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Introducing the FifthRow Marketplace

19 August, 2025
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Jan Beránek
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For decades, enterprises have relied on consultants and armies of analysts to handle their most critical questions. The model worked – but it came at a price: slow turnarounds, high costs, and inconsistent results.

Consulting-as-Software Becomes Real

When a Fortune 500 company wants a market entry analysis, the traditional playbook looks the same: issue an RFP, wait six weeks, and pay $200,000 for a deck. By the time it lands, the market may already have shifted. That world ends today.

With the launch of the FifthRow Marketplace, consulting-as-software is now real – and available on demand.

The Problem We’re Solving

When critical questions land on the table – evaluating a startup, sizing a new market, running foresight, tracking regulation – leaders face the same bottlenecks:

  • Consulting firms are slow, expensive, and built for one-off projects.
  • Internal teams are constrained by bandwidth, budgets, or expertise.
  • The result: delayed decisions, missed opportunities, and innovation stalled.

FifthRow changes this equation. You can now access the same caliber of consulting workflows – but at 10% of the cost and a fraction of the time. Outputs are repeatable, consistent, and executive-ready in minutes instead of months.

Our Journey to the Marketplace

May 2023 – The Venture Builder App

We began with a bold question: could autonomous agents replicate the work of consultants end-to-end? The Venture Builder App proved the answer was yes. By encoding venture-building playbooks into software, we showed that what once required full consulting teams could be automated into repeatable, trustworthy workflows.

April 2024 – From App to Platform

Customers quickly asked: “Can you do for research, foresight, and compliance what you did for venture building?” To answer, we expanded into a full platform, orchestrating multiple agents together. This unlocked an entirely new category – complex analysis workflows that spanned far beyond single use cases.

January 2025 – Orchestration at Scale

We rolled out multi-agent orchestration at scale. For seven months, enterprise customers in finance, energy, and insurance battle-tested the system. From regulation tracking to innovation scouting, it proved it could handle the rigor, depth, and reliability that Fortune 500 organizations demand.

Now – The Marketplace Launch

Today, the Marketplace brings this capability to everyone: 120+ expert-built Apps and Flows, each encoding a consulting workflow in software. What started as a single application has become a catalog of intelligence – on demand, repeatable, and instantly scalable.

What’s Inside the Marketplace

blog_marketplace_list.jpg Every App in the Marketplace is expert-built, encoding proven consulting playbooks designed by domain specialists. Each is powered by autonomous teams of agents working in concert to deliver complete, cited, and presentation-ready outputs.

Deliverables are exportable into PDF, Word, or PowerPoint – and every run is benchmarked against analyst hours, giving you a transparent measure of the time and cost saved.

For enterprises, the impact is transformative. A consultant report that once cost $200,000 and required 4–6 weeks can now be replicated in minutes at a fraction of the cost. Projects previously shelved due to bandwidth can now be executed repeatably, on demand. Insights that once required RFPs and procurement cycles are now available as fast as a search query.

Over the past two years, Fortune 500 companies have already put FifthRow to work:

  • Regulation tracking in energy and finance.
  • Innovation scouting in insurance.
  • Competition monitoring across heavily regulated industries.

The results are consistent: man-weeks of work compressed into minutes, at 10% of the traditional cost and a perceived increase of internal FTEs of +40%.

Pricing That Scales With You

We designed pricing to fit how enterprises actually work:

  • Credit-based pay-as-you-go – Prepay credits and use them flexibly across Apps and Flows.
  • Unlimited seats – Make the Marketplace available across your entire team.
  • Enterprise tier – Unlimited usage and unlimited seats for organizations operating at global scale.

The Future of the Marketplace

This launch is just the beginning. Soon, external experts will publish their own Apps and Flows on FifthRow – turning proprietary playbooks, methods, and data into scalable products.

We believe the future of consulting is ambient – always-on intelligence, running in the background, surfacing insights the moment you need them. In this future, standardized analysis belongs to autonomous teams of agents, while human experts focus on judgment, creativity, and strategy.

The FifthRow Marketplace is the operating system for consulting-as-software – not only powering enterprises today, but shaping the emerging agent economy itself.

Explore the Marketplace

The Marketplace is live now! Explore the Marketplace

See some of the biggest apps:

  • Investment Memo – Input a company name or URL, and 44 agents collaborate across financials, market data, and competitive signals to produce a full diligence memo – complete with sources and benchmarking. Investment Memo
  • Strategic Foresight – Horizon scanning, trend analysis, and scenario building, helping leaders navigate uncertainty with confidence. Strategic Foresight
  • War Gaming – Simulate competitor moves and regulatory responses in advance, allowing you to plan before disruption strikes. War Gaming
  • Regulation Monitoring – Always-on compliance intelligence designed for heavily regulated industries like finance, energy, and insurance. Regulation Monitoring

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