The Snake Oil Index

A patent-pending registry of remedies that cure nothing, replace nobody, and raise everything.

Satire — every score is an opinion, except Buzzword Density, which we actually measure.

Type a domain not on the board and we'll assess it, add it to the registry, and never let it live it down.

RankRemedyOil densityScore
01TheranosBlood testing200 tests from one drop of blood. The drop was real.89
02FTXCrypto exchangeThe safest exchange in crypto, minus the $8B it misplaced.87
03IRLSocial appThe 'In Real Life' app claimed 20 million users; 19 million of them had no life, real or otherwise.85
04a14yAgent readability scoreWrote the spec, built the scorecard, then scored itself 92/100 on its own homepage.85
05Is It Agent Ready?Agent-readiness scannerSat down, decided what AI agents want, and started grading the internet on it.84
06FrankStudent-aid fintechSold 4.25M users to JPMorgan. About 3.95M of them were invented.84
07Virtuals ProtocolCrypto × AIThe agents' only reliable job is being the mascot of their own memecoin.84
08Babylon HealthAI diagnosisThe $4.2B AI doctor was, per one of its own doctors, an if/then tree in an Excel spreadsheet.84
09SearchScore AIAI visibility graderYour 'Revenue Leakage,' computed to the dollar, from a model nobody is allowed to see.82
10NikolaElectric trucksThe truck was 'in motion.' Gravity was the powertrain.82
11ProfoundEnterprise AEOA rank tracker for a search engine with no ranks; the market appraised the absence at $1B.80
12ValidatorAI AgenticAgentic-readiness scannerWarns of the 'agentic takeover,' sells the bunker, and has misplaced the blueprints.80
13uBiomeMicrobiome testingThe poop-testing unicorn whose founders are now international fugitives.80
14NateAI shoppingPurchases completed 'without human intervention,' by hundreds of humans intervening from the Philippines.79
15MultiOnAI web agents'Building a Brighter Future for Humanity with AI Agents' now returns a 301 redirect.79
16Outcome HealthHealthcare advertisingSold pharma ads on screens that didn't exist, in clinics that never saw them.79
17BypassGPTAI humanizingPromises a 99% human score and 10 million users; testing found neither.78
18Builder.aiAI app developmentThe AI was 700 engineers in India; the revenue was as artificial as the intelligence.78
19FriendAI companion hardwareSpent 72% of the seed round on the domain name.78
20Woebot HealthAI mental healthNine figures of funding for a choose-your-own-adventure script.78
21Qualified (Piper)AI SDRAn SDR with a headshot, a pronoun, and a press release for every quarter.78
22BywordSEO content factoryThe getaway vehicle in the internet's most publicized SEO heist.78
23ForwardAI healthcareThe doctor's office of the future, available for a limited time only.78
24Peec AIAI search analyticsRank tracking for chatbots that don't have ranks; the ranks are imaginary, the add-on pricing is not.77
25Bluefish AIAgentic marketingThe 2012 social-listening playbook, re-run on chatbots, with 'agentic' where 'social' used to be.77
26BrandlightEnterprise AI visibilityDeclared itself #1 in a category it helped invent last year.77
27AI-Powered ConsultingAI readiness quizDiagnoses your enterprise in three minutes; discussing the diagnosis takes a retainer.77
2811xAI SDR agentsThe 'digital worker' whose most automated process was manufacturing customers.77
29ASI AllianceCrypto × AIThe singularity, achieved via token swap at a 0.433 conversion rate.77
30PhraslyAI humanizerTurns your robot homework into artisanal, small-batch robot homework.77
31GumshoeAI answer simulationFake AI people ask real AI chatbots about your brand. $99 to read the transcript.76
32AEO EngineAEO agencyRanked #1 in every category, on every list, all of which it wrote.76
33WebMCP CheckerProtocol-readiness checkerSells implementation of an API so unfinished it offers to email you when it becomes real.76
34ArtisanAI SDR agentsPut 'Stop Hiring Humans' on billboards, then kept hiring humans.76
35Final Round AIInterview copilotA teleprompter for the version of you that the hiring manager will never meet.76
36Am I on AI?AI visibility checkingThe real product is the $2,500/mo 'council' the free score scares you into.75
37Scrunch AIAI customer experienceServes robots a nicer version of your website than humans get — a practice with a twenty-year-old name.75
38Mention NetworkE-commerce AI monitoringPromises to 'fix' what ChatGPT recommends, signed by no founders, no entity, and no address.75
39Ozy MediaDigital mediaFaked its audience so thoroughly the COO had to fake a YouTube exec to vouch for it.75
40Terraform LabsAlgorithmic stablecoinThe stablecoin was algorithmic; so, it turned out, was the stability.75
40 of 279 tonics decanted