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19 companies — Middleware

19 companies that consume their foundational model at Middleware proximity — one of the four ways companies run. Avg Foundation Proximity Score 25/100.

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Airbyte

Data · Multi-Cloud · Middleware / wrapper

Open-source data integration; connectors + AI assist via partner LLMs.

ClickHouse

Database · Multi-Cloud · Middleware / wrapper

Open-source columnar OLAP DB; AI features plug partner LLMs over its analytics engine.

Confluent

Data Platform · Multi-Cloud · Middleware / wrapper

Managed Apache Kafka (Confluent Cloud) deployed across AWS/Azure/GCP with the Kora cloud-native engine; adds stream processing via Flink. Built around open Kafka with proprietary cloud tooling.

dbt Labs

Data · Multi-Cloud · Middleware / wrapper

Analytics-engineering standard (dbt); Copilot AI is model-agnostic over the semantic layer.

Fivetran

Data · Multi-Cloud · Middleware / wrapper

Managed data movement; AI features via partner LLMs over pipeline metadata.

LangChain

AI Framework · AWS · Middleware / wrapper

Orchestration framework + LangSmith observability; sits between apps and any model.

MongoDB

Database · Multi-Cloud · Middleware / wrapper

Atlas runs the MongoDB document database as a managed service across AWS, Azure and GCP. Atlas Vector Search makes it a RAG datastore; AI features integrate partner LLMs rather than a captive model.

Neon

Database · AWS · Middleware / wrapper

Serverless Postgres (now Databricks); AI via pgvector + partner embeddings.

Okta

Cybersecurity · AWS · Middleware / wrapper

AWS-native identity cloud (workforce + Auth0 customer identity) on MySQL/DynamoDB with a multi-tenant cell architecture. AI is in-house threat-detection ML plus assistant LLMs.

Pinecone

AI Infrastructure · Multi-Cloud · Middleware / wrapper

Managed vector database for RAG, deployed across AWS/GCP/Azure with a serverless architecture that separates storage (object store) from query compute. The index, not a model, is the product.

Poe (Quora)

AI Aggregator · AWS · Middleware / wrapper

Consumer multi-model aggregator fronting OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and open models behind one app.

Qdrant

AI Infra · Multi-Cloud · Middleware / wrapper

Open-source vector database for RAG; model-agnostic.

Rabbit

Consumer AI · Multi-Cloud · Middleware / wrapper

AI hardware (r1); routes to multiple partner LLMs behind a large-action-model orchestration layer.

Supabase

DevTools · AWS · Middleware / wrapper

Postgres backend-as-a-service; AI via pgvector + partner embeddings.

Torq

Cybersecurity · AWS · Middleware / wrapper

Security hyperautomation; routes partner LLMs through its SOC workflow engine.

Weaviate

AI Infra · Multi-Cloud · Middleware / wrapper

Open-source vector database; the index, not a model, is the product.

Weights & Biases

MLOps · Multi-Cloud · Middleware / wrapper

ML experiment-tracking + LLMOps (Weave); model-agnostic, runs over customers chosen models.

Wiz

Cybersecurity · Multi-Cloud · Middleware / wrapper

Agentless cloud security that scans customers' AWS/Azure/GCP via APIs and builds a Security Graph of risks. Now part of Google Cloud; AI adds LLM-driven risk explanation over the graph.

You.com

AI Search · Multi-Cloud · Middleware / wrapper

AI search/agent routing across multiple frontier + open models over its own web index.

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