HumanLayer

The multiplayer control plane for your software factory

1.7Score#819 of 999 agents#33 of 40 in Software engineer

Why it ranks #819

HumanLayer, an AI software engineer from YC F24, ranks #819 of 999 AI agents and #33 of 40 in Software engineer, with a score of 1.7 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 0 × 30% 0.0
Scale 1 × 30% 0.3
Momentum 2 × 25% 0.5
Autonomy 6 × 15% 0.9
= 1.7

Proof
Do customers use it? 30% of the score
0
No public claims of customers or revenue yet.
Not found: revenue or growth (+4), named customers (+3), a customer result (+2), a customer count (+2), work done at scale (+2)
Scale
Is there a real company behind it? 30% of the score
1
2 people.
- +1
  2 people on its YC page2 people
Not found: funding round in its news (+3)
Momentum
Is it shipping and growing now? 25% of the score
2
Shows hiring.
- +2
  Hiring: 1 open roleFounding Product EngineerYC page
Not found: launch YC post in the last 6 months (+3), 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 Fall 2024) (+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: 69% likely
- Finishes whole tasks: 22% likely
- Calls itself an agent: 97% likely
Level 2: Takes actions in other systems; a person approves key steps.

About HumanLayer

HumanLayer is a multiplayer coding agent IDE+cloud that works seamlessly from your workstation to anywhere you want to run background agents. It brings agent sessions, plan artifacts, and code diffs together in one place for you team to collaborate and ship. It's built in composable pieces to meet software factory builders where they already are - you can BYO compute, dev environment setup, and harness, or use our full integrated stack.