research · YC 2026 · Artificial Intelligence · 2026-09-28
How YC Artificial Intelligence startups design their websites
156 Artificial Intelligence 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 Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence companies lead with AI more often than the batch average (63.5% vs 60.7%). More of them show pricing (19.9% vs 18.0%), which suggests a self-serve motion. Next.js is the dominant stack at 51.3%; the top call to action is "Book a demo" (29.5% of sites). The most-used typeface is Inter (25 sites).
Builders
| Builder / framework | sites | share | all YC 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next.js | 80 | 51.3% | 49.1% |
| Other/unknown | 30 | 19.2% | 17.6% |
| Vite/React SPA | 20 | 12.8% | 12.9% |
| Astro | 18 | 11.5% | 8.2% |
| Framer | 3 | 1.9% | 5.7% |
| Mintlify | 2 | 1.3% | 1.4% |
| SvelteKit | 2 | 1.3% | 1.3% |
| Webflow | 1 | 0.6% | 2.0% |
Hosting
| Hosting | sites | share | all YC 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vercel | 83 | 53.2% | 51.8% |
| Cloudflare | 44 | 28.2% | 26.0% |
| Other | 14 | 9.0% | 9.8% |
| AWS | 11 | 7.1% | 5.8% |
| Framer | 3 | 1.9% | 4.5% |
| Netlify | 1 | 0.6% | 2.1% |
Calls to action
| Call to action | sites | share | all YC 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Book a demo | 46 | 29.5% | 32.5% |
| Get started | 33 | 21.2% | 23.0% |
| Talk to sales/us | 32 | 20.5% | 23.7% |
| Try free / sign up | 22 | 14.1% | 12.8% |
| Get early access | 9 | 5.8% | 4.4% |
| Join waitlist | 6 | 3.8% | 3.0% |
| Download | 4 | 2.6% | 2.7% |
Typefaces
| Typeface | sites | share | all YC 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inter | 25 | 16.0% | 17.0% |
| JetBrains Mono | 9 | 5.8% | 5.0% |
| Instrument Serif | 6 | 3.8% | 2.8% |
| Geist Mono | 6 | 3.8% | 4.0% |
| IBM Plex Mono | 6 | 3.8% | 3.1% |
| Inter Tight | 4 | 2.6% | —% |
| Instrument Sans | 3 | 1.9% | 1.4% |
| Space Grotesk | 3 | 1.9% | 1.8% |
| Geist | 3 | 1.9% | 4.3% |
| Archivo | 3 | 1.9% | —% |
| Geist Variable | 2 | 1.3% | —% |
| Schibsted Grotesk | 2 | 1.3% | —% |
Headlines from the set
- Let your agents move freely. Within bounds. — Agentic Fabriq
- [ O p e r a t i o n a l ] S u p e r i n t e l l i g e n c e . — Haladir
- The sales intelligence engine for CPG brands. — Corvera
- What if we made as many cancer drugs next year as we have in the last decade ? — Origin
- Cut your Claude Code bill by 34–51% , without changing your models or workflow. — Quotient Labs
- Build a custom intelligence layer. — Ashr
- Automate any UI task with natural language. — RamAIn
- Agents that act, safely. — Salus
Method
Subset of the YC 2026 homepage dataset (705 sites) filtered by YC's own tag label "Artificial Intelligence". 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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