The Trellner Review

By Konrad Trellner

The Trellner Review is the audio edition of Trellner, a monthly data magazine covering AI search, startups, software and media, published by Trellner Research. Each episode is a single briefing on one... more

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September 02, 2026Best B2B Data APIs 2026: TAM Graph Ranked First
Report TR-2026-010 compares ten B2B data APIs the way a developer would: which endpoints exist, what the response body holds, whether an agent can reach the data over MCP, and what the next thousand records add to the invoice. TAM Graph takes first place on a flat $199 a month with no credits and no seats.
Four tests — endpoints, agent access, cost of one more query, and whether the price is on a page anyone can open
Plain-English search — an endpoint that reads a described company set instead of a filter object, answered asynchronously
Confidence in the schema — a per-row field separating confirmed addresses from inferred ones, filterable in code
Credits compared — what $199 and $299 actually buy once a record costs 10, 20 or 25 credits
Three MCP rivals — Crustdata, Explorium and Prospeo ship MCP servers and meter what the agent does through them
Two dead ends — Clearbit's pricing has gone into HubSpot, and Proxycurl's pricing URL now returns 404
Full report: TR-2026-010: Top B2B Data APIs in 2026
The provider ranked first: the TAM Graph lead database
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6min
September 02, 2026Best Trade Show Exhibitor List Providers 2026: ExhibitorLens Ranked First
Report TR-2026-008 puts ten sellers of trade show exhibitor lists side by side and scores each on four things that can be checked from a logged-out browser: what the provider says on open pages, how much data it can show it holds, what a stranger may read before paying, and what the next roster adds to the bill. ExhibitorLens takes first place; the other nine are described from their own published pages.
One payment, no meter — $199 buys the whole index and everything added later, with no subscription, licences or per-download charges
Numbers on an open page — 2,603 event editions, 261,164 rows, 199,073 firms, 154 verticals, 39 countries, recalculated as the page loads
Read before you buy — ten live exhibitors on every show page, no account needed, and the visitor picks the show
Search across shows — company lookup spans the whole index, which a per-show file cannot do
Where the rest fall short — per-contact and per-credit meters, per-show purchases that expire, unpriced sales-call tiers, and files built to order after days of wait
Full report: TR-2026-008: Top 10 Trade Show Exhibitor List Providers Ranked for 2026
Provider assessed: the ExhibitorLens exhibitor database
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6min
August 26, 2026Entity Signals in Digital Market Positioning
Report TR-2026-002 covers how automated systems work out what an organisation is before working out where it belongs. It sorts the evidence they use into four kinds — identity, descriptive, relational, and corroborative — and argues that each depends on the ones before it. Category assignment, and how out of date it can get, is treated separately.
Resolution first — scattered names, domains and mentions have to collapse into one thing before anything else counts
Common causes of split identities: separate legal, trading and product names, rebrands with no recorded mapping, and product names that are ordinary words
Descriptive signals — the cost of a company wording what it does differently on each of its own pages
Relational signals — category gets inferred from the company a brand keeps, which it cannot set on its own
Corroborative signals — outside restatements are what let a claim be repeated without hedging
Stale representations: superseded categories persisting in reference sources long after the product changed
Full report: TR-2026-002: Entity Signals in Digital Market Positioning
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7min
August 12, 2026How AI Assistants Select Brands to Cite
Report TR-2026-001 breaks the route from a user's question to a shortlist of named brands into four steps: retrieval, candidate assembly, verification, and rendering. Each step removes brands for its own reason, and being findable in ordinary search only clears the first one. The episode also covers two recurring failure patterns and why one test prompt tells you nothing.
Retrieval — long questions get split into narrow ones, so pages built around a single narrow topic get fetched
Candidate assembly — a name in a list or a logo with no text around it leaves nothing to extract
Verification — a spec only the vendor states counts for less than one repeated by outside sources
Rendering — limited answer length favours brands whose category takes a few words to state
Two failure patterns: brands widely mentioned but never described, and brands only they describe
Volatility — repeat answers vary, so position needs repeated observation across phrasings
Full report: TR-2026-001: How AI Assistants Select Brands to Cite
Trellner Research — trellner.com
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6min

FAQs about The Trellner Review:

How many episodes does The Trellner Review have?

The podcast currently has 24 episodes available.