Hotplate vs Duckie

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

Duckie leads in AI visibility (25 vs 23)

Hotplate

EmergingFast Casual & QSR

General

Vertical SaaS operating system for meal prep food entrepreneurs managing orders, production, and delivery; $3M YC W20-backed at $2.7M revenue serving Instagram-driven weekly meal subscription businesses.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
D23
Category Rank
#279 of 1167
AI Consensus
79%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
15
Perplexity
17
Gemini
24

About

Hotplate is an Austin-based vertical SaaS company providing an end-to-end operating system for meal prep businesses — giving food entrepreneurs who prepare and sell weekly meal prep subscriptions the software to manage customer orders, production planning, inventory, delivery routing, and customer communication in one integrated platform. Founded in 2019 and a Y Combinator W20 graduate, Hotplate raised $3 million and generates $2.7 million in revenue in 2024 with an 18-person team, serving a niche but growing market of individual entrepreneurs and small businesses selling custom-prepared weekly meals.

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Duckie

EmergingInfrastructure

IT Operations

SF YC W24 AI support agent builder at 80% resolution time reduction and 71% ticket deflection; $500K from a16z/Greylock/YC/Netflix competing with Intercom Fin for customer support AI workflow automation.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
D25
Category Rank
#18 of 68
AI Consensus
59%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
33
Perplexity
19
Gemini
36

About

Duckie is a San Francisco-based AI customer support platform — backed by Y Combinator (W24) with $500,000 in funding from Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, KungHo Fund, Netflix, and 5 additional investors — providing customer support teams with an AI agent builder that translates existing support processes and workflows into predictable, reliable AI automation, achieving 80% reduction in resolution time and 71% ticket deflection for deployed teams. Founded in 2023 and targeting customer support leaders at growth-stage software companies, Duckie enables support teams to deploy AI agents in minutes without engineering dependency.

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AI Visibility Head-to-Head

23
Overall Score
25
#279
Category Rank
#18
79
AI Consensus
59
stable
Trend
stable
15
ChatGPT
33
17
Perplexity
19
24
Gemini
36
20
Claude
31
20
Grok
34

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