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Indexes And WatchlistsFrequency Format Value
Roundups, watchlists, and indices that map the categories worth watching.
The Intelligence Index names the people, companies, themes, and market angles worth tracking before broader consensus catches up.
Curated lists, rankings, and watchlists with editorial context.
A structured view of which companies, founders, and categories matter right now.
Intelligence Index
Pricing
Five AI-Native Companies Repricing the Categories They Are Entering
These are real, currently-operating AI-native companies whose pricing decisions have been publicly explained by their founders or executives. Use this list as a reference for how AI-native pricing actually looks when founders own it.
Intelligence Indexes
Latest Indexes
The most recent indexes and watchlists, mapping the categories and companies worth tracking.
Intelligence Index
Five Vertical SaaS Founders Whose Companies Became Category Operating Systems
Rajiv Sankarlall
June 2, 2026
Intelligence Index
The Enterprise Sales Playbooks That Are Actually Working in 2026
Rajiv Sankarlall
April 14, 2026
Intelligence Index
12 Market Signals Worth Tracking in Q2 2026
Rajiv Sankarlall
April 6, 2026
Intelligence Index
The 10 Greatest Founders of All Time
Rajiv Sankarlall
March 11, 2026
Intelligence Index
Founders Who Survived Near-Death and Won
Rajiv Sankarlall
March 8, 2026
Intelligence Index
The Pivots That Built Empires
Rajiv Sankarlall
March 4, 2026
Index Archive
Previous indexes covering the companies, founders, and categories that defined each quarter.
01Feb 25, 2026
Intelligence Index
Founders Who Said No, And Built More Because of It
Some of the most consequential founder decisions in the last two decades were refusals. The offers that got declined, and what the founders built instead, reveal more about long-term judgment than any deal that closed.
Founder Decisions9 min
02Jan 14, 2026
Intelligence Index
The Acquisitions That Changed Modern SaaS
The most consequential acquisitions in SaaS history are not the ones with the biggest price tags. They are the ones where the deal changed the competitive structure of the category permanently.
Market Signals8 min
03Jan 7, 2026
Intelligence Index
Vertical SaaS Founders Who Owned Their Category
Vertical SaaS is the most defensible software category on the market. These are the founders who identified underserved industries, built deep enough to be irreplaceable, and created the category-specific moats that horizontal players cannot acquire their way into.
Market Signals9 min
04Oct 8, 2025
Intelligence Index
5 Founders Who Got Fired From Their Own Companies and Came Back Bigger
Getting pushed out of your own company is the kind of thing that ends most founder careers. For these five, it was the inflection point that made them.
Founder Profiles9 min
05Oct 1, 2025
Intelligence Index
The 10 Most Influential B2B Founders of the Last Decade
From the product-led growth movement to the modern data stack, these are the B2B founders whose decisions shaped the industry playbook every company is now running from.
Founder Profiles11 min
06Sep 24, 2025
Intelligence Index
Top 5 Founders Who Bootstrapped to $100M+
The conventional wisdom says you need venture capital to build a meaningful company. These five founders built to $100M+ in revenue without taking a dollar of outside equity, and the decisions they made because of that constraint are worth studying.
Founder Profiles10 min
What an index should do
How this section earns its place.
An index works when it does more than collect names. It should reveal a structure, a logic, and a reason the reader should care.
Curated, Not Crowded
The list has to make a judgment, not just gather examples.
Structured
A reader should quickly understand why the entries belong together.
Reference-Grade
The best indexes keep getting cited because they framed the category clearly.