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The Lytms IndexThis week in Authentication platforms · issue 1 · Aug 18, 2026

A quiet week on the board.

window aug 15 to aug 18 · US region · lytms.ai/best/auth-platforms

Nothing cleared the bar this window. The board is unchanged, no raise was announced, and no tracked vendor moved a published price.

Board movementbetween the dated captures, aug 15 to aug 18

One of the two captures did not record which engines answered, so movement is not measured this window rather than guessed. The next capture gives this section its reading.

Who is funding this marketstanding, 18 months of press, 15 results read

Not this week’s news — a read of who has raised in this market recently, which is how we tell a contested market from a settled one. Each date is the announcement’s own. It counts raises we FOUND in press, so it is a floor and never a census, and none of it moves a score.

aug 121Kosmos Series B, $57M
jun 25Better Auth seed, ~$5M
jul 1Wultra Series A, €6.8M

The pulse reports what changed; the board ranks. An event here can explain a movement — it is never an input to a score.

Measured across 15 AI-engine answers · 4 engines · 4 buying questions.