{
 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "clutch",
 "name": "Clutch",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "clutch.co",
 "category": "Operations & Workflow",
 "task": null,
 "summary": "B2B services marketplace — submit a free project brief and get matched with verified, best-fit agencies for your project, no research required.",
 "best_for": "businesses that want to skip manual agency research and get matched quickly with vetted, best-fit service providers for a specific project",
 "skip_if": "you already have trusted agency relationships, or you'd rather research independently without agencies contacting you",
 "honest_knock": "It's genuinely free to submit a brief — but be clear on what it is: a lead-generation marketplace, not a neutral directory. Your brief goes straight to agencies who will reach out to pitch you, and providers pay to be visible and matched. It's a fast way to shortlist vetted agencies; just expect the outreach that comes with it.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "see_details",
  "entry_price": null,
  "entry_price_terms": null,
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(re-verified 2026-10-02 and again on 2026-10-06, read in their own help centre) Free for buyers. Clutch's help centre describes the Project Brief as the buyer's route in, and the article on sending one states that Clutch recommends up to 9 service providers that best match your project requirements, with no fee named anywhere in that flow. Clutch is a B2B services marketplace — the providers being listed pay for visibility, the buyer does not, and the help centre says plainly that directory listings are sorted by sponsored providers and Clutch rank. A free provider profile covers the listing, client review collection, badges and widgets, contributed content, awards eligibility, up to 3 sharable case studies and a profile on sister-site The Manifest; Sponsorship, Featured Listings and Clutch Verified (previously Clutch+) are the paid upgrades on top.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-06",
  "source_url": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "G2",
  "why": "G2 and traditional directories make you scroll and compare yourself; Clutch's brief-matching narrows it to a handful of vetted providers fast — the trade-off is that it's a matching marketplace where you'll field agency outreach"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/clutch.json",
  "review": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/clutch-review/",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/clutch/",
  "vendor_site": "https://clutch.co"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://start.clutch.co/76rethb2evjx",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Pricing status is 'see_details': no single public entry price.",
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "clutch:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "clutch:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "clutch:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "clutch:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": {
   "what": "Remote read-only server at bot.clutch.co/mcp: search their directory of 300,000+ verified service providers, pull client reviews complete with project scope, budget band and timeline, and browse fixed-price service packages. No SDK and no local install — their setup is the URL and nothing else.",
   "plan": "Not stated. Their page names no plan, no price, no account and no API key — the example configuration is a bare URL with no credentials in it.",
   "status": "Live",
   "source": "https://clutch.co/about-mcp",
   "checked": "2026-07-28",
   "note": "The vendor's own MCP server, from our MCP research; it works with your own account at the vendor."
  },
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_checked",
   "detail": "We could not read the vendor's pages as plain HTML.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}