What makes the BBS Score different?
The incumbent legal-tech directory ranks products with an unexplained black box. Build Buy Software was built as the structural opposite: the BBS Score is a 0–100 formula with published weights, computed from public evidence only — and it is unbuyable. Sponsorship appears in zero ranking queries; paid placement cannot touch a score.
Built like a data product, not a listicle
- Provenance fields on every product, and figure re-verification after every data change — 27 published articles in which every statistic is computed from the database itself.
- A State of Legal Tech 2026 report (plus generated PDF) computed live from the directory’s own data, and a 48-prompt legal-AI prompt library.
- A CI quality gate that fails the build on hype vocabulary or editorial violations.
- Strategy grounded in a 20-track, adversarially-verified research program.
Where it sits in the story
Ali is Product & Editorial Lead: he directs the product and bylines its data-analysis articles. The credibility hook is earned, not claimed — he previously led product on Paralegent AI, so the directory’s analysis of the legal-AI market comes from someone who has actually built in it. The venture is pre-launch: built, content-complete, and verified on a private preview, with the domain decided but not yet live.