Silimate

Fast, efficient agents for chip design and debug

2.6Score#474 of 999 agents#7 of 25 in Hardware engineer

Why it ranks #474

Silimate, an AI hardware engineer from YC S23, ranks #474 of 999 AI agents and #7 of 25 in Hardware engineer, with a score of 2.6 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 0 × 30% 0.0
Scale 3 × 30% 0.9
Momentum 3 × 25% 0.8
Autonomy 6 × 15% 0.9
= 2.6

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
3
8 people.
- +3
  8 people on its YC page5 to 9 people
Not found: funding round in its news (+3)
Momentum
Is it shipping and growing now? 25% of the score
3
Shows hiring.
- +3
  Hiring: 5 open rolesChip/EDA/Software Intern, Applied AI Engineer, Chip/Software 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 Summer 2023) (+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: 52% likely
- Finishes whole tasks: 19% likely
- Calls itself an agent: 88% 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 Silimate

We're building AI-native tools & agent-driven workflows for frontend chip design.

Today, Fortune enterprises and chip unicorns license Silimate to hit their PPA targets and functional closure in days instead of months. With Silimate, chip companies tape out better, more market-competitive chips much more quickly.