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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). 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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 One status message that stays current — one release/status message you keep updating, instead of a pile of outdated posts\n3.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. 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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**. 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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. As chat becomes the main app that workers interact with everyday, it becomes necessary to give it more purposes.\n\nNew purposes include workflows like team check-ins, surveys, platform notifications, tools for social engagement, or custom commands to trigger actions.\n\nCreating all this setup is a hustle:\n\n* 1- You have to use many apps, bots, plugins\n* 2- There is a lot of context switching, management overhead, more subscription fees, and more app fatigue for workers\n* 3- Most bots are not designed for protecting security and privacy\n\n# **DailyBot is the solution**\n\nWe are building the first super-bot for your chat. DailyBot comes with a bunch of use cases and features, all-in-one. Some workflows include:\n\n**Check-ins:** track automatically what your team is up to. You can run async and written updates, agile daily stand-ups, retrospectives, or periodic check-ins like 1:1s.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64310&key=user_uploads/207324/06136816-f0a8-4324-8e8b-db4bb9a0aa81)\n\n**Kudos**: give kudos and celebrate actions that contribute to better team culture. Create rewards and have fun activities with your team based on our leaderboard.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64310&key=user_uploads/207324/b523b354-332f-4d1e-9617-996320210eb7)\n\n**Forms**: create all-purpose forms that people can respond to in chat or on the web. Automate vacation requests, recurring feedback forms, and more.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64310&key=user_uploads/207324/91614956-ebf2-45e0-b746-678fac7349ec)\n\n**Custom commands**: create commands to increase your team’s productivity in less than a minute. Virtual coffees, birthday reminders, watercoolers, pomodoro timers, your own chat-ops and more.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64310&key=user_uploads/207324/974d041a-a4b9-4c5a-a1c0-2b810e40ec29)\n\n### **Security by design and SOC2 compliance**\n\nMost apps take a lot of permissions to access data from your chat. This becomes concerning when you are using dozens of apps to build your team workflows. We are designing DailyBot as a privacy & security first company.\n\nDailyBot only requests the minimal API permissions from your chat. It can only process messages that are directed to the bot.\n\nWe are SOC2 Type II compliant, giving confidence to small and big companies about our work and data management practices.\n\n**Join Us!**\n\nGet started for free. Go to [www.dailybot.com](http://www.dailybot.com) and install DailyBot on your chat (2-min setup). 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🔥 All with one, easy-to-use solution: collect forms, accept payments, keep updated, request details, and approve steps!", "one_liner": "Workflows for repetitive customer-facing tasks", "team_size": 5, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Operations", "launched_at": 1626708555, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Productivity", "Customer Success", "Collaboration" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2021", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Operations" ], "regions": [ "Spain", "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/beau", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2021/beau.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "Barcelona", "country": "ES", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/beau-to/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/BeauWorkflows", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/beau.workflows", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/beau-f3f7", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/490af3b3db6da49a5b8d11c3a79ffeee287b7747.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 333032, "full_name": "Mila Dayan", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder at Beau,\nCannes Lions Award winner", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mila-dayan", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/931fd36d8d366305b186f5fbd90b1081f73a1bc4.jpg" }, { "user_id": 321190, "full_name": "Kyril Kulikov", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "cofounder at Beau", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyril-ku/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/kyrilku", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f27bf4826a0563ff358efc2979863a15cff204fe.jpg" }, { "user_id": 696790, "full_name": "Kirill Zakharov", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Former backend developer and team lead at fast growing russian companies and startups, product oriented and focused on delivering business results as fast as possible", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirillzaharov", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f1f82005675004685bf32fc2165ed62bf6c34917.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": " Beau: Product Hunt Launch", "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/products/beau#beau-2-0", "date": "Oct 31, 2022" } ], "launches": [] }, { "id": 25472, "name": "Ozone", "slug": "ozone", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/91e83d954beb45df9be14abf04cf2403d8a8572c.png", "website": "https://ozone.pro", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Ozone is the world’s first collaborative video editor in the cloud. We are making the world a more creative place by building the next generation of creative tools.", "one_liner": "Figma for video", "team_size": 8, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1648660054, "tags": [ "Productivity", "Collaboration", "Design Tools" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2022", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "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/ozone", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2022/ozone.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ozoneapp", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ozone-40f6", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/91e83d954beb45df9be14abf04cf2403d8a8572c.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 693933, "full_name": "Max von Wolff", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Hey, I’m Max! 👋🏻\n\nI’ve dropped out of my undergraduate degree at MIT to build Ozone, the world’s first cloud-powered video editor. I’m passionate about filmmaking, cloud tech and space.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxvwolff/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/maxvwolff", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7d2e35b166c0cc13ef0bcfd5c71b438e02dfa3b3.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Ozone raises $7.1M to scale its AI-powered collaborative video editor in the cloud | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/08/ozone-raises-7-1m-to-scale-its-ai-powered-collaborative-video-editor/", "date": "Nov 08, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 81725, "title": "Ozone: The fastest way to edit videos with AI!", "tagline": "Create engaging videos in seconds using our first-of-its-kind creative tool in the browser. Ozone unites AI, pro video editing tools, and real-time collaboration.", "body": "**tl;dr:** create social media, marketing, or product videos faster than ever before with AI. Sign up now and move all of your content workflows to Ozone in minutes.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81725&key=user_uploads/693933/d87084c8-86ff-48c6-b975-04f42facd54b)\n\n—\n\nHey YC!\n\n[Ozone](https://ozone.pro/) is the fastest way to edit video with the help of AI. After nearly 3 years of building and 6 months of testing, Ozone is finally coming out of its beta phase. With it, you can:\n\n✨ **Generate AI media** like videos, images, sound effects, music, and speech directly within our editor.\n\n🎥 **Edit like a pro** by removing silences, generating captions, animating and keyframing your videos, color grade, crop — leverage pro features without needing to be a pro!\n\n🏞️ **Store and organize all your media** in one unified place in the cloud.\n\n👥  **Share and collaborate** on your video projects with your team by leaving comments, approving videos, and making final edits in real time.\n\n\\\n**What can I use Ozone for**\n\n📱Short-form product or marketing videos on TikTok, IG Reels, or YouTube Shorts\n\n🪄Generative AI stock and art\n\n🎥 YouTube company content, podcasts and updates\n\n\\\n**Get access for your team**\\\n\\\nSend me an email at [hello@ozone.pro,](mailto:max@ozone.pro) and we’ll set up an onboarding call with your team! If you’d like to try Ozone individually, sign up [**here**](https://app.ozone.tech/register) and get set up in minutes. Feedback is much appreciated!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LG9-ozone-the-fastest-way-to-edit-videos-with-ai", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2024-06-25T14:57:54.188Z" } ] }, { "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. 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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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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. 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Before IcePanel, I was a UX Designer at Mastercard, working on greenfield real-time payment products, including monitoring and mobile payments. I prefer solving \"boring\" problems over jumping on hype trains. Stay chill.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-shadbolt-design/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/1c3b5e696e164622ef8f794349042621d956194b.jpg" }, { "user_id": 690349, "full_name": "Victor Leach", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "🧊 IcePanel Co-Founder | I have a passion for discovering and solving problems with technology, and my mission is to make products that people love!", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/victorleach/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/2e727d275ed407a2309d229d2376f52f01c89e17.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 72555, "title": "Senior Full Stack Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/icepanel/jobs/KlI6KP6-senior-full-stack-engineer", "location": "Vancouver, BC, CA", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$170K CAD", "equity_range": "0.20% - 0.70%", "experience": "6+ years", "visa": "US citizenship/visa not required", "skills": [ "Google Cloud", "Node.js", "TypeScript", "Vue.js", "Tailwind" ] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 67487, "title": "🧊 IcePanel - Collaborative system design; linked with reality", "tagline": "A lightweight visual approach to modelling software architecture, linked with resources in the real world.", "body": "### **⚡️TL;DR**\n\nCommunication of software systems is hard, visuals help but often lack consistency and are out-of-date within weeks.\n\nIcePanel is a SaaS tool for tech teams to collaborate on their software architecture design.\n\n### **👋 Who are we?**\n\nHey all, we’re [Victor](https://www.linkedin.com/in/victorleach/) and [Jacob](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-shadbolt-design/), the founders of 🧊 [IcePanel](http://icepanel.io).\n\n### **🤬 Problem**\n\nSoftware teams currently use generic diagramming tools to communicate complex systems.\n\n* Software systems are becoming increasingly complex and are hard to explain.\n* Technical teams often find it challenging to tell the right story and gain alignment.\n* Technical diagrams are inconsistent, lack context and drift from reality - becoming out-of-date in a matter of weeks.\n* Engineering and product teams are often misaligned, especially in technical areas.\n\n💩 Bad communication across teams is time-consuming and expensive.\n\n### **🚀 Our solution**\n\nHelp humans visually communicate complex systems; linked to resources in reality.\n\n**1️⃣ Modelling**\n\n> * IcePanel is a collaborative modelling tool, that provides a single source of truth with reusable objects and relationships, keeping your diagrams in sync and up-to-date with changes.\n\n**2️⃣ Consistent language**\n\n* IcePanel is built upon the [C4 model](http://c4model.com), a lightweight layered approach designed for technical and non-technical audiences. 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This is to make sure the contractor digs safely - that they won’t hit a gas pipe, for example.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93588&key=user_uploads/448610/eb053624-67ff-4b07-8abf-d10ece228cb4)\n\nFor contractors, handling these tickets is critically important, but a pain:\n\n1. Submitting tickets takes a lot of time and distracts project managers from higher value work.\n2. Making sure tickets don’t expire is also necessary, so contractors avoid a ‘down day’ (a day where they can’t work, due to an expired 811 request). \n\nWith 43M tickets submitted last year by tens of thousands of contractors, this is not a small problem.\n\nSo we decided to fix it.\n\n### We’ve made handling locates a breeze for contractors\n\nhttps://youtu.be/Y04NyOXGt2o\n\nWe built Clad Locates to make it fast and easy to submit and track 811 tickets.\n\n1. **AI-driven narratives -** We use AI to eliminate the most time consuming part of submitting a ticket, writing a ‘narrative,’ (to describe the path that a contractor will excavate.\n2. **Bulk Submission -** Clad connects with the state 811 systems to submit tickets automatically, 1 ticket at a time or 15 all at once.\n3. **Automated Tracking -** We get data from the state 811 systems to build an automated automated tracker to monitor when areas are ready to dig, and when tickets will be expiring.\n4. **Expiration Notifications** - To prevent ‘down days,’ Clad notifies contractors when tickets are expiring and need to be renewed. Soon, contractors will be able to renew tickets directly from Clad. \n\n### Join our waitlist and reach out!\n\nReach out to us at jason@withclad.com, or sign up on our [website](https://www.withclad.com/locates/overview) to learn more.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OLU-clad-locates-ai-for-infrastructure-contractors", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2025-09-04T19:23:52.719Z" }, { "id": 69535, "title": "Clad - Software to manage telecom subcontractors", "tagline": "We help telecom companies lay fiber faster with software to bid, manage, and pay their construction subcontractors.", "body": "> _tl;dr:_ [_Clad_](https://www.withclad.com?utm_source=launch_yc&utm_medium=link_in_post&utm_campaign=022223_launchyc) _is a subcontractor management platform. We help telecom companies construct their networks faster, cheaper, and with fewer costly issues. Clad does this by streamlining everything from bidding through payments, all in one system._ \n\n> _Know anyone who works at a telco or data center?_ [_Reach out_](mailto:jason@withclad.com)_!_\n\n### The Problem\n\nDemand for high speed internet is accelerating, driven by the rise of remote work alongside new public and private investment. As a result, ISPs, data centers, and other operators are rapidly expanding their networks. \n\nTelcos rely on contractors to get this construction done. And with the rapid growth in deployments, there’s more need for them than ever before. As a result, telcos are struggling to find and retain enough high quality contractors, putting budgets and timelines at risk.\n\nIt’s no surprise telcos are having a tough time - the way they work with their subcontractors is broken at every step of construction:\n\n![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/T6CNj3VYdBdETF7lwV9IKA95DtBujw8pMwGmLEi3qpbrgmZidTyIJwn-NEh1WiEjORDd6hCEmT7L6cKdGhuDOjE7EcBcb_WOQciZj0f9Fwbc2j6Y-8Abh8TomWsj7ScYzKpt7qyqKi8BZbo_Va3cByQ)\n\n### Enter: Clad\n\nClad is a subcontractor management platform tailor-made for telecom construction. We streamline how telecom companies bid out and qualify subcontractors, track construction progress, and create, approve, and pay invoices too.\n\nOur entire goal is to eliminate the time consuming back-office functions that come from working with subcontractors. \n\nCurious how? Take a look 👇\n\nWith Clad, telcos get out of email and spreadsheets - speeding projects up, saving money, and getting the insights to improve construction over time:\n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ZFyNTkN1ZWfSZ60KsUFm_ibKme0xQLMg600PJ1dR0nF3_sjSrhFZQyCw6jHCP6QOJX85VotA6K2sbE0u-mN6-FlJt-XlcrXmYAiOGXnmP34rvHK8nIoThCUeV6UumCuj3Rh0iGlg-Y4xq-CgTz_Yj7U)\n\n_I’m_ [_Jason_](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonrudin/)_, and I started Clad because growing up, I saw first-hand how time consuming and painful it can be to work with subcontractors. When I was younger, my mom worked at a telco. I’d regularly hear stories about projects that were delayed or over budget because of miscommunications or errors with contractors. Last year I met two friends in telco who were complaining about the same problems as my mom. Hearing that, I dug in to learn more, and was shocked to learn that not much had changed in the decades since then. I’m building Clad to change this status quo._\n\n_I’m excited to build Clad because today, it remains too hard to build new things. And with high quality effective tools, we can get more done, faster._\n\n### You can help!\n\n1. **Share this post** - you never know who knows someone in telecom\n2. **Connect** Clad to General Contractors, ISPs, data centers, or anyone else in telecom construction at [jason@withclad.com](mailto:jason@withclad.com)\n\n_Thanks!_", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I5X-clad-software-to-manage-telecom-subcontractors", "votes": 116, "created_at": "2023-02-22T14:42:46.583Z" } ] }, { "id": 28082, "name": "Sorted", "slug": "sorted", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/12cc8fc655f814db94872047b9f30cc7991aede8.png", "website": "https://sorted-lp.webflow.io/", "all_locations": "Copenhagen, Denmark; Remote", "long_description": "The first completely automated SaaS management software. \r\nScrap the spreadsheets and avoid slack surveys when you need to run compliance audits, provisioning users, or track unused licenses. 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I started as a backend engineer using Ruby on Rails and then eventually moved up the stack to iOS engineering, React Native engineering and now mostly React. I enjoy hanging out with my cat when not working.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-ownbey-4aa5ba117", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/beda0dcd17ad0f5ebb42b391b4c8c1b7cc8560f1.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 69619, "title": "Pierre - A new way to review code", "tagline": "Pierre enables engineers, designers and business team members to discuss new features before they're merged.", "body": "Hi Everyone —\n\nWe are Ian and Jacob, and we are on a mission to modernize code reviews. Sign up for the alpha on [**HeyPierre.app**](http://heypierre.app/)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69619&key=user_uploads/46928/b1f1d6e0-88b1-4a2e-b17c-0d5982d2543d)\n\nJacob (CEO) and Ian (CTO) met as early engineers at Twitter 14 years ago.\n\nJacob is the co-creator of Bootstrap (one of the largest and most popular open source communities on GitHub) and later went on to work as one of the first engineers at Medium. Ian was the first intern at Twitter, dropping out of college at 19 to TL the Twitter platform team.\n\nJacob and Ian co-founded a mobile app called Bumpers in 2016, which was eventually acquired by Coinbase. For the next 5 years, they led the Product Platform team at Coinbase and were the company-wide web and mobile DRIs.\n\n### Github doesn’t solve today’s biggest engineering problems\n\nIn the decade+ since Github was built, tools that prioritize real time collaboration and discussion (Figma, Notion, and Linear) have exploded in popularity, but the circa-2006 code review experience hasn’t materially changed.\n\nWe’re building a new way to review code, and we’re starting with pull requests. As engineers with more than 15 years of experience, we’ve seen firsthand how cumbersome a pull request review is using Github — often, pull requests lack necessary context, take too long to approve, and cannot be viewed by non-engineers for feedback. Github’s comment features make it difficult to manage a conversation over time, and discussion is lost when engineers switch to Slack or Hangouts.\n\n### Your code, conversations, and collaborators. Together.\n\nPierre enables engineers to shape the way that their code is reviewed. We’re starting with two of the biggest problems that engineers have:\n\n1. How do you set better context?\n2. How do you better manage discussions?\n\nWe’re taking features of the products you love most — the organized chats of iMessage, the real time collaboration of Figma, and the narrative structure of Notion — and we’re bringing it to code reviews.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69619&key=user_uploads/46928/2f0b02fe-d44b-4605-a704-f66aa7736c4f)\n\nUsing Pierre, code review creators can:\n\n* Set context next to the code\n* Reorganize diffs intuitively\n* Break up large pull requests into digestible bites\n\nAnd code reviewers can:\n\n* Be anyone — no more waiting for the bug bash to get design and product feedback\n* Comment on anything — code, images or text\n* Conduct real-time conversations right next to the code\n* Get up-to-speed on changes more quickly\n\n### Why we built Pierre\n\nWe’ve been intimately using GitHub since it’s inception (Ian’s user id is #91). There’s been a lot to love about GitHub over the years, but innovation on the core experience is lagging and other pieces of our toolchain are making us expect more. This is only exasperated by Ian living in NYC and Jacob in SF.\n\nEngineers deserve a realtime, collaborative software platform optimized for productivity - instead of a slow, feed-based social network for coding.\n\n### Try Pierre Out!\n\n* Head to [**HeyPierre.app**](http://heypierre.app/) and sign up for our waitlist. We’re in closed alpha, but we can’t wait for you to try us out.\n* We’re looking for a handful of fast growing teams (with \\~25-50 engineers) to pilot us. 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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. 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Agent Flows handle 95% of the work and your team can see it all happen and step in when needed to steer. It's built for teams and collaboration first, but caters to the solo builder as well. Use any harness/model - your keys or ours. Cost observability. Memory. Dual-level session sandboxing.\r\nSlack/Teams are comm-first with agents as second-class citizens. Party is work-first and the communication happens where the work is being done. Party is for teams who want to build better and faster than their competition. 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My thing is leading teams that build and scale new products alongside users.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/christian-dalsanto", "x_url": "https://x.com/dalsanto_c", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/76da4d6ad72c409df7fcf91869de99f70fec020b.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Phonely’s new AI agents hit 99% accuracy—and customers can’t tell they’re not human | VentureBeat", "url": "https://venturebeat.com/ai/phonelys-new-ai-agents-hit-99-accuracy-and-customers-cant-tell-theyre-not-human/", "date": "Jun 03, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 83311, "title": "Maitai - Reliable AI without the heavy lift", "tagline": "Real-time autocorrections and load balancing to solve your LLM issues today + tailored models that improve over time.", "body": "**TL;DR:** Maitai is an ultra-lightweight layer between your app and LLM providers, ensuring reliability and passive continuous improvement.\n\n[Try Maitai](https://portal.trymaitai.ai)\n\n# The Problem:\n\nGetting LLMs into production is complex and time-consuming. Teams today spend much of their time-fighting hallucinations, suboptimal output, and mitigating problems plaguing their providers. Though this is necessary for a production-ready application, it can be a massive distraction from building and expanding the core product, not to mention a sizable investment. Hallucinations can quickly deteriorate the user experience and are difficult or impossible to fully fix. Model outages or degraded performance make any meaningful traffic a nightmare. Consistent response times are usually only solved today with dedicated compute environments, which can be too costly for most companies to consider. The more you make progress on these issues, the more you become locked into a provider.\n\n# The Solution: A Dependable Middleman\n\nMaitai integrates seamlessly between the application and model providers to handle the heavy lifting behind the scenes. The result? Higher quality, reliable model output with passive incremental improvement - without any new code. We leverage our robust real-time evaluation engine to build a deep understanding of the customer's application, as well as the capabilities of all major models, in order to deliver consistent, dependable results. This abstraction layer is essential as the AI landscape evolves and new models emerge.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83311&key=user_uploads/213922/d9d0ba25-8ae2-48c4-b5ae-6a9f891d493c)\n\n**Real-time Evaluations**\n\nFor each application, we build an understanding of the expectations that the user has for each request. We then evaluate all model output to ensure it adheres to these expectations, in under 200ms. Detected faults can be surfaced to the user in a callback or webhook. Users can also allow Maitai to leverage these evals to autocorrect any faulty output we find, ensuring clean, reliable responses.\n\n_Example:_ One of our customers is a voice-ordering company for restaurants. They use Maitai to ensure the model always requests consent from the customer before sending a text message. Failure to do so would put them out of compliance with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, resulting in heavy fines and lawsuits. Maitai has prevented this from happening 14 times.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83311&key=user_uploads/213922/858792ed-11e9-40b8-92c2-d46c244ae91b)\n\n**Highly-available Inference**\n\nAs AI adoption grows, all providers are having trouble keeping up with the demand. As we continuously profile all models we support, we see this manifest as outages and degraded performance many times throughout each day. Maitai uses our model health data to preemptively fall back to a similar model if we notice degraded performance or an outage. Avoid failed responses and get more consistent response times without shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars on dedicated compute.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83311&key=user_uploads/213922/d10bbf2a-7fd4-47c3-8788-1a8aeffdeb0b)\n\n_Our health checks on gpt-4o from us-west2 show consistent performance only \\~90% of the time, with frequent spikes to 400%+ usual response times._\n\n**Passive Incremental Improvement**\n\nWith Maitai, you gain access to models that are higher quality than GPT-4o, 5x faster, and 10x cheaper — tailored specifically for your application. Our evaluation data not only allows us to immediately improve output quality and reliability, but also lends way to passively building application-specific models that are higher quality, more performant, and cost less than closed-source alternatives. Access the best models for your application, with updates as often as every few days.\n\n**Actionable Alerts**\n\nGet briefed on problems as they occur to quickly remedy a bad situation. Maitai surfaces real-time faults or session summaries right in Slack, then allows you to chat with your data to explore deeper. Never miss a chance to improve a potentially negative customer experience ever again.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83311&key=user_uploads/213922/c93ad111-9921-4213-a32e-4c13fcf00573)\n\n**Micron Thin**\n\nWe've invested heavily in making our presence as light as possible. Maitai adds <30ms to each request (and improving!). Get all the benefits of using Maitai without any drawbacks.\n\n# Our Ask:\n\n* If you're building with LLMs, let us help. It takes 2 minutes to integrate, and you can bring your own keys. We can even do it for you while you browse Slack/Reddit/HN. [Get Started](https://portal.trymaitai.ai)\n* Host LLMs or experts at fine-tuning? Let's chat!\n* Let us know your biggest problems building with LLMs.\n\n[founders@trymaitai.ai](mailto:founders@trymaitai.ai)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83311&key=user_uploads/213922/06d87dd9-3243-4c88-b4bd-5430256d5e79)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lfj-maitai-reliable-ai-without-the-heavy-lift", "votes": 69, "created_at": "2024-08-22T17:08:56.471Z" } ] }, { "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. 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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": 31395, "name": "Deep Interactions", "slug": "deep-interactions", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2150b2f6e149aef04ef65b7381c3bd0b77037221.png", "website": "https://deepinteractions.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Deep Interactions is a collaborative AI builder. We don't leave you with a spaghetti mess of a code. We bring product intelligence and power the context layer that enables your team to build in sync - saving companies tokens, time, and nerves. You give us a problem and we ship a working AI product in the same afternoon.\r\n", "one_liner": "Collaborative AI app builder for teams", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1778970590, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "Collaboration", "Design Tools", "No-code", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Spring 2026", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/deep-interactions", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/spring-2026/deep-interactions.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/deep-interactions", "x_url": "https://x.com/deepintxns", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2150b2f6e149aef04ef65b7381c3bd0b77037221.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": 3138588, "full_name": "Sruthi Viswanathan", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Founder at Deep Interactions (YC P26). PhD in Computer Science from Oxford. Prev. Built : AI Trainer as CTO at The Spaceship AI, AI Scientist at Autoscience Institute & AI Therapist at Limbic AI. Was Research Scientist at NAVER LABS Europe and Google. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sruvis", "x_url": "https://x.com/_sruvis", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a4593a7424e64f74828b20e0f15f5d406e007a3e.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 101487, "title": "Deep Interactions — Collaborative AI Builder for Teams", "tagline": "We turn messy ideas, data, and agents into shipped products before your team logs off.", "body": "Hello! I'm [Sruthi Viswanathan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sruvis/), founder of [Deep Interactions](https://www.deepinteractions.ai).\n\n### TL;DR\n\n### **Deep Interactions is a collaborative AI builder for teams. We turn messy ideas, data, and tools into working AI products in a single afternoon — so companies stop burning months and millions on pilots that never ship.**\n\n**_Ask:_** Intros to CEOs, CTOs, COOs, CFOs, or Heads of AI with an initiative stuck in pilot purgatory — especially in healthcare, fintech, consumer, applied AI, and ops-heavy businesses. → [sruthi@deepinteractions.ai](mailto:sruthi@deepinteractions.ai)\n\nLaunch video: \n\n### The Problem\n\nProduct development hasn't changed in 20 years. Write a PRD, throw it at engineering, hope it matches what users actually need.\n\nNow teams have layered AI on top: vibe-coding through the night, stitching prompts, tools, and agents. Same problem, faster and more expensive:\n\n* Burned tokens\n* Burned out teams\n* Spaghetti code that still misses the customer\n\n**95% of businesses walk away from their AI pilots. Hundreds of billions in wasted AI spend, every year.**\n\nThe bottleneck isn't models or prompts anymore. It's shared understanding of the customer, the product, and the codebase. Until now, there was no way to keep humans, agents, and code in sync as a product is being built. With today's reasoning models and multi-agent orchestration, couple with situated context, there is.\n\n### Our Solution\n\nYou bring the problem. We ship the product the same afternoon — alongside your team, inside the tools they already use (Slack, Figma, GitHub, Vercel, Supabase, You name it).\n\nWe don’t leave you with a spaghetti mess of a code. We bring product intelligence and power the context layer that enables your team to build in sync.\n\nAlready live with **12 businesses and 50k+ real-world usage hits.** Saving companies months of work and millions in AI spend.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101487&key=user_uploads/3138588/8b1080f6-4249-41e9-856c-626cee704905)\n\n\n### **How can you help?**\n\nIf you can warmly introduce us to any of the following, I'd be grateful:\n\n* **Operators** with a stuck AI initiative (Heads of AI, CPOs, CTOs, VPs of Engineering)\n* **Healthcare & wellness** companies looking to ship patient- or clinician-facing AI\n* **Consumer** companies (dating, fitness, fertility, social) ready to put AI in the product, not just the pitch deck\n* **Applied AI startups** burning tokens on coding agents that don't ship\n* **Angels and operators** who've shipped AI products at scale\n\nPlease contact me at [sruthi@deepinteractions.ai](mailto:sruthi@deepinteractions.ai)\n\n### Team\n\nI'm a Human-Centred AI researcher and DPhil in Computer Science at Oxford, with cutting-edge experience across Big Tech, AI labs, startups, and academia — spanning software engineering, UX, ML, and AI research. Recognised by 100 Women in AI (2025).\n\nAround me: a founding AI designer reshaping how humans and agents collaborate, a founding engineer with decades in production systems, and GTM operators who's built customer success from zero. Advised by leading Human-Centred Computing professors, AI scientists, and brilliant Angels.\n\nI started Deep Interactions because I kept watching brilliant teams ship broken AI. The future of AI work isn't more prompts — it's better human-AI collaboration.\n\nBook a call → 🕷️ [www.deepinteractions.ai](http://www.deepinteractions.ai)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101487&key=user_uploads/3138588/0004eb4a-4f58-4ffe-849a-c746c2d9c01c)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QOt-deep-interactions-collaborative-ai-builder-for-teams", "votes": 98, "created_at": "2026-05-18T03:36:32.000Z" } ] } ]