The week in one lineThe customer started showing up as software, and commerce began rebuilding the counter for it. Stripe gave agents a wallet with a budget, Shopify opened checkout to browser agents, and Kernel sold an agent a browser session with no account and no API key. Liberate's phone line, meanwhile, now checks whether the caller is a bot and, if so, hands it to a bot of its own, which may be the most efficient customer service call ever placed. Read the issue →
Agentic Index
The research index for AI agent platforms and tools.
Agentic Index is an independent agentic AI vendor research platform where buyers find and compare B2B AI agents: agentic AI platforms, autonomous workflow tools, coding agents, GTM agents, browser agents, and enterprise agentic automation products, with verified feature matrices and pricing research on 1,061 vendors. Structured for buyers, analysts, and operators.
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2026-10-02
SSpeechmaticsSpeechmatics released Oak 1, its own medical speech to text model, through version 1.1.0 of its batch Python SDK. Oak 1 is multilingual, tuned for healthcare audio such as ambient scribing and dictation, and handles speakers who switch language mid conversation. The pricing page lists it at $0.15 per hour for batch transcription in the EU and US.Medium
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2026-10-02
TTemboTembo added session forking. From the session menu, a user can split an agent run into a separate session that carries over the original conversation and a snapshot of the workspace, then try a different approach without disturbing the original run.Low
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2026-10-02
VVeecleVeecle's Chiplab added a run_test_suite MCP tool that lets a coding agent write a TypeScript test suite, run it against uploaded firmware on a virtual board, and get back a pass or fail for each test along with the serial output. Each suite has a five minute time limit.Medium
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2026-10-02
KKernelAgents can now buy a Kernel browser session on their own through the Machine Payments Protocol. The agent requests a browser, gets a payment offer back, pays with a Stripe token approved through Link and receives connection details, with no Kernel account or API key, at $0.50 for a 30 minute session.High
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2026-10-02
LLangbaseCommand Code, Langbase's coding agent, can now run inside Zed and other editors that speak the Agent Client Protocol. The editor session keeps the agent's tools, skills, permission prompts and sessions from the terminal, shows diffs before edits, and merges the editor's MCP servers with Command Code's own.Medium
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41 agentic AI platforms scoring 12.5 or higher out of 14 on the Agentic Index coverage score, drawn from 561 platforms across 1,061 researched vendors. Graded on documented public evidence only. No vendor pays for placement.
See the 41 best agentic AI platforms, ranked →Buying for an enterprise? Only 118 of those 561 platforms document all four enterprise governance capabilities in full: SOC 2, SSO and role based access control; self hosted or private VPC deployment; tracing and audit logging; and human approval before an agent acts. See which platforms meet enterprise security and compliance requirements →
Almost every one of them now sells an autonomous AI workforce. Only 30 document all six capabilities the phrase requires, and the binding constraint is not autonomy: 1,061 vendors in, only one platform in five documents that its agents carry memory between runs. See the best autonomous AI workforce platforms for enterprises →
Two claims get made on every vendor call and neither survives the evidence. Tool calling and Model Context Protocol support are sold as the same thing: 148 platforms document tool calling in full without documenting MCP, and only 142 clear MCP, tool calling and model flexibility together. See which AI agent platforms support Model Context Protocol tools →
Tracing and evaluation are sold as the same thing too: 194 platforms document observability in full without documenting any way to test the agent before it ships, and only 85 document testing, tracing and human oversight together. See which AI agent platforms give you tracing and observability in production →
Buying an AI SOC agent is the sharpest version of that same problem, because the response action is isolating a host. Of 85 agentic security operations vendors, 29 document an audit trail without documenting human oversight, so you can read what the agent did and not govern what it does next. Only 23 document the full investigation loop from alert to approved response. See the top rated vendors for alert triage and investigation →
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OmniDimension is a platform for AI voice agents configured in plain text and deployed to phone numbers in 70+ countries, web calls, WhatsApp, email and SMS, with more than 1,000 voices in 90+ languages and strong Indian language coverage. Agents call any REST endpoint as an action, answer from knowledge bases and live web search, remember each caller across channels in memory pools, run bulk and dynamic campaigns, and plug into OmniWorkflows automations, with a REST API, Python SDK and an OAuth MCP server.
View profile →Awaz is a no code platform for AI voice agents that answer and place calls, book meetings into Google Calendar in real time, transfer calls under set conditions, and carry conversations to SMS and WhatsApp, in more than 30 languages with ElevenLabs voices. Agents answer from knowledge bases of documents, URLs and FAQs, run batch and scheduled outbound campaigns, fire from CRM events through Zapier, Make and webhooks, and are driven by a REST API, with a white label edition for agencies on Retell infrastructure.
View profile →Autocalls is a no code platform for AI voice agents that place and answer calls, run WhatsApp, SMS and chat conversations, book meetings and look up data mid call through custom API tools and remote MCP servers, in more than 100 languages. Teams pick the conversation mode, transcriber and model, from GPT-5 to Gemini, design flows visually, run campaigns from lead lists and automation triggers, choose all EU or all US routing, and manage everything through a REST API or an OAuth MCP connector for Claude and ChatGPT.
View profile →VoiceGenie runs AI voice assistants for outbound sales, lead qualification, follow ups, reminders and inbound support, set up with a goal, a welcome message and a script, personalized with dynamic variables from each contact, and grounded in a knowledge base of links and PDFs. During calls an assistant can book through Cal.com, send an SMS or transfer to a person, and after each call it answers custom insight questions and posts results by webhook, while a public API places calls and controls campaigns.
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The Agentic Index draws on independent research across 1,061 agentic AI vendors. Feature coverage is assessed from public documentation, product pages, and analyst materials. Each capability shows as Full, Partial or Not documented. Not documented means there is no sign of the capability in the product, often because it sits outside the product's scope. It is not a verdict on quality.
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