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SOTA2: Find AI tools for the job you need done

Oct 27, 2026The Prompting Company

SOTA2 helps people compare AI products by the task they want to accomplish, with industry context and public evidence behind each ranking.

Start with the job

You know what you need to do. Finding the right AI tool is the harder part. A strong score on a coding benchmark tells you little about whether a product can draft the documents your team needs or handle appointment booking.

SOTA2 organizes products around tasks such as analyzing data, building applications, and automating workflows. Each ranking compares products that do the same job. You can also browse by industry to find tools built for your field.

Explore SOTA2's product directory.

SOTA2's explanation starts with nontechnical buyers, including CFOs and COOs, trying to make sense of a growing AI market. Technical research scores can be difficult to interpret. Its task-and-industry approach gives those buyers a comparison framed around the work they need done.

Why SOTA2 is building task-based leaderboards

From a task to a shortlist

Imagine a healthcare team looking for help drafting documents. It could start with SOTA2's "draft documents" leaderboard for healthcare and life sciences, then compare the workflows described for each product. Clinical notes and source-cited research documents call for different tools, even within that one task.

The leaderboard shows each product's intended use, available pricing information, and a score breakdown. A buyer can open a product profile and follow the supporting sources before deciding what to try. SOTA2 describes missing evidence as uncertainty, so a lower score is a reason to investigate what is documented.

Explore document drafting in healthcare

Look at the evidence

SOTA2 scores products on task fit, adoption, product evidence, pricing clarity, and market fit. Its published methodology gives the most weight to whether a product does the specific job.

According to SOTA2, rankings use cited public sources, and companies cannot pay for a position. Those rankings give buyers a starting point for comparing tools and checking the evidence themselves.

Read SOTA2's ranking methodology.

Explore the research behind AI

SOTA2 Research, formerly WizWand, serves readers looking into the technical work behind AI. It organizes papers, datasets, tasks, and benchmark results across fields including language models, computer vision, speech, and image generation.

A researcher can browse a task or dataset and inspect the reported results for a benchmark. The benchmark version, metric, and method matter when comparing those results. These research scores answer a different question from the product leaderboards, which focus on a business task in a particular industry.

Browse SOTA2 Research

Ask through your AI assistant

SOTA2 also documents a public Model Context Protocol, or MCP, connector. It lets compatible assistants look up company and product information, task rankings, and research results. Its setup guide covers Claude and ChatGPT where custom connections are available.

For example, a buyer could ask which healthcare leaderboards are available, then request the top two products for drafting documents. A follow-up could ask for more company details or the sources behind a disclosed compliance claim.

The connector provides read-only access without authentication. Its documentation distinguishes reported claims from independent verification and keeps research results tied to their benchmark version and metric. Readers can follow the sources returned with the information.

Connect SOTA2 to an AI assistant

Meet the founders

SOTA2 was founded by Allan Jiang and Jianyu (Leo) Li. The company is part of Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch.

Allan Jiang co-founded VacationHomeRents and previously worked at Google, Coinbase, and Microsoft.

Jianyu (Leo) Li founded AgentDiscuss and PageOne Travel and is an investor in PageOne Labs.

Discovery goes both ways

SOTA2 helps buyers find tools for a task. The Prompting Company helps software teams understand whether AI assistants recommend their products and whether agents can use them.

SOTA2's profile of The Prompting Company explores that connection: getting discovered is one part of the journey, and helping an agent finish the job is the next.