research · YC 2026 · Industrials · 2026-09-28
How YC Industrials startups design their websites
129 Industrials companies from YC's 2026 batches, compared with all 705 sites in the main report. Same method: served HTML only, one fetch per homepage.
What's different about Industrials
Industrials companies lead with AI less often than the batch average (31.0% vs 60.7%). Fewer of them show pricing (1.6% vs 18.0%), which fits a sales-led motion. Next.js is the dominant stack at 37.2%; the top call to action is "Talk to sales/us" (30.2% of sites). The most-used typeface is Inter (19 sites).
Builders
| Builder / framework | sites | share | all YC 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next.js | 48 | 37.2% | 49.1% |
| Other/unknown | 34 | 26.4% | 17.6% |
| Vite/React SPA | 20 | 15.5% | 12.9% |
| Astro | 12 | 9.3% | 8.2% |
| Webflow | 5 | 3.9% | 2.0% |
| Framer | 3 | 2.3% | 5.7% |
| WordPress | 2 | 1.6% | —% |
| Wix | 2 | 1.6% | —% |
Hosting
| Hosting | sites | share | all YC 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel | 51 | 39.5% | 51.8% |
| Cloudflare | 44 | 34.1% | 26.0% |
| Other | 19 | 14.7% | 9.8% |
| Netlify | 8 | 6.2% | 2.1% |
| AWS | 4 | 3.1% | 5.8% |
| Framer | 3 | 2.3% | 4.5% |
Calls to action
| Call to action | sites | share | all YC 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Talk to sales/us | 39 | 30.2% | 23.7% |
| Book a demo | 16 | 12.4% | 32.5% |
| Get started | 8 | 6.2% | 23.0% |
| Try free / sign up | 4 | 3.1% | 12.8% |
| Get early access | 3 | 2.3% | 4.4% |
| Join waitlist | 2 | 1.6% | 3.0% |
Typefaces
| Typeface | sites | share | all YC 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inter | 19 | 14.7% | 17.0% |
| JetBrains Mono | 10 | 7.8% | 5.0% |
| IBM Plex Mono | 6 | 4.7% | 3.1% |
| Geist Mono | 4 | 3.1% | 4.0% |
| Montserrat | 4 | 3.1% | —% |
| Outfit | 4 | 3.1% | 1.3% |
| Geist | 4 | 3.1% | 4.3% |
| Archivo | 4 | 3.1% | —% |
| Fraunces | 3 | 2.3% | 1.6% |
| Space Mono | 3 | 2.3% | —% |
| Space Grotesk | 3 | 2.3% | 1.8% |
| Instrument Serif | 3 | 2.3% | 2.8% |
Headlines from the set
- Agentic physics simulation for | — Inviscid AI
- The North Star for AGI — ARC Prize Foundation
- World models for robots — One Robot
- Human intelligence for robotics — Asimov
- Powering autonomy — RoboDock
- Solar infrastructure for orbital power — Beyond Reach Labs
- Detect what other radars miss. — Milliray
- Turn every customer request into revenue, faster. — Ventura
Method
Subset of the YC 2026 homepage dataset (705 sites) filtered by YC's own industry label "Industrials". Fetched 2026-09-28; served HTML only, so client-rendered text can be under-counted. "AI in hero" = AI, agent(s) or LLM in the title, H1 or meta description. Re-run after each Demo Day.
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