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Since then, we’ve helped thousands of teams improve sender reputation and inbox placement.\n\nToday, we’re building a broader email deliverability ecosystem:\n\n* **Mailwarm** helps teams build sender reputation through real inbox interactions.\n* **mailX** helps humans and AI agents diagnose deliverability issues.\n* **MailAdept** helps companies fix and monitor deliverability continuously with AI agents and human experts.\n\nToday we’re launching [mailX](https://themailx.com).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101509&key=user_uploads/422675/836ee2bb-f82d-4b97-9c90-c77c6d0d62f0)\n\n---\n\n## TL;DR\n\n**mailX tells you why your emails go to spam and how to fix it.**\\\nYou can run a deliverability check from the web, use it through a JSON API, or plug it directly into AI agents through MCP.\n\nNo signup.\\\nNo API key.\\\nFree to use.\n\nTry it here: [**https://themailx.com**](https://themailx.com)\\\nMCP endpoint: [**https://themailx.com/mcp**](https://themailx.com/mcp)\n\n---\n\nYou can also book a call with one of our email deliverability expert [HERE](https://calendly.com/mailwarmsessions/mailx).\n\n## 🚨 The Problem\n\nEmail deliverability is technical, your marketing team can’t handle it.\n\nEmail is still one of the most important growth channels for startups.\n\nFounders use it for cold outreach.\\\nSales teams use it for outbound.\\\nMarketing teams use it for campaigns.\\\nProducts use it for onboarding, activation, and transactional emails.\n\nBut when emails start going to spam, most teams don’t really know why.\n\nThey check random tools.\\\nThey look at raw DNS records.\\\nThey ask ChatGPT.\\\nThey change things blindly.\\\nThey wait and hope inbox placement improves.\n\nThe problem is not only that deliverability is technical.\n\nThe real problem is that most tools show data, but don’t explain what matters or what to fix.\n\nAnd now, with AI agents sending emails, monitoring systems, and managing workflows, this problem gets bigger.\n\nAgents need access to live deliverability tools too.\n\n---\n\n## 💡Our Solution\n\n**mailX is a free deliverability diagnostic platform for humans and AI agents.**\n\nWith mailX, you can analyze a domain in seconds and get a clear report showing:\n\n* What is working\n* What is broken\n* Why it matters\n* What to fix next\n\nThe web app gives founders, marketers, sales teams, and developers a simple way to understand why emails may go to spam.\n\nThe API and MCP server make the same tools available to AI agents and developer workflows.\n\nSo instead of copying DNS records into different tools, your agent can directly check email authentication, blacklist status, mail server configuration, and deliverability signals.\n\n---\n\n## ⏳How it works\n\n1. Enter a domain on [**themailx.com**](http://themailx.com)\n2. mailX runs a live deliverability audit\n3. You get clear issues, explanations, and fixes\n4. Developers can use the JSON API\n5. AI agents can use the MCP endpoint directly\n\nThe best part is that you can lets you AI Agent fix your deliverability or directly integrate it to your Claude or ChatGPT.\n\nHere’s a quick demo of mailX:\\\n\n\nIn the demo, we show:\n\n* Running a domain audit\n* Getting clear fixes\n* Using the MCP/API layer for AI agents and developers\n\nWe currently support checks and tools for email authentication, DNS records, blacklist status, mail server configuration, and record generation.\n\n---\n\n## Why now?\n\nEmail deliverability used to be something only email experts cared about.\n\nToday, every startup relying on outbound, lifecycle emails, AI SDRs, or automated email workflows needs to understand it.\n\nAt the same time, AI agents are becoming part of the stack.\n\nBut agents need tools.\\\nThey need live data.\\\nThey need safe, structured ways to diagnose and act.\n\nThat’s why we made mailX available through:\n\n* Web app\n* JSON API\n* MCP server\n* Agent skill\n* LLM discovery endpoints\n\nOur belief is simple:\n\n**Email deliverability should be understandable for humans and usable by AI agents.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101509&key=user_uploads/422675/ffc97aad-6864-4525-a89d-0aa1f7890289)\n\n---\n\n## Backstory\n\nIn 2019, we failed a startup after 2 years of work.\n\nAfter that, we decided to test ideas much faster: one launch per week.\n\nEvery launch used the same growth channel: email.\n\nCold emails.\\\nPartnership emails.\\\nLaunch emails.\\\nFollow-ups.\n\nThat’s when we understood something obvious: If your emails don’t land in the inbox, nothing else matters.\n\nThat led us to build Mailwarm in 2020.\n\nAfter years helping thousands of teams improve deliverability, we kept seeing the same pattern: People don’t know why they land in spam.\\\nAnd even when they see the data, they don’t know what to fix.\n\nmailX is our answer to that.\n\n---\n\n---\n\n## 🙏 Our Ask\n\nWe’d love your feedback from the YC community.\n\nIf you are doing cold email, email marketing, transactional email, or building AI agents that send or monitor emails, try mailX and tell us what is missing.\n\nAlso, if you are building an AI agent or workflow where email deliverability matters, we’d love to talk.\n\nTry mailX: [**https://themailx.com**](https://themailx.com)\\\nBook a call through MailAdept if you want help choosing the right setup: [https://calendly.com/mailwarmsessions/mailx](https://calendly.com/mailwarmsessions/mailx?month=2026-05)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QPF-mailx-by-mailwarm-instant-deliverability-diagnostics-for-ai-agents-humans", "votes": 35, "created_at": "2026-05-18T17:10:14.688Z" } ] }, { "id": 22665, "name": "Waypoint", "slug": "waypoint", "former_names": [ "Metaccountant", "Marketbase" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6bbc4ee18717a8743a3b77c32098b2eeafb4fe72.png", "website": "https://www.usewaypoint.com", "all_locations": "United States; Remote", "long_description": "Waypoint combines a modern email API with a visual template builder so teams can ship faster.\r\n\r\nAlternative to SendGrid, MailGun, or Postmark.", "one_liner": "The email API built for product teams", "team_size": null, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1620188785, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Design", "Email", "APIs" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2021", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/waypoint", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2021/waypoint.json", "year_founded": null, "city": null, "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/usewaypoint/", "x_url": "http://twitter.com/usewaypoint", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6bbc4ee18717a8743a3b77c32098b2eeafb4fe72.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 18473, "full_name": "Jordan Isip", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Product designer with over 15 years of experience helping grow and develop new products within large organizations and small startups.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordanisip/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/fixie", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/020ecb15b8964c8d3fb37590cde5f487ee58ae3a.jpg" }, { "user_id": 16349, "full_name": "Carlos Rodriguez-Rosario", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Puerto Rican, now living in Portland, OR. 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Think of it as an email delivery service that is geared for data-rich transactional emails (like order confirmations, reminders, receipts, alerts, and other system notifications).\n\n### **The problem**\n\nAdding data-rich email notifications to software in 2023 is still a pain. Most email tools are repurposed marketing email builders for templates with little to no dynamic data. This means getting data into branded templates and setting up logic around them (eg. delays) still requires significant code within your code base. 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From initial trigger to clicks.\n* Be informed of bounces or any other exceptions.\n* Log a receipt of the full email content and data variables for every mail.\n\n\\\n**Customer quote**\n\n> _\"Waypoint team and support surpassed our expectations, ensuring a seamless transition from Sendgrid. Their liquid templating simplified the conversion of our existing emails, and since migrating, their service has been flawless. Our emails no longer end up in spam folders, leading to an impressive increase in our onboarding conversion rates. Waypoint's fast and reliable deliverability has taken our account verification success from below 50% to nearly 100%.”_\n\n– Dallin Dyer, CTO of [Dree.com](http://Dree.com)\n\n### \n\n### **Interested?**\n\nWe’d love to help. 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Our interactive emails have brought in 27% more revenue than existing solutions._\n\n[**🧠**](https://emojipedia.org/brain) **no-brainer ask**: If you’re reading this, you can **gift a free trial with Zaymo.** We don’t offer free trials outside of this post. Intro a Shopify brand to [founders@zaymo.com](mailto:founders@zaymo.com) and you’re good to go :)\n\n### problem\n\n* **1 - 3% conversion rates** at best from e-commerce emails\n* However, e-commerce stores attribute **\\~20 - 30% of total revenue** to email marketing\n* Interactive emails work well, but cross-platform compliance means **implementation requires several hours of coding** for a single email\n\n### solution\n\nMarketers can build reliable interactive emails in minutes with Zaymo. Here’s an email that increases orders for subscription brands and improves retention.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78528&key=user_uploads/1176709/e8941b14-5a3b-4569-b423-c76a17cd1f83)\n\nZaymo supports the following:\n\n* In-email abandoned cart recovery\n* In-email one-click subscription upsell\n* In-email Campaigns\n* In-email Review collection\n* In-email Forms\n\nEventually, we’ll support hundreds of use cases.\n\n**Case study:** [**A/B test with Zaymo increases revenue by 27% for Gozney**](https://getzaymo.com/blog/gozney-case-study)\n\n### backstory\n\nAs a PM, Co-founder [Santi](https://linkedin.com/in/gomezpaz) led Turing.com to adopt interactive emails after proving out a 3x conversion rate boost in A/B tests. 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Just intro a Shopify brand to [founders@zaymo.com](mailto:founders@zaymo.com) and you’re good to go :)\n\n### additional examples\n\nAbandoned cart recovery\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78528&key=user_uploads/1176709/9321eac7-7585-4376-a089-2b0fbc627217)\n\nReviews\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78528&key=user_uploads/1176709/612e7605-7ef5-4673-9989-d1debfaeeb68)\n\nEmail builder\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78528&key=user_uploads/1176709/3b2e6c72-b81b-453d-a6a1-fd94b8201e0b)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KQa-zaymo-shop-directly-inside-emails", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2024-02-19T19:09:25.446Z" } ] }, { "id": 29668, "name": "Proxis", "slug": "proxis", "former_names": [ "CureAI", "Tailwind Health" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/451285ce2b3407f2b83c947851ea72847724516e.png", "website": "https://www.proxis.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Proxis is the AI automation platform built for enterprises.\r\n\r\nProxis is creating AI email agents that empower brands and enterprise teams to close deals automatically. 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This makes them impractical to deploy at scale.\n* Closed source model lock-in means customers can’t tweak or tune their own model, or deploy on-prem for sensitive data solutions. \n\n### The Solution\n\nModel Distillation:\n\n* In model distillation, a large **teacher model** effectively fine tunes a smaller **student model** without the need for _labeled_ or _structured_ datasets. This ‘condenses’ large models down to the compute cost of small models.\n* Distillation results in near-frontier model quality, with efficient performance. This means we can achieve 5x the speed at 1/10th the cost.\n* With the release of Llama 405b in late July, open source frontier distillation became available to the public for the first time. \n\n### Growth & Market\n\n* Llama model downloads have grown 10x in the last year and are approaching 350 million downloads to date. There were 20 million downloads in the last month alone, making Llama the leading open source model family.\n* Llama usage by token volume across major cloud service providers has more than doubled in just three months from May through July 2024 when Llama 3.1 was released.\n* Monthly usage (token volume) of Llama grew 10x from January to July 2024 for some of the largest cloud service providers.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdQSaqElsFW5E2grv46IezSDDiWOQKb8xcXqzf9FzWYnY8s0DywELRQaJpXNRWRxIqFsJwL_Nt_eJawi2BaNk-QasNFOv0tm8efkn3DwhfxHqH-8jizsSQMZnZiGW3yfBZNHdWz9lVME9vuxqcbBp_kETp4?key=EmGuREnt2lr1tUSBSUm-SQ)\n\nSource: [Meta](https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-usage-doubled-may-through-july-2024/)\n\n### The Team\n\n[Jackson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacksonstokes/) (CTO, on the left) **optimized the Gemini model at Google** for efficient deployment at massive scale. 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Please reach out to us at [founders@odo.do](mailto:founders@odo.do). \n\n❗ **Problem**\n\nState and local governments buy $1.5TN worth of products and services from businesses every year, ranging from consulting and constructions, to yes, cream cheese and bagels. However, the process of winning government contracts today is extremely manual and opaque. Businesses can’t easily find relevant contracts, spend 40-80 hours drafting proposals, and don’t get feedback on why they won or lost a contract.\n\n![](https://media4.giphy.com/media/d9CX7F5Um8vzZIZOp4/giphy.gif?cid=6367ce563r70btn8vz9w1qmlmfzt1zke0dxxs2d5atm5vq8m&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)\n\n**🎉 Solution**\n\nOdo is the first AI-powered platform to help businesses win state and local government contracts. Odo can find relevant contracts, draft proposals, and analyze wins and losses through public records sourcing. Our customers have saved up to **80% of their time** spent drafting proposals and **doubled their government sales pipeline.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81408&key=user_uploads/1293727/84ab8966-6296-4433-a1b2-79ab5d27955e)\n\n**🙏 Ask**\n\nIf you are a company selling to state or local government, we can help expedite your sales cycle. Book a demo [here,](https://www.odo.do/book-demo/) and we’ll write **one proposal for free**.\\\n\\\nIf you know anyone who sells professional services or software to the government, we would appreciate an intro! Please reach out to us at [founders@odo.do](mailto:founders@odo.do).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LB2-odo-win-more-government-contracts", "votes": 39, "created_at": "2024-06-10T16:39:36.721Z" } ] }, { "id": 30116, "name": "Freestyle", "slug": "freestyle-ai", "former_names": [ "Jarvis Mail", "Friday" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5f9e9b4d414566a4e2636d95776ad36cc0bd894c.png", "website": "https://freestyle.ai/yc", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Email sucks. It takes forever to go through, and hiring an assistant is costly and invasive. 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So, like a human assistant, Friday will draft responses, perform outreach and follow up, text you when you get urgent emails, get rid of clutter, and more, so you can focus on the dozen or so actually important emails in your inbox.\n\nFriday is meant for anyone who would benefit from having an assistant manage their inbox. If you want to automate 99% of your emails, [try Friday](https://www.fridaymail.ai/) right now!\\\n\n\n### **The Problem:**\n\nEmail sucks. You either spend hours dealing with all the emails in your inbox, or you ignore them.\n\nIt takes forever, and hiring a human assistant is costly and introduces privacy concerns.\n\n### **The Insight:**\n\nThe reality is that almost all of the emails you receive resemble emails that you have dealt with before.\n\nSo, you can just tell an AI what kind of emails you get, and tell it exactly how to handle those emails, and it can just do it for you.\n\nNow, you only have to deal with the important, fun, or unique emails, forever eliminating the chore of going through your inbox.\n\n### **The Solution:**\n\n# **Smart Inbox**\n\nYou can tell Friday the kinds of emails you get using natural language, and then define actions that Friday should take once those emails come in.\n\nFor example:\n\n* When you get an investor email, Friday gives personalized answers to their questions and sends them a meeting link.\n* If a customer has an urgent request, have Friday text you so you can respond to them immediately.\n* Follow up with clients that take forever to answer their email, until they respond (they should use Friday).\n* If you get customer support emails, Friday answers their questions based on its memories and forwards the interaction to your cofounder.\n* Summarize all the notifications from GitHub, Linear, Google, etc., and then archive those emails\n* Whenever you get a new customer, Friday can search the web and write a personalized email to all of them, answering any questions they may have, immediately\n* And so much more!\n\nJust take a look at your inbox, see the emails that aren’t extremely important, and let Friday handle those emails from now on, so your inbox is left with the 5 emails a day that you want to personally handle.\n\n# **Personal Assistant**\n\nFriday also lets you chat with your personal assistant. You can have it reply to emails, check your inbox, send out personalized outbound, and more!\n\nFor example, if you wanted a meeting with Garry, you could ask Friday to go through your previous email history with Garry, perform a web search to learn more about Garry, and using what it knows about you, write a personalized email to him.\n\nYou can give it a dozen names or emails, and it’ll do research and write personalized emails to all of them that can be approved and sent out with a single message.\n\nGetting this right is difficult, so everyone else settles with trying to help you go through your email twice as fast. If you want to go 100x as fast, you shouldn't spend even a second on useless emails.\n\n### **Our Ask:**\n\n**This product is meant for anyone who would benefit from having an assistant manage their inbox. If you want to automate 99% of your emails, **[**try Friday**](https://www.fridaymail.ai/)** right now!**\n\n**Happy Friday!**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85611&key=user_uploads/89898/62484de1-6fae-4ea8-afb2-6ac748297bf4)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MGp-friday-never-check-your-email-again", "votes": 754, "created_at": "2024-11-15T21:51:47.107Z" } ] }, { "id": 30343, "name": "Cedar", "slug": "cedar", "former_names": [ "ByteBelli", "lawyai (name in progress)", "GraphIQal" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8d689d59276a36e33100281dbe98a74bcaf59a06.png", "website": "https://mail.cedarcopilot.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Cedar helps the fastest growing GTM teams ramp up new reps faster & spread top rep playbook throughout the team. 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Previous software engineer @ Figma, Notion, and LinkedIn.\n\nStudied Computer Science @ Georgia Tech.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/isabelle-i ", "x_url": "https://x.com/isabelleilyia", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5eac10f537c8b9f14b78bfabd0ec645d708071ac.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 87967, "title": "Cedar 🌲 In-product AI copilot & PMF analytics for any app", "tagline": "Cedar is an AI copilot for any app. Imagine the founders themselves being behind every user’s screen: actively guiding them, answering product how-to’s, and upselling.", "body": "Hi everyone! It’s Jesse & Isabelle from Cedar :)\n\n### How do we productise conversion optimisation?\n\nIn business terms, we do two things:\n\n1. We let you understand your user’s stories at scale. What do they want from your solution? What are they specifically trying to do on your software? Who are they?\n 1. We do this by pulling your existing analytics and adding a thin layer of our own. You can re-target churned users when a relevant feature comes out, inform product roadmaps, and most importantly use it to find PMF.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87967&key=user_uploads/561766/7f7d6dc9-b759-454c-a897-e94b5dd76197)\n\n2. We use those analytics to increase conversion & retention, from pre-sale to activation/onboarding and beyond.\n 1. Create individualised sales materials and activation flows to bring more users to their magic moment.\n 2. Instead of not knowing how to do X and being blocked until customer support replies (or worse, churning), Cedar instantly responds.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87967&key=user_uploads/561766/aa9b2e93-ed62-469a-9f49-c1e4a1de8596)\n\n\nThink of a general-use product like Notion. Imagine if every user saw a landing page that explains **exactly** how Notion helps them reach their goals. When they sign up, an activation flow walks them through solving a relevant problem they face every day. Then, as they use the app, an AI copilot makes them a power user, without the need to leave the app.\n\n### Demo Video\n\n\n\n### Our story\n\nIn more personal terms, we find it deeply wrong that people make awesome, valuable software that doesn’t reach people simply because of things like UI/UX or messaging. We turn every user into a power user - with the retention and promoter scores that come with it.\n\nWhile AI is scaling engineering teams, we’re going to be the growth and customer success team in one product, with one centralized source of user knowledge.\n\nJesse worked at Intuit, learning the science and fun of making boring software (don’t tell TurboTax) that converts and serves customers of all tech literacy levels.\n\nIsabelle worked at Figma and Notion, learning the struggles of getting users to effectively use powerful yet complex products and the GTM strategies to reach them.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87967&key=user_uploads/561766/5e1e1044-3d46-4999-a6d8-d6ee4c3713c8)\n\n### Ask:\n\nIf you’re interested, or know any companies interested in:\n\n* Activation Conversion: Increasing % of users who get relevant value from your product at least once.\n* User Intent Analytics: Understanding what are your users trying to do, when and why they churn to intervene at the right moment, and re-engaging users based on criteria (e.g target users who churned due to missing features once implemented)\n* Flattening learning curves: Value is useless if your customer doesn’t know how to effectively use your product to get it (both pre and post-sale).\n\nPlease reach out! Email us at [founders@cedar.law](mailto:founders@cedar.law), we’re already working with companies from seed to series A and would love to help more, whether with just a chat or a full partnership :)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Msp-cedar-in-product-ai-copilot-pmf-analytics-for-any-app", "votes": 46, "created_at": "2025-02-25T18:04:40.924Z" } ] }, { "id": 30356, "name": "Artil", "slug": "artil", "former_names": [ "Fira" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e50d8dfa254f692b3d51a22620ca8519141e9ed2.png", "website": "https://artil.dev/", "all_locations": "London, England, United Kingdom", "long_description": "Artil gives AI agents their own email addresses and phone numbers so they can communicate and use online services. Agents can send and receive emails and text messages, sign up for services, and complete email and SMS verification. 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It works with Claude, Claude for Excel, ChatGPT, and Copilot, while setup takes 3 minutes and it's free to try - .\n\n\n\n### Problem\n\nMany banking, consulting, and investment firms are moving day-to-day AI work to Claude. But reliable data access and trust in the outputs are still the bottleneck.\n\n### Solution - Fira MCP\n\nFira MCP plugs directly into Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, and Claude for Excel as a data connector. Your AI gets access to filings, transcripts, and market data, with numbers linked back to the exact paragraph or row in the source document. It handles scanned PDFs, nested tables, and works across tens of documents in a single research thread.\n\n## Available datasets\n\n* **SEC Filings** — 8,000+ active US companies (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, and more)\n* **UK Companies House** — 5M+ private companies, including scanned accounts\n* **International filings** — 10,000+ companies across 50+ countries\n* **Earnings call transcripts** — full transcripts with analyst Q&A\n* **Market data** — 20+ years of daily stock and FX, US and global\n* **Custom datasets** — proprietary and third-party integrations for enterprise\n\n### Use cases\n\n**I. Peer comparison in Excel** — pull financials, strategy, and risk factors across competitors directly from filings.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=100809&key=user_uploads/626328/99b5fdce-2a4b-4053-a6c1-6b94ec87d578)\n\n**II. Corporate structure mapping** — trace ownership and financials through complex group structures from UK filings.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=100809&key=user_uploads/626328/c1665625-8a07-414d-ac76-b7ecd356b12b)\n\n**III. Earnings call analysis** — review management commentary and analyst Q&A for sentiment and evasive answers.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=100809&key=user_uploads/626328/7fb98502-0b18-4486-b7f7-5b6655161588)\n\n**IV. Document verification** — cross-reference every number against source, catch rounding deltas and inconsistencies.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=100809&key=user_uploads/626328/c11d5c2d-d1d3-4328-a4bb-63dd13aba8d6)\n\n### Asks\n\nLooking to connect with finance professionals (banking, PE, credit, hedge funds, wealth) who want their AI assistant to actually do useful work.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QDx-fira-mcp-financial-datasets-in-claude-and-excel", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2026-05-05T19:11:01.299Z" }, { "id": 88048, "title": "Fira: Agentic AI Analyst", "tagline": "Accelerating financial analysts with source-cited insights and verified calculations from complex company filings", "body": "**Fira** is building an agentic AI analyst for financial research and automation, starting with UK investment firms. Today, we accelerate analysts with source-cited insights and verified calculations from complex company filings.\n\n\n\n# Problem\n\nAnalysts at investment banks and boutique M&A firms waste tons of time digging through hundred-page annual reports to prepare pitch decks and models. General LLM tools aren't good enough for the job — lacking accuracy, domain-specific data, and output verification. The problem extends to senior professionals who need to quickly understand new topics deeply while staying grounded in truthful data sources.\n\n---\n\n# Solution\n\nFira saves analysts time by instantly searching, analyzing and citing UK company filings. It reads multiple filings and reports (including 500 page long and scanned documents) to provide source-cited answers and verifiable calculations. We cover hundreds of public UK companies, integrate with Companies House for private company data, and allow to upload your documents.\n\n---\n\n# Use cases\n\n**I. Breakdown detailed financial and operational KPIs in seconds**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88048&key=user_uploads/626328/d03ed2eb-89ea-49f2-af3e-895cf89dd3a7)\n\n**II. Perform general research on data scattered across reports and filings**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88048&key=user_uploads/626328/af63b5d1-c1ba-4551-9168-91c8b3a8ca8f)\n\n**III. Fira calculates financial metrics it can't find, providing transparency in formula and variables used**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88048&key=user_uploads/626328/d65b3dba-a6ce-4653-86e9-9ddedcb5d0a4)\n\n# Asks\n\nLooking to connect with senior professionals and analysts at investment banks, M&A advisory firms, hedge funds, and wealth management firms. Especially in the UK. If you work in finance or know someone who does, we'd love an intro. Book a demo [here](https://firaresearch.com) or email us at [alex@firaresearch.com](mailto:alex@firaresearch.com).\n\n# About us\n\nAlexey and Alex are both technical founders, met 9 years ago at university and been close friends since.\n\nAlexey was CTO and co-founder of [resume.io](http://resume.io), one of the largest resume builder websites (acquired in 2021). He’s also an author of wouter, a React router library with 7k stars and 580k downloads/month, and a regular tech conference speaker.\n\nAlex was the founder and CEO of Hashscan, on-chain user analytics startup. Previously, he built a popular crypto porftolio tracker app Hodler (sold in 2022).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88048&key=user_uploads/626328/13c0b9c8-06c4-4307-b446-8edc81b35aab)\n\n# Links\n\nWebsite: \n\nLinkedIn: ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mu8-fira-agentic-ai-analyst", "votes": 35, "created_at": "2025-02-26T01:51:02.509Z" } ] }, { "id": 30611, "name": "AgentMail", "slug": "agentmail", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5c18d385fb2e41299574abf5d25f5ba98485d781.png", "website": "https://agentmail.to", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "AgentMail is the email inbox API for AI agents. 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Use our API to give your agents their own email inboxes.\n\n# Why?\n\nWe started building email agents because they can live within users’s inboxes in their inboxes and authenticate themselves with third-party applications. But building on top of legacy providers such as Gmail is a struggle. They\n\n* Lack API support for creating new inboxes\n* Charge monthly subscriptions per inbox\n* Impose restrictive rate and sending limits\n* Offer poor developer experience\n\nThese providers don’t scale with both inbox creation or volumes of emails sent/received that AI agents often face, so we’re rebuilding email infrastructure from scratch to enable this.\n\n# Solution\n\nAgentMail is an API-first email provider that gives agents their own inboxes to send, receive, and act upon emails. Think of it like Gmail, but with\n\n 1. Programmatic inbox creation and management\n 2. Usage-based pricing scaling with emails sent/received\n 3. No restrictive rate/sending limits\n 4. Real-time events over webhooks and websockets\n 5. Simple API key auth – no OAuth headaches\n 6. Built-in API permissions and agent guardrails\n 7. Semantic search across every inbox in organization\n 8. Automatic labeling with user-defined prompts\n 9. Structured data extraction\n10. And more on the way!\n\n# Demo\n\nIn this demo, we show how easy it is to build an email agent with AgentMail: https://youtu.be/1V7BISeFUTM\n\nIn this demo, we show an example of a voice + email agent built with AgentMail: [https://youtu.be/eG2fCsRK4RY](https://youtu.be/eG2fCsRK4RY?feature=shared)\n\n# Ask\n\nIf you are building agents that could use email capabilities, we would love to learn more about your company. You can reach us at [founders@agentmail.cc](mailto:founders@agentmail.cc)\n\nhttps://agentmail.to", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NvQ-agentmail-the-api-first-email-provider-for-ai-agents", "votes": 91, "created_at": "2025-07-08T22:02:41.115Z" } ] }, { "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. Slashy works with Gmail, Google Workspace, Outlook.com, and Microsoft 365, on web, Mac, and iOS.", "one_liner": "Cursor for Email", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1750786342, "tags": [ "Productivity", "Enterprise Software", "Automation", "Email", "AI Assistant" ], "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/slashy", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/slashy.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/slashy-email/", "x_url": "https://x.com/slashyemail", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e6667cfdd83f59c43fda8940767ec6748fe44b96.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": 2067448, "full_name": "Harsha Gaddipati", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Changing email with Slashy :) \n\nSign up at slashy.com", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/harsha-gaddipati-032bb820a/", "x_url": "https://x.com/GaddipatiHarsha", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/92acbfaee472f1cb2f0391cce84807835e411573.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1584972, "full_name": "Dhruv Roongta", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CTO of Slashy, the AI-native email client. 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" } ] } ]