I let Claude rank every YC Spring 26 startup — round 2
Follow-up to my W26 post a few months back. Ran the same Claude pipeline on the YC Spring 26 (X26) batch.
Same setup: for each company, Claude scrapes founder LinkedIn profiles, searches for press and traction signals, and checks the product to see if something real exists or it's just a landing page. Then it scores on founder credibility, product reality, market opportunity, and competition, and assigns a tier from S to D.
Demo Day is June 16, so the batch is mid-flight and rankings will keep shifting as more companies launch. Most are B or C tier, which feels about right for this stage.
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u/BriefCardiologist656·2 months ago·21 pts / 15 comm