8 companies admitted · updated 2026-08-25
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AI-first registry

Companies with an excellent public AI-first engineering record

Oleg Malkov is choosing where to work next; this registry is his criteria, applied in public. He is open to conversations with companies that operate this way.

Stage

8 companies admitted, adjudicated by Oleg Malkov. The bar and the grading method are published; see how grading works. Every dimension and every citation is on the evidence page. Updated 2026-08-25.

The bar

THE ADMISSION BAR 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ≥ 7 of 12 · evidence on ≥ 4 of 6 dimensions ADMITTED TODAY 8
Drawn from the registry data: the admission threshold and the live admitted count.

A human grades each of the 6 dimensions 0, 1 or 2 from public evidence a stranger can open. A company is admitted with human-graded evidence on at least 4 of the 6 dimensions and a total of at least 7 of 12. Where a dimension has no qualifying public evidence, the row shows a dated line for it and no digit.

Companies

EVERY ADMITTED ROW, OUT OF 12 Block 12 OpenAI 11 Shopify 11 Stripe 11 Cloudflare 10 Ramp 10 Spotify 10 GitHub 8 the bar: 7 of 12
Drawn from the rows: each company's total and the bar. The dimensions and citations are on the evidence page.
Block · 12 of 12 · evidence on 6 of 6 · Buzz, Block App Kit, Block Metrics Store and 4 moreevidence
OpenAI · 11 of 12 · evidence on 6 of 6 · the recurring documentation gardener, Symphonyevidence
Shopify · 11 of 12 · evidence on 6 of 6 · River, Aquifer, Dispatch and 2 moreevidence
Stripe · 11 of 12 · evidence on 6 of 6 · Minions, the Knowledge AI Platformevidence
Cloudflare · 10 of 12 · evidence on 6 of 6 · iMARS, Town Lake, Skipperevidence
Ramp · 10 of 12 · evidence on 6 of 6 · Inspect, Ramp Researchevidence
Spotify · 10 of 12 · evidence on 5 of 6 · Honk, Fleet Management, Fleetshift and 1 moreevidence
GitHub · 8 of 12 · evidence on 5 of 6 · Qubotevidence

Corrections

The house builds every listing; no company joined, consented or endorsed one. A company can challenge any claim or ask for removal. Corrections stay on the page with what was wrong. Write to oleg@mlkv.org.