We scored every YC Fall 2026 home page. Here's what we found
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210 home pages, scored 0 to 100 on how hand-made they look. The median is 62; a quarter use shadcn's theme; one shows a builder's trace.
What we did. We took every company in Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch that had a website we could load, 210 of them, and ran each home page through the same check anyone can run at plagio.dev. The full ranking is in the report. This is what stood out.
The numbers
| Result | |
|---|---|
| Home pages scored | 210 |
| Median score | 62 |
| Scored 80 or more | 19 |
| Scored under 40 | 61 |
| Left an AI builder's trace | 1 |
By the industry YC lists, fintech companies had the highest median, 71, and B2B the lowest of the large groups, 57. B2B is also half the batch, 104 companies, so it pulls the overall number down.
What the batch has in common
| Pattern | Share of home pages |
|---|---|
| Real photos or video on 15%+ of the page | 38% |
| Large gradients | 35% |
| Inter or a system font for nearly everything | 25% |
| shadcn's theme variables | 24% |
| Grids of identical cards | 24% |
| Small all-caps labels above section titles | 23% |
| Lucide for most icons | 23% |
| A pill badge above the hero title | 8% |
Only one site carried a trace of an AI builder in its code. Most of the batch builds with the same tools hand-made sites use; where they differ is in the habits: centred everything, identical card grids, small all-caps labels. Those are the patterns our study of 247 sites found twice as often on AI-built pages.
The most hand-made
Sutrix scored highest at 93, then Ageospatial and ORO AI at 90, Clean and Theseus Robotics at 89. They have little in common visually, which is the point: a large hand-drawn mark, a 3D point cloud, live product numbers, a technical illustration.
The score reads a page's look, not the company. If you run one of these and want to see what's behind your number, check it here.
Sources, checked 5 November 2026
- How hand-made do YC Fall 2026 sites look?, plagio
- Y Combinator company directory
- Which AI design tells hold up? We measured 247 sites, plagio
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