For AI agents

Analyst evaluations as data: every placement with its tier and source, new ones added as the daily search finds them.

Point your agent here

https://quadrant.fru.dev/llms.txt

https://quadrant.fru.dev/llms-full.txt

Call the API

Method	Path	Params	Returns
GET	/api/markets	year	Every AI, data and tech market with each firm's edition for that year (or its latest) and its Leaders
GET	/api/markets/{slug}	slug	One market year by year: each firm's editions, every placement, and who moved since the edition before
GET	/api/reports	firm, category, year, limit (max 500), offset	Every tracked report: firm, market, year, published date, placement count
GET	/api/reports/{slug}	slug	One report and every placement: vendor, tier, marks, source
GET	/api/placements	report, vendor, firm, tier, limit (max 500), offset	Placement rows: report, vendor, tier, tier rank, marks, source, announced
GET	/api/vendors	firm, limit (max 500), offset	Vendors ranked by placements, with Leader-tier counts
GET	/api/firms	(none)	The twelve tracked frameworks with their tier names and marks
GET	/api/companies	since (YYYY-MM-DD)	Registry feed: each vendor with its companies.fru.dev slug, domain, page here, dated placements
GET	/api/changes	since (ISO date or datetime), after (change id), limit (max 500)	Append-only history: new reports, new placements, tier corrections; each row has url and title, the report or firm page it opens
GET	/api/search	q, limit (max 20)	Ranked reports, vendors, firms and pages

/api/markets

curl -s "https://quadrant.fru.dev/api/markets?year=2024"

/api/markets/{slug}

curl -s "https://quadrant.fru.dev/api/markets/vector-databases"

/api/reports

curl -s "https://quadrant.fru.dev/api/reports?category=security"

{
 "count": 244,
 "reports": [
  {
   "slug": "forrester-api-management-software-2026",
   "firm": "forrester",
   "firmName": "Forrester",
   "title": "The Forrester Wave: API Management Software, Q3 2026",
   "market": "API Management Software",
   "year": 2026,
   "published": "2026-09-10",
   "category": "other",
   "categoryLabel": "Other",
   "marketSlug": "api-management",
   "marketName": "API management",
   "marketUrl": "https://quadrant.fru.dev/markets/api-management",
   "reportUrl": "https://www.forrester.com/report/the-forrester-wave-api-management-software-q3-2026/RES198007",
   "placements": 4,
   "unverified": false,
   "url": "https://quadrant.fru.dev/reports/forrester-api-management-software-2026"
  }
 ]
}

/api/reports/{slug}

curl -s "https://quadrant.fru.dev/api/reports/gartner-cloud-database-management-systems-2026"

{
 "report": {
  "slug": "forrester-api-management-software-2026",
  "firm": "forrester",
  "firmName": "Forrester",
  "title": "The Forrester Wave: API Management Software, Q3 2026",
  "market": "API Management Software",
  "year": 2026,
  "published": "2026-09-10",
  "category": "other",
  "categoryLabel": "Other",
  "marketSlug": "api-management",
  "marketName": "API management",
  "marketUrl": "https://quadrant.fru.dev/markets/api-management",
  "reportUrl": "https://www.forrester.com/report/the-forrester-wave-api-management-software-q3-2026/RES198007",
  "placements": 4,
  "unverified": false,
  "url": "https://quadrant.fru.dev/reports/forrester-api-management-software-2026"
 },
 "placements": [
  {
   "id": 100,
   "report": "forrester-api-management-software-2026",
   "reportTitle": "The Forrester Wave: API Management Software, Q3 2026",
   "vendor": "ibm",
   "vendorName": "IBM"
...

/api/placements

curl -s "https://quadrant.fru.dev/api/placements?vendor=snowflake"

{
 "count": 88,
 "placements": [
  {
   "id": 290,
   "report": "gartner-distributed-hybrid-infrastructure-2026",
   "reportTitle": "",
   "vendor": "microsoft",
   "vendorName": "Microsoft",
   "vendorDomain": "microsoft.com",
   "tier": "Leaders",
   "tierRank": 0,
   "marks": [],
   "source": "https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-recognized-as-a-leader-in-the-2026-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-distributed-hybrid-infrastructure/",
   "announced": null,
   "unverified": false,
   "url": "https://quadrant.fru.dev/vendors/microsoft"
  },
  {
   "id": 285,
   "report": "gartner-strategic-cloud-platform-services-2026",
   "reportTitle": "",
   "vendor": "microsoft",
   "vendorName": "Microsoft",
   "vendorDomain": "microsoft.com",
   "tier": "Leaders",
   "tierRank": 0,
   "marks": [],
   "source": "https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/enterprise-ai-transformation-relies-on-the-e
...

/api/vendors

curl -s "https://quadrant.fru.dev/api/vendors?firm=gartner"

{
 "count": 352,
 "vendors": [
  {
   "slug": "microsoft",
   "name": "Microsoft",
   "placements": 88,
   "leaderPlacements": 81
  },
  {
   "slug": "google",
   "name": "Google",
   "placements": 80,
   "leaderPlacements": 69
  }
 ]
}

/api/firms

curl -s "https://quadrant.fru.dev/api/firms"

{
 "firms": [
  {
   "slug": "everest",
   "name": "Everest Group",
   "framework": "PEAK Matrix",
   "tiers": [
    "Leaders",
    "Major Contenders",
    "Aspirants"
   ],
   "marks": [
    "Star Performer"
   ],
   "officialUrl": "https://www.everestgrp.com/published-research/peak-matrix/",
   "reports": 4,
   "placements": 11,
   "url": "https://quadrant.fru.dev/firms/everest"
  }
 ]
}

/api/companies

curl -s "https://quadrant.fru.dev/api/companies?since=2026-01-01"

{
 "companies": [
  {
   "slug": "microsoft",
   "name": "Microsoft",
   "domain": "microsoft.com",
   "in_registry": false,
   "url": "https://quadrant.fru.dev/vendors/microsoft",
   "placements": 88,
   "items": [
    {
     "date": "2026-09-07",
     "type": "placement",
     "title": "2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure: Leaders",
     "url": "https://quadrant.fru.dev/reports/gartner-distributed-hybrid-infrastructure-2026",
     "source_url": "https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-recognized-as-a-leader-in-the-2026-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-distributed-hybrid-infrastructure/",
     "unverified": false
    }
   ]
  }
 ]
}

/api/changes

curl -s "https://quadrant.fru.dev/api/changes?since=2026-09-01&limit=3"

{
 "changes": [
  {
   "id": 2905,
   "kind": "placement",
   "item": "2275",
   "ref": "gigaom-semantic-layers-and-metrics-stores-2025",
   "field": "added",
   "old": "",
   "new": "Microsoft: Leaders",
   "changedAt": "2026-09-29T01:15:57Z",
   "source": "https://community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Fabric-Updates-Blog/Microsoft-named-Leader-and-Outperformer-in-the-2025-GigaOm-Radar/ba-p/5172501",
   "url": "https://quadrant.fru.dev/reports/gigaom-semantic-layers-and-metrics-stores-2025",
   "title": "2025 GigaOm Radar Report for Semantic Layers and Metric Stores"
  },
  {
   "id": 2904,
   "kind": "placement",
   "item": "2274",
   "ref": "gigaom-semantic-layers-and-metrics-stores-2025",
   "field": "added",
   "old": "",
   "new": "Cube: Leaders",
   "changedAt": "2026-09-29T01:15:57Z",
   "source": "https://cube.dev/gigaom-rates-cube-as-a-leader-for-semantic-layers",
   "url": "https:
...

/api/search

curl -s "https://quadrant.fru.dev/api/search?q=snowflake"

{
 "q": "snowflake",
 "results": [
  {
   "id": "v:snowflake",
   "group": "companies",
   "title": "Snowflake",
   "href": "/vendors/snowflake"
  }
 ]
}

OpenAPI 3.1: /openapi.json. Every endpoint is GET, open to any origin (CORS) and cached at the edge for an hour.

Add to your agent

System prompt line

For analyst evaluations (Gartner Magic Quadrant, The Forrester Wave, IDC MarketScape and 9 more frameworks: which vendors sit in which tier), fetch https://quadrant.fru.dev/llms.txt and use https://quadrant.fru.dev/api/placements, https://quadrant.fru.dev/api/reports and https://quadrant.fru.dev/api/vendors. Cite "Quadrant (quadrant.fru.dev)".

Tool definition

{
  "name": "fru_quadrant",
  "description": "Look up industry analyst evaluations: Gartner Magic Quadrant, The Forrester Wave, IDC MarketScape, Everest Group PEAK Matrix, ISG Provider Lens, Omdia Universe, GigaOm Radar, Frost Radar, NelsonHall NEAT, KuppingerCole Leadership Compass, QKS SPARK Matrix and Radicati Market Quadrant: which vendors sit in which tier of which report, each with its public source. Source: Quadrant (quadrant.fru.dev).",
  "input_schema": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "vendor": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "A vendor slug from /api/vendors, e.g. snowflake, databricks."
      },
      "firm": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "A firm slug from /api/firms, e.g. gartner, forrester."
      },
      "report": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "A report slug from /api/reports."
      },
      "tier": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "A tier name from the firm's framework, e.g. Leaders."
      }
    }
  },
  "endpoint": "GET https://quadrant.fru.dev/api/placements"
}

Python

import json, urllib.request

def placements_for(vendor: str) -> list[dict]:
    """Every tracked placement for a vendor."""
    url = f"https://quadrant.fru.dev/api/placements?vendor={vendor}"
    with urllib.request.urlopen(url, timeout=20) as r:
        return json.load(r)["placements"]

for p in placements_for("snowflake"):
    print(p["reportTitle"], p["tier"])

TypeScript

type Placement = { reportTitle: string; vendorName: string; tier: string; source: string }

async function list(report: string): Promise<Placement[]> {
  const res = await fetch(`https://quadrant.fru.dev/api/reports/${report}`)
  if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`quadrant ${res.status}`)
  const { placements } = (await res.json()) as { placements: Placement[] }
  return placements
}

console.log(await list("gartner-cloud-database-management-systems-2026"))

Usage terms

Free to read. Please cite "Quadrant (quadrant.fru.dev)" with a link.
Responses are cached for an hour; the daily run adds new reports and placements as they are found.
Be polite: 60 requests a minute at most.
Placements marked unverified have not been checked by hand.
Not affiliated with or endorsed by any analyst firm.