Frankie C.
Senior Market Researcher, Mindber
Tracks 500+ AI and SaaS tools through the Mindber Innovation Index and Mindber Functionality Score methodology.
About
Frankie C. is Mindber's senior market researcher, covering the economics of AI and SaaS tooling — pricing, total cost of ownership, adoption, and where buyer money actually goes versus where vendors say it does.
Every figure Frankie publishes is traced to a named source and dated. The work is AI-assisted editorial analysis of public pricing pages and third-party research, not hands-on product testing — and the disclosure is always on the page. Numbers that can't be confirmed against a live source are dropped, not guessed.
How Frankie works
- Scores tools on the Mindber Innovation Index and Functionality Score — with the underlying sources shown, not asserted.
- Every price and statistic is dated and linked to a named publisher; unconfirmable figures are dropped, not estimated.
- Read the data sources and editorial standards behind every report.
Latest by Frankie C.
Google's AI Brain Drain: Shazeer and Jumper Leave
Noam Shazeer left Google for OpenAI and John Jumper left DeepMind for Anthropic in one week — why the AI talent drain hit Alphabet stock and the race.
Loop Engineering: Why Top Engineers Stopped Prompting Their AI
Design the system that prompts your AI agents, not the prompts themselves. What works in production today, what doesn't, and when to skip it entirely.
The True Cost of AI Tools in 2026: Sticker vs Reality
The true cost of AI tools in 2026 runs ~8x the sticker price — a fully-sourced TCO report on LLM API pricing, 7 hidden costs, and how to model it.
The AI Shelfware Epidemic: Why 46% of Software Licenses Go Dark (2026 Data)
AI shelfware drains budgets: 46% of SaaS licenses sit unused monthly and 72% of enterprise AI initiatives destroy value. The 2026 data and a 30-minute audit.
Opus 4.8 Cost Calculator: When It Beats Sonnet & GPT-5.5
Opus 4.8 API cost calculator vs Sonnet 4.6, Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.5. Break-even workloads, smart-routing saves ~32%, per-model cache rates. Any currency.
PDPA & PDPC AI Agent Procurement Guide (2026)
PDPA and PDPC AI agent procurement guide for MY/SG teams: data residency, DPA clauses, vendor due diligence, breach notices, and rollout paths.