Evidence taxonomy

Categories

Capability describes what a company does; industry describes the market it serves. Assignments come from published evidence and may overlap.

Capability

Products, services, and technical functions.

94
AI applications

Companies selling end-user AI software (not infrastructure).

1,315

Direct assignments across this family; companies can appear in more than one category.

Business software

Companies selling CRM, marketing, support, communications, collaboration, HR, and accounting software.

936

Direct assignments across this family; companies can appear in more than one category.

Other / unknown

Capability that does not fit any defined category or is undetermined. Always available as a Jev outcome.

710

Direct assignments across this family; companies can appear in more than one category.

Payments and finance

Companies selling payment processing, billing, fraud, and financial services.

496

Direct assignments across this family; companies can appear in more than one category.

AI infrastructure

Companies selling compute, platforms, or APIs whose primary purpose is building, training, hosting, or serving AI models.

365

Direct assignments across this family; companies can appear in more than one category.

Developer tools

Companies selling source control, CI/CD, deployment, docs, and automation.

332

Direct assignments across this family; companies can appear in more than one category.

Professional services

Human-led consulting, staffing, outsourcing, or managed operations sold as a service.

268

Direct assignments across this family; companies can appear in more than one category.

Security and trust

Companies selling identity, application security, compliance, and privacy products.

220

Direct assignments across this family; companies can appear in more than one category.

Data infrastructure

Companies selling databases, warehouses, pipelines, or search systems.

151

Direct assignments across this family; companies can appear in more than one category.

Observability

Companies selling monitoring, logging, tracing, and error tracking.

110

Direct assignments across this family; companies can appear in more than one category.

Cloud infrastructure

Companies selling raw compute, storage, or network infrastructure.

90

Direct assignments across this family; companies can appear in more than one category.

Aerospace

Design, manufacture, and launch of rockets and spacecraft.

73

Direct assignments across this family; companies can appear in more than one category.

Analytics

Companies selling product/web analytics, replay, and experimentation.

40

Direct assignments across this family; companies can appear in more than one category.

Infrastructure hardware

Physical servers and computing systems sold as products, rather than rented as cloud services.

22

Direct assignments across this family; companies can appear in more than one category.

Industry

Markets and customer segments served.

13