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[Grab time with us ](https://ambral.com/meet)or shoot us a text at 914-815-7914\n\n# ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O9I-ambral-cortex-enterprise-grade-ai-account-managers", "votes": 67, "created_at": "2025-11-18T21:25:47.000Z" } ] }, { "id": 30364, "name": "Wayline", "slug": "wayline", "former_names": [ "Level0", "Wayline", "WAYLINE" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/aa83a2cdabf22eb6acd4e5c54d4969ec37a0a549.png", "website": "https://wayline.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Wayline is an AI front desk assistant purpose-built for real estate to answer calls and messages 24/7. It’s like an always-on property manager that can convert leads and resolve issues better than any human, day or night. Our AI can be setup in as little as 24 hours and works seamlessly with existing phone/management software. 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Before that, I was the Head of Data Visualization at Workday, UI architect at LinkedIn and Yahoo, author of HTML5 Canvas Cookbook, and created several popular open source libraries.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/errowell/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/ericdrowell", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8711a8a78e4890dda14db45a462de5c5fa8d22f3.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 90300, "title": "Customer Success Manager", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/wayline/jobs/ZIL7Cfl-customer-success-manager", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Operations", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$145K - $205K", "equity_range": "0.25% - 1.00%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 93265, "title": "Wayline: AI voice and text for property managers", "tagline": "We convert leads and resolve issues 24/7", "body": "**TL;DR**\\\nWayline is voice AI and text for property managers that automates all tasks traditionally handled by receptionists, leasing agents, and maintenance coordinators. Imagine staffing an always-on property assistant that can convert leads and resolve issues instantly, day or night. Instead of robo-menus or call centers, every call and text is answered instantly by AI that knows the property better than the onsite teams.\n\nWe bring a decade of property tech and real estate operations experience, having bootstrapped a management company to $1M ARR, run WeLive’s global operations, and oversaw WeWork’s $110M All-Access product. We’re also multi-time founders, having raised $25M+ across three YC-backed companies, and built platforms at LinkedIn and Workday. Together, we combine deep real estate expertise with repeat founder experience in AI and enterprise software.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csrPXRzr6zU\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93265&key=user_uploads/73209/e6ad601f-26ec-43e4-b23e-e97122174f10)\n\n**The Problem**\n\nProperty management is human-intensive, low-margin, and full of repetitive communication. Operators juggle endless leasing calls, maintenance triage, and support inquiries - all while managing constant staff turnover and fragmented tools like AppFolio, Yardi, and spreadsheets. The result: overworked teams, missed opportunities, and reactive service.\n\n**The Solution**\n\nWayline is the new front desk for real estate. Property management is largely administrative work - phone calls, coordination, and repetitive workflows - and we automate all of it with AI and a property-specific knowledge base. We pull in data from hundreds of public and proprietary sources to resolve issues in real-time and automate follow-up workflows. For tenants and prospects, calling or texting the building _is_ the interface. For operators, Wayline centralizes and scales what used to take teams of on-site managers and assistants.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93265&key=user_uploads/73209/7133a6a9-4f2d-4d6a-ba3b-219cfeeb8d89)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93265&key=user_uploads/73209/7fae2c02-11fb-41bd-bef9-edc39cf7feb7)\n\n**Why Now**\n\nReal estate has resisted disruption for decades with fragmented platforms, duct-taped point solutions, and thin margins. However, AI changes the labor equation: for the first time, the administrative side of property management can be run largely by software. And unlike human teams, AI never sleeps or churns.\n\n**The Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93265&key=user_uploads/602008/30a1da54-5f89-4338-99a3-4fed68a272fe)\n\n* Jason Okra previously led WeWork’s $110M All-Access product, ran WeLive’s global operations, and bootstrapped a property management company to $1M ARR.\n* Eric Rowell is a 3x YC founder who has previously raised $23M+, architected the LinkedIn homepage, and was the Head of Data Visualization at Workday.\n\nWe’re building the AI operator for the 46M rental units in the US. Learn more at [wayline.com](http://wayline.com) →", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OGH-wayline-ai-voice-and-text-for-property-managers", "votes": 22, "created_at": "2025-08-22T18:18:52.223Z" }, { "id": 73110, "title": "⚫ ⚫ Second - The world's first fully automated codebase migration platform", "tagline": "Modernize your business with automated migrations for every codebase", "body": "Hi friends! Second provides AI agents that specialize in codebase migrations. Today we support:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73110&key=user_uploads/602008/f0eb07b3-1568-4242-ada8-5eb4ba86727a)\n\n👉 [Click here to see the product demo video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwq7JRfTP9U)\n\n### The Problem\n\nEngineering teams at large companies spend about 50% of their time on codebase maintenance including migrations and upgrades. Even worse, many organizations are so far behind on modernizing their technology stacks that they have become paralyzed and unable to move forward.\n\n### Our Vision and Mission\n\nHere at Second, we see a future where all engineering grunt work tasks are automated, giving human engineers more space to innovate and create new software. We are on a mission to realize this future by first automating migrations and upgrades for every codebase in the world.\n\n### How it Works\n\nUsers connect a Second Agent to their GitHub account, select a repository (or use one of our example templates), run a migration module, and get a pull request. It’s that easy!\n\nEach of our modules are hand-built to perform specific migrations, and serve as a high level blueprint or plan. Next, our agents run these modules by utilizing AI, codemods, and other techniques to perform directory restructuring and code changes. Our agents have proprietary codebase scanners, dependency resolvers, and much more. Every migration job is broken up into steps like this:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73110&key=user_uploads/602008/98660970-8e55-4483-a5e7-3ab4383fab52)\n\n### Why we are Relaunching\n\nSecond was in the last batch (W23), but we are relaunching because we have refocused our product on migrations and upgrades only, whereas previously we were focused on commodity web application feature creation. We made this change because it became crystal clear after hundreds of discovery conversations that codebase maintenance is a much bigger pain point for large companies. We are already working with three large enterprises and couldn’t be happier! 😄\n\n### Asks\n\n* We would love to hear your thoughts! Are there any migrations that our team can help you with? Please let us know! you can reach me directly at [eric@second.dev](mailto:eric@second.dev) 🙏\n* Try out Second by going to [www.second.dev](http://www.second.dev). You can use Second for free on repositories up to 1MB, or upgrade to Pro for bigger codebases.\n* 👉 Join the conversation on the Second Community Discord – ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J1C-second-the-world-s-first-fully-automated-codebase-migration-platform", "votes": 132, "created_at": "2023-07-16T23:54:01.144Z" }, { "id": 69533, "title": "👥 Second – The second developer bot you've always wanted", "tagline": "Bots that set up web applications, add features, and keep projects up to date", "body": "TL;DR: Instead of hiring a second developer, use a bot to handle developer grunt work and common features so that your human developers can work on more important things.\n\nHi there! My name is Eric Rowell. I’m the founder and CEO of Second, which provides bots that can set up web applications, add common features, and keep projects up to date.\n\n👉 [Click here to see the product demo video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR9JUxznEC0)\n\n### The Problem\n\nLet’s face it. No developer wakes up in the morning and thinks to themselves “Gosh, I can’t wait to build yet another login and user registration flow!”. Or “You know what, I’m really excited to migrate MUI from version 4 to 5!”.\n\nBoilerplates? They suck. You spend hours searching for something that’s close to what you want, and then days hacking at it to get it into shape. After the dust settles, you’ll eventually wonder if it was even worth it.\n\nThe overarching theme here is that developers are spending way too much time building commodity features and doing grunt work. This reduces their overall happiness (no, really!) and it slows down product delivery. What if bots could handle the common stuff?\n\n### The Solution\n\nSecond provides bots that specialize in commodity feature development, like authentication, login screens, user registration, subscription billing, dashboards, navigation, forgot password flows, CRUD forms, etc., and also provides bots that can do more sophisticated things like upgrade libraries or frameworks. Best of all, this value is delivered as well written source code in the form of Git pull requests! No abstractions, DSLs, or other weird stuff to learn.\n\nHow is this possible? Users install Second Bot on their GitHub account. These bots operate in the cloud, and use a custom built codegen engine which writes out code files line by line, and will also utilize GPT-3 for special scenarios like code injection and merge conflict resolution.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69533&key=user_uploads/602008/c04a0a9f-f829-4c75-99bc-dc35995ca66d)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69533&key=user_uploads/602008/f71c9851-8e34-4d22-9730-ad004c787510)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69533&key=user_uploads/602008/85589f57-a9f9-425c-a5fa-d84f29b678a6)\n\n### Backstory\n\nI’ve been building for the web for over a decade, including developing the Yahoo video player, architecting the LinkedIn homepage, and leading data visualization efforts at Workday. I’ve created several popular open source projects like KineticJS, BigOCheatSheet, and El Grapho. Most recently I was the co-founder and CTO of Uiflow (W21) which is a no-code platform for enterprise.\n\nWhile at Uiflow, I built a high-fidelity web authoring experience like Webflow and a custom-built visual language called Flowlang. Among many reasons, including the realization that modern approaches to no-code and low-code platforms for web application construction are still not viable, I made the difficult decision to leave Uiflow and start over.\n\nIn all of this time, I have seen how web application development has actually become more complex over time. I’ve seen all kinds of approaches to simplify the process, including an explosion of new libraries, frameworks, languages, DSLs, no-code tools, and low-code tools. After departing Uiflow and spending two months on discovery, the idea of Second began to emerge. What if bots could just write code and raise pull requests for the common stuff? Is that crazy? Well, yea. Let’s do it!\n\nTo my amazement, I was accepted back into YC for a second chance, based on nothing more than some insights and an idea!\n\n### My Ask\n\nMy ask is really simple! Sign up and try Second for free! ([www.second.dev](http://www.second.dev)). I would love to hear your thoughts. You can use the Quick Start to set up a Next.js + MUI web application fast!\n\nIf you want access to the Pro modules, please contact me and I can set that up for you!\n\n👉 You can find me on Twitter at \n\n👉 Or you can join the conversation on the Second Community Discord – ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I5V-second-the-second-developer-bot-you-ve-always-wanted", "votes": 49, "created_at": "2023-02-22T14:42:22.752Z" } ] }, { "id": 30413, "name": "Serafis", "slug": "serafis", "former_names": [ "MetaSpark" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/67a815e7868c4a6d85c8b5fdb3324a29a6600f72.png", "website": "https://serafis.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Serafis is building the AI knowledge graph for market intelligence, starting with the information frontier. 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He was formerly the Head of Data at Ribbit Capital ($12B AUM). Prior to that, he was a Software Engineer at Google, then bootstrapped and exited Kosmos — a data integrations SaaS for wealth managers. He studied Computer Science at Princeton University.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/r9a", "x_url": "https://x.com/r9a_co", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f49768f138c77dda85aaebb2a33a7aff6e10dbc3.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 102769, "title": "Serafis - the podcast app for investors", "tagline": "Narrative intelligence to help you find the next 10x idea", "body": "**TL;DR** Serafis helps you discover ideas worth paying attention to, from the voices that matter. Our data platform is already used by top asset managers and the world's largest consulting firms. Now, narrative intelligence fits in your pocket.\n\n> “Anytime somebody from one of the \\[AI\\] labs goes on a podcast … it’s so important to listen … it’s in my job description. There are some real needles in the haystack.”\n>\n> Gavin Baker, CIO of Atreides Management ($5B AUM)\n\n🎥 [Discover the next 10x idea with Serafis.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=979mS9_-Bs4)\n\n**Serafis indexes the information frontier**\n\nThe sharpest minds now go direct. CEOs, founders, researchers and investors increasingly share their perspectives on independent channels. Hearing from credible voices is one of the most effective ways to:\n\n* Generate new investment ideas\n* Research markets and companies\n* Develop your view on any given topic\n\n**The problem:** harnessing this information is a challenge. It’s scattered and buried across thousands of hours of audio.\n\nSerafis is building a structured, queryable knowledge graph for narratives – starting with podcasts. Search by person, company or theme across 100K+ curated transcripts.\n\n**We’re democratizing narrative intelligence**\n\nToday we’re launching the [Serafis mobile app](https://serafis.app): the world’s first podcast app for investors, with an AI-native interface.\n\n* Discover content relevant to the companies you follow\n* Explore a feed of the most insightful ideas found in podcasts\n* Ask questions about episodes, shows, or the Serafis library. Get answers with timestamped citations that take you to the exact quote.\n\nWe’ve thoughtfully integrated AI to help you find better information, faster. We also know how important it is to stay close to the source. For any episode, you can export, search, and highlight the full transcript.\n\n**Download the app now:**\n\n* [**iOS**](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/serafis/id6751523936)\n* [**Android**](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.r9a.serafis.mobileui)\n\nWe’d love your feedback. Feel free to get in touch: [founders@serafis.ai](mailto:founders@serafis.ai)\n\nIf you’re a business interested in using our data platform, please [request a demo.](https://tally.so/r/gD0xxK)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=102769&key=user_uploads/288934/86305a78-39e4-40ea-8dae-eb7ef9315e5e)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QjZ-serafis-the-podcast-app-for-investors", "votes": 21, "created_at": "2026-06-08T23:06:52.317Z" } ] }, { "id": 30494, "name": "Nixo", "slug": "nixo", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3442ddefa8f2ffb38f683757efc6de9a1e78890b.png", "website": "https://withnixo.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Scale deployed revenue with the only data layer and agent platform built for how FDEs actually work.\r\n\r\nYour deployment capacity boils down to how many accounts your team can stay on top of. We figured out how you can create more of it with the FDE motion you already have.\r\n\r\nNixo is built on what the best FDE teams already know: when everyone has a clear view of what was promised, where every account stands, what needs attention next, and what can be reused from past work, the whole team can carry more deployments with ease. Nixo automatically captures the full history and live health of every account from pre-sales through post-go-live, no matter who worked on it last or where the information lives. 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Cactus is a blazing-fast inference engine optimized for smartphones and comes with React Native, Flutter, and Kotlin bindings.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/xwKrmYkJZD8\n\n# Our framework:\n\nCactus is a cross-platform & open-source framework for doing inference on smartphones, wearables, and other low power devices. 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Eliminate manual testing, accelerate your release cycles, and ship confidently.\n\n## Who We Are\n\nWe’re Aaron and Kavan, competitive programmers who met in high school, bonded over building, and never stopped. After a few years as product engineers, we dropped out of Columbia and MIT to build Synthetic Society. \n\n## The Problem\n\n* With AI codegen, teams are pushing features faster than ever. Unfortunately, they’re also pushing bugs, bad design, and broken flows just as fast.\n* Traditional testing practices are slow, resource intensive, and error prone. \n* These inefficiencies lead to frustrated end-users, decreased user retention, increased churn, and ultimately, loss of competitive advantage and revenue.\n\n## Our Solution\n\n**Synthetic Society deploys swarms of synthetic users that mimic real user behaviors to proactively catch bugs, UX flaws, and edge cases.**\n\n**Vibe-code with confidence, knowing that the self-updating end-to-end flows are protecting you with every change you make.**\n\nhttps://youtu.be/DD8efBypfS4 \n\nCheck out our website: https://syntheticsociety.ai/ \n\nGet in touch: [aaron@syntheticsociety.ai](mailto:aaron@syntheticsociety.ai)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92732&key=user_uploads/524053/02a68466-2478-4701-8ab6-d54307535a57)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O7g-synthetic-society-synthetic-users-to-simulate-real-users", "votes": 27, "created_at": "2025-08-05T02:56:11.464Z" } ] }, { "id": 30566, "name": "Preseen", "slug": "preseen", "former_names": [ "Alpha's Game", "Ludus", "Ludus Labs", "Rid", "Chestnut Forty" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d3f865392a561957ea87a2b63d31fc9ba6611e6d.png", "website": "https://preseen.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We build forecasting agents for global macro events. 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Now they’re excited to bring their expertise to agentifying resale.\n\nIf you want to chat about resale or have product recommendations, email us at [founders@rid.me](mailto:founders@rid.me).\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/thqVjE_xYh4", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O76-rid-sell-with-a-text", "votes": 94, "created_at": "2025-08-04T14:56:14.689Z" } ] }, { "id": 30582, "name": "Pingo", "slug": "pingo", "former_names": [ "Pingo AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/df5e302ee1aa2a614f8eb92d274a19d030ff6c3f.png", "website": "https://pingo.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Pingo is an AI language learning app that helps users build fluency through speaking. It immerses learners in realistic conversations and personalized lessons with an AI that converses naturally, like a native speaker would. 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Use our API to give your agents their own email inboxes.\n\n# Why?\n\nWe started building email agents because they can live within users’s inboxes in their inboxes and authenticate themselves with third-party applications. But building on top of legacy providers such as Gmail is a struggle. They\n\n* Lack API support for creating new inboxes\n* Charge monthly subscriptions per inbox\n* Impose restrictive rate and sending limits\n* Offer poor developer experience\n\nThese providers don’t scale with both inbox creation or volumes of emails sent/received that AI agents often face, so we’re rebuilding email infrastructure from scratch to enable this.\n\n# Solution\n\nAgentMail is an API-first email provider that gives agents their own inboxes to send, receive, and act upon emails. Think of it like Gmail, but with\n\n 1. Programmatic inbox creation and management\n 2. Usage-based pricing scaling with emails sent/received\n 3. No restrictive rate/sending limits\n 4. 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We solve this by building an AI governance agent that monitors AI use and flags potential policy violations to end users.**\n\n## **💬 The Problem**\n\nLaw firms, banks, and other firms in regulated industries want to use more AI, but doing so without robust governance tools risks compliance breaches and client trust loss.\n\nThe problem is most acute in law firms, which we observed firsthand as AI researchers at Stanford Law School. **It stems from three primary challenges:**\n\n* **Unmanaged Liability:** There is no room for mistakes at law firms. Simple actions, such as uploading confidential files to AI tools or relying on AI-generated citations, can result in millions of dollars' worth of breaches and, more importantly, erode client trust.\n* **No Operational Control:** Firms can't see or control how employees use different AI tools, and they have no way to enforce the policies they write. \n* **Conflicting Client Mandates:** One client may require prior written approval for all AI tools, another might forbid their data on a specific matter from leaving the country, and a third bans AI entirely. Manually enforcing these unique rules for every client and their respective matter is impossible.\n\n**The result:** Firms hesitate to fully embrace AI, fearing reputational damage and costly mistakes; many ban AI or have already paid millions for errors discovered too late.\n\n**🏆 The Solution**\n\nTruth Systems provides firms with a compliance AI agent that reads firm policies and client guidelines, then converts them into dynamic guardrails that can be enforced on top of all AI usage\n\nHere’s an example of how it works:\n\n[Truth Systems - August 2025 Demo](https://www.loom.com/share/7cb045b4d9134727936f25dec2083c0f)\n\n## **🖖 Why We Build Truth Systems**\n\nWe are a team of AI nerds, researchers, and product builders who believe that responsible deployment of technology is the key to unlocking meaningful innovation in regulated industries.\n\nOur co-founders, [Alex Mac](mailto:alex@truthsystems.ai) and [Nam Nguyen](mailto:nam.nguyen@truthsystems.ai), were childhood best friends and AI researchers at Stanford Law under Dr. Megan Ma, collaborating with top law firms to address their concerns about this technology. Our founding engineer, Mikolaj Bochenski, was the 2nd hire at Legora, one of the largest Legal AI companies in the world, and understands intrinsically how legal AI is built and deployed. \n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdbC9GGtu-LK9MRGBCZ221JfsrfUvbLH0mwzGkSbLxxc6uVoBNvQrpedx3mIwvKClEP_K388qiV0_BoOYrYv29ysqqYI375twgSmROoTYp5Dd36Q33W5Fl0wQkgge5OTfn3TihV0g?key=RHZIlJDEf1i3HROkoIzKug)\n\nWe’re already working with two law firms with $2 billion in revenue combined, and helping nearly 1,500 attorneys use generative AI safely and responsibly. \n\n## **📈 The Opportunity**\n\nOur vision is to continue being the leading software that governs all AI use in regulated industries. Law firms are only the first steps for us. They are trusted advisors on governance and an important customer that helps us expand into other regulated industries. 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", "body": "Hey everyone, we’re [Jonny](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanhsuuw/), [Ian](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruian-shi-4b5215b9/), and [Phil](https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-fradkin-330a417b/), co-founders of [Blank Bio](https://www.blank.bio/) 👋\n\nWe’ve spent decades applying machine learning to biology across academia (Ph.D.’s at the University of Toronto) and industry (Recursion, Deep Genomics, Amazon). \n\nhttps://youtu.be/7lULj-S-MgQ?feature=shared\n\n**TLDR:** \n\n* mRNA enables programmable, personalized medicine, from gene therapies to cancer vaccines. But with more possible sequences than stars in the universe, brute-force design is impossible.\n* We built a state-of-the-art RNA foundation [model](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.10.617658v3) to predict and design high-performing sequences, letting pharma **simulate costly experiments** and speed up timelines. \n* Our open-source models are used by Sanofi and GSK, and we’re working with the Arc Institute to power next-gen virtual cell models.\n* mRNA design is just the beginning. We’re expanding to applications like target identification, biomarker discovery, patient stratification, and more\n\n**Asks:** We’re looking to connect with pharma and biotech companies working on mRNA-based therapeutics (i.e. Moderna, BioNTech, Orbital etc.), CRISPR therapeutics (Scribe, Intellia, Editas, etc.), and biomarker discovery.\n\n📤If you know anyone in those spaces, we’d love an intro: [jonathan@blank.bio](mailto:jonathan@blank.bio) 📤\n\n**Who are we?**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92787&key=user_uploads/1842799/964fb41d-c751-418d-aecb-5dbbd0fc7405)\n\n* **Jonny**: One of the first employees at Valence Discovery, an AI for drug discovery company spun out of Mila. Acquired by Recursion (NASDAQ: RXRX). Biochemist by training (Waterloo) \n* **Ian**: 10 years of experience in comp bio. Prev. researcher at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre (now leading the charge on cancer vaccines) and engineer at Amazon. Has a PhD in computer science (University of Toronto)\n* **Phil**: 12 years of experience in ML for bio. Spent 4 years at Deep Genomics, where he was one of the first employees. Has a PhD in computational biology (University of Toronto)\n\nPhil and Jonny previously worked together at Recursion. Ian and Phil have been collaborating for 5 years throughout their PhDs, doing ML research specifically for RNA biology. See preprints on early versions of the [model](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.10.617658v3) + [benchmark](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.05.662870v1). \n\n**What’s the problem?** \n\nmRNA is composed of four nucleotides (A, C, G, U). For the average mRNA therapeutic, there are \\~10²⁷⁰⁹ possible combinations. This is unimaginably larger than the number of stars that exist in the known universe. \n\nA suboptimal sequence can kill your drug discovery program, costing pharma companies billions of dollars. But testing all of the possible sequences is impossible. How can you design the best sequence? \n\n**What are we building?** \n\nA family of RNA-specific foundation models that simulate costly and time-consuming experiments, predicting key properties like **expression** (how much protein is made from the mRNA) and **stability** (how long it stays in the body) before experiments ever begin. \n\nWe’ve currently got the best **RNA foundation model**. It’s outperforming 59 models from leading research labs and companies. At 10M parameters, it’s lightweight and fast enough to run predictions on hundreds of sequences in seconds. The open-source model is already being used by **Sanofi and GSK**, and we’re also collaborating with the **Arc Institute** to bring our RNA embeddings into the next generation of virtual cells. \n\n**What’s next?** \n\n* We’re establishing a set of scaling laws that will bring a GPT-3 moment to RNA.  \n* We’re curating one of the largest transcriptomic annotation datasets in the world to power model training\n* As we improve the model, we’re expanding beyond mRNA design into a broader RNA toolkit, tackling problems like:\n * Target ID\n * Novel biomarker discovery \n * Cell-type-specific mRNA design\n * …and more 👀\n\nHere’s a peek into the vision that we’re building towards.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/ZgI7WJ1SygI\n\n**Our Ask**\n\n* Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/blank-bio) and[ X](https://x.com/blankbio_) \n* Share this post! \n* We’re looking to connect with pharma and biotech companies working on mRNA-based therapeutics (i.e. Moderna, BioNTech, Orbital, etc.), CRISPR therapeutics (Scribe, Intellia, Editas, etc.), and RNA biomarkers. 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It gives you the same market tracking, deep research, and real-time alerts that institutional investors rely on, now built for your portfolio.\n\n**The problem**\n\nRetail investors are fundamentally disadvantaged compared to professionals.\n\nInstitutional investors have teams of analysts tracking markets in real time, digging into data, and flagging opportunities before anyone else. Retail investors, meanwhile, have to piece together brokerages, news sites, and forums.\n\nThese tools haven’t changed in 15 years. In the U.S., 61% of adults — over 160 million people — own stocks, yet more than half say they don’t feel confident in their investment decisions. \n\nWe’re building Astor to level the playing field.\n\n\n\n**How does it work?**\n\nAstor is your personal AI investment analyst. It monitors markets 24/7, filters out noise, and delivers only the insights that matter for your portfolio. 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Golpo is the world's best platform to create fully produced whiteboard explainer videos from just a prompt or document.\n\nInstead of hiring an agency, you simply input a prompt or document explaining what you want, and in minutes you get a whiteboard explainer video in a style similar to Khan Academy or RSA Animate — in 50+ languages.\n\nAfter creation, you can edit all aspects of the video with just prompts. Perfect for training, faceless YouTube, marketing, technical, and educational videos — any video where understanding is important.\n\nAsk: Create your first video for free:[ ](https://video.golpoai.com)[video.golpoai.com](http://video.golpoai.com)\n\n# The Problem\n\nIf you want a whiteboard explainer video today, you either hire an agency for thousands of dollars and wait weeks, learn professional video editing software which takes months to get good at and still requires a ton of time per video, or use a DIY whiteboard animation tool where you'll spend hours dragging elements around and the result still looks amateur.\n\n# Our Solution:\n\nPut in a prompt or document, get a professional fully produced whiteboard explainer video in minutes. After generation, you can edit all aspects of the video with just prompts. Videos can be anywhere from 15 seconds to 30 minutes (via API).\n\nWith our proprietary video generation engine, Golpo produces videos that feel authentic and engaging in a way no other AI video generator does.\n\nCreate your first video free and look at other videos created with Golpo at [video.golpoai.com](http://video.golpoai.com)\n\n# The Team\n\nWe are both brothers and **Stanford CS students** and have been building together our entire lives. \n\nShreyas Kar (CEO):\n\n* Researcher at Stanford’s Vision & Learning Lab under Dr. Fei-Fei Li\n* Co-Founder of the Stanford AI Club\n* USA Math Olympiad qualifier, RSI scholar, and ISEF Grand Prize winner\n\nShraman Kar (CTO):\n\n* International AI Olympiad bronze medalist (Team USA)\n* Research at Stanford Translational AI Lab (on foundational AI Vision models) and with Harvard Medical School Portal Group\n* Co-founder of Community AI (active in 38 countries and all U.S. states) with Shreyas\n\n# Our Ask:\n\n* Create your first video free at [video.golpoai.com](http://video.golpoai.com) \n* Book a Demo: \n* If you liked our product, tell your friends about it\n* Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/golpo-ai/) and [Twitter](https://x.com/GolpoAI)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O3f-golpo-create-whiteboard-explainer-videos-with-ai-from-a-prompt-or-document", "votes": 23, "created_at": "2025-07-26T23:11:57.654Z" } ] }, { "id": 30619, "name": "Shor", "slug": "shor", "former_names": [ "Kesher Link", "ShorPay" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9323f5fe8a247ae355ff7d76dd80f82fd6b8e192.png", "website": "https://shorpay.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Shor is international payroll, built for founders. 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Real data sourced in-house across diverse languages, emotions, and contexts.\n\n**Ask:** [Talk to us](https://calendly.com/ashleymo-theliva/30min) if you're a researcher or founder building voice/video generation models. We can help you.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/PwjTSZRC8XE\n\n**The Problem:**\\\nCompanies building voice and video AI models need quality training data to reach human-like performance for models. Scraping has limits and existing datasets lack diversity across accents, emotions, and languages. As AI moves toward human-like interactions like customer conversations, therapy sessions, classroom teaching, or entertainment, models need authentic human expressions that the internet can't supply.\n\n**Our Solution:**\\\nLiva collects real, consented human voice and video entirely in-house—no synthetic data or third-party purchases. All content is authentic and rights-cleared.  We’re already delivering our voice dataset to a lab training expressive foundation models for voice.\n\nWe capture diverse accents, emotional range, and varied contexts (sales calls, multi-channel dialogues, expressive monologues, casual conversations, job interviews, and more) with high production quality through crowdsourcing and strategic partnerships.\n\n**The Team:**\n\nWe’ve worked on many research projects together since we met 3 years ago.\n\n* **Ashley:** Caltech CS dropout. Built an AI model to detect lung disease from cough recordings (@ MIT) and led large-scale data collection initiatives. \n* **Aoi:** Prev. Harvard Bio/CS. Did ML research in representation learning and image diffusion models. 5+ Publications in ICML, Nature, etc.\n\n**Our Ask:**\n\nIntroductions to:\n\n* AI labs building or fine-tuning voice, video, and multimodal generation models\n* Companies using or integrating voice/video models\n* Film, audio, and content production companies\n* Researchers working on audio, video, and multimodal generative models\n\nContact us: [founders@theliva.ai](mailto:founders@theliva.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OAA-liva-ai-real-voice-video-data-for-ai", "votes": 50, "created_at": "2025-08-12T03:48:13.634Z" } ] }, { "id": 30623, "name": "Playgent", "slug": "playgent", "former_names": [ "Pharmie AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5ad8d62052816b9ab3349fc92ba2137b2b1edb02.png", "website": "https://useplaygent.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "When enterprise agents fail in production, the conditions that caused the failure are critical: user state, data, tool calls, and context. Without a way to recreate these conditions, teams can't fix what broke.\r\n\r\nPlaygent provides infrastructure to create high-fidelity sandbox environments for AI agents. Our environments come packaged as a single MCP url where tool calls are mocked, authentication is abstracted away, and test data can be initialized via natural language or JSON specifications.\r\n\r\nTeams can use Playgent to reproduce production failures in safe, scoped environments that accurately reconstruct state. 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We're building an Sandboxes for Agents!\n\nIn college, I studied Math, Business, and CS at UT Austin and worked in product and engineering roles at multiple early stage AI startups. At Visa, I launched features used by thousands of banks and built internal tools.\n\nFeel free to reach out -- neer@useplaygent.com", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/neer-jain/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/27de95e4ccb8ea8f4a00c5acf84b72064dbd0cdd.jpg" }, { "user_id": 969465, "full_name": "Aniruddh Sriram", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Hi! I’m Aniruddh - co-founder of Playgent! We are building sandboxes for AI agents. I did 4 years of NLP research with publications in EMNLP/ACL and was on-route to pursue a PhD when I decided to join YC.\n\nIn my free time, I like writing articles on Medium, playing basketball, and doing acrylic art.\n\nYou can reach me at aniruddh@useplaygent.com!", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/aniruddh-sriram/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f137d83046edc10cc83d2700771d9c031fb2cbfa.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 92806, "title": "Pharmie AI - Your AI Pharmacy Technician", "tagline": "AI voice/text agents that handle pharmacy admin so staff don’t have to", "body": "We’re excited to share Pharmie, an AI assistant for pharmacists. Check out our [launch video](https://youtu.be/pFKd8YJ6vsQ) and [website](https://www.pharmie.app/)!\n\n**The Problem**\n\nPharmacies are overwhelmed with phone calls about refills, insurance questions, chasing doctors, and handling appointment logistics. This nonstop volume creates constant interruptions, forcing pharmacists and technicians to multitask and context-switch throughout the day. As a result, staff burn out quickly, turnover is high, and time is lost retraining replacements.\n\n**What’s Pharmie?**\n\n**Pharmie is your always-on AI pharmacy assistant.** It never gets tired, works autonomously, and plugs directly into your pharmacy management system to streamline communication and boost efficiency.\n\nPharmie can:\n\n* **Answer inbound calls 24/7:** no more missed calls or hold times\n* **Process refills, transfers, and appointments:** fully automated, no staff intervention needed\n* **Verify insurance and handle patient questions:** from copays to medication availability\n* **Upsell pharmacy services:** intelligently offers vaccines, delivery, or sync programs based on the conversation and patient history\n\n**How It Works**\n\nPharmie seamlessly integrates with your existing pharmacy management system (PMS) to automate phone calls, refills, and patient communication.\n\nDuring onboarding, we work closely with you to:\n\n* Connect to your PMS or set up secure workflows if a direct integration isn’t available\n* Give Pharmie pharmacy-specific information like store hours, address, staff names, services offered, and policies\n* Train Pharmie on your workflows (e.g. how you handle refills, transfers, insurance, and voicemails)\n* Customize messaging for promotions, vaccine reminders, and targeted outreach campaigns\n* Set up call routing and escalation rules to transfer to your team when needed\n\nWe’re already in production at 4 locations, cutting phone volume by 70% and helping teams focus on patient care instead of call chaos.\n\n**The Team**\n\nAniruddh and Neer met freshman year of high school and instantly bonded over their love for math and science. Since then, they’ve worked on all types of projects together from personal gadgets to sophisticated sports betting models that generated 6-figure profit.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92806&key=user_uploads/2671843/472d3c8e-7a05-494f-8149-e7fdd21b5942)\n\nIf you know a pharmacist or work with pharmacies, shoot us a message at [**founders@pharmie.app**](mailto:founders@pharmie.app)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O8s-pharmie-ai-your-ai-pharmacy-technician", "votes": 43, "created_at": "2025-08-07T00:47:21.168Z" } ] }, { "id": 30624, "name": "Verne Robotics", "slug": "verne-robotics", "former_names": [ "Verne Labs" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d892cc07af7461203238df538f63d3eafe2a9635.png", "website": "https://vernerobotics.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Verne builds general‑purpose physical AI. 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This enables rapid deployment and a unique business model where we can let companies pay by-the-hour, instead of requiring massive capex. We already have a biotech unicorn using our robots in production to package delicate chemical vials.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHzjweFnbkk&feature=youtu.be\n\n# **The Problem: Robots are difficult to deploy & have fixed workflows**\n\nTraditional robot arms often require months of custom engineering and planning to integrate. These bulky, rigid, and expensive systems take up substantial floor space and are hard-coded for a single workflow. Adapting to new tasks means weeks of downtime and reprogramming. 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After one weekend it was set up.” It took us just 4 days to get the robot deployed at ABClonal - from unpacking the robot to automating the vial packing task.\n\n# **Who needs this**\n\nOur robots excel at dexterous manipulation tasks. Here are a few industries we can help:\n\n* DTC Meal Kits: Speed up meal kit assembly with automated packing. \n* Consumer Packaged Goods: Automate kitting to create variety packs with mixed SKUs. \n* Warehouses/Logistics: Sort parcels and pack irregular items faster and at lower cost.\n* Biotech: No more manual clean room disinfection or glovebox work\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92471&key=user_uploads/1318663/13eac3c1-2454-494a-9bcc-85819cd28f34)\n\n# **Our Ask**\n\nDo you know any manufacturers, distributors, or logistics companies burning time & money on repetitive manual tasks? 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The more complex your agents get, the harder this issue becomes. This is especially the case when building:\n\n1. Long-running, multi-turn agents with dozens of intermediate tool calls \n2. Agents where you want to measure the quality of images, video, generated UI, audio, personality, taste, etc\n\n**Current offline eval methods are high-friction**, a lot of work is needed to continuously curate labeled data and write experiments and evaluators. \n\nOn the other hand, **current LLM judges are static and often have terrible performance**, they lack context on how they fail and the nuances of the task at hand. \n\nYour AI agents are as good as your evals. Without them, surpassing the quality threshold your product needs will feel like a never-ending task.\n\n### **What we’re building**\n\nA way to create **calibrated LLM judges** that get better over time the more production data they see and the more incorrect samples are labeled. 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During that time they worked on side projects together, joined a leading fintech startup as first engineers and most recently built [llm-stats.com](http://llm-stats.com), a leading LLM leaderboard website that reached 60k MAU and  ⅓  million unique users since its launch a few months ago.\n\n* **Sebastian** was founding engineer at Micro building the future of email (backed by a16z), as well as founding engineer at Atrato (YC W21).\n* **Jonathan** was an early employee on the LLM observability team at Datadog. He did undergrad research on vision transformers for particle physics and RL for robotics.\n\nFoundational models have transformed the world. We’re building the second line of offense to fill their capability gaps and create AI products that actually work. We are determined to build the engine behind self-improving software for the following decades. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93136&key=user_uploads/208921/b912b213-762c-42ba-8fe5-dd39de8dd748)\n\n### **Our ask**\n\nIf you have AI agents in production and are struggling to measure their quality and/or achieve the reliability needed for your product's success, we’d love to chat!\n\nWe don't just deliver a tool, but will sit with you to understand your pain points and help you build high quality evals.\n\nFeel free to reach out at [founders@zeroeval.com](mailto:founders@zeroeval.com) or [book a demo](https://cal.com/team/zeroeval/demo).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OEC-zeroeval-build-self-improving-agents", "votes": 35, "created_at": "2025-08-19T15:36:48.670Z" } ] }, { "id": 30626, "name": "ContextFort", "slug": "contextfort", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6087e1f0e34063f0cc8f7a39962c8cbe63788444.png", "website": "https://contextfort.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "ContextFort gives security teams visibility and controls for AI browser agents.\r\nIt’s a Chrome extension that:\r\nDetects when an AI agent takes control of the browser\r\nRecords every action during the session (pages visited, clicks, text entry) \r\nProvides controls to prevent risky actions and cross-site data leakage", "one_liner": "Visibility and Controls for Browser Agents", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Security", "launched_at": 1753951898, "tags": [ "Cybersecurity", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Security" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/contextfort", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/contextfort.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6087e1f0e34063f0cc8f7a39962c8cbe63788444.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Ankit Gupta", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/ankit-gupta" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1596702, "full_name": "Ashwin Ramachandran", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "MS CS @ UC San Diego | CS @ IIT Bombay\nAutomating drawing reviews for construction contractors", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashwinram2002/", "x_url": "https://x.com/ashwinram2002", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/45afc911c6470bb22f6e4e3f2a5baec670169b32.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 92604, "title": "ContextFort - Copilot for Construction Drawing Review", "tagline": "Automating Drawing Reviews for Construction Contractors", "body": "# **tl;dr**\n\nContextFort automatically finds missing dimensions and overlay mismatches across your architectural and structural drawings and drafts Requests For Information (RFIs). Watch our [demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C4Gfe4UoJA) here.\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nContractors plan their construction using drawings prepared by the design team (Architects, Structural Engineers). But before building, they need to review them for errors and ask for clarification by submitting a **Request For Information (RFI)**.\n\nToday, this review is done by **manual pageturn and eyeballing overlays** which takes up **weeks**. And, this has to be done every time a modified version is released.\n\nIf an inconsistency goes unidentified or an RFI is not sent early, the project gets **delayed** or ends up needing **costly rework** with change-orders having uncertain payments.\n\n**The problem goes beyond this.** Corrections following these RFIs affect multiple trades but they are never notified; for example, a concrete contractor moving a column by 3 inches can affect HVAC and elevator contractors. This poor cross-trade visibility has been the cause for a majority of reworks.\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\nToday, ContextFort saves contractors **2-3 weeks/project** by using AI to:\n\n1. Identify missing and inconsistent dimensions across architectural and structural drawings\n2. Find overlay mismatches between different versions.\n3. Ensure RFIs being generated are not already in the construction documents.\n4. To draft an RFI following the format laid out in the spec sheets.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92604&key=user_uploads/1596702/7b5f2e9e-d0d6-4ad6-8bd2-2e09171ba7b6)\n\nOur vision is to turn every drawing set into a **living, shared model:**\n\n1. One that tests itself with rules that capture every trade clearances, codes, scheduling constraints and run automatically on every edit\n2. Only the teams affected by a change get pinged– no more hunting through 200 sheets to see what moved\n3. 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They’re the new normal in the age of AI.\n\n**Solution** ⚒️\n\n[uselark.ai](https://uselark.ai) is a modern billing platform with the flexibility to support any pricing model (credit-based, usage-based, hybrid, dimensional, token-based, etc…) at any scale (**10x more** than Stripe).\n\nWhether you’re building an AI powered API or a B2B SaaS product, Lark provides everything (including checkout + customer-facing portal) you need to implement complex billing logic without the hassle.\n\nA few nice things about us -\n\n* You don't have to manage any webhooks or store custom billing state (like stripe customer id) in your database\n* Our APIs are simple. You don't have to integrate with a separate checkout API. 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", "body": "**TL;DR** \n\nLark helps subscription companies automate customer billing support inquiries, manage chargebacks, and prevent fraud.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/gmg8HxjaS1Q\n\n**Problem**\n\nBilling your customers is hard.\n\nTeams spend tens of hours every week attending to billing support inquiries and customers often wait days to receive a response. You also have to worry about fraud and chargebacks.\n\nAll of this is distracting for your team and no one likes working on this. Ignoring the issue leads to frustrated customers, risk of being banned from your payment processor, and lost revenue.\n\n**Solution**\n\nLark provides AI agents that automate all of this for you.\n\nOur agents integrate with your billing provider, support system (e.g. zendesk), and data sources to gather context about the customer and take actions on your behalf. 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It’s like Lovable for iPhone apps.\n\n[Download](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bitrig/id6747835910) on the App Store today!\n\nhttps://youtu.be/e-DqSVEI50w\n\nWe’re longtime Apple veterans:\n\n* Kyle and Jacob are co-creators of SwiftUI, the framework Apple says is the “the best way to build an app,” and led its development for the past 10 years.\n* Tim was a co-founder and designer of Storehouse, where he won an Apple Design Award and was later acquired by Square. At Apple he rewrote the fluid animation system that powers the experience of 1.5 billion iOS users worldwide.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93186&key=user_uploads/547131/634b45de-4ef4-471c-9437-e0dd42eb28d9)\n\nBitrig lets you build native apps for your phone, on your phone. Just by chatting with AI.\n\nIf you’re a designer or PM, Bitrig lets you use the same technology as the developers on your team. If you’re a student, Bitrig is the easiest possible way to get started with Swift.\n\nIt’s fast, it’s fun. 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Today, residents calling city hall are often bounced between departments, asked to repeat themselves, and left waiting for answers - a process that frustrates the public, exhausts staff, and slows governments down. \n\nFewer than 2% of cities can afford a centralized 311 call center to fix this - for everyone else, it’s been cost-prohibitive. We change that. \n\nWith EffiGov, cities get 24/7 coverage, reduced staffing strain, and fewer misroutes. Residents get answers and action in one call - day or night.\n\nWe’re already live in a county of 160,000 residents, where EffiGov is handling constituent service calls around the clock. Here’s a photo from our onsite visit with their Assistant County Administrator:\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfQ0o-fGuHAxsodOLezKjnidHiR4FLxtQvDCkCveHfG-uJSO1BrBvYu75RVNwnfWH6Yry05sUNHJmlxE8JiUrx7OJNurz1EhJcDehnQckFeyygi6TeTfTcwanXncl-7b7crxOOE6A?key=O0mj2zmftTTinKhFm2HN-w)\n\nWho we are: We’re friends from college who’ve been building govtech for the past 12 months. Aubteen is a former White House intern who has spent years working with local governments; Aden launched Atlassian’s AI agent, Rovo.\n\nOur ask: Know someone in city government - especially leadership or constituent-facing services? We’d love an intro. [founders@effi-gov.com](mailto:founders@effi-gov.com) \n\n_Every call answered. Every constituent heard. 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It’s the first step of our broader **mission at [Arcada Labs](http://Arcada.dev) to** **distill and understand the human experience.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92609&key=user_uploads/876530/8919d5ba-9d0e-47e0-9cb9-83ed83b21630)\n\n**❌ Problem**\n\nLLMs can pass bar exams and win IMO gold, but they still generate UIs with white text on a white background. \n\nThere’s no standard to measure taste, usability, or aesthetics, and no benchmark means no pressure to improve.\n\n**🏆 Solution**\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay89pA_wUHM\n\nWe’re building the definitive benchmark for AI-generated design.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92609&key=user_uploads/876530/134587f7-3fb8-4a2f-9a8b-d001c05d68da)\n\n**🫶 Ask**\n\nKnow someone you want to see on the leaderboard? Send us a message at [**founders@designarena.ai**](mailto:founders@designarena.ai)!\n\n**💛 Team**\n\nWe’re all best friends from Harvard! \n\n**Kamryn Ohly** (CTO): Harvard Computer Science & Education, prev. Apple\n\n**Grace Li** (CEO): Harvard Computer Science & Neuroscience, prev. 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We’re Jorge and Will from Lotas. We’re building a secure, AI-native IDE for data science—and as a first step, we’ve built an AI coding assistant into RStudio (think Cursor for RStudio). We’re looking for RStudio users, data scientists, and students who want to code way faster and are excited to see AI integrated into data science workflows.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c47Ch1kB0eU\n\n❌ Problem\n\nRStudio is used by about 5 million data scientists and academics, but they currently lack a coding assistant within their IDE. Developers in other environments benefit from tools like Cursor and Windsurf, but R users don’t have an equivalent tool that’s truly integrated into their day-to-day workflow. And more broadly, data science teams need an AI-native environment that understands notebooks, dataframes, plots, and multi-language workflows—without forcing work into the cloud or tools they don’t use.\n\n✅ Solution\n\nWe’re building a secure, AI-native IDE for data science that is context-aware (files, variables, terminals), can read and write code, run analyses, and interpret textual or visual output across R and Python to start. While we build this IDE, we’ve shipped Rao: a fork of RStudio with an embedded AI assistant that is aware of the user’s local context (both files and variable environment), can read and write files, can run code or commands, and can interpret textual or visual output. It works with the file formats RStudio users already rely on (R, notebooks including RMDs and QMDs, Python, Stan, etc.), so you can iteratively perform entire data analyses inside your preferred IDE today—and help us design the next one.\n\n👨‍🎓 Who we are\n\nBoth of us were PhD students at Harvard. Jorge was in the biophysics program and Will was in the biostatistics program where most people used RStudio every day. We saw how integrated coding assistants were taking off in other IDEs, but RStudio integrations lagged behind. Many R users were copying and pasting code from ChatGPT to build their workflows, which was slow and fragile. Other AI data science tools are either (1) built on the web or in environments people don’t already use, (2) completely focused on Python notebooks, or (3) weak package-based assistants with limited functionality. We’re closing these gaps—first with Rao, and next with a purpose-built IDE for data science.\n\n🚀 Try Rao & get early access\n\nYou can download Rao, watch our demo, and work through example use cases. If you’re interested in a secure, AI-native IDE for data science, contact us for an early preview!\\\n\\\n✉️ **Contact**\\\nYou can reach us at [founders@lotas.ai](mailto:founders@lotas.ai) and follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/lotas/) and [X](https://x.com/lotas_ai).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92746&key=user_uploads/1845082/a6d066f2-358c-46b1-959e-6e2618b44df4)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O7u-lotas-cursor-for-data-science", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2025-08-05T16:49:32.810Z" } ] }, { "id": 30640, "name": "Monarcha", "slug": "monarcha", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1ca14064cb81ecebe2c5dd03339d7a44f1e9320f.png", "website": "https://monarcha.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Monarcha is an AI-powered georeferencing platform built for mining, infrastructure, and land intelligence teams. It turns scanned maps, plats, and land documents into accurate, queryable spatial data in seconds.\r\n\r\nAligning historical maps, plats, and survey drawings to real-world coordinates is tedious work. Most teams either hire specialists or skip it entirely, leaving critical spatial data locked in documents.\r\n\r\nMonarcha lets users upload any document and get a fully georeferenced, queryable GIS layer in 90 seconds or less.\r\n\r\nWant to learn more? 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Monarcha automates the slow, fragmented workflows in mapping and spatial analysis:\n\n* Uploading and enriching datasets, done instantly\n* Running 50+ spatial tools, just by describing what you need\n* Producing styled maps, no SQL or Python required\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXHBTKKXARY\\\\](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXHBTKKXARY%5C)\n\n**Problem**\n\nGeospatial data is everywhere, but using it is deeply technical. Legacy tools like ESRI or QGIS require specialists with years of training, which makes even simple questions inaccessible to most teams.\\\n\\\n**Solution**\n\nMonarcha makes advanced spatial analysis simple and accessible. Anyone who needs maps can now run advanced geospatial analysis in seconds, no GIS expertise required.\n\n**How it works**\n\nUsers connect their data and manage all spatial workflows through a single conversational interface.\n\nThey can see the analysis steps, provide feedback, and watch the map update instantly. The agent also can also spot and fix missing data or edge cases.\n\nFor example, users might say:\n\n* _“Find all parcels zoned residential within 10 minutes of transit.”_\n* _“Overlay wildfire risk maps with proposed housing sites.”_\n* _“Score neighborhoods by access to schools, parks, and jobs.”_\n\nIt feels like having a full GIS team on demand, but faster, cheaper, and accessible to anyone.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93099&key=user_uploads/2309795/8a37dd91-a21c-4d7a-94fe-c53f01d6b646)\n\n\\\n\\\n**About Us**\n\nThe founders met at Cornell, where we led the university’s largest engineering and data science teams.\n\n* [James](https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-spokes/): Built a multi-agency alert system at Mark43. Designed at Station-F backed startup Loop. Led Cornell Digital Tech & Innovation.\n* [Everett](https://www.linkedin.com/in/everett-lee-6540b41b3/): Researcher at Cornell AI Innovation Lab. Led ML Engineering at Cornell Data Science. AI Engineer at WEX and Data Scientist at Avalara.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93099&key=user_uploads/2309795/44307b12-511b-4a7b-a237-22ad41653682)\n\nIf you know planners, developers, environmental teams or have worked with GIS check out [monarcha.ai](http://monarcha.ai) or reach out to us at [founders@monarcha.ai](https://mailto:founders@monarcha.ai).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/ODb-monarcha-the-ai-gis-platform", "votes": 20, "created_at": "2025-08-18T14:59:38.456Z" } ] }, { "id": 30642, "name": "Orange Slice", "slug": "orange-slice", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9a35549672464ddd96cd4caea3ef725e10f03c19.png", "website": "https://orangeslice.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Orange Slice is a spreadsheet where every column is TypeScript—and AI writes it for you. 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That creates noise, low reply rates, and wasted cycles.\\\nTop companies like Ramp solve this with dedicated growth engineers building internal data workflows.\\\nWe’re making that same capability accessible to everyone else.\\\n\\\nAt its core, the challenge is simple: \\*\\*finding customers who already have the problem you solve.\\*\\*\\\nOrange Slice turns the spreadsheet into a system for discovering buying signals - agents research company sites, news, social signals, and niche sources like court records or building permits, then structure that information directly into columns teams can act on.\\\n\\\nNot “might be a fit.”\\\nBut “likely in-market.”\\\n\\\nSo instead of guessing who to target, teams build and refine living lists of high-intent accounts inside a sheet.\\\n\\\nStill early. Still learning.\\\nBut we’re excited to keep building.\\\n\\\nKishan and I met sophomore year on a Bollywood dance team at Michigan — and I couldn’t ask for a better co-founder.\\\n\\\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PO3-orange-slice-claude-code-for-gtm", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2026-02-06T18:14:19.276Z" }, { "id": 92110, "title": "Orange Slice 🍊 - Prospects That Already Want to Buy", "tagline": "AI-agents that find you customers who already want to buy", "body": "We’re Kishan and Vihaar! We’re the founders of Orange Slice, where we find you customers who already want to buy!\\\n**\\\nTL;DR — AI agents that search the entire web for signals / firmographic data that suggests a customer wants your exact product**\n\n[**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSqFhoO4bHs**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSqFhoO4bHs%5C)\n\n# ❌ The problem:\n\nSales teams waste time and money reaching out to people who aren’t good fits for their product. How often do you receive a cold email about something you don’t care about at all?\n\n# 🚀 Our solution:\n\nWe built custom scraping and crawling infra that finds high-intent prospects by **scanning online data sources such as company websites, news articles, job postings, and social media**. We specialize in industry-specific data sources - think court dockets for legal tech, building permits for proptech, or freight brokerage listings for logistics.\\\n\\\nThink about it like assigning a **“score”** to all potential prospects so you spend time focusing on ones that **are already likely to buy**.\n\n# Why\n\nPreviously, **Kishan** ran a growth experiment at **Ramp** where he noticed that growth doesn’t come from gimmicky emails, but from finding the right customers at the right time. **Vihaar**, who sold his first restaurant tech startup at 19, learned the same lesson the hard way: the biggest lever in sales isn’t what you say - it’s who you say it to.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92110&key=user_uploads/1452620/5421cde8-fb83-4de7-aec5-63d956975213)\n\n# **🙏 Our Ask:**\n\n* Do you know any businesses with lots of sales reps that do lots of manual research?\n* If you refer us to someone who signs with us, we will send you $500/month as long as they stay with us.\n\n👉 Contact us at [vihaar@orangeslice.ai](https://mailto:vihaar@orangeslice.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nxe-orange-slice-prospects-that-already-want-to-buy", "votes": 39, "created_at": "2025-07-14T16:08:25.761Z" } ] }, { "id": 30643, "name": "Nuntius", "slug": "nuntius", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/419ca938d39201c4fff4ef02cd003dd413be8954.png", "website": "https://www.nuntius.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Applying artificial intelligence to economically productive use-cases requires bulletproof alignment. 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Plans start at $10/week. Every plan includes every model we host. Sign up at [wafer.ai/pass](https://www.wafer.ai/#pricing).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=100546&key=user_uploads/1616952/7ea613a4-5300-4377-9fbe-32791825a31e)\n\n## Hi YC! We're Emilio and Steven, founders of Wafer (S25)\n\nToday we're launching **Wafer Pass**, a flat-rate API subscription to the fastest optimized open-source LLMs. One key, every model, drops into Claude Code, OpenClaw, Cline, Kilo Code, Roo Code, OpenHands, or Conductor.\n\n## **The problem**\n\nIf you use AI coding agents, you've felt the pain. Usage caps that hit at the worst moment. Per-token bills that swing between $5 and $50 a session. Juggling API keys across providers. Watching frontier closed models throttle you on Friday afternoons.\n\nOpen-source models (Qwen3.5-397B, GLM5.1, DeepSeek V4 Pro) have closed most of the gap on coding tasks. The problem is getting them served at the speed you actually want for an agent loop. Most providers run them on stock SGLang or vLLM, which leaves 50–80% of GPU performance on the table.\n\n## **What we built**\n\nWafer's core product is an AI performance engineer. You point it at an LLM and it optimizes it.\n\nWe have been pointing Wafer at the leading open-source LLMs and let it rewrite the entire serving stack: kernels, batching, scheduling, memory layout. The results are really impressive so far: \n\n* Qwen3.5-397B-Turbo is 2.8x faster than base SGLang\n* GLM5.1-Turbo is 2x faster than vLLM baseline\n* DeepSeek-V4-Pro is 2x faster than vLLM baseline\n\nThe Qwen example: \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=100546&key=user_uploads/1616952/5a00eeba-4de9-4052-a0ab-5643908058cd)\n\nSame weights as anywhere else. Just faster, because Wafer rewrote the kernels. We put the result behind a single OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible API.\n\n## **Wafer Pass**\n\nOne subscription. One API key. Every model we host.\n\n* **$10/week (Starter):** 1,000 requests every 5 hours. All models.\n* **$25/week (Privacy):** 2,000 requests every 5 hours. All models. Zero Data Retention.\n\nEvery plan includes every model, and every future Turbo model we ship. No price increase as the catalog grows. For context: that's 10x requests than Claude Code Max, at 1/2 the price. \n\n## **Try it**\n\n**Sign up: [wafer.ai/pass](https://wafer.ai/pass)**\n\nIf you use Claude Code, OpenClaw, or any other agent harness, we'd love your feedback. Drop your Wafer API key in and tell us what breaks.\n\nIf you're building an agent or coding tool and want a default model layer, let's talk.\n\nEmail: [**emilio@wafer.ai**](mailto:emilio@wafer.ai) · Book a 15-min call: **cal.com/wafer/quick-chat**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Q9i-wafer-pass-flat-rate-access-to-the-fastest-open-source-llms", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2026-04-30T00:19:46.736Z" }, { "id": 92210, "title": "👑 Wafer - Cursor for CUDA", "tagline": "AI agent that turns your slow PyTorch into fast GPU code, automatically", "body": "## \n\n## **TL;DR**\n\nThe best GPU engineers work at Nvidia and OpenAI for $2M+ packages. The rest of us are stuck with PyTorch code that uses <50% of our hardware. We built Wafer for every team that can't afford a GPU optimization expert. Wafer takes your PyTorch and optimizes it with custom kernels. It monitors your inference workloads, catches inefficiencies, and fixes them automatically. You keep shipping fast. Wafer makes it run fast. No CUDA knowledge required, no million-dollar hires needed.\n\n**Ask:** Are you trying to make your inference faster, writing CUDA by hand, or do you know someone who is? Fill our our [interest ](https://www.herdora.com/)form or send us an email [contact@wafer.com](mailto:contact@herdora.com) to be added to our pilot program. See below for details.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/K6nEevvlOro\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n—\n\n### **🧙 The Problem**\n\nGetting AI models to run fast on GPUs requires a rare breed of engineer. \n\nThese GPU wizards:\n\n* Command $300k+ base salaries (if you can even find them)\n* Spend **months** hand-writing custom kernels for each model\n* Need to rewrite every kernel for new hardware\n\nEven worse: If you want to run on alternative GPUs or other accelerators, you need **different** **experts** to **rewrite all your kernels**. Most teams are stuck choosing between:\n\n* Paying $$$ for GPU talent\n* Accepting <50% hardware utilization\n* Locked to one chip longer than they want\n\n---\n\n—\n\n### **🐄 How Wafer solves it**\n\nWafer does what those GPU engineering wizards do, automatically. Feed it your PyTorch code, and it generates the optimized kernels that would normally take months of manual work.\n\n**What you get:**\n\n* **Auto optimization** - Your PyTorch goes in, optimized GPU code comes out. Same model, **1.5 to 5x faster**. The kernels Wafer writes are what a senior CUDA engineer would write after weeks of profiling and tuning.\n* **Hardware portability** - NVIDIA can’t give you enough capacity? Want to try out AMD’s new MI350 series? Wafer makes your code fast on both in seconds. No rewrites, no performance penalties.\n* **Production monitoring** - Wafer watches your models in production, spots inefficiencies, and fixes them. Think of it as having a GPU expert on-call 24/7.\n\nYou write PyTorch. Wafer makes it run like it was hand-tuned by the best in the business. Wafer then monitors prod to track performance. No CUDA expertise needed on your team.\n\n—\n\n### **📢 Who This is For**\n\nYou should reach out if any of this sounds familiar:\n\n* You're an ML engineer but you **don't have time to learn CUDA**\n* Your cloud bill is killing you because your models only use 30-50% of each GPU\n* You **want to try cheaper GPUs** but can't risk your models running slower\n\n—\n\n### **👥 The Team**\n\n* **Steven Arellano** - Researched LLMs at UChicago and worked as an engineer at Two Sigma, Google, and Sei Labs.\n* **Emilio Andere** - Researched transformers for weather prediction at Argonne National Lab, adversarial ML at SANDLab, and an engineer at Elicit.\n\n🤝 Friends since freshman year at UChicago, where we were also roommates\n\n—\n\n### **🙏 Our Ask**\n\nIf you're running ML workloads on GPUs (or know someone who is), we'd love to add you to our pilot program. Email us at [contact@wafer.com](mailto:contact@herdora.com) or fill out our [interest form](https://herdora.com/) with your model type and current GPU setup.\n\nYou'll get the same optimizations that companies pay GPU consultants $50k+ to deliver except automated and in days instead of months.\n\n**Currently Onboarding:**\n\n* ML teams running inference at scale\n* Teams hitting latency requirements in production\n* Companies with growing GPU compute bills\n* Companies evaluating AMD or Intel GPUs\n\n**Send us an email:** [contact@wafer.com](mailto:contact@herdora.com)\n\n**Book a call:** [https://cal.com/wafer/20min](https://cal.com/herdora/20min)\n\n**Interest:** [https://www.wafer.ai/interest](https://www.herdora.com/interest)\n\n---\n\n---", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NzG-wafer-cursor-for-cuda", "votes": 103, "created_at": "2025-07-16T18:10:07.640Z" } ] }, { "id": 30645, "name": "Panels", "slug": "panels", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f6701ac45e2897f58f58412507e74dbdbfa60235.png", "website": "https://www.usepanels.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Panels is an audio data platform that delivers high-quality speech datasets from vetted, diverse contributors to power training and evaluation of foundational voice models.", "one_liner": "Audio Data for AI Labs", "team_size": 1, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1755625983, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/panels", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/panels.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/panelsinc/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f6701ac45e2897f58f58412507e74dbdbfa60235.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tyler Bosmeny", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tyler-bosmeny" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1219845, "full_name": "Aaron Wenk", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "CEO @ Panels. Princeton ORFE. World Champion Rower. 2x National Champion Cyclist.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-wenk", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f30138bb50c149cc0c6b4838ae28f0736d591bb5.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 97234, "title": "Founding Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/panels/jobs/ZxF3rjn-founding-engineer", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$120K - $200K", "equity_range": "0.50% - 1.50%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 93156, "title": "Panels: Audio Data for AI Labs", "tagline": "We power voice AI with high-quality audio data.", "body": "Hi!\n\nWe’re Aaron and Jason, and we’re building Panels.\n\n**TL;DR** — Panels builds diverse, high-quality conversational audio datasets for training Voice AI models. If you or someone you know is working on voice and needs audio data, we’d love to talk!\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auANpScmgls\n\n**Our Story**\n\nAaron and Jason met at Princeton University where they both studied Operations Research and Financial Engineering.\n\n* Aaron is a 1x world champion and 5x national champion rower. After leaving rowing, Aaron became a 2x national champion in cycling, racing on a professional team against former Tour de France winners.\n* Jason previously helped build and grow startups to millions of users and worked on the data team at Amazon. He also taught NLP at Princeton.\n\n**The problem**\n\nVoice AI is exploding: in the past three YC batches, 60+ companies have depended on voice models. But voice models live or die on the quality of their training data.\n\nLabs need datasets that reflect:\n\n* Languages (global coverage, not just English)\n* Accents (real-world variety)\n* Emotions & expressiveness (not monotone samples)\n* Demographics (ages, genders, cultural nuance)\n\nRight now, most labs struggle to source enough realistic, diverse, high-quality conversational audio.\n\n**Our solution**\n\nPanels delivers exactly that.\n\n* We have a network of 10,000+ vetted voice contributors\n* Coverage across 20+ languages and 100+ countries\n* Expressive, conversational audio datasets designed for training state-of-the-art voice models.\n\nThis makes Panels the reliable data provider for the labs building the future of Voice AI.\n\n**Who this is for**\n\n* Voice labs scaling foundational models\n* Research institutions working on speech, linguistics, and AI\n* Conversational AI startups wanting to finetune their agents\n\n**Our ask**\n\nIf you (or someone you know) is building in voice and needs high-quality audio data, we’d love to talk.\n\nEmail us at [📩founders@usepanels.com](mailto:%F0%9F%93%A9founders@usepanels.com)
 or ☎️[Book a call](https://cal.com/aaron-wenk/30min)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93156&key=user_uploads/1219845/a7f9773c-5a31-4132-b481-bbfa0ddb1f68)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OEW-panels-audio-data-for-ai-labs", "votes": 21, "created_at": "2025-08-19T19:35:10.536Z" } ] }, { "id": 30647, "name": "Cyberdesk", "slug": "cyberdesk", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b6deea0aa4e96211ac35f75ade0705df19758a8e.png", "website": "https://www.cyberdesk.io", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Cyberdesk is the first self learning computer use agent for developers to automate desktop workflows. \r\n\r\nFor example, one of our customers is building an AI agent for hospital patient intake, and they’re using us to automate an entire team of people manually clicking and typing into a desktop app to book appointments. \r\n\r\nWe launched mid July, and our agent is already operating in production environments, creating appointments in electronic health record apps and processing files in legacy ERPs.\r\n\r\nWe’ve built the first computer use agent that memorizes tasks and repeats them quickly while still adapting to unexpected changes on the screen. A good analogy is to how humans use computers: once we get used to an app, we use it much faster, while still adapting to random popups and crashes. This new paradigm for computer use will be needed by every company automating human workflows on computers.\r\n\r\nMahmoud previously built robotic process automation solutions impacting 20K+ employees at a Fortune 100 company. He also built AI & ML solutions at Baylor College of Medicine Neuroscience & Texas Children's Hospital + co-published a paper at the Rice Networks Group. \r\n\r\nAlan is ex-NASA and previously dropped out to be the first founding engineer at a PearX startup. He is a second time founder, having previously built and scaled a consumer AI app to thousands of paying users.\r\n\r\nComputer-use agents will automate the $6T dollars spent on enterprise knowledge work and Cyberdesk will be the platform to power this.\r\n\r\nWe’d love to talk with you!\r\nhttps://cal.com/mahmoud-al-madi-klrs5s/30min", "one_liner": "Self learning computer use agent for developers", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1749659433, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "Robotic Process Automation", "Workflow Automation", "Enterprise Software", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": [ { "question": "How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)", "answer": "We met 2 years ago, connecting over our shared experiences at Rice, and our love of building things. We both ended up living at the same Hacker House in Menlo Park, called Incepto! We started Cyberdesk with the realization that it’s really hard to build a great computer use agent, especially when it comes to reliability, speed, and cost. We both lived in a 9×9 Airbnb room with a tiny bed and a single desk (we call it the Cyberdesk lol) and got Cyberdesk off the ground, building the MVP in a 6 days and getting a paid customer the next day through a cold email. \\\r\n\\\r\nCyberdesk was built to solve all three of the core problems with off the shelf computer use models: speed, reliability, and cost. We’re excited to deploy this architecture to the world and become the best developer framework for computer use." }, { "question": "How did you decide to apply to Y Combinator? What was your experience applying, going through the batch, and fundraising at demo day?", "answer": "From the moment we started working together, we knew we wanted to go through YC together. It was a little over a month before the deadline for Summer 2025 came out when we started working together, so we got to work! We launched, got paid customers, and built out our infrastructure fast. A month later, we interviewed in person and got the call from Jon Xu the same night that we got in! It was one of the happiest days of our lives." }, { "question": "What's the history of your company from getting started until the present day? What were the big inflection points?", "answer": "We started working together in late March (2025), with a shared goal of solving deep developer problems around computer use. 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This forces data science and infrastructure teams into a difficult position:\n\n* **Wasted Time:** Data scientists waste hours hunting for available GPUs across different clouds and on-premise servers, distracting them from building models.\n* **Spiraling Costs & Security Risks:** Infrastructure teams lose visibility as desperate data scientists use personal keys on unmanaged instances, leading to security gaps and unpredictable cloud bills.\n* **Slowed Innovation:** The result is a direct trade-off between innovation speed and engineering best practices. Companies either accept a slow model development lifecycle or pay millions for dedicated GPU contracts in a single cloud, losing flexibility.\n\n🏆 **The Solution: Unify Your Compute, Unleash Your Data Scientists**\n\nLilac is an open-source platform that transforms your scattered, multi-cloud, and on-premise GPU resources into a single, unified compute fabric.\n\nInstead of hunting for servers, your data scientists simply submit their training jobs to Lilac. Our intelligent scheduler handles the rest—finding the first available GPU that meets the job's requirements, allocating it, and running the job.\n\n**The Result:**\n\n* **For Data Scientists:** Maximum productivity. They can focus on building models, not managing infrastructure.\n* **For Infrastructure Teams:** Centralized control. Gain full visibility, enforce security policies, and manage costs across your entire fleet of compute resources.\n\nLilac bridges the gap between R&D and infrastructure, turning GPU scarcity into a streamlined, efficient workflow.\n\nHere’s an introduction and example of how it works:\n\n[**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Ye-8YS0I4&ab_channel=Lilac**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Ye-8YS0I4&ab_channel=Lilac)\\\n\\\n🥇 **About Us**\n\nWe're a team of two brothers, [**@Ryan Ewing**](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/2356063) and [**@Lucas Ewing**](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/2382454), who have spent our careers building the infrastructure that powers the modern web. With experience scaling enterprise infrastructure at **AWS** and building end-to-end data platforms at **Webflow**, we've seen firsthand how critical, and how broken, the tooling for AI development is. 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Here is a video explaining what we do in a nutshell\n\n[Identity And Access Control Platform To Secure Agents | Alter (YC S25)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX0ACmMXpMg)\n\n**The Problem**\n\n**Dangerous:** Long-lived credentials and over-scoped service accounts mean a single leak can give an agent the keys to production letting it run destructive commands, exfiltrate sensitive data, or trigger costly transactions.\\\n**Opaque:** Scattered logs and siloed security make it impossible to trace “which agent did what, with which parameters” when something goes wrong, leaving teams blind in audits or incident response.\\\n**Slow:** Security reviews drag on for weeks because least-privilege and policy checks are hard to implement at scale, delaying projects and eroding velocity.\\\n**Overexposed:** Agents often get blanket root access, with no guardrails to stop prompt-injection or malicious payload swaps, so one bad input can become a catastrophic action.\\\n**The result:** enterprises face agents that _can_ and _do_ take unsafe actions in production, forcing teams to choose between unacceptable risk or shelving AI initiatives entirely.\\\n**\\\nOur Solution**\n\nAlter is the safest way to run AI agents in production without giving them blanket credentials or risking compliance breaches. From one central control layer, organizations can:\n\n* Host or connect to all their tools. We support MCP and Native tools (A2A coming soon)\n* Approve or deny any agent request in real time, with identity verification baked into every call.\n* Apply parameter-level RBAC & ABAC so dangerous actions like drop table commands in prod, during a freeze never reach production.\n* Instantly grant seconds-lived, scope-narrowed tokens so agents get only the access they need, only for that task.\n* Remove the need for long-lived API keys entirely, eliminating one of the biggest security liabilities.\n* See exactly what every agent did, when, and with what parameters, all in one CISO-ready dashboard.\n* Pass SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR audits without slowing down because compliance controls run automatically in the background.\n* Scale to any number of agents and tools without creating security silos or over-permissive access.\n\n### **The Team**\n\nWe are Srikar and Kevan.\\\n\\\nWe previously built enterprise-grade infrastructure at ComputeAI and Goldman Sachs, powering mission-critical systems for the London Stock Exchange and the Apple Card launch. Now we’re using that experience to make AI agents safe for production by giving them only the access they need and only for as long as they need it.\\\n**\\\nOur Ask**\n\nWe’re looking to connect with:\n\n* Engineering and security leaders running AI agents in production\n* Enterprises in regulated industries (finance, healthcare, government) with strict compliance requirements\n* Startups building AI-first products that need zero-trust access controls\n* Infosec teams looking to eliminate long-lived credentials and enforce least-privilege by default\n\nAs a bonus, we have also partnered with former OpenAI cybersecurity experts to provide you with ongoing red teaming, catching prompt-injection, data exfiltration, and other exploits before attackers can.\n\nIf you or someone you know is interested, please reach out to us at [**founders@alterai.dev**](mailto:founders@alterai.dev) or book a time to chat.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OCi-alter-identity-and-access-control-platform-to-secure-agents", "votes": 30, "created_at": "2025-08-15T19:42:34.047Z" } ] }, { "id": 30652, "name": "OnDeck AI", "slug": "ondeck-ai", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9fb6ad4cbd4cdfac49ff1b40404d7053d5789883.png", "website": "https://www.ondeckai.com", "all_locations": "Vancouver, BC, Canada", "long_description": "OnDeck is the infrastructure layer that makes Vision Language Models accessible and scalable for enterprise. Our model, Perception-0, let organizations instantly find any object, behavior or event, in any footage, without needing to train a model or collect any training data.\r\n\r\nThe Pain: Creating vision models usually takes months: collecting training data, training, then deployment. Worse yet: \r\n+ it’s often impossible to get enough data for a specific task, and \r\n+ even the best cv models struggle to generalize across diverse camera setups, workflows and environments. \r\n\r\nTo overcome these blockers, we bet early on the power of VLMs and built a vision engine that can generalize across any task and doesn’t need any training data. We published a NeurIPS workshop paper showing our new methods with VLMs beat traditional CV even at niche tasks. Now, our model Perception-0 beats the best VLMs including Gemini at long video understanding.\r\n\r\nOur current customers include:\r\n- National Defense Organizations\r\n- Robotics Research\r\n- Security cameras\r\n- Behaviour analysis for port monitoring\r\n- Off-shore oil & gas monitoring", "one_liner": "Analyze any footage, without training a model", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Analytics", "launched_at": 1755488960, "tags": [ "Machine Learning", "SaaS", "Computer Vision", "B2B", "Video" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Analytics" ], "regions": [ "Canada", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ondeck-ai", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/ondeck-ai.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "Vancouver", "country": "CA", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ondeckai/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9fb6ad4cbd4cdfac49ff1b40404d7053d5789883.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1161477, "full_name": "Alexander Dungate", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Solving vision @ OnDeck. 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", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/sepandd", "x_url": "https://x.com/SepandD", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9b396c35a4599135d95d8b377d1bace2b0ca3453.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 81971, "title": "Founding Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ondeck-ai/jobs/IQTL9o5-founding-engineer", "location": "Vancouver, BC, CA / Vancouver, British Columbia, CA", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$100K - $200K CAD", "equity_range": "0.10% - 1.50%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizenship/visa not required", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 93172, "title": "OnDeck AI - Analyze any video, without training a model.", "tagline": "We let organizations instantly find any object, behavior or event, in any footage, without needing to train a model or collect any training data.", "body": "Hey everyone 👋\n\nWe’re Alexander and Sepand, cofounders of [OnDeck AI](https://ondeckai.com).\n\n### TL;DR\n\nOnDeck lets you analyze any video, without training a model. Instantly find any event, behaviour, or object without needing any training data.\n\n### Ask:\n\n**Do you know anyone who needs to analyze tons of video or imagery? Please introduce us!**  [alexander@ondeck-ai.com](mailto:alexander@ondeck-ai.com)\n\n\\[[https://youtu.be/MafiM94IkV8\\\\\\]](https://youtu.be/MafiM94IkV8%5C%5D)\n\n### The Pain:\n\nCreating vision models can take months of engineering time: collecting training data, training, then deployment.  Worse yet: \n\n* it’s often impossible to get enough data for a specific task, and \n* even the best cv models struggle to generalize across diverse camera setups, workflows and environments.\n\n \n\n### Our Magic:\n\nTo overcome these blockers, we bet early on the power of VLMs and built a vision engine that can generalize across any task and doesn’t need any training data. We **published a NeurIPS workshop paper** showing our new methods with VLMs beat traditional CV even at niche tasks.\n\nWhy this is good:\n\n* We never train on customer data, unlocking sensitive use cases.\n* Deploy instantly and skip months of R&D.\n* Identify things that have never been seen before.\n* Unlike traditional cv, OnDeck can **_understand_** qualitative behaviour and sequences of events.\n\nThis summer we’ve analyzed thousands of hours of footage across:\n\n* Fleets of Autonomous Surface Vessels \n* Robotics Research\n* Security cameras \n* Behaviour analysis for port monitoring\n* Off-shore oil & gas monitoring\n\n### The Team:\n\nSepand (CTO) has a Master in ML from Cambridge and worked at the European Space Agency, Amazon, and swarm robotics research labs. We both studied cs in university together and we’ve been best friends since grade 6. We originally started OnDeck to automate fisheries monitoring (counting fish in video 🐠). We generated six-figure revenue before pivoting in January.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93172&key=user_uploads/1161477/796316a1-6848-4ece-a2b3-cc5e56514825)\n\n**Ask: Do you know anyone with loads of video or imagery to analyze? Please introduce us!\\\n\\\nPing us anytime:** [alexander@ondeck-ai.com](mailto:alexander@ondeck-ai.com) / [ondeckai.com](http://ondeck-ai.com) / [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ondeckai/) / [Twitter](https://x.com/ondeckai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OEm-ondeck-ai-analyze-any-video-without-training-a-model", "votes": 34, "created_at": "2025-08-20T01:13:05.704Z" } ] }, { "id": 30655, "name": "Frizzle", "slug": "frizzle", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3daf2d29bc3da3d9f526ade87b3daa93b0d6a6cd.png", "website": "https://www.frizzle.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Frizzle uses AI to grade handwritten math assignments for teachers and transform them into rich analytics and differentiated assessment to help personalize instruction for every student. Teachers spend over 10 hours a week or 25% of all their work grading - Frizzle does it in minutes. Frizzle is the most valuable piece of software for teachers ever, as it eliminates the most time-consuming part of their workflow so they can focus on teaching.\r\n\r\nFrizzle shifts education from waterfall to agile learning. Instead of waiting for end-of-unit tests to discover gaps, teachers get continuous, real-time insight into student thinking from everyday work. Feedback becomes immediate, instruction adapts weekly, and learning iterates (measure, adjust, improve) so every student progresses faster with less teacher burnout.\r\n\r\nFrizzle was named an official White House AI Education Partner alongside OpenAI and Meta: https://www.whitehouse.gov/edai/.\r\n\r\nFrizzle was co-founded by Abhay Gupta and Shyam Sai, who met in high school over 10 years ago.\r\n", "one_liner": "AI Grading for Teachers", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Education", "subindustry": "Education", "launched_at": 1754512868, "tags": [ "Education", "SaaS", "B2B", "Productivity", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Education" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/frizzle", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/frizzle.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/frizzle-ai", "x_url": "https://x.com/tryfrizzle", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/frizzle", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3daf2d29bc3da3d9f526ade87b3daa93b0d6a6cd.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 332377, "full_name": "Abhay Gupta", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CEO of Frizzle. \nPreviously a Product Manager at Coinbase, Tesla, and Meta. \nBachelor’s in Computer Science and Economics from Vanderbilt University. \nDrove $50M of incremental revenue at Coinbase. Helped scale an online e-learning platform from 0 to $5M ARR.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhaygupta-/", "x_url": "https://x.com/abhaygupta_eth", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9d249e28f9cab64993341bb514f8b62f234b379c.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2411665, "full_name": "Shyam Sai", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CTO of Frizzle! Previously a Machine Learning Engineer at Microsoft, Meta, and Google Life Sciences. Bachelor’s in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Co-founded the Midwest Math Circle, one of Chicagoland’s longest running math circles that has served hundreds of students over 10 years. Also holds a patent for his work in LLM applications.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/shyamsai", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3dfece5ae465d4bdefcbb25defd3d01c1e17b6ec.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 93211, "title": "Frizzle 📝 AI Grading for Math Teachers", "tagline": "Frizzle uses AI to grade math worksheets and assignments for teachers", "body": "Hey everyone 👋\n\nWe’re [Abhay](https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhaygupta-/) and [Shyam](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shyamsai/) – co-founders of [Frizzle](https://www.frizzle.com/).\n\n**TL;DR**\n\n**Frizzle uses AI to instantly grade math worksheets and assignments for teachers**. Teachers have already graded thousands of worksheets and saved hundreds of hours using Frizzle! \n\n**Frizzle is an official [White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/edai/) partner for bringing AI into education!**\n\n**Ask**: Can you introduce us to any math teachers, schools, or districts that would benefit from Frizzle? Contact us at [abhay@frizzle.com](mailto:abhay@frizzle.com)\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zx_mCw8soI\n\n**❌ The Problem**\n\nTeaching is one of the most important jobs in society, yet teachers are among the most overworked professionals. Many work 50–70 hours a week, often grading late into the night and on weekends.\n\nAcross the U.S., there’s a national teacher shortage where 1 in 8 teaching roles remain unfilled. Superintendents and principals consistently mention that teacher time is now their most valuable resource. But teachers lose 10+ hours every week just grading math assignments, time that could be spent supporting students. 25% of all their work is spent grading!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93211&key=user_uploads/332377/7654e581-e8c4-4cf2-b330-6f78bddfd521)\n\nExisting grading tools handle essays or multiple-choice questions, but fail with math, especially handwritten step-by-step work. Classrooms are also moving back to pen and paper, but teachers are left with more paperwork than ever and no scalable way to manage it.\n\nThis has created a massive bottleneck in the classroom, adding to burnout and pushing talented teachers out of the profession.\n\nUntil now…\n\n**✅ Our Solution**\n\nAt Frizzle, we’re a team of former math nerds and AI experts building the first system that actually handles math grading at scale.\n\nTeachers simply upload or snap a photo of student work and instantly get back:\n\n* **Accurate grading** ✏️: Every step graded in seconds, whether it’s handwritten or typed.\n* **Actionable insights** 📊: A class dashboard highlighting where each student is struggling across assignments.\n* **Student-friendly feedback** 🧑‍🏫: Clear explanations that help students learn from their mistakes, not just see a score.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfy5uI9ZGxksf8CXCUL5xLmMc9MdRY5IM3WmuBqz9HFynZMzwCudL_y5ydsK41z55RDJksFqnHEEw3aU48mgTUx4bm_VXnAZlSS7pbenqW9JOQIef6oQIZ4IWpTAdQ_LcW_Nh8oJg?key=q7LswlE0gngKWIM4LuJkjQ)\n\nFrizzle eliminates the 10–15 hours a week teachers lose to grading, giving them time back to focus on what matters most - teaching.\n\n**🙏 Our Ask**\n\nIf you answer “yes” to any of these, we’d love your help:\n\n* Do you know any math teachers that would benefit from an extra 10 hours in their week?\n* Do you know any schools or districts that would benefit from saving their teachers 10+ hours a week?\n* Have you scaled B2B SaaS into K–12 districts or worked closely with educators?\n\n👉 Contact us at [abhay@frizzle.com](mailto:abhay@frizzle.com)\n\nYour help can make a huge difference in bringing Frizzle to more teachers. Thank you!\n\n**👬 The Team**\n\nAbhay and Shyam have been best friends and roommates since high school, where they met 10 years ago at the Illinois Math and Science Academy.\n\nAbhay (CEO) has helped scale an e-learning platform to millions in revenue and was previously a Product Manager at Coinbase, where he drove $50M in incremental revenue. He holds a Bachelor's in Computer Science and Economics from Vanderbilt University.\n\nShyam (CTO) was a Machine Learning Engineer at Microsoft, holds a patent in LLM applications, and co-founded the Midwest Math Circle, which has served hundreds of students for more than a decade. 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Feature is merged.\n\n**Demo: [https://youtu.be/H84HrOJx4QM](https://youtu.be/H84HrOJx4QM)**\n\n**What makes it different**\n\nEvery agent gets its own sandbox with your Docker containers running, secure access to your internal services via our action catalog, and can be configured to respond to any trigger. Your code and data stay in your control- fully self-hostable, MIT licensed.\n\nAnother large difference comes with how your team interacts with the work. Reading AI-generated code is tedious. So every session produces a live UR. Sessions are multiplayer. Anyone on the team can jump in, check logs, or steer the agent in real-time.\n\n**Our ask:** ⭐ Star the repo- we just open-sourced it. \n\nIf you're tired of handholding local agents and want to move them to the background with real infrastructure access, reach out. We're working closely with a handful of teams to help improve their engineering velocity and adoption of AI. 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", "body": "# **Hi!**\n\nWe’re **Moncef DJAFRI** and **Mariem Ould Ismail** from 🇫🇷 Paris, and we’re building **Stockline**.\n\n---\n\n# **TL;DR**\n\n**Stockline** is an **AI-native ERP** for food wholesalers — automating manual order entry and replacing their clunky software from the 90s.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92425&key=user_uploads/2131140/29e05c95-954b-4073-9a4c-32fa93e0e7a2)\n\n---\n\n# **WHY WE CARE**\n\nMariem’s father is a fish wholesaler. 🐟 Back in high school, she spent her summers helping him — and watched him waste hours every day retyping orders, chasing invoices, and drowning in paperwork. ✏️\n\nThat’s where the idea was born.\n\nMariem and Moncef met at **École Polytechnique** in France, where we went through years of military training, rigorous math, and team projects.\n\nWe were both admitted to **MIT** and **Stanford**, but chose to focus on **Stockline’s mission**: bringing tech to an industry long overlooked by digital transformation.\n\n---\n\n# **THE PROBLEM**\n\nMost food wholesalers still rely on software from the 90s.\n\nOne symptom among many: **Orders come in through WhatsApp, SMS, email, or phone calls — and get retyped manually into their ERP.**\n\nAdmin work takes over.\\\nHeadcount grows just to keep up with repetitive tasks.\\\nFrom quoting to delivery, everything is **manual, error-prone, and slow**.\n\nThey barely use data. **Prices are set by instinct**, with no visibility into stock or margins. And most tools out there just don’t match how they actually work.\n\nThis leads to:\\\n→ Mistakes\\\n→ Tight margins\\\n→ Food waste\n\n---\n\n# **THE SOLUTION**\n\n**Stockline replaces outdated ERPs with AI at the core.** The game-changer? **No more manual data entry**.\n\nOur AI captures orders from every channel — **WhatsApp, SMS, email, even phone calls** — and feeds them straight into one unified system.\n\nWe centralize:\\\n• Communication (WhatsApp, emails, SMS…)\\\n• Operations (billing, inventory, CRM…)\n\n**All in one platform. Admin disappears.**\n\nOnce you have all the data in one interface, the sky’s the limit! 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Are you ready to embrace a much more efficient AI infrastructure? Check out [DeepAware](http://deepawareai.com/) / [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/deepaware/):\n\nhttps://youtu.be/mywozPhOAnA\n\nTL;DR\n\n1. DeepAware AI brings Google- and Amazon-level technology to any data center, making them more secure, efficient, and autonomous.\n2. Our reinforcement learning scheduler, real-time market integration, and robotics cut energy waste by up to 30% while ensuring 24/7 uptime.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92985&key=user_uploads/2760576/4188b3ad-71bd-4af7-a52d-eac733f67211)\n\n**Problem**\n\n1. With AI workloads surging, the data center industry is booming—global capacity is expanding rapidly, and the market is projected to hit **$1 trillion by 2030**\n2. Data centers waste 20–30% of energy due to siloed tooling and manual controls.\n3. 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We’re the co-founders of[ ](http://www.tasker.ai/)Wedge 👋\n\n**TLDR:** [Wedge](https://wedge.health) helps hesitant hospitals, health plans, and multi-physician organizations finally start using AI. We are the first platform to forward-deploy engineers inside health institutions to build custom agentic AI solutions.\n\n**Our ask:** We’d love to get introduced with director or c-suite folks at hospitals, especially if they’re currently implementing AI or want to implement AI.\n\n**Contact us:** [founders@wedge.health](mailto:founders@wedge.health)\n\n**Problem:**\n\nThere’s two types of AI being implemented in healthcare:\n\n1. Point Solution AI Vendors\n2. Cheap Outsourced Tech Consultant Solutions\n\nHere’s why they don’t work (and as a result, why you’re not seeing AI in the doctor’s office):\n\n1. The needs and integrations of every healthcare organization look vastly different. Did you know Epic (the #1 dominant EHR vendor) had a technical team dedicated to each hospital they integrated with? To dominate the healthcare industry, you need custom solutions.\n2. Technology consulting firms do offer custom solutions, but their work isn’t built by the best technical talent. We talked to an AI lead at the biggest tech-consulting firm, and they confirmed their solutions are all outsourced. But if the software is even remotely flawed, physicians won’t adopt- especially for AI, the industry needs reliable solutions.\n\n**Solution:**\n\nThat’s where [Wedge](https://wedge.health) comes in: we forward-deploy top engineering talent at each health organization we work with to custom build out the perfect solution for them. Once we’re done, AI products in that health institution are monitored and maintained by us forever.\n\n**Traction:**\n\nWhen the need is great, traction is easy. It normally takes months and years to get contracts with health institutions. 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Slashy can do everything from writing drafts in your tone, texting you when an important email comes in, prepping you for calls, to the things you expect from a true email client like keyboard shortcuts, open tracking, a mobile app and more. All while continuously learning about you and your preferences, so it only gets better over time. The average user takes 5 minutes to get set up and saves an extra hour a day. Read an independent review from Tom’s guide (1m+ subscribers) [here](https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/slashy-is-the-ai-email-app-replacing-notion-mail-heres-why).\n\nYou can get started for free at [slashy.com](http://slashy.com), and use our YC deal for a long-term discount.\n\n**Launch Video:** \n\n## **Problem**\n\nMost founders we speak to, have one of two problems (sometimes both)\n\n1. They spend too much time manually handling email, and not enough building their company.\n2. They don’t spend enough time on email, and lose important deals/hires due to things slipping.\n\n## **Solution**\n\nThat’s why we built Slashy, the first email platform that reliably gets work done for you, whether it be drafting emails, notifying you when a prospect replies, schedule meetings, or more. Slashy works wherever you work best, so onboarding is seamless (just ask some of our users). It takes 10 minutes to set up, and saves the average email power user an extra one hour a day. It does this by:\n\n1. **Doing all the basic things right:** Stuff like keyboard shortcuts, open tracking, unified inbox, team comments, availability links, all come part of Slashy. So you don’t lose anything transitioning from Gmail, Superhuman, Front and more. ([@Jayme Hoffman](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/60463) actually switched to Slashy being surprised just that a new email client could match the speed, shortcuts of something like Superhuman)\n2. **Writing drafts that sound like you:** Claude drafts sound like slop because they just look at the thread. Slashy does a lot more, it looks at the linkedin/web of recipients, past emails you’ve sent, past changes you’ve made to prior drafts, and more including using our own custom-built memory system for email. (Fun fact we have a special tool for handling suggesting times/scheduling as base llms are very bad at this). ([@Michelle Marcelline](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/379052) pretty much just hits send on all her Slashy drafts with minimal edits)\n3. **A powerful sidebar:** Slashy comes with a cursor-like sidebar. That lets you do things like search, draft, schedule and more. So you no longer need to keep flipping between ChatGPT and your email. ([@Yahia Bakour](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/2538368) loves this to power thorugh drafts and replies)\n4. **Integrations:** Slashy connects to not just your email, but your meeting notes (Granola, Fathom, Circleback, etc.), crm (Attio, Hubspot, Salesforce, etc.), Notion and more since the context to handle email isn’t just in email. ([@Pavlos Markesinis](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/2511438) loves how Slashy connects to his Attio and makes life simple)\n5. **Automations:** The best assistants also know when to handle things in the background. So Slashy can also automatically do things like prep you for calls, text you when an important email comes in, and more. ([@Owen Botkin](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/2579867) relies on Slashy to prep him from calls, and [@Pranav Madhukar](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/1531197) doesn’t even check his email anymore unless Slashy alerts him an email comes in)\n6. **iMessage/Slack Bot:** One of the worst parts of traditional clients? You need to open them to see if something important comes in. Slashy can ping you on text/slack so you don’t even need to context switch. (@devansh is one of our bigger Slack fans, while [@Abhinav Gopal](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/979064) for iMessage).\n7. **Voice:** Sometimes it’s easier to speak your mind than write (or you’re driving and just can’t haha). So Slashy lets you dictate your thoughts, and our AI will make it sound like a much better version of you. Or you can talk with our voice to voice agent when you’re commuting (@vishruth is one of our power users for our voice drafts).\n8. **Personalized Memory:** Slashy gets better the more you use it. It keeps notes on how you write, who you talk to, when you schedule, and also it learns from every edit you made before hitting send. It even once a week goes back and rewrites its notes to better match you. After all you'd expect a human assistant to be smarter after a few months, why not your ai one. ([@Devraj Gopal](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/2057015) loves how Slashy has grown to know him more and more).\n9. **Natural Language Labels:** A common complaint we hear is the rise of the AI SDR, and how everyone’s inbox is inundated with emails. The problem with traditional labelling systems is they don’t adjust over time, leading to important emails getting missed. Slashy’s labelling system does, leading to a much better filtering rate, and fewer dropped balls. ([@Nazli Danis](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/520906) was drowning in spam before Slashy)\n\n## Security and Privacy\n\nWe take security/privacy as an email client very seriously.  We’ve already gotten CASA, and SOC II. We also get monthly pen-tests done by [@Casco](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30477) to ensure our users' data is safe. None of our AI providers train on your data as well.\n\n## Getting Started\n\nNow if you want to get started just go to[ slashy.com](http://slashy.com), or you can book a time here if you’d like me to demo the product/ask any questions just shoot an email to [founders+ea@slashy.com](mailto:founders+ea@slashy.com), and Slashy will schedule a time that works for both of us :)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SIh-slashy-start-saving-2-hours-a-day-on-email", "votes": 33, "created_at": "2026-08-03T03:07:19.686Z" }, { "id": 92851, "title": "Slashy: The AI for Work", "tagline": "Slashy is the AI assistant that slashes through repetitive work", "body": "Slashy is the AI assistant that slashes through repetitive work: meeting prep for sales, automatic JIRA ticket creation, updating your CRM, and more.\n\nWe built Slashy after watching brilliant people waste hours every day on tasks that should be automated. They weren't trying to build another AI tool, they wanted to build the AI that makes all your other tools finally work together.\n\nSlashy gets users 10+ hours back every week to focus on the work that actually matters.\\\n\\\nBook a meeting: https://cal.com/slashy/30min or try it out at [slashy.ai](http://slashy.ai)\\\n\\\nhttps://youtu.be/F5ptH79YvNM", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O9b-slashy-the-ai-for-work", "votes": 27, "created_at": "2025-08-08T20:59:23.348Z" }, { "id": 91949, "title": "Dash: AI That Actually Gets Work Done", "tagline": "Meet Dash: An AI agent that connects to your Gmail, Slack, Notion, and more to complete work autonomously.", "body": "**We built an AI agent that connects to your Gmail, Slack, Notion, and more to complete work autonomously.**\n\n# [usedash.ai](http://usedash.ai) | [founders@usedash.ai](mailto:founders@usedash.ai)\n\n## The Problem\n\nKnowledge workers spend 90% of their time on manual, repetitive tasks that could be automated. Current AI tools like ChatGPT operate in isolation; they can't update Notion databases, search across Slack, or send emails.\n\n## Our Solution\n\nDash is an AI agent that connects to your tools (Gmail, Slack, Notion, Linear, Google Docs, HubSpot, calendar, and more) to complete entire tasks.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/kFPAxXAUlq8\n\n## Real Examples from Beta Users\n\n**\"Weekly team update\"**\n\n* Reads Slack channels for key discussions\n* Checks Linear tickets for sprint progress\n* Pulls metrics from HubSpot and Notion\n* Compiles and emails formatted report\n\n**\"New enterprise lead follow-up\"**\n\n* Adds leads to Hubspot with enriched data\n* Creates qualification tasks in Linear\n* Schedules follow-up calls in calendar\n* Notifies team in Slack with context\n\n**\"Daily standup agenda\"**\n\n* Pulls yesterday's completed Linear tickets and today's planned work for team members\n* Generates standup summary in Notion\n\n## We're Looking For\n\n**Know someone who is tired of switching between tools instead of making a real impact?**\n\nWe're perfect for folks who are tired of context-switching between Notion, Slack, emails, docs and more.\n\nPerfect for:\n\n* **Founders** \n* **PMs** \n* **Operations folks**\n\n**Try it for free:** [usedash.ai](http://usedash.ai)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91949&key=user_uploads/2067448/a58c2bd9-c956-48b3-a2e3-632b5cfbc418)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nv3-dash-ai-that-actually-gets-work-done", "votes": 83, "created_at": "2025-07-08T06:16:45.784Z" } ] }, { "id": 30670, "name": "cocreate", "slug": "cocreate", "former_names": [ "CoCreate" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0fa7e6874bb04b698aead6e523b8be6359e8af3d.png", "website": "https://cocreate.so", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Cocreate was built alongside our friends and colleagues — editors and their assistants, DITs, post supervisors, and UPMs — to design something that will keep individual professionals competitive in a landscape rapidly overrun by needless automation.\r\n\r\nWe've spent the past few years collecting as many grumbling stories of production and post production inefficiency; lost footage, wasted time. 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Jazz Pianist | Forever creative", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/archisharun", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/aa2d1b1edf95c36395e5d47a58cbb1cb6720dacb.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 93051, "title": "CoCreate — AI-Native video editing tool", "tagline": "AI-native video editing software that automates video post-production", "body": "\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93051&key=user_uploads/1742167/37a5da06-50ca-423f-9bcb-f0ca21e16254)\n\n**TL;DR**\n\nBefore editing even starts, professional video-production teams spend days just preparing footage — copying files, syncing audio, creating proxies, and organizing footage. For big shoots, this can eat nearly half the project’s time and budget.\n\nCoCreate is an AI-native tool that does all of that in the background while you back up your footage, so by the time your card is copied, it’s already synced, proxied, organized, and ready to edit in Premiere, Avid, Final Cut, or DaVinci Resolve.\n\nIf you work with large volumes of footage, we’d love to onboard you as an early user, connect with assistant editors, post supervisors, or DITs you know, and get your feedback on our demo.\n\n**Problem**\n\nMedia prep is the slowest part of post-production. Professional video teams juggle multiple tools to back up, sync, proxy, and organize — a process that’s repetitive, error-prone, and can consume 40% of a project’s time and budget. Existing tools fail at solving this core issue.\n\n**Solution**\n\n\\\nCoCreate is an AI-native video editing and media organization tool that gets professional video editors from SD card to edit as fast as possible. CoCreate works in parallel during backup: we checksum your files for safety, automatically sync audio with video, create proxies, and organize footage by scene, take, date, camera, and person. The result: **weeks** of prep work done in **minutes**, with everything searchable, and exportable in your preferred format.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93051&key=user_uploads/1742167/95b007b5-884d-41f2-aab6-6bee44c19ef7)\n\n**Check out our demo:** https://youtu.be/zL4gAKHMHyo\n\n**Who it’s for**\n\nWe’re built for high quality video production teams — from massive YouTubers and indie shoots to large-scale post houses — who deal with large volumes of footage and need to move faster without sacrificing quality or safety. \n\n**Our backstory**\n\nTamish and Sid first met during New Student Orientation at Stanford three years ago and quickly became close friends. A year later, Archish transferred to Stanford and was introduced to them through the university’s vibrant music scene. The three clicked instantly — not just as musicians playing campus shows together, but also as classmates grinding through late-night problem sets as CS majors.\n\nAll three had been creating music and video content for years before Stanford, and they kept that momentum going on campus — producing projects that have collectively garnered millions of views across platforms. That blend of long-standing creative experience and technical expertise made them deeply familiar with the pain points of media production, ultimately inspiring them to build **cocreate** to make high-volume post-production faster, simpler, and more collaborative.\n\n**Our ask to the YC community:**\n\n* **Post houses / production teams** — if you handle lots of footage, we’d love to onboard you as early users.\n* **Introductions** to assistant editors, post supervisors, or DITs you know.\n* **Feedback** on our product demo — especially from those with experience in high-volume video workflows.\n\nIf you can help us with any of this, please reach out at [founders@cocreate.so](mailto:founders@cocreate.so).\n\nThank you!\n\n**Team**\n\nTamish Pulappadi - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamish-pulappadi/\n\nSid Yu - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sid-yu/\n\nArchish Arun - https://www.linkedin.com/in/archisharun/\n\nMatan Hamam - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9327125/", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OCp-cocreate-ai-native-video-editing-tool", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2025-08-18T15:00:02.968Z" } ] }, { "id": 30671, "name": "Panoptive", "slug": "panoptive", "former_names": [ "AgentHub" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e968a9edc53bbf932ccbe0585917fe2029077b90.png", "website": "https://www.panoptive.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We turn unstructured monitoring data - monitoring visit reports, EDC data - into structured deviation, safety, and quality findings for human review. Panoptive generates an audit-ready oversight trail as a natural byproduct. \r\n\r\nThe platform aggregates findings and identifies systemic patterns across sites and subjects before they compound, and tracks every finding through decision, follow-up, and resolution.", "one_liner": "The continuous oversight engine for clinical trials", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1753389326, "tags": [ "B2B", "Biotech", "Infrastructure", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/panoptive", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/panoptive.json", "year_founded": 2026, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/panoptive-health", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e968a9edc53bbf932ccbe0585917fe2029077b90.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Harj Taggar", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/harj-taggar" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 715142, "full_name": "Youssef Kallel", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Building the oversight engine for clinical trials @Panoptive. 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We help teams test, trace, track, and improve agent behavior at scale before deployment, closing the gap between vibe checks and real-world performance.\n\n👉 Check us out [AgentHubLabs.com](http://AgentHubLabs.com)\n\n💬 If you’re building agents, training models, or can connect us to someone who is, we’d love to [chat](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/appointments/schedules/AcZssZ1FO0fw7yHEhAAHWoiyCOS2umxQTuat9bIUwOOzomfV4D8bxhKakigP0nglXPAQh-4qvrYwukiM)!\n\n---\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gPVYcphmmY\n\n### **🧩 The Problem**\n\nLLM-based agents often **pass simple evals at a small scale and in specific cases** but **fail in deployment**. They hallucinate tool use, misuse APIs, or follow an inefficient (or incorrect) reasoning trajectory that isn’t captured in standard benchmarks. There’s no standard way to evaluate agents beyond prompt-based tests - especially across **tool use**, **UI interactions**, and **multi-step reasoning**.\n\n---\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92664&key=user_uploads/1435098/77c2d173-7349-41e4-90a2-e2b69712ede5)\n\n### **✅ The Solution: AgentHub**\n\nAgentHub lets you **simulate real-world environments** and **evaluate agents end-to-end** using structured tasks, traces, and grading:\n\n* 🧪 **Multi-domain, customizable environments for**: e-commerce, CRM, filesystem, browser agents, dashboards, and more\n* 🕵️ **Full tracing** in standardized OpenTelemetry format: capture every LLM/tool call, decision point, and UI step\n* 📊 Evaluation that’s easy to plug and play: LLM, human-in-the-loop, and rule-based grading + custom metrics at the task, step, or tool level\n* 🛠️ **Debug and iterate fast**: See exactly where agents fail, and improve reasoning or control loops\n* 🧠 **Automated Insights**: Get automatic insights into failure modes and auto-generate suggested fixes\n\nWhether you’re testing autonomous workflows, tool-using copilots, or browser agents, we give you a **sandboxed, realistic playground** to evaluate in before you ship.\n\n---\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92664&key=user_uploads/1435098/a2b71d28-7310-4423-ac4d-1c717f244af4)\n\n### **🕵️ Who We Are**\n\nYoussef was previously a tech lead on the Foundation Model Evaluation team at Apple and studied CS at CMU.\n\nSandra has been an engineer at multiple startups, Google, and Meta, and studied CS and design at MIT.\n\nWe’ve been friends since a few years ago through a summer spent in Seattle and are obsessed with building the missing critical infrastructure to help teams **evaluate, debug, and trust** their agents.\n\n---\n\n### **🙌 How to Help / Get Involved**\n\n* Learn more and book a demo: [AgentHubLabs.com](http://AgentHubLabs.com)\n* We’re looking for teams and labs working on agents in:\n * tool-use\n * browser automation\n * conversational chat\n * and computer-use\n* Have an eval challenge? 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But the traditional practice of manually inspecting animals doesn’t scale - labor costs add up, while farms miss disease outbreaks and breeding cycles. Disease alone causes \\~$100 billion in losses yearly for cattle farms globally.\n\nExisting tech for monitoring cattle includes external wearables like collars and ear-tags. Being outside thick cattle skin, these can’t accurately track useful biometrics beyond “activity” (a glorified step-count). There’s also boluses, pill-shaped devices that sit in the cow stomach. But these are super expensive, have short battery life, and can’t be used for beef cattle.\n\n**Solution**\n\nNexa is building implantable microchips that go underneath the skin in the ear of cattle. We analyze vital biometrics - like temperature, heart rate, blood oxygen, activity, GPS location, and more - that other systems miss, to empower farmers with early disease detection and reproductive insights. 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BootLoop is building an AI agent to deliver custom firmware, fully tested on your hardware, in minutes not months. Our team built the firmware for SpaceX’s Raptor engine from first fire to flight, made brain-computer interfaces at MIT, and is _embedding_ that experience into our agent.\n\n**Ask:** Are you building hardware or do you know someone who is? Email us at [founders@bootloop.ai](mailto:founders@bootloop.ai) to be added to our pilot program. See below for details.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBI1fkx5Bss\n\n## **❌ The Problem**\n\nAll modern hardware needs firmware, but writing firmware is hard. It’s difficult to debug and tricky to validate and chip datasheets can reach upwards of 3000 pages. On top of that, there’s a shortage of qualified firmware engineers. As hardware gets more complex, the time and cost to write firmware for it goes up exponentially.\n\n**The problems are staggering:**\n\n* The hardware world is **incredibly fractured** - over 65 different major manufacturers, producing over 80,000 unique chips, each of which has different software stacks, different frameworks, and different capabilities\n* Modern hardware requires sophisticated networking stacks, power optimization, and advanced security, driving up complexity\n* Firmware engineers are hard to find - **you can't major in firmware engineering** - and even the most attractive engineering companies take up to **6 months to find a qualified engineer**\n\n## **🤖 Our Solution**\n\nWe’re building an AI agent specifically for firmware and embedded software development, with the context and tooling needed to write low-level code and validate it on hardware in real-time.\n\n**Key capabilities of our Agent:**\n\n* **Deep hardware understanding:** Ingests your documentation, datasheets, schematics, system diagrams, existing codebases, and more…\n* **Hardware interaction:** Talks directly with your boards and test equipment like oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and hardware debuggers\n* **Real testing:** Validates code on actual hardware or in simulation\n* **Framework expertise:** Writes in your language and style using your preferred embedded frameworks and proprietary libraries\n* **ITAR compliance:** The first ITAR-capable coding agent, opening massive aerospace and defense markets\n\n**Pilot program:** Our team will work with you as forward-deployed engineers on a specific firmware problem. 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We’re [Sayan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sayanbhatia/) and [Sohil](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sohilbhatia/). 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A combination of state-of-the-art AI agents plans the route, designs the experiments and runs them on robots in our partner lab, so you get your molecules, and clean data including failed reactions, without needing a lab of your own. **Last year we launched here as a chemistry copilot. Today we work with several large companies, across pharma, flavor and fragrance, energy and biotech industries and universities, and the Foundry is actively making molecules for clients.**\n\n#### ❌ **The problem:**\n\n**AI designs molecules faster than anyone can make them:**\n\n* AI models can now design a molecule in seconds, but making it can still take a chemist weeks.\n* The most interesting designs sit outside the catalogues vendors build from simple, reliable reactions, so someone has to make each one by hand.\n* In practice, teams end up testing an easier cousin of the molecule their model wanted, or nothing at all.\n\n**Good chemistry data is hard to find:**\n\n* Published data mostly shows the reactions that worked, so the failures that models need to learn from rarely get recorded.\n* Running clean, consistent experiments at scale takes a lab, robots and people that most AI teams don't have.\n\nIf you're building AI for drug discovery or materials, synthesis is quickly becoming your bottleneck.\n\n## ✅ **Our Solution:**\n\n\n\n**b12 Foundry** combines state-of-the-art AI agents with robots in our partner lab, so we can **plan** and **run** complex chemistry for you, end to end.\n\n**How it works:**\n\n* **Send us a molecule or a workflow:** Share a structure your model designed, or an experiment you want run.\n* **Our agents plan the chemistry:** They work out how to make the molecule and design the experiments for the hardest steps.\n* **Robots run it in our partner lab:** The agents run every experiment on the robots, including chemistry that is hard to do by hand.\n* **You get compounds and data back:** You receive the molecules plus every result, failed reactions included, and everything we run for you belongs to you.\n\n## **👥 Our Team:**\n\nWe are Zlatko and Andres, and in the past, we have:\n\n1. Worked with big pharma (Roche), Chemical Robotics ([**Chemspeed**](https://chemspeed.com/)), and big chemical data ([**MaxPlanck**](https://www.mis.mpg.de/));\n2. Pioneered [**AI agents**](https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-024-00832-8) for chemistry and [**retrosynthesis**](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.08537) (at EPFL);\n3. Invented [**new chemistry**](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202211168).\n\nWhen we launched here last year, we promised a full stack from planning to robotic execution. Since then, our customer base has grown well beyond pharma. Alongside three large pharma companies, including a top-3 global pharma that came back as a repeat customer, we now work with a flavor and fragrance leader, energy companies, biotech companies, and universities around the world. An AI drug discovery platform has also built our synthesis agent into its own pipeline, and this summer we opened the Foundry, which is actively making molecules for clients.\n\nThe team has grown with it. **Adriana Faraone**, our Research Scientist, runs the experiments in the Foundry, and **Victor Sabanza Gil** joins us from his PhD at EPFL, where he worked on [**Bayesian optimization**](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00544) for molecules and materials, the kind of AI that decides which experiment to run next. Together, we give anyone with a molecule on a screen extra **brainpower** and an **additional pair of hands**.\n\n## 🙏 Our Ask:\n\nDo you know a biotech or AI-for-science team whose molecules are hard to make, or who needs experimental chemistry data? 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We want to speed up molecular discovery.\n\n# **👥 Our Team:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92473&key=user_uploads/2507050/92133d6c-ba4b-4722-9115-8c45405366aa)\n\nWe are Zlatko and Andres, and in the past, we have:\n\n1. Worked with big pharma (Roche), Chemical Robotics ([**Chemspeed**](https://chemspeed.com/)), and big chemical data ([**MaxPlanck**](https://www.mis.mpg.de/));\n2. Pioneered [**AI agents**](https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-024-00832-8) for chemistry and [**retrosynthesis**](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.08537) (at EPFL);\n3. 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You can [give it a star](http://go.epicenter.so/github), install it [here](https://go.epicenter.so/install/whispering), and start using it today.\n\nI use Whispering multiple hours daily for voice coding, writing, and thinking out loud. I churned from Wispr Flow and Superwhisper after I built it.\n\nI think the ergonomics are quite delightful, and I hope you will too!\n\n[Voice coding workflow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpix588SeiQ)\n\n## **The Problem**\n\nYou use a transcription app, but you have no idea what happens to your data.\n\nThey’re not open-source. They might call themselves “local” or say “inference stays on device”—but you still can’t see the code. It’s a black box, and for all you know, _you’re the product_.\n\nYour voice recordings might be sitting on their servers and sold to other providers. You're locked into their ecosystem. When they pivot, get acquired, or shut down, your workflow will break.\n\nMany “AI transcription” startups are just API or local inference wrappers with subscription pricing. You speak into their app, they send your audio to a transcription API like Whisper, then charge you monthly for what you could run yourself. Some run locally, but none I found were open-source with the UX I needed.\n\n## **The Solution**\n\nTruly free and open-source transcription software that matches (or surpasses) the ergonomics of paid, closed-software alternatives. I think Whispering is now at that stage.\n\n## **What makes us different:**\n\nThere are many other applications in the transcription landscape. Whispering offers some notable features:\n\n* **Hands-free, voice-activated dictation**: One of our most ergonomic features so far. Press once to start the session, and it will automatically start and stop as you speak. No button-holding or toggling nonsense. Perfect for dictating when your hands are full\n* **Custom AI transformations with any prompt, any model:** Design custom transformations that chain multiple AI models to fix grammar, translate, or refactor your transcribed text\n* **Unbeatable price:**  Nothing beats free. If you bring an API key from [Groq Cloud](https://console.groq.com/keys), you’ll get nearly instantaneous transcription at $0.04/hour plus a generous free tier. And of course, if you run locally with Speeches, it’s completely free. We hope to expand our models soon.\n* **Open-source**: MIT licensed. Fork it, examine it, roast it. We pride ourselves in our code quality.\n* **Everything is local-first**: In Whispering, everything is local-first. Recordings are stored in IndexedDB, and settings are stored in local storage. Built with Svelte 5 and Tauri, and it's tiny (\\~22MB) and fast.\n\n## **Real Daily Usage**\n\n* **Talking to Claude in my room** (3-4 hrs/day): I use dictation to prompt Claude Code significantly faster than typing. I have a custom post-processing transformation set up so that every text blob that I dictate is passed through a Gemini 2.5 Flash prompt, making the output more Claude-Code-friendly (bullet points, etc.). Once done, I paste into Claude Code.\n* **While carrying pizza boxes back from the Y Combinator office:** My hands are full, so I’ll open the web app on my phone, turn on voice activated dictation, and then start yapping as thoughts come up. The words are waiting when I get back in my room\n* **Other custom transformations**: I have a common writing workflow of speech → Transcribe (Groq) → Fix Grammar (Claude 4 Sonnet) → Format (Gemini 2.5 Flash).\n\n## **Why This Matters**\n\nFundamental tools shouldn’t require trusting a black box. And they shouldn’t charge you rent for something you could run yourself.\n\nWe believe productivity apps should be open-source and transparent with your data, and we want to destroy their business models with open-source alternatives.\n\nThese alternatives will need to match them feature-by-feature, have a great UX, and eventually, be built on top of our shared memory layer.\n\n## **Where This Is Going**\n\nWhispering is the first app in the Epicenter ecosystem: local-first, open-source tools built on top of a shared memory of plain text and SQLite. We hope to replace siloed, data-driven tools with local-first alternatives that share a single, user-owned memory layer.\n\nWe also hope to support many more offline models over time, giving you maximum flexibility in how and where your data is processed.\n\nWe’re not stopping at transcription. While most transcription apps tinker with static dictionaries or custom word lists, our eventual goal with Epicenter is to leverage that shared memory. We could connect transcription to everything you think, write, and build, all within a trustworthy, local-first environment.\n\nWhispering would pick up your common phrases, technical terms, and more. Over time, you create custom transformation pipelines that adapt to your writing style, your voice, and your world.\n\n## **Our Ask**\n\n* 🌟 [**Upvote on Product Hunt**](https://www.producthunt.com/products/whispering?launch=whispering). Help others discover open-source alternatives\n* 💻[ **Download the desktop app**](https://go.epicenter.so/install-whispering) from our [installation guide](https://go.epicenter.so/install/whispering), or directly from our latest [releases](https://github.com/epicenter-so/epicenter/releases)\n* ⭐ [**Star on GitHub**](https://github.com/epicenter-so/epicenter/tree/main/apps/whispering). Back local-first software. Fork it, break it, improve it. Everything’s MIT licensed. Copy whatever you want.\n* 💬 [**Join our Discord**](https://go.epicenter.so/discord). Shape what we build next\n\nTry it, and let us know what’s up. I hope Whispering becomes a part of your workflow!\n\n[Full Setup Guide](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jYgBMrfVZs)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OAh-whispering-local-first-open-source-speech-to-text-at-your-fingertips", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2025-08-12T00:53:13.916Z" }, { "id": 92752, "title": "Epicenter: A Database for Your Mind, Built on Plain Text", "tagline": "A shared workspace for everything you think, write, and build.", "body": "**TL;DR:** if you're a hacker, a generalist, a cracked Svelte/Typescript developer, or a local-first/open-source/privacy enthusiast, join our [Discord and DM me](https://go.epicenter.so/discord). I would love to build with you.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZNOH5yKxO0\n\nHey everyone! 👋 It’s[ Braden](https://www.linkedin.com/in/braden-wong/), and I’m building Epicenter.\n\nEpicenter is an open-source suite of tools built around a single idea:\n\n**Creativity thrives when you blur the lines between disciplines.**\n\nYour tools should reflect that. Most tools divide you—one for writing, one for planning, one for research. We’re building tools that talk to each other—so you can stay in flow across every kind of work. \n\nEpicenter will be a growing software ecosystem—a text editor, a CRM, a personal assistant, and more—all built around a shared local memory.\n\n**The problem**\n\nModern knowledge work is fragmented.\n\nI journal into an app I don’t trust. I plan my week in a calendar app I’ll abandon next month. My notes drift aimlessly in systems I’ve outgrown. And every time I switch apps, the app forgets what I was working on.\n\nNotes, code, and ideas live in isolated tools that don’t talk to each other, breaking flow and burying context.\n\n**The solution**\n\nA suite of open-source tools that share a single memory: a folder on your machine. Open-source, open-format, and fully yours.\n\nThe tools share so you can make connections across disciplines. Your ideas and data are never locked in.\n\n[**epicenter.sh**](http://epicenter.sh)\n\nI just launched [epicenter.sh](http://epicenter.sh): a local-first assistant you can chat with. It lives in a folder, and we want to make it the access point to everything you’ve ever written, thought, or built.\n\n[epicenter.sh](http://epicenter.sh) is the first addition to Epicenter. This is your new shell: your second brain becomes your dialogue partner. You type; it thinks. You ask; it searches. Under the hood, it’s powered by a modified version of [Opencode](https://github.com/sst/opencode), an excellent open-source coding agent. We’ve made our own CLI and UI to simplify configuration and the user experience. It’s rough around the edges, but it’s our first step in laying the foundation for our future applications.\n\n**Where We’re Headed**\n\nIn a world where every app wants to trap you and your data, we’re building the opposite.\n\nEpicenter is open-source, local-first, and plain-text native—so you can trust it, tweak it, or take it with you. We’re building tools that support intentional, interdisciplinary thinking: software for people who read, write, build, and connect.\n\nA renaissance workflow, built on plain text and real ownership.\n\n**Our Ask**\n\nWe’re early. 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We've been building things together since middle school and this time, we’re automating one of the most painful processes in B2B supply chains.\n\n---\n\n### 🧠 TL;DR\n\n\\*\\*Comena automates order entry from inbox to ERP for distributors and manufacturers.\\*\\*\\\nNo more manual data entry. No more wasted time. Our AI reads purchase orders from emails or PDFs, extracts key info, matches products to SKUs, and sends the order to your ERP — with (or even without) human-in-the-loop review.\\\n**Sales teams save 75-99% of time spent on order processing.**\n\n---\n\n### 😩 The Problem\n\nIn industrial supply chains (fasteners, parts, MRO, etc.), every order and inquiry is still typed manually into an ERP.\n\nHere’s how it looks today:\n\n1. A distributor or manufacturer receives a PO via email\n2. A sales rep opens a PDF attachment\n3. They manually type the content of the e-mail/PDF into the ERP\n4. 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Grab your API key at [**https://app.trynia.ai/**](https://app.trynia.ai/)\n2. Follow instructions at [**https://docs.trynia.ai/integrations/nia-mcp**](https://docs.trynia.ai/integrations/nia-mcp)\n3. Enjoy.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/5019k3Bi8Wo?si=ERmnmo01IJ3DQfrv\n\n### **My ask**\n\n1. Try Nia today and tell us what context your agent still misses.\n2. 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Neither do we. But Mohi will show you exactly where your agents went wrong - and why.", "body": "Hey folks! 👋\n\nWe’re building Mohi, a debugging assistant for AI agents. If you've ever spent hours scrolling through 500+ LLM calls asking “what the hell happened?” — this is for you.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/UzQZlUdZ59s\n\n### The Problem\n\nAgents are complicated — tools, memory, web search, nested loops, and hallucinations. And when something breaks, it’s like untangling spaghetti. You’re stuck scrolling through flat logs, guessing which of the _35_ steps silently failed.\n\nIt's slow, brittle, and makes you second-guess your whole stack.\n\n### **The Fix**\n\nMohi makes debugging agents **_fast_**, and **_actually usable_**.\n\nJust tag key steps in your agent with our lightweight SDK (think: tool calls, memory access, context switches, decision logics), and we build a clean visual graph of what happened under the hood. Then we go a step further and show you:\n\n* where your agent last succeeded\n* where it went off the rails (hallucinated, failed tool, wrong branch)\n* and how to re-run broken steps with new inputs\n\nIt’s not just observability. It's a diagnosis.\n\n### **Who We Are**\n\nPreviously, Hao worked on AI and distributed systems observability at AWS, and Evan worked on automated testing at Google and AI evaluations at SecureBio. We met at MIT and worked on a bunch of projects together, eventually building agents ourselves and seeing firsthand how painful debugging can be — so we built Mohi to fix it.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92831&key=user_uploads/1675765/aa1f6344-8ce0-4ad5-a5ba-0e203412791a)\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\nIf you’re building complex agents — we’d love to chat!\n\n→[ https://trymohi.com/](https://trymohi.com/)\n\n→ [founders@trymohi.com](mailto:founders@trymohi.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O9H-mohi-debugging-assistant-for-ai-agents", "votes": 4, "created_at": "2026-02-07T00:21:30.007Z" } ] }, { "id": 30703, "name": "Physical Turing", "slug": "physical-turing", "former_names": [ "Riff", "GoRiff" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c87367cd52d809c0b9a6f05ef79f3c162b4dd082.png", "website": "https://physicalturing.ai/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Physical Turing is a neo robot deployer. 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With legacy software, there is no high-signal way of getting your creativity down.\n\n**High skill barrier**\n\n🎸❌ The difficulty of existing tools blocks people with musical interest but no patience to learn complex audio engineering.\n\n# **Solution**\n\nRiff is an AI music editor meant to make music creation easier, yet still keeps the artist in charge.\n\n🤘 Add sounds in your style directly into the editor using AI\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92151&key=user_uploads/2491351/381a389e-ba7a-41c9-9954-b5994667ec53)\n\n🎵 Arrange sounds with AI\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92151&key=user_uploads/2491351/d7011ba4-8c5c-4c3b-b46c-0f73dedce6c2)\n\n# **Team**\n\nAdith and Kenny met at Berkeley through a music collective they started (now 1200+ artists large).\n\n🎹 Adith has been making music for \\~5 years, has 1M+ streams on Spotify, and is deep into audio AI.\n\n🥁 Kenny has been making music for \\~8 years, Ex-Tencent Ex-Amazon, and releases frequently on Spotify.\n\n# **Who’s it for?**\n\nIn the short run, we’re targeting aspiring musicians who are between entry level music software like GarageBand and BandLab. Very soon, we’ll have enough features that we can directly compete with FL/Ableton/Logic/Pro Tools and get experienced producers onboard.\n\n# **Our Asks**\n\n**If you answer yes** to any of these questions, would be great if you can **share this post** with your network:\n\n* Do you know someone who has always wanted to make music but finds the tools too hard?\n* Do you know professional artists who can sing/play instruments but do not know digital music production?\n\nYou can reach out to us here: [founders@goriff.com](mailto:founders@goriff.com) or 610-762-5102\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92151&key=user_uploads/2491351/0674ebe1-dc13-4e4a-9c79-5c4599a4829f)\n\nThanks for your time everyone!\n\nBest,\n\nAdith and Kenny\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92151&key=user_uploads/2491351/a37461fa-e46b-4ef8-b5f6-a4f71352d3c7)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NyJ-riff-cursor-for-music-production", "votes": 80, "created_at": "2025-07-15T14:10:27.207Z" } ] }, { "id": 30704, "name": "Albacore Inc.", "slug": "albacore-inc", "former_names": [ "Albacore Ocean Systems, Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/136331286874ea99fbd7e2a7b2acfee659b0c7bf.png", "website": "https://www.albacore.inc", "all_locations": "Philadelphia, PA, USA", "long_description": "Albacore Inc. builds mass-producible long-range drone submarines. 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We’re [**John**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-huddleston-3584121b7/) (engineer and unmanned systems expert) and [**Dante**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dante-vaisbort/) (repeat defense founder). [**Albacore Inc.**](https://www.albacore.inc/) is building the next generation of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) to prevent maritime invasions. Our first product is **Ghostfin:** a 6-foot-long autonomous underwater vehicle that can patrol over 1,000 nautical miles undetected and massively damage hostile watercraft.\n\n[**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ6SYgIsDQs**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ6SYgIsDQs)\n\n### [**🏴‍☠️**](https://emojipedia.org/pirate-flag) The Problem: America doesn’t have any long-range underwater strike weapons.\n\nIn the case of an Indo-Pacific conflict, our military’s existing suite of autonomous underwater vehicles is woefully unprepared. Today’s unmanned underwater vehicles are short-range, expensive, and overly mission-specific. Unlike the Ukrainians or even the Houthis, America doesn’t have underwater vehicles built for attack missions in service.\n\n### **🚀 Our Solution: Low-cost autonomous underwater vehicles that can travel 10x further.**\n\nRange is the key constraint in massive bodies of water like the Pacific Ocean. The Albacore team has spent years working on power technology and manufacturing for unmanned systems, and can build Ghostfin far more efficiently than anything on the market today by using a combination of highly scalable in-house-designed and off-the-shelf components.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92587&key=user_uploads/2629924/1f9c199a-487c-4de0-848e-94ae31db9ba6)\n\n### 👥 **Our Team:**\n\n**John Huddleston, Co-Founder:** John is a mechanical engineer who spent 3 years at the Boston Consulting Group advising government agencies and Fortune 500 companies in the defense industrial base. He worked on >$9b in unmanned systems manufacturing and procurement efforts alongside senior military leadership.\n\n**Dante Vaisbort, Co-Founder:** Dante is a second-time founder in defense, who has won and led more than >$10m in DoD contract efforts for his first company, Haylon Technologies, which builds power technology for autonomous systems and is still active.\n\nWe also have an incredible engineering team hailing from Lockheed Martin, Johnson & Johnson etc. who have won underwater vehicle competitions and have a combined 20 years experience on space flight technology, autonomous vehicle AI, medical robotics, and robosubs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92587&key=user_uploads/2629924/550044dc-1333-486f-8877-384a1270c501)\n\n### **😇 Our Ask:**\n\nPlease reach out to us if you can help us deliver solutions to the Navy, Special Operations Forces, intelligence community, or allied foreign militaries. 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We help insurers automate claims and stop wrongful payouts using verifiable AI agents.\n\nOur team has spent the last decade battling legacy systems and dogma across highly regulated sectors of the financial industry. We’ve founded an EU-licensed bank (under the EBA CRD) and been part of scaling Europe’s fastest-growing InsurTech. We’ve seen firsthand the challenges with manual claims handling and how AI can fundamentally transform this process\n\n[**https://youtu.be/wfX4D08cNk4**](https://youtu.be/wfX4D08cNk4)\n\n---\n\n**The problem**\n\nYearly insurance claim payouts total more than $6.5 trillion (6% of worldwide GDP). The way insurance is sold has evolved considerably, but the handling of claims has remained largely unchanged since the early days of the internet. Due to the inconsistent nature of manual processing, handling errors alone are estimated to cause more than $200B in wrongful payouts per year. Add another $75B to that number for administrative operating expenses, and a rough idea of the true cost emerges.\n\nThe industry’s fix to this problem? Windows 2000-era admin UIs glued onto IBM mainframe systems, fragile RPA-automations that break every Feb 29th, and an army of adjusters. 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With Novaflow, life scientists can upload experimental data, ask questions in plain English, and get instant, publication-ready plots, giving them results in minutes instead of months. \n\n[Intro Video](https://youtu.be/uwi8N9rjCUI)\n\n### **Our Story**\n\nAman was a computational biologist and saw firsthand how his colleagues struggled to analyze their experimental results quickly due to a growing backlog of data in the lab. Despite spending over $100,000 a year on data analysis, it still wasn’t enough. He realized that using LLMs, this process can be automated away and save researchers time and money. He teamed up with his friend Amulya who was a software engineer at Zoom to bring this product to life. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92462&key=user_uploads/244146/e5819898-8cdb-480f-9c21-31590b2c7232)\n\n\n### **The problem**\n\nLife science labs generate huge datasets, but analysis is slow, expensive, and talent‑constrained:\n\n* **Expensive.** Small labs routinely spend **$100k+/year per analyst**; large labs spend millions. \n* **Talent bottleneck.** Many groups run **\\~5:1 experimentalists to analysts**, so researchers wait weeks to months for results.\n* **Dual expertise required.** Useful analysis needs **both** strong coding skills and deep biological context—most researchers only have one.\n* **Resource‑intensive + fragmented tooling.** Labs often lack scalable compute, standardization, or long‑term data management. Many are stuck with custom scripts and tools that feel **15+ years behind**.\n\n### **Our Solution**\n\nWe want to put analysis **back in the hands of researchers**:\n\n* 🧠 **LLM‑powered pipelines** that plan, generate, and run bioinformatics workflows behind the scenes\n* 📊 **Instant, publication‑ready plots** from raw CSVs, FASTQs, BAMs., and more\n* 🔍 **Natural‑language querying** (“Which genes are most differentially expressed?”)\n* 🧪 **Exportable Jupyter notebooks & reproducible Python code** for auditability and downstream tweaking\n* ♻️ **Versioned runs & provenance** so you can rerun, compare, and share analyses confidently\n\n### **How it works**\n\n1. **Upload your data + describe the experiment** (e.g., “scRNA‑seq of treated vs. control organoids”).\n2. **Novaflow infers the right workflow** (e.g., QC, normalization, clustering/UMAP for scRNA‑seq; DE for bulk RNA‑seq; peak calling + motif analysis for ATAC‑seq).\n3. **We spin up the compute, run the pipeline, and return plots**, summaries, and a notebook you can keep, rerun, or extend.\n\n### **Who this is for**\n\n* **Life scientists** blocked by slow or missing bioinformatics support\n* **Academic labs** doing genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, etc.\n* **Biotech teams** that want to accelerate R&D with leaner headcount\n* **Clinical/diagnostic groups** using high‑throughput assays\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\n* [Book a demo](https://calendly.com/aman-novaflowapp/30min?month=2025-07) if you’re interested in seeing how Novaflow can support your lab! \n* Know a research lab, hospital, or biotech company that might benefit from Novaflow? Send us an email - we’d love an introduction! 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$160K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [ "Python", "TypeScript" ] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Manufact raises $6.3M as MCP becomes the ‘USB-C for AI’ powering ChatGPT and Claude apps | VentureBeat", "url": "https://venturebeat.com/infrastructure/manufact-raises-usd6-3m-as-mcp-becomes-the-usb-c-for-ai-powering-chatgpt-and", "date": "Mar 11, 2026" }, { "title": "Make Something Agents Want — Humans Are No Longer The Customer", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/dariashunina/2026/03/11/make-something-agents-want---humans-are-no-longer-the-customer/", "date": "Mar 09, 2026" }, { "title": "The Most Promising Startups To Watch From YC Summer 2025 Batch: mcp-use", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/dariashunina/2025/09/04/the-most-promising-startups-to-watch-from-yc-summer-2025-batch/", "date": "Sep 04, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 107462, "title": "Manufact: MCP Cloud for your Claude Connector & ChatGPT Plugin", "tagline": "Get your product on Claude and ChatGPT and usable by AI Agents ", "body": "Hey everyone, we're the team behind [**mcp-use**](https://github.com/mcp-use/mcp-use), the open-source MCP framework with **10k GitHub stars** and **\\~10M+ downloads**.\n\n[**Manufact**](https://manufact.com/) is the cloud platform that gets your product onto the **Claude Connectors marketplace** and the **ChatGPT (Codex) Plugin Store** via MCP.\n\n\n\n## The problem\n\nPaul Graham recently tweeted: \"_AI apps are the new browsers_\". \\\nYour customers now do most of their work inside Claude and ChatGPT, and the connector marketplaces are a new distribution channel: someone installs your product in one click and uses it inside the chat they already live in.\n\nWe listed Manufact on Claude and saw a **surge of signups** that is still going on now.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=107462&key=user_uploads/859771/65a0b3fd-75cf-4eea-a2ee-02590e3256ba)\n\nBut shipping a production-ready MCP server is its own project:\n\n* MCP is a protocol evolving fast .\n* Auth is easy to get [wrong](https://manufact.com/blog/authentication).\n* Every client behaves differently.\n* The stores have their own conformance requirements, and review can block you for weeks.\n\n## How Manufact works\n\nManufact is the cloud built specifically for MCP:\n\n* **Push to deploy.** Connect the GitHub App once and [every commit ships a new version of your MCP server](https://manufact.com/platform/hosting), with a preview deployment for each PR.\n* **Test every MCP tool and MCP-UI widget** in the [cloud inspector](https://manufact.com/platform/cloud-inspector).\n* **Know the moment your MCP breaks** in ChatGPT or Claude with [automatic cross-client testing](https://manufact.com/platform/cross-client-testing).\n* [**Publishing checklists**](https://manufact.com/platform/publishing-checks) so your MCP app doesn't get stuck in marketplace review.\n* **Auto-generated submission assets** (logo, copy, screenshots).\n* **Analytics, session replay, and traces** built in for MCP, so you can see [how it's used and why tools fail](https://manufact.com/platform/analytics).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=107462&key=user_uploads/859771/ee30e016-9fb5-4958-890f-74febc54de3c)\n\n## Your product's UI inside the chat\n\nA plain MCP server lets the agent read and write your data. \\\nAn **MCP App** goes further: it's an MCP server that can return a UI as the result of a tool call, so your actual product interface renders inside Claude or ChatGPT. The user sees your charts and forms instead of a wall of text.\n\nFerruccio Balestreri (Amplitude) [put it well](https://x.com/0xferruccio/status/2028966278971670979):\n\n> since mcp ui was released in claude we got a 2x boost in retention.\n\nWith the [mcp-use SDK](https://github.com/mcp-use/mcp-use) you write a normal React component, drop it in, and it registers as an MCP UI resource automatically.\n\n## Backstory\n\nWe've been building on MCP since the protocol shipped. It started with the mcp-use SDK, the full-stack framework for MCP servers and apps. We kept watching companies struggle to take those servers to production, so we built the cloud for it (mcp-use is to Manufact what Next.js is to Vercel).\n\nManufact is now the **#1 recommended deployment option in OpenAI's docs.** \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=107462&key=user_uploads/859771/ddba2350-67c4-43d5-8150-30847d4375a2)\n\nWe've helped startups from recent YC batches like **AgentMail** and **Item** get onto the Claude Connectors marketplace, and larger companies in finance, insurance, and marketplaces run their MCP apps on Manufact in production.\n\n## Our asks\n\n1. Have an MCP server? **Deploy it on [Manufact](https://manufact.com/)**.\n2. Thinking about building an MCP App? [Copy our prompt for agents](https://manufact.com/prompt.md) and your coding agent will guide you.\n3. Trying to get listed on the marketplaces? [Book a call with us](https://cal.com/team/manufact/chat). We have publishing checks and direct contacts on the MCP teams at Anthropic and OpenAI.\n\nHope to see your MCP on [manufact.com](http://manufact.com), or that you at least learned something new. 🙂\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=107462&key=user_uploads/859771/685643a6-ecd5-42b4-b55f-ec394967ca57)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RxG-manufact-mcp-cloud-for-your-claude-connector-chatgpt-plugin", "votes": 47, "created_at": "2026-07-28T14:55:15.055Z" }, { "id": 92418, "title": "Manufact (mcp-use) - Build and deploy MCP Servers for AI Agents & MCP Apps for ChatGPT / Claude users", "tagline": "Create MCP servers/apps in minutes, connect your GitHub repo, and make them immediately available to AI agents and ChatGPT / Claude.", "body": "### **TL;DR**\n\n[Manufact](https://manufact.com) is the MCP cloud for dev teams to ship MCP Apps and Servers in production. Connect a GitHub repo and Manufact handles deployment, security, observability, and scaling, so teams can ship in minutes instead of weeks.\n\nOne codebase, deployed everywhere users and agents already live: the ChatGPT Apps Store, Claude Connectors, Gemini, Cursor, Claude Code, and more.\n\nWe're also the creators of [mcp-use SDK](https://github.com/mcp-use/mcp-use), the most popular high-level MCP framework for building MCP Apps and Servers.\\\n(mcp-use SDK is to the Model Context Protocol SDKs what Next.js is to React!)\n\nIt’s open-source and used by developers at 20% of US500 and companies like 6sense, Elastic, IBM, Innovacer, Intuit, NVIDIA, Oracle, Red Hat, Tavily, and Verizon are building with us.\n\n### **The ask**\n\nIf you're building MCP Apps or Servers, or you know someone who is, we'd love to talk.\n\n \\\nor shoot a message to us: +1 (628) 899-2498 \\\nor [founders@manufact.com](mailto:founders@manufact.com)\n\n### **Our story**\n\nWhen MCP came out, we couldn't believe such a powerful protocol was locked into IDEs and Claude Desktop.\n\nSo we built mcp-use, the open source framework that lets any developer build MCP Apps and Servers in code, in a structured and composable way.\n\nIt got adopted fast: 7M+ downloads across Python and TypeScript, almost 10k GitHub stars, and dev teams at top companies shipping with it.\n\nBut OSS is only half the story. Once teams had something working, they hit the wall every infra team knows: deployment, auth, secrets, observability, scaling. Stitching that together for MCP is a multi-week project. That's what Manufact solves.\n\n### **Make something agents want**\n\nMCP unlocks something most products have never had access to before: real estate inside ChatGPT and Claude.\n\n800M+ users already spend their day in those chats. \\\nWith MCP, a product can show up there as a native app or connector, with no separate UI to build, no app to install, no new login flow. \\\nThe user just asks, and your product does the work.\n\n### **Problem**\n\nThe catch is that \"build once, ship everywhere\" is its own infra problem. ChatGPT Apps, Claude Connectors, Gemini, and the long tail of agent surfaces (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, OpenAI Agents, Mastra, LangChain, Vercel AI SDK) each have their own quirks, auth flows, and submission requirements. Manufact lets you build one codebase and ship it to all of them.\n\n### **What Manufact does**\n\nConnect your MCP repo once. Every push auto-deploys.\n\n1. **Build:** Scaffold a full MCP App or Server with _npx create-mcp-use-app_ or drop in existing MCP code unchanged.\n2. **Deploy:** GitHub App connects once. Every push auto-deploys to Manufact Cloud. Preview URL per branch. Custom domains with SSL handled.\n3. **Publish.** Get your app in front of users in the ChatGPT Apps Store and Claude Connectors. Submission assets, marketplace checklists, and an embeddable chat widget for your own site, docs, or campaign pages.\n4. **Iterate.** Cloud Inspector debugs from any browser against real clients. Swap models. Run evals on every deploy.\n5. **Monitor.** Analytics, session replay, JSON-RPC traces, and alerts on regressions, so you catch issues before users do. Less than 60 seconds from _git push_ to a live MCP App or Server, available across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and any agent surface that speaks MCP.\n\n### **Ask**\n\nDo you know anyone already using MCP servers internally or building products powered by AI agents?\n\nFor the first few companies we will personally create/integrate MCP servers you need, have everything running through our platform, either on cloud or your own infrastructure. We even help you integrate our SDK into your code.\n\nWhat do you think? 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Enterprises banned them because they violated data sovereignty.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93180&key=user_uploads/1166442/15cd071d-825d-49a9-a1fe-b078d3e2f2b5)\n\n### **How Hyprnote Flips the Script**\n\n[**Hyprnote**](http://hyprnote.com/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=launch_yc) runs entirely on your laptop, server, or air-gapped network:\n\n* **Private by default**: not a single byte leaves your system, ever.\n* **AI-powered notes**: clear, actionable summaries.\n* **Enterprise-ready**: HIPAA, SOC2, ITAR, FedRAMP-friendly.\n* [**Open source**](https://github.com/fastrepl/hyprnote): transparent and extensible.\n* **Flexible deployment**: run it where you want.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93180&key=user_uploads/1166442/e9e59bd3-9993-4029-b8ab-de8bde4a1ea1)\n\n### **Why We Built This**\n\nWe saw enterprise employees stuck taking manual notes because “AI notetakers” weren’t actually enterprise-ready. 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We also offer Meta campaign management for teams that want creative production and campaigns handled together.\n\n[See our work and book a call](https://www.knowlify.com/).\n\n## What we make\n\n- **AI UGC:** Presenter-led, straight-to-camera ads built around your product and message.\n- **Pixar-style animation:** Original characters and stories that bring your product to life.\n- **AI commercials:** Produced scenes and product shots, created with AI and finished by our team.\n\nWe handle concepts, scripts, production, editing and sound. 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Omnara is an API that allows you to create and interact with AI agents easily. Previously I was an AI infra engineer at Microsoft, where I built and led Kaito (https://github.com/kaito-project/kaito/graphs/contributors). Before that, I worked on ML at Windsor (YC W19, acquired 2024) and interned at Roblox. I hold a BS/MCS in CS from UIUC.\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ishaan-sehgal/", "x_url": "https://x.com/IshSup", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0f702aad21a666e365673f7c3eaa8c993047de42.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2661368, "full_name": "Kartik Sarangmath", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Commanding my fleet of AI agents at omnara.com. \nPreviously at ThirdAI, optimizing neural networks for CPU deployment. Completed BS and MS in Computer Science at Georgia Tech focusing on computer vision research, publishing 3 papers and training large multimodal models at Meta AI.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kartiksarangmath/", "x_url": "https://x.com/kartiksmath", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3f0f734f148a9e0481b772518abcd7959193178a.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 112080, "title": "Omnara: The API for Production-Ready agents", "tagline": "Open-source alternative to claude managed agents", "body": "Omnara is an open-source platform for creating and interacting with production-ready agents via an API, without having to worry about the tedious parts of managing an agent control plane. It’s an open-source alternative to Claude Managed Agents, Langchain Managed Agents, Vercel Eve, etc.\n\n## **Problem:**\n\n---\n\nBuilding agents is hard. Many companies are building agent control planes, both for internal use and external use. The common pattern is you use some local agent framework, like claude agent sdk, mastra, langchain, or your own loop, host that on VMs/kubernetes/workers, expose an API with endpoints to interact with agents, handle machine failures, resumption of an agent, provisioning sandbox environments so those agents can code, configure endpoints to add skills and MCPs, have user message tracking, audit logs, and on and on.\n\nIt’s a lot of infrastructure work that has nothing to do with what the agent actually does. And most teams end up having to build and maintain their own versions of it.\n\nOmnara is that layer. It provides this infrastructure for you. So you can create and interact with your agents through a standard API without having to worry about building and maintaining your own control plane.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=112080&key=user_uploads/1391601/7b5a0575-9a32-4af8-966f-9b6370e74edc)\n\n## **Bring your own computer:**\n\nRun this on any linux or macOS machine (windows coming soon): \\\n**curl -fsSL https://app.omnara.com/install/omnarad.sh | sh**\\\nIt connects the machine to the Omnara control plane. You can then give any agent access to this machine. This allows you to spin up an EC2 instance and have your agents use that as a persistent machine, or even run it on your macbook so that cloud agents can directly edit files locally when it’s online. You can also bring your own sandbox provider API keys (currently we support Blaxel, Daytona, and Unikraft).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=112080&key=user_uploads/1391601/55bd57b2-62f9-414e-8acc-405797264d3a)\n\n## **Bring your own model:**\n\nOmnara allows you to bring your own LLM endpoint and API key (we support OpenAI Responses, OpenAI Completions, and Anthropic Messages formats, with more coming soon). You can use your hundreds of thousands of free LLM credits from YC in Omnara!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=112080&key=user_uploads/1391601/12802420-8c49-4609-bd5c-9b7df94954f6)\n\n---\n\nBecause you can bring your own machine and models, you can use Omnara for completely free! Our architecture allows us to efficiently host hundreds of millions of agents on minimal hardware, so we can easily eat that cost.\n\nIf you prefer our hosted models (via openrouter) and hosted sandboxes (via blaxel), we're giving $1,000 in credits to the first 50 teams building on Omnara. Email us at [**contact@omnara.com**](mailto:contact@omnara.com) with what you're building and we’ll apply the credits to your organization.\n\nIf you want help self-hosting the control plane or running it in your VPC/on-prem, we’re taking on five design partners. Email [**ishaan@omnara.com**](mailto:ishaan@omnara.com).\n\nWebsite: [**omnara.com**](http://omnara.com) \\\nApp: [**app.omnara.com**](http://app.omnara.com) \\\nDocs: [**docs.omnara.com**](http://docs.omnara.com) \\\nSource: [**github.com/omnara-ai/omnara**](http://github.com/omnara-ai/omnara)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/T9k-omnara-the-api-for-production-ready-agents", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2026-08-24T18:26:24.991Z" }, { "id": 97081, "title": "Omnara: Run Claude Code from Anywhere 🤖", "tagline": "Stay involved with your coding agents without being at your desk", "body": "We’re Ishaan and Kartik, and we’re building **Omnara**, a web and mobile interface for Claude Code that lets you keep coding agents moving even when you’re away from your desk.\n\n🎥 Demo:[ https://x.com/i/status/2014383431845839186](https://x.com/i/status/2014383431845839186)\n\n## **❌ The Problem**\n\nCoding agents can work independently for long stretches, but they still block on human input.\n\nIf an agent needs clarification while you’re away, everything pauses.\\\nIf your laptop sleeps, long-running work stops.\\\nMost remote agent tools run in hosted environments instead of where your code actually lives.\n\nAgents should fit around your schedule, not the other way around.\n\n## **🛠️ The Solution**\n\n**Omnara makes working with coding agents feel continuous instead of fragile.**\n\nYou can:\n\n* Start agents locally and stay involved from anywhere using web or mobile\n* Keep work moving even if your laptop goes offline\n* Talk to agents using voice when typing isn’t convenient\n\n## **🔒 Run agents in your environment, access them from anywhere**\n\nWith Omnara, your coding agent runs on your own machine, whether that’s your laptop or a remote VM you control.\n\nYou can access and interact with that agent from anywhere, securely, without SSH, port forwarding, or tunneling.\n\nYour agent runs in your real environment, but you’re not tied to the machine it’s running on.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97081&key=user_uploads/2661368/81388baf-658a-4c43-94ac-1ce4e17a1605)\n\n## **☁️ Keep agents running when your machine is off**\n\nAgents shouldn’t stop just because your laptop does.\n\nIf your machine goes offline, Omnara can keep the agent running in the cloud so work continues. You can still interact from web or mobile, and when you’re back at your desk, you can pick up where things left off.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97081&key=user_uploads/2661368/098a8bf1-046d-4362-86b2-63d984e999dd)\n\n## **🎙️ Talk to your coding agent**\n\nMobile typing works for quick replies, but it’s not great for longer back and forth.\n\nOmnara includes voice so you can talk to your coding agent when typing isn’t convenient. Speaking tends to provide more context and makes it easier to iterate, especially while walking or multitasking.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97081&key=user_uploads/2661368/829c73b5-6a60-41e8-a9c3-0fa98de80d39)\n\n## **💸 Pricing**\n\n* Free: up to 10 agent sessions per month\n* $20/month: unlimited sessions\n* When agents run in your environment, you can use your existing Claude Pro or Max subscription\n\n## **🙏 Our Ask**\n\nIf you use Claude Code or rely on long-running coding agents, we’d love your feedback.\n\n👉 Try it: [omnara.com](https://www.omnara.com/)\n\n[👉](https://www.omnara.com\\)%F0%9F%91%89) Install in one line:\\\ncurl -fsSL | bash\n\n👉 Reach us: [founders@omnara.com](mailto:founders@omnara.com)\n\n— Ishaan & Kartik\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97081&key=user_uploads/2661368/6ef3e27b-3742-4e1a-9d77-1ec8a6c5bc41)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PFp-omnara-run-claude-code-from-anywhere", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2026-01-23T20:07:51.104Z" }, { "id": 93029, "title": "Omnara - The first command center for AI agents: terminal, web, and mobile", "tagline": "Run Claude Code from anywhere and switch seamlessly between devices", "body": "https://www.loom.com/share/03d30efcf8e44035af03cbfebf840c73\n\nStart Claude Code in the terminal, then pick it up instantly on web or mobile with a seamless handoff between all three\n\n### The Problem\n\nClaude Code is incredible, but it chains you to your desk.\\\nOnce an agent starts working, you’re stuck waiting in the terminal for it to ask you something. That could take 5–10 minutes, and if you’re away, progress halts. We’ve coded from our beds, on walks, in Ubers, while doing laundry… and yes, even on the toilet — but only after we built Omnara.\n\nExisting solutions don’t solve this well:\n\n* **Other Claude Code wrappers** (e.g., Crystal, Conductor) often replace the native experience but don’t let you jump between terminal, web, and mobile.\n* **Terminal replication tools** (e.g., Vibetunnel, Termius) let you SSH in, but have no push notifications, clean diffs, or simple setup.\n\n### What’s Omnara?\n\nOmnara is the **first agent command center** — start an AI agent in the terminal, then continue the same session from our web dashboard or mobile app.\n\nWith Omnara, you can:\n\n* Launch agents from terminal, web, or mobile.\n* Switch between them instantly.\n* Get **real-time push notifications** when agents need your input.\n* Review logs, see Git diffs, and approve/reject changes with one tap.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93029&key=user_uploads/1391601/bf61f9ae-4f37-4377-90c8-fc2bed1d0866)\n\n**How it works**\\\nWe built a CLI wrapper that mirrors the native Claude Code experience — output, permissions, notifications, and mode switching — by parsing the session file at _\\~/.claude/projects_ and terminal output in real time. All agent and user messages are streamed via SSE to the Omnara platform, where you can respond from anywhere.\n\nIt’s fully open source: [github.com/omnara-ai/omnara](https://github.com/omnara-ai/omnara)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93029&key=user_uploads/1391601/837e9af0-e038-4bb1-9f1c-1ebf152f8157)\n\n### Why launch with Claude Code first?\n\nOmnara works with any AI agent, but Claude Code users immediately “get” the value. It’s the perfect human-in-the-loop use case — and the one we use every day.\n\nWe’ve also used Omnara as a human-in-the-loop node in n8n workflows, e.g., for replying to emails. This is just the beginning.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93029&key=user_uploads/1391601/96e585a6-db46-4a20-8901-0ddbc7e409cf)\n\n### Pricing\n\nFree for up to 10 agent sessions/month.\\\n$9/month for unlimited.\n\n### About Us\n\nWe’re **Ishaan & Kartik**, childhood friends since Montessori. 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Our first product, the AI Advisor, improves retention by connecting to university systems (SIS, LMS, and CRM) and unifying student data to flag at-risk students, send personalized outreach, and draft success plans, all in natural language. \n\n**Ask:** Know a university leader looking to improve retention? Introduce us! Email us at [founders@risely.ai](mailto:founders@risely.ai) or [book a demo](https://www.risely.ai/#bottom).\\\nhttps://youtu.be/qqyKgn7LmWE\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nColleges spend millions of dollars recruiting students, only to have 1 in 3 students drop out because of poor student service.\n\nAcademic advisors – the front line of student support – spend more time digging through clunky systems to manually find at-risk students than helping them succeed.\n\nBy the time they realize a student is struggling, students have already slipped through the cracks. \n\n### **Our Solution**\n\nRisely’s AI Advisor improves retention and expands a university’s capacity to deliver personalized support to every student. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92561&key=user_uploads/2145090/6a0960dc-5aad-4498-98cd-bd72892d089d)\n\n**Our AI Advisor works across the SIS, LMS, and CRM to:** \n\n📍  Flag students showing signs of risk before it’s too late\\\n✍🏽 Generate personalized success plans in seconds\\\n🧠 Answer questions about students, courses, and caseloads in natural language\\\n🗂️ Send personalized outreach and follow-ups\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92561&key=user_uploads/2145090/ae6c7627-5ade-4447-bb02-0fe79637ba02)\n\n**And this is just the beginning.**\n\nRisely’s AI agents will form the new operating system for universities, improving retention, staff productivity, and efficiency. Next, we’re building an  AI Sidekick for every student, an AI Registrar, and an AI Research Admin - all deeply connected to campus workflows and knowledge.\n\nRisely’s early customers include private colleges, large public systems, and online universities - all delivering personalized support at scale without increasing headcount.\n\n### **The Founders**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92561&key=user_uploads/2145090/7ebc529f-3f17-431b-97f8-8a52804b4e35)\n\n**Sadia (CPO)** – Sadia spent 7 years at Salesforce leading product for Education Cloud, where she launched a next-gen Student Information System now used by universities globally. She also served as a UC Regent, shaping policy at one of the largest public systems in the world.\n\n**Danial (CTO)** – Danial was a senior engineering leader at DoorDash, where he built the Voice AI and Search platforms that powered billions of customer interactions. He specializes in scalable AI systems and enterprise-grade infrastructure.\n\n**Shahryar (CEO)** – Shahryar is a former Bain consultant and GM who built Airwallex’s U.S. business from scratch, scaled growth teams across sales and marketing, and led $20M+ enterprise deals at Nerdwallet. He brings deep go-to-market and operating expertise to Risely.\n\nWe met at UC Berkeley over 15 years ago and bring deep, complementary expertise across higher ed, AI, and startup execution. We started Risely to fix a system we know is broken, from the inside out.\n\n### **OUR ASK**\n\nWe are looking to connect with university leaders who want to shape the future of AI in higher ed. If you know someone focused on student success, we’d love to hear from you.\n\n👉 [Book a demo](https://www.risely.ai/#bottom) or email us at [founders@risely.ai](mailto:founders@risely.ai)\\\n👉 Follow us on[ Twitter/X](https://twitter.com/RiselyAI) and\\[ LinkedIn\\\n\\](https://linkedin.com/company/risely-ai) 👉 YC batchmates, reach out if you want to jam on use cases or pilot ideas\\\n📣 Share this post with anyone in your network working in student success, advising, or higher ed innovation.\n\nThank you!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92561&key=user_uploads/2145090/37f17b62-c0c1-406d-aec6-4ae9e82012ba)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O4v-risely-ai-agents-that-automate-administrative-tasks-across-college-campuses", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2025-07-30T04:49:18.725Z" } ] }, { "id": 30725, "name": "Minimal AI", "slug": "minimal-ai", "former_names": [ "Minimal AI", "Minimal AI, Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c63bc96cffb87cb2d06890455f91a39acb01d02d.png", "website": "https://gominimal.ai/", "all_locations": "Amsterdam, NH, Netherlands", "long_description": "Minimal AI makes it easy for e-commerce brands to build and manage AI support teams that resolve 90%+ of tickets while increasing revenue.", "one_liner": "AI Agents for E-commerce Customer Support", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1755048998, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "Netherlands", "Europe" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/minimal-ai", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/minimal-ai.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "Amsterdam", "country": "NL", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/gominimal/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c63bc96cffb87cb2d06890455f91a39acb01d02d.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1977649, "full_name": "Niek Hogenboom", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Niek is the Co-Founder and CEO of Minimal AI\n\nHe started his first business at the age of 16, selling and importing custom suits from his parents' house and sold the business 3 years later. 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The result: reduced support costs while actually improving customer experience and sales. Minimal AI’s Agents currently resolve tens of thousands of tickets per day.\n\n\n\n# **Problem**\n\nEveryone thinks AI customer support is solved. It's not. E-commerce customer support is complex and fast-paced. Stores have:\n\n1. Fragmented tech stacks (e.g. Shopify + Zendesk + Shipbob + 12 other tools)\n2. Policies that change weekly (return windows, shipping rates, product launches etc.)\n3. Brand-specific nuances (tone-of-voice, upsell strategies etc.)\n\nCurrent solutions force an impossible choice: spend months on expensive implementations with endless vendor calls and complex solutions (that break whenever your business evolves), or settle for basic black-box chatbots that frustrate customers. E-commerce brands can't afford to waste resources on either. Tom Blomfield even called current AI Customer Service tools vaporware:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92995&key=user_uploads/1977649/0d7deb74-50db-4652-997e-95150298f702)\n\n# **Solution**\n\nWe make it easy for e-commerce brands to build and manage AI customer support teams that resolve 80% of tickets.\n\n**How it works**\\\nUsers train and manage the AI Agents through a single conversational\\\ninterface called the AI Manager. Users can transparently see the Agent's reasoning, provide feedback, and watch it instantly update protocols. The AI Manager also spots gaps and proactively suggests improvements.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92995&key=user_uploads/1977649/de1a17d0-bca1-4a28-88e2-4aabc24ad8b7)\n\nFor example, users might say:\n\n* _\"For ticket #12345, use the WMS tracking URL instead of Shopify next time\"_\n* _\"Orders from multiple ShipBob locations arrive separately - warn customers upfront\"_\n* _\"Damaged items need 2 clear photos before refunding\"_\n\nThe AI Manager instantly updates protocols and asks clarifying questions when needed. Done. Your Agents now handle similar cases perfectly.\n\nIt feels like outsourcing your support to a team of AI Agents, with the AI Manager as single point of contact.\n\n# **Team**\n\nNiek and Titus have known each other for two years and met through mutual friends.\n\n[**Niek**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/niek-hogenboom/) (CEO) - Niek started his first business at the age of 16, selling and importing custom suits from his parents' house and sold the business 3 years later. After graduating from Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology, he spent a year leading the most successful solar racing team in the world and grew his startup SitRight to $2M+ revenue during covid. 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We’re building AI coworkers for fraud and risk teams so that people don't have to spend their days drowning in alerts and spreadsheets.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-ds8g2SgIg\n\n# ❌ **The Problem:**\n\nToday, fraud and risk teams at fintechs and banks are overwhelmed. They're reviewing **hundreds of alerts per week** - jumping between tools, manually gathering context, and making tough judgment calls under pressure.\n\nThe work is **repetitive, slow, and prone to error**. Hiring more analysts is slow and expensive. Meanwhile, fraudsters are creative, constantly evolving their tactics to bypass static rules and outdated ML models.\n\nThe result: overwhelmed teams, blocked good users, and missed real threats.\n\n# ✅ **The Solution:**\n\nSocratix gives fraud and risk teams AI coworkers - **agents that think like human analysts but operate 24/7 and scale effortlessly.**\n\nOur agents plug into existing tools and workflows to:\n\n* Ingest alerts\n* Pull rich context (accounts, devices, behaviors, history)\n* Assess risk using past cases and SOPs\n* Auto-close false positives\n* Escalate high-risk cases with clear rationale and next steps\n\nThe result is fewer fraud losses, reduced false positives, and better customer experiences - all without scaling headcount.\n\n# [**👬**](https://emojipedia.org/men-holding-hands) **The Team:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92776&key=user_uploads/644801/f528f61b-67b4-4a51-95b0-970e85b4e13c)\n\nWe’ve seen this problem up close, and we’ve felt both sides: the manual pain of fraud operations and the transformative power of autonomous AI.\n\nRiya (CEO) previously led the development of AI/ML fraud detection and investigation tools at DoorDash and Unit21, helping prevent tens of millions of dollars in fraud losses and making analysts 3X more efficient. She holds a Computer Science degree from MIT.\n\nSatya (CTO) previously built enterprise-grade AI/ML systems for real-world autonomy - most recently at Cruise. He has worked with ML and software engineering his entire career. He holds a Computer Science degree from IIT and a Master’s in Computer Science from UCLA.\n\nWe’ve been in the trenches - stitching together context across messy tools, triaging endless alerts, and scrambling to keep up with evolving threats. **Now, we’re teaming up to** **bring autonomous AI to fraud and risk - and eliminate the manual toil for good.**\n\n# **🙏 Our Ask:**\n\nIf you’re a fintech, marketplace, or financial institution drowning in fraud ops, alert fatigue, or growing backlogs - we’d love to help. 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Best of all, their customer support has gone above and beyond at every turn._\n\n✨ [Try Floot yourself!](https://floot.com) (bonus: build something you’ve made in other tools to compare)\n\n# Why are we building this?\n\nWe believe that existing tools are based on technologies built for human developers and ill-suited for the future of AI writing most of the code. The whole toolchain of building and maintaining software desperately needs to adapt to the new reality. We are starting with web apps with the goal of evolving into the new foundation of software, empowering the next generation of builders.\n\n# Team\n\n[Yujian](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yjyao/) was a staff software engineer at Retool and Asana. At Retool, he rebuilt the entire runtime to optimize the user experience for builders. At Asana, he built the rich editor that powers every task and comment. 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Instead of massive offshore teams, Humoniq runs on AI agents delivering faster, cheaper, more helpful service.\n\nWe previously built [Flightfox (YC S12)](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flightfox) where we grew revenue to over $22M annually, and ran support operations handling millions of customer interactions. That experience showed us how easily traditional outsourcing breaks under the pressure of travel’s unique demands, and gave us the conviction that AI is the only way to build something better.\n\n[**https://youtu.be/Fzlotm1gQzw**](https://youtu.be/Fzlotm1gQzw)\n\n# **❌ The Problem:**\n\nTravel and transport companies spend billions on outsourced customer support, and the experience for travelers is among the worst of any industry. Long waits and frustrating conversations with agents who are underpaid, poorly trained, and burned out by repetitive work are the norm. These failures aren’t accidents, they are the predictable outcome of how the system is built.\n\nTraditional business process outsourcing companies (BPOs) are designed to handle high-volume, repetitive work at lower cost than hiring a fully in-house team, but the tradeoffs in customer experience are steep. The model relies on large pools of low-wage, undertrained workers, and gaps in language or cultural context make interactions slower and less effective. For travelers, that means slow, inconsistent support and unresolved problems. For travel companies, it means unhappy customers.\n\n# **✅ The Solution:**\n\nWe’re replacing the old outsourcing model. Instead of relying on massive teams of low-wage human workers, we rely on voice and text AI agents that scale instantly, operate around the clock, and deliver consistent service every time.\n\nOur AI contact center covers both front-office support, for example, airlines handling flight changes, seat requests, or baggage questions, and also back-office tasks such as processing ticket exchanges, issuing refunds, and updating reservations. By automating both the customer conversations and the follow-up tasks, requests are resolved quickly and without handoffs.\n\nFor travelers, this means getting help right away and leaving with a resolution instead of frustration. For travel companies, it means keeping the efficiencies of outsourcing while finally delivering the level of service that makes customers happy.\n\n# **🙏 Our Ask:**\n\nOutsourcing is broken. It’s time to rebuild it with AI. If you know leaders at airlines, travel agencies, travel management companies, or large transport providers who care about customer experience, we’d love to chat. And if you’re an investor who wants to be part of replacing the old model, now’s the time.\n\nEmail: [**founders@humoniq.ai**](mailto:founders@humoniq.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OFd-humoniq-ai-contact-center-for-travel", "votes": 16, "created_at": "2025-08-21T19:06:49.717Z" } ] }, { "id": 30733, "name": "Nautilus", "slug": "nautilus", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4b6ad11628869059a0e0126b6b03d41bab676578.png", "website": "https://nautilus.co", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Nautilus is the first modern platform built for car washes, replacing expensive legacy systems that cost operators thousands monthly. Nautilus delivers mobile-first e-commerce, membership management, and automated marketing. 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He got his start at Autobell Car Wash in high school — now he builds the software the industry runs on.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisareini/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/67f0f4f97c185b246189bc89b0ed8b53f679a630.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 91602, "title": "Full-Stack Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nautilus/jobs/7eCs9m3-full-stack-engineer", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$140K - $220K", "equity_range": "0.25% - 1.50%", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "TypeScript", "SQL", "Distributed Systems", "Machine Learning", "Next.js" ] }, { "id": 99954, "title": "Customer Solutions Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nautilus/jobs/DRmdE4D-customer-solutions-engineer", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Support", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$110K - $150K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.25%", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "TypeScript", "SQL", "Distributed Systems", "Machine Learning", "Next.js" ] }, { "id": 113403, "title": "Customer Success Manager", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nautilus/jobs/M1jf647-customer-success-manager", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Support", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$110K - $160K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.75%", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Nautilus, Droptop launch integration linking carwash and quick lube reporting", "url": "https://www.carwash.com/nautilus-droptop-deep-integration/", "date": "Mar 12, 2026" }, { "title": "AI-Powered Platform Gives Carwash an Unfair Advantage", "url": "https://www.carwash.com/ai-powered-carwash-management-platform/", "date": "Mar 04, 2026" }, { "title": "Professional Carwashing & Detailing", "url": "https://digital.carwash.com/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&edid=d0d36fef-d3f1-4735-abb0-12c57d0b49bb", "date": "Mar 03, 2026" }, { "title": "Nautilus launches carwash AI platform for NXT Wash", "url": "https://www.carwash.com/nautilus-carwash-ai-platform-nxt-wash/", "date": "Oct 06, 2025" }, { "title": "Nautilus AI carwash platform secures $500K from Y Combinator - Professional Carwashing & Detailing", "url": "https://www.carwash.com/ai-carwash-platform-y-combinator-funding/", "date": "Aug 12, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 93508, "title": "Nautilus: The AI platform to grow and optimize car washes", "tagline": "The unified platform modernizing how 80,000 car washes manage customers, drive repeat sales, and turn data into action.", "body": "**TL;DR:** \n\nNautilus is an all-in-one AI-powered CRM, e-commerce, and marketing automation platform for car washes. We’ve partnered with car washes nationwide, helping operators increase online sales, decrease churn, and improve retention.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/J5aY1itNYYA\n\n**The Problem:**\n\nCar wash operators are stuck with outdated POS systems and limited modern CRM infrastructure. To sell memberships, run promotions, or follow up with customers, they rely on a patchwork of tools such as spreadsheets, texting platforms, email software, and old-school portals.\n\nThis leads to:\n\n* Missed revenue opportunities\n* High churn with limited recovery\n* Zero visibility into performance\n* Limited customer data capture\n\n**Our Solution:**\n\n* Nautilus is a modern operating system for car wash growth. 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Ali started as a top-performing cashier at Autobell, where he saw firsthand how outdated systems led to long lines, missed revenue, and frustrated customers. After graduating from the University of Virginia, he worked as a software engineer at Fidelity Investments before joining Amayr at Dartmouth, where we were completing our master’s degrees in engineering management.\n\nWe’ve been friends for over 10 years, and we’ve experienced the car wash problem both on the ground and from the system level. We built Nautilus to give operators the platform they’ve never had, one that’s purpose built for growth, automation, and real-time decision-making.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93508&key=user_uploads/710141/6abfb69a-5e55-4711-a9bc-224e34ecd6de)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93508&key=user_uploads/710141/da8f392e-0f75-40f9-b9f5-dee1e4feff67)\n\n**How can you help?**\n\nWe’re looking to connect with car wash owners and operators. If you know someone in the space, we’d love an intro. As a thank-you, we’ll give the referred operator our premium Compass AI product for free (a $750/month value) to help them optimize operations from day one.\n\nReach us at [founders@nautilus.co](https://mailto:founders@nautilus.co). Thank you for your support!\n\n**Welcome aboard! We’re just getting started.**\n\nGrateful to be part of the S25 crew,\n\nAmayr & Ali\n\nhttps://natlu.us/launchyc", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OKC-nautilus-the-ai-platform-to-grow-and-optimize-car-washes", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2025-09-02T14:35:23.028Z" } ] }, { "id": 30734, "name": "Avelis Health", "slug": "avelis-health", "former_names": [ "Avelis" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9759643303306b86f190396a0aa959a693947140.png", "website": "https://avelishealth.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐰𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬:\r\nI (Angel) have had three knee surgeries since my mid-teens and was billed more than $250K for care that should have cost a fraction of that. Fighting those inflated charges was so painful that we set out to build a consumer-facing AI agent to do it for others. In less than five months, we helped sixty patients erase or reduce over $300K from their medical bills.\r\n\r\nThis inspired us to fix the problem farther upstream: stopping bad payments before the patient ever sees a bill. So we launched payment integrity, machine-learning models that audit every medical claim for self-insured employers and health plans in real time.\r\n\r\n𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦:\r\n• Self-insured employers waste $60 B+ each year on claims that never should have been paid. 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Our voice agents automate the process of requesting medical records and recovering overpaid claims from providers.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/gL5IFvnwf6g\n\n**The Problem**\n\n* Self-insured employers and health plans lose $100B+ annually to overpayments on medical claims\n* Legacy audit systems only sample high-dollar claims, missing systematic errors\n* Patients pay the price with higher premiums, reduced coverage, and larger out-of-pocket expenses\n\n**The Solution**\n\n* Machine Learning: Our models review 100% of claims to identify errors and patterns over time\n* Voice AI: We automate the process of medical record retrieval with voice agents\n* Clinical validation with LLMs: Our AI agents review medical records to validate what was actually billed\n* Prevention & Recovery: We integrate into existing claim systems to prevent wrongful payments and recover funds already lost\n\n**Why we're building this**\\\nOver the past 9 years, Angel had three knee surgeries and fought down $250k in inflated hospital bills. 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Earlier, Ahmad built healthcare data platforms for the Nigerian government, serving 20M+ people.\n\n**Get a risk-free claims audit at [avelishealth.com](http://avelishealth.com).**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93135&key=user_uploads/89898/2edb2c0f-4e8a-4e9b-bf8f-37918ec91b39)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OEB-avelis-health-preventing-overpayments-on-medical-claims", "votes": 67, "created_at": "2025-08-19T06:39:38.032Z" } ] }, { "id": 30736, "name": "PARES AI", "slug": "pares-ai", "former_names": [ "PARES" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/dbbb70598f14b005aa7da32e84d2d14fed9e3e3a.png", "website": "https://www.pares.ai/", "all_locations": "Los Angeles, CA, USA", "long_description": "PARES is an AI-native real estate services firm, providing investment sales brokerage and property management to institutional and middle-market property owners and investors across the country. \r\n\r\nReal estate is an extremely labor-intensive business, often requiring scaling headcount to grow, being extremely local to submarkets, and operating on low margins. 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I’m Zihao, founder of PARES AI.\n\n**🎯 TL;DR:** I’m building the single AI platform commercial real estate brokers and investors need to source, track, underwrite, and market deals.\n\nOur Launch Video:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LA9YHCv-js\n\n**❌ The Problem:**\n\nA few years ago, I dropped out of MIT to get into the commercial real estate industry. As an investor, I’ve been underwriting deals, managing assets, building relationships with brokers, and in the process, I realized something daunting ☠️… the amount of software brokers have to use to do their jobs is INSANE 😱! Some use up to 7 platforms 🤯!\n\nEvery day, brokers use a mix of CoStar, TruePeople, CRM, Excel Sheets, Constant Contact, Adobe/Canva, etc. to take a deal from start to finish. Juggling all this software leads to unorganized and inefficient workflows, missed follow-ups, and lost opportunities.\n\nCommercial real estate brokers admit themselves to being the least tech savvy. Ironically, they’re expected to juggle the most amount of software! \n\n**✅ Our Solution:**\n\nWe’re building the all-in-one solution for commercial real estate brokers. \n\nWith our platform, brokers can:\n\n1. Automatically update real-time transaction data in our CRM\n2. Create lists of target properties, skip-trace, and easily navigate outbound calls\n3. Underwrite deals with our AI Underwriting Agent\n4. Create OMs/BOVs in minutes with our AI Marketing Agent\n\n**👥 Team:**\n\n**Zihao:** Previously ran a $500M+ real estate fund at Motiva Holdings and led 39 multifamily value-add and development projects across CA, NC, and FL. Previously CS at MIT.\n\n**🙏 Our Ask:**\n\nIf you know any commercial real estate brokers, please let us know!\n\nReach us at [admin@pares.ai](mailto:admin@pares.ai).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nxo-pares-ai-helping-commercial-real-estate-brokers-find-close-more-deals", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2025-07-14T17:48:12.483Z" } ] }, { "id": 30738, "name": "Altur", "slug": "altur", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ce362aa339ed75ccb6c9572c39d69b3d181f1cc9.png", "website": "https://altur.io", "all_locations": "Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico", "long_description": "Voice AI Agents for Debt Collection", "one_liner": "Voice AI Agents for Debt Collection", "team_size": 9, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1750622964, "tags": [ "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "Mexico", "Latin America", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/altur", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/altur.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "Mexico City", "country": "MX", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/alturio", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ce362aa339ed75ccb6c9572c39d69b3d181f1cc9.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tyler Bosmeny", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tyler-bosmeny" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1306452, "full_name": "Luis Olave", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "CEO @ Altur", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/luis-olave", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/96d9fdc77c40c16384bd470c71811e0fbc5dff80.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1306461, "full_name": "Pedro Fernández", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "CTO @ Altur", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedrofdzl", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f0f6f129820f56ac973565b6999961ee9c81bb19.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 92793, "title": "Altur - AI debt collection for banks", "tagline": "We use autonomous voice/text agents to collect debt for banks.", "body": "# TL;DR\n\nWe use autonomous voice/text agents to collect debt for banks. Since launching in Mexico 6 months ago, we have collected over $6M USD using only AI agents.\n\n[Our launch video](https://youtu.be/dyfmI1-Cw-A)\n\nCheck us out at [**altur.io**](https://altur.io)ㅤ\n\n# The Problem\n\nCollecting debt for banks is expensive and labor intensive:\n\n* **High churn and uneven quality:** Traditional contact centers rely on underpaid, undertrained agents, which drives turnover, inconsistent conversations, and compliance risk.\n* **Expensive and slow stacks:** Many vendors sit on third party telephony and tooling, which adds latency and cost and limits control.\n* **Weak follow up:** One shot phone calls with no coordinated text or WhatsApp follow through means low connect and conversion.\n* **Blind spots and poor iteration:** Conversational data is fragmented, so teams cannot A/B scripts, enforce policy, or grade calls at scale.\n\n**Result** = low recovery rates, high operating costs, and regulatory exposure.ㅤ\n\n# Our Solution\n\nAltur provides autonomous agents that negotiate, handle objections, and secure payments while maintaining full regulatory compliance. We run on our own telephony infrastructure, so calls are low latency and costs are predictable and scalable.\n\n* **Voice agents** with natural prosody and median sub second response.\n* **Automatic follow up** on WhatsApp that continues the same conversation.\n* **Compliance and policy engine** aligned to client rules, with automatic QA and call grading.ㅤ\n\n# Pricing\n\n* **Usage based.** Per minute pricing with a monthly minimum commit, includes a block of concurrency and standard reporting.\n* **Outcome based option.** We can also operate as the debt collector. Fixed platform fee plus a success component tied to collected amounts.ㅤ\n\n# What's Under the Hood\n\nA 100% in-house product\n\n# The Team\n\nWe are **Luis Olave** and **Pedro Fernández**. We have spent the last 2 years operating in debt collections in Mexico, first with WhatsApp chatbots and now with voice.\n\n# Our Asks\n\n* We’re working with a great set of bank and call center contacts, and would welcome introductions to more.  \n * Especially debt collection teams at banks, fintech lenders, BNPLs, and contact centers in the US and Latin America.\n* Advice on US collections compliance and vendor onboarding, including Reg F and PCI.\n\n# Contact\n\n[**luis@altur.io**](mailto:luis@altur.io) and [**pedro@altur.io**](mailto:pedro@altur.io)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92793&key=user_uploads/1306452/4b8a20e9-84c3-46ad-a150-ab1053bbfc11)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O8f-altur-ai-debt-collection-for-banks", "votes": 43, "created_at": "2025-08-06T17:29:56.097Z" } ] }, { "id": 30739, "name": "Quotain", "slug": "quotain", "former_names": [ "Eden" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/37a5e96e86c6ccc42f303588c30f27f31a1fad2d.png", "website": "https://quotain.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Quotain is AI sales roleplay software for revenue teams. Reps practice the calls they need to win against AI buyers built from your playbook, CRM context, and past calls, from cold calls and discovery to negotiations, buying committees, and screen-share demos. Every session is scored against your methodology, and reps retry the exact moment that slipped. Managers see who is ready and what to coach. 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From YC startups to sellers with decades of experience, reps are using Quotain to build the perfect pitch for the exact calls they're about to walk into.\n\nRun a simulation of your prospect, uncover the strongest questions and likely objections, and leave with a refined playbook for the live conversation.\n\n\n\nTest your skills for free at [quotain.com](http://quotain.com)\n\n#### FOR REPS\n\nQuotain creates a sim that mirrors a real prospect in your pipeline. It takes in your shared context, their public info, their past objections, their tone, and more. You take the call.\n\nThen Quotain scores you, pinpoints your weaknesses, and develops a script to help you do better in the next round, so the real call closes easily.\n\nWith Quotain:\n\n* Reps ramp in weeks, not months.\n* Reps actually hit quota - average attainment today sits at a brutal \\~50%.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103246&key=user_uploads/2351489/cb460cf8-e312-477a-bccd-59733ea96652)\n\n#### PRACTICE THAT REPS ACTUALLY COME BACK TO\n\nMost sales training is a box-checking exercise. Quotain is the only platform built to keep reps coming back with some users practicing over an hour a day.\n\nIt works because it creates tangible results. Every drill not only trains the rep, but produces battle-tested scripts that can be used in real calls and by teammates. The more reps practice, the more likely the next call closes.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103246&key=user_uploads/2351489/646b991f-03d9-4a15-ab35-f18b73e84df4)\n\n### FOR MANAGERS\n\nNobody wants to spend more time in another application. Quotain lets you see your team’s metrics easily and all in one place, so you know exactly where to focus during coaching.\n\nQuotain lets you:\n\n* Prioritize specific areas for improvement when reviewing calls.\n* Automatically assign relevant drills without even going on the app.\n* Pinpoint the weakest stage for each of your reps.\n* See real pipeline progression attributed to Quotain.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103246&key=user_uploads/2351489/138baeca-0b57-4b1f-96bd-c3cf43ad4939)\n\nJason and I built Quotain because we're engineers who had to learn sales the hard way.\n\nWant to win today? Book a [demo](https://cal.com/alextalamonti/quotain-intro).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QrG-quotain-the-ai-sales-simulator-for-revenue-teams", "votes": 31, "created_at": "2026-06-16T13:52:14.233Z" } ] }, { "id": 30740, "name": "Metis", "slug": "metis", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/46b0762df0bb77a07e7ee5cbbad034e5c74e1cb4.png", "website": "https://withmetis.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "We build infrastructure enabling AI agents to reliably perform complex tasks in production", "one_liner": "Infrastructure to build reliable agents", "team_size": 13, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Infrastructure", "launched_at": 1757196548, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "B2B", "Infrastructure" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/metis", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/metis.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/withmetisai", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/46b0762df0bb77a07e7ee5cbbad034e5c74e1cb4.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Harj Taggar", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/harj-taggar" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1259617, "full_name": "Aryan Shah", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Building Metis, Ex-Mercor", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/aryan-shah1/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/cb53705a46c3165c0e017edf52d1b4ad1eac46dc.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1048622, "full_name": "Aayush Sheth", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Working on Metis", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/aasheth1", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/20ee4c04cbe441eed1c9bc0347cfb6f0388cf257.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1935035, "full_name": "Marcus Yearwood", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I have a background working in research in generative modeling on the side of promoting functional outputs and adversarially dissuading them. I have always been interested in AI and NLP especially for its entrepreneurial potential and am now building Metis with my cofounders to dive deep into this space.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-yearwood?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "/avatars/thumb/missing.png" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [] }, { "id": 30741, "name": "F4 Industries", "slug": "f4-industries", "former_names": [ "F4", "F4 Industries", "F4" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a1af9d562299111b9e8590450d36412897ddd8f8.png", "website": "https://f4.dev/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "GD&T takes years to master. Engineers must encode their design intent into a dense syntax that manufacturers must decode, and not everyone gets it right. \r\n\r\nPut ten engineers in front of the same drawing and you may get ten different interpretations. Which means errors often surface later in interface stack-ups, manufacturing, or in the field - when they’re far more expensive to fix.\r\n\r\nThat’s why we built F4 - the platform that analyzes GD&T to determine whether your designs are ready for production.\r\n\r\nDrop in your drawing and 3D file. F4 analyzes every element of your GD&T to assess whether your design is clear, manufacturable, and production ready. To make the drawing easier to understand, engineers can visualize their datums, reference frames, and tolerance zones directly on the 3D model. F4 also calculates tolerance stack-ups instantly - directly from the drawing. What once took hours of manual work now takes seconds.\r\n\r\nWhen issues are found, F4 flags them and guides engineers toward resolving the problem.\r\n\r\nAfter analyzing your drawing, F4 also automatically generates design and inspection reports - stack-up tables, FAI reports - ready to share with your team.\r\n\r\nAnd it does all of this locally on-device with no AI used for analysis. 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When design intent is unclear, issues tend to surface later in interface stack-ups, manufacturing, or worse, in the field where fixes become far more expensive.\\\n\\\nWe built F4 to address that. \\\n\\\nF4 - The GD&T Analysis Platform for Engineering Drawings\\\n\\\nUpload a drawing and 3D model and F4 analyzes the GD&T to assess whether the design is clear, manufacturable, and inspectable. Engineers can visualize datum reference frames and tolerance zones directly on the 3D model, instantly calculate stack-ups from the drawing, and identify issues before they become costly problems.\\\n\\\nF4 also generates the reports teams need to move forward, including stack-up tables and FAI documentation.\\\n\\\nAll analysis runs locally on-device using deterministic algorithms, producing reliable results engineers can trust. \\\n\\\nWatch the video below to see how it works. \n\n\\\n\\\nTo evaluate whether your designs are truly production ready, book a demo of the F4 Enterprise platform on [**https://f4.dev**](https://f4.dev) and see our full GD&T coverage.\\\n\\\nOr try F4 Lite at - our advanced PDF engineering drawing viewer built to replace browsers and tools like Acrobat for reviewing prints!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PmE-f4-the-gd-t-analysis-platform-for-engineering-drawings", "votes": 20, "created_at": "2026-03-25T20:49:09.631Z" }, { "id": 93123, "title": "F4 - Automated compliance checks for engineering drawings", "tagline": "We help hardware teams 10x how they redline & interpret engineering drawings", "body": "# **What is F4 in a nutshell?**\n\nWe’re helping hardware-rich teams 10x how they redline and interpret engineering GD&T drawings. With backgrounds at Tesla and SpaceX, we’re building a platform that finally treats drawings like code—automatically validating every dimension, tolerance, and GD&T symbol against standards so noncompliance is caught instantly.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/SYzqZ4XWmCA\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93123&key=user_uploads/2642473/a6d6c66e-7e58-4405-b4e2-48c30b354495)\n\n# **The Problem & Why We Built F4**\n\nDrawing literacy is one of the weakest skills across hardware teams. Yet drawings are made every day.\n\nThese aren’t just illustrations—they’re effectively business contracts between designers and manufacturers, defining what’s acceptable in production. Drawings carry the bulk of design intent—fit, form, function, and fabrication—and act as the important source of truth across production, quality, and supply chain.\n\nGD&T standards from ASME and ISO exist to formalize this communication. But they’re dense and confusing. Across major revision years, there are thousands of pages of definitions, edge cases, and revision quirks. Designers are expected to know it all, leads are expected to catch every mistake, and suppliers are expected to interpret drawings flawlessly. One mistake means scrap, delays, or worse.\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\nWhy is something so critical still so manual? Why can’t drawings be validated and interpreted more quickly and robustly —like code? Why can’t hardware dev be more like software dev?\n\nWe’re changing exactly that!\n\nF4 treats drawings like code—they either execute or fail immediately. Our platform checks every dimension, tolerance, and GD&T symbol against standards in real-time, ensuring full compliance before a drawing ever reaches the floor. No more total reliance on manual redlining and reviews.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93123&key=user_uploads/2642473/1aa5904c-3086-4722-8838-ffda9c0d7a85)\n\nF4 ensures engineers never release noncompliant drawings—and suppliers never misinterpret them. F4 helps industrial teams eliminate costly scrap, rework, and miscommunication at the root.\n\n# **How It Works**\n\n1. Upload a drawing (dxf…and very soon pdf)\n2. Select GD&T standard of choice (ASME Y14.5 - 1994, 2009, & 2018)\n3. Get instant compliance score graded against a desired GD&T standard using **deterministic logic**\n4. Get recommendation to correct any asset (FCF, FOS, datum, basic, modifier, and/or dimension) of the drawing that is noncompliant with references to ground-truth sources\n5. With a compliant drawing - get standard definition, inspection plan, and tolerance analysis interpretations on any drawing asset of interest\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93123&key=user_uploads/2642473/accc67da-db20-423d-84b0-7ec4904ad800)\n\n## **Hardware Platform Built by Hardware Engineers!**\n\nI worked at Tesla as a Mechanical Design Engineer and took 6 parts from clean sheet design to production for the CyberCab and SEMI drive system programs. I was also the lead engineer for Tesla’s global drive unit heat exchanger program with +3 million unit annual production volume.\n\nAidan worked at SpaceX as an Avionics Test Engineer, where he designed and owned testing hardware (PCB boards and testing apparatus) for the Raptor 3 Engine - the most advanced rocket engine in the world. \n\nIn college, we led The University of Alabama’s Rocket Team where we achieved the university’s first-ever liquid rocket engine hotfire! I built the rocket engine and Aidan built the electrical/software for our propulsion system.\n\nhttps://youtube.com/shorts/rBwsqu_sdeg?si=RgRU_eqib7_-qLcV\n\n## **Ready to Ditch Manual Redlining?**\n\nIf you're tired of pretending to be good at GD&T:\n\n* Email us: [paul@f4.dev](mailto:paul@f4.dev) and [cantu@f4.dev](mailto:cantu@f4.dev)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/ODz-f4-automated-compliance-checks-for-engineering-drawings", "votes": 22, "created_at": "2025-08-18T23:37:02.733Z" } ] }, { "id": 30742, "name": "Sira", "slug": "sira", "former_names": [ "Sira.Team" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/76b581290f19eb08a9fc677f74b5ecc46cfd20a1.png", "website": "https://sira.team", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Sira is the AI-powered platform for managing time tracking, scheduling, payroll, and HR — purpose-built for hourly teams.\r\n\r\nOur intelligent agents handle the manual, time-consuming tasks for you — like calling workers to fill open shifts, detecting timesheet anomalies, and streamlining payroll processing.\r\n\r\nWith Sira, businesses stay organized, compliant, and focused on what really matters — while we take care of the team.", "one_liner": "AI Native Rippling for Deskless Workers", "team_size": 4, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Human Resources", "launched_at": 1752264420, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Human Resources" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sira", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/sira.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/76b581290f19eb08a9fc677f74b5ecc46cfd20a1.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Andrew Miklas", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/andrew-miklas" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 2296932, "full_name": "Nathan Belaye", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Founder @ Sira.Team | Grew up across 4 continents. 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Running an hourly workforce means drowning in admin: verifying timesheets, tracking attendance, chasing down approvals. **Businesses can spend up to 6 hours a week just verifying timesheets for a team of 15 employees.** Nathan led the QuickBooks Payroll & Time Tracking app from unranked to #12 on the App Store and saw firsthand how fast this overhead grows. We automate the repetitive HR work — so owners and managers can focus on growing their business, not paperwork.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/n8Oq2jPNwhg\n\n**Problem:**\n\nManaging hourly teams is still painfully manual. Over 70% of businesses rely on paper, spreadsheets, and text chains to handle **critical tasks like scheduling, time tracking, and finding shift coverage.** The tools that do exist are clunky, built for desk workers, and assume a level of tech-savviness many frontline teams don’t have. Meanwhile, managers spend hours each week buried in admin — verifying timesheets, coordinating shifts, and chasing down approvals — instead of focusing on their people.\n\n**Solution:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92358&key=user_uploads/2296932/9d85a882-b66f-4b5d-8eb3-c90409bf1838)\n\nWe meet hourly teams where they are — **with** **voice agents and the simplest possible app.** Our platform automates back-office HR by handling tasks like calling workers for shifts, clocking them in automatically, ensuring breaks, flagging missed punches, and completing payroll review. No more chasing, checking, or double entry — just smooth, automated execution of the work that usually slows teams down.\n\n**Do you know any business owners who pay employees hourly?** We are currently offering a 25% discount per user seat.\n\nContact - [nathan@sira.team](mailto:nathan@sira.team)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O1e-sira-ai-hr-manager-for-hourly-teams", "votes": 69, "created_at": "2025-07-22T18:06:20.874Z" } ] }, { "id": 30743, "name": "Opennote", "slug": "opennote", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5a57c2d57c9bd745bb44f95e1f930dda18b6c534.png", "website": "https://opennote.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Opennote is a notebook with an AI thinking partner built in.\r\n\r\nFeynman lives in your work: it edits your writing, references your knowledge and the web, runs background tasks, and gives feedback as you work. 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Our tutor, Feynman, analyzes your writing and thinking patterns in real time, guiding you with Socratic questions, targeted feedback, and visual explanations right where you’re working—helping you truly understand, not just memorize.\n\nYou can study on your own or invite friends to join you—discuss your thoughts, share your journals, and publish your learning in real time for others in the community to see! Opennote makes learning more engaging, social, and effective.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92047&key=user_uploads/2474963/dd596675-705e-4000-bbdc-5c559f3206d0)\n\n**Why This Matters**\n\nExisting tools are either static note-takers, passive quiz generators, or outdated LMS systems. Students are demanding smarter, more social ways to learn. Opennote is redefining the space by making learning truly interactive and collaborative.\n\n**The Team**\n\nWe’re a team of three undergrad CS and software engineering students with experience across building software at medtech, fintech, and infrastructure startups — and years spent tutoring and TA’ing. We’ve lived the education grind and built the product we always wished we had.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92047&key=user_uploads/2474963/6716fc0c-983c-4b71-9438-9d1855905c52)\n\n**Our Ask**\n\n* Are you a college student looking for better study tools? Or do you know students who are always looking for smarter, more effective ways to learn? Check us out here: [**https://www.opennote.com/**](https://www.opennote.com/)\n * Use the promo code **YC** for 50% off any subscription for 3 months!\n* Can you introduce us to any groups, clubs, or institutions interested in exploring more interactive and collaborative ways for students to learn?\n\nIf you can help—or want to send us some feedback—feel free to reach out at [**founders@opennote.com**](mailto:founders@opennote.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nwd-opennote-interactive-learning-for-students", "votes": 63, "created_at": "2025-07-10T17:00:26.960Z" } ] }, { "id": 30744, "name": "SigmanticAI", "slug": "sigmanticai", "former_names": [ "BitForge (in process of incorporating as SigmanticAI Inc due to trademark)" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/551c81e2cf1198e6431c7a170e74ee43deff6f61.png", "website": "https://www.sigmanticai.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "SigmanticAI is building an AI-native hardware development assistant that automates the entire RTL design flow, from natural language to synthesizable HDL and testbenches, inside a seamless VSCode fork. Powered by fine-tuned Verilog LLMs, reinforcement learning, and real compiler feedback, SigmanticAI iteratively refines code until it compiles and passes synthesis, no matter how complex the design. It’s like the Cursor for HDL design. \r\n\r\nIn addition to code generation, SigmanticAI can generate token-level annotations and onboarding documents to accelerate ramp-up for new engineers. 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What it can do:\n\n* **Natural language to synthesizable Verilog + testbenches**\n* **RL-driven debugging** loop\n* Built-in **onboarding**, codebase **annotation**, and **spec** documentation **generation**\n* LLM-powered on both **cloud** and **fully air-gapped/on-prem** deployments\n* **Seameless** integration with **VScode** + your **existing synthesis tools** from Cadence, Synopsys, etc.\n\nWe’ve already made a RISCV CPU start to finish with it, onboarded our first paying customer, and are getting 90%+ accuracy on the VerilogEval benchmark (NVIDIA framework)\n\n---\n\n**Demo video\\\n[https://youtu.be/Cq3hpMflIA8](https://youtu.be/Cq3hpMflIA8)**\n\n---\n\n**Asks!**\n\n* We want to talk to:\n * Anyone **working** **with** **FPGAs, custom chips, ML accelerators, or RISC-V** cores\n * Anyone **working in EDA** \n * Anyone **working with fine tuned LLMs for hardware**\n* **Try us out! Thank you!**\n * [https://www.sigmanticai.com](https://www.sigmanticai.com%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC)\n\n**Who We Are**\n\nWe’ve spent years working on both LLMs and hardware. After working at Apple (Tamzid) and Amazon (Rohil) and research in FPGA mapping and LLaMA fine-tuning, we realized the real bottleneck in hardware design is tooling. We’ve built custom CPUs, worked with EDA stacks, and experienced the pain firsthand. Conversations with engineers at Northrop Grumman, SciEngines, and Quadric made it clear: hardware desperately needs a smarter workflow.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92212&key=user_uploads/2407642/74a5aa7d-62e0-47f9-9e95-9bc55e7c49f1)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92212&key=user_uploads/2407642/85c5143a-36c1-43aa-84ed-eebdfd014498)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NzI-sigmanticai-the-cursor-for-hardware-design", "votes": 50, "created_at": "2025-07-16T19:05:10.461Z" } ] }, { "id": 30747, "name": "Convexia", "slug": "convexia", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c68bf871c0fe363c6048343df283d9282ab990f4.png", "website": "https://convexia.bio", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "An AI-maximalist pharma platform. 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We buy drugs, run clinical trials, and then sell for profit.\n\n🎥 [Launch Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFaM-ceSGok)\n\n# **Problem**\n\nPharma is the most bloated, antiquated trillion-dollar industry on the planet.\n\nLife-saving drugs are overlooked, abandoned, or shelved because diligence is still done by hand. Slow, costly, and outdated.\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\nWe use agents to operate 10x faster and 20x leaner. Convexia’s AI agents autonomously handle:\n\n* **Sourcing** – Find hidden early-stage drugs from around the world.\n* **Scientific diligence** – Evaluate drug viability with leading computational biology tools\n* **Market analysis** – Model market size, competition, and IP positioning\n* **Clinical operations** – Simulate trials, flag CMC issues, and discover CROs\n* **Business development** – Match each drug to the right buyer\n\nTest our agents here: https://www.convexia.bio/playground \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92466&key=user_uploads/2433930/cb571daa-a456-472c-a8fe-b370b2e3b50e)\n\n# **Our Ask**\n\nBefore buying and selling drugs ourselves, we are running pilots with early customers who want to accelerate their search and evaluation processes.\n\n📅 Book a call [here](https://calendly.com/ayaan-convexia/demo). \n\nHere’s who we’re looking to meet—see if anyone’s in your network [here](https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?currentCompany=%5B%22434006%22%2C%2221263%22%2C%2211127960%22%2C%2277579063%22%2C%2218268402%22%2C%223204230%22%2C%2234756183%22%2C%222673956%22%2C%2210317593%22%2C%2286884606%22%2C%2238336%22%2C%2219031898%22%2C%224990022%22%2C%221337177%22%2C%228013%22%2C%2226195%22%2C%226761%22%2C%22617961%22%2C%2212150%22%2C%2248171%22%2C%2211647%22%2C%226866%22%2C%2213476%22%2C%225239%22%2C%227635%22%2C%2233408697%22%2C%223235%22%2C%221893%22%2C%225482%22%2C%222068%22%2C%221663%22%2C%221304385%22%2C%221773%22%2C%221603%22%2C%221399%22%2C%2291149342%22%2C%221642%22%2C%2216233341%22%2C%221485%22%2C%221486%22%2C%222227%22%2C%221406%22%2C%222276%22%2C%221602%22%2C%221204%22%2C%222281734%22%2C%2229088045%22%2C%221185%22%2C%229215024%22%5D&industry=%5B%2215%22%2C%2212%22%5D&network=%5B%22F%22%5D&origin=FACETED_SEARCH&sid=a*t).\n\n* Small/mid pharma companies (Incyte, Nimbus, Roivant SubCos)\n* Biotech VCs (Versant, Atlas, RA Capital)\n* Computational biotechs (Recursion, Insitro, Owkin)\n* Operators who’ve brought drugs to market\n\n# Reach us: [founders@convexia.bio](mailto:founders@convexia.bio)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O3O-convexia-world-s-first-ai-maximalist-pharma-company", "votes": 34, "created_at": "2025-07-26T01:34:30.747Z" } ] }, { "id": 30748, "name": "Pleom", "slug": "pleom", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3b1e76d8c0743b28030c0f3c37f0d0bfa7f51272.png", "website": "https://pleom.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Automatic insights on all your company data. 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Ask about anything by talking, showing, or sharing. Tomorrow, it will be integrated into our family of hardware devices.\n\n**What does Pleom do?**\n\nhttps://youtu.be/uH-W9BKGKT0\n\nAt Pleom, we are building AI hardware devices that everyday consumers can talk to for real-world tasks that understands your context. We’re going head-to-head with OpenAI, moving faster to market and capturing mindshare first.\n\n**The Problem**\n\nThe current form factor for how people interact with AI hasn’t changed in 5 years.\n\nTexting is also a slower mode of communication than speaking.\n\nMoreover, Artificial Intelligence lacks the context to properly respond to your questions. Products like ChatGPT fail to understand your complete digital context and have zero knowledge of the physical world context.\n\n**The Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93152&key=user_uploads/2354623/b50422f7-89d9-4b71-bc77-1f86a0e664eb)\n\nA real-life “Jarvis” which seamlessly connects your phones, laptops, car, home appliances, and more to build context to help consumers _ask and do anything_.\n\nOur current live solution on [pleom.com](http://pleom.com) allows anyone to talk to, share their camera or screen and ask questions and receive answers instantly.\n\nBut hardware is our focus and we are transitioning from prototyping into production to launch our first version of pocket AI wearable device with a camera, microphone, and speaker that anyone can carry around and interact with faster than using any current form factor today.\n\n**Team**\n\nRoyce - previously co-founded Bits to Atoms (YC S24) hiring cracked engineers for deep-tech startups. 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Locata eliminates that burden by automating the entire process with AI. This helps health centers streamline their operations, reduce costs, and ensure patients get timely care.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/IwyUifa8MnE\n\n## ❌ The Problem\n\nReferrals are one of the most critical, yet most broken, parts of the US healthcare system. Health centers are required to track specialist referrals to ensure continuity of patient care and meet quality standards. **But with limited staff and overwhelming administrative demands, health centers struggle to keep up, leading many to outsource the work.**\n\n**Consequences:**\n\n* High error rates in referrals\n* Denied authorizations and delays in specialist appointments\n* Wasted time manually copying data between various systems\n\n**Impact:**\n\nThese operational inefficiencies create major **financial risks** for health centers. On top of the resources centers already deploy to manage referrals, failure to effectively close the loop puts quality standards in jeopardy, carrying even greater financial implications.\n\n## [👷](https://emojipedia.org/construction-worker) Our Solution\n\nLocata uses AI to automate the referral management process from end-to-end. Imagine having a team of the world’s best referral coordinators that operate with higher accuracy, lower costs, and faster delivery, giving health centers the capacity to scale on demand and close more referral loops.\n\n* **AI auth submission**: Our AI extracts patient data directly from EHRs, intelligently maps it to the correct authorization forms across different payor portals, and submits requests automatically.\n* **Automated status updates:** We monitor authorization status continuously, with automatic notifications sent to staff for cases requiring urgent attention.\n* **Voice AI patient follow-up:** Our Voice AI calls patients on customizable cadences to monitor whether they’ve made a specialist appointment. Our system alerts staff when they need to step in to offer additional support.\n* **Consult note retrieval**: Once a patient confirms an appointment, our AI automatically contacts specialists, requesting consult notes to effortlessly close the loop.\n\nWithin two weeks of building our product, we signed a major regional health center and are taking them live to automate their entire referral workflow.\n\n## 🙏 Our Ask\n\n* We would love introductions to physicians or administrative staff at health centers. Contact us at [**founders@locata.ai**](mailto:founders@locata.ai).\n* Learn more at [**locatahealth.com**](http://locatahealth.com)\n\n## 👫 The Team\n\nAlejandro and Josh have known each other for almost 10 years.\n\nAlejandro was a senior software engineer at Meta’s Reality Labs, where he led AI projects that resulted in a patent submission. He holds a BS degree in Computer Science from Stanford University. As an undergrad, he conducted AI research at Stanford Medicine and shadowed doctors internationally.\n\nJosh was a software engineer at Google, working on AI products that served over 1 billion users. 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Previously founded the London Founder House. Designer, salesman, engineer, accountant (weird mix but it works). Building at the intersection of AI x Human Relationships.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/hazhubble", "x_url": "https://www.x.com/hazhubble", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c37eee3db110066348edbfa4c228437896100809.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1287862, "full_name": "Wyatt Lansford", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "ML Engineer in robotics & autonomy. Won the DARPA AlphadogFight Trials, built autonomous planes & robots. Acquired by Shield AI. Now building human x AI interfaces.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/wyattlansford", "x_url": "https://x.com/wylansford", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d43ddd0152f12a0991b9729192a536030a3ebc00.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 91579, "title": "Pally - AI Relationship Management", "tagline": "All your pals, from all your socials.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91579&key=user_uploads/978619/4443ca80-d250-46a5-8234-98a9d5852a59)\n\nHey 👋, we’re Haz and Wyatt, the founders of Pally.\n\nWe’re building Pally because in a world full of ‘AI SDRs’, our warm connections become more important than ever… Yet today, keeping track of thousands of connections across countless social platforms is impossible. \n\nWe forget to respond, we miss important moments, and we lose touch.\n\nWe’re building Pally to solve that.\n\nIf this resonates, we’d love your early feedback. Download Pally here: [www.pally.com](http://www.pally.com)\n\n# Demo\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g97sd_roD14\n\n## How does it work?\n\nWe bring together all your connections, across all your socials (inc. iMessage, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Google, Email, Calendar, and X), and then our AI researches everything they’ve ever posted online.\n\nPally uses this deep understanding of each relationship to help you:\n\n* Prepare you for meetings\n* Stay in touch with your potential customers/hires/investors (or just remind you to ring your mum from time to time)\n* Search over your network to find the right person for any query (”who do I know in New York that I’ve not spoken to in a while?”)\n* Add people to pipelines\n\nWe also added some fun relationship stats, so you can see how social you are compared to other Pally users, how each relationship is growing/declining over time, how long you take to reply vs how long others take to reply to you, and more.\n\n## Who’s it for?\n\nWe’re mostly focused on founders and investors, but we’ve also seen salespeople, recruiters, agency owners, and creators get a lot of value from Pally; essentially anyone in a role where relationships are a primary focus (and honestly, we believe in the world of AI, that’s _everyone_).\n\n## What's next?\n\nWe're excited to launch this into public beta today, learn from what our users are loving, and where they’re wanting more, and build that. \n\nOur roadmap includes adding integrations with AI meeting note takers, so all your relationship context is in one place, adding an iOS app so you have all your data on the go, and adding more agentic capabilities.\n\n# Ask\n\nPlease upvote us here and on [Product Hunt](https://www.producthunt.com/products/pally-ai-relationship-management), and give Pally a test and let us know how you get on! \n\nWe’re also hiring! If you’re interested in working with us, please email [hiring@pally.com](mailto:hiring@pally.com) with your cv.\n\nThanks for your support,\n\nHaz + Wyatt 🫶 ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Np5-pally-ai-relationship-management", "votes": 149, "created_at": "2025-06-24T16:42:07.104Z" } ] }, { "id": 30756, "name": "Notte", "slug": "notte", "former_names": [ "nottelabs", "Nottelabs" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/63003c4a4bcce138151403c1e186fcebf3dfa34a.png", "website": "https://www.notte.cc/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Notte is cloud browser infrastructure for AI agents. 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Hera uses AI to make motion design radically faster and cheaper, helping users create over 50,000 animations to date.\n\n**Problem: Motion design is complicated, time-consuming, and expensive**\n\nPeter used to build YouTube channels and produced more than 240 videos. He spent thousands of dollars every week hiring motion designers to create infographics, text animations, or map animations. \n\nThere he realized that motion design is mostly about mastering complicated software with many buttons, not actual creative work. Here you can see how complicated, tedious, and time-consuming the leading tool, Adobe After Effects, is:\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfBBfbxFI5I7GiBZBOEs2INi6E036flopQFfG9kZfVBl7gTUHWNX_2jnls3WG_TDRrrQ4a7tkJ5VMTVm1PM_vU0tV0HqrUnARtO10kFq_kztNYLQfDbSo42g-82UnKfbIX6dtxuug?key=ucB-AG1uSNxOnV5yBE4xiA)\n\nAfter talking to 130 video teams, ranging from YouTube channels, marketing agencies, and corporates, we learned:\n\n1. 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And even for expert designers, it **can take hours to create seconds of motion design.**\n\n**Solution: Hera fills this gap by making motion design fast & easy**\n\nhttps://youtu.be/NFRllovZQS0?si=0gxZ2T4xQpTZrww6\n\nStart by describing your motion graphic in plain English\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXchUYGy7SO7-gjW07OdYD_6Os16OVlcVD6uCo28jPnuH85s0Potn0URq441tpUUPQOAx2xmX5Yqn7-cUokmO1nPRwnGE2RoIXspXqkhc9XBHzvveGdbA-LuUhN6pyixDxnsVeBG?key=ucB-AG1uSNxOnV5yBE4xiA)\n\nYou can tweak it as you like with on-canvas editing\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXf6vvFbbkBwRX9SNH6hGwOV56iU_Mgwps_OccAIm53W4RK_sProVckXJr1hq1ZDxSZrM2RMXnHpkQV6l7SwV1zH4tl7zh6iyljCbYtV3M7lRJw4PxA97Uq1A7TVrlF2ZxEytwt2?key=ucB-AG1uSNxOnV5yBE4xiA)\n\nPick an already created animation from other users and customize it\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdhIJIFYIA0rMSOiojS2b2sAOEn8bi9FFkNkxWrbfwBdMBC117t0ZKWOm44KWK8ue8OiBsKnSgoso2CKrlrybZQOK4-kjwYtq7LawTqFOv7ZDCS2OsuC3xe23RZoauto0IQJC0m?key=ucB-AG1uSNxOnV5yBE4xiA)\n\nCreate your custom brand kit and all your animations will stay on-brand\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfPO2y1hf2SAli6G7Suqh74NJ2erroMQNOvItSUrDZU8auZBUrMz68smd_fwa9yQIgkp2h7gNZWWiDhtLwgn3Q9DonrtZhuzyxkPWATsDD3_T_aOggWiph_lLCjDcvu-y9WPuEPQA?key=ucB-AG1uSNxOnV5yBE4xiA)\n\n**Customers: Everything changed the day we couldn’t stop people from using Hera**\n\nTwo months ago, we launched Hera to creators in our network. People started talking about Hera on the internet, and we got 3,000 users who created more than 15,000 animations within one week.\n\nToday, we have more than 100k people on our waitlist asking for access (and some are even selling invite codes).\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdUpV6khJm6kOtoe-ks_d3RXXDl1u2A6sZPP8IDvC-F9pTYhiMHNtdrR2HxOCUb78qwOUf2E262ovKLBvvd7c3RT9-iq8qmQXfxtsgERRz7R0NOfwpqLtk1CZbJJcwRL1ca0LiNNA?key=ucB-AG1uSNxOnV5yBE4xiA)\n\n**Our Ask: If you answer “yes” to any of these, we’d love your help:**\n\n* Do you produce video content in-house and either already incorporate motion graphics or would like to incorporate motion graphics? \n* Can you introduce us to marketing/advertising agencies that focus on creating video advertisements? \n* Can you introduce us to video publishers (e.g., traditional publishers, YouTube channels, influencers) who might be interested in making motion design faster and cheaper?\n\nSkip the waitlist and try out Hera today: https://hera.video/join/yc\n\n👉 Contact us at [peter@hera.video](mailto:peter@hera.video)\n\nYour help can make a huge difference. **Thank you!**\n\n**Team: We know our customers and tech inside out**\n\nPeter acquired and built leading YouTube channels with +30 million subscribers at Lunar X (e.g., Economics Explained, Game Theorists). 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That’s mine and my 16 staffs livelihood.”\r\n- “Before Certus, I used to lose 40 - 60 calls a day…. now my printer just stays printing!”\r\n- “I’ve been in the business 38 years. 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Later, I co-founded a restaurant growth startup with Adam (now Certus CRO), helping independents grow revenue across takeout, catering, and event— but clients still lost money because no one answered the phone. That’s what led me to build Certus: the solution I wish we had when I was 15 and the kitchen was on fire.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/gurveer-singh-35168031b/", "x_url": "https://x.com/gurveersingh299", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/382987456b7ac9a69be4ce36f64e24cd613219da.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2365312, "full_name": "Adam Gamieldien", "title": "Founder/CRO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder & CRO of Certus AI. \n\nBefore Certus, I helped scale a restaurant growth startup with Gurveer, working directly with dozens of independent restaurants and closing our deals. We helped drive revenue across delivery, catering, and events — but time after time, sales fell through because no one picked up the phone. That’s what led us to build Certus. I now lead GTM and speak with operators daily to uncover what’s broken and how Certus can fix it.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-gamieldien-067605247/", "x_url": "https://x.com/AdamGamieldien", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9b31eb17e8add0a07e52c37fd0caa7ce885114b6.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2365310, "full_name": "Isaac Nichols", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder & CTO of Certus AI. \n\nI got my start at 16 with a full-time internship at Falcon Eye Drones. Since then, I’ve built AI systems across logistics, telecom, and restaurant tech, always focused on automation and operational leverage. 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Certus answer every call, take orders, processes deliveries, and books reservations.\n\n---\n\n### ❌ The Problem\n\nRestaurants lose **up to $100,000 per year per location** because of missed calls.\n\n* The average restaurants gets 75 calls/day from customers trying to order, book, or ask a simple question\n* 25% of those calls go unanswered on any given day\n* Every missed call = lost revenue/ angry customer\n* Call centers are expensive. IVRs frustrate customers. 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At every stage, the phone _made or broke_ the business: missed calls meant missed orders, staff burnout, and broken operations. That chaos didn’t go away as we scaled.\n\n**In the early days, we couldn’t afford to lose revenue, BUT, we also couldn't afford to hire someone just to manage the phone.** So I became the phone guy. I was so obsessed with not missing calls that **I carried our restaurant hotline with me _everywhere:_** to the gym, school, or even parties. No joke. I’d step out mid-convo to take a catering order.\n\nLater, Adam (CRO) and I ran a growth startup for restaurants. We’d drive serious demand, but the same problem always came back: no one picked up the phone to covert that into revenue.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92344&key=user_uploads/2362198/a1a5d359-a692-4803-8a78-357383fcd24d)\n\nThat obsession, and frustration, is what led us to build Certus. The phone line is still one of the most valuable, yet broken, parts of a restaurant. **Now, it’s finally being replaced by Certus AI.**\n\n---\n\n### **💬 What Our Customers Say**\n\n> Certus **changed my life overnight.**”\n>\n> “We were losing the ability to give great in-house service… **the phone was killing us**.”\n>\n> “**70% of my business comes through the phone. That’s mine and my 16 staffs livelihood.**”\n>\n> “Before Certus, **I used to lose 40 - 60 calls a day…. now my printer just stays printing!**”\n>\n> “I’ve been in the business 38 years. **I’ve been waiting for this since then.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92344&key=user_uploads/2362198/ea3d515c-f5fe-4c96-9bb6-6357d7f6f510)\n\n---\n\n### 🙋 Our Ask\n\n* **Do you know a restaurant group, franchise operator, or overwhelmed manger?** A warm intro would mean the world!\n\n---\n\n### 👑 Thank you!\n\nWe’re super excited to introduce you to Certus AI, but more importantly, we’re excited to build and grow alongside all of you!\n\n**– Gurveer, Adam & Isaac**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O1Q-certus-ai-replacing-the-restaurant-phone-line-with-voice-ai", "votes": 30, "created_at": "2025-07-22T02:52:29.974Z" } ] }, { "id": 30761, "name": "Reacher", "slug": "reacher", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e18f0a8b8fff511049fe03b4ad0dc3b98bce28b5.png", "website": "https://reacherapp.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Reacher is an AI-powered platform that automates creator marketing workflows—from discovery and outreach to campaign management and content strategy—making marketing teams 10x more productive. \r\n\r\nWe handle the manual tasks so brands can focus on building relationships with creators while centralizing their operations in one platform to manage creators on TikTok Shop, Instagram, and YouTube.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n", "one_liner": "We automate creator marketing for the world's largest brands", "team_size": 10, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1750191046, "tags": [ "B2B", "E-commerce", "Creator Economy", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/reacher", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/reacher.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/reacherapp", "x_url": "https://x.com/ReacherApp", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e18f0a8b8fff511049fe03b4ad0dc3b98bce28b5.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/01281f0010cae450fe7f48ef18bc052112500d0f.png", "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/b3bd9e214b09a807073a1f0b24554367bf681616.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Andrew Miklas", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/andrew-miklas" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 839007, "full_name": "Jerry Qian", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder and CEO @ Reacher\nPrev @ Meta, Berkeley, NASA", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/j-qian", "x_url": "https://x.com/JerryQian_", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ec1ee882a67209bd8aedbe13d8a0bfbcb164e25f.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1366962, "full_name": "Bora Mutluoglu", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Bay area born and raised. 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We’re Catherine and Raf, the founders of Kernel.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/vexAn3_KYvc\n\n# **🤝 TLDR:**\n\nWe make an API to instantly launch browsers in the cloud so AI can use the internet just like humans do.\n\n# **🚀 What’s Kernel?**\n\nKernel is the best place in the world to launch web agents and browser automations. We handle the hard parts of running browser infrastructure in the cloud so you don’t have to: spinning up browsers quickly, responsive read/write live view, logs, headless vs. headful mode, residential proxies, and more.\n\nOur edge is an infrastructure platform that’s **flexible, observable, and insanely fast** from day one:\n\n* **Performance** - web automations and Computer Use agents can launch and connect to Kernel browsers in 300 milliseconds\n* **Isolation x telemetry** - Kernel browsers run in isolated virtual machines and ship with live views & replays so you can see exactly what your agent saw and take control when needed\n* **Agent runtime** - launch your web agent on Kernel’s code execution platform to seamlessly connect it to a browser in the cloud\n* **Simple, clear pricing** - pay only for the resources you use. 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Our drones and cameras scan your site and create a precise 3D reconstruction, so you always know exactly how much material is on the ground. We’ve got real-world experience and are already working with a major ag distributor. Know someone in ag, mining, or construction who deals with bulk materials? Send them our way: [founders@rebulk.com](mailto:founders@rebulk.com)\n\n**Problem**\n\nBulk inventory tracking is broken. Companies either rely on guesstimates or pay for expensive manual surveys which are still off by 20 to 30 percent. Without accurate numbers, it’s hard to plan logistics, like how many truckloads are needed. And it creates accounting issues by misreporting inventory value, hurting financial planning and leading to missed opportunities.\n\n**Solution**\n\nRebulk figures out what your inventory is, turns it into a 3D reconstruction, and tells you exactly how much you have, in both volume and weight. If your piles are smaller and indoors, like in a shed, we’ll use a fixed camera. If they’re bigger and outside, we’ll fly a drone to map them. And we don’t just stop at giving you the numbers. We plug into your system so the data helps you make real decisions, not just sit in a spreadsheet.\n\n**The Team**\n\nWe’ve lived this problem, and we know how to solve it. Warren saw it firsthand as a Product Manager at Milk Moovement, a Series A AgTech startup, working closely with bulk feed suppliers and managers to plan logistics. He also launched drone delivery programs at Chick-fil-A.\n\nCole was Head of Engineering at an AI startup and engineer #3 at Tropic, where he helped scale the company from seed to Series B. He started his career building aviation products at Garmin. That mix of hands-on technical work and leading high-performing teams is exactly what we need to build reliable tools that work in the real world.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92243&key=user_uploads/506363/d97fecbc-12a6-4b7e-8828-2699d3a17af9)\n\n**Traction**\n\nWe’re already working with one of the largest agricultural feed distributors to roll out our solution.\n\n**Ask**\n\nIf you know anyone in agriculture, mining, or construction who works with bulk materials, let us know! Even if it’s something we haven’t mentioned, or if you’re not sure counts as bulk inventory, we’d still love to learn more. We’re always curious and often surprised by the types of bulk inventory that don’t live in traditional boxes and barcodes.\n\nContact us at: [founders@rebulk.com](mailto:founders@rebulk.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92243&key=user_uploads/506363/6a28a0db-9489-4b8a-943f-7e096519535f)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nzn-rebulk-accurately-measure-and-monitor-bulk-inventory", "votes": 65, "created_at": "2025-07-17T17:45:34.353Z" } ] }, { "id": 30768, "name": "Okibi", "slug": "okibi", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2add42dcef83667e3ac21f0eabb0f202583f5d0c.png", "website": "https://okibi.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Okibi generates a CLI from any product's codebase, so AI agents can use it the way people do.\r\n\r\nAgents are becoming software's next customers. 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Used by 100,000+ people.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesauravmitra/", "x_url": "https://www.twitter.com/thesauravmitra", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/65318fee772e03105f7ea545a50aff50921896a0.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 114523, "title": "Okibi - Agent-ready CLIs", "tagline": "Turn your product into a CLI, and agents into customers", "body": "Hey everyone, we're Mahyad and Saurav, the founders of Okibi.\n\n**TL;DR** [Okibi.ai](http://Okibi.ai) turns your product into a CLI, so AI agents can use it just like your users do.\n\nAgents are becoming the main users of our apps and softwares, but most of those products still aren't designed to be fully usable by agents.\n\nDoorDash, Mercury, Gusto, and 30+ others have already launched agent-ready CLIs.\n\n**Okibi generates yours.**\n\n\n\n### **Problem**\n\n**The shift.** Work has quietly moved into agentic tools like Claude and Codex. The person who used to open your app now sends their agent. Agents create 90% of new Supabase databases and 2/3 of Mintlify docs traffic.\n\n**The gap.** Agents can read everything, but signing up, configuring a project, or placing an order, is another story. With MCPs, you'll give the agent too many tools at once and it'll start using the wrong ones. With direct API calls, the agent has to individually call endpoints for complex workflows or polling loops.\n\n**The turn.** Claude Code and Codex proved it; agents do their best work in the terminal, and a CLI is how your product shows up there. No tools need to load up front, because agents can discover what they need when they need it through progressive disclosure with --help, and all complex workflows are pre-built so it doesn't have to figure it out on the fly.\n\n**The proof.** Companies are already shipping agent-ready CLIs. Even Notion, with one of the best-known MCP servers, shipped one.\n\nAn agent that struggles to use a product will go to a competitor that it won't struggle with.\n\n**Okibi is how you become that competitor.**\n\n### **How it works**\n\nBuilding a toy wrapper CLI is easy. Building an agent-ready production CLI is a different story.\n\n**Research.** Okibi **reads all of your APIs, SDKs, MCPs, and researches similar products** to yours and defines the standard for your product's commands.\n\n**Build.** We build your entire product as commands in a CLI, with structured JSON output, descriptive errors, and dry-runs with input validation.\n\n**Customize.** You can keep customizing the commands that are generated through our agent.\n\n**Verify.** This isn't just \"it compiles\". Commands run in a real sandbox, the outputs are checked, and **the CLI is fully evaled for agent use.**\n\n**Ship.** You get a compiled binary with a skill file baked in, so an agent that installs it already knows how to use your product.\n\n**Maintain.** Whenever your product updates, **Okibi mints the changes and maintains your CLI for you.**\n\n**Identity.** Even with a CLI, an agent can't set up an account for your user. With **Okibi Identity, the agent can set up the account** and continue working uninterrupted. And that's how you get agents as customers!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=114523&key=user_uploads/539005/aaf9f512-390f-4a14-85ca-9bfb8db5a29c)\n\n### **About us**\n\nWe've been building software together for almost a decade, and this is our second YC startup. At SigmaOS (S21) we built the first browser with built-in agents. Since then, every time we wanted our agents to use a product, we generated a CLI for it, since MCPs weren't enough for the job. It happened enough times that we're now building it for everyone.\n\n### **Our ask to you**\n\nIf you are building a product that you want agents to use, **please reach out to us**! We would love to learn what you are building and how you are letting agents use your product.\n\nYou can also head over to [okibi.ai](http://okibi.ai) to turn your product into a CLI\n\nBook a call: \n\nEmail: [m@okibi.ai](mailto:m@okibi.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Tn9-okibi-agent-ready-clis", "votes": 34, "created_at": "2026-09-10T14:09:32.663Z" }, { "id": 92336, "title": "Okibi | The agent that builds agents 🤖", "tagline": "Effortlessly build automations and agents using simple prompts", "body": "Hey everyone 👋\n\nWe are [Mahyad](https://x.com/MahyadGhassemi) and [Saurav](https://x.com/thesauravmitra), the co-founders of [Okibi](https://okibi.ai)\n\n# TL;DR\n\n**Okibi is a web app that lets you create AI agents using natural language**. You can think of it as Lovable for Agents.\n\n**Our ask:** try it out [@ijustwannabuild.ai](https://ijustwannabuild.ai), and [book a call with us](https://calendly.com/d/cq3k-yhy-g6d/user-interviews)! We’d love your feedback and what kind of agents you need for your company\n\nhttps://youtu.be/3cZWA9SAohM\n\n# ❌ The problem and why we care to solve it\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92336&key=user_uploads/539005/cd13cafb-1a52-4dba-a8d7-92d71516dbfa)\n\nThe two of us have been **building software for over 10 years** and **working together for the past 7.** Actually, This is also **our second YC startup together**. At our previous company, SigmaOS (S21), where we built the first browser with built-in agents, we **ran into a ton of repetitive tasks** and **had to build many agents for our own product**. Automating those tasks was **slow and complicated**. We often ended up doing things manually or relying on partial solutions like Zapier, Lindy, custom scripts, or hacked-together LLM tools. The agents we did build for our product also eventually became **messy and hard to maintain**.\n\nCreating AI agents typically requires **complex**, **time-consuming** **setup**, including **tool calls**, **LLM syntax management**, **multi-agent orchestration**, **browser use**, **human in the loop**, **evals**, and **hosting deployments**.\n\nSo, when building agents two primary challenges always come up:\n\n* Evals\n* Architecture and Infrastructure\n\n# **✅ How Okibi solves it for you**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92336&key=user_uploads/539005/e323bc33-463f-42f7-ad7a-daf85d3ceb03)\n\n\nOur web app provides a **chat interface and toolkit to easily create AI agents**. Just describe your agent in natural language, similar to vibe coding, and our app **automatically generates your agent's tool calls, human in the loop, browser use, and runs an initial eval on your agent.**\n\nWhether you're building an **internal workflow automation** to remove repetitive or time consuming tasks, or **launching a product with** **agents**, Okibi can help you build it.\n\nWe are currently **working with** **15 YC companies** from the current and previous batches to automate tasks like:\n\n* Pre-qualify companies with the right person at those companies to sell your product to\n* Generate invoices and update their invoice trackers based on email and contract\n* Pre-meeting prep for client or sales lead call\n* Generate pricing and proposal based on meeting notes and existing contracts\n\nhttps://www.loom.com/share/2c038ed7243a4984a0b8224c2e24eacb?sid=cec442cb-88cf-4b75-b9bf-84b7fa3618de\n\n# 🤖 Ready to start automating with agents?\n\nHead over to [ijustwannabuild.ai](https://ijustwannabuild.ai), and…\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92336&key=user_uploads/539005/3a716ad3-1715-4646-a37a-80045f928406)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O1I-okibi-the-agent-that-builds-agents", "votes": 155, "created_at": "2025-07-21T21:10:06.804Z" } ] }, { "id": 30769, "name": "Juxta", "slug": "juxta", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0e2406b819c520b6b5c6f58e45423c720bf0661d.png", "website": "https://juxta.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Juxta is creating the first Universal Positioning System (UPS) — a GPS alternative that can monitor movement anywhere on earth with no new hardware, minimal internet connection, and remote deployment. 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We’re building Juxta — a new way to track people and things anywhere around the world with zero external hardware required (i.e. satellites, beacons, free-floating chips, etc). We let businesses, defense agencies, and consumers instantly map an area and make it location aware in minutes. It’s super cheap, can work offline, is unjammable, and has truly universal coverage.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/9A8X8NIbPBM\n\n**Why current tracking methods don’t work**\n\nMost tracking technologies today fail where people actually live and work. Over 90% of human activity happens indoors, yet GPS simply doesn’t function in enclosed spaces, and beacon systems like BLE or UWB cost upwards of $250,000 per site to install and maintain. Even outdoors, GPS breaks down in forests, dense urban areas, warzones, and remote regions—anywhere signal is weak, jammed, or obstructed. 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Prospects can tell when they are on the receiving end of a “Hello {{first_name}}, Really impressed by your work as {{job}} at {{company}}”. \n\nInstead, Clodo automatically plans and executes tasteful, personalized outbound campaigns to each prospect all on your behalf. No em dashes, no AI slop prose, just normal sounding emails that lead to better conversion. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96826&key=user_uploads/353032/37caf209-238b-43f3-b04b-d19e283e3cf0)\n\n### **SELLING: A Resolution for 2026**\n\nIn 2026, STOP WASTING TIME sifting through the dozens of tools and websites to find qualified prospects who are actually in need of what you’re selling. And definitely DO NOT BURN CASH on templated “Hello {{first_name}}” sequences to the abyss. \n\nIn 2026, vibe GTM :) \n\nGot a super specific use case in mind or any questions/concerns? We’re at [founders@clodo.ai](mailto:founders@clodo.ai) \\\nHappy to chat more: \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96826&key=user_uploads/353032/f7c45b00-48e9-4701-8be6-8d90878a5611)\n\nHere’s to a great 2026. Happy selling! ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PBi-clodo-vibe-gtm", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2026-01-15T19:55:12.039Z" } ] }, { "id": 30775, "name": "Fleetline", "slug": "fleetline", "former_names": [ "Axel AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8008d7d50f1ead47eae177bcede0c9d614312ad4.png", "website": "https://fleetline.ai", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Fleetline is building the first complete-context algorithmic load planner for mid to large-sized trucking fleets. Today’s dispatchers face an overwhelming task: balancing regulations, customer demands, live fleet data, and individual driver needs, all while coordinating across siloed tools and teams. 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We solve this by combining advanced optimization with LLMs that can adapt algorithms to deliver intelligent planning for real-world operations. \\\nhttps://youtu.be/9LHYILVw6ks\n\n# **💥 The problem:**\n\nPlanning just one week of routes for a 50-truck fleet involves **more possible combinations than there are grains of sand on Earth**. For humans, consistently piecing together reasonable combinations is difficult. Making optimal ones is impossible. Dispatchers juggle:\n\n* Regulatory constraints, like drivers’ hours of service\n* Complex forecasts, like considering the likelihood of receiving a load from a flaky customer\n* And human preferences, like a driver’s disdain for a specific commodity\n\nThis complexity forces fleets to effectively **silo their operations**—assigning each dispatcher a subset of trucks to manage. **Instead of coordinating as a cohesive operation, fleets become mini-operations, resulting in load mismatches and under-utilized capacity.** For a low-margin industry like trucking, those inefficiencies are the difference between making or missing payroll. \n\nIn response, some fleets have adopted expensive load planning algorithms. While these traditional solutions are a marginal improvement over manual work, they fail to meaningfully solve the problem. \n\nRigid algorithms operate like complete black boxes, often leaving dispatchers with a lack of confidence in their decisions. Deterministic algorithms cannot be responsive to the soft preferences of either the fleet or the driver. For example, dispatchers may have to reshuffle their planning board because an algorithm cannot optimize for a driver needing to be home early one day for his daughter’s recital. \n\nThat means the algorithm's recommendations are largely not followed or, if they are, drivers are left unhappy. With an active driver shortage, fleets can’t tolerate the latter. \n\nTrucking is a trillion-dollar industry, yet its biggest players have no good option for load planning. \n\n# **✅ The solution:**\n\n**Fleets no longer have to choose between two existentially threatening options with Fleetline.** By combining traditional advanced optimizations with LLMs, we created a solution that allows fleets to optimize their schedules while being adaptive to soft preferences and surprises. All users need to do is prompt our AI agent with any changes / added constraints to include in the optimization algorithm, and the load planning is re-done. \n\nFor example, if a driver at a fleet needs to make it back home by 2 PM on a given Tuesday to see his daughter’s recital, instead of manually scrambling the planning board, our AI agent can re-optimize around the new constraint. \n\nWe’re already working with large fleets in California and talking to others across the country.\n\n# **🏋️‍♂️ The team:**\n\nSaurav and Veer are lifelong friends who have been working on projects together since they were 14. Saurav graduated from UIUC and has worked at Icon, Meta, and Nvidia, and is a previous founder (Blast AI). 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Before YC, I ran a group doing on the ground overdose prevention work across the country. I also worked at the White House on Drug Policy.\n\n**Insurance companies love to scrutinize behavioral health treatment**, partially because it’s expensive (a single 30-day residential treatment episode can cost upwards of $50,000), and partially because proving medical necessity for behavioral health is a subjective process.\n\nBut behavioral health care _is_ medically necessary. **Drug overdose is the single biggest cause of death for young people in the US.** And there are too many stories of insurers denying people care, only for those individuals to later lose their lives to overdose.\n\nWe were in the summer ‘25 YC batch. Since then, we’ve been working with a small group of customers to develop a new product. I’m excited to announce it today.\\\n\\\n**Introducing: Perspectives Reclaim**\n\nBecause they’re under so much pressure from payors, behavioral health treatment programs currently spend an immense amount of resources and staff generating documentation and auditing it to be perfect. \\\n\\\nReclaim solves this by\n\n1. Reading tens of thousands of pages of charts every night\n2. Finding issues that can lead to insurance denials or other issues\n3. Tracking down which clinician made the error and emailing back and forth with them until it’s solved. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101622&key=user_uploads/2329278/a7ccf9c3-cf38-409a-a8d4-9c4421623a19)\n\n\\\nIn each of our pilots, we’ve flagged and resolved hundreds of issues, from missing documents to drug tests that weren’t happening when they were supposed to, **leading to more approvals from payors, higher revenue for our clinics, and better outcomes for patients.**\n\nReclaim’s agent can also help provide evidence when fighting against payor clawbacks and can generate the insurance documentation used to argue for more days of care.\n\nIn the last 4 weeks since launching Reclaim, we’ve gone from **0 —> $250k cARR.** Our vision is to replace the $30B spent on the financial and administrative services that keep these clinics afloat and give that capacity back to care.\n\n**Asks**:\n\n1. Intros to our ICP: we’re looking for multi-site behavioral health/SUD treatment centers that deal with commercial insurance.\n2. We’re currently hiring a senior software engineer to help us scale. Any intros here would be appreciated.\n3. Investor intros are always appreciated as well.\n\nHere’s our launch video: ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QR4-perspectives-health", "votes": 4, "created_at": "2026-05-20T03:01:54.820Z" }, { "id": 92889, "title": "Perspectives Health: AI Agents for behavioral health admin", "tagline": "Too many clinicians are forced to chase insurance reimbursements through hours of documentation. We’re here to fix that", "body": "**Perspectives Health is the AI assistant automating the admin work that slows down behavioral health clinics.**\n\n[https://youtu.be/xL-XqY41L10](https://youtu.be/xL-XqY41L10%5C)\n\nHey everyone! We're Eshan and Kyle, founders of Perspectives Health.\n\nWe help the millions of clinicians and clinical directors finally use AI inside the outdated EMR systems they've been stuck in.\n\nMost clinical record software works like Microsoft 95, has no modern APIs, and can't integrate with new tools. That leaves clinicians stuck doing endless manual computer work. \n\nBelieve it or not, most behavioral health clinicians will spend 5 years of their lives just typing notes!\n\n**The Problem**\n\n* 60%+ of clinicians work outside of major hospital systems.\n* Most of them use software that nobody can connect to.\n* This means they can't access life-changing AI software, which could automate notes, billing, scheduling, and more.\n\n**Our Solution**\n\n* Connects to any web-based EMR instantly. Yes, we mean any EMR.\n* Perspectives listens to sessions, writes notes better than a clinician, and populates them straight into any EMR. \n* No copy/paste. And we don't rely on browser agents, so our tool fills out any form in seconds, not minutes.\n\nAI is rapidly improving, but most of healthcare is locked out due to legacy systems. Perspectives bridges that gap, making AI usable immediately. Clinicians want to help people. Not to be drowned in manual work. We're building toward a future where clinicians never touch a keyboard for documentation again—where intelligent systems handle every workflow outside of patient care. \n\nThe first step is integrating seamlessly with outdated EMRs and filling in the critical workflows they lack. From there, we'll expand across specialties—behavioral health, speech therapy, physical therapy, veterinary care, and beyond—unlocking AI for every provider outside the hospital system.\n\n**Our Traction**\n\n* We're growing 25% every week.\n* Once users try our product 5 times, the habit is built, and they never write notes without it.\n* We have onboarded 9 clinics for our pilot program since YC started, and each is on track to onboard all our pilot clinicians by September (180 clinicians).\n\n**Our Team**\n\nOur founding team combines lived experience in mental health care, policy expertise from the White House Drug Policy team, and technical expertise in scalable AI systems.\n\n**Our Ask**\n\nIf you're a behavioral health operator, clinician, or investor who believes AI should be helping providers now—not five years from now—let's talk.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OAD-perspectives-health-ai-agents-for-behavioral-health-admin", "votes": 25, "created_at": "2025-08-13T19:26:58.682Z" } ] }, { "id": 30781, "name": "Duranium", "slug": "duranium", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2a84608596d6e85a1a64227a175491ef9496eb22.png", "website": "https://www.duranium.co/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "China and Russia control the world’s critical minerals. 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This closed loop slashes emissions and delivers Chinese-level metal pricing without subsidies — unlocking the full potential of carbochlorination for U.S. critical mineral production.", "one_liner": "Reshoring critical metal production", "team_size": 12, "industry": "Industrials", "subindustry": "Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics", "launched_at": 1757191317, "tags": [ "Manufacturing", "Advanced Materials", "ClimateTech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Industrials", "Manufacturing and Robotics" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/duranium", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/duranium.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/duraniumlabs/about/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2a84608596d6e85a1a64227a175491ef9496eb22.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/4f169782511f31df122e36a7e40d55cfbfe2dda3.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tyler Bosmeny", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tyler-bosmeny" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 2509424, "full_name": "Brenden Prins-McKinney", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder & CEO of Duranium, working to reshore critical metal production. Previously a consultant with McKinsey & Co. in D.C., where I advised the DoD on reshoring critical chemical production. Graduate of Stanford Law School where I was a Knight-Hennessy Scholar.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenden-prins-mckinney-96959a69/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/af5542d9d05f59e1ba7fd4a89578786de67eb41e.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2570104, "full_name": "Berkley Noble", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder & CTO of Duranium, working to reshore critical metal production. My expertise lies in molten-salt electrolysis. I hold a a patent for an electrochemical metal cell and built the only U.S. pilot magnesium electrolyzer in the last 20+ years.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/berkleynoble/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8d7b8cdd1d6993ae48c6b620e0d011ff39d018a5.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 93706, "title": "Duranium — Reshoring critical metal production", "tagline": "Reshoring critical light-weight metal production (Ti, Mg, Al, Zr, Hf) — more profitably than any other method through modernized carbochlorination and co-production.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93706&key=user_uploads/2509424/cab46185-5d50-4822-bf45-873f52ae6571)\n\n**TL;DR** — **China and Russia control world’s critical minerals. We can produce Titanium, Magnesium, Aluminum, Zirconium & Hafnium in the U.S. more profitably than any existing process, and carbon neutrally. On track to supply 12% of U.S. magnesium by 2029, at 50%+ EBITDA margins (@ world’s lowest mkt prices).**\n\nHi all, we’re Berkley and Brenden of Duranium, and we’re delivering American critical mineral independence with a light-weight metal production process that competes globally without subsidies. As brothers-in-law, we’re passionate about rebuilding the U.S. industrial base — not through taxes and subsidies, but through real technological innovation. Our mission is to help America reclaim its place as the world’s greatest builder of _tangible_ things.\n\n# ❌ The Problem\n\nMagnesium, titanium, aluminum, hafnium, and zirconium are all listed on the DOE’s Critical Minerals List, with magnesium ranked among the highest in both supply risk and strategic importance to U.S. energy security. _The U.S. has zero domestic magnesium production and no titanium sponge production — yet both are indispensable for fighter jets, missiles, satellites, rockets, and advanced aerospace systems._ \n\nChina and Russia control \\~97% of magnesium and \\~90% of titanium production (directly or indirectly). \n\nOn top of that, U.S. magnesium costs nearly 3x the global average, and legacy methods are CO₂-intensive and waste valuable byproducts.\n\n# ✨ Our Solution\n\nWe’ve modernized carbochlorination metallurgy (the primary methods for producing many of these critical metals) with a novel reactor and process that:\n\n* Creates a closed-loop system that profitably matches Chinese pricing — without subsidies — and slashes emissions\n* Recycles CO₂ emissions into CO feedstock\n* Generates a valuable co-product (bleaching agents)\n\nOthers are trying to reinvent lightweight metal production from scratch with approaches that are costly and dependent on government subsidies or green premiums to hit profitability. Our approach is different: we harness the laws of thermodynamics instead of fighting them, co-producing valuable outputs that make the economics best-in-class.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93706&key=user_uploads/2509424/38fd63f0-e5a7-4f91-88cf-ad06c8b7e01a)\n\n# 🏆 What we’ve achieved so far and where we’re headed\n\n* We’ve proven the process at benchtop scale, producing magnesium, bleaching agents, and converting CO₂ produced by carbochlorination into CO\n* We are now scaling with the build of a pilot facility to be operational by June 2026\n* We’re on track to supply 12% of U.S. magnesium by 2029, at 50%+ EBITDA margins (@ world’s lowest mkt prices)\n\n# 👥 Our Team\n\nBerkley, CTO — A leading American expert in magnesium production; holds a patent for an electrochemical metal cell and built the _only_ U.S. pilot magnesium electrolyzer in the last 20+ years. Brings unmatched technical depth in lightweight metal production\n\nBrenden, CEO — Former McKinsey D.C. consultant, where he advised the DoD on reshoring critical chemical production and spent 1 year with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). Ex-Goldman TMT investment banker, Stanford Law graduate and Knight-Hennessy Scholar\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93706&key=user_uploads/2509424/babe8628-8537-44c5-aa1a-daecb483c077)\n\n## 🙏 Asks\n\nJoin our team! We’re looking for engineers with experience in high-temperature or corrosive reactors. If that’s you — or someone you know — and you want to help build the future of lightweight metal production, get in touch!\n\n[team@duranium.co](mailto:team@duranium.co)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/ONO-duranium-reshoring-critical-metal-production", "votes": 23, "created_at": "2025-09-09T03:29:52.411Z" } ] }, { "id": 30782, "name": "TectoAI", "slug": "tectoai", "former_names": [ "TectoAI Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/660e2396a1d079a64a42ea2a4ce4b81cefd385f0.png", "website": "https://www.tecto.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We help your company identify roles that can be filled by agentic AI tools, onboard them quickly, monitor their performance and behavior post deployment, ensure they remain compliant, and aligned with regulations. Tecto is building the governance platform for managing the AI stack! 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Raised millions in funding across seed-stage startups and academic research. Developed and launched AI-enabled products for the US government and private sector. Shipped zero-to-one products with enterprise and Fortune 500 customers. ", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/afsharikia/", "x_url": "https://x.com/busyceo", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c231332a1027155eca7aa6f943848ca1ae75a9b3.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2221991, "full_name": "Roksana Baleshzar", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Roksana is Cofounder and CTO of TectoAI, the HR system for AI agents. She holds a Master’s in Computer Science and spent 6+ years at Google building ML features in Gmail, shipping to hundreds of millions of users. She specializes in deploying AI safely at scale, with deep experience in real-time systems, data sensitivity, and edge-case failure.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/roksana-baleshzar/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0897e9d2ae74a49d7ece2e5163219625dc29047b.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 92108, "title": "Tecto - Governance Platform for AI Employees 🤖", "tagline": "Accelerate recruiting agentic AI tools and keep an 👀 on them!", "body": "👋 Hi! We’re [Niosha](https://www.linkedin.com/in/afsharikia/) and [Roksana](https://www.linkedin.com/in/roksana-baleshzar/), co-founders of [Tecto](https://www.tecto.ai/).\n\n# **TL;DR:**\n\nWe help your company identify roles that can be filled by agentic AI tools, onboard them quickly, monitor their performance and behavior, and ensure they stay compliant and aligned with policies. Tecto is building the **HR system for managing your AI “employees”**.  \n\n🎬🍿\n\nhttps://youtu.be/GeTHW1XVwvE\n\n# **The Problem**\n\n💸 Most companies are eager to **unlock the $B in efficiency** promised by AI, but unsure which use cases to start with. Should they bring on an AI email manager? Or a task manager that syncs with email? Or an all-in-one AI coordinator? \n\n📋 Even after choosing, the **approval process**—from vendor risk assessment to infosec, GRC, and legal—is slow and convoluted. And by the time it's complete, the tool or regulations may have already changed.\n\n🐒 Moreover, agentic AI tools **aren’t static like traditional SaaS**. They continuously evolve with new models, multimodal capabilities, and dynamic behaviors. **Much like humans**, their responses can vary depending on context, drift to favor shortcuts, or adapt tone _([Chen et al., 2025](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.06366))_\n\n📊 Most importantly, relying solely on **model benchmarks falls short**. Agent behavior is shaped by capability, context, and adaptation, not just the underlying model. For example:\n\n* A single missed medical term in a transcription can lead to a hallucinated diagnosis in the summarization layer (error propagation) ☠️\n* In a back-office copilot, the assistant began favoring shortcuts over accuracy after users consistently chose the fastest suggestions, optimizing for user approval instead of policy (favoring shortcuts)  💾\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\n**Tecto platform provides the evaluations and qualifications needed to employ and monitor agentic AI, like gusto for AI employees.**\n\n* Tecto helps you pinpoint where AI fits within your workflow and matches you with a curated list of vetted AI employees aligned with your organization’s expectations, risk tolerance, and compliance requirements. \n* Once deployed, we continuously monitor their behavior—using output testing to detect drift, edge case failures, and other unexpected actions as they arise. \n* We also keep you ahead of rapidly evolving AI regulations worldwide, alerting you to public incidents or legal actions involving tools in your stack, so you can respond before issues escalate.\n\n🕹️ With Tecto, onboarding AI employees is fast and oversight doesn’t stop after deployment. Your AI adoption is structured, controlled, and safe from day one.\n\n# **Why We’re Building This**\n\nTogether, we bring over six years of firsthand experience navigating AI adoption—both inside and outside Silicon Valley—across technical development and real-world implementation.\n\n**Niosha**, our CEO, has 10+ years experience navigating highly regulated spaces. She spent the last 6 years as a consultant after earning her PhD, helping the government and private sector bring AI from theory to practice. She’s seen the confusion, overwhelm, and lack of structure that plague even the most ambitious AI initiatives.\n\n**Roksana**, our CTO, has been building software since she was a teenager and spent the last 6.5 years as an AI engineer at Google. She worked on applied AI at scale, navigating the practical challenges of evaluating tools, monitoring agent behavior in production, and aligning systems with compliance needs.\n\n🎖️ We kept seeing the same pattern: companies either banned AI tools outright or used them blindly, leading to compliance failures, reputational damage, and eroded trust. 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Joey and David are seasoned software engineering leaders who met while building core systems at Divvy Homes, the pioneering billion-dollar rent-to-own fintech.\n\n**The U.S. consumer lending market is enormous,** spanning origination, servicing, and collections. In the U.S. alone, consumer credit originations total over $4 trillion annually, while outstanding loans across all categories exceed $18 trillion. The collections segment is responsible for recovering roughly $100 billion from a pool of over $400 billion in delinquent debt. These businesses are all high-touch and highly regulated, yet they remain dominated by manual, phone-based and mail-based outreach—resulting in high operational costs, poor borrower experiences, and billions in missed revenue.\n\n**Everyone in the space is talking about voice AI, but very few are deploying it effectively.** Lenders and collections agencies today are forced to choose between generic AI platforms that lack regulatory rigor or vertical-specific vendors that offer turnkey solutions with no room for customization.\n\n**At Veritus, we’re combining decades of loan servicing experience with deep expertise in agentic workflows to deliver a scalable, configurable AI platform.** Our agents can handle both inbound and outbound conversations while maintaining full context across voice, SMS, email, and chat; they’re regulation compliant right out of the box; and they can be tuned to match a lender’s brand, tone, and negotiation policies. 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But moving money back to Brazil is still:\n\n* **Slow** - transfers take 1–3 business days\n* **Expensive** - with hidden FX fees and SWIFT charges\n* **Frustrating** - requiring multiple accounts, platforms, and workarounds\n\nCarlos tried to pay Brazilian engineers from the US and saw firsthand how broken it is. Fintechs keep building on top of SWIFT. But **SWIFT is the problem**. Cacao replaces it with faster, cheaper rails: stablecoins + Pix.\\\n\\\n**Our Solution**\n\n---\n\nCacao is the best app for Brazilians who are receiving income from abroad.\n\nBuilt with speed, transparency, and flexibility in mind:\n\n* **Receive USD or USDT** via ACH, Wire, RTP, or crypto\n* **Store securely** in a stablecoin (USDT) wallet\n* **Withdraw instantly** to Reais (BRL) via Pix - 24/7, 365 days\n* **Spend in USD** globally with a Visa Platinum card (Apple & Google Pay)\n* **Send and receive crypto** wallet-to-wallet (crypto ↔ crypto is free)\n* **Load your wallet with Pix** - BRL → USDT directly\n* **Track everything** in one intuitive mobile app, with local support in Portuguese\n\n**Pricing:**\n\n* 0.9% on USD deposits\n* 0.9% on Pix withdrawals\n* 1% on card usage\n* **Free crypto ↔ crypto transfers**\n* **Live FX rates** that beat the mid-market rate by 1-2%\n\n**Who It’s For**\n\nCacao is built for Brazilians who get paid from abroad:\n\n* **Freelancers** - devs, designers, PMs, translators, consultants.\n* **Creators** - YouTubers, Kick & Twitch streamers, influencers.\n* **Remote workers** - employed by global companies\n* **Remittance recipients** - family sending money home\n* **Educators** - Udemy, Coursera instructors\n* **Platform earners** - Upwork, Deel, Fiverr, Remote, Ontop, Workana\n* **Foreigners in Brazil** - US tourists and expats using Pix to pay and get paid\n\nGet paid from anywhere. Avoid high fees. Access your money on your terms.\\\n\\\n**Our Ask**\n\nIf you answer “yes” to any of these, we’d love your help:\n\n1. **Do you pay Brazilian freelancers or employees?** \\\n We make receiving income abroad instant and affordable.\n2. **Run a global platform (payroll, freelance, creator)?**\\\n Let’s partner.\n3. **Know Brazilians who earn from abroad or use crypto?**\\\n Share Cacao with them.\n4. **Want to try it yourself or give feedback?**\\\n Download:[ https://www.cacaofi.com/en](https://www.cacaofi.com/en)\n\n📩 [founders@cacaofi.com](mailto:founders@cacaofi.com)\n\nObrigado - let’s make Pix global 🇧🇷💸\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92888&key=user_uploads/1127436/fb386a2c-9bf5-46ba-9ca5-39d1ed47cd7c)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OAC-cacao-brazilians-can-now-receive-usd-crypto-instantly", "votes": 61, "created_at": "2025-08-15T22:24:23.856Z" } ] }, { "id": 30799, "name": "Avent", "slug": "avent", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1db65d6a1bb5d7e7c777ac05121880f5ead05061.png", "website": "https://www.aventindustrial.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Avent helps manufacturers and industrial distributors run quoting and order entry on autopilot. \r\n\r\nOur AI agents manage sales inboxes, build quotes from past pricing and tribal knowledge, and keep records up to date in existing ERPs.", "one_liner": "AI agents for industrial commerce", "team_size": 5, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1755109512, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/avent", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/avent.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/aventindustrial", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1db65d6a1bb5d7e7c777ac05121880f5ead05061.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1006692, "full_name": "Abhay Kalra", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Abhay is the Founder and CEO of Avent. Abhay studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley, where he conducted computer vision research for defect detection in manufacturing.\n\nBefore Avent, Abhay was an operator in the manufacturing and industrial distribution space.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhay-kalra-683688214", "x_url": "https://x.com/abhaykalraa", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/df88f59059043154cae6581ae2e0718a9da90997.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 93158, "title": "Founding Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/avent/jobs/3lI2Vgv-founding-engineer", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$120K - $150K", "equity_range": "1.00% - 2.00%", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "C#", "PostgreSQL", "Python", "TypeScript", "Next.js" ] }, { "id": 93159, "title": "Founding Forward Deployed Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/avent/jobs/WD2kTsF-founding-forward-deployed-engineer", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$100K - $130K", "equity_range": "0.50% - 2.00%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Python", "TypeScript", "Design systems", "Next.js" ] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 93001, "title": "Avent – AI Agents for Industrial Commerce", "tagline": "We automate quoting and order entry for industrial distributors using AI", "body": "Hey everyone [👋](https://emojipedia.org/waving-hand)\n\nI’m [Abhay](https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhay-kalra-683688214/) – founder of [Avent](https://www.aventindustrial.com/).\n\n# **TL;DR**\n\n**Avent builds the AI inside sales rep for industrial distributors and manufacturers**. Our AI sales rep automates quoting, order entry, and product search so the human sales teams at these companies can spend time with customers again.\n\n**_Ask_:** Can you introduce us **distributors, manufacturers or IMR’s (Independent Manufacturer Reps)**? \\\nContact us at [founders@aventindustrial.com](https://mailto:founders@aventindustrial.com)\n\nhttps://youtu.be/hvfU-DMfRG0?feature=shared\n\n# **📉 The Problem**\n\nI saw firsthand as an operator that growth in distribution is capped almost entirely by hiring. It’s hard to find good sales talent, and even harder to retain.\n\n* Sales teams spend most of their day quoting, entering orders, and chasing product data instead of talking to customers.\n* Training new reps takes months, and **more than 50% of the workforce will retire this decade**.\n* Critical knowledge lives in inboxes or people’s heads, and disappears when they leave.\n\nThe result: companies can’t scale beyond the speed of hiring, while service slows and relationships suffer.\n\n---\n\n# **📈 Our Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93001&key=user_uploads/1006692/0ab6182e-5b8b-4bf9-9d33-3a0a0668e079)\n\nAvent watch every channel where customer requests arrive—email, fax, phone:\n\n* **Quoting:** When a customer asks for a price, Avent finds the correct product and pricing, generates the quote, and prepares it to send.\n* **Order Entry:** When the customer follows up with a purchase order (PO), Avent matches it to the earlier quote, creates the sales order, and inputs it into the company’s ledger\n* **Procurement:** Never lose an order. If a customer needs something that’s not in stock, Avent will find the best cost from in-network distributors and quote\n\nAvent generates over **$200,000 worth of quotes every day** for distributors across North America and the UK.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93001&key=user_uploads/1006692/74e0b3b9-44b2-42d8-bdeb-e9affaaf7f39)\n\n---\n\n# **The Story**\n\nI grew up in factories, and as kids my older brother and I would spend hours talking about how to take it to the next level. Every brainstorm somehow ended in the same place: _hiring_. Turns out, that wasn’t just our problem. It’s everyone’s problem in distribution.\n\nAvent is what I wish we had back then!\n\n---\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93001&key=user_uploads/1006692/63fcdd55-f8ed-41b2-a7e6-bf366a33292f)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OC1-avent-ai-agents-for-industrial-commerce", "votes": 117, "created_at": "2025-08-15T22:24:09.602Z" } ] }, { "id": 30801, "name": "burnt", "slug": "burnt", "former_names": [ "burnt AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2af9e43cd6c77970b3bff5071024e812ac9ee3e0.png", "website": "https://getburnt.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Food Supply Chain companies have been using legacy ERPs for decades. Everyone knows these are necessary evils that essentially run the business but take up a lot of operational capacity. They are not about to just rip and replace their existing system that runs their whole business with a system that takes years to implement. 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Ripping these systems out would take **years**, cost **millions**, and probably spark a small mutiny. Meanwhile, flashy e-commerce storefronts have flopped harder than day-old soufflé.\n\nBurnt deploys AI Agents directly inside these ERPs, starting with a Sales AI Agent that completely replaces the order management job function.\n\nWe’re working with large distributors across meat, seafood, and specialty ingredients - 97% of their orders now run end-to-end without people & 90% of order-entry staff shifted into sales.\n\nWe’re building supply chain superintelligence so that independent food distributors can compete with the US Foods and Sysco. \n\n\\____________________\\_\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nFood distributors that supply restaurants rely on decades-old legacy ERPs - critical to operations but slow, inflexible, and dependent on armies of people to run.\n\nPast attempts to automate these workflows have failed:\n\n* **RPA** works only for structured PDFs, not for the messy reality of food orders coming via emails, calls, texts, WhatsApp, and fax.\n* **E-commerce storefronts** have low adoption, 12-24 month implementation cycles and come at a high cost - both financially and emotionally - for distributors, while still failing to address the nuances of the industry.\n\nThis leaves distributors buried in manual work. Customer service teams are the perfect example of this issue -  they spend most of their time re-typing orders instead of building relationships.\n\n\\____________________\\_\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\nhttps://youtu.be/hRgpT2I1XAk\n\nBurnt’s AI Agents operate inside existing ERPs - no rip-and-replace required.\n\nOur first agent, **Ozai**, monitors all incoming sales channels (email, text, voicemail, WhatsApp, fax – **even phone calls**), learns each customer’s shorthand, habits, and favorite products, interprets prep notes, and enters the order directly into the ERP.\n\nIf something’s unclear, Ozai asks the customer for clarification and continues processing without breaking the workflow. 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We’re already powering research at Yale, production workloads at VC-backed startups and several research labs.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/Rgo15NY9K-8\n\n**TLDR:**\n\n* Our drop-in upgrade to PyTorch automatically generates complex GPU kernel code, like Flash Attention, with zero hand-engineering\n* We provide truly serverless deployments; no idle costs or cold starts.\n* By not relying on pretrained LLMs or hand-written optimizations, we can reliably speed up any model\n\n**Ask:**\n\n* [Book a meeting](https://calendly.com/accounts-luminalai/30min) if you write PyTorch and want your models to run fast\n* [Star us on github](https://github.com/jafioti/luminal) and try Luminal right now on your own laptop!\n* Email us if you know someone who runs custom models: [contact@luminalai.com](https://mailto:contact@luminalai.com)\n\n—\n\n### **The problem:**\n\nMost people running their own AI models are lighting money on fire and don’t even know it. AI teams are frustrated when moving their model from dev to production. They either fall into dependency hell or kill their model’s speed. Today, **companies waste millions of dollars on GPU engineering** teams to optimize new models before they can be served to users.\\\n—\n\n### **How Luminal solves it:**\n\n**Luminal replaces a process that companies pay GPU engineers $300k+ a year to do.**\n\nOur key insight is that by treating optimization as a search problem, we’re able to automatically discover extremely complex optimizations in minutes that would take a GPU expert weeks. We use a series of ‘rewrite rules’ to create millions of graphs to describe your model, generate kernel code for each and then search for the fastest one based on runtime.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfNzLo_zAkiYY_fsEQMseEQZXpdFjn0chhSJ8Wn-0WOkSHGblAi1XseXLIbZsiim6z8_AiWxx6wuzTuCQYfNe2ELulijuOBR5b_1x4-kzEoxEoxutW0qv127MHbl1Lu6YLIJBfP_A?key=gRJ545K4hfVVtN0eX-o_ZQ)\n\n_Example of a complicated kernel on the left that Luminal automatically sped up, on the right._\n\nLuminal is:\n\n1. **Closing the research → engineering gap.** Because we auto-generate optimized GPU code directly from your PyTorch, a brand-new model can go from research notebook to production in hours instead of weeks\n2. **Writing blazing fast models.** Luminal generates kernels that would take a seasoned GPU engineer weeks of painstaking profiling and tuning to write.\n3. **Future-proofing AI for new chips**. We can rerun our compiler on fresh hardware to get new optimal kernels so you're never out of date.\n\n—\n\n### **You should reach out if:**\n\n* You’re an AI researcher or ML engineer\n* You’d like to lower your compute bill by **tens of thousands of dollars a month**\n* You work at a company that runs their own **custom models**\n\nIf you want your team spending more time making the world’s best models and less time optimizing hardware and cloud infrastructure, we’re for you!\n\n—\n\n### **The Team:**\n\n[Joe](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-fioti-24a986189/) - ex Intel, every Intel chip sold has the AI accelerator Joe worked on. He has extensive experience optimizing performance at the silicon level.\n\n[Matt](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewjgunton/) - ex Amazon where his software handled finding and automatically fixing issues within the global inventory network 24/7\n\n[Jake](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-stevens-/) - ex Apple Jake worked on imaging at Apple for your iPhone. He’s been a founder (with an exit) and head of growth at another startup that he grew to \\~$5M ARR.\n\nSend us an email: [contact@luminalai.com](https://mailto:contact@luminalai.com)\n\n[Book a call with us](https://calendly.com/accounts-luminalai/30min)\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXd1hRLOasxYQ38r0AmMN9fTC9-BatUjGjE9-BXM21-w8PRvhBJVeYAc3pWlLPVlmTtnP3jG9Pa5HmUIGTYaZ93ClC-M-CRx0nkNw-DgS3Wh28xWXaUzXVwL_XPCNUL8JyTd_9FmBA?key=gRJ545K4hfVVtN0eX-o_ZQ)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O0g-luminal-pytorch-for-production", "votes": 127, "created_at": "2025-07-20T17:12:19.542Z" } ] }, { "id": 30805, "name": "RealRoots", "slug": "realroots", "former_names": [ "RealRoots Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e4b72e88bef4437e7d672c23bb7e1f952c837fca.png", "website": "http://www.realroots.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Real friendships, made in real life. 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I lead engineering and product to build and scale our platform to hundreds of thousands of women across the US.\n\nPreviously led product and data teams as an early employee at Brilliant, a Series C consumer edtech company.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/tara-kappel-5baa6095", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c29a8a123fd3695105b52cfc7c7f00d54f3d6a5b.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Making friends as an adult is hard. 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Women lose half of their friends every 7 years, and yet there is no easy way to rebuild those circles. This fundamental problem has led to ⅔ of Americans regularly feeling lonely to no fault of their own.\n\nTHE SOLUTION:\n\nWe know that friendships form when three ingredients align: 1) compatibility, 2) repeat encounters, and 3) authentic conversations. That’s why we designed RealRoots to reliably deliver all three, allowing us to guarantee friendships.\n\n* **Friendship compatibility:** We ask women a questions about her life stage and values, matching with with compatible new friends in her area\n* **Repeat Encounters:** When a woman joins RealRoots, she commits to meeting her friend matches for multiple shared experiences, allowing enough repetition for connection to develop.\n* **Authentic Conversations**: RealRoots experiences are led by a trained facilitator, who guides deep conversations and icebreakers so that a woman gets to know her matches intentionally.\n* A woman joins for a quarter, a year, or longer.\n\n \n\nWHY WE’RE BUILDING THIS:\n\nWe’re building the product we desperately wished existed. After moving 10 times between us, we’ve repeatedly felt the struggle of rebuilding a community from scratch, and the isolation that follows. We created RealRoots because we want to solve this problem, for ourselves and for every woman seeking genuine connection.\n\nOUR ASK:\n\n**Meet friend matches (women only):** Have any female loved ones who are looking for female community? Spread the word about RealRoots. And if you’re a woman, we’d love to help you [meet your new local friend group](https://www.therealroots.com/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93017&key=user_uploads/263511/8b7a20c9-56f7-4105-96c4-29a16d751ace)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OCH-realroots-the-irl-friendship-app-for-women", "votes": 151, "created_at": "2025-08-15T20:19:28.651Z" } ] }, { "id": 30806, "name": "Uplift AI", "slug": "uplift-ai", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4c2008e580fb1146da7922b566c2a03af87f5a0c.png", "website": "https://upliftai.org/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We build Voice Models for regional languages (like Urdu, Bengali, Greek etc) and make them available through simple APIs and SDKs. \r\nDevelopers use us to create Voice-first digital experiences (eg. Voice eCommerce, Voice Banking, Voice AI Tutors etc).\r\n\r\nWe gather our own data, develop our own labelling tools, train our own models, and design our own voice infra. This fully integrated approach enables us to offer the best models and the best developer experience for regional languages.\r\n\r\n---\r\n\r\nPeople who would previously never use certain digital services (like online ordering), actually use the service when they are given an intuitive Voice based interface.\r\nWe believe that Voice Interfaces will onboard 100s of millions of new users onto digital services; and double the addressable market for technology companies. \r\nUplift AI will provide the best models to create these Voice Interfaces for 60% of the world's population that only speaks their regional language and represents 42 trillion dollars in GDP.", "one_liner": "Foundational Voice Models for regional languages", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1750590533, "tags": [ "Speech Recognition", "Conversational AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": [ { "question": "How did your company get started? 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What made you decide to work on it?", "answer": "At the core, we are solving the problem of universal access to digital knowledge and digital services. \\\r\n\\\r\nPeople who would previously never use certain digital services (like online ordering, or online health advice), actually use the service when they are given an intuitive Voice based interface — especially in emerging markets.\\\r\n\\\r\nVoice Interfaces make it more natural and intuitive to use technology; and we believe it will onboard 100s of millions of new users onto digital services. This will make people more productive, and increase GDP per capita. " }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "When we truly succeed, the world will access technology through our Voice Tech.\\\r\n\\\r\nAnd the GDP per capita would increase around the world, as more people will be able to take full advantage of technology using intuitive voice interfaces. \\\r\n\\\r\nCurrently a large part of the world is unable to fully utilize technology coz text-interfaces are very confusing for many people." } ], "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/uplift-ai", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/uplift-ai.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/upliftai/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://upliftai.org/ai-calling", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4c2008e580fb1146da7922b566c2a03af87f5a0c.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1455159, "full_name": "Hammad Malik", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "CEO at Uplift AI. 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Previously: Designed AWS Bedrock Guardrails.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/zaidqureshi", "x_url": "https://x.com/zqureshi_", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/213c6ace31f4682223f0ff84235321060d66a70d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 103104, "title": "Founding Design Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/uplift-ai/jobs/u9rZioW-founding-design-engineer", "location": "Lahore, Punjab, PK", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Design", "role_type": "Product design", "salary_range": "$1.5K - $2.5K / monthly", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.50%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "CSS", "React", "TypeScript", "Prototyping", "Design systems", "Branding", "Marketing design", "Figma" ] }, { "id": 103116, "title": "Founding Engineer - Frontier Tuning Platform", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/uplift-ai/jobs/rC1wCHI-founding-engineer-frontier-tuning-platform", "location": "Lahore, Punjab, PK", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$1.5K - $2.5K / monthly", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.50%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Python", "React", "TypeScript", "Machine Learning", "Deep Learning", "Fine-tuning", "Evals", "MLOps" ] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 103672, "title": "Urdu-speaking AI models — really really desi style", "tagline": "Authentic Urdu AI voices — from nosey aunties to angry molvis.", "body": "We have trained an AI model called Orator, that speaks Urdu with human-like realism. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first model that can speak Urdu in an authentic way: the way everyday people speak Urdu in everyday life.\n\nWe have voices from “the whole mohalla“ (entire neighborhood). From angry molvis and nosey aunties, to thailay walas, and burger boys.\n\n**You can experience the voices at [UpliftAI.org](http://UpliftAI.org).** The website will allow you to experience dozens of voices in seconds by just clicking/hovering the circles.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103672&key=user_uploads/1455159/ac1e7d0f-ca3e-4fc0-aac6-4cc61a89797e)\n\n**Making the model**\n\nWe have put our heart into this work, and enjoying it more than any work we have ever done in the past.\n\nWe started with the map of Pakistan and asked: how do people sound in every district. That gave us the accent list.\n\nThen, we asked ourselves: what are all the unique characters we would interact with in a typical month as we go about our normal life. This gave us our character/persona list.\n\nWe then hired a leading voice producer and worked with him to hire voice actors and script writers, and then spent months doing voice recordings in studios in Karachi, Lahore, Quetta and Islamabad.\n\nOnce the voices were recorded, then we hired 50 contractors to label data.\n\nThe final and the simplest step was the model training. We trained a very small 32M param VITS2 inspired model.\n\nThe results are very encouraging.\n\n\\- Here is someone creating a story book using our voices: \n\n\\- Here is me just having fun with it: [https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hammad2_is-your-mom-complaining-about-massi-leaving-ugcPost-7468570160233107457-sbQ5/](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hammad2_is-your-mom-complaining-about-massi-leaving-ugcPost-7468570160233107457-sbQ5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAQRT3MBhOY-xG4s8JvUtCqBaUrSdpKe93Y)\n\n**Ask**\n\n* If you know anyone that may benefit from this, please do connect us.\n* If you know any actors, dubbers or media houses that would be interested in recording more characters, please do connect us.\n* I can be reached at: or [founders@upliftai.org](mailto:founders@upliftai.org) ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Qy8-urdu-speaking-ai-models-really-really-desi-style", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2026-06-23T16:15:41.627Z" } ] }, { "id": 30807, "name": "Paloma", "slug": "paloma", "former_names": [ "Salesmith" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f1218976659374be7dae288b56678777bbb6a1eb.png", "website": "https://getpaloma.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Paloma gives manufacturing companies an embedded team of engineers and ops experts who replace their manual operations with custom AI-native software.", "one_liner": "Digital transformation for real economy businesses", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1754546482, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Analytics", "Manufacturing", "Operations", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/paloma", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/paloma.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/108207089/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f1218976659374be7dae288b56678777bbb6a1eb.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 520906, "full_name": "Nazli Danis", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "CEO and co-founder @ Paloma | Previously GPM and first product hire @ Deel where I led Employee of Record (EOR), our highest revenue generating vertical, as we blitzscaled from $10K MRR to $XXM MRR.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/nazlidanis/", "x_url": "https://x.com/nazlidanis", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7d271a3f5b1cafb751db1b728c33034d02c60d91.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2703464, "full_name": "Alex Avnit", "title": "Founder/CRO", "founder_bio": "CRO and co-founder @ Paloma | Previously Head of Deel’s EOR Business Unit - their fastest-growing and highest revenue-generating product | Quant & Data scientist by trade.\n\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-avnit-222b3611a/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e9384bffde5c89c504343f3270759669145f4083.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 93175, "title": "Paloma: AI-native CRM for billing, renewals, and expansions", "tagline": "Auto-pilot everything after the handshake", "body": "### **TL;DR**\n\nPaloma unifies contracts, service consumption, and customer relationship context so that revenue, success and sales teams can operate from the same ground truth. With everything centralized, you can stay ahead of upsell and churn signals while billing runs smoothly in the background.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/jav-7qS-S4U\n\n---\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nFragmented customer context and manual billing kill revenue potential:\n\n* Account managers and customer success don’t have full visibility on which clients to pay attention to for maximizing upsells and minimizing churn\n* Complex pricing or custom deals often require manual work to bill accurately, making them hard to support and creating a real barrier to selling\n\n### The Result\n\n* Revenue opportunities slip through the cracks because signals for upsell or renewals aren’t surfaced on time\n* Teams don’t have a clear view of what they can upsell or at what price, leading to missed opportunities\n* Sales is constrained to “billable” terms, creating friction and slowing execution\n\nThe result is a reactive, fragmented go-to-market motion where growth is capped by operational bottlenecks instead of driven by customer opportunity.\n\n---\n\n### **How Paloma Solves It**\n\nPaloma is the AI copilot and system of record for everything that happens after the handshake:\n\n* **Unified ground truth:** Parses contracts, communications, notes and service consumption into one shared customer context for revops, finance and customer success.\n* **Surfaces revenue opportunities:** Flags upsells, renewals, churn risks, and usage changes and prioritizes them by impact.\n* **Automates billing workflows:** Turns complex terms into billing-ready instructions that run behind the scenes.\n* **Works with your stack:** Seamlessly integrates with your CRM, billing software, and data sources to sync context and actions.\n* **Human-in-the-loop by design:** You stay in control. Paloma learns from your feedback and gradually automates more over time.\n\n### Demo: From Contract to Invoice in Seconds\n\n**1. Upload Contract & Add Notes**\\\nEasily import customer contracts and attach important context in seconds.\n\n![Effortless Billing and Invoicing 💻](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXenCXn3XWc-aJ86auvk1b4EbfYkrX83Tacb9LElt6_O29CrmLlKpIV3-g3t-A_ZoEwNMRTLizwutLePHZd6OQoxoJBYoBENxRAEhjZ5StRPdrED7L42JfBVZGDrxzT9GZLvY1NwDg?key=BG5KxR_KYqp8AhZRK2bQPQ)\n\n**2. Parse & Review Contract Data**\\\nPaloma extracts terms, pricing, and key conditions from the contract.\n\n![Effortless Billing and Invoicing 💻](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXcWyfWU9QpLWYr70cBoUZtfs1pqaC4uSNPLA-zF3eCa0zgAMZLXcOxQTZ2EZs-Gl2GMEaTMcyt7oDKcETvRgggs25ZpNHVSVuz0kxx3aHVqSeVKSJplYcr7lpgKw4Dxd0iAc23LpQ?key=BG5KxR_KYqp8AhZRK2bQPQ)\n\n**3. Upload Usage Data**\\\nFeed in real consumption data to trigger accurate billing calculations.\n\n![Effortless Billing and Invoicing 💻](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXczxqONAnGu0BAaL8dL5EZ8zABzWHQyDBgMN8xgW4YBFvyu7vGKcgBTcBK9s9JNdLqq4ekGPJGVjCCO7KWRvTtxm9x9dR0n4QoPnD5qaQSj188gQ4fMT0A6QwRymziy0-VI-kXY?key=BG5KxR_KYqp8AhZRK2bQPQ)\n\n**4. Generate & Review Invoice**\\\nWatch the system apply contract rules and usage to produce the final invoice, automatically.\n\n![Effortless Billing and Invoicing 💻](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXcCNxVydjEGKUle7c1KaAb4Pqzr9zZ-H7WrQGYXDH8re-Q1ggk8tOCqwZ6Y3jvxgOl-dEmspx3B7_hWdY-gsPiHSV_nfRj_8FnQ8oPXl8zBgoNTzu8KJ1XCYPFmEVdKOSMemx8nYw?key=BG5KxR_KYqp8AhZRK2bQPQ)\n\n### **The Team**\n\nWe met at Deel, where we were early employees. Naz (CEO) and Alex (CRO) spent 3 years building and scaling Deel’s largest revenue-generating product from zero to $500m ARR. Kai (CTO) led the development of Deel’s billing and payments infrastructure from the ground up. We’ve lived the pain of messy post-sales firsthand and we’re building Paloma to solve it.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93175&key=user_uploads/2703464/b02e3435-4880-4c5e-a9a6-1f9c9b46bb59)\n\n### **Our ask**\n\nIf your team spends too much time on messy workflows, manual billing processes or you feel like you’re leaving money on the table, let’s talk.\n\n* **Book a call**: [https://cal.com/team/paloma/intro-call-with-paloma-](https://cal.com/team/paloma/intro-call-with-paloma-founders)\n\n [founders](https://cal.com/team/paloma/intro-call-with-paloma-founders)\n* **Or email/call us at** : [founders@getpaloma.ai](mailto:founders@getpaloma.ai) / +1 (917) 971-7795\n\nThank you!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OEp-paloma-ai-native-crm-for-billing-renewals-and-expansions", "votes": 118, "created_at": "2025-08-20T14:28:04.109Z" } ] }, { "id": 30813, "name": "Blue", "slug": "blue", "former_names": [ "L5 Assistant" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/90acd1189896151e269eca2dc0a6b15c7042d091.png", "website": "https://heyblue.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Everyone pays someone to handle the parts of their life that don't need them personally. The cleaner, the bookkeeper, the lawn service. Nobody could handle what lives in your phone. Until Blue.\r\n\r\nBlue is a small USB-C dongle and iPhone app. Plug it in and say what needs doing. The follow-up you haven't sent, the appointment you haven't booked, the reply you owe. Blue opens the right app, does the work, and tells you when it's done. You don't touch your phone.\r\n\r\nWorks with every app already on your iPhone. \r\n\r\nThe team brings complementary experience at scale: Omar Abdelaziz led Google Assistant’s transition to LLMs and holds one of earliest patents in LLM-based computer control; Peter Krogh spent decades designing voice-first dialog systems and was most recently a design lead at Google DeepMind building actions for Gemini Live; Muhammad Farhan Hossain helped ship Apple Vision Pro, is named on dozens of hardware/systems patents, and has led products from prototype to mass production.\r\n\r\nWe’ve built systems used by billions. 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Not just better dictation for the 1% of the time your hands are tied up and you have to dictate. You start _defaulting_ to dictation every single time you have to type, and you end up saving a ton of time!\n\nGet it right now: heyblue.com/download", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QLv-introducing-the-blue-smart-dictation-keyboard-for-iphone", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2026-05-13T21:02:17.121Z" }, { "id": 93147, "title": "Blue: The voice assistant your phone has been missing.", "tagline": "Blue uses your apps to finish tasks, hands-free and on the go. ", "body": "[heyblue.com](http://heyblue.com)\n\n**TL;DR**\\\nBlue is the only voice assistant on iOS and Android that can control every app on your phone, so you can get work done hands-free.\n\nWhen you’re driving, you can say things like “Catch me up on Slack,” “Pay the power bill from my email,” “Help me order DoorDash”, and anything else you could ask someone in your passenger seat, and Blue will help you do it hands-free.\n\nAt launch, Blue focuses on communications journeys: messages and email across apps.\n\n## **Why We Built Blue**\n\nOur phone assistants peaked at setting timers and checking the weather, but we’ve got a mountain of messages and emails to work through. We built Blue because we actually want to be productive on the way to work – and for the 70% of Americans commuting just like us.\n\n## **How Blue Works**\n\nBlue enables full, hands-free phone control via a voice-first computer-use model. On iPhone, our tiny USB-C plug-in gives Blue the ability to tap and type on your behalf. \n\nBlue doesn't wait for developers to build special integrations. It just uses your apps, all of them, hands-free, so you can tackle your todo list when your hands are busy doing literally anything else.\n\n**See it in action:**\n\nhttps://youtu.be/PJV27Nd9eiI\n\n**Team**\n\n* **Omar Abdelaziz**: Led Google Assistant’s transition to LLMs; holds one of the earliest patents in LLM-based computer control.\n* **Peter Krogh**: Decades designing voice-first dialog systems; multiple design patents; most recently design lead at Google DeepMind serving actions on Gemini Live.\n* **Farhan Hossain**: Helped ship Apple Vision Pro; 50+ patents in hardware/systems; led products from prototyping to mass production and global fulfillment.\n\nWe’ve built systems used by billions. Now we’re on to defining the next era of computing.\n\n## **Ask**\n\n* **Try Blue:** Request early access at [heyblue.com](http://heyblue.com)\n* **Reach out**: [founders@heyblue.com](mailto:founders@heyblue.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93147&key=user_uploads/2770643/31255b69-1672-4404-83d4-0db5869d0b5f)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OEN-blue-the-voice-assistant-your-phone-has-been-missing", "votes": 25, "created_at": "2025-08-19T21:45:01.737Z" } ] }, { "id": 30818, "name": "Nox Metals", "slug": "nox-metals", "former_names": [ "NOX METALS", "NOX METAL" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1f724f217879daf89f5fc2ea9279d9cf723f6300.png", "website": "https://noxmetals.co/", "all_locations": "Detroit, MI, USA", "long_description": "Nox Metals is an AI-powered metals supplier powering modern American manufacturing at scale. 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