YC AI visibility / Summer 2017

Most AI-visible companies in YC Summer 2017

We scored 19 active B2B and fintech companies from Y Combinator's Summer 2017 batch on how easily ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and AI agents can find, understand and use them. Officely leads with 96/100. Data from our crawl on October 18, 2026; scores are a homepage snapshot, not live.

79

Summer 2017 average score

77

All-YC average (+2 for this batch)

63%

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

#CompanyScoreCrawlersContentSchemaAgents
1Officely
getofficely.com
9610010010083
2Candidately
candidately.com
959510010083
3D-ID
d-id.com
949510067100
4Cashfree Payments
cashfree.com
93929810083
5Flowspace
flow.space
92949410083
5Thematic
getthematic.com
92949310083
7Ltse
ltse.com
851009110047
8OneLocal
onelocal.com
83958910047
8SafeButler
safebutler.com
83959610035
10tpaga
tpaga.co
81959110035
11FAZZ
fazzfinancial.com
80959410026
11Jerry
jerry.ai
801001002062
13Upfort
upfort.com
79959310026
14Flock Safety
flocksafety.com
78957110047
14Goodcover
goodcover.com
7895876747
16FollowUpThen
followupthen.com
6280712047
1710 By 10
10by10.io
609561835
18Prelim
prelim.com
5310038826
19Standard AI
standard.ai
34728826

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 2017 vs all of YC

AreaSummer 2017All YC
Overall score7977
AI crawler access9493
Answer-engine content8382
Structured data7462
Agent readiness5456

Most common gaps in YC Summer 2017

No discoverable API or MCP for agents95% (all YC: 87%)
No question & answer content63% (all YC: 71%)
No llms.txt63% (all YC: 55%)
Pricing not machine-readable42% (all YC: 40%)
No product / organization schema37% (all YC: 46%)
Incomplete Open Graph tags37% (all YC: 21%)
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