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Today’s open calls

DATED. STAKED. GRADED. EVERY CALL FROZEN AT ISSUE — MISSES STAY ON THE BOOKS.
CALL-0001 · ISSUED 2026-07-14 · FROZEN AT ISSUE

Cognee crosses 28,500 GitHub stars by Jul 27.

Why it matters: The memory-layer race runs on funding and star velocity, not invoices. Cognee has led the track's weekly star gains since we started counting — this call tests whether the sprint is momentum or a spike.

CONF 70% STRONG — the clerk’s confidence, not a guarantee RESOLVES 2026-07-27 · T−13 DAYS [3P] GitHub public star count via daily snapshot
BASELINE AT ISSUE: 27,650 on 2026-07-13 · NO DATA ON VERDICT DAY → UNRESOLVED
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CALL-0002 · ISSUED 2026-07-14 · FROZEN AT ISSUE

OpusClip's sitemap passes 7,700 pages by Jul 28.

Why it matters: The captions frontrunner is mid-way through a German localization push (+290 pages in the last tracked week). If the pace holds, it's a real international land-grab; if it stalls, the push was a batch job, not a strategy.

CONF 65% LEAN — the clerk’s confidence, not a guarantee RESOLVES 2026-07-28 · T−14 DAYS [3P] sitemap.xml page count via daily snapshot
BASELINE AT ISSUE: 7,474 on 2026-07-13 · NO DATA ON VERDICT DAY → UNRESOLVED
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CALL-0003 · ISSUED 2026-07-14 · FROZEN AT ISSUE

Submagic's entry price is still $12/mo on Aug 11.

Why it matters: The captions track is racing to the bottom on price. Submagic holding its floor while rivals cut would mean it believes the API pivot — not discounting — is the way out.

CONF 60% LEAN — the clerk’s confidence, not a guarantee RESOLVES 2026-08-11 · T−28 DAYS [3P] pricing page via daily snapshot
BASELINE AT ISSUE: $12 on 2026-07-13, unchanged since 2026-06-27 baseline · NO DATA ON VERDICT DAY → UNRESOLVED
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CALL-0004 · ISSUED 2026-07-14 · FROZEN AT ISSUE

Submagic publishes a public API/usage pricing tier by Aug 9.

Why it matters: On Jul 10 its homepage flipped to 'Submagic API is live'. A headline without a price is a promise, not a product — 30 days is enough time to show the meter.

CONF 60% LEAN — the clerk’s confidence, not a guarantee RESOLVES 2026-08-09 · T−26 DAYS [3P] homepage diff 2026-07-10 via daily snapshot
BASELINE AT ISSUE: No API pricing public as of 2026-07-13 · NO DATA ON VERDICT DAY → MISS — silence past the line counts as not shipped
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The boards — 21 under daily watch · 4 in the graveyard

BoardTrackStatusTraction
Goldfish
Local-first Mac AI memory layer — one keystroke and it knows what you're working on
AI Memory LayerWATCHING882 Product Hunt votes (day #1) [3P]
Unabyss
MCP-native personal context hub — feed every AI from one store
AI Memory LayerWATCHING659 PH votes (day #1) + ElevenLabs grant [3P]
Publora
Natural-language social publishing for AI agents, 10 platforms
AI Social PublishingWATCHING677 PH votes · paid plans from $2.99 [3P]
Meerkats.ai
AI revenue agent that auto-fixes paid conversion funnels
AI Marketing AgentsWATCHING$3k MRR in first 4 weeks [FDR]
Chatbase
Train a custom ChatGPT support bot on your own data
AI Support BotsPROVEN$8M+ ARR · 8,000 paying customers [FDR]+[3P]
PhotoAI
Upload selfies, get studio-grade AI photos
AI HeadshotsPROVEN$132k MRR (~$1.6M annualized, 87% margin) [FDR]
Submagic CHALLENGER
AI captions, silence-cutting and auto-editing for short-form video
AI Video CaptionsPROVEN$8M ARR · 4M+ users [FDR]+[3P]
Coqui AI
Commercial AI voice synthesis and cloning from the ex-Mozilla speech team
AI Voice CloningGRAVEYARD$3.3M raised (single round) [FDR]
Dot
An AI companion app that deepens the relationship over time
AI CompanionsGRAVEYARD24k tracked downloads (claimed 'hundred [3P]
Cydoc
AI-native EHR with automated intake and clinical notes
AI Medical EHRGRAVEYARD$265k crowdfunded + $50k grants [FDR]
Aragon
Selfies to professional headshots — strong B2B angle
AI HeadshotsPROVEN$10M ARR (2025-04) · 2M users [FDR]+[3P]
HeadshotPro
Solo-built professional LinkedIn-style headshots
AI HeadshotsPROVEN$300k MRR incl. $50k/mo via affiliates (2024 [3P]
BetterPic
Professional headshot studio that started as a side project
AI HeadshotsPROVEN$270k MRR (2025) · bootstrapped to $3M, then [FDR]+[3P]
Secta
200+ high-res headshots per session, with post-generation editing
AI HeadshotsPROVEN~$1.2M ARR (GetLatka 2025) [3P]
AvatarAI
One of the first AI avatar sites — folded into PhotoAI
AI HeadshotsGRAVEYARDUNKNOWN [3P]
OpusClip FRONTRUNNER
Long video to viral shorts with an AI virality score
AI Video CaptionsPROVEN$10.3M ARR (2025) · 10M users · $68M raised [FDR]+[3P]
Quso CHALLENGER+REBRAND
Long-form video to short content automation (formerly Vidyo.ai)
AI Video CaptionsPROVEN4M users (pre-rename) [3P]
Klap BOOTSTRAPPER
Video to viral Shorts with virality-potential scoring
AI Video CaptionsWATCHINGUNKNOWN — claims substantial self-funded rev [3P]
Vizard SPECIALIST
Webinars and podcasts to clips — B2B-leaning
AI Video CaptionsWATCHINGUNKNOWN [3P]
Choppity LONGSHOT
Indie long-video-to-clips tool with free-tool hooks
AI Video CaptionsWATCHINGUNKNOWN [3P]
Mem0
Universal memory-layer API for AI agents
AI Memory LayerPROVEN$24M raised · 59k+ GitHub stars · 186M API c [FDR]+[3P]
Letta
MemGPT commercialized — stateful agent memory
AI Memory LayerPROVEN$10M raised @ $70M valuation · 22k+ stars [FDR]+[3P]
Supermemory
LLM memory engine and API, plus a Chrome extension, built at 19
AI Memory LayerPROVEN$3M raised · 28k+ stars [FDR]+[3P]
BasicMemory
Local-first MCP that saves AI chats as a Markdown graph
AI Memory LayerWATCHING3.3k stars · Cloud $15/seat [3P]
Cognee
Open-source AI memory that turns data into knowledge graphs
AI Memory LayerPROVEN$7.5M raised (2026-02) · 12k+ stars [3P]