Propolis
Y Combinator 2025 · Acquired B2B propolis.tech
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Y Combinator's description, shown to identify the company. We rate the name, not the business.
- Evocativity EVOC : yellow
- The protective bee-resin meaning faintly suggests sealing software weaknesses
- Brevity BREV : yellow
- 8 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 1 other dictionary word.
- Googlability GOOG : yellow
- The established biological-material term supplies competition
- Pronounceability PRON : yellow
- The unfamiliar stress and vowels allow different readings
- Spellability SPEL : yellow
- The borrowed scientific spelling needs confirmation
- Verbability VERB : red
- No natural browser-QA verb
- Nominology
- 43
- All seven dimensions and .com ownership, weighted as set out on Methodology.
- Fluency
- 50
- 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
- 8 chars, 3 syllables
- Distinctiveness
- suggestive
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.