B2A: Software Where the Customers Will All Be Agents
Y Combinator
Request for Startups
Elevator Pitch
Most software assumes a human user, so bots end up posing as people. YC wants services designed for AI agents as the customer.
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YC notes that a significant share of internet traffic is not human: programs scraping for information, often impersonating people to fill out forms or watch for changes. Yet most websites are built with human users in mind.
YC argues that with AI agents, it makes sense to build software and services where agents are supported and documented as customers, not treated as an edge case. Its examples are APIs that let agents pay for hosting credits, book travel or enter contracts with other parties. It compares this with the stock market, where humans and programs already trade together.
The ask: services built specifically to serve agents well.
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