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Escape

Y Combinator 2023 · Active B2B Security escape.tech

Offensive security for the teams that are 100x outnumbered

Y Combinator's description, shown to identify the company. We rate the name, not the business.

Formerly Escape, Escape - GraphQL Security, Escape, Escape - GraphQL Security, Escape - Modern Application Security

Evocativity EVOC : yellow
Escape faintly evokes breaking security containment
Brevity BREV : green
6 letters, 2 syllables. Up to seven letters is green, eight at two syllables too; up to ten yellow, eleven or more red.
Greppability GREP : yellow
Found inside 9 other dictionary words.
Googlability GOOG : red
Escape is an ordinary noun and verb
Pronounceability PRON : green
The common word reads clearly
Spellability SPEL : green
The familiar word has a conventional spelling
Verbability VERB : red
The existing escape verb is not the security-testing action
Nominology
57
All seven dimensions and .com ownership, weighted as set out on Methodology.
Fluency
100
Brevity and pronounceability only: the subset with published outcome evidence behind it.
PG grade
2 / 4
Graham's own four-step ladder.
Exact .com
Not owned
Shape
real word
Length
6 chars, 2 syllables
Distinctiveness
suggestive
dictionary-word no-exact-com real-word starts-with-vowel

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.