Roster updates

What changed, and when

Most directories are written once and left to rot. This one is tended. Every addition, removal, and verification sweep is logged here with a date, so you can see for yourself that the list is maintained rather than abandoned.

367 vetted providers on the roster.Last updated July 2026RSS feed

  1. Expanded

    The AI-native generation: agent development companies get their own segment

    A third intake round judged 76 firms from the 2024-2026 AI-native generation, the boutiques that build on LLM APIs and agent frameworks directly rather than no-code automation, and accepted 42 against the evidence rubric. The roster now stands at 367 vetted providers. Every provider carries a new approach tag (AI-native, hybrid, or automation agency), the home roster can be filtered by it, and there is a dedicated ranked page for AI agent development companies. Seven production-stack signals, LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, MCP, RAG, vector databases, and evals, are now first-class, browsable tools, with evals being the sharpest marker of a firm that engineers and tests its AI rather than reselling automation.

  2. Removed

    Language QA sweep: English-serving floor enforced

    We audited every language-suspect record (non-English domains, en. subdomains, /en/ paths, and non-Anglophone home markets) for whether their English surface is real. Six firms whose sites are only in German, French, or Swedish, with no usable English mirror, were removed for failing the English-serving floor. Sixty-four keepers were classified and tagged as English-primary or full English mirror, and where a firm's real content lived on a translated mirror we now link straight to it. The roster stands at 367 vetted providers.

  3. Verified

    Case-study re-harvest and sampling disclosure

    A re-audit of Automation House found four documented case studies on their site where we had recorded one, so the profile was corrected and re-tiered on the fuller evidence. To stop implying our profiles are complete, every profile's Verification panel now says evidence was sampled from the provider's public site on a given date, with a one-click way to report anything off.

  4. Expanded

    Roster passes 331 providers, and location pages go live

    A second intake round judged 242 candidate firms against the evidence rubric and accepted 107, taking the roster to 367 vetted providers. On top of it we launched country pages: browse the roster by where firms are based across the UK, United States, Australia, Ireland, Canada, the Netherlands, and the DACH region, each with its own read on the local market.

  5. Expanded

    Geo discovery: UK, Ireland, Netherlands, ANZ, Canada, DACH, Nordics

    A second discovery pass surfaced 242 new candidate firms across seven regional sweeps, every one extracted from a page actually fetched. Candidates enter the roster only after an independent judge pass against the evidence rubric, so the roster now stands at 367 vetted providers and is still growing.

  6. Verified

    Full verification sweep

    Every provider was re-checked against the five evidence signals and given a public last-verified date. Evidence older than 24 months now counts at half weight in the ranking, so stale listings drift down on their own.

  7. Removed

    Deduplication and floor filtering

    The initial harvest of 227 candidates was deduplicated by domain and name and filtered against the Listed floor, removing anonymous shells, product-only vendors, and label-slappers that could not clear a single evidence signal.

  8. Launched

    The Expert Roster launched

    An independent, evidence-vetted index of AI implementation consultants and automation agencies, segmented by industry, use case, and tool. Ranked by evidence, never paid.

How vetting works, and what earns each tier, is documented in the methodology. New providers arrive through an ongoing harvest and judge pass, so this log grows as the roster does.

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