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Motion updates credit pricing as Jasper broadens platform scope

Perplexity adds Comet iOS and multimodal Deep Research; C3 AI pushes MCP-backed integrations

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v2-fresh-083 · 2026-07-17 · daily change-intelligence on agentic tools

Motion updates credit pricing as Jasper broadens platform scope

Today’s site changes point in the same direction: vendors are hardening how the product is bought and where it plugs in. Motion now shows credit-based pricing with a 7,500 credits/seat/month tier and explicit per-credit rates, which makes usage economics easier to model. Jasper has rewritten its homepage around an end-to-end AI marketing platform, while Perplexity Computer is surfacing Comet iOS, multimodal Deep Research, and Health Computer. For operators, the check is simple: pricing, platform breadth, and integration surface are moving together, so validate whether the tool’s new packaging still matches the workflow you need.

What changed on the ground

Changes we detected on each tool's own pages — pricing, features, platform reach — via our daily crawls. Often ahead of any press coverage; each links to the scored listing.

Motion Pricing change
14/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Motion updates pricing with new credit allocations and per-credit rates — Motion’s pricing section changed to show updated plan contents and credit-based pricing, including a 7,500 credits/seat/month tier and explicit 25 cents/100 credits and 19 cents/100 credits rates.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-07-17 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
C3 AI Platform expansion
3/36 · Reactive Tool
C3 AI expands its agentic platform with MCP-backed integrations and new sales… — C3 AI’s site now emphasizes the C3 Agentic AI Platform and a new sales-oriented AI experience, including MCP-backed connectivity to CRM, MAP, analytics, Slack, and other third-party systems.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-07-16 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
Jasper Repositioning
11/36 · Guided Assistant
Jasper refreshes homepage around an end-to-end AI marketing platform — Jasper’s homepage has been substantially rewritten to position the product as a broader marketing execution system, foregrounding Agents, Content Pipelines, Jasper IQ, GEO & AI Optimization, and new platform surfaces like Jasper MCP, Image…
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-07-17 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
Perplexity Computer Feature launch
18/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Perplexity updates Computer with Comet iOS, multimodal Deep Research… — Perplexity’s Computer/enterprise landing page now highlights a new wave of product updates, including Comet iOS, broader Computer improvements for individuals and enterprise, multimodal Deep Research, and Health Computer.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-07-17 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
Reclaim AI Pricing change
9/36 · Guided Assistant
Reclaim AI launches a switching providers discount with 20% off for 6 months — Reclaim added a new pricing promotion page for customers switching from Calendly, Clockwise, Motion, or another smart calendar app, offering 20% off for 6 months and an FAQ clarifying eligibility.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-07-16 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
HyperWrite Pricing change
5/36 · Reactive Tool
HyperWrite updates plans and replaces TypeAheads with AI Messages, custom… — HyperWrite appears to have reworked its product/pricing messaging: plan copy now emphasizes AI Messages instead of TypeAheads, adds 10 custom personas and first access to experimental features, and surfaces annual pricing for the tiers.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-07-16 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.

What's new in the directory

Lineation New listing
14/36 · Guided Assistant
Lineation is an agent security platform that monitors, governs, and defends AI workflows across tools and providers. It meters pricing by protected agent actions, with plans for prototypes, teams, and enterprise deployments.
Source: published listing, rubric-scored on ingest.
LatticeFlow AI New listing
2/36 · Reactive Tool
LatticeFlow AI helps machine learning teams inspect vision datasets and model behavior to find quality issues. It appears aimed at ML engineers, data analysts, and quality control teams working on computer vision systems.
Source: published listing, rubric-scored on ingest.
Agent Ops Patterns New listing
5/36 · Reactive Tool
A small open-source collection of production patterns for running LLM agents more safely. It focuses on redacting secret-shaped text, checking agent memory integrity, and testing prompt or skill changes before they regress.
Source: published listing, rubric-scored on ingest.

From Agentic-News.ai

Agentic-AI industry signal we're tracking — launches, releases, and research from across the ecosystem. The directory rubric hasn't scored these yet; awareness now, evaluation next pass.

social.plus product launch
social.plus launched Vise on July 14, 2026 as a governance layer for AI-assisted SDK integration. The company says the tool turns a build that compiles into a checked record a reviewer can verify. For those tracking agentic AI product launches, this addresses one of the biggest blockers for autonomous coding systems: proof that the work actually works. The useful twist is that Vise focuses on trust evidence, not just code generation speed.
Via Agentic-News.ai — WBOC TV-16. Read: https://www.wboc.com/online_features/press_releases/social-plus-launches-vise-workflow-governance-for-ai-coding-agents-building-sdk-integrations-with-social/article_59fc96f9-7926-5ab0-a209-fc925158baa9.html
InstaLILY AI product launch
InstaLILY AI has announced a $60 million Series B round led by Energize Capital, with participation from Insight Partners and new strategic investors. The company also launched Lily, which it calls the world's first AI Forward Deployed Engineer. For those tracking agentic AI, this combines fresh capital with a product aimed at real workflow execution across several industries. The standout detail is the claim that Lily is already tied to 5x revenue growth.
Via Agentic-News.ai — FinanzNachrichten.de. Read: https://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-2026-07/69023207-instalily-raises-dollar-60-million-series-b-and-launches-lily-the-world-s-first-ai-forward-deployed-engineer-200.htm
Markifact product launch
Markifact launched a Google Ads MCP server that connects campaign data with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other MCP-compatible assistants. The service lets marketers analyze performance and manage campaigns while keeping human approval on account changes. For those tracking agentic AI products, this is a concrete sign that tool-using assistants are moving into paid ad workflows. The catch is that the agents can act, but the user still has the final say before anything changes live.
Via Agentic-News.ai — Barchart.com. Read: https://www.barchart.com/story/news/3256395/markifact-launches-google-ads-mcp-server-for-claude-and-chatgpt-with-human-approved-changes

Biggest movers this week

Listings with the largest week-over-week jump in outbound-click interest

  • Aider · +3.6% week-over-week. Aider helps you edit code from the terminal with an AI model connected to your codebase. It runs locally in your repo and can work with models from providers like xAI using an API key.

Biggest declines this week

Listings with the largest week-over-week drop in outbound-click interest

  • Wingman by Emergent · -34.9% week-over-week. Wingman is a messaging-first autonomous AI agent by Emergent. It connects to your email, calendar, Slack, CRM, and GitHub, then handles scheduling, research, sales support, and admin tasks through WhatsApp and Telegram conversations.
  • Cline · -19.6% week-over-week. Cline is an AI coding assistant for VS Code that can inspect your project, edit files, run terminal commands, and use a browser while asking for permission at each step. It is aimed at developers working on real codebases who want more than code completion.
  • Windsurf · -17.5% week-over-week. Windsurf Editor is an AI-powered IDE for developers that blends chat, autocomplete, and agentic code actions into the editor itself. It’s available for Mac, Windows, and Linux, and is aimed at speeding up day-to-day coding work on real codebases.
  • Manus · -16.7% week-over-week. Manus turns plain-English ideas into production-ready websites and internal apps. It’s aimed at teams that want to launch full-stack products without engineering resources.

Agenticness Leaderboard

This week's most-clicked tools, re-ranked by rubric score. The score is the editorial signal; the popularity is what drew the directory's traffic here this week.

  • Cline · 19/36 · Domain Specialist · L3

Cline is an AI coding assistant for VS Code that can inspect your project, edit files, run terminal commands, and use a browser while asking for permission at each step. It is aimed at developers working on real codebases who want more than code completion.

GitHub Copilot helps you write, review, and adapt code directly in GitHub, your IDE, and the terminal. It supports everything from inline suggestions to agentic coding workflows with broader model choices and enterprise controls.

  • Windsurf · 19/36 · Domain Specialist · L3

Windsurf Editor is an AI-powered IDE for developers that blends chat, autocomplete, and agentic code actions into the editor itself. It’s available for Mac, Windows, and Linux, and is aimed at speeding up day-to-day coding work on real codebases.

  • Cursor · 18/36 · Adaptive Collaborator · L2

Cursor is a developer-focused AI environment that adds agents, context, and automation around your repositories. It combines an editor-like interface, a CLI, and a cloud agent API to automate code review, bug fixing, CI hygiene, and more. Designed for individual developers and engineering teams who want AI to take real actions in their code and infrastructure, not just chat.

Wingman is a messaging-first autonomous AI agent by Emergent. It connects to your email, calendar, Slack, CRM, and GitHub, then handles scheduling, research, sales support, and admin tasks through WhatsApp and Telegram conversations.

What operators are searching for this week

A week's demand signal — what operators are typing into the directory's search. Suggestion-chip defaults + off-topic / greetings filtered.

  • "AI agent to triage and reply to my email inbox"
  • "best coding agent for a large existing codebase"
  • "tools to automate customer support ticket triage"
  • "AI agent that can browse the web and fill out forms"
  • "self-hosted open-source AI agents I can run locally"

Learn: Tool Use

Tool use is when a model does more than generate text. It calls something outside itself - a search API, a database query, a calendar service, a file editor - then reads the result and decides the next step. Imagine a support agent asked, "What’s the status of order 4821?" The model doesn’t guess. It calls the order system, gets back the shipment state, then replies with the actual status. If the record shows a delay, it may call a second tool to check the carrier or draft a follow-up email. The key point is simple: the model can act on live information, not just memory.

What agentic AI actually means →

One tool worth testing

Today's signal didn't produce a clear single-tool pick worth a test session. Tomorrow's read picks it back up.

Our pick: Claude Code

The use case: coding agents.

Tops our independent /36 — strongest on action and autonomy, narrowly ahead of Cursor. Subscription.

Ranked by our 9-dimension Agenticness rubric — not by who pays us (nobody does). The full scorecard, true-cost pricing, and the reliability evidence behind every score are in the report.

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