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Market for AI model inference — future capacity, bought today
HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States | Founded: 2026 | Employees: 2 | Stage: Seed (Y Combinator S26) | Website: https://touchmark.ai
Touchmark runs a marketplace for buying AI computing capacity in advance. A buyer picks a model and a future month, buys a fixed block of tokens at a posted price, then uses them through one key that works like any other AI provider. Committing earlier buys a bigger discount — the company describes up to 20% below list price, and up to 30% or more for large orders negotiated directly. Payment is in dollars. On the other side, model providers sell capacity ahead of time, which locks in revenue up front and helps them plan and pay for new chips against demand they can see instead of guessing. Touchmark sells ordinary blocks on named models; a 'Top-1' contract that lets a buyer commit to whichever model ends up leading a published ranking before it is chosen; and contracts on models that have
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