Methodology

AgenticArtists is an evidence-first directory, not an audited financial database. We preserve the founder's reported metric, classify its time basis, and only use an amount in annual-revenue comparisons when the evidence supports that comparison.

1. Classification rules

Every published listing keeps a human-readable revenue field. During the provenance migration, a structured source-backed claim takes precedence; records without one use the conservative legacy parser and are tracked as legacy-parsed internally.

1. Structured claims first — When a source-backed revenue claim has a metric and time period, the directory uses that claim instead of re-parsing the prose field.
2. Annual revenue — Annual revenue is used as reported. A monthly revenue or MRR claim is annualized by multiplying the monthly amount by 12.
3. Ranges — A monthly range such as $15K–$20K/month uses the midpoint and is labeled as an annualized reported metric.
4. Legacy parsing during migration — Listings without structured claims still use the conservative legacy parser. Their aggregate contribution is marked as legacy-parsed internally until provenance is backfilled.

2. What is excluded

These metrics may remain visible as editorial context, but they do not become reported annual revenue:

• Funding and capital raised
• Profit rather than revenue
• Lifetime transactions or sales
• Valuation
• Transaction volume or GMV
• Unspecified or unrelated prior-business figures

When no comparable claim is supported, the profile and ranking surfaces say Not publicly reported rather than converting an unsupported amount into a tier. On the leaderboard, those entries show — instead of #N for the same reason.

3. Evidence and provenance

We record the source URL, source type, observation date, attribution, metric, period, and review status whenever available.

1. Named third-party reporting or case studies
2. Founder interviews and podcasts with a date
3. Founder or company first-party publication
4. Self-reported submission with a public source

A source is not automatically proof of qualification. We separately check founder identity, current operating-team size, AI-native operation, business-specific revenue, and duplicate identity.

Business profiles expose a Sources & evidence trail for evidence that has crossed the publication boundary. It links directly to qualified public sources and labels founder/company-reported evidence separately from independently verified evidence. Sources still marked needs-review or rejected remain internal research state and are not published in that trail.

The evidence directory can also be filtered by public source type and reordered by source count or latest observation date. Those are provenance and research-coverage views only. A source's observation date is when AgenticArtists recorded or checked that source; it is not necessarily the date a financial claim was true, and a newer observation does not automatically make the underlying claim newer or more reliable.

4. Review and corrections

Evidence is dated and can become stale. We do not silently rewrite unsupported claims. Founders and readers can request a correction, update, or removal through the submission workflow; requests are reviewed separately from publication data.

See Terms of Service, §3 for the accuracy disclaimer, or submit an update with a public source.