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The Lytms IndexThis week in Cold email & sales engagement · issue 2 · Aug 20, 2026

A quiet week on the board.

first pulse, aug 20 · US region · lytms.ai/best/cold-email

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

Board movementneeds two dated captures

This is the first capture for this market, so there is nothing to measure movement against yet. The next one gives this section its first 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.

mar 4Alta $7M seed
apr 9Artisan Series A, $25M
jun 12Landbase Series A, $30M
aug 5Clay Series C, $100M

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 16 AI-engine answers · 4 engines · 4 buying questions.