S26 Batch Survey

37 responses · 12 questions · August 2026

01How would you categorize your startup?

single choice · 37 selections

Agentic B2B SaaS

15·41%

Hard tech

8·22%

AI-native B2C

6·16%

Devtools/infrastructure

6·16%

AI-native service

1·3%

Defense

1·3%

02How many hours a week do you work?

single choice · 37 selections

>80

26·70%

70-80

7·19%

50-60

2·5%

<50

1·3%

60-70

1·3%

03Have you pivoted at any point during the batch yet?

single choice · 37 selections

22·59%

Yes

15·41%

04What’s your favorite coding agent tool (i.e. which one would you be most disappointed to lose access to)?

single choice · 37 selections

Claude Code

21·57%

Codex

7·19%

Conductor

3·8%

Orca

1·3%

Superset

1·3%

Hoplite (our own tool)

1·3%

Make our own and before that Ampcode

1·3%

OpenCode

1·3%

JCode/Claude Code/ Paseo

1·3%

05Which LLM providers are you using? (select all that apply)

multi-select · 74 selections

Claude

35·95%

OpenAI

30·81%

Gemini

4·11%

Fireworks

1·3%

Together.ai

1·3%

Wafer

1·3%

Lilac

1·3%

Poolside in some research

1·3%

06What hosting platforms are you using? (select all that apply)

multi-select · 74 selections

AWS

17·46%

Vercel

16·43%

Google Cloud

10·27%

Railway

10·27%

Cloudflare

10·27%

Azure

3·8%

We don't host any apps / haven't deployed yet

3·8%

porter

1·3%

Render

1·3%

Bare metal servers!

1·3%

Hetzner

1·3%

modal

1·3%

07What sandbox providers are you using? (select all that apply)

multi-select · 37 selections

We don't use sandboxes

18·49%

Modal

7·19%

We roll our own

5·14%

Daytona

2·5%

E2B

2·5%

Smol Machine

1·3%

Wtf is a sandbox

1·3%

cloudflare

1·3%

08What database and storage providers are you using? (select all that apply)

multi-select · 64 selections

Supabase

12·32%

11·30%

Neon

6·16%

Hyperscaler Postgres (RDS/Aurora

5·14%

Google Cloud SQL

5·14%

etc.)

5·14%

We don't have a database / haven't chosen yet

3·8%

MongoDB

2·5%

ClickHouse

2·5%

Planetscale

1·3%

firebase lmao

1·3%

Planetscale PG

1·3%

DynamoDB

1·3%

PlanetScale

1·3%

firebase

1·3%

Convex

1·3%

09Do you use GPUs?

single choice · 37 selections

24·65%

Yes

13·35%

10Where do you run your own internal agents for coding and other tasks? (select all that apply)

multi-select · 54 selections

On my laptop

32·86%

In the cloud

22·59%

11Who do you use for SOC 2?

single choice · 36 selections

We don't need to be compliant

17·46%

Oneleet

7·19%

Vanta

7·19%

still looking

1·3%

trying to figure out whether we should use vanta or oneleet

1·3%

Rippling

1·3%

compai

1·3%

Bro we ain’t there yet

1·3%

12Preferred corporate card/banking platform?

single choice · 34 selections

Mercury

13·35%

Brex

8·22%

Rho

7·19%

Ramp

3·8%

Every.io

1·3%

Every

1·3%

every

1·3%