Pre-open

The AI Category Exchange

Claim the top spot in your AI category.

173 AI categories, each with a ticker and one top spot. Sealed stakes open at the Opening Bell.

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The board at pre-open

Every category opens at $250. Watch the ones that matter to you. Watchers get the first invite when sealed stakes open.

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L1Compute and silicon11 categories

ACC$250AI accelerators
CMPT$250AI compute
DCN$250AI data centers
PWR$250AI power
ESI$250Edge AI silicon
GPM$250GPU marketplaces
ICH$250Inference chips
ICN$250Interconnect and networking
LCL$250Liquid cooling
NCL$250Neoclouds
PHO$250Silicon photonics

L2Models13 categories

BFM$250Biological foundation models
DIF$250Diffusion models
FMO$250Frontier models
MOE$250Mixture of experts
OWM$250Open-weight models
RSN$250Reasoning models
SLM$250Small language models
SVM$250Sovereign models
SPM$250Speech models
TSF$250Time-series foundation models
VLM$250Vision-language models
VLA$250Vision-language-action models
WMO$250World models

L3Data and training13 categories

DCU$250Data curation
DLB$250Data labeling
DLC$250Data licensing
DST$250Distillation
EDN$250Expert data networks
FNT$250Fine-tuning platforms
PST$250Post-training infrastructure
PTR$250Pretraining infrastructure
RLE$250RL environments
RLH$250RLHF
RLV$250RLVR
SYN$250Synthetic data
WEB$250Web data infrastructure

L4Inference and serving10 categories

IOP$250Inference optimisation
KVC$250KV cache offload
GWY$250LLM gateways
RTR$250Model routing
ODI$250On-device inference
QNT$250Quantisation
CCH$250Semantic caching
SFI$250Serverless inference
SOD$250Structured output
TCM$250Token cost management

L5Retrieval and memory11 categories

MEM$250Agent memory
WSA$250AI search APIs
CTX$250Context engineering
DPR$250Document parsing
EMB$250Embeddings
ESR$250Enterprise search
GRAG$250GraphRAG
KGR$250Knowledge graphs
RAG$250RAG
RRK$250Rerankers
VDB$250Vector databases

L6Agent infrastructure18 categories

AFW$250Agent frameworks
AID$250Agent identity and auth
ING$250Agent integrations
AMK$250Agent marketplaces
ORC$250Agent orchestration
SND$250Agent sandboxing
A2A$250Agent-to-agent protocols
APY$250Agentic payments
AGPT$250AutoGPT-style agents
BAG$250Browser agents
CUSE$250Computer use
DEX$250Durable execution
GRE$250Graph engineering
HIL$250Human in the loop
MCP$250MCP servers
MAS$250Multi-agent systems
SKL$250Skills and capability packaging
TCL$250Tool calling

L7Coding and dev tools12 categories

IDE$250Agent IDEs
CRV$250AI code review
CSC$250AI code security
COD$250AI coding assistants
DVO$250AI DevOps and SRE
CBI$250Codebase indexing
CAG$250Coding agents
LMG$250Legacy migration
PMG$250Prompt management
SDD$250Spec-driven development
TGN$250Test generation
VIB$250Vibe coding

L8Evals and safety11 categories

AUD$250Agent audit trails
GOV$250AI governance and compliance
GRD$250Guardrails
HAL$250Hallucination detection
INT$250Interpretability
EVL$250LLM evals
OBS$250LLM observability
LLO$250LLMOps
MRM$250Model risk management
MWF$250Model welfare
WMK$250Watermarking and provenance

L9Security6 categories

ASP$250AI security posture
CYB$250Cybersecurity AI
DFK$250Deepfake detection
PEN$250Offensive security agents
PIJ$250Prompt injection defence
RED$250Red teaming

L10Interfaces and modalities14 categories

THD$2503D generation
BRW$250AI browsers
CPN$250AI companions
WEA$250AI wearables
AVT$250Avatars and digital humans
GUI$250Generative UI
IMG$250Image generation
MUS$250Music generation
RTS$250Real-time speech
STT$250Speech to text
TTS$250Text to speech
TRN$250Translation and localisation
VID$250Video generation
VOI$250Voice agents

L11Regulated industries14 categories

ACT$250Accounting AI
ADT$250Audit AI
CDS$250Clinical decision support
DEF$250Defence AI
DRG$250Drug discovery
EDU$250Education AI
FIN$250Fintech AI
GVT$250Govtech AI
SCR$250Healthcare scribes
INS$250Insurance AI
LGL$250Legal AI
RAD$250Medical imaging AI
RCM$250Revenue cycle AI
TAX$250Tax AI

L12Industry and commerce9 categories

AGR$250Agriculture AI
SCI$250AI for science
CON$250Construction AI
GRID$250Grid and utility AI
LOG$250Logistics AI
MFG$250Manufacturing AI
REA$250Real estate AI
RTL$250Retail and commerce AI
RBT$250Robotics and physical AI

L13Business functions13 categories

MKT$250AI marketing and content ops
NTE$250AI note takers
ASE$250AI search and answer engines
CLM$250Contract lifecycle AI
BIA$250Conversational analytics
SUP$250Customer support agents
DWA$250Document workflow agents
GEO$250Generative engine optimisation
INC$250Incrementality testing
PRC$250Procurement AI
REC$250Recruiting AI
RVI$250Revenue intelligence
SDR$250SDR agents

L14Roles and practices12 categories

AOP$250Agent ops
ENB$250AI enablement
AIE$250AI engineer
APM$250AI product manager
ASA$250AI solutions architect
APP$250Applied AI team
CAO$250Chief AI officer
CTE$250Context engineer
EVE$250Evals engineer
FDE$250Forward deployed engineer
MLE$250ML engineer
PRE$250Prompt engineer

L15Horizon6 categories

AGI$250AGI
ASI$250ASI
IAG$250Intelligence Age
PSC$250Post-scarcity
SAL$250Superalignment
SNG$250The Singularity

173 categories across 15 layers. Every category opens at $250.Select a category to watch it.

How the Opening Bell works

One opening round before the board goes live.

Watch
Pick your categories. Watchers hear first when sealed stakes open.
Submit a sealed stake
Set the most you'll pay for #1 in a category, starting at $250. Amounts stay private until the open.
The open
The highest sealed stake in each category takes the top spot and pays one tick above the next company. The board goes live.

One rule, before and after the openYou only pay enough to beat the next company.

What holders get

Your logo in the top spot of your category, on the board and in the data feed
A permanent placement notice page
Launch-ready assets and announcement copy
Founding credit on the category page for the company that takes the top spot at the open

The Uptick Report

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Questions

What is Uptick Board?

A live board of AI categories, each with a ticker. Companies claim the top spot in their category with a sponsored placement, and The Uptick Report covers the moves every Monday.

What does a top spot include?

A sponsored placement of your logo at the top of your category on the board and in the data feed, plus a notice page, launch assets, and announcement copy.

What is the Opening Bell?

The opening round. Companies submit sealed stakes before launch, and at the open the highest stake in each category takes the top spot.

How do I get in first?

Watch your categories. Watchers get the first invite when sealed stakes open.