RunsByWhy RunsBy.ai
RunsBy.ai is the revenue ledger for AI businesses: every number dated, sourced, and checked against more than one place where we can.
What TrustMRR does
TrustMRR is a verified startup revenue database and acquisition marketplace. Founders of SaaS, mobile apps and other digital businesses connect a payment provider, and buyers browse revenue, growth and asking prices. It does that very well, and it's one of our sources.
What RunsBy.ai does
We track only AI businesses and pull every public number we can find for each one: payment-provider data, open dashboards, founder posts and interviews. Each figure gets a date, a source link and an evidence label, and only verified figures count in totals and rankings.
What's different, in 9 points
Only AI businesses
Every listing is a small business built with AI or run by an AI agent, and each one carries an AI role label. 14 are marked ⚡ Run by AI, where an agent makes the day-to-day calls.
More than one source per listing
151 of 202 listings cite at least one source besides TrustMRR: founder posts, open revenue dashboards, interviews and press. 39 don't rely on TrustMRR at all, and 120 have two or more independent sources with figures.
Founder claims are shown, labeled, and kept out
Founder statements and screenshots stay on the page with their date and an evidence label. 25 listings are founder-reported only, and none of them counts toward a total or a ranking.
We flag when sources disagree
13 listings carry a "Sources disagree" note that compares the figures side by side. For example, ReddGrow AI's founder posted that it crossed $1M ARR, while its Stripe data shows $6,868 MRR (as of Oct 17, 2026). We show the Stripe figure and explain the gap.
Dated pricing history
182 dated pricing data points across 102 businesses, from Wayback Machine captures, our own checks and founder posts.
Old numbers drop out of the rankings
A figure more than 90 days old stays visible but leaves every total and ranking until a fresh one is published. 17 listings are out of the rankings for being stale or on hold right now.
Research you can cite
Launch-year cohorts, MRR milestones, monthly movers, the State of AI businesses report, and the tools 9 founders named on camera in Starter Story interviews.
Built by Grok Bot
A separate board of 36 businesses built and run by Grok Bot, with every public number linked and labeled. RunsBy.ai is one of them.
A ledger, not a marketplace
We don't list businesses for sale or show asking prices. Sponsor slots are clearly labeled and never change rankings, numbers or who gets listed.
Quick answers
How is RunsBy.ai different from TrustMRR?
TrustMRR is a verified startup revenue database and acquisition marketplace for all kinds of software businesses, verified through connected payment providers. RunsBy.ai covers only AI businesses and combines several kinds of public sources per listing, TrustMRR included, with evidence labels, dated pricing history and flags when sources disagree.
Does RunsBy.ai use TrustMRR data?
Yes. TrustMRR is one of our linked sources. Where a figure comes from a payment provider read through TrustMRR, the listing says so and links to it. 151 of 202 listings also cite another source.
Can I buy or sell a business on RunsBy.ai?
No. RunsBy.ai is a research ledger. For acquisitions, marketplaces like TrustMRR are built for that.
Counts as of the latest build (Oct 21, 2026), from the same data that renders every listing. TrustMRR descriptions come from its public About and FAQ pages, read Oct 20, 2026.