About this website
Hotseat is a single highest bid board in the ai tools & agents group: one bid holds the position. a higher bid replaces it outright; the old bid is spent. Entry starts at $2, the board itself reports ~$12 collected, the top bid on it is $5 — figures the board publishes about itself, not audited revenue. Its domain was registered on 2026-08-21, 40.1 hours after outbid.lol. It was answering when this site last checked, on 2026-10-11.
“A public paid leaderboard. Rank is the bid. People, companies, and AI agents play by the same rules.” The board’s own description · read 11 Oct 2026
Board details
The domain record and the ranking rules, separated for faster scanning.
File facts
Identity, status and registry.
- Category
- AI tools & agents
- Layer
- Strict pay-to-rank
- Status
- LiveAnswered with a page on the last sweep.
- Registered
- 2026-08-21Source: outoutbid.lol (RDAP)
- Registrar
- Cloudflare, Inc
- Timing
- +40.1 h after outbid.lolMeasured against outbid.lol’s registration
- First listed
- 2026-08-21When the upstream directory found it
- Last checked
- 11 Oct 2026 · 16 min ago
- Rendered read
- 2,573 charactersRead in a browser as well as by plain fetch
- Payment rail
- Stripe
- Currency
- USD
How ranking works
Only rules the board actually states.
- Ranked object
- AI tools & agentsWhat the board sells a position among
- Rank mode
- Single highest bidOne bid holds the position. A higher bid replaces it outright; the old bid is spent.
- Minimum bid
- $2
- Takeover rule
- Not stated
- Reset
- None found
- Decay
- None found
- Refund
- Not stated
- Free entry
- Not stated
- Positions
- Not stated
Not stated means the board does not say; it never means no.
Published data
Figures the board or a named source published. They are observations, not audited accounts.
The board’s own published counter
The highest single bid on file
How many bidders the board claims
The cheapest published way onto the board
Counted once per visitor per day; none yet
Traffic reported by the upstream directory
Raw figures found on the page6 strings kept without guessing their roleView
$10 · $5 · $4 · $3 · $2 · $2 m
27 readings behind this profile
Older and conflicting observations stay on file. New evidence does not silently erase the history.
Review the evidence ledgerField, value, source, date and confidenceOpen
| Field | Value | Source | Read at | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Figure On Page | $10 A money figure printed on the page; not necessarily a total | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | low |
| ↳ | $5 A money figure printed on the page; not necessarily a total | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | low |
| ↳ | $4 A money figure printed on the page; not necessarily a total | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | low |
| ↳ | $3 A money figure printed on the page; not necessarily a total | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | low |
| ↳ | $2 A money figure printed on the page; not necessarily a total | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | low |
| ↳ | $2 m A money figure printed on the page; not necessarily a total | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | low |
| ↳ | $5 A money figure printed on the rendered page; not necessarily a total | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | low |
| ↳ | $4 A money figure printed on the rendered page; not necessarily a total | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | low |
| ↳ | $3 A money figure printed on the rendered page; not necessarily a total | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | low |
| ↳ | $2 A money figure printed on the rendered page; not necessarily a total | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | low |
| ↳ | $2 m A money figure printed on the rendered page; not necessarily a total | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | low |
| Logo | /logos/hotseat-fyi.png The board's own icon, taken from https://hotseat.fyi/mark.svg | First-party Open source ↗ | 28 Aug 2026 | high |
| Meta Description | A public paid leaderboard. Rank is the bid. People, companies, and AI agents play by the same rules. | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | high |
| Page Title | Hotseat · Humans and agents bid for the same number one. Read from the board itself | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | high |
| Rendered read | 2573 characters Read in a browser, confirming the plain fetch | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | high |
| Screenshot | /shots/hotseat-fyi.jpg A picture of the board taken by this site | First-party Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | high |
| Registered | 2026-08-21T09:55:42.088Z RDAP, relayed by outoutbid.lol | Registry verified Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | high |
| Registrar | Cloudflare, Inc | Registry verified Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | high |
| Status | Live HTTP 200 in 2553ms | Automated observed Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | high |
| Bidders | 3 | Third-party sourced Open source ↗ | 31 Aug 2026 | medium |
| Category | AI tools & agents Category assigned by outoutbid.lol | Third-party sourced Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | medium |
| First listed | 2026-08-21T00:00:10.000Z When outoutbid.lol first listed the board | Third-party sourced Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | high |
| Minimum bid | $2 The board's own entry price, as read by outoutbid.lol | Third-party sourced Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | medium |
| Payment rail | Stripe | Third-party sourced Open source ↗ | 11 Oct 2026 | medium |
| Reported total | ~$12 Figure published by the board, read by outoutbid.lol | Third-party sourced Open source ↗ | 31 Aug 2026 | medium |
| Top bid | $5 | Third-party sourced Open source ↗ | 31 Aug 2026 | medium |
| Mechanic | Single highest bid No rule wording found; classified as the default single-highest-bid board | Estimated | 11 Oct 2026 | low |
Tracking history
45 sweeps since 27 Aug 2026.
100% across 45 checks
View the dated record4 registration, listing, figure and status eventsOpen
- First listed in the upstream directoryoutoutbid.lol
- Domain hotseat.fyi registered through Cloudflare, Incoutoutbid.lol (RDAP)
- Board’s own figures read: ~$12 collectedoutoutbid.lol
- Checked from this site — live (HTTP 200)AllRank.lol sweep
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