Sparkles

Make everyone on your team an engineer

1.7Score#828 of 999 agents#34 of 40 in Software engineer

Why it ranks #828

Sparkles, an AI software engineer from YC W26, ranks #828 of 999 AI agents and #34 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 0 × 30% 0.0
Momentum 3 × 25% 0.8
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
0
1 person.
Not found: funding round in its news (+3)
Momentum
Is it shipping and growing now? 25% of the score
3
Shows hiring and a new batch.
- +2
  Hiring: 2 open rolesFounding Engineer (London), Founding GTM (London)YC page
- +1
  New: YC Winter 2026
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)
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: 86% likely
- Finishes whole tasks: 37% likely
- Calls itself an agent: 3% likely
Level 2: Takes actions in other systems; a person approves key steps.

About Sparkles

Sparkles is like Lovable for existing projects, so even Sharon from Marketing can change the button styling on the front page without going back and forth with the dev team.

Someone technical connects their GitHub to Sparkles, sets up the repository and environment variables, and then anyone on the team with a @yourcompany.com email can log in on Sparkles and create pull requests without needing to know what Git is.