Andon Labs
Scorecard
Long-horizon agent evaluations (Vending-Bench) and autonomous deployments; Anthropic Project Vend partner.
VC-backed, Stockholm, SE / San Francisco, US. Confidence low. Domains: autonomy, benchmarks. Scores by preset: Lab procurement 60; Regulator or auditor 61; Public trust 59; Equal weights 59. Weakest dimension: funding 2/4.
What would move the score. Funding disclosure and a COI policy would move this from low to medium confidence quickly.
- Commercial platform (Pion) and lab partnerships; funding and client mix not disclosed.
Andon Labs (Andon Labs, 2026-07) tier 3 selfconfirmed Andon Labs, agent safety evaluations (tooldirectory.ai, 2026-07-08) tier 4 pressconfirmed2026-09-14 - Funding is unclear: one database reports about $500K from seven investors after YC W24, another lists no rounds; no announcement found.
Andon Labs profile (PitchBook, 2026) tier 4 pressconfirmed2026-09-14
- No published COI policy found.
Andon Labs (Andon Labs, 2026-07) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14
- Undisclosed.
Andon Labs (Andon Labs, 2026-07) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14
- Access through partnerships (Anthropic Project Vend); not routine pre-release.
Andon Labs, agent safety evaluations (tooldirectory.ai, 2026-07-08) tier 4 pressconfirmed2026-09-14
- Designs its own long-horizon tasks.
Andon Labs (Andon Labs, 2026-07) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14
- Publishes candid results, including misalignment findings on the best-scoring models.
Andon Labs (Andon Labs, 2026-07) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14
- Benchmarks (Vending-Bench) cited in model cards across labs.
Andon Labs, agent safety evaluations (tooldirectory.ai, 2026-07-08) tier 4 pressconfirmed2026-09-14
- Sells a commercial agent platform.
Andon Labs (Andon Labs, 2026-07) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14 - Operates AI-run vending and retail deployments inside Anthropic and xAI offices as commercial partnerships while benchmarking those labs' models.
Andon Labs, agent safety evaluations (tooldirectory.ai, 2026-07-08) tier 4 pressconfirmed Andon Labs (Andon Labs, 2026-07) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14
Traced money and ties
hop 0: 1 row. Confirmed rows: 1 of 1 (1 quarantined: T55). Dollar sums: confirmed + unaudited USD rows only; imported figures are not re-derived and never summed. Second hop traced for 1 of 1 sources. Ties: none within two steps recorded. Bounded negatives on file: 0.
Ledger
Money in
- T55 from Y Combinator: investment $0.50M; quarantined — excluded from sums, 2024. YC W24; about $500K reported by one database, unfunded per another unverifiabletier 4 presshttps://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/541549-09
- T56 from Anthropic: partnership undisclosed, 2025. Project Vend partnership; AI-run vending deployed inside Anthropic offices confirmedtier 4 presshttps://tooldirectory.ai/tools/andon-labs
Roles hosted
- R63 Y Combinator: investor, 2024. unverifiablehttps://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/541549-09
One hop away
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