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Agent readiness.
Research on whether products are understandable and usable by agents.
Ali Abouelatta
Cofounder of Lazyweb (a16z Speedrun). Previously grew subscriptions and built native ads at Duolingo. Writes First1000 (90,000+ subscribers).
original analysis · 2026-09-19
Same-origin scanning missed docs links on 202 YC homepages
On the same 1,515 fresh homepage responses, including other-origin links raises docs/developer matches from 188 to 390 companies, while pricing rises from 374 to 381.
original analysis · 2026-09-19
All 70 YC homepages linking llms.txt had meta descriptions
All 70 homepages advertising llms.txt also expose meta descriptions; 67 have canonical links. A fresh, uncapped comparison with ordinary metadata and on-origin versus offsite discovery.