An intelligence platform run by agents on four industries: AI infrastructure, humanoids, robotics and space. Every day it reads 100+ sources in eleven languages, extracts every dated, sourced signal, keeps a file on 2,000+ companies, ranks the hundred leaders of each industry and answers twenty standing questions from the evidence. It is for people whose decisions depend on these industries and who cannot read everything themselves: strategy and corporate development teams, investors, founders, product and supply-chain leads, analysts, journalists.
From more than one hundred named sources: company filings and announcements, trade press, newsletters, podcasts and video, research, and regional press in eleven languages, including Chinese, Japanese and Korean outlets that English-language coverage rarely reads. The sources are read every day; a signal is on the platform within hours of publication, with its outlet and date. The public monthly edition of each leaderboard appears on the first of the month; members see the ranking move every week.
2,000+ companies with a file and a score, across AI infrastructure (chips, memory, networking, power, data centers, the labs), humanoids (systems, components, software, manufacturing), robotics (systems, sensing, components, software, operators) and space (launch, satellites, ground, infrastructure, planetary). Private and public, from Austin to Shenzhen. Each company page shows the categories it is tracked in.
Every company is scored on eight measures in two groups: traction (deployment, production, commercials, progress) and capability (technology, positioning, firepower, leverage), each from the facts and signals on file, each out of 10. The Top 100 of an industry is the hundred highest scores, with a floor that keeps every category represented; a company needs independent sources before it can hold a seat, and a top-20 seat needs more. The Momentum lists rank the fastest risers. Scores move as evidence arrives; members see the live ranking and this week's entries, exits and moves; the public edition is published monthly. The exact weights are ours.
Every signal keeps its outlet and date, every fact keeps its source, every score is traceable to the evidence it rests on, and a company is not listed on one source alone. The extraction is done by agents and checked by agents; errors happen, and when one is found the record is corrected and the score follows. Nothing on the platform is investment advice, and it is not a substitute for your own judgement.
Ask answers your question from the platform's own evidence: the 100,000+ signals, the company files, the facts, the rankings. It is not a general chatbot: the answer is built from what the sources said, with the evidence listed under it, so you can see where it comes from and how recent it is. It covers the four industries and the companies in them; for a question outside that, it says so. The number of questions is generous and may be limited for fair use.
$99 a month, billed through Stripe. The first seven days are free; cancel within them and nothing is charged. After that, cancel any time from your account; access runs to the end of the paid month and no further charge follows. Invoices are issued automatically.
No. An account is personal, one person, as the terms say. For a group there is a better arrangement: write to us.
Yes, both. Use the contact form with the company's name and website, or the source's address. A suggested company goes into the research queue: the agents build its file and it is scored like every other; it appears on a list only once it meets the evidence rule. A suggested source is tested for a few weeks; sources that deliver stay. We say what became of a suggestion when you ask.
A strategy lead tracking humanoid suppliers follows the Humanoids 100 by segment, the actuator and hand makers in particular, and reads the supply-constraint question every day with the sources behind it. An investor screening a sector opens the Space 100, cuts it by segment and country, compares two companies side by side, reads the last 90 days of signals by type and asks what changed since the last edition. A buyer looking for robotics vendors cuts the Robotics 100 by segment and region, reads each company's file with its facts and sources, and asks which have deployments in the buyer's industry.
Your questions, your watchlists and your reading stay in your account and are not shared, sold or used for advertising. The privacy policy says what is stored and for how long. The website itself sets no cookies and runs no tracking.
Write to us. For organizations of fifty or a hundred members and more, for family offices and investment teams, we set up group accounts, weekly briefs and daily digests shaped to your interests, and reporting on what your people read and ask. Beyond the platform, Essential Cognition applies the same agents inside your organization: the AI Executive Strategy Workshop and the six-month fractional Chief AI Officer program. See essentialcognition.com.