Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Fixpoint is a very small, YC-backed San Francisco startup that publicly appears to have pivoted from its original "human data ops" business for AI training-data companies toward Amika, a software factory/control plane for AI coding agents. Public sources still describe the earlier staffing/vetting product, so the company's current positioning is somewhat split across legacy and current pages.
Primary product
Amika — a software factory / control plane for AI coding agents
Founded
2023
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
AI agent infrastructure / human data ops
Offices
0 jobs at Fixpoint
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Business model
Stage
Pre-Seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Pre-Seed · Dec 2025
Latest amount
$500K
Dec 2025 · Y Combinator
Investors
Lean, engineering-led, build-in-public, and highly experimental. Public hiring signals emphasize remote/asynchronous contract work, while the product side emphasizes open-source primitives, sandboxed agents, and rapid iteration.
Compensation
Public job postings show short-term contract work paid hourly, with ranges commonly in the low tens to low hundreds of dollars per hour depending on role and experience, usually for 3-4 week engagements; some postings mention weekly pay and higher rates for exceptional candidates.
Benefits
Pricing
Amika uses a freemium SaaS model with per-user monthly plans, sandbox-credit usage, and custom enterprise pricing; the legacy Fixpoint service used custom order forms and quoted fees.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Public materials show a material product pivot from Fixpoint's earlier human-data-ops / expert-staffing positioning toward Amika, a software factory for AI coding agents. This is not a layoff or acquisition, but it is a significant business-direction change.
SourceNoah Intelligence · Jul 2026
A recent article about Amika's software-factory approach, including sandboxed agents, validation loops, and pricing tiers.
Startuply.vc · May 2026
A recent profile arguing Fixpoint is betting on managed AI-trainer staffing, noting early-stage traction, competition from incumbents, and the operational risk of marketplace liquidity.
Fondo · Feb 2026
A launch write-up describing Fixpoint's human-data-ops product, its YC founder story, and its use case for AI evals and expert staffing.
Y Combinator · Oct 2025
YC's launch post frames Fixpoint as a platform for sourcing, vetting, and HR for expert annotator teams, with two products: a worker-vetting API and white-glove expert staffing.
Y Combinator
YC's Amika launch shows the company's newer positioning: sandboxed AI coding agents, deterministic guardrails, automated verification, and open-source primitives.