Relay shutdown makes workflow continuity an immediate check
Relay’s shutdown includes permanent deletion of user accounts, workflows, and run history. That makes continuity an immediate check for any team that depended on Relay to hold process logic or operational evidence. At the same time, LangChain is positioning LangSmith Engine around metered agent operations and reliability, while Collate 2.0 adds agentic AI, AI Studio, and enterprise MCP to its data-team pitch. Audit Relay-dependent processes for retained workflow definitions and historical records, then assess whether your replacement exposes the production controls you need.
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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.
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13/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Relay.app shuts down and permanently deletes user accounts and workflows — Relay.app has shut down. The company says all accounts, workflows, and run history were permanently deleted, with an archived version of the July 2026 homepage available via the Internet Archive.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-09-24 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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13/36 · Adaptive Collaborator
Collate launches Collate 2.0 with agentic AI, AI Studio, and enterprise MCP… — Collate has substantially repositioned its platform around agentic AI for enterprise data teams.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-09-23 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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9/36 · Guided Assistant
LILT Repositions Around Multilingual Agentic AI and Model Development — LILT has substantially overhauled its site to position the company beyond translation workflows, highlighting autonomous agents, multilingual model evaluation, supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, agent behavior testing, AI mode…
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-09-24 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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12/36 · Guided Assistant
Clay substantially revises plans, pricing, and usage-based packaging — Clay has reworked its pricing structure, lowering the entry point to $54/month for 180,000 annual actions and introducing revised action-based and data-credit plans.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-09-23 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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10/36 · Guided Assistant
LangChain launches LangSmith Engine with metered agent operations… — LangChain’s site now prominently introduces LangSmith Engine, positioning it as an agent production and reliability product.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-09-24 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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8/36 · Guided Assistant
Canva previews Canva AI 2.0 with conversational creation, web research… — Canva’s updated AI page introduces Canva AI 2.0 as a conversational creative partner that can generate and edit designs, connect to external tools, run web research, learn a user’s style, and schedule recurring design tasks.
Source: the tool's own site — detected 2026-09-23 by agentic.ai's daily recrawl.
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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.
- Hyper · 22/36 · Domain Specialist · L3
Hyper is a cloud-based autonomous software engineering platform for turning product objectives into tested code in your GitHub repositories. It plans work, runs parallel agent sessions in isolated lanes, verifies results server-side, and can open pull requests or deploy supported projects.
- Sinatra · 21/36 · Domain Specialist · L3
Sinatra is an autonomous coding agent that takes work from Linear or GitHub, reads the relevant repository, writes a change, runs tests, and opens a draft pull request. Teams review the result in GitHub and can request follow-up changes in the PR thread.
Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal. It understands your entire codebase, makes multi-file edits, runs commands, manages git workflows, and uses MCP for tool integration. Built with a Unix philosophy — it reads, plans, edits, and verifies in a loop. The fastest-growing product in the coding agent category.
- 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.
- Cline · 18/36 · Adaptive Collaborator · L2
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.
Learn: Safety: are there guardrails, permissions, and a way to undo what it did?
Safety is about whether an agent can act without creating messes you can’t control. A safe system has clear permissions, asks before sensitive actions, limits what it can touch, and keeps logs or rollback options so you can reverse a bad step. That separates an agent from a chatbot with a polished wrapper: the wrapper can draft an email, but a safer agent knows when it may send, edit, or delete, and when it must stop and ask. One concrete check - look for action-level permissions and an audit trail. If a tool can’t show who approved what, what it changed, and how to undo it, treat its autonomy as weak.
How our 9-dimension rubric works →
One tool worth testing
Clay — Clay is worth testing for revenue teams building automated prospecting and enrichment workflows. Its revised packaging lowers entry pricing to $54/month for 180,000 annual actions while replacing the prior structure with action-based and data-credit plans, creating a concrete cost-model change rather than a cosmetic plan refresh. In a 30-minute pilot, run one representative enrichment sequence and compare action consumption, data-credit use, and monthly cost against your current workflow tool.
Our pick: Claude Code
The use case: coding agents.
Tops our independent /36 — the tiebreaker over Cursor: Continuity 3 vs 1. Pricing: Per-seat (usage per member, NOT pooled).
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.
Read the full report →
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