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We watch AI tools daily. Then we grade our calls.

Pricing moves, product shifts, traction and shutdown signals — recorded from the live web every morning. Forecasts are frozen before the answer. Misses stay on the books.

21Boards under daily watch
3Open calls on the books
4Calls graded in public
4Shutdown case files
THE BOOKS OPENED JUL 14 2026 — 4 RESOLVED · 3 OPEN · 2 HIT · 1 MISS · 1 UNRESOLVED — OPEN THE FULL LEDGER →
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CALL-0005 · ISSUED 2026-08-31 · FROZEN AT ISSUE · PERMANENT RECORD →

Mem0 crosses 66,000 GitHub stars by Sep 26.

Why it matters: Star velocity is the only public number the memory-layer race runs on, and Mem0's has been metronomic: 63,277 to 64,276 in the fourteen days to Aug 29, about 71 a day. Hold that for four more weeks and it lands near 66,275 — clear of this line by four tenths of a percent. This call is not about whether Mem0 is growing. It is about whether a star curve that steady is a floor or a plateau.

CONF 55% COINFLIP — the clerk’s confidence, not a guarantee RESOLVES 2026-09-26 · T−14 DAYS [3P] GitHub public star count via daily snapshot
BASELINE AT ISSUE: 64,276 on 2026-08-29 (+999 over the preceding 14 days) · NO DATA ON VERDICT DAY → UNRESOLVED
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CALL-0006 · ISSUED 2026-08-31 · FROZEN AT ISSUE · PERMANENT RECORD →

PhotoAI's sitemap passes 11,100 pages by Sep 15.

Why it matters: PhotoAI is the largest programmatic-SEO footprint on this desk's books and it has been adding about 27 pages a day, 10,238 to 10,618 in the fourteen days to Aug 29. Carry that rate to Sep 15 and it reaches 11,079 — twenty-one pages short of this line. A coin flip by construction: the call resolves on whether the page machine speeds up at all, not on whether it keeps running.

CONF 50% COINFLIP — the clerk’s confidence, not a guarantee RESOLVES 2026-09-15 · T−3 DAYS [3P] sitemap.xml page count via daily snapshot
BASELINE AT ISSUE: 10,618 on 2026-08-29 (+380 over the preceding 14 days) · NO DATA ON VERDICT DAY → UNRESOLVED
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CALL-0007 · ISSUED 2026-08-31 · FROZEN AT ISSUE · PERMANENT RECORD →

OpusClip's sitemap is still under 7,400 pages on Sep 30.

Why it matters: CALL-0002 said this sitemap would pass 7,700 by Jul 28 on the strength of a German localization push. It came in at 7,223 and the desk took the MISS. Six weeks later the page count has barely moved — 7,227 to 7,239 in the fourteen days to Aug 29, under one page a day. Same board, same metric, opposite direction: the earlier call read a batch job as a strategy, and this one says the batch job is over. Getting it wrong twice on the same sitemap would say the desk cannot read this board at all.

CONF 75% STRONG — the clerk’s confidence, not a guarantee RESOLVES 2026-09-30 · T−18 DAYS [3P] sitemap.xml page count via daily snapshot
BASELINE AT ISSUE: 7,239 on 2026-08-29 (+12 over the preceding 14 days); CALL-0002 resolved MISS at 7,223 on 2026-07-28 · NO DATA ON VERDICT DAY → UNRESOLVED
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The live directory

21 watched boards · 4 case files

The tool files are the front door: dated prices, live status, observed changes, verified traction and every source on one page.

AI Memory LayerWATCHING

Goldfish

Local-first Mac AI memory layer — one keystroke and it knows what you're working on

882 Product Hunt votes (day #1) [3P]
OPEN FILE →
AI Memory LayerWATCHING

Unabyss

MCP-native personal context hub — feed every AI from one store

659 PH votes (day #1) + ElevenLabs grant [3P]
OPEN FILE →
AI Social PublishingWATCHING

Publora

Natural-language social publishing for AI agents, 10 platforms

677 PH votes · paid plans from $2.99 [3P]
OPEN FILE →
AI Marketing AgentsWATCHING

Meerkats.ai

AI revenue agent that auto-fixes paid conversion funnels

$3k MRR in first 4 weeks [FDR]
OPEN FILE →
AI Support BotsPROVEN

Chatbase

Train a custom ChatGPT support bot on your own data

$8M+ ARR · 8,000 paying customers [FDR]+[3P]
OPEN FILE →
AI HeadshotsPROVEN

PhotoAI

Upload selfies, get studio-grade AI photos

$132k MRR (~$1.6M annualized, 87% margin) [FDR]
OPEN FILE →
AI Video CaptionsPROVEN

Submagic

CHALLENGER

AI captions, silence-cutting and auto-editing for short-form video

$8M ARR · 1M+ users [FDR]+[3P]
OPEN FILE →
AI Voice CloningGRAVEYARD

Coqui AI

Commercial AI voice synthesis and cloning from the ex-Mozilla speech team

$3.3M raised (single round) [FDR]
OPEN FILE →
AI CompanionsGRAVEYARD

Dot

An AI companion app that deepens the relationship over time

24k tracked downloads (claimed 'hundreds of thousands') [3P]
OPEN FILE →
AI Medical EHRGRAVEYARD

Cydoc

AI-native EHR with automated intake and clinical notes

$265k crowdfunded + $50k grants [FDR]
OPEN FILE →
AI HeadshotsPROVEN

Aragon

Selfies to professional headshots — strong B2B angle

~$900k/mo (~$10.8M annualized) · 1.3M+ users [FDR]+[3P]
OPEN FILE →
AI HeadshotsPROVEN

HeadshotPro

Solo-built professional LinkedIn-style headshots

$300k MRR incl. $50k/mo via affiliates (2024-09) [3P]
OPEN FILE →
AI HeadshotsPROVEN

BetterPic

Professional headshot studio that started as a side project

$270k MRR (2025) · bootstrapped to $3.2M projected, then raised… [FDR]+[3P]
OPEN FILE →
AI HeadshotsPROVEN

Secta

200+ high-res headshots per session, with post-generation editing

~$1.2M ARR (GetLatka 2025) [3P]
OPEN FILE →
AI HeadshotsGRAVEYARD

AvatarAI

One of the first AI avatar sites — folded into PhotoAI

UNKNOWN [3P]
OPEN FILE →
AI Video CaptionsPROVEN

OpusClip

FRONTRUNNER

Long video to viral shorts with an AI virality score

$20M ARR (2025, Sacra) · 10M users · $50M raised [FDR]+[3P]
OPEN FILE →
AI Video CaptionsPROVEN

Quso

CHALLENGER+REBRAND

Long-form video to short content automation (formerly Vidyo.ai)

4M users (pre-rename) [3P]
OPEN FILE →
AI Video CaptionsWATCHING

Klap

BOOTSTRAPPER

Video to viral Shorts with virality-potential scoring

UNKNOWN — claims substantial self-funded revenue, no number… [3P]
OPEN FILE →
AI Video CaptionsWATCHING

Vizard

SPECIALIST

Webinars and podcasts to clips — B2B-leaning

UNKNOWN [3P]
OPEN FILE →
AI Video CaptionsWATCHING

Choppity

LONGSHOT

Indie long-video-to-clips tool with free-tool hooks

UNKNOWN [3P]
OPEN FILE →
AI Memory LayerPROVEN

Mem0

Universal memory-layer API for AI agents

$24M raised · 59k+ GitHub stars · 186M API calls (Q3) [FDR]+[3P]
OPEN FILE →
AI Memory LayerPROVEN

Letta

MemGPT commercialized — stateful agent memory

$10M raised @ $70M valuation · 22k+ stars [FDR]+[3P]
OPEN FILE →
AI Memory LayerPROVEN

Supermemory

LLM memory engine and API, plus a Chrome extension, built at 19

$2.6M raised · 28k+ stars [FDR]+[3P]
OPEN FILE →
AI Memory LayerWATCHING

BasicMemory

Local-first MCP that saves AI chats as a Markdown graph

3.3k stars · Cloud $15/seat [3P]
OPEN FILE →
AI Memory LayerPROVEN

Cognee

Open-source AI memory that turns data into knowledge graphs

$7.5M raised (2026-02) · 12k+ stars [3P]
OPEN FILE →
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01 · READ DAILY

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