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Grade

Grade is the API for performance-based payroll. Think of us like Deel or Gusto, but our payouts are for work completed, not hours. Companies use Grade to pay AI agents and contractors based on results: tasks completed, targets hit, work delivered. We handle compliance, tax reporting, and global payouts.

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #5873

Grade is the API for performance-based payroll. Think of us like Deel or Gusto, but our payouts are for work completed, not hours. Companies use Grade to pay AI agents and contractors based on results: tasks completed, targets hit, work delivered. We handle compliance, tax reporting, and global payouts.

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Grade is classified as AI agents from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Companies similar to Grade

AI agents · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Invopop

match 77

Invopop helps global companies like SumUp, Fever, and DeepL manage electronic invoicing across more than 25 countries through a single API. In the next five years, over 40 countries—including all EU member states—will require businesses to issue invoices electronically and report them in real-time to tax authorities. Instead of building and maintaining numerous local integrations, global companies can integrate just once with Invopop, streamlining compliance and saving time.

shared extracted concept terms: companie; shared product terms: api, like, companie, compliance; shared product theme: developer infrastructure, security and compliance; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

inai

match 63

inai provides a single integration for global payments to help companies take digital payments across the globe. Its a single integration for a merchant that will provide connections to all payment gateways ( Stripe/ Adyen/ Braintree), wallets ( Paypal, Apple Pay, Google Pay) , BNPL providers ( Klarna / affirm / afterpay), fraud ( Sift , riskified etc). Merchants will have a no-code dashboard to customize the checkout by region ( Show Apple pay and stripe in US along with USD pricing but show Kl

shared extracted concepts: companies; shared product terms: us, but, companie, pay; shared product theme: developer infrastructure, security and compliance; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Surematics

match 61

Surematics is helping commercial insurance brokers structure complicated deals online. Homeowners and car insurance are enough of a nightmare for most of us to handle but Surematics is targeting even more difficult cases — awkward expensive items like oil rigs. With a dash of blockchain, the startup wants to allow companies to collaborate together to create enforceable contracts.

shared extracted concepts: companies; shared product terms: us, like, but, companie; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

GrowthBook

match 58

GrowthBook is an open source platform to help companies make data-driven product decisions with feature flags and A/B tests. Existing SaaS solutions like LaunchDarkly require a company to send all of their data to them. This results in high costs, data compliance issues, and vendor lock-in. As a result, many companies end up building their own platforms in-house, which can take thousands of hours of work and lots of headaches. To solve this, GrowthBook uses a company's existing data infrastructu

shared extracted concepts: companies; shared product terms: like, hour, companie, result; shared product theme: security and compliance; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Asteroid

match 56

Asteroid builds and hosts AI browser agents for back-office tasks. With guardrails, evaluations, and human oversight, we deliver enterprise-grade reliability across millions of operations, even in regulated industries. Companies can build agents themselves or rely on us to deliver and maintain them.

shared extracted concepts: companies; shared product terms: task, deliver, grade, companie; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

BlindPay

match 55

BlindPay is a stablecoin API that enables companies to send and receive money worldwide using fiat money, stablecoins and multiple blockchains. We handle all the complex compliance and regulatory requirements, so companies can focus on their core business.

shared extracted concepts: companies; shared product terms: api, companie, handle, compliance; shared product theme: developer infrastructure, security and compliance; shared affiliation: Y Combinator