Flex vs Duckie

Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities

Flex leads in AI visibility (30 vs 25)

Flex

EmergingFinance

General

US YC S23 HSA/FSA payment infrastructure for DTC health brands; $18M total ($15M First Round/Core VC Series A Sep 2025 + $3.2M seed) enabling Stripe-like online pre-tax health spending competing with Truemed for $150B HSA/FSA market.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
D30
Category Rank
#317 of 1167
AI Consensus
57%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
32
Perplexity
39
Gemini
41

About

Flex is a United States-based HSA/FSA payment infrastructure platform — backed by Y Combinator (S23) with $18 million in total funding including a $3.2 million seed in September 2024 from Y Combinator, SV Angel, Precursor Ventures, and Liquid 2 Ventures, plus a $15 million Series A in September 2025 led by First Round Capital and Core VC with Cameron Ventures, Rethink Impact, and Y Combinator — providing direct-to-consumer health and wellness brands with Stripe-like payment processing infrastructure that enables online acceptance of HSA (Health Savings Account) and FSA (Flexible Spending Account) funds from the $150+ billion annual pre-tax healthcare spending market. Founded in 2023 by Sam O'Keefe and Miguel Toledo, Flex targets the DTC health and wellness brands that cannot currently accept HSA/FSA payments online because of technical and compliance barriers.

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Duckie

EmergingInfrastructure

IT Operations

SF YC W24 AI support agent builder at 80% resolution time reduction and 71% ticket deflection; $500K from a16z/Greylock/YC/Netflix competing with Intercom Fin for customer support AI workflow automation.

AI VisibilityBeta
Overall Score
D25
Category Rank
#18 of 68
AI Consensus
59%
Trend
stable
Per Platform
ChatGPT
33
Perplexity
19
Gemini
36

About

Duckie is a San Francisco-based AI customer support platform — backed by Y Combinator (W24) with $500,000 in funding from Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, KungHo Fund, Netflix, and 5 additional investors — providing customer support teams with an AI agent builder that translates existing support processes and workflows into predictable, reliable AI automation, achieving 80% reduction in resolution time and 71% ticket deflection for deployed teams. Founded in 2023 and targeting customer support leaders at growth-stage software companies, Duckie enables support teams to deploy AI agents in minutes without engineering dependency.

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AI Visibility Head-to-Head

30
Overall Score
25
#317
Category Rank
#18
57
AI Consensus
59
stable
Trend
stable
32
ChatGPT
33
39
Perplexity
19
41
Gemini
36
23
Claude
31
37
Grok
34

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