Orbital vs Hasura vs Apollo: AI Agent Review
We tested Orbital vs Hasura and Apollo GraphQL with AI agents. Hasura ranked first; Orbital won recommendations but failed authenticated script access.
Agent Experience (AX)
How well do developer tools work with AI coding agents?
We test discoverability, documentation, onboarding, and integration quality
to measure AX across developer platforms.
All AX articles
SpacetimeDB AX Audit: A Review for AI Agents
An AX audit and review of SpacetimeDB (Spacetime). Can Claude Code find it, recommend it over Convex and Supabase, and build a live app with it?
Monospace from Directus Review: An AX Audit
An agent experience audit of Monospace from Directus, the governed API layer for AI agents. Can Claude Code find it, recommend it, and connect to it over MCP?
Which South African ISP Do AI Agents Recommend? Telkom vs Afrihost vs MWEB vs Webafrica
An agent experience audit comparing Telkom, Afrihost, MWEB, and Webafrica in South Africa. Which one AI agents recommend, and why the AI's favorite pick doesn't always match the human reviews.
Can My AI Agent Order Me a Burger With Mr D?
An agent experience audit that goes further than most: we reverse-engineered Mr D Food's ordering API, built a real MCP server, and had an AI agent place and pay for a real order end to end.
Which Payment Processor Do AI Agents Recommend? Bobpay vs Peach Payments vs Ozow vs PayU
An agent experience audit comparing Bobpay, Peach Payments, Ozow, and PayU in South Africa. Which ones AI agents mention unprompted, which ones they trust, and why two of the four are functionally invisible.
Which Payment Processor Do AI Agents Recommend? Yoco vs PayFast vs Paystack
An agent experience audit comparing Yoco, PayFast, and Paystack in South Africa. Which one AI agents mention unprompted, which one they recommend, and the sharp gap between the two.
Agent Experience Audit: Release.com
A live, four-test agent experience audit of Release.com: discovery, recommendation, comparison, and agent tooling, run against Claude Code in a clean context.
GitGuardian for AI Agents: An AX Audit
A four-stage agent experience audit of GitGuardian — testing discoverability, onboarding, integration, and agent tooling.
Orbital: How Bad AX Can Make You Invisible In 2026
We tested Orbital's agent experience across discoverability and integration. Four prompts including a web search failed to surface it. A quickstart guide cut integration cost by 30% and produced a more correct result.
Firecrawl vs. Tavily: Which Web Data API Should You Use?
We tested both tools, examined their benchmarks, and compared pricing, features, and agent integration. Here's what we found and which one we'd actually recommend.
AX: Vercel vs Railway vs Netlify
A four-stage agent experience audit of Vercel, Railway, and Netlify — testing discoverability, onboarding, integration, and agent tooling.
GrowthBook for AI Agents: An AX Audit
We audited GrowthBook across discoverability, onboarding, integration, and agent tooling. The experimentation features are strong, but the CLI gaps and buried Django documentation cost it points.
Do Agents Need Quickstart Guides?
I ran the same Infisical integration task with and without quickstart guides. The docs run completed fully autonomously. The vanilla run needed 30 minutes of manual UI navigation.
Airweave for AI Agents: A Product Evaluation
A four-stage product evaluation of Airweave — testing discoverability, onboarding, integration, and agent tooling for AI agents.
The companies defining Agent Experience (AX)
How Vercel, Netlify, Resend, and Mintlify approach Agent Experience, where their definitions fall short, and a framework for measuring AX properly.
Freestyle.sh for AI Agents: An AX Audit
A four-stage agent experience audit of Freestyle — testing discoverability, onboarding, integration, and agent tooling, with a competitor comparison.
Prefect with AI Agents: The Real Agent Experience
We tested Prefect's agent experience across four stages (discoverability, onboarding, integration, and agent tooling). Here's every score and what it took to get there.
DocuSign for AI Agents: What Actually Works in 2026
I tested DocuSign's agent experience across five stages (discoverability, onboarding, integration, MCP server, and skills). Here's every score and what it took to get there.
AX: Sentry vs TrackJS vs Raygun
Comparing Sentry, Raygun, and TrackJS for application error tracking. We tested how easily an AI agent could integrate each tool into an app, to compare the service's features, documentation, and usability.
AX: Supabase vs PlanetScale
Comparing Supabase and PlanetScale for agent experience. We tested how easily Claude Code could discover, sign up for, and build a full-stack app with each database platform.
Agent Experience Guide: Transcription APIs
I tested three transcription APIs with different agent visibility levels to see if discoverability predicts quality. The invisible platform had the best features.
AX: Honeycomb vs SigNoz
Comparing Honeycomb and SigNoz for application monitoring. We tested how easily an AI agent could integrate each tool into an app, to compare the service's features, documentation, and usability.
Agent Experience for Browser Automation Platforms: Browserless vs Browserbase vs Anchor
Testing three browser automation platforms through AI coding agents. Comparing discoverability, documentation quality, and real-world features like CAPTCHA solving, parallel execution, and bot detection to see if agent visibility predicts actual performance.
Introducing the AX Benchmark: Measuring Agent Experience for Developer Platforms
We're evaluating how well AI agents can discover, sign up for, onboard, and integrate with developer tools. Here's our framework for measuring Agent Experience (AX) across five key metrics.