Delineate

Agents for Accelerated Clinical Trial Design

3.6Score#209 of 999 agents#3 of 16 in Scientist

Why it ranks #209

Delineate, an AI scientist from YC W25, ranks #209 of 999 AI agents and #3 of 16 in Scientist, with a score of 3.6 of 10. Data as of 3 Oct 2026.

The score adds four parts, each 0 to 10, by weight. Every point comes from public evidence. How scoring works ·

Proof 4 × 30% 1.2
Scale 5 × 30% 1.5
Momentum 0 × 25% 0.0
Autonomy 6 × 15% 0.9
= 3.6

Proof
Do customers use it? 30% of the score
4
Claims a customer result and a customer count.
- +2
  A customer result
  “For our clients we have increased the number of processed studies by 15x compared to industry standard and reduced the time for certain studies from months to weeks.”
  Launch YC post · 13 Feb 2025
- +2
  A customer count
  “We are partnered with two top-10 pharma companies where we are performing some of the largest systematic-review studies ever conducted.”
  Launch YC post · 13 Feb 2025 · 2 claims
Not found: revenue or growth (+4), named customers (+3), work done at scale (+2)
Scale
Is there a real company behind it? 30% of the score
5
20 people.
- +5
  20 people on its YC page20 to 49 people
Not found: funding round in its news (+3)
Momentum
Is it shipping and growing now? 25% of the score
0
Nothing new in the last 6 months.
Not found: launch YC post in the last 6 months (+3), open roles on YC (+2), new traction claim in the last 6 months (+2), funding news in the last year (+2), a batch in the last year (it is YC Winter 2025) (+1)
Autonomy
How much of the job does it do on its own? 15% of the score
6
Supervised agent: takes actions in other systems; a person approves key steps.
- +6
  Level 2 of 4: Supervised agentTakes actions in other systems; a person approves key steps.
What the model read
- Acts in other systems: 18% likely
- Finishes whole tasks: 22% likely
- Calls itself an agent: 97% likely
- Level 1 from the model's reading of its pages; the evidence review found, with quotes, that its AI acts in the work, so the level is 2
Level 2: Takes actions in other systems; a person approves key steps.

About Delineate

Delineate is building AI agents to design better clinical trials faster.

This is a $10B dollar market, where saving even 1 day along the process is equal to $1-5M in revenue potential.

We process existing clinical trial research into specialized datasets saving scientists months of effort.

Delineate is working with two of the largest pharmaceutical companies. With one of our customers, we are helping them get to the next phase of trials faster by creating the largest dataset on a drug class ever constructed.