Confluence Labs

Confluence Labs is a San Francisco AI research company (Y Combinator Winter 2026, backed by Paul Graham) focused on learning efficiency — building machine learning systems that learn from limited data and few experiments. Founded by Brent Burdick and Niranjan Baskaran, the lab works on hypothesis generation (using AI to design maximally informative experiments) and data-efficient modeling (combining large language models with discrete program search) to accelerate breakthroughs in data-sparse domains such as drug design, materials engineering, hardware, and physics discovery. The team reported state-of-the-art performance on the ARC-AGI-2 reasoning benchmark using LLM-driven program synthesis and open-sourced their solver on GitHub. Confluence Labs currently publishes no public API, developer portal, SDK, or OpenAPI surface; this profile captures verified company identity for the API Evangelist network.

Confluence Labs is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, AI Research, and Program Synthesis.

Confluence Labs’ developer surface includes engineering blog and 2 more developer resources.

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7.9/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningAI ResearchProgram SynthesisData Efficiency

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Composite quality — 7.9/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Build 1

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Company 2

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Website

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Source (apis.yml)

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  Brent Burdick and Niranjan Baskaran, the lab works on hypothesis generation (using AI to design maximally informative experiments)
  and data-efficient modeling (combining large language models with discrete program search) to accelerate breakthroughs in
  data-sparse domains such as drug design, materials engineering, hardware, and physics discovery. The team reported state-of-the-art
  performance on the ARC-AGI-2 reasoning benchmark using LLM-driven program synthesis and open-sourced their solver on GitHub.
  Confluence Labs currently publishes no public API, developer portal, SDK, or OpenAPI surface; this profile captures verified
  company identity for the API Evangelist network.
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