Evident Machines
Evident Machines is a YC Fall 2026 (F26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 2.
About Evident Machines
Summary
Buildbox benchmarks AI models on physical science problems, working with scientists to test how models reason, use specialized tools, and interpret experimental evidence. It targets researchers who need to judge where AI can contribute reliably and where its results require further scrutiny, replacing ad hoc, informal assessments of AI capability with structured, reproducible evaluations grounded in real research problems.
Go-to-market
Scientists and AI researchers are the primary collaborators and customers, reached through direct outreach and partnership rather than self-serve onboarding.
From the Y Combinator listing
Real-world benchmarks for electrical engineering
Evident Machines builds benchmarks for frontier AI in electrical engineering. We turn real research and engineering projects into evaluations grounded in computation, simulation, and physical experimentation. Our work helps frontier labs understand how models exercise scientific judgment and develop the capabilities needed to carry out research in the physical world.
Facts
- B2B / B2B
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 2
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
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