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So you can focus on building your brand and making sales.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93361&key=user_uploads/306058/df83bf9e-c5f7-4708-8d34-e5064c8fb5a6)\n\nGlobal e-commerce entrepreneurs were telling us the same story. That starting a Shopify or Amazon store is easy, but running and managing one is overwhelming.\n\nThat’s why we built [doola's AI Co-Founder](https://www.doola.com/ai-cofounder/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ai-cofounder&htrafficsource=yc&el=yc_08272025), the intelligent partner that takes care of your back-office tasks.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93361&key=user_uploads/306058/4cb6bc40-e222-49fd-96c6-0cdf662db309)\n\nE-Commerce entrepreneurs don’t want ten browser tabs and five service providers. They want one trusted partner who gets the job done. 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The back-end has been fragmented and missing… until now.\n\nToday is one of the most important days in doola's history.\n\nWe're launching [doola Business-in-a-Box™ for E-Commerce](https://www.doola.com/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=businessinabox&htrafficsource=yc&el=doola_yc) - the first solution that brings the entire back-end of E-Commerce into one place.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89198&key=user_uploads/306058/15876394-8954-4de9-9cd4-6ef713e518e8)\n\n## E-Commerce Do'ers, you know the struggle:\n\n* Entity formation, compliance, and multi-state tax rules\n* Bookkeeping and financials that ensure you don't overpay the IRS\n* Business analytics to understand profitability across all your channels\n\nFor too long, you've been forced to stitch together a back-end solution from fragmented services, thinking that's just the way it had to be.\n\nWe built the solution E-Commerce founders deserve.\n\n## With doola, you get:\n\n✅ LLC formation and business banking set up the right way from day one\n\n✅ Bookkeeping and tax filings are handled (by humans) so you don't leave money on the table\n\n✅ Initial sales tax registration and reseller certificate? 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Focus on what you do best while doola handle the rest.\n\n[Schedule a demo today.](https://www.doola.com/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=businessinabox&htrafficsource=yc&el=doola_yc)\n\nLet's doola this ⚡️", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NCg-doola-business-in-a-box-for-e-commerce", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2025-04-02T12:31:18.046Z" }, { "id": 84459, "title": "doola White Label Bookkeeping and Tax API", "tagline": "Add bookkeeping and tax filings to your product suite via API.", "body": "Hey everyone! 👋\n\nWe’re excited to announce the expansion of our API offerings to the YC community with the launch of the doola White Label Bookkeeping and Tax API. 🎉\n\nAt doola, we’ve always been on a mission to empower entrepreneurs to run their US business seamlessly, no matter where they are in the world. \n\nIt all started with our [**Company Formation API**](https://www.doola.com/business-solutions/company-formation-api/?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=listing&utm_campaign=formationapi): a solution designed to help founder s launch their US companies in minutes, fully remote, and hassle-free. Our API enabled platforms to offer a seamless US company formation experience, outsourcing all the filings and compliance to doola's automation — and unlocking new revenue streams for those platforms.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84459&key=user_uploads/306058/c0bc5c09-1648-47f8-9395-bbc8bcadb7a6)\n\nBut our vision didn’t stop at formation.\n\nToday, we’re excited to build on that foundation with our new [**White Label Bookkeeping and Tax API**](https://doola.com/bookkeeping/white-label-bookkeeping-tax-api?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=listing&utm_campaign=bookkeepingtaxapi), allowing platforms to offer not just company formation but also ongoing bookkeeping, financial statements, and tax compliance services, fully powered by doola.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84459&key=user_uploads/306058/2dca792c-361f-499f-9010-ca14df3d7bcf)\n\nHere’s what the API can do for you:\n\n⚙️ **Streamline Operations**: Automate formation, bookkeeping, and tax compliance for your users, simplifying their back-office needs from start to finish — all while we handle the complexities.\n\n📈 **Unlock New Revenue Opportunities**: Whitelabel doola’s comprehensive services or integrate them into your platform, giving your customers a full-suite solution and adding new revenue streams to your business. \n\nImagine your platform being the place where users can form their US LLCs, stay compliant, and handle all their bookkeeping and tax filings, without lifting a finger. Whether you're helping e-commerce sellers, SaaS entrepreneurs, or creators, our API equips you to offer this seamlessly.\n\n**Interested in partnering with doola?**\n\n[Talk to our team today](https://doola.com/bookkeeping/white-label-bookkeeping-tax-api), and let's team up to help more founders start, run, and grow their dream businesses.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LyF-doola-white-label-bookkeeping-and-tax-api", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2024-10-02T15:11:11.664Z" }, { "id": 78385, "title": "💸 doola Money - Start an LLC, store $USD, and move money globally in minutes", "tagline": "We empower global founders by helping them set up a US business without handling any complex paperwork.", "body": "Hey everyone! 👋\n\nWe’re thrilled to announce doola’s new fintech product for global entrepreneurs, which is now open to the YC community.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78385&key=user_uploads/306058/da2575af-7711-44ef-9f55-536803a6edab)\n\nAt doola, our mission is to empower global founders by helping them set up a US business without handling any complex paperwork.\n\nIn addition to business formation and tax compliance, doola’s new product will now allow global businesses and founders to deposit $USD and move money internationally from any continent, with no US Social Security Number required.\n\ndoola Money is a payment account that enables users to do a few things, including:\n\n* depositing and storing US dollars\n* making ACH and wire payments in the US\n* send money internationally using FX or currency exchange transactions\n* use your doola Money account for payouts from processors like Stripe or PayPal\n\nWhether you’re a seasoned entrepreneur or a first-time business owner, doola Money opens doors to international transactions without the hassles of social security numbers or credit histories.\n\nWe’re excited to continue empowering founders across the globe to turn their dream idea into their dream US businesses.\n\nYC companies can get early access to [doola Money](https://doola.com/money) today! 🚀\n\nYou can read and watch all about how to use doola Money here on [doola University](https://www.doola.com/university/a-guide-to-using-doola-money/).\n\nYou can check us out on [Product Hunt](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/doola-money).\n\nAnd you can see the coverage on social here ([LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mahadevanarjun_doolas-biggest-announcement-of-the-year-activity-7163166871607840768-L5ZO?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop) | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/ArjunMahadevan/status/1757403567294435728?s=20)).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KOH-doola-money-start-an-llc-store-usd-and-move-money-globally-in-minutes", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2024-02-13T15:33:58.929Z" }, { "id": 67380, "title": "doola Company Formation API 🔮", "tagline": "Create a US company from the command line and unlock a new revenue stream.", "body": "Hey everyone! 👋\n\nWe’re excited to open our [Company Formation API](https://www.doola.com/company-formation-api?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=listing&utm_campaign=formationapi) up to the YC community. 🥳\n\nAt doola, our mission is to help anyone turn their dream idea into their dream US business from anywhere in the world. To enable this for founders meant handling all the complex paperwork — something we spent hours manually filing forms with the state and IRS.\n\nThere had to be a better way. So we built a Formation API in-house. Today, we can file companies with the state in minutes upon receiving information from a founder. And we can do this for founders, 100% remotely, from anywhere in the world.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67380&key=user_uploads/306058/5cf78b55-cc08-4719-96e1-e41eb621a5c8)\n\nThe API we have built can now empower businesses of all types and sizes to offer US company formation and ongoing compliance at scale, fully powered by doola.\n\nThis now allows companies to use the tech we’ve built to:\n\n* ⚙️ Streamline operations and outsource formations and filings to doola’s automation.\n* 📈 Drive new revenue streams by offering a new product to your customer base (white-labeled or powered by doola).\n\nWe’re excited to continue empowering founders across the globe to turn their dream idea into their dream US businesses.\n\nYC companies can [access our API today,](https://www.doola.com/company-formation-api) and be sure to read through our [API docs](https://www.doola.com/company-formation-api) as well! 🚀\n\nYou can read all about how we’re building our API [here](https://www.doola.com/blog/doola-company-formation-api) on our company blog.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HWm-doola-company-formation-api", "votes": 44, "created_at": "2022-11-17T14:26:22.378Z" }, { "id": 67114, "title": "doola Banking", "tagline": "A new way for LLCs to bank and build credit in the US", "body": "Hey everyone! 👋\n\nWe’re so excited to share the launch of [doola Banking](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/doola-banking)! 🏦\n\n[doola](https://www.doola.com) helps global entrepreneurs form U.S. LLCs and DAO LLCs by supporting customers through the incorporation process so they can confidently collect payments, build credibility, stay legal, and make more money.\n\nTo date, doola has provided company formation, an EIN, a U.S. address, access to U.S. payments, tax consultations, U.S. tax support, $50,000 in startup perks, and today…\n\n… access to a US business bank account.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67114&key=user_uploads/306058/0cdb4068-a0de-4d8e-99ef-62def675c5c4)\n\n**We’re essentially enabling a new way for LLCs to bank and build credit in the US.**\n\nOur strategy is to deliver a seamless experience to help businesses on their path to growth. We’re engaging our customers with personalized insights, timely recommendations, cash management, team management, account tracking, and financial content, all to optimize daily financial operations — using the superpowers of a feature-rich digital bank.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67114&key=user_uploads/306058/db2e4e4f-2497-42bf-bd1e-ed92dd9e4f13)\n\nWe are now an all-in-one platform to:\n\n* 🗂 Register your US LLC or DAO LLC\n* 🏦 Open your US bank account\n* ✅ Keep your LLC compliant with Total Compliance (State Filings, IRS Filings, and Bookkeeping).\n\nAll. In. One. Go. No US SSN required.\n\nWe’re excited to continue empowering founders across the globe to turn their dream idea into their dream US business.\n\n[Check out doola Banking on Product Hunt as well!](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/doola-banking)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HSU-doola-banking", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2022-11-03T19:34:35.214Z" } ] }, { "id": 21959, "name": "Stacker", "slug": "stacker", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4e37b25c0bb47800e59cbc839ab08b51d99ad699.png", "website": "https://stackerhq.com", "all_locations": "London, England, United Kingdom; Remote", "long_description": "We let you create applications for your team, your partners or your customers, powered by the data you're already using.\r\n\r\nConnect in your spreadsheets, Airtable or database and we'll automatically create an app for you.", "one_liner": "Turns spreadsheets into internal apps and customer portals", "team_size": 4, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1598100007, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "No-code" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2020", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "regions": [ "United Kingdom", "Europe", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/stacker", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2020/stacker.json", "year_founded": 2017, "city": "London", "country": "GB", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/stackerhq", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/stackerhq", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stacker-79fe", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4e37b25c0bb47800e59cbc839ab08b51d99ad699.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Garry Tan", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/garry-tan" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 238697, "full_name": "Michael Skelly", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Narcoleptic Brit from Northumberland living in London.\n\nCS at Oxford. 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Click** [**here 👈**](https://akiflow.com/)\n\n### **🎞️ Our story**\n\nWhen we started Akiflow, we build a way to quickly add information to different tools.\n\nIt was a command bar, similar to Alfred, that allowed users to add events to the calendar or create tasks on Asana, Trello, etc. \n\nWe soon realized that all we were doing was speeding up people's attempts to manage their own subpar productivity system.\n\nThe ultimate goal of our users was to maintain constant organization by keeping everything in one place. 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Just connect your tools - GitHub, Jira, Cursor, and more—and start asking in plain English:\n\n* “What’s our AI adoption rate this quarter?”\n* “Which teams improved their cycle time the most?”\n* “How has AI impacted our delivery and bug rates?”\n\n#### Key Features\n\n💬 **Conversational Interface:** Chat directly with your data instead of digging through dashboards.\\\n🤖 **AI-Native Insights:** Instantly generate reports, visual charts, and performance breakdowns from natural-language questions.\\\n🔌 **Connect Your Stack:** Integrate GitHub, Jira, Cursor, and more in seconds.\\\n📈 **Dynamic Reports:** Save and share real-time insights that update automatically as your teams ship.\\\n🔍 **AI Adoption Metrics:** Track how generative AI tools like Copilot or Cursor are influencing developer productivity.\n\n### Our Asks\n\n🎯 Try **Waydev AI** today! 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Dailybot closes that gap.\r\n\r\nTeams use Dailybot to run async standups, check-ins, retros, and custom workflows directly inside Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, and Discord. In Dailybot 3, those capabilities now extend to AI agents: every agent can report progress, surface blockers, and be monitored in a dedicated observability layer — all attributed to the humans who delegated the work.\r\n\r\nThe platform combines four capabilities: structured check-ins and forms in chat, AI-powered summaries and blocker detection, no-code workflow automation, and agent infrastructure (API, CLI, open-source skill pack, fleet monitoring). Leaders get a proactive view of what people and agents accomplished together — without adding meetings or dashboards to check.\r\n\r\nDailybot is SOC 2 and GDPR compliant, backed by Y Combinator (S21), and trusted by teams at IBM, Samsung, Pixar, and 8,000+ teams worldwide.", "one_liner": "Make all team work visible — people and AI agents", "team_size": 11, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1625092395, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "SaaS", "Collaboration", "AI", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2021", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "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/dailybot", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2021/dailybot.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "Remote", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/dailybot/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/dailybot", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/HeyDailybot", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/dailybot", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f727e5abc1675504008ed497195c21034c360412.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 207324, "full_name": "Mauricio Morales", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CEO at DailyBot\n\nMauricio has been building internet products for over 15y. 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For people and AI agents.\n\n**TL;DR**: we built an open-source CLI so people, scripts, and AI agents can drive Dailybot from the terminal. Updates, check-ins, chat messages, forms, and more land where the team already works: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, or Google Chat. **Ask:** ask your agent to try our skill ([**www.dailybot.com/skill.md**](http://www.dailybot.com/skill.md)), run one workflow that matches how your team actually works, and tell us which one helped you move forward today.\n\nDailybot skill: [**https://www.dailybot.com/skills/agent-skill/#install**](https://www.dailybot.com/skills/agent-skill/#install)\n\n**Demo**\n\n[**Dailybot CLI + Agent Skill: Connect your AI coding agent to your team**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwopfsPzgSQ)\n\n\\\n**The problem**\n\nTeams are getting real work done with coding agents and scripts. A lot of that work still finishes in a private session. The rest of the team only hears about it if someone rewrites it into Slack or a standup.\n\nSo you get the usual mess: invisible agent work, stale status during a release, approvals bouncing between tools, and check-ins that someone rebuilds by hand for every new project.\n\n**What we shipped**\n\nDailybot CLI. Same Dailybot account and team feed you already use, now from the command line. A few workflows we’re highlighting:\n\n1. Agent update to team chat — done / next / blockers show up in the feed, without a human rewrite\n2. One status message that stays current — one release/status message you keep updating, instead of a pile of outdated posts\n3. Simple approvals in chat — approve/reject in Slack or Teams; your system gets the result and work continues\n\nThere’s more under the hood (forms, check-in creation, agent inbox, activity into reports, kudos, teams, workflows). We’re leading with the ones that produce a visible team result fast.\n\n**Installing the CLI**\n\nEasiest path: pass the skill to your agent and ask it in plain language, e.g. “post a team update that we finished the CLI install path” – [**https://www.dailybot.com/skill.md**](https://www.dailybot.com/skill.md)\n\n**How we got here**\n\nWe’ve been building Dailybot for hybrid teams for a while: async check-ins, reports, and coordination inside chat. As our own team (and customers) started running agents all day, the gap got obvious: agents ship work, humans still retype the update.\n\nThe CLI is our answer to that gap. A bridge into the place the team already coordinates.\n\n**Our ask**\n\n1. Install and try one workflow: [**https://www.dailybot.com/skills/agent-skill/#install**](https://www.dailybot.com/skills/agent-skill/#install)\n2. Reply with the workflow you’d want documented/explored next\n3. If useful, intros to eng teams already running agents in production (contact our founders)\n\nThanks,\\\nMauricio & Sergio", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SSh-dailybot-cli-your-ai-agents-now-report-to-the-team", "votes": 22, "created_at": "2026-08-05T16:22:36.120Z" }, { "id": 70494, "title": "Dailybot+ AI 🧠 The assistant and toolkit for modern teams", "tagline": "Meet Dailybot, a ChatGPT assistant and AI workflow builder for your work chat", "body": "Hi! We are Mauricio Morales and Sergio Florez, the founders of [Dailybot](https://www.dailybot.com/product/ai?utm_source=YCLaunch).\n\nDailybot+ AI is a toolkit for modern work: a ChatGPT Assistant and an AI Workflow automation tool that takes asynchronous work and in-chat collaboration to another level. Compatible with Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, or Discord.\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nAI is the future, yes. But many people lack the knowledge and resources to effectively incorporate AI into their daily workflow, resulting in missed opportunities for creating impactful use cases.\n\n### **Our Solution**\n\nDailybot provides a chat assistant and platform that simplifies the integration of AI into daily workflows. With our technology, anyone can access an AI assistant (ChatGPT) in the work chat, and can also implement use cases that leverage the power of AI.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70494&key=user_uploads/207324/1d5a25dc-bc23-4f36-8315-61af16175cf6)\n\nWe provide key building blocks for you to combine and build multiple use cases on top of your chat workspace.\n\nThe building blocks of Dailybot are: **Check-ins** for stand-ups or recurring surveys; **Forms** for any data collection; **Chat Commands** for in-chat customization; **Workflows** for setting up triggers/actions; and the **AI engine**.\n\nThe Dailybot Workflows provide a Zapier-like interface where users can define triggers and actions (one or multiple) that should run.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70494&key=user_uploads/207324/7c533a87-fd19-4145-a9c9-4450a49a0e53)\n\nThe Actions can be AI content generation, sending messages (DMs or channels), sending emails, or triggering other building blocks of Dailybot.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70494&key=user_uploads/207324/dc811400-636e-4ffb-8773-aaefa373ddc2)\n\n### **A Few Examples**\n\n* You run a **Daily Stand-up** (built with Check-ins), then, **when a blocker is reported**, an **AI Workflow is run**. It analyzes the blocker and then suggests the employee ideas for solving the issue/bocker.\n* You create a **Form** that will be triggered with the in-chat command named “**product release**”, when the Form is completed an **AI Workflow is run**. It analyzes all the content of the release form **and generates a press release** that is posted into the #releases channel.\n* You create an **anonymous survey to monitor team morale**. The **AI analyzes all the responses** and sends a summary to the head of HR (via email or DM).\n\nWe're passionate about making remote work easier and more efficient and our goal is to make DailyBot the best companion for your team’s work.\n\n**Our Ask:**\n\nWe’d love to hear your ideas on what type of AI-powered daily workflows (in chat) will add value to your team, feel free to share the feedback at [support@dailybot.com](mailto:support@dailybot.com)\n\nWe offer a Free Trial, [**Try Dailybot here**](https://www.dailybot.com/product/ai?utm_source=YCLaunch).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IL0-dailybot-ai-the-assistant-and-toolkit-for-modern-teams", "votes": 40, "created_at": "2023-03-23T15:06:42.817Z" }, { "id": 64310, "title": "DailyBot 🤖 daily stand-ups, automation and chat assistant for work", "tagline": "⚡️ On a mission to provide one-click workflows for team collaboration and productivity via chat", "body": "👋 Mauricio and Sergio from [@DailyBot](https://www.dailybot.com/) here.\n\n### **TL;DR**\n\nDailyBot is a bunch of useful add-ons for your chat platform. Plug it into your chat and make Async Work a breeze for your team:\n\n* 1- Running async Daily Stand-ups, natively integrated in the chat\n* 2- Cutting unnecessary meetings with more types of recurring check-ins\n* 3- Spreading love and team recognition with DailyBot Kudos\n* 4- Socializing better with watercooler prompts and random 1:1 coffees\n\nAnd developers can build simple in-chat functions for their day-to-day operations, without the need to learn chat-platform-specific APIs.\n\nAvailable on Slack, Discord, MS Teams, G Chat.\n\n### **The problem**\n\nAsync work is the new way of working for many teams. Most teams use chat in any form with tools like Discord, Slack and others. 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Free forever for one team.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=66829&key=user_uploads/839578/82892fa5-1a08-4476-87cb-14851fbc28a7)\n\n**What’s** [**Spinach.io**](http://Spinach.io)**?**\n\nA great standup can save teams hours of confusion and misalignment. The problem is that most standups aren’t that great. People aren’t always prepared so they think out loud. It’s not engaging so people tune out. It’s easy to lose focus and stray off topic. If any of this sounds familiar - please give [Spinach.io](http://Spinach.io) a try and tell us what you think!\n\n**How it works**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=66829&key=user_uploads/839578/baa2ba9d-7d8b-4fe1-bb2b-eba6041ab9de)\n\n🥬 **Before standup** - each team member prepares their check-in. You can choose from default Yesterday, Today, Blockers categories or create your own. 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On your next standup - join Google Meet and click the “S” icon on the bottom right to open Spinach in Meet\n\n[Spinach.io](http://Spinach.io) is free forever for one team and most teams who try it never go back. [Give us a try!](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/spinachio-daily-standup-t/eippeohhelpgpnchcfigkjmpepicilig)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HNt-spinach-io-for-google-meet", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2022-10-20T11:52:37.248Z" }, { "id": 64195, "title": "Spinach.io - 🥬 Crush your daily standup", "tagline": "We help dev teams run faster, more-effective daily standups", "body": "**TL;DR**\\\nMost dev teams have standup every single day. If standup isn’t great, the team suffers daily. Spinach helps dev teams turn their standup into an optimized flow, build healthier meeting habits, and get time back every day. The best part? Try it for free!\n\n**How it works**\\\n**Before standup**\\\nSpinach reminds you to prep in Slack. Each person enters their updates in Spinach.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64195&key=user_uploads/868148/22db4952-4d8b-4816-9f7e-6e4632915d82)\n\n**During standup**\\\nSpinach rotates through each person so there’s no fumbling with “who goes next.”\n\nYou can see each person’s update and how long they’ve been speaking.\n\nHave something to discuss? Add it to Team Topics and Spinach will bring it up at the end to keep things moving.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64195&key=user_uploads/868148/9d919583-9a63-4921-89c4-24f9dddfd3ed)\n\n**After standup**\\\nSpinach keeps a summary and automatically posts it to Slack. You’ll have a record of all of your previous standups in the app.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64195&key=user_uploads/868148/b5fc1850-db72-44bd-808c-54d7c28d5a22)\n\n**Results**\n\n1. **Get time back** _“What took people 10 minutes to cover before, they can now cover in 15 seconds”_ - Austin from Lovage Labs\n2. **Each update is clear** _“When the team is prepared, the updates are more articulate and standup goes stupid fast”_ - Oded from Asurion\n3. **Focused on sprint goals**- _“Spinach saves all the discussion topics til the end. That was really hard to enforce before”_ Rebecca from Freedom Financial\n4. **Summary in Slack**- _“I love seeing today what I said I would do yesterday. It keeps us all accountable”_ Suhas from Courier\n\n**How to try it**\n\n**Try:** Go to [Spinach.io](https://www.spinach.io?yc) and try it for yourself. No demos. No credit cards.\n\n**Share:** Let us know what you think! Have friends who run standups? 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Our no-code SaaS application allows organizations to build internal mobile applications to manage field teams of any size.\r\n\r\nFieldproxy's vision is to be the Operating System for Field teams.", "one_liner": "Building AI agents for complex operations", "team_size": 15, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1643264607, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Productivity", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "regions": [ "India", "South Asia" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/fieldproxy", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2022/fieldproxy.json", "year_founded": 2020, "city": "Chennai", "country": "IN", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/snipp", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/fieldproxy", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/fieldproxy", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fieldproxy", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/29d280b26b9013cd722967a3c3239ae0da94db1c.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 494169, "full_name": "Swaroop Vijayakumar", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "2x enterpreneur, love solving problems for customers, IIM Kozhikode", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/swaroopcmc/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/swaroop_vij", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/87f7aa0750246d2db3a2732f12e48934409c4454.jpg" }, { "user_id": 160377, "full_name": "Balakrishna Balasubramanian", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Worked across a variety of roles in software development, as expected of a tech co-founder.\nLove working on new products and ideas. 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These companies were across legacy industries like consumer goods, mining, telecom, pharma and energy.\n\nOrganisations across these industries have been using archaic decades-old ERP systems to manage their on-ground field teams. These systems are extremely rigid and inflexible. There are very limited options for such companies to choose.\n\n80% of the mobile workforce is deskless, but the majority of the productivity and internal SaaS tools are being built for 20% of desk workers. Hence the need for these companies to build reach out to development agencies to build bespoke internal applications or hire an in-house internal tech team - both of which are bound to lead to disastrous results, given technology is not the forte’ of such industries\n\n---\n\n💛 **What We Do**\n\nWe help businesses with field teams build internal mobile applications within 10 minutes to streamline their on-field operations.\n\nThink giving the power of building tools similar to what Uber or Doordash may use to manage their on-ground workforce to some of these traditional industries!\n\nYou can check out our detailed product overview page [here](https://www.fieldproxy.com/product)\n\n---\n\n💪**Product Demos/Walkthrough of Use Cases**\n\n1. Quick Product Overview - click [here](https://fieldproxy.hippovideo.io/video/play/t5JWAkAwEnG3dJiJsnfap_pEOhi1ZH8tokDbs9lhJ6k?utm_source=hv-campaigns&hreferer=private&_=1648446641)\n2. If you are in the Logistics space and want a take a look at the detailed location intelligence possible on the platform - click [here](https://www.loom.com/share/21288e2dcadf421981f09921f9294578?sharedAppSource=personal_library)\n3. If you run a Field servicing or field operations, click [here](https://fieldproxy.hippovideo.io/video/play/mH8rVjfpdDG-V1yHuwtjmkjedPkNUnVFegAPVZlC5ZA?utm_source=hv-campaigns&hreferer=private&_=1648446631) to see a short video on how to\n4. If you manage a Field Sales team, click [here](https://fieldproxy.hippovideo.io/video/play/WBhOyuWNfypZKDTx5_B_SEYNZeV3WpxVHJwSjGTsO94?utm_source=hv-campaigns&hreferer=private&_=1648446631) to see a short video on how to build a simple app with CRM-like functionality for your on-ground sales team\n\n---\n\n---\n\n💁‍♂️ **Asks**\n\n* **No-Code experts**/Founders of No-Code companies - If you are in the no-code space, would love to connect. We are still figuring out our GTM - and would love to have a quick 20-minute chat with people who have been there and done that. We will ensure we keep the questions very concise and specific!\n* **Industry Experts -** We are scaling up our template library in the consumer goods and field service verticals. If you are targeting similar industries or know someone in these industries who is up for a 40-hour paid consulting gig, please do let us know!\n* **Users** - Finally, if you do manage an on ground team, please do let me know! Would love to get on a call and help setup the workflows and applications that can help you get visibility and streamline your field operations\n\nIf there are any queries, feel free to drop a mail at [swaroop@fieldproxy.com](mailto:swaroop@fieldproxy.com) ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GjB-fieldproxy-retool-for-field-teams", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2022-07-04T13:04:03.510Z" } ] }, { "id": 25522, "name": "Unlayer", "slug": "unlayer", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fcefc5d17d05bbb0fe7c4b9b5875db24dc093a45.png", "website": "https://unlayer.com", "all_locations": "Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates", "long_description": "Unlayer helps companies add AI-powered content creation into their products without building it from scratch. Developers can embed visual builders for emails, pages, popups, and documents, then connect them to AI agents, templates, asset storage, exports, and APIs. 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Write once in React, render everywhere.\n\nToday, we’re launching something new and open source:\n\n# Unlayer Elements\n\nAn open-source React content layer for developers and AI agents to create emails, web pages, and PDFs from the same codebase.\n\nGitHub: \\\nDocs: \\\nDemo: \n\n## **The Problem**\n\nEvery SaaS product eventually needs content creation.\n\nAt first, it’s just one transactional email.\n\nThen it becomes welcome emails, password resets, receipts, invoices, reports, landing pages, PDFs, internal templates, previews, exports, and visual editing.\n\nMost teams end up maintaining separate systems for each output:\n\n* one system for email templates\n* one system for web pages\n* one system for PDFs\n* one system for visual editing\n* one system for exports\n\nThe content is often similar, but the implementation is different.\n\nThis becomes even more important now that AI agents are generating more code and content. Agents can create fast, but teams still need the output to be structured, reusable, version-controlled, and production-ready.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105004&key=user_uploads/105300/5911c2cd-ca33-48e8-86ff-72e1ce4fcfe7)\n\n## **What We Built**\n\nWe built Unlayer Elements: open-source React components for creating emails, web pages, and PDFs from the same codebase.\n\nDevelopers can use familiar components like:\n\n* <Email>\n* <Page>\n* <Document>\n* <Row>\n* <Column>\n* <Heading>\n* <Paragraph>\n* <Button>\n* <Image>\n* <Custom>\n\nEach output mode is tuned for where the content will live:\n\n* <Email> renders email-safe table HTML\n* <Page> renders responsive web HTML\n* <Document> renders print-ready HTML for PDFs and documents\n\nSame component system. Different surfaces.\n\nA few examples of what you can build:\n\n* Transactional emails\n* Landing pages\n* Web versions of emails\n* Invoices\n* Receipts\n* Reports\n* Internal template galleries\n* PDF documents\n* AI-generated content flows\n\nElements also connects with the broader Unlayer platform. Developers can define content structure in code, and when visual editing is needed, teams can bring that work into Unlayer’s Builder so marketers, admins, or end users can edit without touching code.\n\n## **Our Ask**\n\nWe’re open sourcing this early because we want feedback from people building with React, Next.js, email, PDFs, templates, and AI-generated content.\n\nWe’d love for you to:\n\n1. Try it and tell us what feels useful or missing.\n2. Star the GitHub repo if you want to support the project.\n3. Share examples of emails, pages, PDFs, invoices, reports, or AI-generated content workflows you’d want Elements to support.\n\nGitHub: \\\nDocs: \n\nWould love feedback from the YC community.\n\nEmail: [founders@unlayer.com](mailto:founders@unlayer.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RJc-elements-by-unlayer-open-source-react-components-for-emails-pages-and-pdfs", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2026-07-08T19:42:04.469Z" }, { "id": 102816, "title": "Unlayer: AI-powered content creation for your product", "tagline": "Let your users create beautiful emails, pages or documents with AI.", "body": "**TL;DR:** [**Unlayer**](https://unlayer.com) is an AI-powered content creation platform for developers. It gives you **embeddable builders**, templates, APIs, and AI toolkit so your users can create **emails**, **pages**, **documents**, and other content directly **inside your product**.\n\n\n\n—\n\n## The Problem\n\nAlmost every software product eventually needs users to create content.\n\nEmails, landing pages, proposals, invoices, documents, announcements, templates, PDFs, and more.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=102816&key=user_uploads/105300/df31db0c-923c-4ac3-977d-bd881f9586d1)\n\nAt first, this looks like “just add an editor.” Then you need responsive rendering, templates, merge tags, asset management, permissions, versioning, exports, personalization, localization, and now AI generation.\n\nA small feature quietly becomes an entire content creation platform.\n\n—\n\n## What We Built\n\n**Unlayer gives developers the building blocks to add AI-powered content creation into their own products.**\n\nYou can embed visual builders for emails, pages, popups, and documents, then connect them to templates, file storage, exports, APIs, and AI workflows.\n\nYour users can visually create and edit content. Your AI agents can generate, personalize, translate, and modify that content through APIs and skills.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=102816&key=user_uploads/105300/c9995728-e131-44cd-93cc-d295f255cf1b)\n\nOver time, Unlayer has grown to **1,000+ customers**, from startups to teams at **Netflix**, **Fidelity**, **Bank of America**, **Mastercard, Twilio, Chargebee**, and others.\n\nThat has given us a front-row seat into the same pattern: almost every product eventually needs users or AI to create content inside the product itself.\n\n—\n\n## Why AI Changes This\n\nContent creation is moving from manual editing to assisted and automated workflows.\n\nA user should be able to say:\n\n* **_“Create a launch email for this feature.”_**\n* **_“Translate this landing page into Spanish.”_**\n* **_“Turn this proposal into a branded PDF.”_**\n* **_“Personalize this announcement for each customer segment.”_**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=102816&key=user_uploads/105300/639a8626-7790-4094-b684-c4800407a6c6)\n\nBut for AI to do this well inside a product, it needs more than a text box. It needs access to templates, design structure, brand rules, assets, exports, and the final builder where humans can review and edit.\n\nThat is what we are building with Unlayer.\n\n—\n\n## Our Vision\n\nWe think the future of content creation inside software has two interfaces:\n\n1. A visual builder for people\n2. An action layer for AI agents\n\nPeople should be able to drag, drop, edit, approve, and fine tune.\n\nAI should be able to create, rewrite, personalize, translate, export, and eventually ship content automatically.\n\nUnlayer is the infrastructure layer that connects both.\n\n—\n\n## Backstory\n\nWe started Unlayer because we kept seeing teams rebuild the same content creation stack over and over.\n\n**Email HTML is painful**. Landing pages need **forms** and scripts. Documents need **PDF generation**. Templates need **permissions**. Assets need **storage**. Every product needs customization. And now AI needs to work across all of it.\n\nWe have spent years solving these problems so other teams do not have to.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=102816&key=user_uploads/105300/87ce4023-46cd-4d48-8e8a-06774d6c6bc4)\n\n—\n\n## Our Ask\n\nIf your product has users creating emails, pages, documents, templates, or customer-facing content, Unlayer will be useful for you. [Try it out](https://unlayer.com/)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QkK-unlayer-ai-powered-content-creation-for-your-product", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2026-06-09T21:37:01.868Z" } ] }, { "id": 25587, "name": "Dart", "slug": "dart", "former_names": [ "Pivot", "Keeple" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/83756d8c7862167a3ed5773168260fe15640608c.png", "website": "https://www.dartai.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Dart is a fully-featured project management tool that lets you chat with AI to create tasks, plan roadmaps, generate reports, and handle any other PM work. You can then use customizable agents to complete work across every role. Thousands of teams use Dart in order to chat with their tasks, plan better, and eliminate regular PM chores from their schedule, freeing up seven hours per week to focus on other work.", "one_liner": "The work and agent management platform", "team_size": 10, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1646780324, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "B2B", "Productivity", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "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/dart", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2022/dart.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/dart-ai", "x_url": "https://x.com/its_dart", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/dartprojectmanagement", "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/its-dart", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/83756d8c7862167a3ed5773168260fe15640608c.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tom Blomfield", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tom-blomfield" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 850757, "full_name": "Milad Malek", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I'm a co-founder at Dart helping to build the most intelligent project management tool.\n\nPreviously I studied physics at Stanford. After that I was an investor at Plug and Play Ventures where I led ventures activities in the Smart Cities vertical focused on energy and sustainability. I also worked with major corporations on their innovation strategies, and I helped to launch various international offices.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/miladmalek/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/milad3malek", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a35cd5531b6731ec27ba27248dca33c4dcc0dc6e.jpg" }, { "user_id": 850776, "full_name": "Zack Swafford", "title": "Technical Cofounder", "founder_bio": "I'm a cofounder at Dart, which is the ultimate agent and work management tool!\n\nBefore Dart I was at Stanford, then Plenty. As the first engineer there I laid the groundwork for our full stack application suite, data pipelines, and ML and CV models. We grew very quickly so I hired out a full team, building and managing an org of dozens of engineers, product managers, and others.\n\nWould love to chat about Dart (which typically saves teams about a third of their PM time) or anything else--ping me!", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/zswafford/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/002dc8dccaa5ef692336818dcdf4102b3e9f360c.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 51781, "title": "Frontend Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dart/jobs/AMpkzCj-frontend-engineer", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (San Francisco, CA, US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Frontend", "salary_range": "$40K - $100K", "equity_range": "0.50% - 1.50%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizenship/visa not required", "skills": [ "Bash/Shell", "Dart", "Git", "JavaScript", "React", "TypeScript", "Software Architecture", "Vue.js", "Prototyping" ] }, { "id": 75538, "title": "Backend Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dart/jobs/fY0s284-backend-engineer", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (San Francisco, CA, US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Backend", "salary_range": "$40K - $100K", "equity_range": "0.50% - 1.50%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizenship/visa not required", "skills": [ "Amazon Web Services (AWS)", "Bash/Shell", "Dart", "Django", "Git", "PostgreSQL", "Python", "Redis", "Software Architecture" ] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 93995, "title": "🎯 Dart: Cursor for Project management", "tagline": "Plan projects by chatting with Dart, then hand tasks to AI agents to get things done.", "body": "Hey, we’re Dart, and we’re launching AI Chat and Agents on YC and [ProductHunt.](https://www.producthunt.com/products/dartai)\n\nhttps://youtu.be/wdOTDKvaZS0\n\n# **Problem**\n\nProject management involves many hurdles. Tasks falling through cracks, team members wondering what they should be working on, and PM work that takes up more time than the projects themselves. Most project management tools force you to spend an inordinate amount of time on the “management” side instead of talking to users and building products.\n\nLegacy productivity and PM tools have been slow to adapt to LLMs, and even the newer, better ones have only recently begun clumsily tacking on AI features in an attempt to keep up with the trend.\n\n# **Solution**\n\nWe built Dart with AI incorporated from the ground up so teams stop managing logistics and start delivering outcomes. Most PM tools add “AI features.” Dart is fundamentally designed around AI: chat is the UI and agents are first-class collaborators.\n\n* **AI Chat:** Chat to create projects, tasks, subtasks, timelines, specs, and reports. Then conversationally manage your projects as you go\n* **AI Agents:** Invite our built-in or third-party custom agents to handle tasks across all roles such as marketing, design, sales, and coding\n* **Plug into your stack:** Connect all your tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, n8n, Slack, Discord, GitHub and more\n\n# **Our asks**\n\n* 🎯 Try out Dart today! Sign up at [dartai.com](https://dartai.com/) and leave us some feedback.\n* 😻 Support [our Product Hunt launch](https://www.producthunt.com/products/dartai)\n* We’re hiring for dev and marketing roles! [Apply here.](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dart/jobs)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OS3-dart-cursor-for-project-management", "votes": 286, "created_at": "2025-09-20T10:56:55.553Z" }, { "id": 78558, "title": "Dart - AI-powered project management", "tagline": "The AI tool that will save you seven hours per week in project management overhead", "body": "# tl;dr\n\n[Dart](https://www.dartai.com) is a fully-featured project management tool that uses AI to assist with roadmap planning, report generation, breaking tasks into subtasks, and executing on basic writing and design tasks. Teams use Dart in order to plan better and eliminate regular PM chores from their schedule, freeing up seven hours per week to focus on other work.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78558&key=user_uploads/850757/7bf68dfc-c1d3-409b-8b7d-995cca92e54c)\n\n# The problem\n\nIt's critical for teams to have some sort of project management system that works in order to stay organized and keep making progress. The issues arise when that project management process begins to take up an undue amount of time. Common processes like filling out and categorizing tasks, writing PRDs, cleaning out the backlog, and other ‘work about work’ are seen as simply the cost of doing business when using legacy tools.\n\n# Solution\n\nDart provides a more intelligent project management suite that will save each person on your team seven hours a week in standard PM busywork. In addition to best-in-class management for tasks, documents, roadmaps, calendars, and more, Dart also boosts your productivity with a suite of helpful AI enhancements.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/CMsBAv9CCyU\n\nThese AI functions include:\n\n\\- Automatic standup, changelog, and project report generation\n\n\\- Roadmap planning\n\n\\- Duplicate task detection\n\n\\- Subtask generation\n\n\\- Automatic Task execution with agents (currently for writing and design tasks)\n\n\\- Task categorization and filling (e.g. automatically assigning tasks to the right person)\n\n\\- AI-powered brainstorming\n\n\\- ChatGPT integration\n\n# Our Ask\n\nTry it out! [Dart is freely available](https://app.dartai.com/sign-up) to use now and start managing tasks with your team. We'd love to support and are always welcome to ideas or feedback.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KR4-dart-ai-powered-project-management", "votes": 424, "created_at": "2024-02-20T16:06:22.408Z" } ] }, { "id": 25607, "name": "Axis", "slug": "axis", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f3e7a7c395e202f91209c183250f4e6d0835ea29.png", "website": "http://axis.xyz", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA; New York, NY, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Axis is a knowledge base of government regulations and officials that helps large companies do business in foreign markets. For example, if you want to operate in Saudi Arabia - our software tells you which laws you need to comply with and which officials you need approvals from. We currently cover major markets in Europe, Middle East, and Africa", "one_liner": "Knowledge base for corporate affairs teams", "team_size": 15, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1640038883, "tags": [ "Machine Learning", "B2B", "Subscriptions", "Regtech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "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/axis", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2022/axis.json", "year_founded": 2018, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/axis-xyz/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/axis_hq", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f3e7a7c395e202f91209c183250f4e6d0835ea29.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": 876872, "full_name": "Mishaal Al Gergawi", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I grew up in Dubai and was there most of my life till moving to New York in 2018. I studied finance and worked in investment banking. I became a writer in 2008 and in 2011 built Delma, a risk consultancy. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mishaal-al-gergawi/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/algergawi", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7d4fce7505a5fd4d12eeba1c48c29617fa12e26d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Breaking New Grounds: Axis Founder Mishaal Al Gergawi", "url": "https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/422109", "date": "Mar 13, 2022" } ], "launches": [] }, { "id": 25663, "name": "Velt", "slug": "velt", "former_names": [ "Snippyly Inc.", "Snippyly", "Velt", "Velt: Collaboration SDK" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/36bc77538c7b2b901965b5e1ff49fe05b84cc1f1.png", "website": "https://velt.dev", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "For most of software's history the hard part was making things. Writing the code, drafting the document, putting the report together. That is the part that is getting cheap. An agent can now produce in an afternoon what used to take a team a month.\r\n\r\nWhat doesn't get cheaper is verifying it. Someone still has to look at what the machine did, decide whether it's right, and answer for that decision later. Output goes up, review capacity doesn't, and that is where the work now piles up.\r\n\r\nVelt is the infrastructure for that step, and it treats agents and people as the same kind of reviewer. A review agent takes the first pass and catches what a machine can catch. A person makes the call on what actually matters. Both work on the same object, in the same thread, under the same rules. Only after approval is the change applied, through your own webhook, and every decision is recorded, so you can always show who allowed what and when.\r\n\r\nTeams build this themselves and it takes about two quarters. Comments, approvals, review agents, notifications, audit trails: the boring parts nobody thinks about until they're three months in. With Velt it's a few components you drop into a React, Next, Vue, or Angular app.", "one_liner": "SDK for adding an agent and human governance layer to your product", "team_size": 15, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1646206414, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "SaaS", "Collaboration", "Compliance", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "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/velt", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2022/velt.json", "year_founded": 2020, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/veltjs/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/veltjs", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/velt-js", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/36bc77538c7b2b901965b5e1ff49fe05b84cc1f1.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 195692, "full_name": "Rakesh Goyal", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I am the co-founder & CEO of Velt. Previously, I was a Product Manager at Google for 9 yrs. I've launched strategic products like AR in Google Maps & Search.\n\nNothing great was ever built alone. Technology has made the world a small place. It enables people to work together no matter where they are. This was never possible before. Velt will make the world more collaborative & build more great things. \n\nI grew up in India & now live in San Francisco. I love camping 🏕 & star gazing 🌌", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmgoyal/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/rakesh_goyal", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/130b61c6f2fe2f7eb4bec4c6108ba11a13e07db4.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 64525, "title": "Software Engineer (Frontend)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/velt/jobs/B263s2e-software-engineer-frontend", "location": "IN / Remote (IN)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "₹2M - ₹3M INR", "equity_range": "0.50% - 1.00%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Angular", "Node.js", "TypeScript" ] } ], "news": [ { "title": "A Y Combinator-backed startup called Velt wants to make more apps collaborative", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/04/a-y-combinator-backed-startup-called-velt-wants-to-make-more-apps-collaborative/", "date": "Dec 04, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 111289, "title": "Superflow AI: QA agents for your website", "tagline": "AI agents that QA every page of your website", "body": "## TL;DR\n\nAI made creating websites fast. Checking still costs what it always did. [Superflow](https://usesuperflow.ai/) closes that gap: it turns your QA checklist into AI agents.\n\n* They sweep every page of your site and handle the black and white issues: a dead link, a typo, a form that doesn't submit, a layout that breaks a written brand guideline.\n* You handle taste: the calls with no reference to check against, like whether a design direction is right or a page is good enough to ship. An agent can flag a page. Only a person can approve one.\n* They learn from every review, so the hundredth site gets checked better than the first.\n* Teams tell us the agents catch about 90% of what they used to find by hand. The other 10% needed a person all along.\n\n## Demo\n\n\n\n## The problem\n\nAn agency founder told us, \"We're never changing our QA process. It's tight.\"\n\nThen he sent us the checklist: 400 rows. Ten people clicking through every page by hand.\n\nWe ran our agents on one of his live sites. First finding: placeholder text, live for months. It was on the checklist. Row 212.\n\nChecklists don't fail because they're wrong. They fail because a human is on row 212 at 9pm on a Friday.\n\nAnd the misses that hurt aren't broken links:\n\n* A phone number in the header that doesn't match the footer.\n* \"Award winning\" on a site with no award. In dental, that's a regulator problem.\n* A previous client's name in a testimonial because the page was cloned.\n\nCreating a site collapsed to an afternoon. Checking it didn't budge.\n\n## How it works\n\n* Upload your checklist as is: spreadsheet, PDF, or doc. No reformatting.\n* Superflow turns it into a set of agents, including any custom checks on your list.\n* They run in parallel on every page, phone and desktop. A full site takes minutes.\n* Every finding is pinned on the page with a screenshot, so if the layout shifts later you still have the picture.\n* It fits your process: custom statuses, private team comments (agent findings stay team-only until you clear them), two way sync with your task tool, and a daily recap.\n* Agents learn. Reject a finding and it stops coming back. Catch a miss yourself and it becomes a check on every site after.\n\n## Backstory\n\nLast week we moved our own site from Framer to Next.js.\n\nThe step that used to eat the timeline, clicking through every page to catch what silently broke, our own agents did before sign off.\n\nThe build took a week. We were live in two, start to finish.\n\nCreating done by AI. Checking done by agents. Judgment kept by people.\n\n## Ask\n\nTry [Superflow](https://usesuperflow.ai/) on one page of your own site. No card, no login for reviewers.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Swz-superflow-ai-qa-agents-for-your-website", "votes": 2, "created_at": "2026-08-18T15:55:44.561Z" }, { "id": 99540, "title": "Velt Cursor plugin: Add Real-Time Collaboration to your App in 10 mins", "tagline": "/install-velt. One command. Add CRDT, comments, activity logs, and notifications to your app in one command.", "body": "Type **/install-velt**. The agent reads your codebase, asks which features you want, and scaffolds everything.\n\nComments that attach to specific elements. Real-time editing (CRDT). Presence. Cursors. Notifications. Activity logs. All wired up. Working app.\n\nAdding collaboration features looks like a weekend project. It's not.\n\nComments that anchor to elements. CRDT editing that doesn't corrupt data. Live cursors. Notifications. Activity logs. Each one is simple alone. Together they touch auth, state, routing, permissions, websockets. Get the order wrong and nothing works.\n\nMost teams skip it or spend months on it. Regret both.\n\nWe encoded 140+ implementation rules into the plugin so the agent doesn't make those mistakes. It also includes two MCP servers and a velt-expert agent persona for architecture questions.\n\n→ Watch the demo: \n\n→ Cursor Directory: \n\n→ Cursor plugin: \n\n→ Claude Code plugin: \n\n→ Docs: \n\nIf you try **/install-velt** on an existing project and something breaks, tell us. That's the case we most want to stress test.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PtU-velt-cursor-plugin-add-real-time-collaboration-to-your-app-in-10-mins", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2026-04-07T20:19:13.619Z" }, { "id": 99380, "title": "Velt Activity Logs: Audit trail for humans and AI agents", "tagline": "One audit trail for every action in your product. Who did what, and when.", "body": "\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99380&key=user_uploads/195692/08763c82-d915-4369-8e0d-2d5a820be7de)\n\nRight now, most products have no idea what their AI agents did yesterday.\n\nThat's going to seem crazy in two years.\n\nEvery SaaS product is adding AI agents that write, edit, and approve things. But only human actions produce an audit trail. AI agents just act. No record. No attribution. No proof a human reviewed the output.\n\nThis breaks the moment a customer's compliance team asks one question: \"Did a human approve this?\"\n\n**What we built:**\n\nVelt is a collaboration infrastructure SDK. Comments, presence, real-time editing (CRDT), recording, notifications. Activity Logs is the newest piece.\n\n→ Auto-captures comments, reactions, recordings, CRDT edits. Zero config. \n\n→ createActivity() for your own events. One function call. \n\n→ AI agents produce the same record as humans. Same schema. Same attribution. \n\n→ Immutable by default. SOC 2 Type II. HIPAA with BAA.\n\nAgent acted → Human reviewed → Decision recorded. The pair is the proof.\n\n**Ask:**\n\nIf your enterprise buyers are asking for proof of human oversight over AI, we built this for you. Try it and tell us what's missing.\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pqu-velt-activity-logs-audit-trail-for-humans-and-ai-agents", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2026-04-02T19:32:54.147Z" }, { "id": 98498, "title": "Velt Claude plugin: Add Real-Time Collaboration to your App in 10 mins", "tagline": "Claude Code plugin that adds CRDT, comments, presence, and notifications to your app in one command.", "body": "Building collaboration features from scratch is one of those problems that looks simple and isn't.\n\nCRDT for live sync. Presence to show who's online. Comments that attach to specific elements. Notifications. Permissions. \n\nIt compounds fast. Most teams either skip it or spend months on it and regret both decisions.\n\nWe've been building this infrastructure for 4 years. Varonis, Pendo, HeyGen, Freshworks, Trumpet already use it in production.\n\nToday we're launching a Claude Code plugin that installs all of it in under 10 minutes.\n\nYou run one command. It asks which features you want. \n\nYou give it your API key. It installs, configures, and wires everything together.\n\nThat's it.\n\n→ Watch the demo: \n\n→ Get started: \n\n→ Docs: \n\nWe're a small team and we read every message. \n\nIf you try it and something doesn't work, tell us.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pcg-velt-claude-plugin-add-real-time-collaboration-to-your-app-in-10-mins", "votes": 3, "created_at": "2026-03-05T17:38:44.587Z" }, { "id": 94308, "title": "Velt: Multiplayer Editing Toolkit for React Flow (Build Multiplayer Agent Workflows)", "tagline": "Add multiplayer editing capability in minutes.", "body": "If you are building AI agents and AI workflow builders inside your product, then you are most likely using[ React Flow](https://reactflow.dev/) to power these experiences. Now with[ Velt](https://www.linkedin.com/company/veltjs/), within a few minutes you could make these workflows multiplayer just like Figma's FigJam! We’ve created a purpose-built plugin for React Flow that makes any react flow implementation multiplayer out of the box.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94308&key=user_uploads/195692/38bab09b-d530-458b-9c03-25444a9d5758)\n\n**Velt does the heavy lifting:**\n\n* fully managed ultra low latency backend\n* real-time merges and conflict resolution (CRDT via Yjs)\n* offline support\n* presence indicators\n* slack-style huddle\n* figma-style comments and notifications\n* custom encryption for additional security\n\nYou can focus on delivering epic value to your users. No more building complex infra from scratch.\n\n**Demo**\n\n* [Demo video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgz0jOCLyUA)\n* [Live Demo](https://velt-reactflow-crdt-demo.vercel.app/)\n* [Sample code](https://github.com/velt-js/velt-reactflow-crdt-demo)\n* [Docs](https://docs.velt.dev/realtime-collaboration/crdt/setup/reactflow)\n\n**Customers**\n\nWe power multiplayer experiences for companies like **Heygen**, **Pendo**, **Runway**, **Vellum** etc\n\n### [**Try today**](https://velt.dev/multiplayer-editing)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OX6-velt-multiplayer-editing-toolkit-for-react-flow-build-multiplayer-agent-workflows", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2025-10-03T01:06:50.117Z" }, { "id": 84853, "title": "Velt: Tiptap Comments", "tagline": "Enable comments and collaboration in your Tiptap editor.", "body": "With [**Tiptap Comments Extension**](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@veltdev/tiptap-velt-comments), you can add Google Docs-style overlay comments to your Tiptap editor. Here is a [**demo video.**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIWBwV3IHok) You can [**try it here.**](https://documentation-app-demo.vercel.app/)\n\n![](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=84853&key=user_uploads/195692/d711f012-f784-4ed9-b481-5ee328b75f07)\n\nIt's fully customizable and comes with a lot of powerful built-in features like attachments, mentions, recording, notifications and more.\n\nAdding comments and notification features have shown to boost engagement and growth with platforms. If you use Tiptap in your product, you could enable powerful collaborative experiences using [Velt](https://velt.dev/).\n\n### **Installation**\n\nYou can install the NPM package [here.](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@veltdev/tiptap-velt-comments)\n\n### **Supported Frameworks**\n\nAll major JS frameworks like React, Next, Angular, Vue, Svelte.\n\n### **More about Velt SDK**\n\nWith Velt SDK you can add powerful collaboration features to your product extremely fast.\n\nThe SDK provides **fullstack components**:\n\n* UI and behavior are fully customizable to match your product's needs\n* fully-managed on a scalable realtime backend\n\nFeatures include:\n\n* **Comments** like Figma, [Frame.io](http://Frame.io), Google Docs, Sheets and more\n* **Recording** like Loom (audio, video, screen)\n* **Huddle** like Slack (audio, video, screensharing)\n* In-app and off-app **notifications**\n* **@mentions** and assignment\n* **Presence**, **Cursors**, **Live Selection**\n* **Live state sync** with Single Editor mode\n* **Multiplayer editing** with conflict resolution\n* **Follow mode** like Figma\n* ... and so much more", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/M4b-velt-tiptap-comments", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2024-10-17T22:07:51.992Z" }, { "id": 84000, "title": "Embedded Recording SDK by Velt", "tagline": "Add AI powered Loom-style recording to your product!", "body": "We're excited to launch [**Embedded Recording in the Velt SDK**](https://velt.dev/recording). Build AI-powered Loom-style recording features (voice, video, and screen) **into your product** in minutes. It automatically generates summaries and transcriptions.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84000&key=user_uploads/195692/5f8d698a-2c7e-4d5e-bba5-4add9671cbee)\n\n# **Why this matters:**\n\nYour users are probably already using tools like Loom to communicate. That's time and data they could be spending in your product. Keep your users in your product with native communication features and boost engagement. It's a win for everyone.\n\n# **Products that benefit:**\n\n* Ticketing tools _(Jira, Linear)_\n* Project management tools _(Asana, ClickUp)_\n* Email marketing tools _(Apollo, Customer.io )_\n* Sales tools _(Salesforce, Hubspot)_\n* Development tools _(Github for code reviews)_\n\n# **How it works:**\n\nVelt is a JS SDK that handles everything—UI/UX, full functionality, backend server, and storage. No configuration is needed. You can fully customize it to fit your brand. It works with Next.js, React, Angular, and more.\n\n4 easy steps to get started (see [docs](https://docs.velt.dev/async-collaboration/recorder/setup)):\n\n1. Initialize Velt SDK\n2. Add the recorder components\n3. Customize\n4. That's it!\n\n# **Key Features:**\n\n* Native voice, video, and screen recording\n* AI transcriptions and summaries\n* Built-in recording and playback UI\n* Cross-browser and device compatibility\n* Fully customizable\n* Fully managed and scalable storage and backend", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lqq-embedded-recording-sdk-by-velt", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2024-09-13T02:03:03.103Z" }, { "id": 79688, "title": "Velt: Full-stack Comments SDK", "tagline": "Build powerful commenting features into your SaaS product crazy fast.", "body": "**TL;DR:** Build powerful commenting features into your SaaS product crazy fast. Make it just as collaborative as the big dogs—Google Docs, Sheets, Figma, Frame io... Keep your users collaborating in your app instead of Slack or Zoom. Watch your engagement soar.\n\n[**Demo Video**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27tIG8jEAbc)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79688&key=user_uploads/195692/3b9b3bc9-6a81-4e98-82e8-abb2d917f9b5)\n\n### **🤔 Why?**\n\nYour customers want to have discussions within your product – feedback, questions, ideas. Since they can’t do it in your product, they move off-platform to slack, emails, zoom etc.. It's friction for your customers (and you'll watch their engagement drop.)\n\nLuckily, the solution is simple. Add a comment layer across your product. Let customers comment and discuss anywhere, without opening up Slack or Gmail.\\\n\\\nI know what you're thinking. \"How am I going to build that? That's months of engineering and product effort we haven't scoped in.\"\n\n### **✅ Solution**\n\nWe built a complete full-stack Comments feature components for any SaaS product. Embed it anywhere and enable experiences you see in your favorite products like Google Docs, Figma, Sheets and more.\n\nBackend, Frontend - all included.\n\n### **✅ Products that benefit from commenting**\n\n* _Video tools: Frame-by-frame feedback on videos_\n* Documentation tools: Inline comments for better edits\n* _Analytics / Data tools: Questions answered directly on charts and tables_\n* Design tools: Review design assets\n* Form builders, CRMs and so many more\n\n### **🚀 Key Features**\n\n* Commenting Styles: Google Sheets, Google Docs, Notion, Figma, [Frame.io](http://Frame.io), Charts, etc.\n* Loom-style audio, video, screen recording\n* Task management: Statuses, Priority, approval, @ mention\n* Intelligence: AI categorization, AI transcription\n* Customize layout, css & behavior\n* In-app notifications, email notifications, realtime Webhooks\n* Performant and Robust: Buttery smooth. Binds and adapts to changes in your DOM and data.\n\n### **🚀 Try here:** [**https://velt.dev/comments**](https://velt.dev/comments)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KjI-velt-full-stack-comments-sdk", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2024-03-25T21:40:45.302Z" }, { "id": 79200, "title": "Superflow: Frame by frame review on Lottie files", "tagline": "Get approvals with fewer rounds of reviews and ship more assets fast!", "body": "We fixed the mess of Lottie animation reviews. Frame-by-frame comments mean you ship more animations faster. [Here](https://drive.usesuperflow.com/lottie?id=YVUxTXhLUDByY2EyVVh3S2k4YmxfXzMzYmQzYjg3ZWM3ZjI2NTUxOTQxYjMyMjQ2ZjJhOTAxX19sb3R0aWU%3D&version=v1&_gl=1\\*59beb5\\*_gcl_au\\*MTc5OTQ4OTk4OS4xNzA3NzA3MTc4) is a live demo.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79200&key=user_uploads/195692/caa35638-b3e5-4704-9cf3-be7fc8e57db9)\n\nOur mission is to make every creator 10x. We believe creators build the future and your time is precious. Superflow makes you a 10x creator: create 10x more, create 10x better work, grow 10x.\n\n**🤔 Why are we building this?**\n\nWe built this because the old way sucked. Screenshots, endless emails, live meetings just to tweak an animation... that's not how things should work in 2024. So we fixed it!\n\n**✅ Solution**\n\nSuperflow lets creative teams review and provide frame-by-frame feedback on Lottie files.\n\nThis enables you to get approvals with fewer rounds of reviews so that you can get back to animating. With Superflow, you deliver more beautiful animations at light speed.\n\n**🚀 Key Features**\n\n* Pinpoint feedback on frames and individual elements.\n* Voice, Video + AI notes for when typing is too slow.\n* Built-in task management to streamline the process.\n* Works on all devices and browsers.\n* Integrates with your existing tools: Asana, ClickUp, Monday, Slack, you name it.\n* Built-in approval flow just like Docusign.\n* Share easily with a click and get notified when someone visits.\n\n[**Get started**](https://usesuperflow.com/lottie-files-review), it’s free.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KbQ-superflow-frame-by-frame-review-on-lottie-files", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2024-03-08T03:28:50.378Z" }, { "id": 66899, "title": "Superflow: Comment and collaborate directly on your product!", "tagline": "Comment and collaborate on your staging and prod websites.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=66899&key=user_uploads/195692/536286e1-bb3b-475f-a06a-b7a9d275aac7)\n\n_(_[_demo video)_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdnfBEw8TfI)\n\n[SuperFlow](https://usesuperflow.com/) makes it super easy to comment on live websites just like you comment on Figma. You can use is to get Copy or UI feedback right on the website you are building. Feedback can be provided in rich formats like audio and video. The best part is that you and your clients don’t need a browser extension.\n\nSuperFlow brings collaboration to wherever you are. Everything is just weaved into one cohesive experience. We have curated the best features of top products like Slack, Loom, Figma into one tool.\n\n### **👩🏼‍💻Who this is for**\n\nWeb agencies, freelancers, product or design teams.\n\n### **Key problems**\n\n* Scattered feedback across emails, slack etc.\n* Endless back and forth, screenshots, unnecessary meetings etc.\n* Clients have to install & learn new tools.\n\n### **📝 Use cases**\n\n* Get copy or UI feedback from clients.\n* Assign tasks to internal team members.\n\n### **💵 Value**\n\n* Reduce website review cycles and ship faster.\n\n### **🙏 Our ask**\n\n* Try our product [**usesuperflow.com**](http://usesuperflow.com) before 31st oct and get 40% off for a year.\n* Share this post with web agencies or freelancers you know build websites.\n\n### **Setup**\n\n**Step 1: Install JS tag on client website in 10 secs.**\n\nYou can just install a JS tag in the footer of the website. \n\n![image.png](https://codahosted.io/docs/TJ6E9cySHQ/blobs/bl-XGbnRxc0Ty/6140d41636b973449d24659aeacab52fd67900c5654c7c113ffc4ad3bf5306eeed19b1162a8b3ccde2cfa635c642722135a4d4a2a87642b35d5f4ec7b6325a88fecd86969d39bd8043dde97a4cf4f9c00515efb075c175855fcb3da704047bd6edbd9efc)\n\n**Step 2: Turn on review mode by adding ?review=true to the URL.**\n\nYou can then turn the review mode on or off on demand by adding **“?review=true”** to the URL. The comments will not be visible to a regular website visitor.\n\n![image.png](https://codahosted.io/docs/TJ6E9cySHQ/blobs/bl-WB9sVT7ZmM/5570471db96e4ea68d9d74f0835939d91e707a467094fd00c51b9eb97542df4a9a84996faeccd683f74aab60fda711f099cf8e9568c42c86c9dd28eef6ef1b80a1ac503d3fb04104fa11b10b749058363a6b3ad58d51f58a20f1483ca8f276fe07d44cfc)\n\n### **🔥 Top features**\n\n**1. Comment on live website, just like Figma:**\n\n![image.png](https://codahosted.io/docs/TJ6E9cySHQ/blobs/bl-NDI5rEj4Ae/8c9caf47c3a53155af4d62231f4d767096816c6d91ba0306fce57e04b642ecb3e5bd70514556c11fb51189d028ea5cb34356c5a0eeff686a40289176667f86af011dd92122307ac44176b1b46c7d7c449652d008714c34e435bc8b41f9fa0bb810973eb3)\n\n**2. Record your screen & camera just like Loom (& attach it to a DOM element).**\n\n![image.png](https://codahosted.io/docs/TJ6E9cySHQ/blobs/bl-JCblThJt6X/57029764bf3d09a31f0a0d1bcaadfac8a927f26b8a63a34ab1236ca4490454ad7c70a081861e6e4b277d5e920e409af0c7a18a6db1be2ac823ba50e3cfc9a5a957bf8ae09430389015c9c72d969ff467cbc01a75320a63735e073d370371dc2d59dc52e9)\n\n**3. Manage tasks across projects in one place.**\n\n![image.png](https://codahosted.io/docs/TJ6E9cySHQ/blobs/bl-eFWGPbIP0M/2e74eaed9a5b399778c9521b9c65a0682fdd12c879322c8dcf4a8ce5e403f5a9b53516680ed1f4b1ad3655c55820b95a233b0a9e074aa9c8fcd4b56fa355607e6648216389a985f7a0a240dd0a55840bbb78b2225e2fea42c0970ace85763b76f8785c7e)\n\n**4. Start live audio/video huddle or screensharing just like Slack.**\n\n![image.png](https://codahosted.io/docs/TJ6E9cySHQ/blobs/bl-XBrG5e-yJd/fa5e98c2123e926dd9f3199da059dbc03e0dfd31c1f25ffdfa582150df6b53b92847bd8a7c005cfdba9c1cdbf0b375e0a757e59679d39f62c465c6a3f0b4936077e41ba5155058db8dae976623f327f1f68288483a1eef47751f1d252e09fb9712d85c8c)\n\n**5. Personalized Slack & email notifications.**\n\n![image.png](https://codahosted.io/docs/TJ6E9cySHQ/blobs/bl-OkDBML4l8F/f1bb3bd394f220a23f2e7b454de8ec767c322dac395eddbffdcf0beece7775d08797d40c89282e889abb5e5915b492b8db98cb12a1847492859dfc18bafa94fd06df75266314f7e71aa5b7a8bcc122e919cbc5f5280aceb9b31c90e13f32a269da77cef5)\n\n**6. 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Meet Elessar — **the all-in-one engineering visibility solution powered by AI:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74356&key=user_uploads/949128/12967594-e725-47fb-b89f-6d8ca703bc11)\n\n**Features**\n\n* Automatic changelogs for PRs in GitHub (captures function modifications etc. for all files changed)\n* Automatic documentation & weekly reports in Notion (weekly progress made easily accessible)\n* Two-way sync temporary channels per PR in Slack w/ AI summaries, statuses, and reporting (reduces context-switching)\n* VS Code extension that brings changelogs into the editor (reduces time spent searching diffs)\n* Daily email digests for engineers (stay up to date effortlessly)\n* Daily email digests for managers (manage better with AI insights)\n* Leaderboards, integrated Linear issues, & more\n\n_Coming Soon_\n\n* Branch progress\n* GitLab, JIRA, and Confluence integrations\n\n**Ask**\n\nEarly users are really loving the platform. Get your company started [here](https://app.getelessar.com/register). Only takes a couple minutes to setup! First month is free & YC companies receive 20% off all pricing tiers.\n\nReach out at [founders@getelessar.com](mailto:founders@getelessar.com) or visit [getelessar.com](http://getelessar.com) if you’d like to book a demo!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JLI-elessar-automatic-engineering-documentation-and-reporting-with-llms", "votes": 9, "created_at": "2023-08-24T05:25:56.530Z" } ] }, { "id": 26673, "name": "Dialect", "slug": "dialect-2", "former_names": [ "Drifto", "Questa" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e4607ec46fe176d055284599512d0844ebd51d71.png", "website": "https://www.usedialect.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Palo Alto, CA, USA", "long_description": "Dialect uses AI trained on your company’s internal knowledge to automate response generation for forms, RFPs, and other complex business communications.", "one_liner": "AI copilot for forms, questionnaires & RFX", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1676872162, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "SaaS", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "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/dialect-2", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/dialect-2.json", "year_founded": 2022, "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/e4607ec46fe176d055284599512d0844ebd51d71.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Nicolas Dessaigne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 999518, "full_name": "James Thomas", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Dialect YC S22", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-thomas-b713b15", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ba22e6f3715e7520417c149d37f087fd1ed1a4f1.jpg" }, { "user_id": 926108, "full_name": "Tony Ginart", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "AI Hacker", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonyginart/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/tginart", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/fbceee0c73adf3063f58d8720766fdccd2c7d17b.jpg" }, { "user_id": 730164, "full_name": "Tejas Sundaresan", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder at Dialect", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/tejassundaresan/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d910baf58711f89e7be9664f8c1bcd7168656347.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 75836, "title": "Dialect – Copilot for vendor questionnaires", "tagline": "Respond to RFPs and security questionnaires much more efficiently", "body": "Hey everyone! We’re [James](https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-thomas-b713b15/), [Tony](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonyginart/), and [Tejas](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tejassundaresan/) from [Dialect](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dialect-2).\n\n**_TL;DR_** [_Dialect_](https://www.usedialect.com/) is an AI copilot that auto-drafts responses to vendor questionnaires. Using generative AI grounded in your best content, we help you respond to RFPs and security questionnaires in a fraction of the time.\n\n### **The problem**\n\nCompanies today face customer questionnaires in all shapes, sizes, and formats. Security questionnaires, DDQs, and RFPs are critical gates within the sales process. Companies want to put their best foot forward and [map their solutions to customer requirements](https://blog.hubspot.com/sales/solution-selling). \n\nHowever, doing so can take **days** of rote copying & pasting, searching through old documents, and answering the same question over and over again.\n\n* **Every questionnaire comes in different formats** (sheets, docs, webforms) and every question is worded differently than before – making it time-consuming to port past answers into new questionnaires.\n* Finding the right answer to a question could **require searching across potentially dozens of files**, scanning question banks with thousands of entries, and involving multiple team members.\n\n### **Our solution**\n\n[Dialect](https://www.usedialect.com/) is a copilot that auto-drafts any vendor questionnaire. Our browser extension sits directly within your editors of choice, such as Google Sheets and Docs, and cuts the time needed to complete a questionnaire by >80%. Just highlight what you’re trying to complete, and Dialect will handle the rest!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=75836&key=user_uploads/730164/8b0b73ae-26ff-4f45-8bb1-336fea7bcd22)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=75836&key=user_uploads/730164/46868b14-14ae-46e1-9778-6779eb13a58b)\n\nDialect is fully grounded in the best of your enterprise content. It integrates natively with content sources like help centers, security reports, and website copy. 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We do this by integrating with different payment gateways and offering you the best rates across all payment options for each transaction.\n\n## **🤕 The Problem:**\n\n* As businesses scale, they begin to outgrow their payment systems, leaving them to use multiple tools and software to manage their revenue operations.\n* Maintaining multiple systems increases vendor lock-in and forces businesses to spend more on fees when accepting digital payments.\n* It’s difficult to get lifecycle analytics across multiple payment service providers\n\n## **🤩 The Solution - BlueHill**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64913&key=user_uploads/927793/19dd5cc9-72bb-4988-97ea-999e0bfdec8c)\n\n* ✅  Manage all of your revenue and transactions in one place\n* ✅  Use your existing payment service providers\n* ✅  See customer transaction history, LTV, and revenue graphs in real time\n* ✅  Save time and increase billing efficiency\n\n### **🧠 Intelligent Routing Platform:**\n\nBlueHill can support all your payment-related business needs, whether its fast settlement, lower fees or tiered billing with an easy-to-use Dashboard or API. 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It’s also unclear which models provide the highest quality on your task. This results in lots of manual signups, testing different models, bespoke benchmarking, etc. It’s overwhelming, and the final solution is almost always sub-optimal.\n\n![](https://t9015538723.p.clickup-attachments.com/t9015538723/65677e25-4ec6-4c1a-b235-56ff1fee6552/splash3.png)\n\nMany people give up and just use the largest models for everything. However, you really don't need GPT4 to summarize simple documents. Llama 8B is more than capable and is **15 times faster** and **100 times cheaper**. LLM apps are currently _much_ slower and more expensive than needed 💵🔥⏱️, and also often underperform in output quality because of poorly selected models 📉 (Claude Opus vs. GPT4 vs. Gemni etc.) for your specific prompts.\n\n**🤩 Not Anymore**\n\nUnify automatically routes each prompt to the most suitable model based on your preferences for quality, speed, and cost. Simply tune these three dials and let Unify do all the hard work.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81027&key=user_uploads/949841/fa900ddd-6849-408f-9a6c-1ad5dcfb0872)\n\nYour \"easy\" prompts will go to the fastest and cheapest models, and only the \"hard\" prompts will go to the most appropriate heavy lifters, like GPT-4o, Opus, and Gemini. You focus on building your LLM app, and we'll focus on providing the best models, with the fastest providers, at the lowest cost ⚡\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81027&key=user_uploads/949841/b59ee67a-6566-4728-b146-57b102cf3151)\n\nWatch our [explainer video](https://youtu.be/15wgxK1Cw0E?si=5G04-7tGRKPyxiNa) to learn more about the solution at a high level.\n\n**What Unify Offers ✨**\n\n* **⚙️ Control**: Choose which models and providers to route to and adjust three sliders: quality, cost, and latency.\n* 📈 **Self Improvement**: Unify automatically improves your LLM application over time as new models and providers emerge.\n* 📊 **Observability**: [Compare all models and providers](https://console.unify.ai/dashboard) and see which are best for your needs.\n* ⚖️ **Impartiality**: Unify treats all models and providers equally, ensuring unbiased quality, cost, and speed [benchmarks](https://console.unify.ai/dashboard).\n* 🔑 **Convenience**: With a single API key, [access all models and providers](https://unify.ai/docs/api/first_request.html) behind a single endpoint, queryable individually or via the router.\n* 🧑‍💻 **Focus**: Don't stress about updating models and providers; Unify handles it for you so you can focus on building great LLM products.\n\n**Getting Started 🛠️**\n\n[Sign up](https://console.unify.ai/), select your [router](https://unify.ai/chat?default=true), then `pip install unifyai` and you're ready to go!\n\n```\nfrom unify import Unify\nunify = Unify(\n api_key=\"UNIFY_KEY\",\n endpoint=\"router@q:1\",\n)\nresponse = unify.generate(user_prompt=\"Hello there\")\n```\n\n🙏 **Our Ask**\n\nGive Unify a try, and let us know what you think! [Sign up](https://console.unify.ai/), `pip install unifyai`, take our [router](https://unify.ai/chat?default=true) for a spin, and check out our [product walkthrough](https://youtu.be/ZpY6SIkBosE). If you're excited about Unify, tell a friend about it 😊 If you don’t think it’s useful, please tell us. We’d love to know!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/L4t-unify-the-best-llm-on-every-prompt", "votes": 48, "created_at": "2024-05-22T15:22:53.596Z" } ] }, { "id": 26852, "name": "Slidely AI", "slug": "slidely-ai", "former_names": [ "Tersho", "Slidely" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c0fd1e303870cee8f54e36ccbd538d8f026ea4e6.png", "website": "https://slidely.ai/", "all_locations": "Bengaluru, KA, India", "long_description": "Create new slides or upgrade existing ones with AI that works natively inside PowerPoint and stays true to your company’s branding, templates, and standards.\r\n\r\nHow Slidely AI is different -\r\n\r\n1. Works directly in PowerPoint\r\nNative PPTX support — no HTML-to-PPT hacks, exports, or broken layouts.\r\n\r\n2. Improves slides you already have\r\nBecause it understands real PowerPoint files, Slidely AI can rewrite, redesign, and tighten existing decks — not just generate new ones.\r\n\r\n3. Agentic, consulting-grade output\r\nUnlike other tools which can only use simple templates, Slidely AI agent puts each shape individually on slides to express your complex data.\r\n\r\n4. 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It works across email, chat, WhatsApp and social, and is MCP-native.\r\n\r\nUntil now, that took a proper setup project, which is why it was mostly larger companies using it. Nova does the setup for you. You describe how you want things handled, in plain sentences:\r\n- \"Handle refunds under €50 yourself.\"\r\n- \"Anything about enterprise pricing goes to a human.\"\r\n- \"Turn bug reports into Linear issues and assign them to the Excellence team.\"\r\n\r\nNova connects the tools, configures the agents, tests them against your past conversations, and shows you what it got wrong before anything goes live. Nothing ships without your approval. First deployment takes 15 minutes. After that, it keeps going: it surfaces what customers keep complaining about, proposes fixes, and ships the ones you approve. We call it an AI Operator because it doesn't just answer customers; it keeps the entire operation working and improving. Across live accounts, that means 90% of requests resolved without human involvement.\r\n\r\nYour team stays in control of what it may do on its own. Hybrid intelligence handles partial hand-offs, review-before-send, and context-preserving resumption.\r\n\r\nWe're YC S22 and work with companies like Superhuman and Unilever. Fortune 500 brands such as Unilever and DPD use Typewise to cut support effort by 50%+ while increasing CSAT and NPS. Run it natively in Typewise Ticketing or inside Zendesk, Salesforce or Freshdesk, with a CRM-embedded copilot for your human agents. 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Lived in 7+ countries.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidaeberle/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0f5bccd963d19ce567c373299e21d47232612d36.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1013251, "full_name": "Janis Berneker", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder and CTO at Typewise, formerly Lead Data Science at Swiss National Broadcaster SRF. Loves coding since he was a kid. Speaks 5+ languages.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linked.com/in/janis-berneker", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5cd060c2a79e056c66620c8ad28109f92fab314e.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "7 AI startups that stood out in YC's Summer '22 batch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/08/7-ai-startups-that-stood-out-in-ycs-summer-22-batch/", "date": "Sep 08, 2022" }, { "title": "How Typewise got into YC after pivoting to b2b productivity – TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/17/typewise-yc/", "date": "Aug 17, 2022" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 114656, "title": "Typewise Nova: The customer operator for fast-growing teams", "tagline": "Customer service that runs itself, so you can keep building.", "body": "At YC, we move fast. But staying on top of customer requests can quickly turn into a second job, and it takes time away from building and growing.\n\nWe're **Typewise (S22)** and we built Nova to remove that tradeoff. Typewise resolves customer requests end-to-end. Nova is the AI operator that sets up, runs, and improves that system for you. Your first deployment takes about 15 minutes.\n\nTell Nova how you want customer requests handled, in plain language:\n\n* \"Handle refunds under $50 automatically.\"\n* \"Send enterprise-pricing questions to Sales.\"\n* \"Create a Linear issue for every bug report and assign it to Engineering.\"\n\nNova connects the relevant tools, configures the agents and workflows, and tests them against your past conversations. It shows you what it got wrong before anything goes live. Nothing ships without your approval.\n\nOnce live, Typewise handles requests 24/7. It understands the message, looks up the information in your systems, takes approved actions, and replies. Anything outside the boundaries you've set goes to a human.\n\nNova keeps improving the system. It spots recurring questions, complaints, and cases Typewise couldn't resolve, then proposes changes to the knowledge and workflows. You approve the changes before they go live.\n\n**See it in action, in hi-fi:**\n\n\n\n**Or in lo-fi:**\n\n\n\n### Our launch gift\n\nWe strongly believe the product should do the talking, so **your first 1,000 resolutions or your first 3 months are on us**, whichever comes first.\n\nGive it a try!\n\nJanis & David", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/TpI-typewise-nova-the-customer-operator-for-fast-growing-teams", "votes": 21, "created_at": "2026-09-10T14:10:07.715Z" }, { "id": 67181, "title": "Typewise Text Prediction API", "tagline": "Supercharge your software with \"Gmail smart compose\"-like predictions", "body": "Hi guys, we’re Janis and David on a mission to make daily lives easier by decoding human thoughts. We build text prediction software, which is used in various customer service and sales teams of large enterprises.\n\nWe’re now making the underlying API accessible to other developers, in case you’d like to supercharge your software with text prediction and autocorrect.\n\n### Features\n\n* 🔮 Sentence Prediction\n* 🖋️ Autocorrect & Grammar Check\n* 🧠 Custom AI Models\n* 🌎 Language Detection (40+ languages)\n* 🕵️‍ Emoji Search\n\n---\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67181&key=user_uploads/737174/60471b62-a6f4-40af-9ca8-4ac7fb0c01d8)\n\n### Try for free\n\nAccess the API: \n\n👉 The language models are fully customizable to your specific use case, [get in touch](https://mailto:info@typewise.app) to learn more.\n\nCheers,\\\nJanis & David", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HTZ-typewise-text-prediction-api", "votes": 19, "created_at": "2022-11-08T12:28:26.612Z" }, { "id": 64168, "title": "Typewise – 🔥 boosting customer service & sales productivity by 2-3x", "tagline": "AI writing solution for businesses to save cost, increase customer satisfaction and sales conversion.", "body": "[**Typewise**](https://typewise.app/) **is a powerful AI writing solution for customer service and sales teams.**\n\nTypewise helps customer service and sales teams to:\n\n* Increase writing efficiency by >20%\n* Eliminate >97% of mistakes\n* Ensure brand coherence & tone of voice\n* Improve customer satisfaction (CSAT, etc.) & sales conversion\n* Save >8 hours per employee per month\n* Get 3-4X ROI\n\nOur AI text prediction technology outperforms Google & Co and was initially developed through our smartphone app with >2 million downloads.\n\nWe already work with Fortune 500 companies (software, e-commerce, logistics, insurance, telco).\n\n**What can Typewise do?**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64168&key=user_uploads/737174/1a0256c1-10b5-4def-a67d-40ac30271153)\n\n* Sentence prediction (autocomplete) and smart snippets\n* Proofreader (autocorrect and grammar check)\n* Auto replies\n* Real-time translation\n* Analytics & quality control\n\nOur AI language model gets trained on your company’s data to ensure consistent, on-brand communications across your business. We also incorporate your business metrics (CSAT, etc.) to surface what type of wording, phrases, etc. leads to better business outcomes, and suggest the most effective language automatically.\n\n**How does Typewise work?**\n\n💻 Browser extension + server-side API\\\n✅ Works with any CRM (e.g., Salesforce)\\\n🌐 Support for 40+ languages\\\n👍 No IT implementation effort / <8h setup time\\\n🔒 100% data privacy\n\n**Get a risk-free trial:**\n\nSchedule a 15-min live demo to discuss how we can boost your business!\n\n👉👉 [Get in touch with our CEO David](https://mailto:david.eberle@typewise.app)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ggy-typewise-boosting-customer-service-sales-productivity-by-2-3x", "votes": 26, "created_at": "2022-06-29T07:37:38.350Z" } ] }, { "id": 26861, "name": "100x", "slug": "100x", "former_names": [ "Videobug", "Unlogged" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e57695e93f2c0c4bd59ac6e3b1a1d55dfeb43099.png", "website": "https://100x.bot?utm_source=inbound&utm_medium=bookface&utm_campaign=yc&utm_id=122", "all_locations": "Bengaluru, KA, India", "long_description": "", "one_liner": "Create, Share, and Monetize AI Agents", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1656204103, "tags": [ "AI", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "regions": [ "India", "South Asia" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/100x", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/100x.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "Bengaluru", "country": "IN", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/104098465", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/UnloggedI", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e57695e93f2c0c4bd59ac6e3b1a1d55dfeb43099.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 128339, "full_name": "Shardul Lavekar", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Shardul Lavekar is the founder of 100x.Bot, a no-code platform for AI automation.\nHe is a serial entrepreneur with successful exit (AuthMe acquired by Airtel 2018). \nCo-founded Unlogged (YC S22). Previously led AI products at Airtel X Labs.\nCurrent: Building 100x.Bot to democratize AI agents - Zapier meets modern automation, no coding required.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://in.linkedin.com/in/shardul-lavekar-96049414", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/shardullavekar", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/22659ab9c42c1ac5ba313497fa9b4a5a254be533.jpg" }, { "user_id": 29571, "full_name": "Parth Mudgal", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder of 100x, a Y Combinator-backed company creating AI-powered browser automation tools that help professionals save hours of manual work every week. Previously, he co-founded Unlogged (YC S22), where he built automated testing solutions for Java developers that reduced debugging time by up to 2 hours per day.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/parth-mudgal-8129604a", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/phparth", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a14cdacd4f36baadda1fc534c13bd728e7aeb9c5.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [] }, { "id": 26869, "name": "Sytex", "slug": "sytex", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/911263357a6383968942bb9fe2d9288aa036b92e.png", "website": "https://www.sytex.io", "all_locations": "Córdoba, Cordoba, Argentina; Remote", "long_description": "Sytex is a project management platform for Field Infrastructure, starting with Telecom.\r\nFor example, companies like Telefonica and Claro use Sytex to build and maintain their networks.", "one_liner": "Project management platform for Field Infrastructure.", "team_size": 22, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1652710127, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "regions": [ "Argentina", "Latin America", "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/sytex", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/sytex.json", "year_founded": 2019, "city": "Córdoba", "country": "AR", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/sytexpm", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/SytexHQ", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/911263357a6383968942bb9fe2d9288aa036b92e.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Nicolas Dessaigne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 347622, "full_name": "Mariano Lisiotti", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Excited to simplify work for project teams worldwide.\nFather of 3. Telecom Engineer, former VP Projects for South America in NERA. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariano-lisiotti-0635622/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/MarianoODD1", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c2c9cf22d32afaf0cbccf07b76e25f443102750b.jpg" }, { "user_id": 347996, "full_name": "Juan Alvarez", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Started coding mIRC scripts at 15 :)\nStudied telecom engineering, but have been coding and hacking on GNU/Linux ever since those first scripts. \nWorked for a corp and kind of hated it. \nLoving the founder rollercoaster ride so far. \nLearning a lot from my wonderful daughter. \nWannabe rock climber. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jualvarez/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/547fb20a02c92b5e21a44aea28ef537d33724d74.jpg" }, { "user_id": 347812, "full_name": "Juanjo Ferrero", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Started coding in high school for fun and never stopped. 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For project teams, it's nearly impossible to keep up to date with everything that happens while executing, and that's where excel files start flying around.\n\nLarge companies have corporate platforms in place, but mainly to please the necessary management reports.\n\nAs a result, your own connectivity is compromised by delays, miscommunications, and worse of all, quality problems.\n\n## **Our Solution**\n\nAn OS for project teams deploying technology, that's great to use!\n\n* Design and create processes in minutes\n* Manage activities and documents with our mobile app\n* Integrate stock, contractors, quotations, checklists, and much more\n\nOur goal is to make it easier to deploy technology. Creating a community where project resources and field crews showcase their abilities is our next step. We believe this will help everyone to find and source the best talents, and thus, transform rollouts everywhere.\n\nWe are already working with the largest players in LATAM (Telefónica, Claro), Tower companies, and ISPs of all shapes and sizes.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65252&key=user_uploads/347622/e15df937-edb8-45e2-afeb-33b7e5a207b1)\n\n## **Who we are**\n\nWe're Mariano, Juan, Fede and JJ, all Telecom & Software Engineers, with experience delivering project mgmt software, planning, and sales for large industrial companies worldwide.\n\nIn our previous jobs we found that collaborating on information is the biggest driver for a project's success, but today is not encouraged by current software solutions.\n\n## **We’d love your support** 🍻\n\nWe love understanding new project scenarios, geographies, and companies.\n\nWant to give it a try? 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Here’s an early look :\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65194&key=user_uploads/272578/a3e654bf-56a0-48e4-abeb-8922bc23b8b0)\n\nA longer 5-min demo [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPm0idKktzs) :\n\nToday, you can build one particular type of custom app well using Maya that let's you :\n\n1. **Fetch custom data** : Configure setup + query custom data from an external source (currently we do SQL, Gsheets, Notion, Airtable etc, but are expanding fast)\n2. **Visualize it** : Plot and visualize it in a custom table, line chart or bar graph\n3. **Perform actions** : Select and act on a particular data item (send a custom email, upload a file, trigger an API, update a DB item)\n\nMaya incrementally generates programs & shows results in response to steps you type in English, so the whole experience doesn’t feel like debugging someone else’s code. 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Here’s a [show reel](https://mayalabs.io/library) of what else you can build manually with Maya today.\n\n**Who is this for?**\n\nMost internal tool builders are used by developers to build software for others on the product/ops/growth/sales/data teams, but we think this is a way for the user of the tool to also be the creator.\n\n**How does this work?**\n\nWe use a combination of conditional logic, neural search/classification, fine-tuned language models and template generation to make this work **predictably** and **reliably** in response to words you type/modify. We generate programs in a custom flow-based programming language that lets us express a wide range of behaviours with a smaller program length and visual DAGs. We also created our own benchmark to measure how well machines are at generating code (see our paper on this [here](https://blogs.mayalabs.io/benchmark)).\n\n**About us** :\n\nWe met in college many years back while starting Hyperloop India, the first Indian team at the SpaceX Hyperloop Competition - and have worked on-and-off on various projects since, sharing a common interest for hard engineering problems. Program synthesis is the hardest of them all - if software is eating the world, and you could build software that could build other software, why work on anything else?\n\nWe’ve been tinkering on this for years. Many Python libraries, papers, toy environments and product iterations later, we think we finally have an angle of attack that has a chance of working.\n\n**Ask** :\n\n1. Help us test our system! If you’d like to play around with or think someone in your team might benefit - send me a mail at sibesh\\[at\\]mayalabs\\[dot\\]io.\n2. 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Palantir's US commercial hiring manager 2020-2022. \nWorked on several of the precursors to H1 (YC W20) and developed their early entity resolution algorithms.\nNow enabling secure AI!", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackfischer11/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/30ac732fbe78f690991e5a10c38459b3adcba120.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 70840, "title": "Founding GTM - Deployment Strategist", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/credal-ai/jobs/3OnqAVU-founding-gtm-deployment-strategist", "location": "New York, NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Operations", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$120K - $150K", "equity_range": "0.05% - 0.20%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 81964, "title": "Founding Frontend/UX Software Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/credal-ai/jobs/4hSv1Na-founding-frontend-ux-software-engineer", "location": "NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Frontend", "salary_range": "$190K - $250K", "equity_range": "0.20% - 0.90%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "React", "React Native", "TypeScript" ] }, { "id": 99647, "title": "Founding Design Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/credal-ai/jobs/8QpLF8h-founding-design-engineer", "location": "NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Design", "role_type": "UI / UX", "salary_range": "$170 - $230", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.50%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 105583, "title": "Founding GTM Deployment Strategist", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/credal-ai/jobs/JkwCCe6-founding-gtm-deployment-strategist", "location": "Credal HQ (Brooklyn, NY)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Operations", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$120K - $150K", "equity_range": "0.05% - 0.20%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 105584, "title": "Forward Deployed Software Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/credal-ai/jobs/UuUgcZc-forward-deployed-software-engineer", "location": "Credal HQ (Brooklyn, NY)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$140K - $220K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.90%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 105585, "title": "Customer Deployment Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/credal-ai/jobs/d0PrRkz-customer-deployment-engineer", "location": "Credal HQ (Brooklyn, NY)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$120K - $160K", "equity_range": "0.07% - 0.30%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 105587, "title": "Business Development Representative", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/credal-ai/jobs/88clofi-business-development-representative", "location": "Credal HQ (Brooklyn, NY)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$90K - $120K", "equity_range": "0.05% - 0.20%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 114492, "title": "Software Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/credal-ai/jobs/YYLdmmL-software-engineer", "location": "Credal HQ (Brooklyn, NY)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$190K - $250K", "equity_range": "0.20% - 0.90%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Credal aims to connect company data to LLMs 'securely' | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/26/credal-aims-to-connect-company-data-to-llms-securely/", "date": "Oct 26, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 88742, "title": "Credal.ai: The Security-First Multi-Agent Collaboration Platform", "tagline": "The world's only multi-agent platform where Agents collaborate across your tools while respecting the data permissions in your systems", "body": "Ravin & Jack here from [Credal.ai](http://Credal.ai). Proud to announce the world’s only multi-agent platform in production at Enterprises that lets Agents collaborate across Enterprise systems like GSuite, Salesforce, and Slack while respecting the permissions of the end users across those tools. We’re in production at amazing Enterprise customers like Mongodb, Wise, Checkr, Lattice, and even at traditional Enterprises like Comcast, the US Federal Government (HHS), and the IFRS — and we’re now excited to bring it to the world.\\\n\n\n## The Problem\n\nAI can understand enterprise data and provide marginal productivity gains, but we know that “Chat with your data” doesn’t scale—especially in complex operations.\n\nGetting users to adopt AI for simple tasks, like improving email wording or summarizing meeting notes, is easy. But these small wins don’t fundamentally change how an organization operates. It’s no surprise that 74% of companies still struggle to achieve tangible value from generative AI in 2025; most companies remain stuck in the proof-of-concept phase.\n\nAI is not truly transformative at the enterprise level, and we at Credal want to change that. To solve for this problem, AI agents must integrate into enterprise operations—communicating with internal systems, other agents, and subject matter experts while ensuring security, governance, visibility, and ultimately real business impact.\n\n## 💡 Our Solution\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88742&key=user_uploads/89898/75296e1a-0363-4079-9f82-0c5a9d786d1b)\n\nCredal enables enterprises to deploy secure, specialized AI Agents that collaborate to handle complex, multi-step workflows.\n\nEach Agent is designed by subject matter experts—your employees—for specific tasks like:\n\n* Researching a prospect and personalizing outreach\n* Conducting KYC and AML checks\n* Answering HR and IT helpdesk questions\n* Completing security and compliance questionnaires\n* Analyzing trends in revenue and churn and suggesting the next best action for Customer Success Managers or Account Executives.\n\nWhen a user or API call invokes an Agent, it can autonomously call other Agents for assistance, all while enforcing enterprise-grade governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) policies. This composability moves beyond single-agent AI, allowing for scalable, controllable, and secure AI adoption across complex workflows in the enterprise. AI can at last operate seamlessly across your systems while respecting permission boundaries.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88742&key=user_uploads/89898/2c33a821-eabf-402e-a866-a552b5ca4590)\n\n## How it Works\n\nEvery user request follows this pattern:\n\nThe request gets routed to a primary agent which decides whether to call any actions or other Agents based on:\n\n* The instructions you provide in the background prompt and feedback from previous interactions\n* The provided tools and agents, with their descriptions and associated RBAC settings\n* Access Controlled Data from Enterprise systems like Salesforce, Confluence, GDrive, Slack and Sharepoint.\n\nThe primary agent then:\n\n* Notifies the user of any actions it is calling\n* Parallelizes the submission of all relevant actions\n* Polls for responses\n* Notifies the user when responses come back\n\n## ⚙️ Use Cases\n\n✅ End-to-end Know Your Business (KYB) workflows:\n\n* Validate document authenticity\n* Cross-check business addresses\n* Detect politically exposed persons (PEPs)\n* Ensure company services comply with internal policies\n\n✅ Go-To-Market Automation\n\n* Deep research on prospects and target accounts\n* Identify intent signals and the right buyers\n* Automate personalized outreach and seller training\n* Suggest Next Best Actions and upsell opportunities\n\n✅ Security Questionnaires\n\n* Automate security and compliance questionnaire responses no matter what tool you have to upload your response in\n* Ensure regulatory alignment with minimal manual effort\n\n✅ HR & Performance Management\n\n* Draft and refine self-reviews\n* Validate manager reviews for consistency and bias\n\n…and much more, including vendor contract analysis, government agency rule-making, corporate standards setting, customer support automation, training across teams, and general-purpose “ask-anything” AI assistants.\n\n## Next Steps\n\nWith Credal, enterprises can finally operationalize AI at scale—securely, efficiently, and with full control.\n\nReady to power your business with intelligent AI Agents?\n\nLet’s talk. Contact us at [sales@credal.ai](mailto:sales@credal.ai) or book a demo at [credal.ai/get-started](http://credal.ai/get-started).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/N5K-credal-ai-the-security-first-multi-agent-collaboration-platform", "votes": 56, "created_at": "2025-03-18T14:24:46.451Z" }, { "id": 70320, "title": "Credal: Control how AI uses your data", "tagline": "Credal protects your organization's sensitive data from AI that can surface it externally. Think Okta for AI.", "body": "Hi there! Ravin and Jack here from [Credal.ai](http://Credal.ai)\n\n**TL;dr:**\n\nCredal protects your sensitive data across all AI apps. We give everyone at your company access to the latest AI models via our secure Chat UI, integrated with your data, whilst management gets granular control over what data is shared with each provider.\n\n⚔️ **The Problem:**\n\nCEOs of every company from Microsoft to our YC W23 batchmates understand the massive productivity gains available through AI applications. But huge concerns exist over adopting these tools at the enterprise: what’s happening to our data once we hand it over to AI providers? The landscape of providers is already large and fast-growing. Many have terms of service that permit training general models on your data. As the usage of these tools explode, businesses risk losing control over what data has been shared with whom, when, and what technical and contractual safeguards are in place to protect that data from inadvertently ending up in the hands of competitors via an AI model’s training dataset.\n\n⚡ **Solution:**\n\nCredal is the gatekeeper for your data, ensuring that all data sent to AI is protected by 3 layers of security:\n\n1. Credal identifies sensitive data using our (self-hosted) detection models alongside your existing data classifications and lets you automatically redact, anonymize, block, or simply warn the user, if sensitive data is about to be sent over to a provider.\n2. For the major endpoints like chat or text completion, Credal allows you to seamlessly switch between providers: letting you take advantage of the latest models, or highest privacy models as they are released, without locking your company into a single vendor.\n3. Finally, Credal protects you with standardized Terms of Service and MSAs that ensure you have total control over your data. Credal links your audit logs to the specific provider associated with each request, allowing full transparency into both the technical and contractual safeguards that govern how any cut of data could be used.\n\nOur secure chat UI can automatically route your request to the best AI for your question (or you can specify manually)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70320&key=user_uploads/1038471/53a41cac-1a2c-4bc6-9441-cc87ed0ef0d3)\n\nWith granular audit logs on each request, per data source, including what was redacted:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70320&key=user_uploads/1038471/fb382a2e-54de-47ec-b03e-93cc332981a9)\n\n**Who needs this, and why did we build it?**\n\nOur current customers are security-conscious companies trying to use AI to get an edge in their operations and product. We noticed early on building AI applications that customers were really nervous about handing data over to AI models they didn’t fully understand. Many enterprises were turning ChatGPT off entirely, or banning its use on anything remotely sensitive. Today, our customers use Credal for a range of problems, from basic things like using ChatGPT for summarizing meeting notes, to using complicated combinations of AI (like Claude + GPT 4) to automatically structure company documents. Either way, Credal is giving our customers the confidence they need to use cutting-edge AI on sensitive data.\n\n**Meet the Team:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70320&key=user_uploads/1038471/77898790-6a46-477b-8832-df0f5cecd528)\n\nJack and I met in 2019 when we co-led Palantir’s engagement with a multibillion-dollar Life Sciences conglomerate, steering it from an initial pilot to an enterprise deal so critical to their business that Palantir going bankrupt was mentioned as a risk on the customer’s S1 filing.\\\n\\\nI started my career at Google, and since then have been both in the trenches and leading teams at THG at Series A, GoCardless at Series A, and Palantir. Jack started his career at H1 (at pre-seed), before joining Palantir. We’ve both led highly acclaimed teams at Palantir: _Atlantic_ Magazine called the output of work I led for 18 months: “America’s most reliable pandemic data”\\[1\\] and the _Washington Post_ said of a team Jack led for a year: “With these systems aiding brave Ukrainian troops, the Russians probably cannot win”\\[2\\]\n\nWe’re bringing a wealth of expertise in handling the most sensitive data imaginable, into what we see as one of the central problems of our time: building trust in AI.\n\n**Interested?**\n\nIf you are an enterprise with sensitive data, but you want to be able to use that data with AI  - [grab time to chat with us](https://calendly.com/jack-fischer-credal/credal-ai-intro). Enterprises that sign up before Demo Day (April 5th) are eligible for 50% off!\\\n\\\nFootnotes:\n\n\\[1\\] (The article discusses whether the Biden administration would keep paying for the ‘vital system’ that HHS had procured under Trump. 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Reach out to us at [founders@linkgrep.com](mailto:founders@linkgrep.com) or book some time with us using \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70677&key=user_uploads/6421/abb769f8-6421-42d5-bbac-beda81559866)\n\n👋🏽 Hi YC, we are [Divyagnan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/divyagnan/) and [TJ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tjkandala/) and we are excited to share LinkGrep — an AI browser copilot for teams!\n\n# **What does LinkGrep do?**\n\n### **🔗 Automatically keeps track of all of your teams links**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70677&key=user_uploads/6421/29f93fd5-7b6a-4a72-b26f-028ca3a1b595)\n\nLinkGrep automatically keeps track of all of your links and ranks them by viewership across your team. This allows you to easily stay on top of every important document. LinkGrep also provides a command palette that is available on every site to help you navigate the browser more quickly.\n\n### **✨ Suggests information from your knowledge bases while you browse**\n\n\n\nLinkGrep can automatically connect the dots for you and will display related information from your browser history + team knowledge bases (like Slack & Notion) while you browse. LinkGrep also offers traditional semantic search if you ever want to manually search for things too.\n\n### **🤖 Opens up the right links before your meetings**\n\n\n\nLinkGrep can figure out what links and tabs you need before your meeting and automatically opens them up for you. Everyone on your team will be on the same page when a meeting starts.\n\n### **👥 Makes collaboration easier through contextual notes on webpages**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70677&key=user_uploads/6421/e2ad9827-f5fe-432e-990c-38914347924f)\n\nCollaborate directly from webpages. Leave notes, tag teammates, and more. You will no longer need to context switch to other apps or copy paste links to collaborate.\n\n# **Our Ask:**\n\nWant to use LinkGrep for your team? Know a team that would benefit from LinkGrep? Want to invest?\n\nDrop us a line at [founders@linkgrep.com](mailto:founders@linkgrep.com) or schedule a call with us using ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/INx-linkgrep-ai-browser-copilot-for-teams", "votes": 65, "created_at": "2023-03-31T17:28:34.684Z" } ] }, { "id": 27840, "name": "Alloy", "slug": "alloy", "former_names": [ "Index" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2fb9e41133c27d93650c2a1a32a03cc25066b8dd.png", "website": "https://alloy.app", "all_locations": "Sydney, NSW, Australia", "long_description": "Alloy is an AI prototyping tool for product managers. 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And so have engineers at the [\\+15,000](https://www.linkedin.com/) developer-facing companies in the world.\n\nThe idea to build [kapa.ai](http://kapa.ai) initially came from a friend that runs a developer-facing company complain about the amount of **“read the f’ing manual” questions** they get and how much of their **engineers’ time** that costs.\n\n### **How we’re solving it:** “ChatGPT” for your docs\n\nWe’ve built a full retrieval augmented generation stack that enables developer-facing companies to **ingest any technical sources into an LLM** and expose it to their community where they have questions.\n\nThe bread and butter of what we’ve been building is a super scalable and **state-of-the-art crawling infrastructure** to ensure high quality data is kept up to date and compatible with LLMs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72954&key=user_uploads/377661/d137227b-004e-493e-bab0-699542312593)\n\nHere are a few examples of how companies are deploying [kapa.ai](http://kapa.ai):\n\n* [**Langchain:**](https://twitter.com/LangChainAI/status/1623752516705067008) **Discord** **bot** in community of 30k devs\n* [**Anyscale**](https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/): **Docs widget** on website of project with +25k stars\n* [**Netlify:**](https://twitter.com/Netlify/status/1651994857391681537) Custom built docs widget on top of **our API** available to their +1 million users\n\nIn addition to reducing support, we’re also helping companies **identify gaps in their documentation and products** by analyzing the answers of their [kapa.ai](http://kapa.ai) bot.\n\n### **Who’s building:** Emil and Finn 👋\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72954&key=user_uploads/377661/d4aaa0f0-f347-494e-aae7-d4b5e537b114)\n\nWe met +6 years ago in London and ended up doing **two master’s degrees together**: (1) Finance at London School of Economics, and (2) Computer Science at Imperial College London.\n\nWhile building [kapa.ai](http://kapa.ai), Finn (CTO) leans towards doing most of the engineering, bringing his experience from building low-latency trading systems at Bloomberg, although he also did sales at Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan. 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We can do it automatically for you, freeing up your mind and time.\n\n## ✨ **Our Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73281&key=user_uploads/969556/d6f9f0cb-d24b-4f5b-973e-f08301f42da4)\n\n**Sidenote** takes the burden of remembering todos off your shoulders by analyzing your notes, detecting your action items, and completing them. Currently, we can:\n\n* 📅 Create a follow-up meeting for next week\n* 🗒️ Assign a task to design team in project management software\n* ✉️ Draft an email to the project team with the new deadlines\n* 🔔 Add a todo to finish my proposal\n\nWe support **Notion**, **Google Docs**, **Google Calendar**, **Linear**, and more.\n\n## 🚀 **What’s Next?**\n\nStarting with meetings, we envision Sidenote becoming your work copilot, automating all repetitive parts of your personal work. This means integrating with more platforms and allowing users to create custom automated actions for unique workflows. Request a specific automation [here](mailto:contact@sidenote.ai).\n\n## 💜 **The Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73281&key=user_uploads/969556/40d687f6-b94f-44ed-bdc3-e2936dff1340)\n\nWe're [**Jason**,](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-chen-lin/) [**Scott**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-hickmann), and [**Schwinn**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/szawinis/). We met at our dorm at Stanford and have been hacking together ever since!\n\n🙏 **We Want Your Input**\n\n* Overwhelmed by meetings and todos (especially in CX)? Let's chat on [cal.com/jasonlin](http://cal.com/jasonlin)!\n* Take Sidenote for a spin at [**sidenote.ai/chrome**](http://sidenote.ai/chrome).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J3x-sidenote-meeting-follow-up-automated", "votes": 70, "created_at": "2023-07-21T02:14:12.033Z" } ] }, { "id": 28926, "name": "Upstream", "slug": "upstream", "former_names": [ "Snik" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2f7369d2ab1e0977978b9b94c89d862359ae83ed.png", "website": "https://www.upstream.do/", "all_locations": "Paris, Île-de-France, France", "long_description": "Your inbox, handled for you. 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Agents sort the noise, draft in your exact voice, follow up on time, and do what you ask, so you can finally relax and enjoy email again.\n\n \n\nTry it here: [Sign up with Google](https://www.upstream.do/?utm_source=launch_yc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=launch&utm_content=announcement)\n\n# The problem\n\nWe were told AI was going to fix email. Two years in, your inbox looks the same, the drafts sound like ChatGPT, and you stopped clicking on the AI buttons bolted on every product. We wanted an inbox where agents work for you - before you ask - but still let you make the final call.\n\n# What we built\n\nWe rebuilt email from the ground up as a surface agents can read, write, and act on.\n\n**📥 Your inbox is organized**\n\nSpam, cold outreach, and low-priority emails are moved out of the way. The conversations that actually need your attention stay front and center.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103613&key=user_uploads/1093527/c1514848-21d2-48c7-b346-743016d125a1)\n\n**✍️ Custom voice prompt**\n\nUpstream learns how you write from your own emails and drafts replies that sound exactly like you, adapting to who you’re talking to.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103613&key=user_uploads/1093527/33e44baf-2ff7-4291-87e8-10b9d9beabf8)\n\n**🤖 Built-in agent to do what you ask**\n\nFind receipts, write personalized emails, schedule meetings, update records, or handle whatever task comes up in your inbox.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103613&key=user_uploads/1093527/b782c513-24c0-4c02-8be9-37d3ef4f777f)\n\n**⏰ Smart follow-ups**\n\nWhen someone drops the ball, Upstream follows up automatically at the right time so important conversations keep moving.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103613&key=user_uploads/1093527/ebd46d18-6369-48c7-91e2-cb8e6f2a3ce9)\n\n# Open and agent-native\n\nEmail is becoming a shared workspace for humans and agents. 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Setup is fully automated and only takes a few minutes - and it’s free!\n\nLink to get started: [upstream.do](http://upstream.do)\n\nThank you!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QxB-upstream-the-first-inbox-designed-for-humans-and-agents", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2026-06-22T03:48:40.248Z" }, { "id": 73531, "title": "⚡ Upstream || 📥 An email client designed for team collaboration", "tagline": "Delivering efficiency for teams, while letting individuals regain focus.", "body": "### **📝 TL;DR**\n\n> **Upstream is a modern email client designed for team collaboration. Teams use it to have conversations that are easy to track, rich in context, and transparent with the rest of their company.**\n\nSign up for the waitlist at [**www.upstream.do**](https://www.upstream.do/?utm_source=yc_launch&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=launch) !\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73531&key=user_uploads/1303398/125f0ac3-f789-46b8-8e2d-1b714e67518b)\n\n### **📖 Our Story**\n\nI’ve had the chance to work at successful fast-growing companies, like **Asana** and **Algolia**, and I’ve experienced first-hand the communication problems that arise when you need to coordinate with lots of people while moving at 100mph.\n\nAll organizations are very nimble in the early days, yet most of them lose their efficiency as they scale. **Communication becomes harder**, and teamwork breaks down. Companies continue to rely on **Slack for anything and everything** and start experiencing major inefficiencies:\n\n* **The ball keeps getting dropped:** important messages get missed. Key action items are buried in the never-ending flow of chit-chat.\n* **Decisions and their context get lost in the ether:** where did we discuss this again? Who was involved? What decision did we make and why?\n* **Team members waste their time reading irrelevant discussions** rather than getting stuff done, Slack making it impossible to distinguish signal from noise.\n* **We’re constantly interrupted:** chat’s expectation of immediacy has made it nearly impossible to find uninterrupted deep work time.\n\nAnd while it’s a huge productivity loss for the organization, employees report experiencing deep **anxiety** and feeling completely **overwhelmed** by the use of Slack.\n\n### **💡 A different tool for async conversations**\n\nWhen I was at Asana, we did things differently: we had a specific tool for all of our async conversations (I’m sure you’ve guessed: we used asana for that!). It made it so that our **decisions were easily traceable**, our important conversations had the right amount of context and the right folks involved, action items never got lost, and the volume of Slack notifications was totally reasonable.\n\nIt was so good! I could **easily focus and get in flow**, and always felt on the same page with the teams around me. We were firing on all cylinders! It was pure bliss.\n\nIt left such a strong impression on me that ever since I left Asana, I haven’t stopped thinking about how to **bring that experience to other teams out there**. And when I started seriously researching this, it became clear that, except for a handful of exceptional companies (think Stripe, Gitlab, Alan to name a few), 99% of them don’t even know they could work this way.\n\nI’ve since met [**@Jonathan Tiret**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jtiret/), and here we are with Upstream: an easy way for teams to make, track and share decisions, directly within their emails.\n\n### **💻 Solution: elevating your emails**\n\n> **_Upstream is an email client that lets teams have conversations that are easy to track, rich in context, and transparent with the rest of their company._**\n\nWe don’t need to fully replace Slack. Chat is great for social chit-chat. Or when you need an answer right away. But more than 80% of our messages don’t require an immediate response. 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Build and maintain sales assets and product trainings 10X faster using your existing docs and data, empowering reps to close deals instead of wasting hours chasing content.\n\n👋 **Hi we are Ali and Armen from **[**Letter AI**](https://www.letter.ai/)**.** We spent our careers building AI SaaS for enterprise customers at companies like Samsara and Cirrus Logic. As product and engineering leaders, we saw first hand how poor enablement led to time wasted and deals lost. We are building Letter AI to be the solution we wish our sales teams had.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73494&key=user_uploads/1316059/981d9300-f59d-43d8-a174-a59d42b6a3fa)\n\n### **❗The Problem**\n\n* **Sales teams feel uninformed about the products they sell.** 42% of sales reps feel they don't have enough information before calling a prospect. 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We’re building:\n\n* **AI-driven content creation and updates:** Simply provide your docs / data and few instructions to build interactive learning, product one-pagers, and more. Make updates everywhere with a single instruction.\n* **Personalization at scale:** Re-shape your content instantly for specific roles, industries, reps, or customers. Extract the most relevant content, personalize it, and share with customers using company PPT / PDF templates\n* **AI copilot for real-time help:** Enable your own ChatGPT-like AI assistant with expertise on your products. Reps can get the real-time help they need before going into meetings - or even during them\n* Plus the other things you know and love about enterprise sales software (collaboration, usage analytics, robust RBAC, etc.)\n\n💻 [**Here’s a demo**](https://www.loom.com/share/9fdab38ed7724d40a610e92df009cce0?sid=1b7c37bf-cbfd-4570-85da-a53217aa6594) of Ali building sales training in \\~5 minutes for a product he previously launched using just 2 public blog posts and API docs. 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We streamline follow-ups, CRM updates, ticket creation, and other tasks after every customer meeting.\n\n✨ [Get in touch](https://onwardso.typeform.com/to/XXZDRCQq) with us, and we'll talk through your current workflows, share insights from high-performing teams, and give you a white-glove onboarding experience.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74311&key=user_uploads/585552/b80b26d8-3cbb-49ba-ae2a-7f6d95ecb1f3)\n\n### **🎉 Our Story**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74311&key=user_uploads/585552/d2bbd5df-f14e-42f4-8d4a-db0e18892226)\n\nWe're Nikolas and Coleman. We built our first AI automation product together in middle school and have worked alongside each other ever since.\n\nWe started Onward shortly after Nikolas left Midjourney to help teams spend more time on the thing that matters most: supporting their customers.\n\n### **🤔 The Problem**\n\nWe have spent the past couple of years talking with hundreds of sales and support leaders. 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Today's tools are disconnected from our conversations, meaning **knowledge workers lose around 30% of their day due to meetings and the subsequent work that follows**, such as communication, synthesis, and data entry tasks – often long after the call has happened and the context is fresh.\n\n### **✨ Our Solution**\n\nWe offer a seamless, end-to-end meeting automation platform.\n\n1. **Connect calls with one click.** We integrate with all live communication platforms (Zoom, Meet, Teams, Slack) and import these interactions directly into our platform.\n2. **Instantly synthesize interactions.** We analyze your calls, extract summaries and key moments, and identify action items and commitments, ensuring that nothing is overlooked.\n3. **Enrich and automate action items.** We automate your work by automatically drafting emails 📧, populating CRMs ✨, creating tickets 🔔, tracking commitments ✅, sending event invites 📅, and creating reminders 💬 – all within the context of your interactions.\n\nThis helps teams scale their human touch, allowing them to remain front and center while Onward streamlines the 30% of their day spent on repetitive tasks.\n\n### **🙏 Our Ask**\n\n**Intro us to Revenue leaders:** If you or anyone else in your network spends hours each week in repetitive meetings (such as demos, sales calls, interviews, etc.), we would love to connect. 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Once trained, you can run an entire fleet of parallel instances to complete weeks of work in a few hours.\n\nDownload the app and put Autotab to work—no sales call or credit card required to get started: [https://www.autotab.com](https://www.autotab.com/)\n\n### \n\nhttps://youtu.be/JTniG6K30UU\n\n### Problem\n\nToday’s models have the intelligence required for most work—but they are bottlenecked by context, tools, and their ability to operate over long time horizons.\n\n### Context: Teaching, not prompting\n\nAutotab learns like a human colleague–by watching demonstrations, reading SOPs, and taking feedback on its past work.\n\nReal work is rarely zero-shot, so Autotab is designed to ask clarifying questions as it is learning, and to be good at taking feedback.\n\n### Tools: UI-first control\n\nAutotab interacts directly with existing applications and internal tools using a mouse and keyboard—no technical integration required.\n\n### Long tasks\n\nAutotab is able to work for days at a time, using scaffolding and checkpoints to stay on track, just like an SOP.\n\n### Superpowers: Better than human\n\nOnboarding Autotab is designed to feel like onboarding a remote human worker, but running Autotab is an entirely different experience.\n\nFor sensitive tasks, Autotab can be run in a dedicated local browser with support for enterprise authentication and SSO—credentials never leave your device.\n\nAutotab can also be run at scale in the cloud, with an entire fleet of parallel instances working together to complete weeks of work in a few hours.\n\n### Accessible to everyone\n\nFor the past 6 months, we’ve helped companies like DoorDash scale work that previously required humans, running years worth of continuous computer use.\n\nNow, you can download the app and put Autotab to work—no sales call or credit card required to get started.\n\n### Use cases\n\nIf you’re looking for some inspiration for how to use AI agents like Autotab, here are a few examples of common tasks others are using Autotab for.\n\n* Collecting and enriching data: For example finding the payment options offered by e-commerce websites, or researching the technology vendors used by local businesses.\n* Filling out forms: For example government forms to request documents, or forms to request quotes from businesses such as insurance carriers.\n* Taking action: For example updating leads in a CRM, processing customer support tickets or sending messages to leads.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nsm-autotab-the-first-ai-agent-you-onboard-not-integrate", "votes": 9, "created_at": "2025-07-02T18:51:11.029Z" }, { "id": 84840, "title": "Autotab: AI agents reliable enough to do real work", "tagline": "Not a chatbot: Autotab handles repetitive tasks end to end using a keyboard and mouse, with human-level reliability.", "body": "# TLDR\n\nAutotab is a drop-in AI knowledge worker that uses a mouse and keyboard like you—so anything you can do, it can do. It achieves superhuman reliability, and can scale up on demand so your team doesn’t have to.\n\nAutotab is already handling complex tasks thousands of steps long, from messaging customers to triggering payments and updating data across core systems of record like Salesforce, HubSpot, Google Sheets, and Jira.\n\n### Open beta launch\n\nStarting today you can download the beta version of the [app](https://www.autotab.com/) and get started right away. Or sign up for a [personalized onboarding](https://www.autotab.com/request).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84840&key=user_uploads/414353/c701bf1e-2f28-4bb2-ac4b-779b02be0a8b)\n\n### Autotab is built for real work\n\n“We were promised digital robots, and all we got was tab complete.”\n\nSo far, AI agents have not been reliable enough to do meaningful work without supervision.\n\nAutotab is the first system for building extremely reliable agents that can execute any repetitive task fully autonomously. Show it how to perform your task, train it to be hallucination-proof by adding examples and providing feedback, and then run it on demand or on a schedule—either locally or in the cloud.\n\n### Hallucination Proof\n\nReal work is hard. To push the frontiers of autonomy, we have developed multiple systems that work together to achieve the improbable.\n\n1. **Digital Robot**: For AI to do real work, it needs to be able to use a computer. Autotab is driven by more than 16 unique models, from fast on-device models to vision-based robotics and the largest frontier models in the world.\n2. **Demonstration Learning**: Telling an AI to book flights for you is a cool demo, but real work is nuanced and difficult to explain in a prompt. You teach Autotab by _showing_ it how to do your task the same way you would a human colleague. This means Autotab has 100-1000X more data than prior approaches, providing the deep context required for full autonomy.\n3. **Action Scaffold**: Each task that Autotab learns is composed of a series of steps and sub-goals. This makes it easy to understand what Autotab is doing and gives you fine-grained control.\n4. **Memory**: As it runs, Autotab prompts you for feedback and provides opportunities to steer its behavior. These learnings are accumulated into action memory—improving Autotab’s world model and allowing it to work autonomously with extremely high reliability for hours on end.\n5. **Bare Metal Control**: Autotab uses a custom browser for secure, bare metal task execution—locally and in the cloud. This also lets us avoid most bot detection.\n\nThe result is an AI system that learns and works like a human colleague. It uses a browser, so it can handle any repetitive task you can—there is no list of integrations, just teach it to use whichever apps you want. It asks for clarification when it is uncertain, and you can correct it if it gets something wrong.\n\n### Case studies\n\nHere are a few specific examples of how customers have been using Autotab to get more done:\n\n* A fast-growing startup saves 10+ hours of their team’s time each week using Autotab to find customers at risk of churning in an internal product analytics tool and then has Autotab reach out to them with personalized emails.\n* One customer uses Autotab to handle dozens of support tickets every day, such as updating vendor permissions and assigning training tasks to new employees across different applications.\n* Another customer has trained Autotab to gather research data across different sources, which used to take their employees hours of time to do every week.\n\n### Get started today\n\nYou can download the beta version of the [app](https://www.autotab.com/) and get started right away or sign up for a [personalized onboarding](https://www.autotab.com/request).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/M4O-autotab-ai-agents-reliable-enough-to-do-real-work", "votes": 23, "created_at": "2024-10-17T22:07:57.122Z" }, { "id": 79917, "title": "Autotab: Digital robot to do your repetitive work", "tagline": "Autotab can run thousands of steps with 98%+ reliability, 24/7/365 (no lunch breaks needed)", "body": "**TLDR**: Hire Autotab to do your repetitive work for you, starting at just $1/hour. Autotab is a digital robot that learns like a human—just demonstrate how to perform the task once.\n\nToday, Autotab reliably handles complex tasks with 1000s of steps, saving users hours each day. **Sign up **[**here**](https://78348iv5tyv.typeform.com/to/PFjNcLqW?utm_source=launchyc&utm_campaign=launchyc)** to request early access to Autotab!**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79917&key=user_uploads/414353/b923cf51-551f-4232-94c4-f84fc951252c)\n\n### Problem\n\n“I love clicking and typing the same things over and over again,” said no one ever.\n\nNobody likes repetitive work, clicking and typing the same thing over and over again. But writing software to automate it is often too expensive or simply not possible. So we’ve had to do suck it up and grind through (or pay someone else to)—until now.\n\n### Solution\n\nAutotab is a desktop app for teaching AI to do the work you don’t want to do. You simply show it how to do the task once, and Autotab uses AI to learn how to do it for you. Once it has learned a task, Autotab can do it as many times as you want, 24/7/365. No lunch breaks needed.\n\nAutotab is built for real work: It excels at tasks that are **repetitive, such as doing the same thing for every item in a list, and complex, e.g.,** involving many steps across different software applications. Autotab currently is able to do any task that can be done in a browser, with capabilities to control any application on your computer coming soon.\n\nOn top of it all, you only pay for the time that Autotab actually spends doing work for you—starting at $1/hour!\n\n# Digital robot, real work\n\nWe built Autotab with an extreme focus on reliability and the ability to execute complex workflows.\n\n**Bare metal control:** Autotab has its own browser that gives it the bare metal control needed to deliver 98%+ reliability without any site-specific fine-tuning. This also lets us avoid most bot detection.\n\n**Show, don’t tell:** Most other approaches try to have an agent autonomously plan novel chains of actions based on natural language instructions (e.g., “Order me a Domino’s pizza”). While Autotab can do that too, for most important automations it is much easier to show Autotab the workflow than it would be to write a paragraph describing all the steps. If you were to train a human, would you explain where to click or just share your screen & explain with a voiceover?\n\n**Discrete, auditable actions:** Each task that Autotab learns is composed of a series of steps. This makes it easy to understand and have fine-grained control over what Autotab does. It also allows Autotab to work autonomously with extremely high reliability for hours on end.\n\n### Ask\n\nHire Autotab to do your repetitive work for you. **Sign up **[**here**](https://78348iv5tyv.typeform.com/to/PFjNcLqW?utm_source=launchyc)** to request early access!**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Kmz-autotab-digital-robot-to-do-your-repetitive-work", "votes": 35, "created_at": "2024-04-03T16:54:31.984Z" }, { "id": 73240, "title": "ZTool - Create data tools & scripts with just a few words", "tagline": "ZTool.co is the personal developer for entrepreneurs, analysts, and marketers", "body": "**tl;dr**\n\n**Describe** the tool you need **in** **one sentence** and ZTool will create the code, run it, and present the output. We particularly focus on all things **CSV** **files**: anything from exporting csvs, to merging files and enriching data is possible. Over time, users can edit, build out and share their library of tools with each other.\n\n**Problem**\n\nPython scripts for tools like scrapers or workflow automations have been written thousands of times before. Reusing that code — and saving time — should be easy but it’s not: finding the relevant scripts is hard, and adapting it to your specific case requires a certain level of skill at which one can just write the code from scratch. ZTool solves both the search problem and the skill problem; it will give you the exact script you need, specific to your use case, and regardless of your technical ability.\n\n**Solution**\n\nAll the user has to do is describe the script they want, for example: merge two CSV files. ZTool, powered by LLMs, will ask specifying questions, ask for the input files, and then create an output file. That’s it!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73240&key=user_uploads/1377594/f6494391-8d41-4a73-8e81-01d797eef7e3)\n\n**How we came up with this**\n\nWhile working as an analyst at a VC firm many years ago, Jonas hacked together a script to process csv data for a deal analysis. It was a simple script but it **saved him days worth of manual work**. Over time the initial script proved useful for more and more deals and grew into an entire library of Python scripts for automating different tasks, from data analysis to web scraping. It took Jonas a week to create that initial script and he had to learn Python, regex, SQL, Docker, cloud, and more—with ZTool anyone could have done it in 5 minutes.\n\n**Concrete ask**\n\nZTool has a blessing and a curse, and they turn out to be the same thing: it is super powerful and can be used to generate all sorts of scripts. Help us figure out what we should focus on [**by trying it out**](https://www.ztool.co/) and showing us what tools are most useful to you!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J3I-ztool-create-data-tools-scripts-with-just-a-few-words", "votes": 36, "created_at": "2023-07-19T19:41:52.401Z" } ] }, { "id": 29177, "name": "Onyx", "slug": "onyx", "former_names": [ "Danswer" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/def9ae8f0c06685a28e8184b828d9de7e1232ad3.png", "website": "https://www.onyx.app/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Onyx is the open source chat UI connected to your company’s docs, apps, and people. We ingest and sync from all sources of information (Google Drive, Slack, GitHub, Confluence, Salesforce, etc.) to provide a centralized place for users to ask about anything. Imagine your most knowledgeable co-workers, all-rolled into one, and available 24/7!\r\n\r\nCheck us out on Github: https://www.github.com/onyx-dot-app/onyx\r\nOr visit our website: https://www.onyx.app/", "one_liner": "Open Source AI Chat", "team_size": 20, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1704724705, "tags": [ "Open Source", "NLP", "Enterprise", "Search", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "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/onyx", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/onyx.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/onyx-dot-app/", "x_url": "https://x.com/onyx_dot_app", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/onyx-dot-app/onyx", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/def9ae8f0c06685a28e8184b828d9de7e1232ad3.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1493761, "full_name": "Yuhong Sun", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Machine Learning and NLP, previously working on transformers architectures for NL-to-SQL and hybrid search at Alation, inc.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/yuhongsun", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/515c75a0f3a5760483f3617aa2d35d7b329ea752.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1493215, "full_name": "Chris Weaver", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Building Onyx. In a past life: top-100 NA League of Legends player + TL at Robinhood.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/chris-weaver101", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d0a93d97df47cd7d3f5f3cdca5ecc1e2daf74295.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "This Pitch Deck Landed AI Agent Startup Onyx a $10 Million Seed Round - Business Insider", "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/pitch-deck-ai-agent-startup-onyx-seed-round-2025-3", "date": "Mar 18, 2025" }, { "title": "Onyx Raises $10M To Help Teams Find Knowledge Faster with Open Source AI Agents", "url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/news/onyx-raises-10m-help-teams-165500715.html?guccounter=1", "date": "Mar 12, 2025" }, { "title": "Why Onyx thinks its open source solution will win enterprise search | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/why-onyx-thinks-its-open-source-solution-will-win-enterprise-search/", "date": "Mar 12, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 77913, "title": "Onyx - Open Source Unified Search", "tagline": "Connect to all your team’s tools (like Confluence, Google Drive, Slack, Notion, etc.) for a single place to Search and Chat with your team’s documents", "body": "**TL;DR**: Imagine a secure ChatGPT with access to your team’s specific knowledge. As modern teams grow, knowledge becomes dispersed and hard to find. By giving Large Language Models access to parse your knowledge base, [Onyx](https://onyx.app/) can instantly filter through millions of documents to only surface what is relevant.\n\n**Try for Free Here:** [**https://cloud.onyx.app/**](https://cloud.onyx.app/)\n\n**Get Started On-Prem:** [**https://docs.onyx.app/quickstart**](https://docs.onyx.app/quickstart)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77913&key=user_uploads/1493761/4c37d5b8-5919-4dab-8d27-c2aa2af46a23)\n\nWe’ve seen teams use Onyx to improve efficiencies from:\n\n* Improving turnaround times for **support** by reducing the time taken to find relevant documentation.\n* Helping **sales teams** get customer context instantly by combing through calls and notes.\n* Preventing lost **engineering** time to answering cross-team questions, building duplicate features due to the inability to surface old tickets or code merges, and helping **on-call** resolve critical issues faster by providing the complete history of an error in one place\n* Self-serving **onboarding** for new members who don’t know where to find information.\n\n### Our Differentiation:\n\nOnyx is [open source](https://github.com/danswer-ai/danswer). You have complete transparency into what is going on with your team’s documents. The deployment of Onyx and your data are completely in your control (we do also offer a [Cloud](https://www.danswer.ai/) version if you prefer being hands-off). You can hook Onyx up with any LLM of your choice or one in-house if you prefer.\n\nOnyx uses the latest methods in information retrieval to make the most of the revolution that is happening in the natural language processing space. Specifically, we use prefix-aware embedding models trained with contrastive loss + BM25 Hybrid Search with reranking options and additional pipeline improvements such as query expansion etc.\n\nYou can also use Onyx to directly get answers in Slack (MS Teams, Discord to come). Many teams have been using this to auto-answer cross-team questions.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77913&key=user_uploads/1493761/6813b7f1-9fed-4778-9874-52de4a20bef2)\n\n### Our Ask/Offer:\n\nReach out to us if you’re interested in using Onyx, you can schedule a call with us on [Cal](https://cal.com/team/danswer/founders). Alternatively, you can join our Slack [here](https://join.slack.com/t/onyx-dot-app/shared_invite/zt-2sslpdbyq-iIbTaNIVPBw_i_4vrujLYQ) — we’d love to hear from you!\n\nWe’re already deployed at some outstanding teams and we’re looking to accelerate. If you’re open to closing a deal with us quickly, we can offer you some significant discounts.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KGf-onyx-open-source-unified-search", "votes": 69, "created_at": "2024-01-29T15:27:24.837Z" } ] }, { "id": 29285, "name": "Patchwork", "slug": "patchwork", "former_names": [ "Indorsed" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/adeef8e1af9dbd08cd58abd347c0b5085123d33a.png", "website": "https://atpatchwork.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Patchwork replaces your inefficient Slack with an intelligent feed personalized for each team member with all of their daily updates, design and engineering discussions, and announcements. ", "one_liner": "Your team’s AI powered communication tool", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1708993395, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Productivity", "Collaboration", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "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/patchwork", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/patchwork.json", "year_founded": 2023, "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/adeef8e1af9dbd08cd58abd347c0b5085123d33a.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 516866, "full_name": "Dhruhin Kurli", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Dhruhin is a lifelong full-stack engineer who graduated with a CS degree from UCSD in 2.5 years. He worked on building cutting-edge tech and new consumer experiences at Meta and Amazon. He was most recently a tech lead on Meta’s new AR line.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/dhruhin", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0ad1fc02445f30d578d9fc70e08f0ab235f505c0.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1935521, "full_name": "Nikki Shah", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Nikki is the co-founder and CEO of Patchwork. After graduating MIT with a degree in Computer Science, she was an engineer, engineering manager, and product lead at Pinterest, Meta, and Stripe building brand new products that often started out as small teams and grew to thousand person organizations.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/nikki-a-shah", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/NikkiAShah", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b318adcc777fb5524d83e8a7fca2248ff7922812.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 78819, "title": "Patchwork - Your team's AI powered communication tool", "tagline": "Replace your Slack with a ranked feed of information and AI assisted post creation", "body": "Hey everyone! We’re [Nikki](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikki-a-shah/) and [Dhruhin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhruhin/) from [Patchwork](https://www.atpatchwork.com/)!\n\n**TL;DR**\n\nPatchwork supercharges your team’s communication — we replace your Slack with a ranked feed of information, AI assisted post creation, and chat for urgent needs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78819&key=user_uploads/1642539/fb3c9788-fb77-4ea7-a5b0-766d51a58935)\n\n### **The Problem**\n\n**Do it all.**\n\nThose are the words etched in our brains during YC, and we know that it only gets worse. We spend our time figuring out how to talk to users, sell to customers, pitch to investors, and meet other founders, all at the same time. Oh, and don’t forget, while doing all of this, you also need to continue building the product.\n\nWe found that the most inefficient part of a company is poor communication. A ping on Slack can take us out of flow and leave us context-switching. While one team member is wrestling with RAG pipelines, another is messaging them about feedback from a user interview. If you choose to respect heads-down time, you’ll end up writing notes in docs that are lost to the ether, never to be looked at again. With more team members, it gets exponentially worse.\n\nIn the end, we’re either left with incomplete information or left sifting through a swamp of chat messages, doc links, and notifications to get the information we need.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\n**LLMs, Posts, and a Ranked Feed.**\n\nPatchwork, with the help of LLMs, allows you to quickly post meeting notes, updates, thoughts, and information into relevant groups.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78819&key=user_uploads/1642539/2d37f318-48cd-4dc1-953b-5fd4728377c9)\n\nHere’s the best part — **every team member has a smart feed, specifically curated for them**, that ensures they get the most important information first. Say goodbye to the distraction of random messages to get to what you really need. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78819&key=user_uploads/1642539/97cafc6a-a77f-467d-bbd8-c9ba596d6985)\n\nChat is also available for urgent needs. On Patchwork, your urgent chat messages don’t get drowned out with non-urgent matters.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78819&key=user_uploads/1642539/92a29007-2c94-49c4-8e7a-569106e3c283)\n\n### **Meet Nikki and Dhruhin**\n\n[Nikki](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikki-a-shah/) and [Dhruhin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhruhin/) worked at Meta, Stripe, and Amazon—three companies known for their incredible writing cultures. They were able to witness firsthand the power of organized, effective communication. At these companies, they worked on 0 to 1 products, which grew from a small founding team to massive organizations. From the beginning, good communication that allowed engineers to stay in flow and also get the information they needed was the secret to both speed and growth.\n\nNow, they’re on a mission to supercharge every team with better communication tools.\n\n### **Our Ask: Try Us!**\n\nIf you’re building a product, talking to users, fundraising, selling to customers, and just trying to do it all — let Patchwork help.\n\nEmail [info@atpatchwork.com](mailto:nikki@atpatchwork.com) and we’ll onboard you!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KVH-patchwork-your-team-s-ai-powered-communication-tool", "votes": 56, "created_at": "2024-02-27T18:50:20.637Z" } ] }, { "id": 29330, "name": "Speck", "slug": "speck", "former_names": [ "Glance" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/92df358869feb4920733e3073e8f52fec0afe8e8.png", "website": "https://speck.sh", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Speck helps professionals in back-to-back calls on their meeting tasks. It automates pre-call research, listens to every word, learns, and creates meeting notes, follow-ups, action items based on how you do them. 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Our customers use Speck to extract data, perform LinkedIn outreach, collect the newest research papers, gather data about social media groups, and more!\n\nHey everyone! We’re Lucas and Raghav, the founding team behind Speck.\n\n## 🤔 The Problem\n\nPeople spend precious time doing menial and repetitive browser-based tasks, such as entering data into CRMs, posting multiple job listings for recruiting, reaching out to contacts on LinkedIn, extracting data from websites, and other similar chores.\n\nThese tasks are irritating for most knowledge workers, yet they do not have any way to simplify their workflow. Low-code solutions like UiPath cost tens of thousands of dollars and require a dedicated automations team. On the other hand, executing web-based workflows is outside of the scope of workflow tools like Zapier. \n\n## 💡 The Solution\n\nWith Speck, you can automate any workflow easily **without having any coding knowledge**. Our browser extension allows you to **record workflows just by doing them**. Speck automatically translates your workflows into repeatable steps, making it simple for anyone to create web-based automations and data extraction processes\n\nBy keeping track of intent, the **browser automations will repair themselves automatically** when something goes wrong! These workflows can be executed live or scheduled asynchronously on a remote browser. Now, our users can spend less time doing menial chores and more time focusing on higher-impact tasks. \n\nSince pivoting 2 weeks ago and launching our beta, we’ve gotten our extension published on the Chrome Web Store and onboarded our first paying customers.\n\nMaking an automation takes less than 60 seconds.\n\n**Step 1** - Record your workflow\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79389&key=user_uploads/1500358/94fd9ad1-319a-4bc7-a0a7-6bb294fa7e60)\n\n**Step 2** - Extract Text\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79389&key=user_uploads/1500358/47e0ad7b-7e38-4df6-9be1-7ae58a6fbf85)\n\n**Step 3** - Run\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79389&key=user_uploads/1500358/1560a1cc-c750-4884-bc8f-07d9391ea920)\n\nAnd this is just the start! Together with our users, we’re making progress towards our vision of an autonomous LLM agent capable of generating complex automations - one workflow at a time.\n\n## 🏆 The Team\n\nWe’re both CS from UT Dallas. 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He was a founding engineer of [Sweep](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sweep), an autonomous LLM coding agent with 7k stars. Computer vision researcher for the BRIAR government project. 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[Give it a try](https://circleback.ai) in your next meeting or [schedule a demo](https://cal.com/alihaghani/circleback-demo) to see how it works.\n\n—\n\nHey all! We’re [Ali](https://linkedin.com/in/alihaghani) and [Kevin](https://linkedin.com/in/kevinjacyna) and we’re building Circleback to help teams get the most out of every meeting.\n\n## 🧨 Problem\n\n* Meetings are an **untapped goldmine of useful information**\n* 90% of what is shared in meetings is **forgotten within a week**\n* **Finding what was discussed in meetings across teams is difficult** because meeting docs are difficult to find, incomplete, or non-existent\n\n## 💡 Solution\n\nCircleback helps you and your team get the most out of every meeting.\n\n* We automatically write **meticulous notes** and **assign action items** for your meetings\n* Create workflows to **identify exactly what’s most important** to you\n* Automatically **action on important insights**, i.e. create new Linear tasks for feature requests that come up in customer demos or share meeting notes and action items on Slack\n* Quickly **find anything that was talked about** in your team’s meetings using the AI-powered search\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77984&key=user_uploads/126963/02ee5577-44c0-4878-80bc-46f497215e4e)\n\n## ✨ How it works\n\nOnce you’ve connected your calendar, you can choose which meetings you’d like Circleback to take notes for. For in-person conversations, you can record directly from your phone/laptop or import an audio/video file.\n\nAfter each meeting, you’ll see the AI-written notes, grouped by topic, alongside assigned action items, the transcript, and a recording of the meeting (if enabled). You can share meeting notes with the rest of your team directly on Circleback and externally via email or a shareable link.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77984&key=user_uploads/126963/f5003c7c-789c-4c40-a6b7-406e9054cd29)\n\nEasily see what outstanding action items are assigned to you, your team, and people you’ve met with from the Action Items tab.\n\nSet up powerful automations from the Workflows tab–choose which meetings you’d like your workflow to run for (i.e. only calls with Jessica or only calls tagged as Weekly Planning), then create an insight you’d like to identify and choose what you’d like to do with it.\n\n#### More about Circleback\n\n* Works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, BlueJeans, and in-person meetings\n* Supports over 100 languages with industry-leading transcription accuracy\n* Integrates with Google Calendar and Microsoft Calendar\n* AI-powered search can answer questions using the context of past meetings, turning your team’s conversations into a real-time knowledge base\n* Integrates directly with Notion, Slack, HubSpot, Salesforce, and more with webhook support for custom integrations\n* Lets you share meeting notes and recordings with attendees and the rest of your team\n\n## 🧡 Asks\n\n* [Try out Circleback](https://circleback.ai) for free!\n* [Schedule a demo](https://cal.com/alihaghani/circleback-demo) if you’re curious about using Circleback at your company\n* Email us at [founders@circleback.ai](mailto:founders@circleback.ai) with any thoughts or feedback–we’d love to learn about specific workflows you have around meetings\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77984&key=user_uploads/126963/487989f9-512c-402c-9d70-04c9fb504760)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KHo-circleback-ai-powered-meeting-notes-and-workflows", "votes": 51, "created_at": "2024-01-30T18:31:34.403Z" } ] }, { "id": 29421, "name": "Thorntale", "slug": "thorntale", "former_names": [ "DataFlock (formerly EventFlock)", "DataFlock", "thorntale" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a98fa4032269294b4a2694ca5ae7b46bf5c449c2.png", "website": "https://thorntale.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Thorntale is the easiest (and prettiest) way to create your next presentation. 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[**_Try the beta here!_**](https://www.thorntale.com/?utm_source=yc_launch_page&utm_medium=yc_launch_post&utm_campaign=launch_day&utm_id=01&utm_content=top_link)\\\n\\\nHey y’all, we’re Dori, Ellen, and John, the team behind [thorntale.](https://www.thorntale.com/?utm_source=yc_launch_page&utm_medium=yc_launch_post&utm_campaign=launch_day&utm_id=01&utm_content=top_link) We’re building the software we wish we had in our pre-founder days.\n\n# \n\n# **❌ The Problem: Communicating data is hard. Current tools make it harder.**\n\nCompanies invest heavily in data teams and advanced tooling but still struggle to incorporate their work into decision-making. We believe this is due to where these findings get communicated: the presentation. Existing presentation tools do not integrate with the rest of the data stack, so instead people screenshot charts and copy-paste tables into their decks. This creates situations where data is miscommunicated, missing, or inaccurate. \n\n# 🌟 **Our Solution: Presentation software that integrates with your data stack.**\n\nBy connecting live data to your presentations and starting from professionally curated templates, presentations in thorntale aren’t just pretty, they’re functional. We create charts in-app that match your presentation’s theme, so you can focus on telling a persuasive story instead of formatting. Using thorntale, you’ll save time and make better business decisions. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78798&key=user_uploads/1490574/f3af5be2-75bf-46ff-9ba4-056c065197cb)\n\n# 🧩 **Who We Are**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78798&key=user_uploads/1490574/528f12a3-8f5e-40b0-acfc-1ce5f838135a)\n\nfrom left to right:\n\n[**Ellen**](https://linkedin.com/in/ellenfkh)**:** Backend & Infrastructure. Previously big data at Microsoft, SRE at Cruise, distributed systems, and real-time video at Mux.\n\n[**John**](https://linkedin.com/in/john-h-stimac)**:** Frontend, backend, & data engineer. Worked on big data at Yelp, and most recently did data engineering at Clockwise.\n\n[**Dori**](https://linkedin.com/in/doris-lee-wilson)**:**  Data Scientist turned CEO. Crafted data stories at Uber, CircleCi, Mux, Pave, and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.\n\n# **🙏 Our Ask: Try us!**\n\n* Try us out! We’re improving the product every day, and want to know what you think! [Get Started.](https://bit.ly/3uClStS)\n* If you’re a business, we’re more than happy to build custom templates and make documents using your branding. [Book time with us.](https://calendly.com/d/3xd-4y9-km2/chat-with-thorntale)\n* Connect us with the people in your life who regularly make presentations using data by sharing this post or emailing [founders@thorntale.com.](mailto:founders@thorntale.com)\n\nSend any questions, inquiries, or pretty charts our way at [founders@thorntale.com.](mailto:founders@thorntale.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KUw-thorntale-presentation-software-built-for-data-storytelling", "votes": 56, "created_at": "2024-02-27T07:26:35.110Z" } ] }, { "id": 29451, "name": "Basepilot", "slug": "basepilot", "former_names": [ "Nexus" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2ab7f5055bddb0617e16226359b7395d5b8354b2.png", "website": "https://www.basepilot.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Basepilot helps insurers, TPAs and MGAs streamline claims operations with line-of-business-specific AI agents. Companies like Old Republic International, Zurich & others use Basepilot to make claims operations more efficient, less costly and more intelligent.\r\n\r\nBasepilot is founded by Ken Hendricks and Pascal Wieler.\r\n\r\nInterested to try it out? 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We build AI coworkers that collaborate with humans to automate work. \n\nPrior to Basepilot, I led product at a B2B fintech startup and grew it to 3M users in <12 months, with customers like Visa and Bank of America. Before that, I built a computer vision startup out of university that reached $250K ARR with partnerships like Deloitte, KPMG, EY and BMW. \n\nBorn in Mumbai, brought up in New Zealand, before moving to SF. Studied Mechatronics eng.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/ken-hendricks-96181611a", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/KenHendricks_", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/95ea5d358502a369eef7fe3b31b95f6163163e8a.jpg" }, { "user_id": 842820, "full_name": "Pascal Wieler", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Hi! I'm Pascal, Co-founder of Basepilot. I grew up in Germany.\n\nPassionate about AI agents, robotics & outdoor sports 🤖🚵. Studied CS MSc. @CMU MLD & KIT. 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Excited to be a part of YC, let's chat!", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/pascal-wieler", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/pascalwieler", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9cec26f8bcb697fe04fa422fb47bc94bd67cab4c.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Startups building AI assistants pop in latest YC batch", "url": "https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/inno/stories/news/2024/04/04/ai-assistants-y-combinator-demo-day.html", "date": "Apr 04, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 79264, "title": "🚀 Basepilot: Your AI employee to automate repetitive browser work in minutes", "tagline": "Saving businesses time and resources by automating back-office work across your browser, such as filling out forms, entering information into a CRM, & much more.", "body": "Hey everyone! We’re [**Pascal**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pascal-wieler/) and [**Ken**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-hendricks-96181611a/), here to introduce you to [**Basepilot**](https://www.basepilot.com/).\n\n# **TL;DR:**\n\nBasepilot creates AI assistants to automate repetitive and manual work across a browser. We help companies save 30% of their time weekly and cut costs, freeing up resources for more high-value tasks. For example, finance, recruitment, or sales teams can automate mundane back-office tasks within a few clicks and a quick demonstration.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79264&key=user_uploads/842820/08fef875-2fb5-427c-a017-7cf356bd6ed7)\n\n# **Where Basepilot can help you:**\n\n* **Sales** - To help automate sales outreach, prospecting, and follow-ups.\n* **Recruitment** - To help with sourcing candidates and clients, and analyzing and triaging profiles.\n* **Finance** - To help fill in applications/forms, transfer data, do accounting ops, and update customer details.\n* & any other manual task across your browser!\n\n# **Problem - 30% of a business’s total time and resources is wasted on mundane repetitive work**\n\nCurrently, businesses employ teams of knowledge workers (in sales, ops, recruitment, finance, and more) that face a lot of manual and repetitive processes that slow them down. Although critical to get done, these tasks take hours away from doing more high-value work leading to frustration and lower output among teams.\n\n**For a business, this results in:**\n\n* 30% of their team’s time wasted on mindless tasks\n* Wasted resources spent on hiring more people to handle the workload\n* Increased error rates through manual boring work\n\nFor example, a recruitment firm spends 8+ hours/week per recruiter on repetitive admin work to source candidates, analyze applications and enter data, instead of talking to candidates!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79264&key=user_uploads/842820/e1bb23d2-968a-4748-be21-d45be443f4f1)\n\n**Existing solutions suck!**\n\n* Off-the-shelf tools often don’t work as workflows are very specific to a company.\n* Automating processes with tools like UI Path is extremely expensive, requires specialist automation engineers and takes several weeks or months to set up.\n\n# **Solution - Automate repetitive tasks in minutes**\n\nBasepilot makes it super easy for a business to build and train their own AI employees, enabling anyone in the company to automate their mundane and repetitive work, freeing up time for more high-value tasks.\n\n\n\nWe designed Basepilot with these core principles in mind:\n\n* **Works where you work:** Basepilot works across the tools you already use right in your browser as a Chrome extension. No need to adopt new tools or change your workflows.\n* **Teach it like a human:** There’s no need to get technical or hire an expensive automation team, simply train your new assistant to complete work, just like you’d teach a human: by showing and telling.\n* **Faster ROI (at lower cost):** Automate workflows in minutes, not weeks or months. Unlike traditional automation tools, Basepilot can get set up and operational in a fraction of the time & cost.\n* **Keep control:** Basepilot operates in your tabs, allowing you to check in and see what’s happening in real-time while you focus on more high-value work, e.g. engaging in customer conversations while Basepilot sources new leads in the background.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79264&key=user_uploads/842820/ce3bce79-8335-4901-9c9d-b6cd949a410b)\n\n# **Meet Ken & Pascal 🇳🇿🇩🇪➡️🇺🇸**\n\n[**Pascal**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pascal-wieler/) & [**Ken**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-hendricks-96181611a/) both independently traveled to San Francisco in the summer of 2023 (from Germany & New Zealand respectively). We came here without knowing each other to explore the startup space and build the future 💪🏼🔨🚀. While in SF, we met through common friends, vibed well, and started working together. We moved across the world to work together in Europe, and got into YC - which brought us back to the city! Super grateful to be back! ❤️😍\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79264&key=user_uploads/842820/58e95fa6-361d-4a33-8ddb-a2a1fedf1e26)\n\nWe were inspired by the new wave of AI capabilities and are passionate about unlocking more human creativity by automating away the processes we all absolutely despise!\n\n## **👋 Ask: How you can help**\n\n* Reach out if you have a mundane workflow that you’d wish to be automated! [**Email us here**](mailto:founders@basepilot.com) or if you have 10 minutes to chat, please book a time with us [**here**](https://calendar.app.google/GKNVb1A5DKcQ9qjV9).\n* Connect us to companies that employ large teams to do repetitive back-office tasks in your network (e.g. logistics, insurance, construction, etc.). [**Click here**](mailto:founders@basepilot.com).\n* Follow us on [**LinkedIn**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/basepilot) and [**Twitter/X**](https://twitter.com/basepilot) and join our [**Discord**](https://discord.gg/kdJGwfdJhG).\n\nBasepilot is currently in private beta, working closely with early customers. Email us to schedule a demo at [**founders@basepilot.com**](mailto:founders@basepilot.com) or book a time in our [**calendar**](https://calendar.app.google/GKNVb1A5DKcQ9qjV9). Looking forward to hearing from you!\n\nFor more details, visit [basepilot.com](https://www.basepilot.com/).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KcS-basepilot-your-ai-employee-to-automate-repetitive-browser-work-in-minutes", "votes": 133, "created_at": "2024-03-11T17:25:32.460Z" } ] }, { "id": 29670, "name": "Zuni", "slug": "zuni", "former_names": [ "Letterhead", "Solarflare" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/54c16278e26e312781305ede7147b41779a30619.png", "website": "https://zuni.app", "all_locations": "London, England, United Kingdom; Remote", "long_description": "Zuni builds AI agents that take on high-value professional work end-to-end - the email, admin, and internal tooling that eats a knowledge worker's week.", "one_liner": "AI agents for high-value professional work", "team_size": 1, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1721689611, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "Productivity", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "regions": [ "United Kingdom", "Europe", "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/zuni", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/zuni.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "London", "country": "GB", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/54c16278e26e312781305ede7147b41779a30619.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 813570, "full_name": "George Seabridge", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Building AI agents for professional work", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-seabridge/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5d077cf5e3de8d57c839c90f781bebb3ff5e902e.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [] }, { "id": 29671, "name": "Scape", "slug": "scape", "former_names": [ "Reworks", "reworks" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/da2a18f57eb383e7b549123ed7951b996d544ab5.png", "website": "https://scape.app", "all_locations": "Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden", "long_description": "Scape is the intelligent email inbox, built for the one billion professionals who spend most of their workday in email. 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Software engineers spend 70% their day reading existing code to gather context - we’re fixing that. \n\n**Our Ask:** Try our [VS Code Extension](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CodeViz.codeviz#review-details), [tell us](https://calendly.com/liam-codeviz/15min) what you think, or [set up](https://calendly.com/liam-codeviz/15min) CodeViz for your team!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83115&key=user_uploads/885544/6ee8d3c7-0363-426c-ac46-c0a861aa4f7e)\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n—\n\nHi everyone, we’re [Liam](https://www.linkedin.com/in/liam-prevelige/) and [Will](https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamlmccall/), and we’re building CodeViz, the dev tool we wish we had at Tesla. From potato cannons to arbitrage bots, we’ve been hacking projects together since we met at Dartmouth 5 years ago.\n\n### ❗The Problem:\n\nLike most developers, Will and I were frustrated that 70% of our time was spent reading existing code to gather context, instead of actually writing code.\n\n### 🛠️ Our Solution:\n\nOur VS Code extension creates an interactive map of codebases - from high-level system architecture to function calls. Our goal is to give all developers the deep contextual knowledge that’s core to 10x engineers.\n\nEngineers from Amazon, Roblox, and Microsoft are already using CodeViz to quickly understand and navigate code.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83115&key=user_uploads/885544/c3dbf88d-250b-4976-a701-375f4883d2cc)\n\nNavigate through the actual flow of your code, rather than file structure.\n\n### Our Ask: Try Codeviz!\n\n* Install [CodeViz](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CodeViz.codeviz#review-details) from the VS Code Marketplace and give it a spin in your projects.\n* Schedule a [chat](https://calendly.com/liam-codeviz/15min) to learn about our business and enterprise packages.\n\nIf you hear your friends or co-founders complaining about navigating, organizing, or understanding code, please send them our way!\n\nReach out anytime:\n\n[liam@codeviz.ai](mailto:liam@codeviz.ai) | [will@codeviz.ai](mailto:will@codeviz.ai)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83115&key=user_uploads/885544/427fd052-e909-40cc-ba4a-e103353612ac)\n\nWill and I at Dartmouth’s graduation last year", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LcZ-codeviz-visual-map-gps-for-your-codebase", "votes": 91, "created_at": "2024-08-16T14:25:38.466Z" } ] }, { "id": 29690, "name": "Kenley", "slug": "kenley", "former_names": [ "contextBase", "AnswerGrid" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/370ceddd78b7595f7c6ce9ee17f1e804ef0ad8d2.png", "website": "https://kenley.ai/", "all_locations": "London, England, United Kingdom", "long_description": "", "one_liner": "AI Agents for Advisory & Financial Services.", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1716911130, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "Finance", "Productivity", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "regions": [ "United Kingdom", "Europe" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kenley", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/kenley.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "London", "country": "GB", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/kenley/", "x_url": "https://x.com/KenleyAI", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/370ceddd78b7595f7c6ce9ee17f1e804ef0ad8d2.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "David Lieb", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/david-lieb" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 306562, "full_name": "Bolu Ben-Adeola", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Bolu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kenley. 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It’s the fastest way to apply what your firm already knows to the work in front of you.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90290&key=user_uploads/306562/7c6e4045-3142-4467-bd0a-afab99425e7b)\n\n**Uncover conversational insights**\n\nEvery consulting project generates valuable insight through expert interviews, internal meetings, and client working sessions, but most of it goes unstructured and unused. Kenley captures and synthesizes these conversations to surface themes, recommendations, and supporting evidence. Results are traceable to source, so nothing is lost in translation. Teams can move from raw transcripts to cited insight in minutes, not hours.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90290&key=user_uploads/306562/d24e4fc6-ad08-48de-a731-4433ad8c8a1c)\n\n**Generate high-quality decks**\n\nKenley helps consultants draft slides, summaries, and deliverables that reflect the firm’s voice and standards. 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We’re doing to law firm intake what AI receptionists are doing to customer service—offering real-time lead qualification, 24/7 availability, and seamless CRM integration at a fraction of the cost.\n\nWe help law firms increase revenue by automating intake and monetizing unqualified leads through a compliant referral network.\n\nSince most people here aren’t our target customers, **we’d appreciate introductions to lawyers, legal intake teams, or law firm operators.**\n\nThe fully-managed system that intakes, follows-up with, manages, and updates clients. No human intervention required.\n\n---\n\n## **The Problem**\n\nLaw firms are overpaying for basic answering services that do little more than take messages.\n\n* **Missed after-hours calls:** Most law firms only accept intake during business hours, losing many clients that call after-hours.\n* **Limited Intake Staff:** Not every incoming potential client is vetted and then duly followed up with, because intake staff is already exhausted with a lot of work, and can cost $42K a year per intake specialist.\n* **High costs:** Services like Answering Legal charge $3.91/minute, and Ruby charges $235/month for just 50 minutes, they employ a human sweatshop somewhere in Georgia and sometimes in India which potential clients do not prefer.\n* **Wasted leads:** Many law firms turn away the majority of inbound leads without monetizing them through referrals.\n\n---\n\n## **Our Solution – AI Call Intake with our Lead Referral Network**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87857&key=user_uploads/455465/5e7010ea-bb2a-4c8d-a7d0-8a825fbffac3)\n\nDench replaces expensive human receptionists with AI voice agents that:\n\n* **Qualify leads in real-time:** Our NLP-driven AI assesses lead quality during calls, not after.\n* **Offer 24/7 availability:** No missed calls, no lost leads.\n* **Integrate seamlessly with CRMs:** Auto-syncs data to platforms like Clio Grow, eliminating manual entry.\n* **Monetize unqualified leads:** Converts rejected cases into paid referrals through a compliant network. We transfer the call to another AI representing another law firm that handles that kind of cases, and micro-transact the lead live, helping law firm earn for the referred lead.\n* **Schedule Consultations Automagically:** Intake staff would not have to call them back for anything as our AI handles all the followups, payments and everything right up to the end of the pipeline.\n\n---\n\n## **Key Features**\n\n* **Affordable pricing:** $0.99/minute, undercutting traditional services while offering superior automation.\n* **AI lead routing:** Instantly matches callers with the right attorney based on practice area.\n* **Regulatory compliance:** Built to comply with state-specific referral rules, ensuring ethical fee-sharing.\n* **Detailed analytics:** Track call performance, lead quality, and conversion rates.\n* **Automated Scheduling:** Intake specialist would never have to call again later, the AI handles all the followups until the consultation is scheduled.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87857&key=user_uploads/455465/e9ee6fdc-c09b-42d9-833f-aaa086c85686)\n\n---\n\n## **Market Opportunity**\n\n* 450,000+ law firms in the U.S.\n* 150,000+ mid-sized firms (5–20 attorneys) — our core target.\n* Average mid-sized firm handles 80–100 calls/month.\n* Law firms in the US spend upwards of $4.5B for managing intake, and $22B in marketing and lead-generation expenses.\n\n**Revenue potential**\n\n* **Bottom-up Revenue Projection:**\n\n 150,000 × $0.99 (per call minute) × 4 (avg duration) × 100 calls x 12 months = **$712.8M ARR**\n* **1% market penetration:** $8.5M ARR\n* **5% market penetration:** $42.6M ARR\n* **10% market penetration:** $85.2M ARR, plus $12M+ from referral fees\n\n---\n\n## **Live Demo**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87857&key=user_uploads/455465/5a4800b4-072e-4923-8599-65c83c9bf055)\n\n---\n\n## **Founding Team**\n\n* **Mark Rachapoom:** Co-Founder & CEO of [Dench.com](http://dench.com/). Founded Merse. Vercel AI Accelerator. Developed an app that reached #3 on the App Store.\n* **Kumar Abhirup:** Co-Founder & CTO of [Dench.com](http://dench.com/), Worked alongside Naval Ravikant at Airchat, sold [itsbeam.com](http://itsbeam.com/) at age 16.\n\n---\n\n## **Our Ask**\n\n* **Introductions:** Know any lawyers, legal intake teams, or firm operators? We’d love to meet them. Please introduce them to us. Here’s a blurb you can send them easily:\\\n “[Dench.com](http://dench.com/) is an AI Intake Specialist Platform that take calls from prospective clients, talks to them (sounds totally human, it laughs, does uhms and aahs), vets them, conflict checks, does follow-ups and books an appointment, or it forwards the call to a human after client pre-qualification.\n\n They can work after-hours 24x7, they also integrate with Clio/Lawmatics.\n\n They convert rejected cases into paid referrals through their referral network, to land you huge profits over “wasted” leads.\n\n For a simple demo, try calling (415) 997-2939 as someone with any legal dispute, property or other variety of issues you can possibly imagine.”\n* **Beta testers:** We’re offering free trials to law firms interested in AI-powered intake.\n\n📧 **Email:** [founders@dench.com](mailto:hey@dench.com)\n\nJoin us in transforming legal lead qualification and full-stack lead generation and management.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mr3-dench-com-ai-intake-for-law-firms", "votes": 50, "created_at": "2025-02-20T16:40:07.404Z" }, { "id": 82025, "title": "Merse: The Netflix for audio-visual comics", "tagline": "Comic reader and AI creator with audio effects", "body": "![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdBaxrK7CcR3gzn-A00Ocq7nz7Gv5H3RculiBueZTO77gTL_Gw-Fmr-__xZItu9CxLHXoBQltCt2V2jf7XJqBJpx4leYKA8XptCBo0QS-llFeavgHdDdTQkWQ5Zg5HCOdG7Un6hnFNLBv1Zqn-bHc5I93gz?key=qRiSZgvhLfMtdDoMZNm-xA)\n\n# **⏰ TLDR;**\n\n**WE are the Netflix for Audio-Visual Comics,** with a wide range of premium entertaining content for comic readers.\n\n**YOU** can **HEAR THE CHARACTERS SPEAK** in 6 languages, with immersive soundtracks and crispy audio effects.\n\n**ARTISTS** can **EARN A LIVING** by creating, uploading, publishing, and monetizing comics. With a wide range of characters, voices and soundtracks to choose from. Artists can also generate audio effects and soundtracks at will using Merse AI. Our AI tooling handles text and voice translation of speech bubbles.\n\n**GET THE APP** @ [merse.co](http://merse.co/)\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n# **⚠️ The Problem**\n\n**Creating comics is a labor-intensive process** that requires significant time and effort.\n\nDespite the popularity of comics, producing them often **takes hours of meticulous work** using tools like Adobe Illustrator, or requires plain drawings. This limits the number of creators who can participate and the volume of content available to readers.\n\nThe comic reading experience has been the same for decades. On the other hand, **readers are looking for new and more immersive experiences.** While static images are the norm, there is a growing demand for interactive content that brings characters and stories to life with character voices and sounds.\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n# **🫶 Our Solution — Audio-Visual Comics**\n\n[**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uidjDsilxms**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uidjDsilxms)\n\nThe Merse platform enables creators to generate high-quality, audio comics quickly and easily, and offers readers an immersive experience. You focus on crafting engaging stories; Merse handles all your tech, distribution, and monetization.\n\n---\n\n# **📸 Features**\n\n**• Generate comics using AI:** Our GenAI features create detailed comic panels from your scripts, creates compelling voices in multiple languages for each speech bubble, with AI generated sound effects, significantly reducing the time from concept to publication.\n\n**• Audio Effects + Soundtracks:** Be it the sound of gulping water, or cracking knuckles, it has it all.\n\n**• Read and Hear in 6 different languages:** 🇮🇳Hindi 🇫🇷French 🇨🇳Chinese\\\n🇯🇵Japanese 🇰🇷Korean 🇺🇸English\n\n**• Monetization options:** Choose how to monetize your content – keep it free, or charge users per episode.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXd_bJUbA6bx3M3KxAr3qIM5R3W0A7geU2auFE-r1w35sW10EbGwzQrQVX6CtUZbevZVH5spBJFvLvVO91nOrE2QIGe4hoNybDPpr4Ffx36nKv75GLxCm7-chh9TkehdTSUf2JISQdu0etlbY0d74iDjFJvs?key=qRiSZgvhLfMtdDoMZNm-xA)\n\n---\n\n# **🏪 The Market**\n\nThe biggest incumbent in this industry is Naver Webtoons. It’s the YouTube for static, hand-drawn comics. Over 120,000 artists draw and upload their episodes and get paid over $27M for their work, clocking in a revenue of over $1.4B a year and 170M monthly active readers.\n\n---\n\n# **🇺🇸 The Founders**\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdJDl22TQVliZe38bVqEVmAzhxeTY-H4BiFyI2Z0o2XixgFedjKv1y7nrELdGwiRR3WUXy9q65n4eww-gwuGo_wOeOzTKpQbeLvm0H-hxUTG_QbqdzHgabiC8A3QvAVICKuCI_TRsr51SGmnyPHFfajxKno?key=qRiSZgvhLfMtdDoMZNm-xA)\n\n[**Mark Rachapoom**](https://x.com/markrachapoom)\n\n**CEO of Merse,** 21-year-old founder, an engineer at heart with a great sense of design, college dropout, and fellow at Vercel AI Accelerator. He created Diary Dingo, an iOS journaling app that hit the top 3 in the App Store's Lifestyle category within 24 hours of launch.\n\n[**Kumar Abhirup**](https://twitter.com/kumareth)\n\n**CTO of Merse,** 20-year-old founder, dropped out of high school in Nashik, India, and worked alongside Naval Ravikant as an **Engineer at Airchat**, **1x Exited founder** @ [itsbeam.com](http://itsbeam.com)\n\n---\n\n---\n\n# **🙏 Our Ask**\n\n• **Connect us to creators and readers:** We’re looking to connect with comic artists, writers, and enthusiasts interested in innovative storytelling methods. Please reach us at [hey@merse.co](mailto:hey@merse.co), and we’ll follow up.\n\n• **Create on Merse:** Are you a passionate comic creator looking to transform your storytelling process? Start creating on our platform and own your storytelling journey! Share the comics you love on the Merse feed and on your socials, and help us gauge what content works best.\n\n• **We are looking to seed content:** CONTENT IS KING! It’s important we have a good catalog of content before future launches. If you want to help us with filling Merse up with exciting content, and have ideas, or want to work with us, contact [hey@merse.co](mailto:hey@merse.co)\n\n• **If you have experience going viral on TikTok / Reddit or are a good growth hacker and would love to help us**, contact us.\n\nJoin us in helping artists story-tell with Merse.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82025&key=user_uploads/455465/d512f5b4-fb4e-402c-8d0e-c7e82e3e6ed6)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LKz-merse-the-netflix-for-audio-visual-comics", "votes": 27, "created_at": "2024-07-10T14:18:03.616Z" } ] }, { "id": 29738, "name": "Anara", "slug": "anara", "former_names": [ "Unriddle" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c200677edb53d6070e302f09d7f34173e19a46f2.png", "website": "https://anara.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Anara is AI for scientific advancement. We help researchers find, understand and write scientific documents, together.\r\n\r\nWe started working on Anara two years ago. In that time:\r\n- we’ve grown to 3M users spanning hundreds of major colleges and research-led companies,\r\n- we are fast approaching $10M in yearly revenue,\r\n- 600M+ people have seen our content across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube,\r\n- and we raised $3M from YC and the founders of Github and Reddit.\r\n\r\nWe're a small, tight-knit team with huge ambitions. 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We help industry and academic researchers read, write, and organize research papers really quickly.\n\nWe launched just over a year ago, and today, we have 1.3M users, including teams at Johns Hopkins, Stanford University, and Roche Pharmaceutical.\n\nTry it here: [unriddle.ai](https://www.unriddle.ai/?utm_campaign=yclaunch)\n\n### **Problem**\n\nUnderstanding the key themes, findings, and gaps in a field often involves sifting through hundreds of research papers. It’s a time-consuming and disorganized process.\n\nAnd when working across multiple disciplines, researchers may lack the contextual or domain knowledge needed to fully grasp a paper’s significance.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83362&key=user_uploads/1365789/20c1dfde-aa65-4195-b034-672f74d6d2d4)\n\n### **Solution**\n\nUnriddle uses language models to help researchers quickly and deeply understand papers, write literature reviews, prepare citations, and keep the entire research team on the same page.\n\nIt understands the context behind your research – synthesizing relevant findings, highlighting connections between papers, and suggesting related studies you might have missed.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83362&key=user_uploads/1365789/4a10250b-cd45-4731-bce7-5c93d3ae2322)\n\n### **Ask**\n\nIf you read or write research papers in any capacity, [try Unriddle](https://www.unriddle.ai/?utm_campaign=yclaunch) and let me know what you think at [naveed@unriddle.ai](mailto:naveed@unriddle.ai).\n\nIntros to research teams, particularly those in life sciences (e.g., biotech, pharma, and healthcare).\n\n— Naveed\n\n:)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LgY-unriddle-ai-research-assistant-for-industry-and-academic-research", "votes": 53, "created_at": "2024-08-23T21:48:16.163Z" } ] }, { "id": 29756, "name": "Stempad", "slug": "stempad", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ad2c2bac43ac73d823e1b7175c3e0daf2bec8e45.png", "website": "https://www.stempad.com", "all_locations": "Toronto, ON, Canada", "long_description": "You can think of Stempad as a Notion for science. It is the world's first true pen-and-paper alternative to fast scientific writing and collaborating. Quickly switch between different forms of technical visualization with the ease of a whiteboard and the convenience of your keyboard.\r\n\r\nStempad allows you to share your work, collaborate in real time, store your data, annotate, write papers, plan, takes notes, create presentations, and so much more. Our vision is to make it easier and faster for students and scientists to digitize and share their scientific ideas.", "one_liner": "Notion for science", "team_size": 1, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1719940977, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "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/stempad", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/stempad.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "Toronto", "country": "CA", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/stempad", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ad2c2bac43ac73d823e1b7175c3e0daf2bec8e45.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": 1948635, "full_name": "Ralph Rouhana", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Hey, I'm Ralph 👋 I founded Stempad in early 2024 to help me take notes in my final year of school. After getting it to several hundred users and a few paying subscribers, I saw the potential for schools, research teams, pharmaceutical companies, tutoring companies, and more. I've previously interned at BioRender (W18), Microsoft, and 5 other companies. 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Take notes, write research papers, create and conduct exams, collaborate in real-time, share your work with the world, and more. [_Try it out today._](https://www.stempad.io)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81908&key=user_uploads/1948635/e57ce43e-844e-47d0-976e-134291cca342)\n\nHi everyone, I’m [Ralph](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ralph-rouhana)! I’m on a mission to improve the way teachers, students, and scientists document and share their ideas.\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nHandwriting (via paper/tablet/board), a medium that is often substandard and that many struggle with, is currently the only viable way to do fast or impromptu scientific writing.\n\n* Students often resort to text editors unoptimized for science, such as Notion or Word, to take notes and write assignments.\n* Scientists use PowerPoint, wrestle with slow and expensive legacy software, and resort to handwriting to take notes, create writeups, or make presentations.\n* Remote tutors and their students require expensive tablets, styluses, and specialty software for a real-time digital whiteboard experience.\n* Professors often upload low quality scans of their messy handwritten class notes.\n\nThe list could go on. The ability to quickly and collaboratively document scientific ideas with a keyboard is a huge QOL and productivity boost for people and institutions doing science.\n\n# **Stempad To The Rescue 🔬**\n\nYou can think of Stempad as a **Notion for Science**. It is the world's first true pen-and-paper alternative for fast scientific writing. Quickly switch between different forms of technical visualization with the ease of a stylus and the convenience of your keyboard.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81908&key=user_uploads/1948635/de8cba51-6915-48fe-a808-35ed533080d1)\n\nStempad allows users to save, export and share their work, collaborate in real time, create and grade assignments, conduct remote exams, write research papers, take notes, create presentations, and so much more.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81908&key=user_uploads/1948635/260229ed-adfb-4d25-a074-f9130dc1f7fb)\n\n# **My Asks**\n\n* Introduce me to educators, students, scientists, and decision makers **at schools, pharmaceutical companies, research teams, edtech companies, tutoring companies, summer schools, and relevant STEM programs.** [Click here](mailto:ralph@stempad.io?subject=Introducing%20you%20to%20Ralph%20at%20Stempad).\n* If you or any founders you know have B2B SaaS products in the education and science industry, I’d love to learn from you. 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These organizations are overwhelmed by data and experimenting with generic AI tools that lack auditability, repeatability, and secure deployment. As a result, critical decisions are increasingly shaped by systems they do not fully control.\r\n\r\nCapitol runs entirely inside enterprise infrastructure and transforms proprietary data into structured, decision-grade artifacts such as due diligence reports, regulatory documentation, and executive intelligence. 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What was your experience applying, going through the batch, and fundraising at demo day?", "answer": "Brian Chesky encouraged us to apply. He hired Shaun at Airbnb. We wish we had done it earlier, but in some ways, the timing of this couldn’t be better. Brian believes the position we are in is very similar to Airbnb's right before they joined YC. And even similar dynamics to when Justin Kan made the last-minute referral for Airbnb’s founders (Brian, Joe, and Nate) to join YC. Going through the batch has been an incredible experience. Garry, Ooshma, and Aaron are phenomenal partners to work with and boil down opportunities and challenges to overcome to their essence. We’ve made huge strides in the batch regarding product velocity and customer acquisition. We’ve signed a $1.3m customer term sheet with one of the most influential media brands during YC! " }, { "question": "What's the history of your company from getting started until the present day? What were the big inflection points?", "answer": "Tom and I were collaborating on Covid-19 logistics applications leveraging AI models for HHS and the US DoD and the interfaces that prime USG integrators like IBM, SAP, and Deloitte produced were unusable. We saw an opportunity to develop integration and design standards for creating intelligent content leveraging models, and Capitol AI was born. We started the company with a contract from the 2nd largest health insurer in the US to automate data storytelling for their self-insured employer business line. We approached this problem with a mix of classical and bayesian statistical analysis and automating insight generation leveraging DBT. After GPT 3.5 was released we saw an opportunity to center our product stack around LLMs. We made a pivot away from healthcare and so that we could collect user data and feedback to move the product forward as quickly as possible. We now have built a product that is in high demand we just closed a $1.3m enterprise contract, with more to come. " }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "In the future, all content and data publishers will have an AI research layer. 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One of the founding designers of Airbnb, Shaun has been named one of Business Insider’s Top 75 Designers in Technology. Shaun has designed software products for technology giants, the government, and its agencies, including Google, the White House, DoD, NASA, CDC, and Motorola. At Airbnb, Shaun worked side by side with CEO Brian Chesky. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaunmodi/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/shaunmodi", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9ae194cbc0574b7170365c07d2b00ca313f7747a.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2079920, "full_name": "thomas hallaran", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Software engineer and technical manager with a product mindset. Two decades of experience, including IC and Director positions in academia, venture backed startups, and the US Federal Government.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomhallaran/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/2c1845b565cbe70e5f79c64541e056727aa150fc.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 83810, "title": "Capitol AI - Create powerful content from data", "tagline": "Infinitely smart research assistant + document editor that generates content from your data.", "body": "Hey! We're Shaun and Tom from [Capitol AI](https://www.capitol.ai), and we’re thrilled to announce the launch of Capitol 2.0.\n\n# **TL;DR**\n\nAfter we got into YC, we asked ourselves: “What would Microsoft Word look like if it were built in the age of AI?” Our answer: A product that seamlessly combines deep research, generative images + text, and AI-assisted editing.\n\n[**This is Capitol 2.0**](https://www.capitol.ai)\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXcBHZ-cSYPZzPy48Nm-rz78AXUraAmaYG7sk-AXyR5-_p4cYGaj0-5uztAEO_pXY0r56gOz_hbUB-4-rhfcnbiBW5hV-31m9crYfEFGFfPmP-Zlcm7xFLJAdQgA0njg42wh1M8cPNv84VoBlZ4LmGBRoiN3?key=F5l7R5NSBH7WxKd4nIiTpg)\n\n**The Business Problem**\n\nContent creation for business users is a slow, disjointed process involving multiple tools like search, proprietary databases, spreadsheets, slides, PDFs, and word processors. This complexity limits businesses with data-driven content creation workflows from scaling their content production and selling more products.\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\nCapitol simplifies content creation by integrating research and editing into one seamless experience—automating tasks to supercharge productivity.\n\nCapitol AI empowers enterprise customers with an API/SDK that automates the research and content creation process. It gives them the tools to personalize and scale their product offerings with less headcount.\n\n[**Watch the video**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFymrPfE-nk)\n\n# **B2B Customers**\n\n**Enterprise** \\\n[Politico](https://www.politico.com), the global authority on the intersection of politics, policy, and power has exclusively partnered with Capitol to empower all [Politico Pro](https://www.politicopro.com/) users with AI content creation for policy and regulatory analysis.\n\n**Startups & SMB**\\\nFor startups and small businesses with repeatable data-driven processes like Cloud GTM provider [Invisory](https://invisory.co/) and the innovative AI-powered grant platform [AI Grants](https://www.aigrants.app/), Capitol is automating the creation of **revenue-generating** business documents with our API-accessible artifact generation pipeline.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83810&key=user_uploads/23932/0950a826-5715-468c-b4f8-f00190aa1a77)\n\n# **Why Now?**\n\nIn a time when publishers are increasingly being courted by AI model builders for licensing deals, Capitol AI is arming the rebels—helping publishers compete for attention and grow their customer base by automating content generation from their high-value data. Capitol will be the category-defining product to unlock this transformation.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXeIy5Y14hTVoYbNBzaWtye7QpqmqdiBdbKm2y2gR9eXkUoA3T5QxSunxXgkx5_xbhjBb1pvLJM8ob_XM73c0CHtCHUldMDuoFzZjctfWKOoyzJForUKh3CcS2kI8o1S3JG9TyVrGZsCgyDPF_1KpgZjniI?key=F5l7R5NSBH7WxKd4nIiTpg)\n\n# \n\n# **Tech**\n\nCapitol includes a proprietary model orchestration, eval framework, chain of thought reasoning, and RAG pipelines that work together to enable our customers to generate and iterate on content in our product or via API.\n\n# **How Capitol Works** \n\nRewrite, reformat, & transform your content\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfnE4np5a5RdEIJQCWpT_4uN5J7iIdkrQ5lgeGgyDcZp0it1eAwRI7XKVti4Kzbm_bqn_JXf39BlJhRwEvxy7vbpHSaxWiCX1Oz8KpmZzmay4tz7DXc8U_Rj5RXioSH1JxZaFSFUG-eAMK_jt0qmrLjBVkx?key=lcBvgZFvISlTTsrwNwpBug)\n\n\nType ‘/’ anywhere to generate new content in-line\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXexmXK1RLuHucEMVk-ervnI0_dyyjJCU5JvPdpOPnnBl0gi0IYBBrsNZqz5A-5gqP42_ablQrRdWE9eqlLQMxYQRIrKoTG6ew8P464tXf_Ucs9WUfYHa-kBj-RItpCXa_w7Y2BdLpyt61eVKLVfBovnl3A?key=lcBvgZFvISlTTsrwNwpBug)\n\n\nGenerate new content with a single click \n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXeeLUmH9cppVSN5FGD9L1TfC8X5rDCgTyhx6hunL-s1wZLSq5kPzLWvvMkPCHrupc2z3efQfrO4wFzCq4Gqq1cJ9heMp1v9XXPeChbvN2bwMfZW2vLJT8E3weKkPwtov5b1nNUQ0A21qLfTTGIrOrUUvxoE?key=lcBvgZFvISlTTsrwNwpBug)\n\n### **🙏🏽 Our asks**\n\n# **1\\. Try Capitol**\n\nHead to [www.capitol.ai](http://www.capitol.ai) and try Capitol today. \\\nGet 3 months free with the special YC discount code **FOUNDERMODE**\n\n# **2\\. Integrate Capitol Into Your Product!**\n\nCapitol’s embedded content generation will transform your application’s user experience with real-time RAG and document creation from your data. By leveraging Capitol’s API/SDK, you can drive more engagement with your product and have more time with your users. Common use cases include:\n\n* Give your users the ability to create bespoke reports and insights, pulling forward hard-to-find data\n* Turn enterprise document search into a content generation flow\n* Transforming your knowledge base or help center into a more helpful experience for your customers\n* Let your users create social media content directly on your site\n\nContact us at [founders@capitol.ai](mailto:founders@capitol.ai)\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXcQrF-ciwjn96Unv9Js-UbJ4o1bJLuLzP_2Ihg1yGe45RIxjluJG0mzQ2j1tweHYGwRX8UOeOBC1HGmbmqnbi_KPK-38xKhxlpp6qeBisC54g56Tj3BArNJKgZbG8VnRRkK9loy__0DHmRR_D_Gf56pMPoD?key=F5l7R5NSBH7WxKd4nIiTpg)\n\n# **Founders**\n\n* [Shaun Modi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaunmodi/), CEO. One of the first product designers hired at Airbnb. Worked side by side with CEO Brian Chesky crafting the user experience of Airbnb. Fmr Google, Fmr Nasa, named one of Business Insider's Top 75 Designers in Technology. BFA from RISD.\n* [Tom Hallaran](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomhallaran/), CTO. Fmr Director US AI Center of Excellence, Fmr VP of engineering at acquired adtech startup Selectable Media, Initial technical lead and architect of the largest political payment app in US. Undergrad from Columbia.\n\n[X](https://x.com/usecapitol), [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/capitolai/), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/capitol.ai/)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lnm-capitol-ai-create-powerful-content-from-data", "votes": 68, "created_at": "2024-09-06T04:52:46.055Z" } ] }, { "id": 29968, "name": "Patched", "slug": "patched", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fb149bb2976430923620abcb50a97acc06ab22c0.png", "website": "https://patched.codes", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Patched executes regulated workflows in hours instead of days, with full auditability and control.", "one_liner": "Reliable AI for Regulated Ops", "team_size": 4, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1721263283, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "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/patched", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/patched.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/patched-codes", "x_url": "https://x.com/patchedcodes", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/patched-codes", "github_url": "https://github.com/patched-codes", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fb149bb2976430923620abcb50a97acc06ab22c0.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/994300e6fcde0eb974564dbec7eefbf71315965b.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Nicolas Dessaigne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 730289, "full_name": "Rohan Sood", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Rohan holds a Master's in optimization algorithms from NTU Singapore and is a second-time founder. He closed millions in enterprise revenue from customers in the defense, energy, and healthcare sectors, before being acquired in 2023 and was a recipient of the million-dollar CSA Innovation Award from the Singapore government.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/rohansood3107", "x_url": "https://x.com/rohan_sood15", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0a19e37efd4a2620cd2a0049e474715129f694b6.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "This YC-Backed Startup Automates Code Reviews and Documentation for Enterprises", "url": "https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-origins-evolution/this-yc-backed-startup-automates-code-reviews-and-documentation-for-enterprises/", "date": "Sep 09, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 83449, "title": "Patched - Reliable AI for Regulated Operations", "tagline": "Patched executes regulated workflows in hours instead of days, with full auditability and control.", "body": "> TLDR; Patched is reliable AI for regulated operations, automating high-risk workflows like law enforcement, risk compliance and banking reconciliation for multi-billion dollar clients.\n\nHey everyone, I am [Rohan](https://linkedin.com/in/rohansood3107) - a second-time founder who want to help regulated operations teams automate mission critical tasks that they feel are too high-risk for AI.\n\n**Problem**\n\nThe biggest challenge with enterprise AI isn’t building smarter agents.\n\nIt’s operating them reliably.\n\nAs organizations deploy AI across customer support, banking operations, compliance, cybersecurity, and software engineering, they quickly discover that autonomous systems are probabilistic, constantly evolving, and difficult to control. They fail silently, business logic changes over time, and reliability - not capability - becomes the bottleneck.\n\nThat’s why we built Patched.\\\n\\\n**Solution**\n\nAn AI Operations platform for mission-critical enterprise workflows. We help organizations build, deploy, and continuously improve reliable AI workflows where correctness, security, and auditability matter.\n\n**How does it work?**\n\nPatched combines deterministic workflow orchestration with AI reasoning.\n\nRather than asking a single AI agent to solve an entire problem, workflows are decomposed into structured execution steps. AI is used where intelligence adds value, while deterministic execution handles orchestration, integrations, validation, and business rules.\n\nEvery workflow is continuously monitored using execution outcomes, human feedback, and operational signals, enabling it to improve over time instead of slowly degrading.\n\n**What makes Patched different?**\n\n* **Structured Reliability**\\\n AI is embedded inside deterministic workflows, making complex operations predictable, observable, and repeatable.\n* **Built for Regulated Operations**\\\n Complete audit trails, human approvals, policy enforcement, and secure deployment options make Patched suitable for banking, government, cybersecurity, and other high-trust environments.\n* **Continuous Improvement**\\\n Production outcomes become feedback. Workflows evolve through closed-loop learning rather than relying on static prompts or one-off tuning.\n* **Enterprise Flexibility**\\\n Deploy with leading commercial models or open-source models, on cloud or air-gapped infrastructure, while integrating with your existing systems.\n\nThe future isn’t autonomous AI. It’s **reliable AI operations** - where users can trust AI to execute business-critical work at scale.\n\n**Our Ask:**\n\n* If you’re exploring a high-risk, high-volume usecase for AI in the banking/financial space, [we’d love to talk](https://calendar.app.google/9tqzA4DCkUp6MBR18).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lhx-patched-reliable-ai-for-regulated-operations", "votes": 45, "created_at": "2024-08-27T14:37:24.909Z" } ] }, { "id": 29969, "name": "OrgOrg", "slug": "orgorg", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3fb29e15efef66c7b44bb861d2b14c2d4cc13ca4.png", "website": "https://orgorg.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "OrgOrg is a suite of apps that keeps teams productive and healthy regardless of the size of your organization. Founded by the creator of Zenter (YC 07, acquired by Google and became Google Slides), OrgOrg is designed to be a natural extension of Google Workspace Apps to help run organizations collaborate better leading to higher productivity.\r\n\r\nToday the suite includes apps like:\r\n \r\n• Go links: Go links allows anyone in the org to easily name any link so team members can jump directly to the information that matters most: go/sales, go/production, go/anything-you-want.\r\n• Profiles with Personality: OrgOrg profiles are as insightful as they are delightful. They not only show you the expected org chart data, but also highlight accomplishments, how you like to work, and who you are as a person.\r\n• Goal tracking: Track, share, and collaborate on \"big rock\" goals on the cadence that makes sense for your team from daily to annually.\r\n• Branded New Tab: Keep the team focused the next major milestone, broadcast announcements, and keep important links top of mind every time a new browser tab is opened.\r\n• All Hands Q&A: Crowdsource questions, anonymously if desired, for large team meetings to make sure everyone's voice is heard, and the most top of mind questions are answered and recorded.\r\n• Smart Groups: Create rules based groups of people and use them to make sure the right people are in the right conversations and have the right access. For example, anyone with the title of \"Software Engineer\" should be in the #eng slack channel and eng@ google group.\r\n• On-call: Schedule smart rotations that take into account balancing the load and using signals from calendar schedules to make sure you don't waste time figuring out who can cover what in a fair way. Easily page the on-call from slack, API, or OrgOrg directly.\r\n• And more...\r\n\r\nAll the tools you need so you can spend more time focusing on your core business, and less time focusing on the complexity that comes from running an organization.", "one_liner": "Organizational productivity suite for companies", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1722926943, "tags": [ "B2B", "Productivity", "Collaboration", "Operations" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "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": [ { "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": "OrgOrg is the culmination of 25 years of being an operator. OrgOrg is the third company I’ve founded. My first, Zenter (YC S07), was acquired by Google and turned into Google Slide. I led much of the G Suite in the early days and grew the product to Google’s 4th billion dollar, and billion user product. As good as Google Workspace is as an employee productivity suite, it misses the mark as an organizational productivity suite. The tooling and applications needed to run organizations is largely missing from the suite. So, when I founded my second company in 2016, Humu, I found myself having to rebuild all the internal tools I’d come to rely on to run a productive organization. Things like great employee profiles, anonymous all hands Q&A software, go links, rules based groups of people, and about a dozen more tools and apps that are required run the organization were all absent from existing productivity suites. While there are point-wise solutions to solve some of these problems, it’s clear organizations need a suite of them that seamlessly operate together. In much the same way as the market for the employee productivity suite of docs, sheets and slides is larger than sum of the parts, so to is the market for an organizational productivity suite that brings the best tools together in a cohesive way." }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "OrgOrg is solving the problems that arise from organizational complexity, so we can all be more productive and have a bigger impact. I’ve always had a passion for making work better for people. I believe working is fundamental to the human experience. We have a natural propensity to come together and build things that are bigger than what we could do by ourselves. In it’s purest form, work gives us a sense of purpose and joy. However, as organizations add people and grow linearly, the complexity that comes from each addition team member grows exponentially. The added complexity of having to interact with more people causes inefficiencies in communication, reduced focus and velocity, and erodes the sense of purpose that is critical to building successful teams. These problems can be mitigated with the right tooling and technology. With the advent of AI, it’s clear we are on the brink of a change in the labor market as big as the industrial revolution. But, make no mistake, work isn’t going away — because humans will always find ways to work together. The companies that embrace the fundamental reasons why we work, and embrace the technology to help mitigate the challenges of working together, are going to be the ones that are successful. In 2007, with the advent of GSuite (Google Workspace), we fundamentally changed the way people work, and OrgOrg is going to do it again." } ], "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/orgorg", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/orgorg.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/93273339", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3fb29e15efef66c7b44bb861d2b14c2d4cc13ca4.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/dca6df90314789aed34142d59de11a1fa2c394a3.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 39282, "full_name": "Wayne Crosby", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Wayne is the CEO and founder of OrgOrg, an Organizational Productivity Suite. His first startup, Zenter (W07), was acquired by Google and became Google Slides. Wayne spent 10 years at Google building GSuite, Sign-In with Google, Google+, Applied Machine Intelligence, and more. In 2016, Wayne founded Humu, a company focused on making work better by using software and behavioral change. Humu was acquired by Perceptyx in 2023. Wayne has also been a visiting partner at YC for S23 & W24 batches.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/wcrosby/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/wcrosby", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a30dc9b080313e10ac0d3c8615e22d6fe7b9393a.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 87985, "title": "OrgOrg Screen Recording", "tagline": "Stop using Loom, Screen recording is now part of the OrgOrg Suite", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87985&key=user_uploads/39282/c43abadc-1483-4304-9217-ea072bc5b8db)\n\nThere are too many point wise SaaS products to run your org! Every couple of months, we knock off another one and include it in the OrgOrg suite. Today I'm excited to announce our Loom competitor, the Screen Recorder! 🚀\\\n[See a demo of in action, using the product itself](https://orgorg.com/recorder/33/34mxOUCLCWgqNYRUFZfnGk).\n\nWhether you need to record demos, pitches, bugs, or customer journeys, the Screen Recording app makes capturing and sharing information easy and engaging - connect OrgOrg to Slack to react with all your Slack emojis, too.\n\nIf you use loom today, this is an easy drop-in replacement. Now available to everyone, it streamlines communication and boosts productivity without paying for another product.\\\n\\\nThe OrgOrg suite now includes go/ links, an all-hands AMA, on-call, branded company new tabs, great employee profiles, an org chart, goals tracking, screen recording, and more is on its way. Let’s make all those internal tools work together better for WAY less.\n\nYou can sign up for a free OrgOrg account today at [orgorg.com](http://orgorg.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mt7-orgorg-screen-recording", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2025-02-25T00:07:37.549Z" }, { "id": 82924, "title": "OrgOrg - The Organizational Productivity Suite", "tagline": "Stop paying for all those pointwise internal tools", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82924&key=user_uploads/39282/98481f54-27d9-4673-8d6c-89454b13b5af)\n\n**TLDR;**\n\nWe’re building all the internal operational tools you need to run your company, no matter the size. My first startup (Zenter YC W07), sold to Google and became Google Slides. We changed the way more than a billion people work, and I’m doing it again with OrgOrg. Try it [here](https://orgorg.us).\n\n**The Problem - There are too many SaaS pointwise solutions! Seriously.**\n\nThe world over-rotated to point solutions in SaaS. It’s not unusual to have 20+ minor SaaS products to do various organizational chores. It’s easy to see why this happened because you need different tools at different sizes, but it’s also not what users want. It’s expensive, annoying to manage, and none of them work together to create a better user experience.\n\n**The Solution - OrgOrg!**\n\nOrgOrg draws on 25 years of experience leading high-performing teams from founding to big tech. We're building a suite with all the internal SaaS tools that you need for each stage of your company. You save money, time, and they all work together nicely.\n\nFor early stage companies, [Go links](https://orgorg.us/apps/shortlinks), “Big Rock” [Goal tracking](https://orgorg.us/goals), and branded [New browser tabs](https://orgorg.us/apps/new-tab) (with countdowns to your next milestone — like Demo Day) are great ways to stay focused and efficient. For larger teams, add in [Profiles with personality](https://orgorg.us/apps/peopleprofiles), [Smart Groups](https://orgorg.us/apps/rosters) (eg, add all engineers to the #eng channel & eng@ group), [All Hands Q&A](https://orgorg.us/apps/qa), and smart [On-Call management](https://orgorg.us/apps/on-call) to fight the problems that come with the complexity of larger teams. Our roadmap is full of high utility internal apps and tools that build on each to help you run your company better. No matter the size of your org, you can be confident that the right internal tools will be in place when you need them.\n\nJust as no one buys Google Slides alone, buying just an All-Hands Q&A product isn’t enough. OrgOrg’s suite offers significantly more value than the sum of the parts of existing pointwise solutions. At $5/person/month, it's easy to get started and join over 400 organizations already using OrgOrg today.\n\n**Asks**\n\nWant your team to move faster at every size? [Sign up for OrgOrg and give it a try](https://orgorg.us).\n\nHave an internal app you’ve used before that you wish you could have at your company? Let me know at [wayne@orgorg.us](mailto:wayne@orgorg.us).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LZU-orgorg-the-organizational-productivity-suite", "votes": 57, "created_at": "2024-08-11T18:00:46.391Z" } ] }, { "id": 30043, "name": "Vespper", "slug": "vespper", "former_names": [ "Merlinn" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8071a4dd821b17c48fe53b21be58c8dd37534c31.png", "website": "https://vespper.com/?utm_source=ycombinator.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "The best DOCX MCP for agents. \r\nread and edit docx without having you agents deal with XML. 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It’s connected to internal tools (observability, incident management, knowledge management, codebases and more) and can surface problems & identify patterns in the oceans of data you have.\n\nAt the moment, we support popular tools such as:\n\n* **Observability** - DataDog, Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, SigNoz, Coralogix\n* **Incident management** - PagerDuty, Opsgenie\n* **Codebases** - Github\n* **Knowledge management** - Notion, Confluence, Jira\n* **Communication** -  Slack, Teams (TBD)\n\n**⚒️ How does it work?**\n\nVespper is a system that’s comprised of multi-agents and AIOps models. Behind the scenes, we run & coordinate multiple agents and tools that help identify suspicious patterns from your environment.\n\nUsing Vespper is easy.\n\n1. Signup & create an organisation.\n2. Connect the tools you work with when triaging/troubleshooting. This means observability, knowledge, incident management and communication tools.\n\nOnce the integrations are connected, we automatically trigger advanced data ingestion pipelines that starts scraping data from your environment. This is used to train the bot. You can see the status of the ingestion & training in our web UI.\n\nOnce the system is ready, it will start triaging alerts for you, post an hypothesis on Slack and show you all the automatic checks it made!\n\n**👨‍👨‍👦 About the team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85173&key=user_uploads/316431/58991bfd-e2eb-49f3-a915-31300d54e458)\n\nHi, we are Topaz & Dudu 😊 We co-founded Vespper with the mission of making on-call stress-free. \\\n\\\n**Topaz (CEO)** - Spent years at Snyk (a hyper-growth unicorn) building and maintaining large distributed systems, leading PLG experiments and achieving 99.9% uptime for her teams services.\n\n**Dudu (CTO)** - has seven years of experience working at rapidly-growing technology startups, including Google, Viz.ai and SafeBreach. Dudu was a deep-learning algorithm engineer at Viz.ai. He contributed to cutting-edge projects that leverage computer vision for healthcare applications and also worked on large-scale distributed systems.\n\nWe both dealt with daily alerts and the daily monotony of triaging, tuning and maintaining services observability.  This time spent all came at the expense of working on more impactful customer focused work.\n\nWe believe that pairing the strength of AI to pattern-match, classic AIOps and heuristics from our own experience can unlock a new experience for developers.\n\n**🙏 Our ask**\n\n1. Book a meeting with us or email us at [**founders@vespper.com**](mailto:founders@vespper.com)**.**\n2. Star us on [GitHub](https://github.com/vespperhq/vespper) + follow along on [Twitter](https://x.com/vespperdotcom) & [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/101636115/).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/M9l-vespper-24-7-ai-on-call-engineer", "votes": 74, "created_at": "2024-10-31T03:20:04.045Z" } ] }, { "id": 30113, "name": "Melder", "slug": "melder", "former_names": [ "Echo" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/78670a3e0cef588e19eb8b9dd11bc151ceac64fa.png", "website": "https://melder.io", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Melder is an Excel add-in that brings AI functions and document support into your spreadsheets. Upload files directly into cells, use smart formulas like =GEN, and build automations—all without leaving Excel.\r\n\r\nCore features:\r\n- File-to-Sheet: Drop PDFs directly into cells, then reference them in formulas.\r\n- AI-Powered Functions: Write formulas like =GEN() or =EXTRACT() to summarize, classify, and analyze content.\r\n- Chat Assistant: Use our AI assistant to help build your sheets or answer questions from your data, live in the workbook.\r\n\r\nBusiness users use Melder to:\r\n- Accelerate diligence by extracting insights from data rooms\r\n- Review contracts by identifying key terms and clauses instantly\r\n- Run market research by pulling information from competitor websites\r\n- Synthesize transcripts by generating summaries from interviews and calls\r\n\r\nMelder brings the power of structured spreadsheet logic to the messy, unstructured data world—no coding needed.", "one_liner": "AI formulas and document support for Microsoft Excel", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1731437113, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "Data Engineering", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "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/melder", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2024/melder.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/melderai/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/78670a3e0cef588e19eb8b9dd11bc151ceac64fa.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Diana Hu", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/diana-hu" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 810767, "full_name": "Ashwin Dharne", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Building AI for Excel. Ex-Google security + cloud conversational AI.\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashwindharne/", "x_url": "https://x.com/AshwinDharne", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/24d0630d7533066d4548cc5cfbd4c5beb393c3b8.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2244698, "full_name": "Philip Brewer", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Building the 'Excel for unstructured data'\n\nEx-Bain Consultant | Indiana University | Amateur Improv Comedy Player", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-brewer/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ab8d7c78a73bdd7034215538a70453a0469a5e0b.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 90861, "title": "Melder - Excel just got an AI upgrade", "tagline": "Melder is an Excel add-in that adds AI formulas for PDF extraction, web scraping, and text processing - all with full citations.", "body": "Hey everyone! We're [Ashwin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashwindharne/) and [Phil](https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-brewer/) and we’re building [Melder](https://melder.io), an AI add-in for Excel.\n\n# **TL;DR**\n\nMelder is an add-in that brings AI formulas, file upload, and web scraping to Excel, so finance and ops teams can work faster without changing their existing workflow. One-click install and deploy from the Microsoft add-in store.\n\n[Launch Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao3SjOFeW5A)\n\n# **❌ Problem**\n\nFinance and ops teams spend too much time:\n\n* Pulling data from earnings calls, investor presentations, and transaction documents\n* Researching competitors one website at a time\n* Aggregating insights from interview transcripts and reports\n\nTeams want to automate these tasks, but every AI solution requires learning new tools and changing existing workflows.\n\n# **✅ Solution**\n\nWe built AI capabilities directly into the tool finance and ops teams already use every day: Excel.\n\n**Some things teams can do with Melder:**\n\n* **Turn PDFs into structured data**: Upload contracts, invoices, or reports directly to cells. Extract what's needed in seconds.\n* **Scrape the web with a formula**: Pull any website's contents into Excel. Research 100 competitors as easily as one.\n* **Analyze qualitative data**: Turn customer feedback, survey responses, or support tickets into structured insights\n\nYour team already knows Excel. No training needed, no new logins to manage, deploy instantly across Office 365 licenses. It's AI that fits existing workflows, not the other way around.\n\n# **🙌 Our Ask**\n\n* **Try it free**: Install directly from [Microsoft](https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/office/WA200008575?tab=Overview) (takes 30 seconds, no commitment)\n* **See it in action**: Book a call directly: https://cal.com/phil-brewer/chat\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90861&key=user_uploads/810767/8440530f-3fae-4dff-944e-ec7450b63e0d)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NdV-melder-excel-just-got-an-ai-upgrade", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2025-05-29T19:53:10.558Z" } ] }, { "id": 30179, "name": "Vetnio", "slug": "vetnio", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a5005981ef0d73a35ad3b8810eead978401e6e5e.png", "website": "https://vetnio.com/", "all_locations": "Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden", "long_description": "Veterinarians spend 40% of their time on admin work, >20% on note taking alone. 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Elected politician during university and have 20 years of expertise in audio processing; from optimizing voice recordings to designing custom instruments by shaping waveforms using oscillators, envelopes, and LFOs. Master's in Industrial Engineering and Management from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, with additional studies at Nanyang Technological Institute. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/armankaregar", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c8028b5de1d64bd9f911957bd026fd946cb3f1e1.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1055457, "full_name": "Max Henry Xie", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Second time founder. Self-taught developer with many chess and hackathon wins. Built machine learning models to combat fraud at big banks. Studied industrial engineering and management at KTH (Stockholm). Dropped out of school to work at Accenture (deployed engineer), then Paypal (AI / data scientist) before founding first his start-up, now working on his second. Accidental tiktok-influencer.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/max-henry-xie", "x_url": "https://x.com/maxhxie", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d6ec5784d1133cd410634f02e2a305fd292ce1d4.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 87809, "title": "Vetnio - Automating admin work for veterinarians with AI 🐾", "tagline": "Vetnio records patient consultations, automating note-taking and other administrative work, so veterinarians can focus more on patient care.", "body": "**TL;DR:**\n\n* ⏰ Veterinarians spend \\~40% of their time on admin work, with note-taking alone making up \\~20% of their time.\n* 🎤 By recording patient meetings, Vetnio automatically generates clinical notes and emails in seconds.\n* ✨ Additionally, Vetnio helps out with diagnostics, follow-ups, invoice generation, and more, reducing the risk of missed revenue for clinics while ensuring optimal care for animals.\n\n[Introducing Vetnio](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6KIg5SJUUk)\n\n# **Who are we and why are we doing this?**\n\nWe are [Arman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/armankaregar/) and [Max](https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-henry-xie/) from [Vetnio](https://vetnio.com). Being close friends for +10 years, Vetnio is the second startup we have co-founded together. We both have exceptional backgrounds within engineering, with Arman having 20 years of audio processing experience and Max being a self-taught developer since childhood.\n\nIt all started when Arman brought his 🐶, Knut  (picture below), to a stressful veterinary visit. He noticed how much time was spent by the veterinarian typing on a keyboard and immediately went on to think how this can be made better. After a quick discussion with Max, the idea for Vetnio was born.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXcJzgeyF-gX-baUP0NVgep-EMa_iTLVKHwA9rQoA-Z6QiaTH4EpLeBazL_R_eKkrjHpWEyoNOZB-jKapY7RZ8S4hJesNc3OloZI59SRuyT8aI3ffpGw4lX3YGGRBEbn5k9hIoqThw?key=3XWI3B5KbKFPqOSqe7jrNCyD)\n\n**Problem**\\\nWith a rising patient load, veterinarians are overworked and stressed, leading to mistakes, burnout, and lost revenue. Admin work takes up \\~40% of their time, and that's where Vetnio comes in.\n\n**Solution**\\\nVetnio has built an AI Copilot that records meetings and writes clinical notes, thereby saving veterinarians and clinics time, money, and headaches. Additionally, Vetnio helps out with diagnostics, follow-ups, invoice generation, and more, reducing the risk of missed revenue for clinics while ensuring optimal care for animals.\n\n[Demo video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PeoKr2yXSw)\n\n**Case studies and traction**\\\nAmong others, we work closely with the global leader in veterinary care, IVC Evidensia, and are currently conducting pilots with several prominent veterinary chains. Recently, the largest veterinary magazine in the Nordics published an independent interview with Evidensia, highlighting how our solution was saving them up to [15 minutes per 45-minute consultation](https://www.svenskveterinartidning.se/effektivare-journalforing-med-ai/), significantly reducing their administrative workload.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfl83aqSvXXbGlasaxpV0KXvgWps3LVxtVBnZiqCJviBcFmdyDyYwQbF6sug1O5t5dOBdLIJZ4jQvmLabMYOKqHTe00w-7iq77XJK00_KgfygNsDw5RCTP0Z6IwtdUB4wTfGfZX?key=3XWI3B5KbKFPqOSqe7jrNCyD)\n\n📸: A veterinarian at Evidensia is reading through the text on Vetnio after a consultation.\n\nRest of the engineers:\n\n* Emil Franzell\n* Arvid Norström\n* Rakin Ali\n* Marcel Laska\n\nOther notable team members include:\n\n* Dr. Jana Böndel, Country Manager Germany: Jana has 10 years of experience as a veterinarian and spent the last 4 years in an Executive Management position at one of the world’s largest veterinary chains. 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He studied Math/CS/Philosophy at Yale.\n\nHe was a USA Math Olympian and won the American Invitational Math Examination with a perfect score. The AIME is now one of the most commonly used math benchmarks for AI models.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/richiehsiung/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7341d65d0715ab1a74119686556933478b7b9a77.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1276682, "full_name": "Frank Li", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Frank is the Co-Founder of Praxim. He studied pure mathematics and computer science at Yale.\n\nHe was a USA Math Olympian and an ML/AI researcher at the Yale NLP Lab and the Fields Institute in Toronto.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-li-6866411b0/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/2cba819b2c0e0553ef646f2aff372e31bae1b65f.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 94226, "title": "Praxim - The Agentic AI Word Editor", "tagline": "Transform Microsoft Word into an AI-native Word Editor", "body": "https://youtu.be/ffplqbuzfT4\n\nHey Everyone! We’re Praxim.\n\n**The Problem:**\n\nMicrosoft Word serves over a billion users, but Copilot is still stuck in the Stone Age, requiring manual selection just to generate crude, format-ignoring block replacement edits completely devoid of context from your preferences, files, or the web.\n\n**The Solution:**\n\nWith a single prompt, Praxim makes edits across your entire document:\n\n* No required manual selection to edit\n* No more copy-pasting and context switching between different apps\n* No formatting worries\n* Takes into account your preferences\n\nPraxim knows exactly what to change and what to keep and edits with word-level granularity—precisely editing only what needs editing, not making brute block replacements.\n\nMost importantly, Praxim creates real Word formatting:\n\n* Actual lists, tables, and styles—not fake imitation structures that are actually just paragraphs\n* Maintain formatting, or even change it\n\nPull data, research, and edit all without leaving Word, with features that 10x your productivity:\n\n* File and Web context\n* Voice dictation at the speed of thought\n* Intuitive edit previews and clickable references that jump to the location in the document\n\nPraxim is already used for use cases from form filling with data from multiple sources to contract redlining with precise legal edits.\n\n**Why only now?** Programmers left the era crude AI assistance years ago with agentic code editors. Formatted document editing is a far harder technical problem—a single word is encoded by formatting and structural markup several orders of magnitude more complex than plaintext code, with countless ways to render correct text incorrectly. Semantic meaning and formatting both matter.\n\nPraxim for Word solves this, delivering a quantum leap over any other Word editing tool today. Start using Praxim today at [praxim.ai](http://praxim.ai)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OVm-praxim-the-agentic-ai-word-editor", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2025-09-30T14:00:52.553Z" } ] }, { "id": 30196, "name": "Stamp", "slug": "stamp", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ec77fe8f30c765884c0359fdaafcf0412168dd15.png", "website": "https://www.stampmail.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Stamp is the first AI Native inbox. It's more than an email client, though -- it's like your second brain.\r\n\r\nStamp can respond to emails in your voice, organize your inbox to filter out the noise, keep track of action items, and automate essentially every task you're doing manually in your inbox today.", "one_liner": "The AI Secretary for Email and Calendar.", "team_size": 1, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1739302465, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "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/stamp", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2025/stamp.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/stamp-ai/", "x_url": "https://x.com/StampMail", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ec77fe8f30c765884c0359fdaafcf0412168dd15.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 974285, "full_name": "Archit Mehta", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Stamp CEO. Previously graduated at 20, built products with 50k+ users, Software Engineer at Stripe.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/4architmehta", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/70440c5325cf760c66e43f447d00331f90428675.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 87653, "title": "Stamp: Cursor for Email", "tagline": "The First AI Native Email Client", "body": "# **TL;DR**\n\n[Stamp](https://stampmail.ai) is the first AI Native Email Client. It replies to emails in your voice, automatically prioritizes emails, and tracks key action items for every email. \n\nIt’s more than an email client. It’s like your second brain.\n\nWatch our demo [here](https://youtu.be/pLrj4Gtgg6Y)\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nWe’ve all dealt with managing hundreds of daily emails, and it's a massive headache. \n\nTrying to stay on top of your emails is practically a second job. The average employee spends 25% of their time at work buried in their inbox, and the average person receives 100+ emails daily that require manual action.\n\n# **The Solution**\n\nThis is why we built Stamp, the inbox that tailors itself to you.\n\n**Tab, Tab, Tab**\n\nStamp gives you Cursor Tab, right in your inbox. It automatically generates contextualized sentence completions and inline diffs, right as you type your email\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87653&key=user_uploads/974285/99a30113-256c-4483-9b01-8f3ba4551924)\n\n**Write Emails at the Speed of Thought**\n\nStamp writes emails in your voice with global context from your inbox. The tone and context for every reply are intelligently tailored to the recipient, exactly like the emails you’d write yourself.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87653&key=user_uploads/974285/71ebc832-0d0c-4424-bb75-0fc78a30bba0)\n\nAnd just like Cursor CMD+K, you can edit portions of your email with a single highlight.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87653&key=user_uploads/974285/ab444480-64be-4467-a31a-0177190f61ff)\n\n**Filter Out the Noise**\n\nStamp allows you to write email filters in plain English, so you can automatically prioritize the emails that matter most and filter out junk. Emails from the same categories are automatically grouped together, so that you can focus on the emails that truly matter most.\n\nYou’ll never have to read a junk email again.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87653&key=user_uploads/974285/63ad1ba9-afa1-4608-9514-59a82e56aff2)\n\n**Stay On Top of Your Inbox**\n\nStamp automatically generates summaries and extracts key action items for every email you receive, so that you always remember to follow up on critical tasks.\n\nNever worry about missing a deadline again.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87653&key=user_uploads/974285/797ff8f1-4db9-4c3a-b7e0-9239f53a3f00)\n\n# **Our Ask**\n\nYou can get started with Stamp by signing up at [stampmail.ai](http://stampmail.ai). Users who sign up within the next week will be able to use Stamp for **100% free for 1 year**.\n\nAs soon as you sign up, Stamp will get to work, automatically prioritizing your inbox, tracking action items, and creating summaries for recent emails!\n\nIf you have questions or feedback, you can always feel free to reach out to us at [founders@stampmail.ai](mailto:founders@stampmail.ai) \n\n# **Team**\n\n[Archit](https://linkedin.com/in/4architmehta) - Previously worked as a Software Engineer at Stripe, where he saved the company $1,000,000+ yearly by optimizing database storage. He also previously worked on Autonomous Systems at Apple and Robotic Surgery at Johnson & Johnson Robotics. Before that, he graduated from Cornell at age 20, where he led a team of 50 students building mobile apps with 10,000+ daily users. While still in high school, he built a PPE price tracker that scaled to 50,000 users during the height of the pandemic.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87653&key=user_uploads/974285/1d60b94d-bb74-4412-a480-0f0fbdf30663)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mnl-stamp-cursor-for-email", "votes": 51, "created_at": "2025-02-13T17:25:39.380Z" } ] }, { "id": 30222, "name": "Altrina", "slug": "altrina", "former_names": [ "Symmetric Labs", "Tessa", "General Agency" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/23ee7aa773e16f7887979b0dcfa61db69ba9fd25.png", "website": "https://altrina.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Altrina automates SOPs to give humans back their time to do what matters.\r\n\r\nWe have already significantly improved organizational efficiency for local governments, law offices, insurance brokers, consulting firms, and hedge funds.\r\n\r\nFormerly General Agency/Tessa AI", "one_liner": "The SOP Automation Platform", "team_size": 4, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1736185270, "tags": [], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2025", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "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/altrina", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2025/altrina.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/altrina", "x_url": "https://x.com/altrina_ai", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/23ee7aa773e16f7887979b0dcfa61db69ba9fd25.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1374660, "full_name": "Mo Nasir", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CEO of Altrina, an automation platform for solving communications and process bottlenecks in human organizations. Previously worked on self-driving cars at NVIDIA.\n\nTea connoisseur 🍵", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/mohammednasir", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b5984a595618b6c37eefeee0664e320c71155151.jpg" }, { "user_id": 955322, "full_name": "Harvey Hu", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CTO of Altrina. Previously machine learning engineer at Google & TikTok, designing recommendation algorithms for billions of users. I love models, probabilities, and solving complex impactful problems", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/yubin-hu-berkeley/", "x_url": "https://x.com/harveyhucal", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ae232b0468c1b436f117f7e24ab1254f1f790f83.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 96342, "title": "Altrina Automator: Turn demonstrations into reliable browser automations in 5 minutes", "tagline": "Don't be a robot. Automate your repetitive work. Early Access available.", "body": "# **The Problem:**\n\nEvery automation tool promises the same thing: demo it once, automate it forever. One-click, reliable, non-technical.\n\nNone of them actually work. They either:\n\n* **Are unreliable** - Break when websites change, fail silently, or work inconsistently\n* **Are too complex** - Require literal “online universities” to learn\n* **Are still technical** - Building, debugging, and maintaining automations still requires technical expertise\n\nWe know because we tried them all. Then failed to build it ourselves. Twice.\n\nSo we did something different: spent 9 months as automation consultants, building workflows by hand for real customers across manufacturing, legal, sales, and operations. Not demos. Not slides. Just us using our own platform to build automations that had to work every day and generate real value.\n\nAfter 9 months, we're confident: **it works**.\n\n# **Our Solution:**\n\nAltrina Automator lets you create automations by simply demonstrating them:\n\n1. **Record** - Turn on our Chrome extension and perform your workflow once\n2. **Review** - Check the recorded steps, add specifications in natural language\n3. **Generate** - Click one button to create your automation\n4. **Test** - Test run it and adjust anything\n5. **Schedule / Scale** - Set up triggers (daily, weekly, or custom) OR run thousands of automations in parallel using our spreadsheet interface\n\nEverything is editable in natural language—no code required.\n\n**See it in action: AI Research Newsletter**\n\nBuilding a personalized email digest of AI papers used to take 2-3 weekends to code, debug, and maintain.\n\nWith Altrina? 5 minutes: https://youtu.be/U_nf1tUyFW4\n\n# **Early Access:**\n\nWe're opening early access this holiday season. If you're comfortable installing Chrome extensions in developer mode, sign up here: https://forms.gle/s3gtCmZEoxwqGHmLA\n\nWe're sharing more demos throughout this holiday season and planning a full launch soon—follow along to see what's possible!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96342&key=user_uploads/955322/7eeeb6c3-1c5a-430d-acee-63ff366f0576)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/P3u-altrina-automator-turn-demonstrations-into-reliable-browser-automations-in-5-minutes", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2025-12-22T04:19:02.711Z" }, { "id": 93094, "title": "Tessa API: State-of-the-Art Browser Agent for Your Vertical AI", "tagline": "Latest benchmarks show Tessa leads on success rate by 12%. Try it now!", "body": "If you have tried building browser agents into your vertical AI application, you know how tricky they are. The last thing you want is for the agent to “act up” with your browser and do something other than what you asked for. You need web agents that’s **smart, reliable, and accurate**. \n\n**You need the best one out there** and that agent is Tessa, according to the latest benchmarks. \n\n# **State-of-the-Art Results**\n\nFor 8 months running, we have maintained state-of-the-art performance among browser agents. We first achieved SOTA results of 93% success rate on the Web Voyager benchmark in December 2024, before OpenAI's Computer Use Agent and the current wave of browser agents entered the market.\n\nNow, with intense competition and industry attention, our latest benchmarking shows **we are still leading by a significant margin**. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93094&key=user_uploads/955322/00e425e5-dbf1-45e9-bd0c-61c18b8fb131)\n\nThe REAL benchmark evaluates web agents in complex, real-world scenarios and is scored on mostly classical, deterministic criteria. The latest results show **Tessa achieves 54.5% success rate**—a 12% lead over Anthropic’s computer use. If you are looking for a browser agent for your vertical AI application, Tessa is your best bet to get the task done. \n\n# **What we offer**\n\n* Simple to get started: just give it a directive\n* Bring Your Own Browser (BYOB) or have Tessa spin it up for you\n* Stealth built-in. The agent’s actions are indistinguishable from humans\n* Choose the best LLM models\n\nWe benchmarked different models’ performance against the cost in the following two graphs for you. We recommend sonnet-4 for most cases but Gemini 2.5 Flash, o3, and Opus 4.1 are all good choices along the price-performance boundary. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93094&key=user_uploads/955322/08208ba5-6eb2-463d-b077-cb1852be11a1)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93094&key=user_uploads/955322/2551caaf-a1de-4ff5-bcf1-35e4bc3d4e51)\n\n# **How did we beat OpenAI and Anthropic?**\n\nWe pioneered a unique **inference-time scaling architecture for browser agents**, named **RAVE (Reason, Act, Verify, and Evaluate)**, which helped us maintain the lead. _Read our technical deep-dive blog post for the full methodology [here](https://www.heytessa.ai/blog/evolving-our-state-of-the-art-browsing-agent)._ \n\n# **Start Building with Tessa Today**\n\nWe have been using it to build transformative workflows for our clients over the past few months. Now you have access to it too through a simple API. \n\n```\nurl = \"https://api.heytessa.ai/v1/run_browser_agent\"\nheaders = {\"Authorization\": f\"Bearer {YOUR_API_KEY}\"}\n\nresult = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json={\"directive\": \"Go to news.ycombinator.com and get the titles and points of the top 3 stories on the homepage\"}).json()\nprint(result['history_url'])\n```\n\n### **We Support Any Vertical**\n\n**Legal AI**: Research case law across Westlaw, LexisNexis, court databases, or your internal databases to retrieve information. \n\n**Financial Applications**: Aggregate real-time data from trading platforms, regulatory filings, and financial databases.\n\n**Healthcare**: Navigate patient portals, insurance systems, and medical databases with the reliability healthcare workflows demand.\n\n**E-commerce Intelligence**: Monitor competitor pricing, inventory, and product data across hundreds of sites.\n\n**Research Platforms**: Gather information from academic databases, journals, and specialized repositories.\n\n**Try our API today** and see why choose Tessa for production web automation.\n\n[**Get API Access →**](https://docs.heytessa.ai/api-reference/quickstart) |[ **Book a Demo →**](https://calendar.app.google/cEAAJPXsT3ZwCoAA8)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/ODW-tessa-api-state-of-the-art-browser-agent-for-your-vertical-ai", "votes": 16, "created_at": "2025-08-18T15:02:05.137Z" }, { "id": 89958, "title": "Tessa Workflows: Smarter than no-code; Faster than hiring", "tagline": "The easiest way to automate work using natural language", "body": "Have you encountered boring, repetitive tasks you have to do for work? Things like:\n\n* Reviewing the same kinds of emails and deciding how to respond\n* Pulling data from different tabs to build reports\n* Monitoring your portfolio or competition every week for updates\n\nIf you ever tried automating them, you’d realize, after hours of attempts, that RPA fails because of the **complex decisions** involved and AI agents are too unstable because of **compounding error** over long horizons. We built Tessa to end this headache for you. \n\n\\# **What We’re Building**
\n\n[app.heytessa.ai](http://app.heytessa.ai) is the easiest way yet to build AI employees.\n\nWe turn your natural language instructions into editable workflow graphs that can run in the browser. It's not a co-pilot or another drag-and-drop builder you have to learn. It's your new teammate: one who never complains and doesn’t get bored.\n\nUse our workflow editor to change every detail, or simply “vibe-create“ the workflow. Watch our latest [demo](https://youtu.be/R85MyAbijlc) here:\n\nHere’s how it works:\n\n* Start with a prompt: “Send me a daily stock report”\n* Tessa builds a full workflow graph expressed in simple natural language\n* You can review, edit, or add nodes just by chatting in our omni-bar, or jump in to tweak the prompts\n\nIt’s like vibe coding for work that **_you don’t want to do._**\n\n# **How Can Tessa Work For You?**\n\nWe’ve built templates that handle workflows like:\n\n* [Sending daily stock summaries](https://youtu.be/PsE-ucpefc4)\n\n [Stock Monitor Template](https://app.heytessa.ai/public/workflow/498cceef-0f07-47ad-b0a9-3101bd71f380)\n* [Extracting and processing invoices](https://youtu.be/vGin9ctJ9Jg)\n\n [Invoice Extractor Template](https://app.heytessa.ai/public/workflow/dee4d359-4099-49c0-adc4-ea2937db737c)\n* [Handling a customer support ticket end-to-end](https://youtu.be/Xm5K8cwA1Bs)\n\nTessa can basically do anything an intern can do on a computer. We’re happy to build any custom integrations for you. Tessa carries out workflows from beginning to end, saving companies **_hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars._**\n\n# **Glimpse of the future**\n\nWe’re building AI that learns what you do just by watching you do a screen share. No prompting. No drag-and-drop. No engineering degree required. Just talk and we get it done. It’s going to be a dashboard-less experience where you simply talk to Tessa on a video call, on Slack, via email, or over the phone.\n\n# **Try Tessa Today**\n\nWe are looking for teams that are tired of wasting time and money on repetitive ops and decisions. \n\nIf you want custom integrations or are not sure how to get started\n\n* Book a demo [here](https://calendar.app.google/KTzWA6dV8GQvpm9B8)\n\nIf you can’t wait to use Tessa for yourself\n\n* Try out a template [here](https://app.heytessa.ai/)\n\n**Start delegating to Tessa and save your time and energy now!**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89958&key=user_uploads/955322/fcd5deda-f518-4dd1-aaf6-3067a0a221a7)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NOw-tessa-workflows-smarter-than-no-code-faster-than-hiring", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2025-04-29T23:13:48.922Z" }, { "id": 88085, "title": "Tessa - A universal BPO agent that learns and improves like a human 💡", "tagline": "Self-improving AI agents to automate backoffice business processes", "body": "Hey everyone! We’re Mo and Harvey, co-founders of General Agency! 🚀\n\n**Tl;dr – We’re building Tessa, the world’s first AI coworker that actually learns like a human does.**\n\n[➡️ Try Tessa Today](http://app.heytessa.ai) \n\n\n\n**Our Story 📖**\n\nHarvey worked on deep learning models for recommendation systems at TikTok and Google, improving the experience for billions of people worldwide. Mo worked on self-driving cars at NVIDIA for 4.5 years, inventing self-optimizing motion controllers with RL and filing 4 patents in the process.\n\nMuch like a self-driving car, AI agents perceive the world, plan a sequence of actions, and act on that plan. We came together last year to build a state-of-the-art web browsing agent that **achieves 93% on WebVoyager, outperforming OpenAI Operator, Google’s Project Mariner, and all other browsing agents publicly available.** \n\nFor an AI agent to take actions on your behalf, **the bar for accuracy is high**, especially for enterprises. While ordering a pizza to a random location 400 miles away is something to laugh about, hallucinating facts in a consultant’s research report is a _very_ big deal.\n\nAI agents act exactly like human workers who’ve never experienced a particular task: neither get it perfectly right the first time. Humans, however, _learn_ from demonstration, experience, and feedback.\n\nThis learning ability is the missing piece towards human-level AI. We’re building a [novel cognitive architecture](https://www.heytessa.ai/blog/introducing-large-neurosymbolic-cognitive-models) that enables Tessa to not just accomplish tasks like a human, but also learn with experience and natural language feedback. This architecture enables information retrieval that is **guaranteed hallucination-free**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88085&key=user_uploads/1374660/48e24128-b5e2-48c1-a8bb-115ce310979d)\n\n**Our Product 🧠**\n\nTessa can perform many of the tasks that outsourced teams currently perform. Simply show Tessa how to do a task with a screen recording, send her an email, or hop on a video chat to discuss the project. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88085&key=user_uploads/1374660/abceca01-e36a-4938-a101-2dda56151094)\n\nOver time, Tessa becomes an integral part of your team, learning the intricacies of your workflows and projects, and applying the know-how reliably. 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Our platform translates your voice in real-time so you can speak and understand over 30 languages. Watch our demo [here](https://youtu.be/Cu7KlbZ3gjw), or try it for free on our [website](https://startpinch.com).\n\n**The problem**\\\nWe’ve felt first-hand how language barriers can actively limit a team’s productivity. High bandwidth communication is vital for collaboration, and while we’ve all moved from IRC → VoIP → Video Conferencing, the existing translation tools still operate in low-bandwidth mediums (mostly caption transcriptions). This makes conversations difficult because 1) converting audio to text before translation is slower, 2) you lose all information of how something was said, and 3) you’re no longer having a face-to-face meeting.\\\n\\\n**Our solution**\\\nWe knew there had to be a better way to connect across different languages and cultures, so we started building Pinch. 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Traditional solutions force users to memorize shortcuts (appeals to devs, but leaves everyone else behind), while AI tools make you adapt to them instead of living right where you work.\n\n**Why not turn your browser itself into an intelligent personal workspace?**\n\n### **How It Works**\n\nWith simple voice and text, Dex enhances familiar interfaces, automates mundane actions, and understands your intent.\n\n* **Smart Navigation**🔸Find, execute, and move between apps.\n* **Suggest Context**🔸Cut down tab-switching and manual searching.\n* **Cross-App Automation**🔸Shortcut multi-step workflows, zero setup.\n* **Adaptive UI/UX**🔸Reshape, replicate, and browse by your rules.\n\nThink of it like Spotlight Search meets AI automation + personal expert for everyday apps.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87902&key=user_uploads/1003357/5841f4c8-281d-4bdd-a4b0-053d44c7b41d)\n\n### **Use Cases**\n\n* **GSuite** – Write emails, find docs, and move data anywhere.\n* **GitHub** – Search repos, manage issues, and navigate faster.\n* **Omni AI** – Talk to and reference live tabs or integrated apps.\n\n### **Coming Soon…**\n\n* **Meetings** 📅 → Create and join calendar and Zoom events instantly\n* **Sales** 💼 → Automate clicks across LinkedIn, Sheets, and Apollo.io\n* **Snippets** ✂️ → Dex captures notes, links, and frequent snippets\n* **Food** 🍔 → Speak to browse options and order DoorDash\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\nWe’re building Dex for power users, founders, students, and curious explorers—because that’s who we are.\n\n[**Join our waitlist**](https://getdexterity.com/) → **Get notified when Dex goes live on the Chrome store**.\\\n[**Follow us on Twitter**](https://x.com/dexterity_ai) → Stay updated on latest features.\\\n[**Discord**](https://x.com/dexterity_ai) → Get to know us more personally + brainstorm cool ideas.\n\nDrop dream features to [regina@getdexterity.com](mailto:regina@getdexterity.com) and let us know what you think!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mrm-dex-your-ai-coworker-for-the-browser", "votes": 42, "created_at": "2025-02-21T18:26:04.905Z" } ] }, { "id": 30439, "name": "Clarm", "slug": "clarm", "former_names": [ "Dialin - Dialogue Insights", "dialin", "dialin ai", "Dialin AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a20bfc6fd0067cd630d43fa83552c610e2a0c0d2.png", "website": "https://www.clarm.com", "all_locations": "ZH, Switzerland", "long_description": "Clarm Atlas 10xes productivity for non-technical operators in high-trust, regulated teams - banks, healthcare, insurance, publicly listed companies - by letting them build their own, fully governed AI agents. 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We've worked on AI since the 2010s and in industries where perfect workflows are critical to company survival (Deutsche Bank, Amazon).\n\n# **Problem ❌**\n\nDeep research agents could replace much of white-collar work, but companies can't deploy them because they lack trust in the data sources and control over the reasoning process. Legal and Compliance teams block adoption because existing AI tools make things up.\n\n# **Solution 💡**\n\n[Clarm](https://clarm.com?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=launch_yc&utm_id=1) is your AI deep research agent builder for high-trust environments. Our platform connects across 40+ enterprise integrations - CRMs, email, knowledge bases - and lets you build precise, repeatable workflows that transform how teams work without the risk.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90682&key=user_uploads/2476585/fc020dbb-e97a-4980-b074-69a20242c1ef)\n\nWe’re actively developing [Clarm](https://clarm.com?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=launch_yc&utm_id=1) for customers such as:\n\n* law firms to find relevant information within the thousands of emails and documents\n* asset managers to evaluate proxy voting preferences across 90,000 shareholder meetings\n* luxury goods retailers to increase client response rate from 5% to 50% through deep personalization (as compared to standard Hubspot-generated marketing copy)\n* fast-growing startups to onboard new hires instantly with bespoke training material created on their own customer calls\n* top open source startups to increase engagement with their Github repo and knowledge base\n* services firms to instantly answer '000s of client support questions, driving up engagement and turning curious prospects into committed customers\n\nhttps://youtu.be/on2OVIuO62M\n\n# **Team 👏**\n\nMarcus led the first AI team at a major Corporate Bank, growing it to $10m ARR in 2 years. After a Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford, he built the world’s most accurate consumer goods forecasting model for the world’s largest market researcher, scaling it from 0 to $7m ARR in 2 years. Marcus has worked all over the world and speaks 8 languages (on a good day).\n\nAlex built and maintained payment systems at Amazon Prime Video, processing $bns per year. He was top of his class at Imperial College London and holds numerous industry awards and publications.\n\n# **Our ask 🙏**\n\nWe’d like intros to buyers at high trust firms, like finance, luxury, and law.\n\nWe’d also be open to working with you directly if you sell into these firms and need precise, on-prem deep research agents to power your products.\n\nWe’d love to hear from you! Get in touch at [marcus@clarm.com](mailto:marcus@clarm.com). **Thank you.**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nac-clarm-zero-hallucination-ai-deep-research-agents", "votes": 43, "created_at": "2025-05-23T18:03:03.761Z" } ] }, { "id": 30518, "name": "Orchid", "slug": "orchid-ai", "former_names": [ "Mail0", "Zero" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4a9494b7b3b62fcb0adb7a5568c37003e022974d.png", "website": "https://orchid.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Orchid is an executive assistant that lives in iMessage. It texts you your day each morning, drafts your replies, and books your meetings. 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Instead 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. After creation, you have the ability to edit all aspects of the video with just prompts. \r\n\r\nIt's perfect for training, faceless YouTube, marketing, technical, and educational videos — any video where understanding is important. Trusted by over 170,000 users as of July '26, Golpo features include but are not limited to: \r\n\r\n1) Convert your narration into an explainer video (with your narration as audio and the video time aligned) \r\n2) Input your document or prompt. Document can be of virtually any format or type (text, audio, video etc.) \r\n3) Script-to-video with matching audio\r\n4) Videos up to 10 minutes\r\n5) 50+ languages\r\n6) dead-simple editing after generation\r\n7) Insert your own videos and images into the generation, used as-is without alteration.\r\n8) 10+ visuals styles, including pen in hand, voice cloning, vertical video, custom branding and more! 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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": 30669, "name": "Slashy", "slug": "slashy", "former_names": [ "Dash" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e6667cfdd83f59c43fda8940767ec6748fe44b96.png", "website": "https://www.slashy.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Slashy is an AI-native email client for founders and operators. It drafts replies in your voice from your sent mail, triages your inbox, tracks follow-ups, keeps your calendar in the inbox, and can be run from iMessage, Slack, or an AI agent through its MCP server. 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Studied Computer Science at Georgia Tech; previously interned at Groq, Pulse (S24), and Greptile (W24), and won prizes at CalHacks and HackMIT.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhruv-roongta-421a7b214/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f726696878d0aea7136b4e35aa639a734d81387c.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 108791, "title": "Slashy - start saving 2 hours a day on email", "tagline": "Slashy drafts replies in your voice, schedules meetings, and handles follow ups, so you spend less time managing email, and more time on what matters", "body": "Hey everyone we’re Harsha and Dhruv from Slashy. Our goal is to define the next generation of email, by building an email platform that actually works for you, and learns over time. \\\n\\\n**TLDR:** Slashy is the next big email platform after Superhuman, the first with an assistant built in. 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": 30687, "name": "Trace", "slug": "trace-so", "former_names": [ "Trace AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4c08d892e148caaaf2ce4e85ef39beddd97353a8.png", "website": "https://www.trace.so/", "all_locations": "London, England, United Kingdom", "long_description": "Trace is a workflow orchestration platform that gives agents shared context across systems and lets teams build visual processes combining AI and humans. 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More than 30 companies already use Trace to automate gruntwork.\n\n**Ask**: If you’re currently working in operations, product, or support teams, we’d love to talk. Email us at [founders@trace.so](mailto:founders@trace.so) ‼️\n\nhttps://youtu.be/RfJerH9r2-8\n\n**❌ The Problem**\n\nMost teams lose ≈ 40% of their productivity on repetitive manual tasks. \n\nRoutine work like chasing updates, filling docs, coordinating teams, and handling support drains hours, breaks focus, and slows execution.\n\nMeanwhile, employees aren’t sure which tasks can be automated, which agents to use, or which tools to trust – problems made worse by fragmented data and lost context.\n\nEven worse, most AI tools work alone, disconnected from both teams and the people using them.\n\n✅ **Our Solution** \n\nTrace is an AI-native workspace that breaks down existing workflows, assigns repetitive tasks to AI agents, and routes the rest to the right people.\n\nWith Trace, AI works across your entire team – passing tasks between agents and people without disrupting operations.\n\nIt respects permissions, learns from past and ongoing work, tracks progress with a full audit trail, and lets you review, edit, or reroute tasks in a simple interface.\n\n**Connect and Prompt Away**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92892&key=user_uploads/1016719/794551f2-0e27-4ccf-a406-326622b90d15)\n\n**Create, Curate and Replicate**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92892&key=user_uploads/1016719/75f7fd26-b38a-4420-b7dc-1a7fe5bea7e6)\n\n**Route and Execute**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92892&key=user_uploads/1016719/4490fdd4-1ff7-47dc-887b-cab413a3b51c)\n\n**🦄 How It Works**\n\nHow? – Through a company wide context engine!\n\nBy integrating with your systems, our context engine analyzes your internal wiki, activity logs, and people data to understand your team’s work.\n\nTrace then builds a unified index of your company and provides rich context for every new workflow, making it easy to route tasks between people and AI agents.\n\nWe’re on a mission to build CompanyOS – a cognitive layer that ingests internal signals and drives intelligent action across every team.\n\n**🙏 Our Ask**\n\nReady to ditch the busywork? – Please try [demo.trace.so](http://demo.trace.so) for free and tell us which workflows you’ve tried to automate.\n\nIf your team is suffering from repetitive manual workflows, or you work in operations, product, or support roles, we’d love to talk.\n\nEmail us [📨 founders@trace.so](mailto:%F0%9F%93%A8founders@trace.so) or [book a call](https://calendly.com/trace_so/20min) ☎️\n\n**👥 The Team**\n\nTim and Artur met at university and have worked together on countless projects, papers and startups over the last 10 years.\n\nTim (CEO) – Former product manager at Copper, a digital asset custodian, where he delivered an institutional offering for State Street. Fintech background across hedge funds and scaleups as a data scientist. Built startups since 17 in retail tech, travel, and web3.\n\nArtur (CTO) – Former senior engineer at Deliveroo who built the grocery data-enrichment ML pipeline (millions of items, thousands of retailers). Multi-time founder; led backends in logistics and finance, and deployed workflow automation across engineering and ops.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92892&key=user_uploads/1016719/b774ddc3-03f9-4008-b443-bef97237826e)\n\nps: Thank you for taking the time to read this and show your support ❤️\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92892&key=user_uploads/1016719/457742b1-bb72-48ff-9d4c-029b6bc8b033)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OAG-trace-route-repetitive-tasks-to-ai-agents", "votes": 1038, "created_at": "2025-08-11T19:45:04.234Z" } ] }, { "id": 30711, "name": "Char", "slug": "char", "former_names": [ "Hyprnote" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/aca02a57c5f38896120f1fe6767d1975b6a6b522.png", "website": "https://char.com", "all_locations": "Seoul, Seoul, South Korea; Remote", "long_description": "Char is a daily notepad that finishes your todos for you. Type a checkbox, and an agent picks it up — researching, drafting, or scheduling on your behalf. Stay in command. 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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. [**Hyprnote**](http://hyprnote.com/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=launch_yc) exists so teams can finally use AI without giving up control of their data.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93180&key=user_uploads/1166442/df8a57c6-74fb-4f4f-a455-0091527206b6)\n\n### **What You Can Do**\n\n1/ Introduce us to **_VPs or Directors_** driving **_digital transformation_** in regulated industries.\n\n2/ Start using it **_FREE FOREVER_** — and spread the word.\n\n3/ Star us on [**GitHub**](https://github.com/fastrepl/hyprnote)!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93180&key=user_uploads/1166442/2119f8f8-575f-4a5c-aa1c-295bfe57a15c)\n\n### **NEED an AI notetaker you can actually trust?**\n\n[**Try Hyprnote — where conversation stay yours**](http://hyprnote.com?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=launch_yc)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93180&key=user_uploads/1166442/a2e52475-b1e0-47de-8e1b-ba56959bdae5)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OEu-hyprnote-open-source-ai-notetaker-for-enterprises", "votes": 58, "created_at": "2025-08-20T14:56:21.706Z" } ] }, { "id": 30755, "name": "Pally", "slug": "pally", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/849f2561c7a883d8d5d6523f27f8404ee02820ed.png", "website": "https://pally.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "You text Pally like you’d text a friend, and it connects to everything else: your inboxes, calendar, files, tasks and the web", "one_liner": "Your personal AI Assistant", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1750346506, "tags": [ "Consumer", "B2B", "Productivity", "Search", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "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/pally", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/pally.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/pallyai", "x_url": "https://x.com/pally", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pally-6028", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/849f2561c7a883d8d5d6523f27f8404ee02820ed.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": 978619, "full_name": "Haz Hubble", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "High-school dropout and super connector. 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": 30776, "name": "Magnetic", "slug": "magnetic", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9c6be0818283f49c20fc921c3bc7db67bfb60bf5.png", "website": "https://www.magnetictax.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Magnetic scans client documents - from handwritten charity notes to excel spreadsheet Schedule Cs to multi-state K-1s - and enters them into tax software automatically, saving hours of tedious data entry. \r\n\r\nThe accounting profession is facing a massive talent shortage, as graduates choose different professions and the old guard begins to retire. As a result, CPA and tax preparation firms are awash in clientele, but unable to keep up. At many firms, phones go unanswered, clients are \"fired\", and websites are taken down, as the existing workforce tries to handle the grueling 80 hour+ weeks necessary to push through tax season to the April 15th deadline.\r\n\r\nWe built this because a former colleague who owns her own tax firm asked us to automate her workload, and we quickly realized the massive opportunity. Thomas brings deep domain expertise as the former Head of Product at Keeper (YC W19), where he built tax engine automation systems and an OCR form scanning system that outperformed everything else on the market. At Keeper, he leveraged early access to OpenAI's LLMs (well before ChatGPT) to build systems that automated the entire tax filing process, allowing a tiny team of CPAs to process thousands of returns with near zero busy work. 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Our agents:\n\n* Learn to use your product in 15 minutes and build deep expertise.\n* Gather context from meetings, call transcripts, and Slack.\n* Plan and execute onboarding, change management, and migrations end-to-end.\n* Keep your team in control by building an execution plan together.\n* Maintain an up-to-date knowledge base.\n\nEvery task flows through our built-in ticketing system that tracks trends, surfaces patterns, and shows your team how to improve operations.\n\nFor Product & Engineering teams: Our API gives the ability to supercharge your own agents and tools with the same product expertise as your best subject-matter expert.\n\n### The Team\n\nVarun previously led product and engineering for agent products, growth, and VLM research at Ambient AI. 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We combine third-party and customer data to uncover high-intent leads and prepare technicians with talking points that increase sales rates. Early customers are seeing 6 figures in opportunities every week with Robby.\n\n**Ask:** If you know any owners or GMs at home services businesses, please introduce us! [founders@tryrobby.com](mailto:founders@tryrobby.com)\n\n**Problem**\n\nHome services businesses generate enormous amounts of valuable data every day, but most of it never turns into revenue. Technicians are in customers’ homes constantly, observing aging equipment, safety issues, and upgrade needs. (For example, they might be called to service a furnace and won’t notice the 20 year old boiler next to it.) That information is often: \n\n* Captured inconsistently (or not at all)\n* Hard to operationalize across a team\n* Invisible to owners and GMs until it’s too late\n\nThe result: high-intent opportunities are missed, close rates vary wildly by technician, and leadership lacks a real-time view of revenue potential, **even while demand is already there**.\n\n**Solution**\n\nRobby turns every technician visit into a structured growth opportunity: \n\n* Ingests customer, technician, and third-party data\n* Uses AI to surface dozens of high-intent opportunities each day\n* Equips technicians clear, contextual talking points to guide customer conversations\n* Capture customer insights that would otherwise be lost through lightweight voice AI\n* Provides GMs a single command center to monitor pipeline and drive revenue\n\n \n\nAll without changing how technicians or office teams already work. Today, we have several paying customers who are each uncovering 6 figures in additional revenue opportunities every week. On our first day of launch, Robby helped close **$40k in new business within the first hour.**\n\n**Product Launch**\n\n\n\n**Product Demo**\n\n\n\n**Why we’re building Robby** \n\nBefore building Robby, we spent months embedded in the home services industry. We rode along with dozens of HVAC technicians and shadowed dispatch, CSRs, sales managers, and GMs. We focused on understanding where data breaks down in day-to-day operations, and where real leverage actually exists. \n\nWe’re currently studying for the EPA 608 certification so we can become certified technicians ourselves. We believe the best vertical software starts with deep respect for the work and the people doing it.\n\nOur team brings experience building and scaling products at Ironclad, Porter, Affinity, Uber, and Cloud Health Systems, and advising growth and software acquisitions for PE firms at Bain. We met at Harvard Business School and dropped out to work on Robby full-time.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97709&key=user_uploads/642838/5820f754-7949-4ed6-b7eb-ab3d89ed1ecd)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PPx-robby-agentic-revenue-growth-for-home-services-businesses", "votes": 93, "created_at": "2026-02-11T21:15:09.235Z" } ] }, { "id": 31254, "name": "Sila", "slug": "sila", "former_names": [ "saiera", "sila" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/30eef975f26ed420159ac335c08eb8b950705ee2.png", "website": "https://silahq.com", "all_locations": "", "long_description": "Sila is an agentic messenger built for teams and agents to get work done in the same conversations. Simple, instant, global AI messaging and calling. Our mission is to bring super intelligence to everyone worldwide. 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Nearly 60% of knowledge workers are overwhelmed by their communication tools, and AI is making this worse as work speeds up and the volume of communication explodes. The gap between how teams talk and how work actually gets done has never been wider. Sila rebuilt messaging from the ground up for human-AI collaboration so teams can move faster. " }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "AI changed what one person could do. Sila changes what an entire company can do together. 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Everyone knows how to message, so that's how AI should work. You'll message it, it'll message you back, and you'll do it together as a team. \n\nSila is the agent-native messaging platform. Create, share, and interact with proactive agents with your team inside groupchats and direct messages (Team-Agent). Agents collaborate with each other (Agent-Agent), answer customer questions (Agent-Customers), and collaborate with other company agents in shared groupchats (Company Agent-Company Agent).\n\nBring-Your-Own-Agents like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and swap between models like Claude Fable, GPT-5.6, Deepseek V4 to use them together as a team. \\\n\\\n\\\n\\\nYour company's conversations are the most valuable information on Earth, Sila helps your team use, learn, and act on them by building for multiplayer AI interaction.\n\nThe conversations that define the future will happen on Sila, come start yours. \\\n\\\nWebsite: [silahq.com](http://silahq.com)\\\nX Launch: \\\nLinkedIn Launch: ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SSq-sila-agent-native-messaging-platform", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2026-08-05T17:58:10.418Z" }, { "id": 98386, "title": "Sila: Agentic Workspace Messaging", "tagline": "Sila is an agentic workplace messaging & collaboration platform where teams and AI work as one ", "body": "**_Sila is an agentic workplace messaging & collaboration platform where teams and AI work as one._**\\\n\\\nEvery great company in history was built on one thing: communication. Sila is an agentic workspace messaging & collaboration platform for teams and companies. Our mission is to lead human-AI communication as the standard for work.\n\n# Problem\n\nThe communication tools we use today (Slack, Microsoft Teams, etc) were built over a decade ago for a world that no longer exists. Full of \"fake work\" – endless messages, notifications, context switching, AI slapped on, and pings that feel productive but never move things forward. \\\n\\\nNearly 60% of knowledge workers are overwhelmed by their communication tools, and AI is making this worse as work speeds up and the volume of communication explodes. The gap between how teams talk and how work actually gets done has never been wider.\n\n# Solution\n\nWe rebuilt messaging from the ground up for human-AI collaboration.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98386&key=user_uploads/2559833/147e96a6-3968-49c7-baee-173a44c2b72d)\n\nOn Sila, custom Claude agents live in your team's channels – talking, listening, and executing alongside naturally. They share updates in real time and automatically evolve based on your workspace conversations, tools, and apps.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98386&key=user_uploads/2559833/62b4297e-d404-468b-88e9-11aec0b6c6ba)\n\nEvery AI session within your workspace is shared across your team in a Google Docs-like experience, so anyone can start, delegate, and collaborate together in real time.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98386&key=user_uploads/2559833/a96dc13d-89ed-4f6e-a19c-dd3f4c224c70)\n\n# Our Mission & Ask\n\nThus far, AI has changed what one person could do. 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Ours don’t.**\n\nThe hard part is understanding how work happens across people, systems, and teams; choosing the opportunities that matter most; and getting solutions into production.\n\n## **How Marker works**\n\nWe embed with each company and lead the transformation end to end:\n\n* **Understand the organization.** We listen closely to leaders and frontline teams, learn their systems and ways of working, and map the processes that usually live in people’s heads.\n* **Find the biggest opportunities.** We identify and prioritize the problems where AI can have the greatest impact on cost, capacity, speed, or growth.\n* **Build and ship.** We create custom agents and automations around the company’s real workflows and systems. The agents we deploy run on the Marker Command Center and go live in production within weeks.\n* **Compound.** Every agent we deploy deepens our understanding of the company. That helps us launch the next one faster and makes Marker increasingly integral to how the organization operates.\n\n## **Who we’re working with today**\n\nWe’re rebuilding companies from mid-size through Fortune 500.\n\n## **Why us**\n\nWe’ve sat on every side of this: founders selling into enterprises, operators transforming one from the inside, and executives responsible for enterprise AI. Marker is the company we wish we could have hired at Gap.\n\n## **Our ask**\n\n**If you are (or you know) a leader looking for real AI transformation—not another pilot, deck, or self-serve tool—please send them our way.**\n\nReach us via email at [**founders@onmarker.com**](mailto:founders@onmarker.com), or visit [**onmarker.com**](http://onmarker.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SvE-marker-ai-native-consultancy-rebuilding-businesses-with-ai-agents", "votes": 72, "created_at": "2026-08-19T14:00:01.019Z" } ] }, { "id": 31404, "name": "Userlens", "slug": "userlens", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/53aa0a91ae4d729ccd50ea3870fa7f1887a5c006.png", "website": "https://userlens.io", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Companies today are growing faster than ever with smaller teams. 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We've grown >**1,200% since January 1** to **$5M ARR** and just raised **$20M** from USV, Lightspeed, Jeff Dean, the Collison brothers, and others.\n\n\n\n### ❌ The Problem\n\nAGI is here, but knowledge workers still spend their days switching between dozens of SaaS apps, manually copying data between tools, and stitching together workflows that should be automated.\n\nAI chatbots can answer questions, but they can't actually _do_ your work — they aren't connected to your tools, can't take real actions, and stop running when you close the tab.\n\n### 🛠 What We Built\n\nTasklet is a single, powerful AI agent that:\n\n* **Connects to everything** — thousands of built-in integrations, any HTTP API, any MCP server, or a full cloud browser for sites without APIs\n* **Takes real actions** — not just answering questions, but doing the work across all your tools\n* **Runs 24/7 in the cloud** — set up triggers (schedules, emails, Slack messages, webhooks) and Tasklet handles workflows autonomously, even when you're asleep\n* **Generates UIs on the fly** — need a dashboard, form, or visualization? 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I truly felt that this could automate all the work I was doing at Magic, so in January, I left to start my own lab.\n\nIntroducing Aster — a major breakthrough for research.\n\nAster isn’t a single agent. It is the first autonomous lab orchestrating **thousands of research agents in parallel.**\n\nWe pointed Aster towards ProteinGym, a benchmark that measures how accurately models predict the effects of protein mutations. It set the world record in **30 minutes**.\n\nAnd it did it efficiently:\n\n    •    57x faster than single agent systems on the same task.\n\n    •    One-third the cost for the same result.\n\nBut here’s what we realized: measurable problems are only a small sliver of research.\n\nThe hard ones were never measurable.\n\nAt Aster, we’re on a mission to automate open-ended research, research that defines its own problems before it can answer them.\n\nThe future doesn’t wait to be defined by benchmarks. Neither do we.\n\nRead our research writeups at .\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103024&key=user_uploads/2005232/2264869d-fb12-406c-8697-c16bca2543fd)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103024&key=user_uploads/2005232/99902341-9d08-445b-8c96-8782bc7fd65c)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Qng-aster-the-first-yc-neolab", "votes": 26, "created_at": "2026-06-13T15:47:30.808Z" } ] }, { "id": 31505, "name": "OpenWork", "slug": "openwork", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/79f117b2c0a8e5660f929ae9a8070ce8dd61d0ff.png", "website": "https://openworklabs.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "OpenWork is a desktop app that lets people connect to their existing skills, MCPs, and agents. 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This is Ben from OpenWork.\n\nWe're building an **open source, enterprise-ready alternative to Claude Cowork** that companies can deploy internally — with **their own LLMs, their own infrastructure, and their own compliance posture**.\n\nWe launched 3 months ago, and already have 14k GitHub stars and 150k+ downloads.\n\nOpenWork is:\n\n\\- **Desktop** that you can provide to your non-technical employees.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=100181&key=user_uploads/571092/b4e8acf0-097b-4320-88f2-aca59afd8b42)\n\n\\- **Cloud** that lets you administer which skills, plugins, mcps your users have access to.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=100181&key=user_uploads/571092/ed1de3e2-31bf-4a27-b1b8-7326cf2aef92)\n\nSome advantages over Claude Cowork:\n\n\\- **Deploy it where you want.** Use our cloud, or self-host on-premise, in your cloud, or hybrid. Companies with stricter requirements keep everything inside their trust perimeter.\n\n\\- **Model-independent, cost-controlled.** Bring your own: self-hosted, Bedrock, Azure, Vertex, or any of 50+ providers. Route per task so you only pay frontier prices when it actually matters. \n\n\\- **Reuses what you have.** Internal MCPs, runbooks, scripts, and docs become agent capabilitie \n\n\\- **Shared across the team.** Technical and non-technical teammates use the same agents from the UI, Slack, or Telegram.\n\nOpen source. No lock-in on infra or models.\n\nWays to get started:\n\n1\\. Try the desktop app - no sign-in required\n\n2\\. 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In the last 12 days since launch, we've gotten top 5 / top 12 on hacker news & product hunt, onboarded 50+ teams, grown 0 to 1k MRR, and are scoping paid design pilots with co's like Razorpay and Snorkel AI. 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We’ll set you up on Hyper in <20 minutes and supercharge your company so you’ll never have to correct your agents again.\n\n[Book a demo](https://heyhyper.cal.com/founders)\\\n[Interact with us on X](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/2053882832208929262?s=20)\\\n[Check us out on Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/y-combinator_hyper-is-building-the-self-driving-company-activity-7459648541150314496-6e5c)[ ](https://x.com/ycombinator/status/2053882832208929262?s=20)\\\n\\\nLaunch video: \n\n# Your AI doesn’t even know\n\nYou’re automating the boring work with agents so you can build more, faster. BUT:\n\n* Agents forget your customers + your relationships\n* Agents ignore know your taste, and code smelly, ugly features\n* Agents can’t remember your pivots, and act on stale data\n* Agents keep making the same mistakes over and over, no matter how many times you yell at them.\n\nSo you’ve tried some insane manual hacks:\n\n* You paste dumps of the same context into every new chat.\n* You write obvious skills for something that it should just \"know\".\n* You commit markdown files in your codebase so everyone's AI is on the same page.\n* You hack an off-the-shelf memory libraries to fit your unique story\n\n…before you know it, you have a huge mess of broken agents, and no amount of pasting, screenshotting, or committing gives your AI the complete, living picture of your company.\n\n# ENTER: HYPER\n\n**Hyper fixes all of this without you having to do anything.**\n\n1. Hyper quietly pulls out important info from every document, calendar invite, email, Slack, GitHub pull request, conversation, and more.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101226&key=user_uploads/2784940/2474cd22-beeb-4525-bc19-bd546bd3a91e)\n\n2. As you work, Hyper’s agents combine, synthesize, clean up, and deduplicate all of it into an up-to-date perfect picture of your company.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101226&key=user_uploads/2784940/d727c84a-929b-44a9-b1de-283717b3f134)\n\n3. Hyper quietly plugs into every AI tool you use and system you build, silently feeding back useful information without any ugly tool calls, interface spam, or distractions.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101226&key=user_uploads/2784940/e019494b-f3a9-4d81-8ff9-14b16168aa63)\n\n\nNow your AI knows: _Who did we talk to last week? What customer is facing this bug? How much revenue do we need before next week’s meeting?_\n\nBut it also knows: _What’s our design philosophy? What sales strategy seems to work best with mid-level execs? What feedback isn’t worth paying attention to right now?_\n\nHyper builds this brain across your whole company — so the next time your agents get to work, they _just know_. And the next time your teammates sit down to work, _they just know too._\n\n# A Bit About Us\n\n**Kanyes** helped secure multi-million dollar deals at Snorkel AI and wrote motion algorithms at Matic Robots. He ran a streetwear arbitrage operation out of his sophomore year apartment. **Shalin** was one of Matic’s most prolific designers and engineers, built an app for the blind in high school with > 3 million users, and has been [building products](https://www.businessinsider.com/14-year-old-works-11-hours-a-day-at-an-iphone-app-startup-and-concludes-it-was-like-heaven-2013-10) for the last 15 years. He interned at MakeSchool (W12) in 2013 and [Wit.ai](http://Wit.ai) (W14) in 2014 when he was in middle school.\\\n\\\nThey’ve been best friends since their first day at Cal, and have built dozens of projects between them — tools for researchers to virtual worlds to campus assistants to meme apps. They were roommates and coworkers at Matic Robots in Mountain View, where they helped lead the team. 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Every advance in ML still runs through a small number of researchers who can only devise and test ideas so fast. Experiments take days, most fail, and the field's progress is gated by how quickly a limited pool of experts can iterate.\r\n\r\nWe think this is the single biggest lever on the future of AI. Our thesis is that AI progress isn't bounded by compute or data, but it's bounded by the rate at which good ideas get devised and tested. Compute keeps scaling, but the human idea-generation loop doesn't. If you could automate the loop itself: hypothesize, experiment, learn, and repeat, then you could compound discoveries far faster than any human team.\r\n\r\nWe decided to work on it because we've lived the bottleneck. Between us we spent \\~30 years doing ML research at Google, DeepMind, and Luma AI. We kept hitting the same wall: the hard part was never running the code, it was the slow, serial process of engineering the training loops to inform what to try next.\r\n\r\nWhen we built a system that could run that loop autonomously, we found we could shorten the gap between having an idea and knowing whether it was a good one. This has allowed us to explore many exciting ideas that we would have otherwise not tried because it was too time-consuming for us. The results convinced us a self-improvement loop now possible, and that we're the ones to build it." }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "Long-term, we're building autonomous AI scientists and scaling them from one to millions: a fleet running the scientific method in parallel, each discovery accelerating the next.\r\n\r\nAnd this process will start to compound. Each new method our scientists invent makes the next round of research faster and cheaper, a self-improving loop where discovery accelerates discovery. Concretely, that means a world where breakthroughs that would have taken a field a decade happen in months, where the cost of pushing the frontier drops by orders of magnitude, and where a small team can direct the research output of an entire institution. 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We're [Josh](https://rekursiv.ai/josh) and [Dan](https://rekursiv.ai/dan), co-founders of [rekursiv.ai](http://rekursiv.ai) 🧪.\n\n[rekursiv.ai](http://rekursiv.ai) builds fleets of **AI scientists** that do ML research on their own: they come up with ideas, run thousands of experiments in parallel, learn from the results, and accelerate their own discoveries. In a few days of self-directed research, they invented ideas and algorithms that **matched state-of-the-art accuracy on ARC-AGI of frontier LLMs at up to 10,000× lower cost**, and became the first system to hit **100% on Sudoku** with a neural network trained only on input-output pairs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=106821&key=user_uploads/3527564/0444a495-03fa-4f41-9762-ba134521b2f4)\n\n**Why this matters.**\n\nAI research is bottlenecked by humans. Every advance still runs through a small number of researchers who can only devise and test ideas so fast. Compute keeps scaling; the human idea-generation loop doesn't. We believe **AI progress isn't bounded by compute, it's bounded by the rate at which good ideas get tried and tested**. So instead of scaling one model, we built a system that generates and tests ideas on its own.\n\n**It already works.**\n\nIn a few days of self-directed research, our AI scientists set a groundbreaking records on hard benchmarks.\n\n* On **ARC-AGI** (easy for humans, hard for AI), our AI scientists matched top frontier LLM models at up to **10,000× lower cost**.\n* On **Sudoku**, they achieved 100% accuracy by running hundreds of experiments over a few days, wrote 100k+ lines of their own code, and invented a new inference method (_Hypothesis-Pinning Search_).\n* Every gain came from ideas and algorithms **the system invented itself**. It even debugged its own training bugs and abandoned its own ideas that led to dead ends.\n\nFull write-ups: [ARC-AGI](https://rekursiv.ai/blog/pushing-limits-arc-agi/) · [Sudoku](https://rekursiv.ai/blog/100-percent-accuracy-on-sudoku/)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=106821&key=user_uploads/3527564/676b13b6-cc1b-4545-8d14-cc7ae1e9b5a5)\n\n**Who we are.**\n\nWe're two ML researchers with 21 years of combined experience at **Google DeepMind and Luma AI**. We spent our careers building frontier generative models. Now we're pointing that experience at a harder problem: AI that discovers on its own.\n\n* **Josh Dillon** — Staff Research Scientist at **Google Research & DeepMind for 13 years**, then led foundational-model pre-training at **Luma AI**. Created **TensorFlow Probability** (\\~1M downloads/month).\n* **Dan Kondratyuk** — First author of **VideoPoet (ICML 2024 Best Paper)**. Co-developed the models powering **Luma's Dream Machine** and led Luma's realtime World Models team. Previously 5 years at **Google Research**.\n\n**What's next.**\n\nWe're pointing the system at harder, more varied challenges and building a platform to share results in real time. The bottleneck now is experiment scale: the more experiments we run, the more discoveries the our AI teams can make. We plan to scale from a few AI scientists to millions, each discovery accelerating the next, until the rate of scientific progress is no longer limited by the number of human researchers.\n\n**Asks.**\n\n* **Got a hard problem or benchmark?** If you have a benchmark or research problem you'd love an autonomous team of scientists to attack, we want to hear it. Email [contact@rekursiv.ai](mailto:contact@rekursiv.ai).\n* **Researchers & engineers:** We're hiring **Founding Scientists** and **Engineers** (Bay Area or remote). If you love running thousands of experiments and figuring out what the results mean, reach out at [hiring@rekursiv.ai](mailto:hiring@rekursiv.ai)\n* **Just want to nerd out about autonomous science?** Drop us a line, always happy to chat.\n\n— Josh & Dan, [rekursiv.ai](http://rekursiv.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Rmv-rekursiv-ai-ai-scientists-that-invent-new-knowledge", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2026-07-22T14:06:11.738Z" } ] }, { "id": 31572, "name": "GBrain", "slug": "gbrain", "former_names": [ "The Overton Window Company", "Gbrain.io", "gbrain.io" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f7bf7b8a84de5df5cb99d1a5f1024ec159e9c14d.png", "website": "https://gbrain.io", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Like ChatGPT or Claude, but it runs in the cloud, remembers everything you give it, and comes loaded with skills. Hand it a job tonight and read the answer in the morning. 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Every time we moved between AI tools we pasted the same API keys into the next one and explained the work all over again. \r\n\r\nNo existing tools were built for a team, either. 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When a new agent picks up a task, Glen finds relevant prior context and injects it in the agents context window to steer it, producing knowledge work that is significantly higher quality, faster and cheaper.\r\n\r\nGlen does more. You can query the original agent behind any line of code, or search every session your org has ever run. It distills what your team does into skills and surfaces the right one automatically. Agents work multiplayer, picking up the style and context of whoever else is on the file. Transcripts are unified across Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, so you can hand a session from one to another mid-task. And Glen can also double as a company brain, from Slack, in app, or by just installing Glen on any agent.\r\n\r\nWe’re building toward a future where memory is no longer the missing piece of intelligence. A future where every agent maintains a lossless and continuous thread of institutional experience enabling the era of the compounding organization and fully unsupervised digital labour.", "one_liner": "Institutional Learning Layer for Every Agent in Your Company", "team_size": 1, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1781114514, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "B2B", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2026", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "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/glen", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2026/glen.json", "year_founded": 2026, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/tryglen", "x_url": "https://x.com/try_glen", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cc11fde647ded2f52bca6ff53c7ad045f290e1ee.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 3237090, "full_name": "Nikos Dritsakos", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Founder at Glen. 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I'm Nikos, the founder of Glen.\n\n**TL;DR**\n\nGlen is building the organizational learning and context layer for agents.\n\nEvery agent session your team runs produces reasoning worth keeping, and nearly all of it is discarded the moment the window closes.\\\n\\\n[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T0CkjYfo3k3FB40_R7UPNfONO-SdgfKB](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T0CkjYfo3k3FB40_R7UPNfONO-SdgfKB/view?usp=sharing)\n\nGlen is the layer that unifies every agent and model your company run. Glen pulls in agent sessions from Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, plus Slack messages, GitHub prs, tickets, docs and calls. When a new agent picks up a task, Glen finds relevant prior context and injects it in the agents context window to steer it, producing knowledge work that is significantly higher quality, faster and cheaper than ever before.\n\nAnd Glen does more. It unifies all of your org's context: query the original agent behind any line of code, search every session your org has ever run, dynamic skill distillation, multiplayer agents, unified transcripts you can hand between Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor mid-task, and a company brain in Slack.\\\n\\\nComposio scaled usage from 2 users to org wide. Over a dozen SF startups use Glen. I’m onboarding new teams every week, email me at [nikos@tryglen.com](mailto:nikos@tryglen.com) to get set up with early access.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=111187&key=user_uploads/3237090/2d8c514f-6318-491a-937e-87f1d3e32ae6)\n\n**What Glen does practically**\n\n* Relevant context injected on every prompt which steers your model to do knowledge work more efficiently saving your time, money and headaches. These injections can consist or niche knowledge unique to the repo you are working in, high level understanding of relevant sub systems, and previous approaches teammates took to similar problems. Glen surfaces the prior work that matters automatically, so tasks finish faster and cost fewer tokens with no loss in quality, because what lands in the window is the relevant work rather than more of it. You can lazy-prompt instead of retyping the same background every session. So far, internal evals show about a **29% reduction in token spend** and **21% reduction in task completion time**.\n\n \\\n **Also…**\n* PR review with the original context. Highlight any code in a diff and ask why it's there. Glen queries the agent session that produced it and answers from the actual trace instead of guessing from the diff.\n* Code search across every agent trace. Ask your coding agent anything about the codebase and it searches every session any agent in your org has run, so the answer comes from the work that produced the code.\n* A skill library the whole org shares. Glen distills what your team does into skills, publishes them where everyone can use them, and surfaces the right one automatically when someone hits a task it covers.\n* Multiplayer agents. You and your designer work the same deck in parallel, you on copy and them on design. Make a design edit and your agent applies the style theirs has learned. When they touch the copy, their agent writes in the voice yours was taught. Neither of you hands anything off.\n* No lock-in to a model provider. Transcripts from Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor all land in one place, and you can hand a session from one to another mid-task, with Glen converting the format so the next agent picks up exactly where the last one stopped. Your context, your skills, and your shared artifacts come with you, so moving between providers costs nothing.\n* We have a Slackbot company brain too!\n\n**Deployed org-wide at Composio**. Composio was my first design partner. It started with two users, grew to about twenty naturally as I iterated on the product, and is now used across the company. Also in use at over a dozen other companies!\n\nIn the last 30 days alone, Glen injected **10s of millions of** characters of organizational context into their agents. These injections steer the models used by these teams, giving them a competative edge that allows them to perform knowledge work better, faster, and cheaper.\n\n**My Ask**\n\nIf you are at a startup and are reading this, there's a 80% chance Glen would be a great addition to your productivity stack. Most teams run agents heavily, and if yours is tired of re-explaining meetings, Slack, tickets, conventions, and what past sessions already worked out, that's exactly what Glen removes. \\\n\\\nI'd love to chat, and I'll come to your office, or wherever you are, and set you up for a with a early access workspace before public availability. 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The project has 20K+ GitHub stars.\n\n\n\nMost AI agents start every task with partial context.\n\nThey can read the prompt and apps you connect. They do not remember the meeting where a decision was made, the tab you opened last Tuesday, the exact steps you took to fix a problem, or the edge case you discovered while doing the work.\n\nscreenpipe runs quietly in the background and captures screen and audio context on your machine. Then you can ask:\n\n* maintain a second brain for every person, projects, tasks, meetings\n\n\n* turn the workday into a daily recap and time breakdown for standups or client billing\n* maintain a personal CRM from the people, conversations, and follow-ups seen during the day\n* find commitments mentioned in meetings or messages that never made it into a task list\n* analyze repeated work and produce a list of workflows worth automating\n* save prompts and context from Claude, Codex, and ChatGPT into a searchable journal\n\nAgents can use screenpipe as long-term memory, so they work from what actually happened instead of only what you remembered to paste into a prompt.\n\nThe same foundation also works across team machines. Teams can map repeated workflows, generate SOPs, find bottlenecks, and identify automation opportunities across the tools where work actually happens.\n\nscreenpipe is open source and local-first. You control what gets recorded, can exclude apps, windows, and URLs, and choose where your data lives.\n\nI’ve been building my own AI second brain since 2020, but it could only remember what I explicitly saved. I built screenpipe so my AI could understand what I was actually doing across my screen and conversations. Other people began using it for the same reason. Today, we’re turning that foundation into context for personal and team agents.\n\n**Our ask**\n\nTry screenpipe and comment with the agent you would build if it could remember everything you’ve worked on.\n\nTry screenpipe: ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RTT-screenpipe-record-how-you-work-and-turn-that-into-agents", "votes": 23, "created_at": "2026-07-14T14:38:00.824Z" } ] }, { "id": 33320, "name": "OneCLI", "slug": "onecli", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0405005492b7122ac5f4784e260fc64d7bd99053.png", "website": "https://onecli.sh", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "OneCLI (YC S26) is an open-source platform for delegating business-critical work to AI agents, from Salesforce updates to data analysis and engineering investigations.\r\n\r\nAgents work across your company’s apps, prepare changes, and pause for approval when your rules require it. 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Works from web and Slack.", "body": "Hi everyone 👋, we're Jonathan and Guy, founders of OneCLI.**\\\n\\\n🏆 TL;DR**\n\nOneCLI is an open source agent harness for teams. Each employee gets their own sandboxed pro assistant agent, connected to their GitHub, Gmail, Notion, Dropbox, or CRM right from the chat/Slack, while the whole workspace runs under one policy your admins control. \\\n\\\nAgents never hold real secrets: the credential is injected at the network layer, per request, after the call is authorized. You can't steal what isn't there.\n\n**Launch Video**\\\n\n\n🚧 **The Problem**\n\nLately, autonomous agents have arrived and shown up everywhere. Tools like OpenClaw and Hermes have become extremely popular and been adopted by open source communities, mostly by individuals. Companies, however, have been left behind: they need integration with their identity providers to enable easy provisioning of agents on behalf of an employee's identity, with least-privilege access.\n\nThose tools have fundamental flaws. Security fundamentals, like secret handling and organization-level control, are missing by default. So companies must choose between weak agents or making them powerful but risky.\n\n✅ **What OneCLI Does**\n\nOneCLI gives teams the whole harness, open source and self-hosted, so agents can be powerful and safe at once:\n\n* **Sandboxed agent per employee:** each agent runs isolated with its own memory, skills, and permissions.\n* **Secrets injected at the network layer:** the agent gets a placeholder, the gateway swaps in the real credential per request, after the call is authorized. Credentials never enter the agent's context, memory, or logs.\n* **Policy enforced outside the model:** admins define org-wide policy. Block endpoints and scope access per agent.\n* **Human-in-the-loop where it counts:** sensitive actions (send the email, delete the Linear ticket, empty the S3 bucket) wait for deterministic approval in the chat.\n* **Full identity trail:** every agent is bound to an employee, every call logged with who it acted for and which policy allowed it.\n\n🚀 **Team**\n\nWe've spent our careers in security. Jonathan built zero trust network access at Axis Security (acquired by HPE). The core ZTNA idea is that you never trust the client and enforce access outside it, at the network layer. Guy was the first employee at Argon (AppSec company acquired by Aqua Security), protecting client codebases. Agents need exactly the treatment ZTNA gives humans, so we built it.\n\n🙏 **Our Ask**\n\n* Do you want to provide each of your employees with a secure OpenClaw isolated in a sandbox? Shoot me an email: [jonathan@onecli.sh](mailto:jonathan@onecli.sh)\n* Star/try the repo:[ https://github.com/onecli/onecli](https://github.com/onecli/onecli). Self-host in minutes, free.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SvJ-onecli-give-every-employee-a-secured-sandboxed-pro-assistant-agent", "votes": 29, "created_at": "2026-08-20T14:00:00.677Z" }, { "id": 106907, "title": "OneCLI - Your AI agents shouldn't be holding raw secrets", "tagline": "Agents hold placeholder tokens, real secrets get injected at the network layer", "body": "# **🏆 TL;DR**\n\n[**OneCLI**](http://onecli.sh) is an open-source credential gateway for **AI agents**.\\\nWhen an agent makes a call, OneCLI swaps in the real credential at the network layer and forwards it. The agent never touches the secret, **you can't steal what isn't there**.\\\n320K+ downloads, 2,500+ GitHub stars, and the default credential layer in NanoClaw (30K+ stars).\n\n**Ask:** If your team runs coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) or autonomous agents in production. And if you can intro us to Head of DevOps or heads of DevSecOps at companies rolling out AI agents, email us at [jonathan@onecli.sh](mailto:jonathan@onecli.sh) \\\n\\\n**Sign up for free:** \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=106907&key=user_uploads/406823/5294ff50-4b88-4ee7-9c9c-3c776b5b45b5)\n\n\n\n# The Problem\n\nAI agents are doing real work now, which means they need real credentials: API keys, database passwords, OAuth tokens. And there's no safe way to hand them over.\n\nToday, every team does one of two things: hardcode secrets into **.env files** the agent can read, or build a one-off proxy hack. Both mean the **agent holds the secret**. An agent that holds a secret can leak it, through prompt injection, a malicious MCP server, a compromised dependency, or simply by pasting it into a log or a commit.\n\nSecrets management was designed for humans and **deterministic software**. Autonomous agents that read untrusted webpages, install packages, and write their own code are a fundamentally different threat model. The blast radius of one leaked production key is enormous, and teams are granting agents more access every week.\n\n# Our Solution\n\nOneCLI moves the credential out of the agent entirely.\n\nYou run one command, and every outbound call from your coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline) or autonomous agent (OpenClaw, Hermes, NanoClaw) routes through OneCLI. The agent only ever sees placeholder tokens. On each request, the proxy:\n\n1. Matches the request by host/path\n2. Checks it against policy\n3. Swaps the placeholder for the real credential\n4. Forwards the request\n\nThe agent never holds the secret, so there's nothing to steal, log, or exfiltrate. \\\nSecrets are AES-256-GCM encrypted at rest. The whole thing runs in a single Docker container with no external dependencies. It works with anything that can set HTTPS_PROXY.\n\nFor teams, we already support integration with IdPs and organization-wide policy setup, giving you full control and visibility over every access made by your agents.\n\n# Why this and not the PAM/identity vendors?\n\nBecause the credential problem for agents is a **network problem, not an identity problem**. Vault-based tools (1Password, HashiCorp Vault) still hand the secret to the agent to authenticate. The agent holds it, so the agent can leak it. OneCLI injects the credential at the wire: transparent injection, policy enforced on every outbound request, and the secret never enters the agent's context in the first place.\n\n# The Team\n\nWe've spent our careers in security. Guy (CTO) was the first hire at Argon (acquired by Aqua Security). Jonathan (CEO) worked on ZTNA and network security at Axis Security (acquired by HPE), after serving in Israeli Military Intelligence.\n\nWe hit this problem ourselves. Before OneCLI we built ChartDB together, an open-source database tool with 20K+ GitHub stars, and while building an agent orchestration layer on top of it, we kept hitting the same wall: there was no safe way to hand an autonomous agent credentials. Every team we talked to was either hardcoding API keys or duct-taping proxies. 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Even straightforward onboarding tasks required people to research information, handle exceptions, and make decisions.\r\n\r\nWe started Parcha in 2023 to build AI agents for compliance workflows. That gave us firsthand experience with repetitive, high-stakes work where accuracy and control matter. We built Grep AI to make those capabilities available to teams automating repetitive knowledge work across their business." }, { "question": "What's the history of your company from getting started until the present day? What were the big inflection points?", "answer": "We started in 2023 as Parcha, building AI agents for compliance teams. Working on those workflows taught us how to handle complex research, exceptions, and judgment while keeping people in control.\r\n\r\nWe also saw the same need beyond compliance. In 2026, we expanded into Grep AI, a managed agent platform for repetitive, high-stakes knowledge work across operations, research, and other business functions. 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