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Market Pulse

What actually happened in your market this week

Weekly reads on the software categories we track continuously: every claim dated, every event observed, quiet weeks reported honestly.

Work Management

Asana, Monday.com, ClickUp, Notion, Airtable, Jira and the fight for the work graph.

Latest: Work management turns the AI fight into an operating model

CRM & Sales Tech

HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Close and Attio: where revenue software is heading.

Latest: CRM’s agent label starts to peel

AI Coding & Dev Tools

Cursor, Replit, Lovable, Vercel and GitHub: the fastest-moving market in software.

Latest: Agent tools grow up under pressure

Customer Support

Intercom, Zendesk, Front, Freshworks and Crisp: support platforms in the agent era.

Latest: Support software starts pricing the agent, not the seat

Fintech & Payments

Stripe, Adyen, Checkout.com, Plaid and GoCardless: the rails under modern money.

Latest: Payments vendors crowd into AI, risk and local rails

Cybersecurity

CrowdStrike, Palo Alto, SentinelOne, Fortinet, Tenable, Qualys and the rest: defending an expanding surface.

Latest: AI security moved from slogan to shelf space

HR & Payroll

Workday, Rippling, Gusto, BambooHR and Personio: the fight to own the employee record.

Latest: Employee record wars move from suite to system

Data & Analytics

Snowflake, Databricks, Fivetran, dbt Labs and Sigma: where the data stack settles.

Latest: AI proof is replacing dashboard theatre

E-commerce Platforms

Shopify, BigCommerce, Commercetools, WooCommerce and Shopware: selling online at scale.

Latest: Shopify buys Tailwind as Commercetools says platform

DevOps & Observability

Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Sentry and PagerDuty: keeping production honest.

Latest: Observability vendors converge on AI plumbing

Email & Lifecycle Marketing

Mailchimp, Brevo, Klaviyo, ActiveCampaign, Braze and Iterable: the fight to own the customer message.

Coming soon

Product Analytics

Amplitude, Mixpanel, PostHog, Heap and Statsig: measuring what users actually do.

Coming soon

Design & Collaboration

Figma, Canva, Miro, Framer and Sketch: where product and brand get made.

Latest: Canva pushes wider as Miro resets

Video & Meetings

Zoom, Loom, Vimeo, Riverside and Descript: recorded and live communication.

Coming soon

Contact Centre & CX

Genesys, Five9, Talkdesk, LivePerson and RingCentral: where support conversations actually happen.

Coming soon

Recruiting & ATS

Greenhouse, Lever, SmartRecruiters, Jobvite and Culture Amp: hiring pipelines and the employee record.

Coming soon