Blacksmith vs Dataland

Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities

Dataland leads in AI visibility (37 vs 18)

Blacksmith

EmergingSales & Revenue Operations

General

San Francisco GitHub Actions CI runner at $3.5M ARR with 700+ customers by Sept 2024; $13.5M total ($10M GV Series A) with 2x speed/75% cost reduction through gaming-grade CPUs founded Jan 2024 from YC W24.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
D18
Category Rank
#498 of 1158
AI Consensus
59%
Trend
up
Per Platform
ChatGPT
26
Perplexity
27
Gemini
12

About

Blacksmith is a San Francisco, California-based high-performance CI/CD infrastructure platform — backed with $13.5 million in total funding including a $10 million Series A in September 2024 led by Google Ventures (four months after a $3.5 million seed round also led by Google Ventures) — providing development teams with drop-in replacement GitHub Actions runners that deliver up to 2x faster CI pipeline execution and up to 75% compute cost reduction through purpose-built gaming-grade CPUs rather than standard AWS/Azure cloud instances. Founded in January 2024 by University of Waterloo alumni Aditya Jayaprakash (CEO), Aayush Shah, and Aditya Maru (Y Combinator Winter 2024 batch), Blacksmith reached $1 million ARR within one month of launch and $3.5 million ARR with 700+ customers by September 2024. Notable angel investors include Spencer Kimball (CEO Cockroach Labs), David Cramer (co-founder Sentry), and other developer tools founders.

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Dataland

EmergingDeveloper Tools & Platforms

General

NY no-code collaborative database with workflow automation received M&A offer April 2025; YC W20 $1M revenue competing with Airtable and Notion for business operations teams without SQL expertise.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
D37
Category Rank
#230 of 1158
AI Consensus
46%
Trend
up
Per Platform
ChatGPT
29
Perplexity
47
Gemini
31

About

Dataland is a New York-based no-code collaborative data management platform — backed by Y Combinator (W20) with funding from South Park Commons and Switch Ventures — providing business teams with a spreadsheet-like interface for centralizing, structuring, and automating business data workflows without SQL expertise, generating $1 million in revenue in 2024 with a 5-9 person team. Received an M&A offer in April 2025, positioning as a competitive alternative to Airtable and Notion in the growing no-code database market.

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AI Visibility Head-to-Head

18
Overall Score
37
#498
Category Rank
#230
59
AI Consensus
46
up
Trend
up
26
ChatGPT
29
27
Perplexity
47
12
Gemini
31
21
Claude
34
29
Grok
48

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