Lean Ledger

A sortable database of AI companies with 20 or fewer people: team size, revenue, revenue per employee, funding, and where each number came from. By the writer of Rational Returns.

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    Methodology

    Every row comes from a public source: founder posts, interviews, press releases, revenue-verification sites (TrustMRR), and curated lists (Keenable, Tiny Teams, Shipped & Paid, The Logic). Revenue is kept as stated, with its period. For comparison, it is also annualized (MRR ×12, last-30-days ×12). Revenue per employee = annualized revenue ÷ team size. Verified means the number comes from a payment provider (for example, Stripe through TrustMRR). Self-reported means a founder or company stated it. Estimate means it comes from a third party. Blank means unknown; we never fill gaps with guesses. Companies that have since grown past 20 people or been absorbed into a larger company are tagged graduated: they stay as historical snapshots but are hidden by default and excluded from the ranking. This is not investment advice.