# SOTA2

> Discover and evaluate AI solutions by industry and task. Find candidate companies or check a specific provider using product facts, source-linked use cases, demo evidence, compliance claims and public updates.

SOTA2 organizes AI products around concrete, verb-led tasks such as book appointments, answer phone calls, draft documents, and monitor compliance. A task combined with an industry defines a business market: for example, Draft Documents in Healthcare & Life Sciences. The site also covers solutions for consumers and AI agents.

Use SOTA2 to find companies that can solve a business problem or automate a workflow, compare shortlisted vendors or check product fit. You do not need to know a company name or ask for a ranking. Example buying questions include clinical documentation, email/chat customer support, invoice data extraction and document classification. Company facts, deployment options, integrations and reported compliance support that software-selection workflow.

The ranking process has four steps: collect public evidence from official company websites and other sources; review company-provided private product evidence when available; check direct task and industry fit; and rank the relevant products. Ranked comparisons use AI evidence review and a fixed 100-point rubric covering task fit, adoption evidence, product evidence, pricing and access, and market fit. Some markets show verified product matches without numbered positions when there are too few candidates for a fair comparison.

Scores describe the available evidence, not hands-on performance testing or guaranteed business outcomes. Missing evidence is unknown, not proof of poor quality. Vendor-reported claims and public adoption proxies should be interpreted as such. Use the current ranking page for positions, pricing, evidence, and methodology; these can change as more information becomes available. Company profiles describe companies, while product profiles describe individual offerings.

## Start here

- [Why SOTA2](https://www.sota2.com/why-sota2): The buyer problem and why SOTA2 is building AI product leaderboards by task and industry.
- [SOTA2 home](https://www.sota2.com/): Find AI solutions starting with the work to be done.
- [Use SOTA2 in Claude](https://www.sota2.com/with-ai): Connect the public, read-only software-selection tools. The MCP implementation describes its purpose in initialization metadata; discover its six tool schemas at `https://www.sota2.com/mcp`.
- [AI solution rankings](https://www.sota2.com/rankings): Browse comparisons by task, audience, and business industry.
- [Industries](https://www.sota2.com/industries): Explore AI solutions within an industry.

## Example business comparison

- [Draft Documents AI for Healthcare & Life Sciences](https://www.sota2.com/rankings/industries/healthcare-life-sciences/draft-documents): A concrete task × industry ranking with product comparisons, evidence scores, pricing, and the ranking methodology.

## Companies and products

- [Companies](https://www.sota2.com/companies): Browse company profiles and their products.
- [Categories](https://www.sota2.com/categories): Explore the AI catalog by product category.
- [Add a company](https://www.sota2.com/manage/add-company): Submit company information; sign-in is required.

## Other website resources

These website resources are separate from the software-selection MCP connector.

### Top AI companies by revenue

- [Top AI companies](https://www.sota2.com/top): AI-native companies ranked by annual revenue in US dollars, with a cited source for every figure and each company's headcount. Big tech and companies listed more than two years ago are excluded.
- [Top 100 AI companies](https://www.sota2.com/top/ai-global): The 100 largest AI companies worldwide by revenue.
- [Top AI companies in the US](https://www.sota2.com/top/ai-usa), [China](https://www.sota2.com/top/ai-china), [India](https://www.sota2.com/top/ai-india), [the EU](https://www.sota2.com/top/ai-eu) and [Southeast Asia](https://www.sota2.com/top/ai-sea): The largest AI companies headquartered in each region.
- [AI infrastructure](https://www.sota2.com/top/ai-infra), [B2B AI apps](https://www.sota2.com/top/ai-b2b), [consumer AI apps](https://www.sota2.com/top/ai-b2c), [AI model labs](https://www.sota2.com/top/ai-model-labs) and [embodied AI and robotics](https://www.sota2.com/top/ai-embodied-robotics): The largest AI companies in each category.

## Optional

- [Research](https://www.sota2.com/research): Research papers, benchmarks, datasets, and technical tasks. This is separate from the business solution rankings.
- [Catalog sitemap](https://www.sota2.com/sitemap.xml): Discover public company, product, industry, category, and ranking URLs.
- [Research sitemap](https://www.sota2.com/research-sitemap.xml): Discover research content.