Blue-collar software insights.
Market perspectives for private equity investors, with STEER Partners, IncQuery and Emporia Research. Where software adoption in the trades stands, which verticals hold the most whitespace, where investment is moving, and Caliper Lab's analysis of how much field-service work AI can actually automate.
Assessing AI, when you cannot see inside it.
The number of ways to build an AI product has outrun the market's ability to tell them apart. This note sets out how to isolate the four components of an AI product — the unit, its data and knowledge, the connections and logic that aim it, and the surface a user touches — and read each one independently.
Caliper Lab is independent and is not affiliated with any AI vendor. Research notes describe our own methods and findings; where a note draws on a measurement we ran, the conditions of that measurement are stated in the note itself.