Saffron

Saffron is a Y Combinator-backed company that aI-Native Technical Assessments and Work Trials. Based in San Francisco, USA, the company participated in the Spring 2026 batch of Y Combinator.

Saffron is building a platform to test how well candidates can use coding agents.

The way engineers write code has fundamentally changed, but the way companies evaluate them hasn't. Saffron gives hiring teams full visibility into how candidates use AI agents to build, debug, and ship real features on an actual codebase.

Saffron was part of Y Combinator's Spring 2026 cohort, has a team of approximately 3 employees, and is actively operating.