Synthetic Sciences

Infrastructure for Autonomous Science

1.8Score#796 of 999 agents#14 of 16 in Scientist

Why it ranks #796

Synthetic Sciences, an AI scientist from YC W26, ranks #796 of 999 AI agents and #14 of 16 in Scientist, with a score of 1.8 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 1 × 25% 0.3
Autonomy 8 × 15% 1.2
= 1.8

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
1
Shows a new batch.
- +1
  New: YC Winter 2026
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)
Autonomy
How much of the job does it do on its own? 15% of the score
8
Autonomous worker: completes whole tasks; people handle exceptions.
- +8
  Level 3 of 4: Autonomous workerCompletes whole tasks; people handle exceptions.
What the model read
- Acts in other systems: 63% likely
- Finishes whole tasks: 53% likely
- Calls itself an agent: 13% likely
Level 3: Completes whole tasks; people handle exceptions.

About Synthetic Sciences

Synthetic Sciences is a research lab building infrastructure for scientific superintelligence. Empirical science is bottlenecked by verification that is slow, expensive, and imperfect. We work on tooling, evals, training environments, algorithms, and models that make autonomous science possible.