Taxonomy
Full vocabulary for this research catalog — technology landscape, device families, and OS category lenses — with wiki pages that link into technologies, devices, and GitHub.
125 terms
Technology layers
Top of the software landscape: Agentic, Infrastructure, LLMs.
Technology layer
Agentic
Software that plans, calls tools, and runs multi-step work on behalf of a company — not raw model weights.
110 technologies
Technology layer
Infrastructure
Stores and graphs that keep embeddings, entities, and relationships available to agents and retrieval.
12 technologies
Technology layer
LLMs
Model serving and fine-tuning — how weights are run and adapted, not how agents are orchestrated.
9 technologies
Technology subcategories
RAG, Frameworks, Vector DBs, and every other landscape subcategory in the database.
Technology subcategory
Agent Protocols
Wire protocols and standards for agent-to-tool and agent-to-agent exchange.
2 technologies
Technology subcategory
Agentic Gateways
Gateways that expose agents, MCP, or tool surfaces to callers.
6 technologies
Technology subcategory
Code Sandbox
Isolated execution environments for untrusted agent-generated code.
3 technologies
Technology subcategory
Coding Agents
Agents specialized for repositories, PRs, and software engineering tasks.
5 technologies
Technology subcategory
Evaluations
Harnesses and judges that score agent or model behavior before and after change.
8 technologies
Technology subcategory
Fine-tuning
Tooling to adapt base models with domain data.
3 technologies
Technology subcategory
Frameworks
Agent / multi-agent SDKs that own the control loop, tools, and composition.
26 technologies
Technology subcategory
Guardrails
Policy filters and safety layers that block or rewrite unsafe model/agent actions.
4 technologies
Technology subcategory
IAM
Identity, authn/z, and access control for agents and tools.
4 technologies
Technology subcategory
Knowledge Graphs
Graph stores for entities and relationships used by agents and analytics.
3 technologies
Technology subcategory
LLM Gateway
Routing, keys, and policy in front of many model providers.
6 technologies
Technology subcategory
Memory
Long-lived agent or user memory beyond a single prompt window.
4 technologies
Technology subcategory
Observability
Traces, spans, and dashboards over LLM and agent runs.
7 technologies
Technology subcategory
RAG
Retrieval-augmented generation — grounding answers in documents and indexes.
9 technologies
Technology subcategory
Runtime
Low-level agent or model runtimes that other stacks embed.
1 technology
Technology subcategory
Search & Web Access
Crawl, search, and browse the open web as a tool for agents.
5 technologies
Technology subcategory
Serving
Inference servers and engines that run LLMs in production.
6 technologies
Technology subcategory
Structured Output
Schemas, validators, and constrained decoding for reliable machine-readable replies.
4 technologies
Technology subcategory
Tool Integration
Connectors and tool-calling layers that bind agents to external systems.
3 technologies
Technology subcategory
Vector DBs
Databases optimized for embedding storage and similarity search.
9 technologies
Technology subcategory
Voice Agents
Speech-in / speech-out agents and STT/TTS pipelines for voice channels.
4 technologies
Technology subcategory
Workflow Orchestration
Durable workflows, queues, and long-running pipelines for agent and business steps.
9 technologies
Device families
Hardware meta groups from the devices manifest.
Device family
AI / AR glasses
Wearable displays and glasses for AR / AI assistance on the face.
47 devices
Device family
AI / spatial cameras
Depth, stereo, and vision cameras built for spatial AI and robotics.
65 devices
Device family
Edge compute & accelerators
SBCs, NPUs, and edge boxes that run models next to sensors and robots.
77 devices
Device family
Open robotics / embodied AI
Arms, rovers, quadrupeds, and expressive robots with open control stacks.
51 devices
Device family
Physical / desk AI agents
Desktop and physical companion devices that host local agents.
46 devices
Device family
Voice satellites & mic arrays
Room and desk voice hardware for always-available speech ingress.
51 devices
Device family
Wearable voice capture
Badges, pendants, watches, and wearables optimized for voice notes and capture.
43 devices
Device categories
Finer product shapes under each family.
Device category
ADAS AI kit
1 device
Device category
AI / XR glasses
1 device
Device category
AI accelerator
7 devices
Device category
AI camera
8 devices
Device category
AI camera glasses
2 devices
Device category
AI camera module
7 devices
Device category
AI camera SBC
1 device
Device category
AI glasses
11 devices
Device category
AI glasses kit
5 devices
Device category
AI glasses OS
1 device
Device category
AI glasses SDK
1 device
Device category
AI mic array
11 devices
Device category
AI mic HAT
5 devices
Device category
AI SBC
11 devices
Device category
AI vision MCU
5 devices
Device category
AIoT camera
1 device
Device category
AIoT display
6 devices
Device category
AIoT terminal
8 devices
Device category
AR glasses
16 devices
Device category
AR glasses kit
2 devices
Device category
AR glasses optics
1 device
Device category
AR headset
2 devices
Device category
Autonomy robot
6 devices
Device category
Edge AI computer
4 devices
Device category
Edge AI SBC
18 devices
Device category
Edge gateway
2 devices
Device category
Edge HMI
1 device
Device category
Edge TPU SBC
2 devices
Device category
Edge TPU stick
1 device
Device category
Edge vision
1 device
Device category
Face sensor
1 device
Device category
Hailo AI HAT
1 device
Device category
Hailo AI kit
1 device
Device category
Hybrid edge AI
1 device
Device category
Industrial AR
1 device
Device category
Industrial AR headset
1 device
Device category
Industrial HMI
1 device
Device category
Jetson edge box
5 devices
Device category
LoRaWAN Vision AI
2 devices
Device category
Machine vision
5 devices
Device category
Micro-display glasses
1 device
Device category
Open AI camera
10 devices
Device category
Open AI SBC
2 devices
Device category
Open expressive robot
11 devices
Device category
Open mobile robot
11 devices
Device category
Open robot arm
20 devices
Device category
Open voice assistant
3 devices
Device category
Phone robot
1 device
Device category
Physical AI agent
22 devices
Device category
Physical AI hub
2 devices
Device category
Pi AI box
1 device
Device category
Portable AI terminal
2 devices
Device category
Portable local AI
6 devices
Device category
RISC-V AI kit
1 device
Device category
RISC-V edge
7 devices
Device category
Robotics AI SBC
3 devices
Device category
Smart glasses
1 device
Device category
Spatial AI camera
21 devices
Device category
Sports AR glasses
1 device
Device category
Standalone AI camera
1 device
Device category
tinyML board
9 devices
Device category
tinyML vision
2 devices
Device category
tinyML voice
1 device
Device category
tinyML wearable
1 device
Device category
Voice + music endpoint
1 device
Device category
Voice assistant
1 device
Device category
Voice assistant kit
4 devices
Device category
Voice DIY
15 devices
Device category
Voice satellite
9 devices
Device category
Voice wake word
1 device
Device category
Wearable AI audio
2 devices
Device category
Wearable AI badge
5 devices
Device category
Wearable AI band
1 device
Device category
Wearable AI camera-voice
1 device
Device category
Wearable AI capture
1 device
Device category
Wearable AI DIY
3 devices
Device category
Wearable AI DK
7 devices
Device category
Wearable AI earable
1 device
Device category
Wearable AI host
2 devices
Device category
Wearable AI messenger
1 device
Device category
Wearable AI parts
1 device
Device category
Wearable AI pendant
3 devices
Device category
Wearable AI pin
1 device
Device category
Wearable AI recorder
7 devices
Device category
Wearable AI tag
1 device
Device category
Wearable AI watch
4 devices
Device category
Wearable tracker+audio peer
1 device
OS category lenses
Six architecture lenses — wiki summary here, full articles under Categories.
OS category lens
Agent Infrastructure OS
Runtime substrate — gateways, protocols, sandboxes, serving — under the workforce.
OS category lens
AI Workforce OS
Experts, processors, and role-shaped agents as a managed workforce.
OS category lens
Company Model / Memory OS
Persistent company ontology as substrate — what the company knows and how it connects.
OS category lens
Execution OS
Policy → execute → verify — closed loops that turn decisions into audited action.
OS category lens
Unified Company Cockpit OS
Human read-models over truth — dashboards and conversations that do not become the runtime.
OS category lens
Vertical Company OS
Domain pack on the case graph — industry-shaped process without a second product core.