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• Startups · 17 October 2026 · 4 min readAI search scores of YC Summer 2026, by spaceWe checked 226 YC Summer 2026 homepages for how well ChatGPT and AI answers can read them. Median 66, four perfect scores, and the leaders in each space.
• Launches · 17 October 2026 · 4 min readSpot the slop: what an AI-built launch page gets wrongWe asked an AI site builder for a launch page and built the same page ourselves. The AI one looks fine. Here is where it quietly fails, and how to check yours.
• Studies · 17 October 2026 · 3 min readAI search scores of 26 SaaS homepagesFour perfect scores, four pages that are blank to crawlers. How 26 SaaS homepages read to ChatGPT and AI answers, and the three fixes that separate the top from the rest.
• Studies · 17 October 2026 · 4 min readWe ran 96 Indian D2C sites through an AI search checkMedian score 75, nobody above 91. What Indian D2C homepages get right for ChatGPT and AI answers, the two gaps almost all of them share, and who leads.
• AI search · 17 October 2026 · 4 min readAI search for SaaS: what ChatGPT reads before it recommends youBuyers now ask ChatGPT and Perplexity which tool to use. What those answers are built from, and the five fixes that get your product named.