutions | People Ops & Talent | Recruiting & ATS | - |
| Mercer | Mettl | People Ops & Talent | Recruiting & ATS | Mercer | Mettl provides a talent assessment platform featuring customisable solutions, scalable infrastructure, and AI-based proctoring technology. The platform is designed for various organisational needs, including hiring, learning and development, and online examinations. |
| OptimHire | People Ops & Talent | Recruiting & ATS | OptimHire is an AI-driven recruitment platform that automates candidate sourcing, screening, and interview scheduling. It integrates with applicant tracking systems (ATS) and supports data formats like JSON and CSV for importing/exporting candidate information. |
| Quil | People Ops & Talent | Recruiting & ATS | Quil is an AI-powered notetaker designed for recruiting firms, automating note-taking during interviews and meetings, and integrating with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) to enhance hiring efficiency. |
| Recooty | People Ops & Talent | Recruiting & ATS | Recooty is an AI-powered applicant tracking system that automates hiring processes, integrates with 250+ job boards, and provides analytics, ensuring GDPR compliance and data security. |
| Refapp | People Ops & Talent | Recruiting & ATS | Refapp is a talent intelligence solution designed to aid recruiters in conducting efficient and secure reference checks for every candidate. |
| Resume Worded | People Ops & Talent | Recruiting & ATS | - |
| Screenloop | People Ops & Talent | Recruiting & ATS | Screenloop is a hiring intelligence platform designed to transform the talent acquisition process for companies. It serves as an end-to-end solution, aiming to enhance the experience for candidates, interviewers, and businesses alike. The primary objective of Screenloop is to enable companies to hire high-quality talent efficiently and at scale. This is particularly significant considering the widespread acknowledgment among businesses of frequent poor hiring decisions and the substantial impact these decisions have on employee turnover. |
| Serra | People Ops & Talent | Recruiting & ATS | Serra is a cloud-based recruiting platform that uses AI to automate candidate sourcing, ranking, and outreach. It enables recruiters and HR teams to search for and communicate with potential hires from multiple data sources through a unified interface. |
| Shortlister | People Ops & Talent | Recruiting & ATS | Shortlister is an AI-powered candidate screening and video interviewing platform designed for recruiters, hiring managers, and admissions teams. It streamlines applicant evaluations through automated video interviews, psychometric assessments, skills testing, situational simulations, and AI-driven scoring with response authenticity checks. |
| SourceWhale | People Ops & Talent | Recruiting & ATS | SourceWhale is a recruiting and business development platform. It helps teams execute daily recruiting activities, find pipeline insights, and nurture relationships at scale from a single location. The platform offers features for personalisation, automation, reporting, and integration, aimed at making recruitment processes more efficient and effective. |
| SquarePeg | People Ops & Talent | Recruiting & ATS | SquarePeg.ai is an AI-powered recruitment platform that helps companies match candidates to open roles by using machine learning to screen, rank, and surface the best applicants. It streamlines hiring workflows and candidate discovery for talent teams. |
| targetconnect | People Ops & Talent | Recruiting & ATS | TargetConnect is a higher-education career management and talent acquisition platform that connects universities, students, and employers. It provides higher-education institutions with an AI-enabled student CRM to manage career services, appointments, placements, and graduate outcome analytics, while giving employers applicant tracking tools and targeted outreach channels to recruit early-career talent. |
| Umamy | People Ops & Talent | Recruiting & ATS | Umamy is a recruitment platform that uses AI to help founders and executives identify, connect with, and hire talent through their LinkedIn network. It automates outreach in the founder’s voice and creates a pipeline of candidates. |
| Stairoids | Sales & Revenue | Prospecting & Lead Gen | Stairoids is a real-time signal-based go-to-market (GTM) intelligence platform designed for B2B sales and marketing teams. It tracks over 27 types of buying signals, such as job changes, vacancies, competitor interest, and personal connections, to help organisations identify decision-makers and map decision-making units (DMUs). The platform automates GTM workflows by integrating intent data from web, social, and CRM sources into tools like HubSpot, Salesforce, and Slack. |
| Ocean.io | Sales & Revenue | Prospecting & Lead Gen | Ocean.io is a platform that offers business intelligence and data solutions. It focuses on aiding businesses in identifying and targeting potential customers by providing insights into company data, contact information, and market trends. The platform is designed to streamline the process of finding and connecting with relevant businesses to support sales and marketing efforts. |
| Ausar | Sales & Revenue | Prospecting & Lead Gen | Ausar is an AI-powered sales and revenue platform that helps teams automate prospecting, outreach, and pipeline generation. It is designed to support go-to-market workflows with conversational and automation capabilities. |
| Valley | Sales & Revenue | Prospecting & Lead Gen | Valley is an AI-powered solution that streamlines the process of converting cold leads into scheduled meetings, without the need for any human involvement. |
| Letaido | Sales & Revenue | Prospecting & Lead Gen | Letaido provides an AI-driven lead generation and outbound automation platform designed to identify and engage prospects across LinkedIn and email. The system automates lead scraping, multi-channel outreach sequences, and personalisation to streamline top-of-funnel sales activities. |
| MoltSets | Sales & Revenue | Prospecting & Lead Gen | MoltSets is an agent-first B2B contact data platform that provides developer APIs and an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for automated prospect enrichment. Built specifically to integrate with AI tools and automation engines like Clay and Claude Code, it uses a 20+ vendor waterfall to deliver verified business emails, carrier-checked phone numbers, and company search data through a flat-rate, unlimited pricing model rather than traditional credit-based fees. |
| Grain.co | Sales & Revenue | Revenue Intelligence | Grain is a Conversation Intelligence platform designed to improve team coaching, deal closing, and playbook optimisation. It automates note-taking, record-keeping, and insight capture. |
| Pricelabs | Sales & Revenue | Revenue Intelligence | PriceLabs is a dynamic pricing tool for vacation rentals that analyses market data and booking patterns to optimise pricing strategies, integrating with 110+ PMS and Airbnb. |
| Aligned | Sales & Revenue | Revenue Intelligence | Aligned offers a platform for B2B revenue teams, providing customer journey intelligence, AI-driven customer engagement automation, and a personalised workspace. |
| Attention | Sales & Revenue | Revenue Intelligence | Attention is a sales intelligence platform that utilises AI to enhance business efficiency. It features a fully-integrated AI-powered sales agent that automates CRM data entry post-sales calls, scores conversations and opportunities, and facilitates searches across all customer touch-points using GPT-type technology. |
| Jiminny | Sales & Revenue | Revenue Intelligence | Jiminny is a conversation intelligence platform that captures and analyses customer interactions via video, voice, calendar, and email data. The platform logs this data into your CRM and uses AI to transcribe, summarise, and analyse the interactions. It generates insights by highlighting keywords, identifying topics, and creating action items. The platform includes features such as automated call scoring, deal insights, CRM logging, and sales call analytics. It provides dashboards that display pipeline risks, deal visibility, and performance metrics. Jiminny integrates with various tools like Zoom, Slack, Salesloft, and Salesforce. |
| Meddicc Score | Sales & Revenue | Revenue Intelligence | Meddicc Score is a platform that integrates with CRM systems like HubSpot to automatically apply sales qualification frameworks such as MEDDICC and others to deals and provide AI-driven scoring and insights. The platform extracts CRM data, calculates structured deal scores, and delivers feedback. |
| Apollo.io | Sales & Revenue | Sales | Apollo.io is a platform that provides sales and marketing solutions to help businesses find and engage with potential customers. It offers a suite of tools and features designed to assist sales and marketing teams in prospecting, lead generation, and customer outreach. |
| Clay Labs | Sales & Revenue | Sales | Clay is a CRM and data enrichment platform that automates the prospecting process. It integrates with various data sources and CRMs, enriches leads, and offers AI-enhanced capabilities for crafting personalised outreach strategies. Clay is aimed at teams and individuals in sales, marketing, and relationship management, helping them to find leads, enrich contact information, and streamline their outreach processes. |
| Instantly | Sales & Revenue | Sales | Instantly is a platform that use AI to help companies generate more leads through personalised email campaigns at scale. |
| Smartlead | Sales & Revenue | Sales | Smartlead is a platform that helps businesses find and connect with potential customers more efficiently. |
| Clay | Sales & Revenue | Sales | Clay is a SaaS product that allows users to manage their personal and professional relationships more thoughtfully. It goes beyond traditional customer relationship management (CRM) systems by automatically organising and intelligently searching the user's entire network. The product aims to keep the user's contacts in sync, making it easier to stay connected and up-to-date with important people. One of the key problems that Clay solves is the challenge of managing and maintaining relationships with a large network of contacts. It imports everyone the user has ever met in real-time and keeps their information enriched with the user's work and education details. The platform also proactively updates the contacts, saving the user time and effort. |
| Juicebox | Sales & Revenue | Sales | Juicebox is an AI-driven platform that aims to streamline talent acquisition by enabling natural language searches across over 800 million profiles and automating personalised outreach. |
| AmpleMarket | Sales & Revenue | Sales | Amplemarket is a platform designed to streamline the sales prospecting process for businesses. It provides tools for automating lead generation, prospect research, and outreach activities. The platform enables users to define target customer profiles, search for leads matching specific criteria, and extract contact information from various sources. Amplemarket also offers features for sending personalised email campaigns, scheduling follow-up tasks, and tracking engagement metrics. Additionally, the platform includes integrations with CRM systems and other sales tools. |
| SalesForge | Sales & Revenue | Sales | SalesForge is a platform designed to enhance cold email outreach. It enables users to send personalised and unique emails at scale in any language, eliminating the need for generic templates. With AI and machine learning capabilities, SalesForge optimises messaging and decision-making for sales activities in real-time. |
| Unify | Sales & Revenue | Sales | Unify provides a software platform that uses intent signals, AI agents, and multi-channel sequencing to manage prospecting and pipeline generation for go-to-market teams. The platform centralises prospect identification, personalisation, and workflow automation into one system. |
| Consensus | Sales & Revenue | Sales Enablement | Consensus is a platform that specializes in providing tailored and interactive product demonstrations for sales and marketing teams. It is designed to revolutionize the way businesses engage with potential customers by creating dynamic, personalised product presentations. With Consensus, companies can build customised product experiences that adapt in real-time based on individual prospect needs and preferences |
| PiperAI | Sales & Revenue | Sales Engagement | PiperAI automates CRM updates and sales tasks, providing transcription, note-taking, and follow-up assistance to help sales teams focus on closing deals efficiently. |
| Reply.io | Sales & Revenue | Sales Engagement | Reply.io is a marketing and sales automation tool. |
| Perlon AI | Sales & Revenue | Sales Engagement | Perlon AI is an AI-native outbound platform that builds custom-trained AI models for each customer to generate personalised outreach across email, LinkedIn, phone, and voice channels. The platform unifies contact data, multichannel sending infrastructure, and campaign workflows so teams can run outbound sequences without switching tools. |
| Outcraft | Sales & Revenue | Sales Engagement | Outcraft AI operates as an autonomous sales development platform that initiates instant multi-channel outreach to incoming leads through automated phone calls, text messages, and email. The software connects directly with existing customer relationship management software to qualify prospects, schedule sales meetings, recover failed payments, and automate user onboarding workflows. |
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This AI market map covers 1,731 AI products, from AI-native tools to AI-embedded software and hyperscalers, ranked by how often companies buy and renew them over the last 12 months. Anthropic/Claude ranks ahead of OpenAI/ChatGPT as of 6 November 2026, 13:16 UTC. Updated monthly.
Anthropic/Claude, OpenAI/ChatGPT and Google Workspace are the most-purchased AI tools on Cledara over the last 12 months, as of 6 November 2026, 13:16 UTC. See the top-20 ranking above.
Anthropic/Claude is the most-purchased AI tool, ahead of OpenAI/ChatGPT, with 12.3% of all software purchases on Cledara over the last 12 months.
Anthropic/Claude ranks higher in business purchases over the last 12 months, as of 6 November 2026, 13:16 UTC. See the full Claude vs ChatGPT comparison for spend and overlap data.
The map covers 1,731 AI products across 13 categories, from model providers and AI coding tools to AI features inside established software. It is updated monthly as new AI tools reach business buyers.
AI-native products are built primarily around AI models (e.g. Anthropic/Claude); AI-embedded products add AI to an existing platform (e.g. GitHub). Every product on the map is labelled with its classification.
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