The tracker

Every market a small business buys in, mapped product by product.

52 defined markets holding 931 product dossiers, organized into the six jobs a small business hires software for. Each category has its own evaluation checklist, and every profile within it is compiled from primary sources and dated with its last editorial review. More categories are added each edition.

Outbound & Deliverability

Getting cold outreach sent, delivered, and answered.

Cold Email Outreach

Cold email outreach platforms let sales teams send personalized email campaigns to prospects at scale, with sending-account rotation, sequencing, and reply management.

Instantly logoSmartlead logolemlist logoWoodpecker logoEmelia logo20 products

Cold Email Infrastructure

Cold email infrastructure providers supply the sending layer underneath an outbound campaign: they register secondary domains, provision Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, or private mailboxes in bulk, write the SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records automatically, and hand the credentials to whichever sequencer you already use.

Maildoso logoMailforge logoPrimeforge logoZapmail logoInboxKit logo15 products

LinkedIn Outreach

LinkedIn outreach tools automate connection requests, messages, and profile interactions on LinkedIn, turning the network into a programmable prospecting channel.

Expandi logoHeyReach logoDripify logoWaalaxy logoLinked Helper logo19 products

Sales Engagement

Sales engagement platforms orchestrate multichannel selling across email, phone, LinkedIn, and tasks into structured sequences, with analytics and CRM sync for full-team pipelines.

Reply.io logoKlenty logoAmplemarket logoLa Growth Machine logoMixmax logo18 products

AI SDR Agents

AI SDR platforms run the research, list building, personalization, and sending steps of outbound prospecting autonomously, presenting themselves as a digital sales rep rather than a sequencing tool the user drives.

AiSDR logoAomni logoFloqer logoHumanlinker logoJeeva AI logo17 products

Email Deliverability & Warming

Email deliverability and warming tools build and protect sender reputation by exchanging positive engagement signals between real inboxes, and by monitoring where a sender's mail actually lands.

MailReach logoMailStrike logoFolderly logoWarmy logoInboxAlly logo23 products

Email Verification

Email verification services check whether an address exists and will accept mail before you send to it, removing invalid, disposable, and catch-all addresses that would otherwise bounce and damage sender reputation.

BounceBan logoBouncer logoEmailable logoMillionVerifier logoNeverBounce logo17 products

AI Voice Agents

AI voice agents hold real phone conversations using speech recognition, a language model, and synthetic speech, answering inbound calls or placing outbound ones to qualify, book, and route without a human on the line.

Bland AI logoElevenLabs Agents logoGoodcall logoMillis AI logoPhonely logo16 products

Data & Intelligence

Who to contact, who is in-market, and what the numbers say.

B2B Data Providers

B2B data providers supply the contact and company information (emails, phone numbers, firmographics, and buying signals) that feeds prospecting lists and enrichment workflows.

Apollo.io logoClay logoLusha logoFindymail logoLeadIQ logo26 products

Customer Segmentation

Customer segmentation tools group an existing customer base into targetable cohorts, using recency, frequency, and monetary behavior, lifetime value, and firmographic similarity, then push those segments into the email, ads, and CRM tools that act on them.

Segments by Tresl logoBy the Numbers logoRepeat Customer Insights logoMetrilo logoOcean.io logo9 products

Website Visitor Identification

Website visitor identification tools reveal which companies, and in some markets which individual people, are browsing a site anonymously, so a sales team can follow up on interest that never filled in a form.

Albacross logoLeadfeeder logoLeadpipe logoSnitcher logoVector logo19 products

Buying Signals & Intent

Buying signal platforms watch public and first-party events, job changes, hiring, funding, technology adoption, community activity, and product usage, then surface the accounts that just became worth contacting.

PredictLeads logoTrigify logoUnify logoWappalyzer logoWhiteWhale logo17 products

GTM Analytics

GTM analytics tools measure how go-to-market actually performs: where traffic and pipeline come from, what marketing touches contribute revenue, and what users do once they arrive.

Dreamdata logoFathom Analytics logoHockeyStack logoPlausible Analytics logoPostHog logo16 products

Product Analytics & Session Replay

Product analytics tools track what users do inside an application, funnels, retention, feature adoption, and session replay, so teams can see where activation breaks rather than guessing.

Amplitude logoMixpanel logoUXCam logoMatomo logoFlagsmith logo15 products

Forms & Surveys

Form and survey tools collect structured input from people, whether that is a lead capture form, a customer research survey, an application, or a payment.

Fillout logoFormbricks logoPaperform logoTally logoYouform logo23 products

GTM Engineering

GTM engineering tools are the build-it-yourself layer of the go-to-market stack: the workflow automation engines and search APIs that small teams wire into custom prospecting, enrichment, and reporting pipelines instead of buying another point solution.

Make logon8n logoSerper logoZapier logoActivepieces logo17 products

Customer Data Platforms

Customer data platforms and pipelines collect behavioral and customer events once, unify them into a single profile per person, and route that data to every downstream tool, warehouse, and ad platform that needs it.

Jitsu logoRudderStack logoAirbyte logoCensus logoCustomerLabs logo16 products

Call Tracking & Attribution

Call tracking platforms assign trackable phone numbers to campaigns, keywords, and pages so inbound calls can be attributed to the marketing that produced them, with recording, scoring, and conversion data pushed back to ad platforms.

CTM (CallTrackingMetrics) logoWhatConverts logoCallRail logoInvoca logoNimbata logo16 products

Client Reporting Dashboards

Client reporting platforms pull metrics from ad, analytics, SEO, social, and CRM sources into automated dashboards and scheduled white-label reports, replacing the monthly spreadsheet an agency assembles by hand.

AgencyAnalytics logoCyfe logoDashThis logoFunnel logoImprovado logo16 products

Sales Operations

Running the pipeline from first call to signed contract.

Sales CRM

Sales CRMs are the system of record for pipeline: they store every contact, company, and deal, and structure the follow-up work that turns conversations into revenue.

Attio logoClose logoCopper logofolk logoSalesflare logo23 products

Dialers & Business Phone

Sales dialers and business phone systems give a team numbers, call routing, and outbound dialing modes, with CRM logging so every conversation is captured against a record.

Aircall logoCloudTalk logoJustCall logoKixie logoPhoneBurner logo17 products

Conversation Intelligence

Conversation intelligence platforms record sales calls, transcribe them, and analyze the content for coaching, deal risk, and competitive mentions, turning the call archive into a searchable and scoreable dataset.

Avoma logoClaap logoDemodesk logoGrain logoRafiki logo16 products

AI Meeting Note Takers

AI meeting note takers join calls to record, transcribe, and summarize them, turning conversations into searchable notes, action items, and CRM updates without anyone typing.

Circleback logoFathom logoFireflies.ai logoGranola logotl;dv logo23 products

Scheduling & Booking

Scheduling tools replace the back-and-forth of finding a time by exposing real calendar availability as a bookable link, with routing, reminders, and payment collection built in.

Cal.com logoSavvyCal logoTidyCal logozcal logoMotion logo23 products

Proposals & E-signature

Proposal and e-signature tools turn quotes, statements of work, and contracts into trackable documents that a buyer can review and legally sign in a browser.

Better Proposals logoDocumenso logoProposify logoQwilr logoSignWell logo16 products

Sales Commissions

Sales commission software calculates variable pay from CRM data, publishes statements reps can verify, and gives finance an auditable trail in place of a spreadsheet.

QuotaPath logoSales Cookie logoCore Commissions logoKennect logoPalette logo14 products

Digital Sales Rooms

Digital sales rooms give each deal a single shared web page holding the proposal, demo recordings, pricing, mutual action plan, and every document a buying committee needs, with engagement tracking on who viewed what.

Aligned logoArrows logoBuyerstage logoDistribute logoDock logo16 products

Marketing Channels

Owned and paid channels that bring the demand in.

Email Service Providers

Email service providers are the platforms that store an audience and send it email at scale: list management, campaign editors, automation, and the sending infrastructure underneath.

beehiiv logoEmailOctopus logoKit logoLoops logoMailerLite logo22 products

Marketing Automation

Marketing automation platforms trigger messages and campaigns from customer behavior, moving people through lifecycle stages across email, in-app, SMS, and push without manual sends.

Bento logoCustomer.io logoDittofeed logoEncharge logoUserlist logo16 products

SMS Marketing

SMS marketing platforms send text campaigns and two-way conversations to opted-in subscribers, handling carrier registration, consent records, and compliance alongside segmentation and automation.

EZ Texting logoPostscript logoSakari logoSalesmsg logoSimpleTexting logo17 products

SEO & Content Marketing

SEO and content tools research what an audience searches for, guide how a page should be written to rank for it, and track where that page lands over time.

Clearscope logoFrase logoSEOTesting logoSurfer SEO logoRanktracker logo23 products

AI Writing & Content Generation

AI writing tools generate marketing copy, blog articles, and campaign assets from prompts and brand guidelines, adding workflow, brand voice controls, and team collaboration on top of a foundation model.

Anyword logoByword logoJasper logoKoala logoRelato logo18 products

Social Media Management

Social media management tools schedule and publish posts across networks from one queue, then report on what the audience did with them.

Buffer logoHypefury logoPubler logoTypefully logoPostiz logo22 products

Paid Ads Management

Paid ads management tools automate the operational work of running campaigns across Google, Meta, and LinkedIn, including rule-based optimization, creative testing, budget pacing, and cross-channel reporting.

Bïrch (formerly Revealbot) logoMadgicx logoAdalysis logoAdRoll logoAdzooma logo17 products

Local SEO & Listings

Local SEO tools manage business listings across directories and map platforms, track rankings by geographic point rather than by country, and audit the citation consistency that determines local map visibility.

BrightLocal logoWhitespark logoBirdeye logoChatmeter logoLocal Falcon logo16 products

PR & Media Outreach

PR and media outreach tools maintain journalist and podcast databases, pitch and distribute press releases, monitor coverage and brand mentions, and connect sources to reporters who are actively requesting them.

Agility PR Solutions logoAnewstip logoBrand24 logoEIN Presswire logoFeatured logo16 products

Influencer & Creator Marketing

Influencer marketing platforms search creator databases by audience and performance data, verify audience quality, manage outreach and contracts, and track the content, sales, and affiliate revenue a campaign produces.

Afluencer logoAspire logoCollabstr logoCreatorIQ logoGRIN logo15 products

Conversion & Content

Turning attention into pipeline with pages, events, and media.

Landing Page Builders

Landing page builders let marketing teams design, publish, and test campaign pages visually, without waiting on engineering to ship a route.

Carrd logoFramer logoUnbounce logoLandingi logoUmso logo23 products

Webinars & Virtual Events

Webinar platforms run live or automated online presentations with registration pages, attendee engagement tools, and post-event analytics that feed marketing and sales follow-up.

Contrast logoDemio logoeWebinar logoLivestorm logoRiverside logo17 products

Async Video Messaging

Async video messaging tools record a screen and camera into a shareable link with viewing analytics, so sellers and support teams can explain something once and send it rather than booking a call.

Bonjoro logoBubbles logoDubb logoHippo Video logoLoom logo17 products

Corporate Gifting & Direct Mail

Gifting and direct mail platforms send physical items, handwritten notes, and digital gift choices to prospects and customers, with address collection, spend controls, and CRM tracking built in.

Handwrytten logoLob logoScribeless logoSimply Noted logoGiftpack logo18 products

Affiliate & Referral Programs

Affiliate and referral software tracks who sent a customer, attributes the resulting revenue, and pays the referrer, turning word of mouth into a measurable acquisition channel.

FirstPromoter logoRewardful logoTolt logoAffonso logoReditus logo18 products

CRO & Experimentation

Conversion rate optimization and experimentation tools show how visitors actually behave on a site through heatmaps and session recordings, then let teams test changes with A/B and multivariate experiments before committing to them.

LogRocket logoMicrosoft Clarity logoStatsig logoOpenReplay logoMouseflow logo20 products

Lead Capture & Popups

Lead capture tools convert existing website traffic into contacts using popups, slide-ins, banners, and gamified offers, triggered by behavior such as exit intent, scroll depth, or time on page.

Claspo logoConvertful logoGetsitecontrol logoHello Bar logoJustuno logo16 products

Customer & Revenue

Supporting, keeping, and billing the customers you win.

Customer Support Platforms

Customer support platforms consolidate email, live chat, and help-center content into shared inboxes and ticket queues, so a small team can answer customers without dropping conversations.

Chatwoot logoCrisp logoHelp Scout logoPlain logoTidio logo27 products

Product Onboarding & PLG

Product onboarding tools add tours, checklists, tooltips, and in-app messages to a product without shipping code, so teams can guide activation and announce features on their own.

Appcues logoChameleon logoUserpilot logoProduct Fruits logoUserflow logo25 products

Notification Infrastructure

Notification infrastructure platforms sit between an application and its delivery providers, turning one API call into orchestrated in-app, email, push, SMS, and chat notifications with batching, digests, preference centres, and per-tenant routing, so product teams stop rebuilding that logic in application code.

Courier logoKnock logoNovu logoOneSignal logoMagicBell logo9 products

Retention & Churn Prevention

Retention tools watch subscription and usage data for accounts at risk, then intervene with cancel flows, failed-payment recovery, health scores, and lifecycle outreach to keep revenue that was about to leave.

Baremetrics logoChartMogul logoChurn Buster logoChurnkey logoPaddle Retain logo17 products

Testimonials & Social Proof

Testimonial and social proof software collects written and video customer praise, then publishes it to a site as embeddable walls, widgets, and structured review markup.

Endorsal logoFamewall logoFomo logoProveSource logoSenja logo18 products

Community Platforms

Community platforms host a branded space for customers or an audience to talk to each other and to the company, usually combining discussion, events, courses, and paid membership.

Bettermode logoCircle logoDiscourse logoHeartbeat logoMighty Networks logo17 products

Subscription Billing

Subscription billing platforms handle recurring charges, plans, invoicing, dunning, and tax, either as a layer on a payment processor or as a merchant of record that takes on tax and compliance liability.

Creem logoDodo Payments logoLemon Squeezy logoPaddle logoPolar logo17 products

Team & Hiring

Building the team that runs everything above.