Cognition IP
Y Combinator 2018 · Active B2B Legal cognitionip.com
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Y Combinator's description, shown to identify the company. We rate the name, not the business.
Formerly Vertical Law
- Evocativity EVOC : green
- IP directly identifies intellectual-property law for insiders
- Brevity BREV : red
- 11 letters, 4 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
- The complete phrase is distinctive
- Pronounceability PRON : red
- The final initials require separate letter reading
- Spellability SPEL : green
- The familiar word and named letters are straightforward
- Verbability VERB : red
- The phrase does not form a natural patent-service verb
- Nominology
- 60
- All seven dimensions and .com ownership, weighted as set out on Methodology.
- Fluency
- 0
- Brevity and pronounceability only: the subset with published outcome evidence behind it.
- PG grade
- 3 / 4
- Graham's own four-step ladder.
- Exact .com
- Owned
- Shape
- phrase
- Length
- 12 chars, 4 syllables
- Distinctiveness
- suggestive
Watkins SCRATCH flags
- Curse-of-knowledge
- Hard-to-pronounce
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.