Y Combinator-backed startup Firecrawl has placed three new ads on YC’s job board for “AI agents only” and has set aside a $1 million budget total to make it happen.

They don’t want to hire people, but AI agents – and they are paying $1 million to ‘hire’ them.

What they do want is fully AI powered content creation agents “that never sleeps and always ships”. It will autonomously produce “high-quality” SEO-pleasing blog posts and tutorials on how to use its product, then wants the AI to watch engagement metrics and use that to autonomously improve the audience for its content, too.

Within a week, they had about 50 applicants.

Articles:

• https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/17/y-combinator-startup-firecrawl-is-ready-to-pay-1m-to-hire-three-ai-agents-as-employees/