Finding #2 of 5
91.7% of catalogued products publish no peer-reviewed benchmark
919 of 1,002 products · only 4 scores independently verified
The product × benchmark matrix is a 122 × 25 grid with 172 filled cells. Of the 3,050 possible product-benchmark cells, 94.4% are empty. Of the 172 filled cells, only 4 are independently verified (a score a third party has reproduced or posted on a neutral leaderboard); 115 are peer-reviewed paper claims, 26 are vendor blog or marketing numbers, and 27 are disputed (contested by a second source).
If you widen from the 122 products on the benchmark matrix to all 1,002 records in the catalog, 919 (91.7%) have no peer-reviewed benchmark score — meaning the product has shipped without a peer-reviewed result on any of the 25 benchmarks the catalog tracks (LoCoMo, LongMemEval, MTEB, GAIA, SWE-bench and the rest).
The implication: the agent-memory field's reliability story is built almost entirely on vendor self-reporting and paper claims, with effectively no public, neutral, reproducible benchmark coverage. A vendor that posts honest leaderboard scores would have category-leading transparency-as-positioning — there is nobody to compete with for that ground.
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Recomputed from the catalog at every build · method in analysis.md §24.2
Other findings
- #1. Agent stacks leave semantic caching to the data layer 1 of 100 priority-cohort agent products
- #3. The MCP spec is the catalog's #3 inbound substrate Inbound runtime-deps: Claude 62 · GPT 52 · MCP spec 34 · Gemini 22 · Qwen 16
- #4. Graphiti MCP Server is the most under-acknowledged connector in the catalog 0 inbound edges · 0.71 normalised betweenness — highest non-trivial in the graph
- #5. 77% of FM-dependent products lock onto three vendors 108 of 140 FM-dependent rows depend on OpenAI / Anthropic / Google