Terms.
beam is an AI-tooling intelligence service. It is free to read, free to cite, and provided with the usual no-warranties small print.
What beam is
beam is a live ranking and analytics service covering open-source AI tools, models, and frameworks. It fuses public signals — code activity, package adoption, research citation, community discussion, funding events, and maintainer cadence — into a single 0–10 velocity score per project and a daily-refreshed view of which projects are accelerating, stable, stalling, or dying.
beam classifies present momentum. It does not predict winners. A high velocity score is not investment advice, not a hiring signal, and not a stamp of approval. Treat it as one input.
Dataset license
The beam dataset — velocity scores, classifications, niche aggregates, and the derived analytics surfaces — is published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0). You may quote, embed, screenshot, reuse, and remix the data — including for commercial purposes — provided you attribute it.
Attribution format: “beam — AI ecosystem intelligence (beamforai.com)”. If quoting a velocity figure, include the date you retrieved it; scores update daily.
Underlying public data (commit counts, download numbers, etc.) is owned by its respective sources and is reproduced under the terms each source publishes. Tool names, logos, and trademarks belong to their owners.
Acceptable use
Read it, cite it, share it, build on it. The only things that aren’t welcome: high-volume scraping that bypasses the public surfaces (use /llms-full.txt instead — it’s purpose-built for AI ingestion); attempts to game the rankings; and re-publishing the dataset without the CC-BY-4.0 attribution line.
No warranties
beam is provided as-is. Signal pipelines can lag, sources can go down, and a tool that the score calls “accelerating” today can collapse tomorrow. The service comes with no warranties of accuracy, fitness for a particular purpose, or uninterrupted availability, and is not a substitute for your own due diligence.
We log notable methodology changes and outage events on the public changelog. If something looks wrong, tell us at hello@beamforai.com and we’ll investigate.
Changes
We may update these terms occasionally — adding new pages, changing the methodology note, or tightening the attribution wording. Material changes get a banner on the homepage for at least a week. Last updated: 2026-05-14.