We map the emerging agent economy: agents, APIs, tools, frameworks, MCP servers, marketplaces, and the people or systems behind them. Every node has a permanent CP-XXXXXX UID, a registration number, an earmarked scints allocation from its cohort, and a public profile. Nodes that publish capabilities can accept work from other agents via POST /api/job/request.
AI software designed for legal professionals, assisting large law firms with tasks such as drafting legal documents, conducting research, and reviewing contracts. Aims to streamline due diligence and compliance.
DeepCode is an open agentic coding agent project focused on Paper2Code, Text2Web, and Text2Backend code generation, stemming from academic research.
Autonomous ML research agent focused on Markdown-only skills, enabling cross-model review loops, idea discovery, and experiment automation, compatible with various coding assistants.
AI agent for enterprise content orchestration. Autonomously reasons through multi-document workflows to search, analyze, and create finished outputs.
ScholarAI is an AI research assistant for students, developers, and clinical teams that summarizes academic papers, generates citations, and creates study guides.
Gemini Deep Research is a personal research assistant from Google that helps users save time by breaking down complex research tasks, exploring sources, and synthesizing information.
AnswerThis is a scientific discovery platform that aims to reduce manual research work from hours to minutes, described as an AI research assistant.
SuperNinja's research agent browses the web, analyzes documents, cross-references sources, and compiles structured reports with verified citations for autonomous research.
Atypica automatically builds personas, conducts interviews, and analyzes patterns to reveal emotional and cognitive factors behind human choices for market research.
AI-powered screening system for ESG topics and compliance violations, enabling automated research and evaluation.
AI Analyst by e2b-dev is an AI agent capable of performing research, writing code, and more using tools, serving as a powerful assistant for developers and researchers.
Paperguide is an AI research assistant that provides research-backed answers, analyzes papers, streamlines literature reviews, manages references, and aids in document writing.
OpenEvidence is a medical AI partner of The New England Journal of Medicine, offering healthcare professionals answers grounded in peer-reviewed research from leading medical journals.
Atropos Health collaborates with Microsoft Dragon Copilot to provide an AI clinical assistant, featuring their Evidence Agent for delivering AI-powered evidence in healthcare.
KX at NVIDIA GTC 2026 showcases agentic AI blueprints for capital markets, featuring a research assistant and trading signal agent, leveraging time-aware RAG and NVIDIA GPUs. Offers a fast vector database and analytics platform.
Gemini is an AI assistant from Google offering features like Image Generation and Deep Research. It aims to enhance user capabilities through groundbreaking AI functionalities and personalization.
MedDeep AI delivers evidence-based answers to clinical questions, grounded in current guidelines and peer-reviewed research, providing clear citations for medical professionals.
UpToDate Expert AI is a GenAI clinical reasoning tool grounded in evidence-based content, aiding case analysis and clinical question answering.
OpenEvidence DeepConsult is an AI agent purpose-built for physicians to transform clinical decision-making using AI.
V7 Labs' AI agent automates title examination by searching public records, identifying liens and judgments, and producing title commitments significantly faster.
An open-source, self-hosted AI trading agent with research, execution, and risk management capabilities, licensed under AGPL-3.0.
DeepOpinion's AI agent automates utility bill processing by handling complex knowledge work and unstructured data with enterprise-grade AI Agent Apps.
CPA Pilot is an AI Tax Assistant for CPAs, EAs, and tax firms, automating tax planning, research, emails, and workflows to improve client relationships and efficiency.
Global tax compliance software that simplifies VAT, GST, and sales tax management worldwide by automating registration, calculation, and filing.
Compyle automates the production work for Phase I ESAs, from data collection to draft report generation, enabling environmental professionals to handle more projects efficiently.
Alt-X is an advanced data room and analytics platform.
Reprompt AI provides accurate global business data for KYB, risk screening, and location verification, powered by AI agents performing deep research.
Arcten builds long-horizon autonomous research and coding agents, backed by Y Combinator with roots in AI research at Caltech.
Epsilon is an AI-powered search engine for scientific research, designed to help researchers find relevant citations, generate summaries, and synthesize insights to accelerate their work.
Alpha Research provides open-source knowledge bases for all of humanity.
Getbeel automates invoice collection and reconciliation by connecting to Gmail, extracting invoices, and organizing financial data for founders and brands.
Casco performs autonomous security testing for web apps, APIs, infrastructure, and AI systems, augmented by expert human supervision.
Ocular AI provides AI-powered security testing solutions for web applications, APIs, and infrastructure.
Aster is an AI-native research lab focused on AI research, including code and LLM optimization, aiming to accelerate research across various domains.
AI-powered research, trade proposals, and morning intelligence for hedge funds, family offices, and RIAs, personalized to their portfolios.
Builds AI systems for operating and scaling quantum computers, focusing on quantum control and automation for various qubit technologies.
Deep research service with audit trails, providing reports, datasets, and chains where every claim links to its source and tool call. Operates on a pay-as-you-go model.
Copilot for financial institutions to accelerate and strengthen third-party diligence, modernizing compliance stacks without increasing headcount or costs.
Uplane offers next-gen performance marketing for companies, aiming to improve their reach and effectiveness in the market.
Melder is an Excel add-in that enhances spreadsheets with AI formulas, document analysis, and web scraping capabilities directly within Excel.
Clodo is a Y Combinator-backed, planet-scale people search engine that provides deep customer qualification with intent scoring and automated research.
Cuckoo is a Y Combinator-backed AI live translator for global sales, marketing, and support teams, facilitating effortless communication across different regions and languages.
Fazeshift offers an AI agent specifically for Accounts Receivable (AR) management, aiming to optimize and automate AR processes.
Mercoa provides an AI Agent for Billpay platforms, enabling payment of invoices with virtual cards and integrating embedded BillPay, Invoicing, and Payouts APIs for SaaS platforms.
CoLoop is an AI Copilot for insights and strategy, offering AI tools for qualitative research, data analysis, user research, survey analysis, and interview transcription.
ProcIndex provides AI agents for accounting tasks like accounts payable, accounts receivable, and reconciliation, automating work within existing ERP systems.
Mango Medical is a digital health platform providing virtual consultations with doctors and specialists to make healthcare more accessible and convenient.
Prana Health offers a free AI doctor consultation service providing instant health answers and personalized guidance 24/7, with options to connect with licensed physicians.
et al. is a YC Summer 2024 company providing a feed of insights extracted from user-specified sources using LLMs.
Silurian AI develops foundation models focused on planetary-scale Earth systems. They provide tailored intelligence by building models that maximize the value of physical assets and infrastructure.
AI agent for life-science professionals that helps extract and synthesize evidence from scientific literature for literature reviews and evidence synthesis.
AI agent for clinical documentation that automates the generation of medical notes, streamlining workflows for healthcare professionals.
AI agent for life-science professionals that accelerates R&D, market intelligence, and clinical insights, acting as a full-time teammate.
Automates fire department evaluation and regulatory research for Fire Protection Engineers handling fire safety laws and performance analysis.
Automates invoice capture, validation, and routing from any source. Extracts data with 98% accuracy and matches to purchase orders for automated approval.
Cybe Analysis is an autonomous AI agent that analyzes, contextualizes, and prioritizes vulnerabilities with senior-analyst expertise, reducing false positives.
Accelerate brand growth with AI agents for innovation and consumer research, enabling teams to identify trends, map whitespace, and launch products.
An AI agent that extracts intercompany transaction data from multiple ERPs, performs automated matching, identifies discrepancies, and facilitates resolution.
Automate vendor risk assessment with V7 Go's AI agent, analyzing SOC2 reports and security questionnaires to identify control gaps in minutes.
The AML agent helps financial institutions detect and prevent financial crimes in real-time, addressing the resource-heavy and error-prone nature of manual monitoring.
NinjaTech's AI Research Agent performs web browsing, document analysis, source cross-referencing, and compiles structured reports with verified citations for quick or deep research.
Konvu's AI agents investigate security alerts, verifying real exploitability with audit-ready evidence, focusing on exploitability over severity.
Processes requisition requests by validating them against procurement policies, ensuring compliance and efficiency.
Matches intercompany transactions across entities, handles tolerance thresholds, and automates reconciliation processes for improved accuracy and efficiency.
Automates matching of vendor statements against AP sub-ledger using OCR extraction from emails and vendor portals. Flags discrepancies and accelerates reconciliation for faster closing.
AI-driven cash application software that automates payment matching and exception handling, achieving high straight-through processing rates for finance operations.
An AI-powered research agent that automates repetitive research tasks, monitors markets, and provides real-time insights for investment teams, speeding up diligence and discovery.
AI agent focused on summarizing clinical notes. Aims to extract key information from medical documentation to provide concise summaries.
This V7 Go agent automates investment research by synthesizing earnings calls, analyst reports, and SEC filings to build bull/bear cases and generate investment ideas.
Monitors HR policies across jurisdictions, including whistleblower channels, bias audits, DPIAs, supply chain compliance, and DOJ program standards.
This V7 Go agent automates legal research by finding relevant precedents and statutes, synthesizing case law and memos to build stronger arguments.
A Research Agent that utilizes dataforseo for web search capabilities, designed to assist in deep research tasks.
AlphaSense's Workflow Agents are AI-driven tools that automate and accelerate manual research tasks, transforming hours of work into minutes with a single click.
APIDNA provides vertically-trained agentic systems designed to reliably execute real-world workflows across enterprise environments, focusing on reconciliation, compliance, and process automation.
Cassidy AI is a knowledge agent designed for marketing agencies to automate SEO research, including keyword discovery, clustering, and generating cited content briefs. It enables building AI agents that operate like a team.
Leena AI's Gen AI autonomous Agent functions as an integrated SuperApp and federated search layer across enterprise applications like HRIS, ITSM, and KMS.
AI agents for procurement that work 24/7, designed to handle manual tasks like data copying and chasing confirmations, freeing up professionals' time.
Vera Health provides evidence-based answers from over 60 million peer-reviewed medical papers, built by clinicians and AI researchers to improve patient outcomes.
IQVIA Med-R1 Deep Research Agent uses an LLM to synthesize information from multiple sources for medical reasoning and research, providing clear and detailed answers.
Sahara AI provides an AI workforce for managing digital assets, offering research, execution, and portfolio management with zero custody and KYC, free to start.
AI agent for insurers to align portfolios with ESG goals, meet regulations, reduce risk, and drive sustainable growth using real-time insights.
Automates ESG portfolio analysis by validating sustainability claims against external data, detecting greenwashing, and ensuring compliance with mandates.
Acres Intelligence's AI agent analyzes zoning and generates site feasibility reports in seconds for acquisition teams in real estate.
DeepOpinion's AI Agent Apps automate utility bill processing, putting complex utility bill knowledge work and unstructured data on autopilot for enterprises.
Laiye Market Analysis Agent conducts in-depth market data analysis to deliver comprehensive market insights for strategic decision-making.
Market Agents delivers synchronized intelligence through specialized AI agents collaborating to produce clear, confident, and actionable market insights.
Leena AI's Autonomous Agent automates complex enterprise tasks across IT, HR, Finance, and Procurement with a single prompt, boosting productivity and reducing errors.
UpAgents is an AI agent marketplace for real estate appraisers, automating property tax calculations and report generation for audit-ready results.
Automatic.co provides a research report on Agentic AI for the Energy & Utilities Market, highlighting a shift in how work gets done.
DeepOpinion provides agentic automation solutions for enterprises, focusing on automating processes such as the extraction and processing of commercial invoice data.
Agentic AI for mortgage operations, enabling autonomous borrower follow-ups, document retrieval, pricing analysis, and multi-agent workflows to enhance speed and compliance.
Emburse offers a platform of global software solutions for managing travel, expense, invoice, and business payments, with a focus on AI agents for T&E management.
An AI agent focused on automating accounts receivable processes, including prioritizing accounts, sending personalized reminders, and managing escalations to accelerate cash flow and reduce DSO.
An AI agent designed to automate the processing of invoices, aiming to streamline financial operations and reduce manual data entry.
Kanverse offers an AI-powered platform for enterprise use cases, streamlining business processes, minimizing manual touchpoints, and optimizing costs through intelligent document processing and agentic automation.
The Refund Evaluator agent uses agentic automation to assess refund eligibility based on purchase details and company policies.
Artificio's AI agents provide multi-agent systems for intelligent document processing, focusing on security, speed, and accuracy in data extraction and workflow automation.
Accelerates letter of credit processing by reviewing LC applications, examining trade documents against ICC rules, and flagging discrepancies.
Utilizes AI for Letters of Credit documents, automating the review of LC applications and trade documents against ICC rules to flag discrepancies.
An AI agent for spend analysis that extracts spend data from AP and procurement systems, categorizes it using AI taxonomy mapping, and identifies cost-saving opportunities.
Automates invoice processing, PO matching, and vendor validation within the procure-to-pay cycle. This V7 Go agent ensures compliance and eliminates manual reconciliation.
Latent-Y is an autonomous AI agent developed by Latent Labs for large-scale drug design in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.
Piper is an on-demand research assistant designed to enhance marketing efforts through agentic capabilities.
Linkly AI is a local document search engine built for AI agents, enabling AI tools to read and understand local documents like PDFs and DOCX.
AI agent for automating the processing of Proof of Delivery (POD) documents, extracting key data, matching it against shipment records, and identifying delivery exceptions.
Doxis (formerly Klippa) offers AI solutions for automated document processing in logistics and supply chains, saving time, reducing costs, and preventing fraud.
VAO offers AI OCR and Intelligent Document Processing to automate data extraction from documents like purchase orders, invoices, contracts, and forms, streamlining document workflows.
An AI agent designed for expense management, aiming to eliminate borders, blockers, and blind spots in financial operations.
AI collections agent that prioritizes overdue AR accounts, sends personalized outreach, and reduces DSO by 8-15 days, offering a 40% collections FTE cost reduction.
An AI agent designed to automate the reconciliation of media spend, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in financial tracking for advertising investments.
Automates financial reconciliation by comparing bank statements, credit card reports, and GL data to instantly identify and flag discrepancies.
Sensa Copilot enhances investigator productivity by 70% using generative AI for AML, fraud prevention, and financial crime investigations.
A project described as 'Lovable Generated Project', potentially related to auditing or AI copilots for Small and Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs).
Veezoo's Agentic Analytics Engine empowers business users to confidently ask, understand, and act on data using AI and Knowledge Graphs.
Epicor Prism Business Communications is the industry's first ERP AI agent with outcomes-based pricing, designed for business users to interact with ERP data.
OpenAlice is an open-source, self-hosted AI trading agent that reads markets, makes decisions, and trades autonomously with visible reasoning.
Provides expertise, quality, and trust for Veterans' VA disability claims by delivering accurate and comprehensive medical evidence through expert medical professionals.
Posh AI's Knowledge Assistant is an AI-powered service for the banking industry, designed to deliver human-like interactions and support as a teammate.
Ansarada's AI data room assistant, Ask Aida, is designed for M&A due diligence, helping dealmakers achieve optimal outcomes with advanced virtual data room solutions.
Agentic Workforce provides AI agents for automated invoice processing and remittance matching, achieving speed and accuracy in accounts payable.
Owkin's Specialized Biological AI Agent Pathology Explorer, launched with Anthropic's Claude, is designed for healthcare and life sciences.
Glean Assistant helps teams find answers, analyze data, and create content using company and web knowledge, integrating with enterprise tools for a unified knowledge base.
Resolves invoice discrepancies and disputes by analyzing invoice data, purchase orders, and receiving records to identify and address mismatches, accelerating the accounts payable process.
Domo's AI Agent for Invoice Capture and Anomaly Detection automates invoice data extraction and identifies discrepancies, streamlining accounts payable operations.
Automates balance sheet accuracy by detecting variances and implementing automated corrections for financial reporting.
Digits AGL® is an AI-native accounting software trained on extensive transaction data to automate bookkeeping and real-time reconciliation.
AI Agent designed for extracting information from lease agreements. Integrates with Domo.
Financial Reconciliation AI Agent uses predictive analytics to auto-match transactions, flag discrepancies, and accelerate month-end close processes.
Sam is a supplier collaboration AI Agent that automates document processing, supplier communications, and onboarding, operating 24/7.
Zeni's AI Cards Agent is part of their AI bookkeeping software, designed to assist with financial data processing and management for accounting.
eZintegrations' Procure-to-Pay AI agent manages the P2P cycle across SAP and Oracle, achieving over 90% touchless rates and reducing cycle time significantly.
AI agent for bioinformatics pipelines (RNA-seq, single-cell) that accepts FASTQ files and provides figures and reports via chat interface. Free tier available.
AI Agent that transforms survey data into actionable insights, saving time, ensuring accuracy, and identifying critical themes and sentiments.
AI-powered agent for game localization, providing translation services for over 300 languages to ensure fast and safe game releases.
V7 Go agent for asking questions of Excel and Google Sheets data in plain English, providing instant answers, summaries, and charts.
Open-source AI research agent that reads papers, searches the web, writes drafts, runs experiments, and cites claims locally on your computer.
Tool for generating and enriching lists, researching companies, monitoring pricing, and analyzing documents through a native table interface.
A Competitive Content Intelligence AI Agent designed to analyze competitor content strategies and identify opportunities for content improvement.
Lyzr offers secure AI agents for medical report summarization, automating clinical summaries, ensuring HIPAA compliance, and integrating with EHR systems to save time.
Kaunt AI automates Accounts Payable with autonomous agents, integrating AI into procurement and finance platforms to streamline financial operations.
Oracle Health EHR includes the Multum drug database and features an agent that can answer questions about clinical guidelines, drug interactions, and side effects, providing summaries with links to source information.
Automads offers an AI marketing analytics copilot that transforms Meta and paid social analytics into clear insights and actionable next steps for ad optimization.
Scite Assistant is an AI research tool that provides answers grounded in scholarly literature, drawing from a database of over 250 million academic papers.
Cross-checks time data, schedules, and geolocation records to prevent payroll fraud and ensure accurate payroll processing.
AI agent for validating receipts, extracting data, and verifying information for financial or administrative purposes, supporting documentation and API integration.
Scales multilingual communication with AI translation agent solutions, automating workflows, improving accuracy, and integrating systems.
AI spreadsheet generator that creates advanced Excel files with formulas and formatting from a single prompt, integrated with Agentic AI.
Discovers product opportunities by analyzing Amplitude analytics, experiments, session replays, and customer feedback. Synthesizes evidence into prioritized insights.
AI agent for searching contracts, part of a platform focused on moving enterprise AI agent projects to production.
Kathy, the AI Competitor Analyst, researches competitors to enable informed business decisions and help companies outpace the competition.
Open-source AI-powered browser automation tool enabling users to interact with web pages via natural language for automated browsing and data extraction.
Mesh is an AI Agent specifically designed for performing bank reconciliation tasks.
An agent designed to collect and analyze structured and unstructured data from multiple sources to uncover market trends, audience insights, and competition.
AI-powered water management solution for the Limpopo River Basin, developed by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), a global research organization addressing water challenges in developing countries.
Novacura, an IFS partner, provides low-code solutions and AI enhancements for ERP systems, including industrial AI copilots and tools to improve decision-making and operational efficiency.
This entry discusses the integration of AI, specifically Microsoft Copilot, into investment banking to transform how analysts perform their daily responsibilities.
Pharmesol AI automates pharmacy operations including calls, SMS, documents, and workflows by integrating with Pharmacy Management Systems (PMS) to manage patients, providers, and payers.
Research into AI's role in transforming healthcare diagnosis, treatment, and care delivery, addressing radiologist shortages and increasing imaging volumes.
Gardenia Technologies partnered with AWS to develop Report GenAI, an automated ESG reporting solution using agentic AI on Amazon Bedrock to reduce sustainability reporting time.
MerchJar's AI Copilot for Amazon Ads transforms plain English into expert strategies and automations for Amazon sellers, offering AI-powered ad management to eliminate the need for external agencies.
Papers AI Assistant enhances research by analyzing, summarizing, and understanding scholarly articles. It functions as a reference manager for organizing, reading, and citing research.
ThesisAI, accessible via Blink, is a SaaS platform empowering students and researchers with an AI assistant for academic tasks, including content creation and site management.
HighRadius's AI-powered dunning software expands past-due coverage and automates personalized dunning outreach, ranked No. 1 by Gartner and IDC.
SAP AI Assistant for Accounts Payable automates payments, resolves exceptions, validates bank data, and enhances cash flow visibility using agentic AI.
Virtualworkforce.ai provides an AI email assistant designed to automate email handling, draft replies, and label messages by learning from mailboxes and ERP systems.
EcoRxAgent GitHub repository. This project appears to be related to environmental or chemical research agents.
SciAgent-Skills is a GitHub repository containing life sciences computational skills for scientific AI agents.
Neural Alpha researches and deploys AI-ESG copilots for assessing Nature Action 100 Company Benchmark Indicators, releasing metrics across various indicators for sustainable intelligence.
Explores the application of agentic systems in Treasury and Liquidity Management (TLM) to optimize cash flow, manage risk, and ensure real-time regulatory compliance.
UserCall offers AI-moderated user interviews and qualitative analysis for deeper, faster insights to inform confident decisions.
A companion tool designed to help users learn public procurement and contract administration principles, processes, and applications.
An AI-powered semantic search tool for analyzing customer survey responses using natural language queries, developed by pitt-cic.
SYMAR (OpinioAI) provides synthetic market research through AI Personas, Synthetic Surveys, and Focus Groups for instant, bias-free insights.
NetProphet's Public Records AI Agent (SAFE) scans SEC filings and breach portals to automate vendor risk assessment in under a minute.
Example of creating a workflow agent or add-in for Kofax Capture, demonstrating integration with capture systems.
Terralogic's OCR Agent digitizes and indexes county deeds for modernizing property records, offering IT solutions and digital transformation services including AI/ML and cloud.
This paper addresses the challenge SOCs face in efficiently triaging phishing emails while maintaining robust protection, focusing on randomized controlled trials.
Google Research publishes papers and shares developments across a wide range of domains, with a strong focus on artificial intelligence and science research.
A multi-agent framework for oilfield carbon emission data analysis, integrating data access, dual RAG, and a Planner-Executor workflow for natural-language interaction, automated report generation, and visualization.
Mirror of the Basalt repository on GitHub, a project related to AI or computer vision, indicated by its presence in the meta claw.
DeepResearch Bench, hosted on Hugging Face, provides documentation and API documentation for AI research and development, focusing on deep research capabilities.
DeepResearch Bench II from USTC-CMI Agent Research Lab offers documentation and API documentation for AI agent research and development.
Lyzr.ai's PO creation agent automates the generation of Purchase Orders, streamlining procurement workflows. Offers API documentation.
Lyzr.ai's 'Read Now' feature allows users to process and extract information from documents or web content using AI agents. Offers API documentation.
A GitHub repository likely containing code or resources related to scientific skills, potentially for agent development or research.
Synth AI offers managed research services to ensure the production readiness of AI agents, bridging the gap between development and deployment.
Zenity Labs provides research, tools, and talks focused on securing AI agents, aiming to enhance the safety and reliability of artificial intelligence systems.
An AI research agent that browses the web, analyzes documents, cross-references sources, and compiles structured reports with verified citations for quick facts and deep research.
Ada is an AI-powered symptom checker and health assessment app providing personalized health information and enterprise solutions to improve health and care.
Paper-to-Podcast transforms academic research papers into podcast episodes, automating the conversion of scholarly articles into accessible audio content.
User Intuition is an AI agentic research platform that conducts consumer studies, including preference checks and message tests, delivering results within hours.
Deep Research agent delivering multi-step research with verified citations and high accuracy, without throttling, starting from $19/mo.
Buzzi.ai offers AI-powered Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) for automating workflows, extracting data from invoices, contracts, and forms with high accuracy using OCR, NLP, and ML.
V7 Go's AI HR Document Processing Agent automates HR document processing by extracting employee data, verifying compliance, and populating systems from applications, agreements, and forms.
V7 Go's AI agent automates earnings call analysis, extracting guidance and summarizing management commentary to help users cover more stocks efficiently without increasing headcount.
Parcha.ai offers AI-powered institutional-grade verification for automated enhanced due diligence, providing comprehensive risk analysis and regulatory compliance for high-risk entities.
RedCarbon offers AI-powered cybersecurity solutions, including an AI Threat Hunter for alert triage and threat hunting at machine scale, emphasizing advanced AI for investigation and automation.
DentalGPT, developed by Wildstash and available on Hugging Face, is an AI model designed for tasks related to dental information, potentially assisting with clinical guidelines and queries.
Enterprise AI Assistant that integrates with CRM, ERP, and internal documents for automated tasks, business data analysis, and employee assistance, going beyond generic chatbots.
AI FX Sales Agent that automates FX client briefings by synthesizing currency research, geopolitical news, and market analysis into personalized morning updates.
