YC AI visibility / Summer 2014

Most AI-visible companies in YC Summer 2014

We scored 8 active B2B and fintech companies from Y Combinator's Summer 2014 batch on how easily ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and AI agents can find, understand and use them. UserGems leads with 100/100. Data from our crawl on October 18, 2026; scores are a homepage snapshot, not live.

86

Summer 2014 average score

77

All-YC average (+9 for this batch)

63%

of this batch have no llms.txt (all YC: 55%)

#CompanyScoreCrawlersContentSchemaAgents
1UserGems
usergems.com
100100100100100
2Hive
hive.co
959587100100
3ShipBob
shipbob.com
931008910083
4Checkr
checkr.com
861009410047
5Permutive
permutive.com
841009410035
6SFOX
sfox.com
83100876764
7Clear
clear.in
79957610047
8Protocol Labs
protocol.ai
67100722038

Sub-scores: Crawlers = AI crawler access, Content = answer-engine content, Schema = structured data, Agents = agent readiness (llms.txt, API/MCP). Ties share a rank.

YC Summer 2014 vs all of YC

AreaSummer 2014All YC
Overall score8677
AI crawler access9993
Answer-engine content8782
Structured data8662
Agent readiness6456

Most common gaps in YC Summer 2014

No question & answer content88% (all YC: 71%)
No discoverable API or MCP for agents63% (all YC: 87%)
No llms.txt63% (all YC: 55%)
Weak title tag38% (all YC: 18%)
Missing or multiple H125% (all YC: 27%)
Weak or missing meta description25% (all YC: 32%)
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Methodology: how the YC dataset was built. Batch labels come from Y Combinator's public directory; RankRoot is not affiliated with Y Combinator.