YC AI visibility / Summer 2016

Most AI-visible companies in YC Summer 2016

We scored 15 active B2B and fintech companies from Y Combinator's Summer 2016 batch on how easily ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and AI agents can find, understand and use them. Bird leads with 98/100. Data from our crawl on October 18, 2026; scores are a homepage snapshot, not live.

73

Summer 2016 average score

77

All-YC average (-4 for this batch)

80%

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

#CompanyScoreCrawlersContentSchemaAgents
1Bird
bird.com
9810094100100
2People.ai
people.ai
969593100100
3Instrumentl
instrumentl.com
93959410083
4Expo
expo.dev
901009410064
5Scale AI
scale.com
811008510035
6Airfordable
airfordable.com
75100942047
6Circa
circa.co
75100942047
8Vetcove
vetcove.com
7495942047
9SmartPath
joinsmartpath.com
7295872047
10Nova Credit
novacredit.com
6995782047
11HiOperator
hioperator.com
6395742026
12Legalist
legalist.com
609559838
13OneChronos
onechronos.com
598076835
14Boletomovil
boletomovil.com
5685318826
15Rose Rocket
roserocket.com
398213826

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 2016 vs all of YC

AreaSummer 2016All YC
Overall score7377
AI crawler access9493
Answer-engine content7782
Structured data4962
Agent readiness5156

Most common gaps in YC Summer 2016

No question & answer content80% (all YC: 71%)
No discoverable API or MCP for agents80% (all YC: 87%)
No llms.txt80% (all YC: 55%)
No JSON-LD structured data at all60% (all YC: 43%)
No product / organization schema60% (all YC: 46%)
Missing or multiple H147% (all YC: 27%)
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