YC AI visibility / Summer 2018

Most AI-visible companies in YC Summer 2018

We scored 30 active B2B and fintech companies from Y Combinator's Summer 2018 batch on how easily ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and AI agents can find, understand and use them. Quickchat AI leads with 98/100. Data from our crawl on October 18, 2026; scores are a homepage snapshot, not live.

81

Summer 2018 average score

77

All-YC average (+4 for this batch)

43%

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

#CompanyScoreCrawlersContentSchemaAgents
1Quickchat AI
quickchat.ai
9895100100100
2Quo (fka OpenPhone)
quo.com
969294100100
3Anima App
animaapp.com
959587100100
3SPATE
spate.nyc
959510010083
5Leena AI
leena.ai
941009310083
6Modern Treasury
moderntreasury.com
92929410083
6OkCredit
okcredit.in
92959310083
6RevenueCat
revenuecat.com
92929410083
9UBITS
ubits.com
9110010010062
10College Pulse
collegepulse.com
909510010062
10Titan
titan.com
90928710083
12Activeloop
activeloop.ai
89929310071
13Within
within.ai
87928710071
14Inscribe
inscribe.ai
86927610083
15Mutiny
mutinyhq.com
85959410047
16Fintual
fintual.com
84951002083
17BlueCargo
bluecargo.io
83958910047
18Canary Technologies
canarytechnologies.com
82649410083
18Nestor
nestorup.com
82100946747
20Easol
easol.com
81958310047
21iLabService
ilabservice.ai
798910010026
22TENDERD
tenderd.com
7795932062
23Names & Faces
namesandfaces.com
6995872038
24Prodigal
prodigaltech.com
6795892026
25OpenWrench
useopenwrench.com
669294826
26OWNY
owny.com
658583847
27Oxygen
getoxygen.com
6195435538
28Alpha Vantage
alphavantage.co
598064852
29Embeddables
embeddables.com
569548835
30Khatabook
khatabook.com
441009826

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 2018 vs all of YC

AreaSummer 2018All YC
Overall score8177
AI crawler access9393
Answer-engine content8582
Structured data7162
Agent readiness6356

Most common gaps in YC Summer 2018

No discoverable API or MCP for agents87% (all YC: 87%)
No question & answer content67% (all YC: 71%)
No llms.txt43% (all YC: 55%)
Weak or missing meta description37% (all YC: 32%)
Pricing not machine-readable37% (all YC: 40%)
No product / organization schema37% (all YC: 46%)
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