Scale AI
Y Combinator 2016 · Active United States B2B Engineering, Product and Design scale.com
Data-centric infrastructure to accelerate the development of AI
Y Combinator's description, shown to identify the company. We rate the name, not the business.
Formerly Ava, Scale
- Evocativity EVOC : green
- Scale AI directly identifies expanding AI development
- Brevity BREV : green
- 7 letters, 2 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 : yellow
- Another AI organization and descriptive phrase share the wording
- Pronounceability PRON : green
- Familiar scale and AI sounds
- Spellability SPEL : green
- Standard word and letter spellings
- Verbability VERB : red
- Full AI phrase does not become a natural new verb
- Nominology
- 73
- 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
- phrase
- Length
- 8 chars, 2 syllables
- Distinctiveness
- descriptive
Watkins SCRATCH flags
- Tame
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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.