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How we review says App Builder Index launched in 2026. Sixty four of our sixty six contributor profiles said their author joined before it. An audit found impossible dates on 1,221 records across four tables, none of...
Owen Pryce ·
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The earliest read May 14, 2026 on a domain that was not registered until August 19, 2026. An internal audit found pre-launch stamps on 15 of our 17 articles, in the visible byline and in the structured data underneath...
Owen Pryce ·
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Three vendors adjusted their metering in the last quarter and two added a spend ceiling. The pattern suggests buyer pushback is landing.
Owen Pryce ·
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Its vendor announced the closure on May 15, 2026 and paid plans can no longer be bought. We had a review drafted with a 4.1 on value. Here is why we are publishing this instead.
Owen Pryce ·
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The domain resolves, the site returns 200, the logo is unchanged and the product is entirely different. Every automated check we run passed on a company that replaced its whole product.
Ines Varela ·
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The acquisition did not slow the product down, which is not what usually happens. It also did not improve the one thing buyers keep asking about.
Marta Ferran ·
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Every builder in this index ships a benchmark page claiming category leadership. We used to cite them. Here is why we built our own six briefs instead, and what changed once we did.
Tom Brackett ·
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What started as eleven tools at launch is thirty-three today. Widening the index surfaced a bug in how we rolled axis scores into the overall rating, and we have corrected it across every row.
Owen Pryce ·
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App Builder Index opens with eleven published reviews, ten scoring axes, a published weighting and a dissenting view on every single verdict.
Marta Ferran ·
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A year ago programmable access was a developer nicety. Our reviewers now cite it as a reason to switch, and the spread across the index is enormous. Updated 20 August 2026: seven vendors now publish an MCP server, so...
Daniel Okonkwo ·