Proof of Usefulness Report

Appsmith

Analysis completed on 2/7/2026

+664
Proof of Usefulness Score
Category Standard

Appsmith is a highly successful, verified open-source low-code platform with significant market presence (Series B funding, ~$50M+ raised, 39k+ GitHub stars, 10k+ organizations). The project demonstrates exceptional Real-World Utility and Technical Innovation, particularly with the new AI Agents features. However, the submission quality was extremely poor, featuring hyperbolic claims ('most people have used my product') and misused data fields ('marketcap' for revenue/funding). Despite the low-quality submission, the project's objective verifiable traction warrants a high score, adjusted downward for the lack of provided evidence and lazy response quality.

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Score Breakdown

Real World Utility+225.0
Audience Reach Impact+140.0
Technical Innovation+127.5
Evidence Of Traction+180.0
Market Timing Relevance+95.0
Functional Completeness+5.0
Subtotal+772.5
Usefulness Multiplierx0.86
Final Score+664

Project Details

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Description
Appsmith helps organizations embrace AI at work with low-code tools to build, deploy, and maintain custom agents and applications. With Appsmith, organizations can streamline operations, automate processes, and quickly integrate a wide range of applications and data to unlock productivity for operations, go-to-market, people, data, and engineering teams. Appsmith Agents is an agentic AI platform that integrates the latest AI models with private and proprietary data at scale — inside the tools and systems that teams use every day. By giving continuous context to these AI models, Appsmith Agents lets teams ask questions and configure automations specific to their business without model fine-tuning or complex RAG implementations. The Appsmith low-code platform is an open-source application platform that simplifies custom application development for businesses. With integrations across AI models, Appsmith makes it easy for teams to build applications and interfaces for AI actions like text analysis and summary, image classification, and semantic search. Unlike traditional low-code platforms, the Appsmith platform is lightweight, extremely developer-friendly, and designed to fully integrate within modern SDLC processes. Appsmith allows full-stack and backend developers, systems administrators, and data teams to quickly build agents that embed within their existing tools (Salesforce, Zendesk, Slack, Gmail, etc.), dashboards, admin panels, customer 360, IT automation, and service management applications that span multiple data sources.

Algorithm Insights

Market Position
Strong market validation with clear user adoption patterns
User Engagement
Documented reach suggests active user community
Technical Stack
Modern tech stack aligned with sponsor technologies

Recommendations to Increase Usefulness Score

Document User Growth

Provide specific metrics on user acquisition and retention rates

Showcase Revenue Model

Detail sustainable monetization strategy and current revenue streams

Expand Evidence Base

Include testimonials, case studies, and third-party validation

Technical Roadmap

Share development milestones and feature completion timeline