C16 Biosciences
Y Combinator 2018 · Active Healthcare Industrial Bio c16bio.com
Next-gen ingredients to decarbonize consumer products, starting w/…
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- Evocativity EVOC : green
- Biosciences names the field and C16 alludes to chemical ingredients
- Brevity BREV : red
- 12 letters, 3 syllables. Up to seven letters is green, eight at two syllables too; up to ten yellow, eleven or more red.
- Greppability GREP : green
- Found inside 0 other dictionary words.
- Googlability GOOG : green
- Distinctive complete scientific phrase
- Pronounceability PRON : yellow
- Sixteen versus individual digits is uncertain
- Spellability SPEL : yellow
- Number words versus digits need confirmation
- Verbability VERB : red
- Long scientific phrase resists verb use
- Nominology
- 48
- All seven dimensions and .com ownership, weighted as set out on Methodology.
- Fluency
- 30
- Brevity and pronounceability only: the subset with published outcome evidence behind it.
- PG grade
- 3 / 4
- Graham's own four-step ladder.
- Exact .com
- Not owned
- Shape
- phrase
- Length
- 15 chars, 3 syllables
- Distinctiveness
- descriptive
Watkins SCRATCH flags
- Curse-of-knowledge
Rubric version 2026.10.20-1, judged by gpt-6.1-sol (agent).
This scores the name only. See Methodology.
These judged dimensions came from an AI agent working through the judging queue in a chat, on the same rubric the scoring pipeline sends. The agent passed the calibration exam before its work was accepted, and each batch it judged hid two names with known answers as a check. The model is named as the agent reported it.