Software and IT services, ranked and explained

A benchmark, open-source infrastructure and RL environments from Acyclic Labs for measuring and training how well AI models coordinate thousands of agents working on one task.

Value-creation analysis for private equity: upload an employee census and Plek maps each role to its tasks, then sizes EBITDA levers such as spans, layers, location, pay and AI automation.

A robot simulation platform with a physics engine built for dexterous manipulation, validated against measured robot behaviour, for teams training and evaluating robot foundation models.

A Mac and browser app that runs Claude Agent, Codex, Cursor and its own Caveman agent side by side, with a supervising agent, pre-PR guides and cloud computers, free on a user's own keys or on credit plans from $20 a month.

Google's successor to the Flash line, out on 12 November 2026 at $1.50 in and $7.50 out per million tokens, the rate Gemini 3.8 Flash moves to on 1 January 2027, with a 1M-token context.

A Mac app that lets a marketing team describe a change to a custom-coded Next.js or Astro site, builds it in a private draft from the site's own components, and commits it to GitHub once someone approves.