System of record for enterprise AI

The next eighteen months are yours to decide the agent era.

Cohorts of enterprise software, 1965 to 2026 Five cohorts spanning sixty-one years. The four prior cohorts share a similar value-per-employee plateau; the AI-native cohort (2022 onward) rises to a multiple of the prior peak. MAINFRAME 1965 – 1985 ON-PREM 1985 – 2000 SAAS 2000 – 2009 CLOUD-NATIVE 2009 – 2022 AI-NATIVE 2022 –
Cohort value per employee · Source: Airframe

Map every AI tool, every deployment, every outcome, and ship the next workflow with you.

The record · 0 vendor sponsorships · 114,000+ deployments tracked · 143,000+ organizations indexed

Your company's biggest bet of the decade is the one you're making right now.

Why a registry, why now

The map every buyer used to trust was drawn for the last cycle.

Two decades of SaaS produced about a dozen vendors anyone learned to value with confidence; three years of AI-native has already produced a frontier worth more than that whole cohort, on roughly a tenth of the people, and the same shape is now repeating one layer down across code, observability, orchestration, search, BI, and the agent stack. The agent-era playbook is not a quadrant or an RFP, it is the live record of what your teams have already deployed and what the rest of the market is learning right now, and that record is what Airframe keeps and what your copilot reads from on every brief, every build-versus-buy call, every renewal.

Figure 01 Code copilots, 2021–2026 Source: Airframe
What Airframe is

Most teams are figuring this out alone. Airframe is the copilot you're not running solo.

Everyone will completely, not partially, work through agents, just as everyone now completely works through PCs. Airframe is the system of record for that work and the copilot that reads from it, so the answer to what's running, who owns it, and what to renew comes from the record instead of from memory.

01 · The blind spot, mapped

You don't know what other teams are doing.

Most companies are figuring out AI alone, working from the same blind spot in three different rooms. Airframe is where seventeen thousand products, the teams running them, and the deployments underneath are kept on one record, so the question stops being a phone call and starts being a query.

02 · Every decision opens with the record

Three teams, one starting picture.

Procurement, finance, and the AI function each carry questions the others can't fully answer, and most companies stitch those answers together after the fact. Airframe gives all three the same record on the way in, with the peer evidence underneath every brief, every renewal, every build-versus-buy call.

03 · From first deploy through the next renewal

Transformation, as a living record.

Each deployment carries forward into the next: ownership, what it's producing, where the next workflow opens up, and what the renewal should look like when it lands. The work and the record stay on the same clock, and the copilot reads from both.

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How we engage

Three modes. One per stage of the work.

STAGE 02 · SCALE CENTRAL EVERY TEAM AI FUNCTION + AIRFRAME GRAPH ENG · ENABLED GTM · ENABLED FIN · ENABLED OPS · ENABLED HR · ENABLED

We support the function with presentations, Q&A, and living content on how the teams actually shipping AI put it into production, grounded in graph data rather than anecdote.

Outcome · Enablement across every team, not just the loudest
The Airframe Index · Independent intelligence

The agent-era market, before the press cycle files.

Most coverage of the AI market is downstream of vendor announcements, published after the move has already played out. Airframe works the other direction: our analysts pull from the live registry in real time and turn that data into long reads and dossiers that reach you before the press cycle does.

Part I of the flagship three-part series Long read · ~ 18 min
№ 01 · Part I The flagship · Long read

The Register. Fifty-seven years of enterprise software.

The full record of every enterprise software vendor since IBM's June 23, 1969 unbundling: 1,433 companies in the Register, the people and the dollars behind the software every team now runs.

Long read · 1,433 companies · 1974 – 2026 Read Part I
1974 1985 1995 2005 2015 2026 1,433 VENDORS · REGISTER WINDOW · 1974 – 2026 MAINFRAME → C/S ON-PREM → SaaS SaaS → CLOUD-NATIVE CLOUD → AI-NATIVE
Grounded in the live registry See the full Index
What you get

Your AI transformation, scored against the cohort.

The first six weeks deliver a Transformation Report: every product in production scored against the peer cohort, with the recommendations that move the most spend or the most risk in the next ninety days. The AI function and finance work from the same record from day one, and the same record runs the registry, the renewals, and the next round of decisions.

  • Weeks 1–6 Transformation Report. A senior operator from Airframe embeds with your team and ships it.
  • From there Single-decision briefs on demand whenever a renewal, a vendor pick, or a build-vs-buy needs an answer.
  • Always-on Access to the working record. The same live registry our analysts maintain, not a report.
  • Membership Private briefings, named analyst access, pre-launch terms. Independent intelligence to leadership; the same person on the phone, familiar with your stack and your plan; founding terms set once and carried forward.
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Two ways in

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Every tool, every renewal, your AI plan in one record custom to your org. Drop a line if you want to walk through it together; or open the workspace yourself, free, no sales call. Both routes leave you with the same record.

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Talk to us.

Drop a work email and we'll reach out. We'll talk through your AI plan, your stack, what's working, what's not.

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The workspace

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The longer it runs, the more it becomes your AI brain. Drop a work email and we'll open your workspace.

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Airframe · 2026 Privately underwritten. No vendor money, no sponsored research, no paid placement.
Registry 17,000+ tools · 114,000+ case studies · 1,433 vendors, 1974–2026.
Vendor conflicts Zero. The subscription is paid the same regardless of which tool the registry recommends.