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  "title": "The Beat — dev tools",
  "description": "The dev tools register: every company this publication has covered, with its site, two sentences on what it sells and to whom, a category, the latest publicly announced funding stage and the page that states it, LinkedIn and X. `checked` is the day the scout last added, updated or re-verified the row; `stage: unknown` is honest rather than guessed.",
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  "updated": "2026-09-22",
  "count": 80,
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      "ai-models",
      "ai-coding",
      "hosting-infra",
      "data",
      "observability",
      "api-platform",
      "security",
      "dev-platform",
      "other"
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      "seed",
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      "series-b",
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      "public",
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      "category": "api-platform",
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      "added": "2026-09-01",
      "checked": "2026-09-07",
      "description": "Algolia sells hosted search and retrieval, now framed as the layer behind agentic and generative experiences as well as site search. It is bought by ecommerce and enterprise teams, with the developers who wire it in as the users.",
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      "added": "2026-09-01",
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      "description": "Anthropic sells Claude, an AI assistant reached through consumer apps, Claude Code and an API. It is bought by developers and by teams in finance, healthcare, government, legal and education, on consumer plans, team plans and per-token API pricing.",
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      "description": "Blacksmith sells CI runners on bare metal as a drop-in replacement for GitHub Actions runners. It is bought by engineering teams whose CI already runs on GitHub Actions, with 3,000 free minutes a month and paid tiers above it.",
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      "description": "Bodaty sells a set of AI products (AICtrlNet, HitLai, ChatMemoir, Samyata, deyaPay) alongside implementation services. It sells to businesses, consumers and government agencies; no pricing is published on the site.",
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      "added": "2026-09-01",
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      "page": "https://thebeat.dev/devtools/coderabbit/",
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      "description": "Cognition sells Devin, an autonomous software engineer that plans, writes, tests and ships code inside a customer's own codebase and tools. It is bought by engineering organisations at large enterprises; no pricing is published on the site.",
      "page": "https://thebeat.dev/devtools/cognition/",
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      "description": "Databricks sells a unified data and AI platform: warehousing, analytics, and model training and serving over one lakehouse. It is bought by data engineering, analytics and ML teams at enterprises, metered in consumption units.",
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      "added": "2026-09-01",
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      "description": "DeepSeek sells access to its own language models through a chat app and an API platform. It is bought by developers and teams integrating the models into their products, priced per token.",
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      "description": "Develocity sells build and test observability across toolchains: build caching, test distribution, governance and failure diagnostics. It is bought by engineering productivity teams at enterprises with large builds, starting from a free trial.",
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      "description": "DuckLabs is the company behind DuckDB, DuckLake and Quack, building and maintaining the Duck stack and supporting its community. Its work is used by data teams that embed DuckDB; the company announced it is joining AWS with the projects staying open source.",
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      "description": "Fly.io sells application hosting on machines close to users, and now sells Sprites, persistent Linux computers for agent workloads driven from a CLI. It is bought by development teams shipping applications and, increasingly, teams running agents.",
      "page": "https://thebeat.dev/devtools/fly-io/",
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