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Adobe Spark

Design — Adobe's free creative tool enables users to design polished social media posts and video content…
Designfreemiumest. 2016
▲ Rising
Category standing real
59th pctl · Design
25.7
Signal score
0–100 composite · real
#1,701
Category rank
of 5,141 · real
63th
Universe percentile
vs 79,105 modeled · real
42%
Mortality P(dead)
model est. · model est.

Signal trajectory

real

Signal 11.114.6 across 18 readings (+3.6). Composite of press, GitHub velocity, community heat, liveness and funding.

Cross-sectional profile

percentile rank vs 79,105 modeled products
Signal (universe) real
63
Signal (category) real
59
Profile maturity real
63
Tag breadth real
97
Network position sparse
94
Press footprint sparse
0

Percentiles computed over the modeled cohort (embedding + signal + tags). Sparse dimensions — network and press — reflect that most products have zero, so a single edge or mention lifts the rank; read those with the coverage flag.

Mortality outlook

model estimate
42%
P(inactive)
Moderate risk
Higher risk than 42% of the universe.

This is a model estimate, not a verdict. 78,505 of the 79,105 modeled products are unlabeled and scored by the model only.

  • LightGBM · binary mortality (dead vs surviving)
  • Held-out AUC 0.71 · CV AUC 0.79 ± 0.05 · Brier 0.21
  • Trained on 600 verified labels (150 dead / 450 surviving)
  • Leakage-guarded: excludes status, discontinued_year, profile_maturity
  • Top drivers: tag breadth, signal, vintage, liveness, business model

n=600 is thin → 95% CI on AUC ≈ ±0.10. Treat as a directional signal, not a calibrated probability.

Analyst read

generated from the metrics above · no external narrative

Adobe Spark sits in the 63th percentile of Launch Sentinel's 79,105-product universe by signal, ranked #1,701 of 5,141 in Design. The mortality model puts its probability of going inactive at 42% — a model estimate with a wide confidence band. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 1 linked rival, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges. Signal momentum is positive (WoW +32.3).

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisSignalP(dead)
UNTITLD Appmarketingtag-overlap30.017%
Sprightly by Microsoftdesignsimilar15.769%
Animated Designs by Crellodesignsimilar25.771%
Ripldesignsimilar25.747%
Daily Banner Appdesignsimilar32.925%
Prowdai-toolstag-overlap32.93%
AI QR code generatorai-toolstag-overlap32.95%
GraphicHubdesignsimilar11.493%

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Signal & P(dead) are real / model.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelfreemium
Liveness tierquiet
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.