aid: confluence-labs
name: Confluence Labs
description: >-
  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.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/confluence-labs/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://confluence.sh/logo-accent-dark-512.png
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- y-combinator
- paul-graham
x-yc-batch: W2026
x-founders:
- Brent Burdick
- Niranjan Baskaran
x-tier: identity
x-tier-reason: research-lab-no-api
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- AI Research
- Program Synthesis
- Data Efficiency
apis: []
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://confluence.sh
  name: Confluence Labs
- type: Blog
  url: https://confluence.sh/blog/introducing-confluence-labs
  name: Introducing Confluence Labs — SOTA on ARC-AGI-2
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/confluence-labs
  name: confluence-labs on GitHub
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence