Kobalt Labs
Y Combinator 2023 · Active B2B Operations kobaltlabs.com
AI-powered risk and compliance for financial institutions
Y Combinator's description, shown to identify the company. We rate the name, not the business.
Formerly Suspense
- Evocativity EVOC : red
- The cobalt-like word and labs give no finance-compliance cue
- Brevity BREV : yellow
- 10 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
- The complete altered phrase is distinctive
- Pronounceability PRON : green
- The familiar cobalt sound reads readily
- Spellability SPEL : red
- Listeners would normally write cobalt with c
- Verbability VERB : red
- The phrase does not form a natural compliance-service verb
- Nominology
- 63
- All seven dimensions and .com ownership, weighted as set out on Methodology.
- Fluency
- 80
- 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
- 11 chars, 3 syllables
- Distinctiveness
- arbitrary
Watkins SCRATCH flags
- Spelling-challenged
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.