Airframe · Two ways to start · workspace + cohort
For heads of AI

The system of record for enterprise AI.

Four waves of enterprise software, 1975 to 2026 Each wave shows the cohort that replaced the prior one. Wave IV marks AI-native, currently underway. 1975 1989 2007 2015 2026 WAVE I · 1975 – 1989 Oracle · Microsoft · Sun WAVE II · 2000 – 2014 Salesforce · Workday · Coupa WAVE III · 2009 – 2021 Snowflake · Datadog · Databricks WAVE IV · 2022 – LIVE Hex · Glean · Clay
Figure 08 · Four waves of enterprise software, fifty-one years · Source: Airframe · 50-Years

The next eighteen months are yours to shape the agent era. Airframe is the AI transformation copilot.

The record · 17,000+ products · 1,425 mapped companies · 0 vendor sponsorships · Methodology →

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

Why a registry, why now

The map every buyer used to trust does not exist for the agent era.

Code copilots went from a small handful of plausible vendors in 2021 to more than a hundred in 2026, and the same shape is now repeating across observability, orchestration, search, BI, and the agent stack underneath all of them. Analyst quadrants update once a year, procurement runs on RFPs, and the teams actually shipping AI move on a faster clock than either. The work isn't picking the winner of a fracturing category, it's operating inside the fracture without losing the thread on what your own teams have already deployed and what the rest of the market is learning. Airframe is the system of record built for that, the live registry of 17,000+ products and 114,000+ deployment case studies your AI transformation copilot reads from every time a brief, a build-versus-buy call, or a renewal lands.

Figure 01 Code copilots, 2021 to 2026 · the leading edge of a category-wide pattern Source: Airframe Category Fracture Index
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: the products in production, the teams running them, and the outcomes underneath. When the question is what's working, who's running it, or what to renew next, the answer comes from the same record instead of a slide nobody can verify.

01 · See what's working

Across every team, one shared record.

Most teams figure out AI alone. Airframe is the system of record: seventeen thousand products mapped to the companies actually deploying them, the teams running them, and the outcomes underneath. When you ask who else is doing this and what they learned, the answer is one query.

02 · Decide from peer evidence

Every brief and renewal opens with the record.

Whether it's build versus buy, copilot policy, vendor consolidation, or the next workflow to automate, each decision opens with what the record already knows. Procurement, IT, and the AI function work from the same picture instead of three different ones, with the peer evidence underneath every call.

03 · Stay in the loop

From first deploy to the next renewal.

Airframe doesn't stop at the contract. The copilot follows each deployment into the work itself: who owns it, what it's producing, where the next workflow opens up. Transformation becomes a living record instead of a quarterly board slide nobody can verify.

See the product surfaces
How we engage

Three modes. One per stage of the work.

STAGE 02 · ENABLE 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 playbook the rest of the market is writing in real time.

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: 1,425 companies in the Register, the people and the dollars behind the software every team now runs.

Long read · 1,425 companies · 1974 – 2026 Read Part I
1974 1985 1995 2005 2015 2026 1,425 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.

A small group of Fortune 1000 organizations build AI transformation with us in the open. Membership is by review and closes when the charter fills. The first six weeks deliver a Transformation Report: every tool you run, scored against your peer cohort, with the recommendations that move the most spend or the most risk in the next ninety days. From there the work runs continuously on the same record.

  • 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.
Apply to the cohort Reviewed within 48 hours · pre-launch terms carried forward
Two ways in

Start your registry, free.

Every tool, every renewal, your AI plan in one record custom to your org. The cohort, above, embeds a senior operator who runs the first six weeks alongside you. Both routes leave you with the same record.

The workspace

Free to start. No card required.

The longer it runs, the more it becomes your AI brain. Drop a work email and we will send a sign-in link.

app.airframe.ai · free to start, no sales
Airframe
Airframe · 2026 Privately underwritten. No vendor money, no sponsored research, no paid placement.
Registry 17,000+ tools · 114,000+ case studies · 1,425 vendors, 1974–2026.
Vendor conflicts Zero. The subscription is paid the same regardless of which tool the registry recommends.