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- Original research and operator guide · Sep 21, 2026
A YC directory row is not a prospect until it passes the identity gate
A reproducible nine-cohort YC snapshot shows when a listed website stays on the same host, moves within the same domain, or needs a manual identity check after a cross-domain redirect. - Original analysis · Sep 19, 2026
.com still leads .ai across nine YC cohorts
A current snapshot of listed website TLDs across 1,586 YC directory rows, with .com and .ai counts kept separate from launch-time history or adoption claims. - Original analysis · Sep 19, 2026
YC S26 lists 56 industrial companies, up from 15 in S25
A current YC primary-industry comparison of Summer 2026 against Summer 2025 and Summer 2024, using consistent primary-industry fields and visible cohort denominators. - Comparison · Sep 19, 2026
Cranston, Balance and Arden: three different businesses hiding inside AI accounting
A founder-facing comparison of tax-prep software, outsourced AI accounting, and internal-audit automation, with responsibility boundaries and a worked Cranston pricing model. - Comparison · Sep 19, 2026
Clicks Health, Novoflow and Amera are not selling the same healthcare agent
A healthcare procurement comparison separating provider back-office agents, computer-use EHR deployment, and payer claims infrastructure. - Comparison · Sep 19, 2026
Caseflood vs Concorda: legal AI before the case and during the case
A legal-AI comparison separating intake and client conversion from litigation execution, with Concorda's public Team-plan arithmetic and Caseflood's managed-service boundary. - Comparison · Sep 19, 2026
Should you buy Crouton or build your own living ownership map?
A founder decision model for choosing a static org chart, an internal allocation layer, or Crouton when customer ownership changes across teams. - Analysis · Sep 19, 2026
What can a CPA firm calculate from Cranston’s per-return pricing?
A dated worked model for comparing Cranston’s public per-book and per-return rates with a CPA firm’s own preparation and review economics. - Comparison · Sep 19, 2026
Should your construction AI start in the design model or the field report?
A construction-market comparison that separates ArchiLabs design automation from Opusense field reporting by buyer, input, deliverable, timing, and price. - Research and comparison · Sep 19, 2026
Which YC companies are the most useful public industrial-software peers for a founder?
Six YC industrial-software peers mapped to buyer, deployment boundary and the first proof a founder can test. Includes a dated 56-company homepage-link analysis.