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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.