Prox
Y Combinator 2025 · Active B2B Retail useprox.com
AI technical support for complex physical products
Y Combinator's description, shown to identify the company. We rate the name, not the business.
Formerly DART, Stealth, Dart Labs, prox
- Evocativity EVOC : yellow
- The proximity-like abbreviation faintly suggests close-at-hand assistance
- Brevity BREV : green
- 4 letters, 1 syllable. Up to seven letters is green, eight at two syllables too; up to ten yellow, eleven or more red.
- Greppability GREP : green
- Found inside 35 other dictionary words.
- Googlability GOOG : yellow
- The ordinary proximity abbreviation and other uses compete
- Pronounceability PRON : green
- The short prox sound reads readily
- Spellability SPEL : yellow
- The x ending needs confirmation
- Verbability VERB : red
- No natural technical-support verb
- Nominology
- 60
- 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
- 3 / 4
- Graham's own four-step ladder.
- Exact .com
- Not owned
- Shape
- invented
- Length
- 4 chars, 1 syllable
- Distinctiveness
- suggestive
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.