What they do
API that pays AI agents and contractors per result
How close to us
2, near
pays for work completed, so it touches agent output measurement, but only on the payment side.
Wedges
- W2 Seeing whether your AI agents actually produce adjacent
L1 Company brain (knows the organisation) 0, none
L2 Agent team (runs agents, tools, approvals) 0, none
L3 Does and learns (finishes, checks, measures, updates the brain) 1, light
Who buys
- Firm size
- not known
- Buyer type
- business
- Role
- finance and operations heads
- UK
- not known
Their own description (from YC)
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.
Full teardown
No full teardown yet. On the deep list.
Technical detail
- Slug
- grade
- Lens hash
- 179096c479
- Pass
- screen
- Stale
- no