Why are there so few independent eval startups?

Why eval startups fail May 8 th , 2025 Why are there so few independent eval startups? Whenever there's a new AI trend, like agents, or voice, or voice agents, developers are faced with a flurry of options, and a subset of them are convinced that there's a business opportunity in identifying the best models and selling that knowledge to other developers—that is, selling evals. I've seen this in…