Can Bots · YC Season Showdown

How agent-ready is each YC batch?

We ran the Can Bots scan across every company website in each Y Combinator batch to see how well AI agents and LLMs can read them. Pick 2–5 batches and compare what the machines see.

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Head to head

Five dimensions of agent-readiness

Average score across every scanned company in each batch, as a share of that dimension's max. Longer is better.

Report-card spread

Grade distribution

How each batch breaks down by letter grade. Most company sites still flunk the agent test — the question is who has fewer F's.

Honor roll

Top of the class

The highest-scoring companies in each selected batch — the sites already built for an agent-first web.

By the numbers

The matchup at a glance

Why this matters

AI-viewable is not the same as AI-ready

What the scan measures

The Can Bots scan checks whether a crawler can fetch your pages, read your structure, understand your content, and find machine-readable signals. A passing score means a bot can see you.

What it doesn't

It can't tell you whether an agent can actually use your product — sign up, complete a flow, or get a real answer. That takes a human-style task run, which is a different test entirely.

The short version: passing the scan gets you into the room. It doesn't mean the agent can do anything useful once it's there.

Improve your score

Other ways to get surfaced by LLMs

  • Publish an llms.txt file. A plain-text map of your most important pages, written for models — the fastest win for Agent Protocols.
  • Add schema.org structured data. Mark up your organization, products, and FAQs so models extract facts cleanly.
  • Earn citations on trusted sources. Mentions on sites models already trust make you more likely to be surfaced.
  • Write FAQ and comparison pages. Models love direct question-and-answer formatting and head-to-head comparisons.
  • Keep your facts consistent everywhere. Same name, same one-line description, same key numbers across every listing.
  • Stay fetchable. No aggressive bot-blocking, no content hidden behind heavy client-side rendering, clean status codes.
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© SaaS Dummies · Can Bots YC Report. Data from the Can Bots static diagnostic. Y Combinator batches are referenced for affiliation only.
Live data from the Can Bots scanner · 0–100 scale · A ≥ 90, B ≥ 80, C ≥ 70, D ≥ 60, F < 60. Batches shown have 25+ reachable company sites. saasdummies.com/can-bots