# Outship

> Outship is a San Francisco technical-screening startup from Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch that evaluates software engineers by how they work with AI coding agents rather than by whiteboard puzzles. Candidates complete real coding tasks inside a cloud VM with a browser-based VS Code and agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, while Outship records every prompt, edit, command, and decision and scores the session against customizable rubrics. Founded by ex-Berkeley AI researchers Saner Cakir (CEO) and Kayla Lee (COO), the company argues that shipping code is now the baseline and that the real signal is how a person steers an agent, makes tradeoffs, and recovers when things break.

- **Founded:** 2025
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Saner Cakir (Co-Founder & CEO), Kayla Lee (Co-Founder & COO)
- **Team size:** 3
- **Products:** Outship technical screening platform, ATS integrations
- **Notable:** Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch, Built and launched a working cloud-VM assessment platform supporting Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Qwen, Landed named customer AthenaHQ

## Products & services

- **Outship technical screening platform** — A cloud-based assessment environment that spins up an isolated VM with browser-based VS Code and coding agents (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Qwen). Candidates complete real tasks imported from GitHub or a company's own codebase; the platform records every prompt, edit, command, and decision and scores sessions against customizable engineering rubrics.
- **ATS integrations** — Connects with applicant tracking systems including Ashby, Greenhouse, and Workday so recorded assessments and rubric scores slot into existing hiring pipelines.

## Achievements

- Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch
- Built and launched a working cloud-VM assessment platform supporting Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Qwen
- Landed named customer AthenaHQ
- Shipped ATS integrations with Ashby, Greenhouse, and Workday

## Latest updates

- **2025-01** — Outship joins Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch.
- **2025-11** — Public launch of the AI-era technical screening platform announced by co-founder Saner Cakir.

## Links

- Website: https://outship.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/outship-ai
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/outshipai

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Last updated: 2026-07-30