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Public sector procurement is a time-intensive process held together by Microsoft Office, legacy point solutions, tribal knowledge, and severely overworked civil servants. Hazel is building an AI-powered platform to accelerate and streamline this mission. \n\nWe’ve engaged hundreds of government agencies with diverse missions, and we’ve been hard at work building something they want. We’re already on contract with several governments and have received funding from agencies ranging from public school districts to the U.S. Navy!\n\nIf you know anyone supporting government procurement, please contact us! \n\n### 🦅 **About Us + What’s New** \n\nWe’re Elton and August, and we along with our 3 amazing founding software engineers currently operate out of NYC, Boston, DC, and Salt Lake City. We’re excited to (finally) re-launch Hazel, an AI-native solution **which enables government procurement teams to quickly and easily manage their procurement processes**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87095&key=user_uploads/1279709/df8d3560-f897-4131-b217-b9a76fc3525c)\n\nThe two of us met in college before taking separate jobs at Palantir and Boston Consulting Group, but our focus on public service remained the same, and we saw something that we knew had to be fixed. Along the way, we’ve picked up incredible mission-driven teammates with experience from Lockheed Martin, MITRE, SpaceX, Peraton, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Department of State, and USAID. \n\nWe began by building a solution for businesses to bid on RFPs because we wanted to help governments. The idea was that by bringing more businesses to the table, more competitive bids would both save governments money and deliver better performance. However, we soon realized that if our mission was to help government, we will best accomplish that by going directly B2G, not B2B2G. It means accepting the known challenges of selling to government as a startup (long sales cycles, a litany of compliance standards, nobody returns your emails, a new language of business, etc.), but nothing worthwhile - or fulfilling - comes easy.\n\n### 🏛**️ Problem** \n\nCivil servants in procurement are overwhelmed. \\~30% of procurement roles in government are unfilled as these employees retire or quit. Their current solutions are dated – one to two _decades_ behind the equivalent in B2B SaaS, gated behind sleepy incumbents leveraging political connections and litigation to stay on top. The lack of tools and talent means governments are more stretched than ever when it comes to buying the goods and services they need in a compliant and timely manner. 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We’re Anthony and Connor, aka the [Ontra Mobility](https://www.ontramobility.com/) team, and we’re revolutionizing how people move.\n\n## **❗ The Problem**\n\nTransit agencies in the U.S. are facing massive budget shortfalls (up to $3B). Agencies need to adapt their transit systems more quickly to meet the demands of our evolving cities. Work from home led to a large drop in ridership, which is problematic for train and bus routes, which have high fixed costs. Cutting lines or reducing frequency further impacts ridership - transit agencies need a different solution.\n\n## **💡 The Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83029&key=user_uploads/1627714/d71e126f-1b4c-4fa4-b902-3e1e5f0e05bd)\n\nOntra helps cities and other transit agencies increase ridership through data-driven planning and real-time optimization. Our platform optimizes cost and rider experience by designing high-frequency bus routes and ridesharing zones, where our algorithms adapt routes to demand in real time.\n\n## **⚙️ How It Works**\n\nOntra analyzes information about where people live, how they've traveled in the past, and the existing transit system to figure out the best way to redesign the transit network.\n\nOnce the improvements are made, Ontra Mobility plans rider journeys in real-time with the best combination of transit options available, whether it’s a train, bus, bike, or agency-operated on-demand. Our system can handle thousands of ridesharing requests per minute – efficiently assigning riders to optimal routes.\n\n\n\n## **🚌 What’s New**\n\n* Our transit network design application generates bus routes and micro-transit zones\n* Seamless multimodal journeys – our algorithm synchronizes transfers between on-demand and fixed-route\n\n## **🎓 The Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83029&key=user_uploads/1627714/00845b02-7e5c-42c7-9f3a-d28399c6f6eb)\n\nAnthony and Connor are both former Google engineers with PhDs in [operations](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XZ4e0UwAAAAJ&hl=en) [research](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=z3j6J0cAAAAJ&hl=en). Prior to joining YC, they worked on [MARTA Reach](https://itsmarta.com/reach.aspx) in Atlanta, GA, and [CAT Smart](https://catchacat.org/smart/) in Savannah, GA.\n\n## **🙏 Ask: How you can help**\n\n* Share this post and spread the word!\n* Connect us to private- or public- **transit agency employees** or **board members**, **politicians,** and **transit advocates**. [founders@ontramobility.com](mailto:founders@ontramobility.com)\n\n Quick blurb to copy and paste: [Ontra Mobility](https://www.ontramobility.com/) is founded by two former Google engineers with PhDs in [operations](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XZ4e0UwAAAAJ&hl=en) [research](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=z3j6J0cAAAAJ&hl=en). Ontra helps cities and other transit agencies increase ridership through data-driven planning and real-time optimization. The founders developed the software that powered [MARTA Reach](https://itsmarta.com/reach.aspx) in Atlanta, GA and [CAT Smart](https://catchacat.org/smart/) in Savannah, GA.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LbB-ontra-mobility-increasing-ridership-for-transit-agencies", "votes": 125, "created_at": "2024-08-14T16:27:47.152Z" } ] }, { "id": 29810, "name": "Bluedoor", "slug": "bluedoor", "former_names": [ "OpenIndex", "Actionbase", "actionbase", "Actionbase", "Pumpkin", "Leviathan", "bluedoor" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3363d046ba2892bd7c82963a8a504e094bd39d2e.png", "website": "https://bluedoor.sh/", "all_locations": "Seattle, WA, USA", "long_description": "We automate public records request fulfillment for government agencies.", "one_liner": "AI for public records request fulfillment", "team_size": 1, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Infrastructure", "launched_at": 1723408013, "tags": [ "GovTech", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Infrastructure" ], "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/bluedoor", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/bluedoor.json", "year_founded": 2026, "city": "Seattle", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/bluedoor-ai", "x_url": "https://x.com/SamuelCrombie", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/actionbase-2147", "github_url": "https://github.com/bluedoor-ai", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3363d046ba2892bd7c82963a8a504e094bd39d2e.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "David Lieb", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/david-lieb" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 448194, "full_name": "Sam Crombie", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Founder at Bluedoor. \n\nPreviously a Product Manager at Microsoft AI. 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Today, we are launching our first product, the [Web Action SDK](https://actionbase.co/).\n\n# **TL;DR**\n\nThe [Web Action SDK](https://actionbase.co/) is a TypeScript / JavaScript SDK that lets developers run automations on popular websites with only a few lines of code.\n\n# **What’s the problem?**\n\nWeb automations, particularly for high-traffic websites, **suck to build and maintain**. Yet engineering teams find themselves having to build them from scratch, over and over.\n\nSpinning your own automations is an easy path to unnecessarily complex codebases and enormous tech debt. Automations break down, hit edge cases, and become exponentially unruly.\n\nBut this is business-critical functionality, so what else can you do?\n\n# **Solution: Web Action SDK**\n\nWe’ve built an SDK that allows you to run automations on popular sites with only a few lines of code. Simply add your API key, define an action, and run it.\n\nHere’s how you can use our SDK to send a LinkedIn message.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83184&key=user_uploads/448194/5978c043-af17-4af7-8b20-5c3ef74d7277)\n\nInitialize, send, and that’s it!\n\nNow that you’ve made your plans, you can use other services supported by the SDK to prepare for dinner: buy a notebook to take notes (Amazon), make a restaurant reservation (Resy), and get a ride to the restaurant (Uber).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83184&key=user_uploads/448194/5875c5ac-d64a-4bb7-9f1f-0eddf8b25a95)\n\nIn less than 10 lines of code, you’ve planned a pretty cool night out.\n\n# **Value Proposition: Simplicity**\n\nWeb Action SDK does all the heavy-lifting for you: authentication, anti-botting, task creation and execution, self-healing, and hosting. Our goal is to enable engineering teams to focus on **what to do with web actions**, not how to make them work.\n\n# **Asks**\n\n**\\#1:** If you currently have code that programmatically interacts with: LinkedIn, Facebook, Resy, Uber, DoorDash, Amazon, United, or any popular, high traffic sites, we’d love for you to sign-up and [try the SDK for yourself](https://actionbase.co). If you want to discuss bringing Actionbase to your company/use case, book time [here](https://actionbase.co/book-demo).\n\n**\\#2:** If you know someone who scrapes or automates sites, please forward them this URL or our [email blurb.](mailto:your_recipients_email_here@email.com?subject=Does%20this%20look%20useful%3F%20A%20web%20automation%20SDK&body=Hey%2C%20a%20YC%20company%20called%20Actionbase%20just%20launched%20their%20Web%20Action%20SDK%20(https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ycombinator.com%2Flaunches%2FLdg-actionbase-an-sdk-for-automating-popular-sites)%2C%20which%20lets%20you%20to%20automate%20popular%20websites%20like%20LinkedIn%20in%20a%20few%20lines%20of%20code.%0A%0AIs%20this%20something%20you%27d%20find%20useful%3F)\n\n# **Our Background**\n\nAdam and I met at Dartmouth where worked together on our senior thesis project. After graduation, we worked at Microsoft, building expertise in web automation and infrastructure on the Edge Copilot and PowerBI Copilot teams. We’ve joined forces once again to make the web agent-interpretable with Actionbase.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83184&key=user_uploads/448194/cbe18c26-732c-40c3-aab0-f9d935192ba8)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83184&key=user_uploads/448194/59f21dd2-616b-4afa-82e0-b0229d9dfe48)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ldg-actionbase-an-sdk-for-automating-popular-sites", "votes": 29, "created_at": "2024-08-19T19:59:37.739Z" } ] }, { "id": 29849, "name": "Usul", "slug": "usul", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c8d8b925d8f0cf032fa4b23d43274bb49fceacaa.png", "website": "https://www.usul.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Usul helps companies win government contracts in 60+ nations. \r\n\r\nOur AI monitors $8 trillion in annual government spending and instantly matches you to contracts across defense, IT, energy, healthcare and more.\r\n\r\nLearn more at https://usul.com/", "one_liner": "AI Platform for Winning Defense & Government Contracts", "team_size": 15, "industry": "Government", "subindustry": "Government", "launched_at": 1722274635, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "GovTech", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Government" ], "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/usul", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/usul.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/usulmafia", "x_url": "https://x.com/usulhq", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/usul", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c8d8b925d8f0cf032fa4b23d43274bb49fceacaa.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/2341ea8b78225b42f36fe09634e4730f1cae40be.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1124751, "full_name": "Jarren Reid", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CEO & Co-Founder @ USUL | Prev: Stanford CS, Palantir, MITRE ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/jarrenreid", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/20a0d66c898d9de41f698e0c3b19220e5a23653e.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1431464, "full_name": "Oliver Gomez", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CPO & Co-Founder @ USUL | Prev: Stanford CS AI + Econ, Palantir, Product at ex-YC company", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliveragomez/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/470e680fc59a36da87a6c6d60593fef855fb0de2.jpg" }, { "user_id": 715195, "full_name": "Joonghyun Lee", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Chief Engineer & CTO @ USUL (S24). 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They use AI to size defense markets, map decision-makers, and identify relevant opportunities—all in one place.\n\n### **Problem:**\n\nThe DoD is the largest buyer in the world, however, turning federal budgets into contracts is notoriously difficult. YC recently requested startups interested in tackling government software, acknowledging that selling to the government is a daunting task few builders would approach on their own. Only a couple of startups have successfully broken into the government market, with some requiring lawsuits and billionaire founders to get their foot in the door.\n\n### **Solution:**\n\nUsul, in response, builds software to simplify this process. Here’s an example for computer vision software:\n\n1. Identify active defense programs for computer vision\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85526&key=user_uploads/1124751/a1fa8a86-d8da-4791-b25a-e1319ea6d7f0)\n\n2. Analyze other companies winning computer vision contracts\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85526&key=user_uploads/1124751/4179e2dc-2ef9-4431-99c3-2ec45fb892ab)\n\n3. Identify and contact active government buyers for computer vision\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85526&key=user_uploads/1124751/a73aabc6-0c68-4fde-a9ab-dd90dea9f25c)\n\n### **Our Ask:**\n\nWe’re Live! If you’re interested in winning defense contracts or want to expand your current efforts, please contact us at [founders@usul.com](mailto:founders@usul.com) or book a demo [here](https://calendly.com/d/cmq7-4sg-b57/usul-product-call?month=2024-11)! Feel free to learn more about what we’re building at [usul.com](http://usul.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MFS-usul-pitchbook-for-government", "votes": 25, "created_at": "2024-11-13T14:46:36.718Z" }, { "id": 82530, "title": "Usul - AI for defense contractors 🇺🇸", "tagline": "Win more DoD contracts with policy, budgetary, and contract intelligence. ", "body": "### **TLDR:**\n\n[Usul](https://www.usul.co/) allows defense contractors to easily interpret government policy, track funding lines across budgetary documents, and strategize the best opportunities for new business.\n\n### **Problem:**\n\nWinning DoD contracts can take years, even if you’re well-connected and highly familiar with government acquisition processes. Unfortunately, many companies lack both and go out of business before ever landing their first contract. Adding fuel to the fire, critical government information is randomly dispersed across a multitude of archaic websites, databases, and spreadsheets, making it even harder for new entrants to compete against established primes. As a result, defense contractors are currently spending weeks finding answers to crucial policy, budgetary, and contracting questions and are completely neglected in terms of tooling.\n\n### **Solution:**\n\nWe allow defense contractors to quickly track and query complex DoD demand signals under a unified workspace. Contractors can now:\n\n* Identify novel contract opportunities\n* Track DoD funding lines and analyze project budgetary trends\n* Identify relevant acquisition and compliance regulations\n* Find the most relevant DoD buyers for existing capabilities\n\nAll in one place.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82530&key=user_uploads/1097644/e2b525a7-e178-49ae-93d0-b5d7b9425d87)\n\n### **Coming Soon:**\n\nStake your own company data against government demand signals to:\n\n* Predict future funding lines for your capabilities\n* Identify personalized avenues for future opportunities\n* Pull custom acquisition and compliance matrices\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82530&key=user_uploads/1097644/ea1e1d50-bd26-49a9-a6d7-1410d77efabd)\n\n### **About Us:**\n\nWe’re a group of AI nerds who’ve all worked for government contractors like Palantir, Apple, Reliable Robotics, etc. We met in a class at Stanford called Hacking 4 Defense, where we talked to 200+ people in the DoD/defense sector about their biggest problems. Our insights from these incredible conversations inspired us to form Usul. And yes, it’s a Dune reference…\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82530&key=user_uploads/1097644/ff9b7208-5f5c-4d7c-9d40-e23a358937ff)\n\n[Jarren Reid](https://linkedin.com/in/jarrenreid) left high school to start his first company. He then worked for 4 government contractors (Palantir, MITRE, etc.) and dropped out of Stanford to help his past colleagues win more contracts.\n\n[Oliver Gomez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliveragomez/) started building as a PM at Finnt (YC W22). He then worked at Palantir and leveraged LLMs for military operational legal review at Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center. He dropped out last quarter.\n\n[Joonghyun Lee](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joonghyun-lee/) is a commercial pilot who has been working on autonomous aircraft research for the past 3 years. 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Please feel free to contact us at [founders@usul.co](mailto:founders@usul.co) or book a demo [here](https://calendly.com/d/ckt9-b7f-k8n/usul-product-call)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LT8-usul-ai-for-defense-contractors", "votes": 36, "created_at": "2024-07-29T18:12:23.784Z" } ] }, { "id": 30178, "name": "Candor", "slug": "candor", "former_names": [ "Pomelo" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6e3a1be48eb0cf348674d5461251aaa02e645af2.png", "website": "https://www.usecandor.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Candor helps defense and deeptech companies navigate the government procurement process with AI. We inject agents into the procurement process - agents that not only surface opportunities but actively pursue them - giving anyone the same capabilities as large contractors. \r\n\r\nWhen we met at Stanford 4 years ago, it was rare for startups to work with the US Government. 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This saves companies $1M (2/3rds of the cost) and reduces the timeline from 16 to 6 months. \n\n**Problem: The government software market is locked behind an opaque, million-dollar compliance process (called FedRAMP) that favors big incumbents with lots of time.**\n\n**Solution:** Our SDK provides compliant-out-of-the-box implementations of all the compliance features you need to sell to government – authentication, logging, access control, etc. You can integrate it into your existing codebase in a week, and we handle all of the obscure compliance restrictions so you don’t have to. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87386&key=user_uploads/2110890/2caad249-0936-4910-9a4e-12ad4425e4f5)\n\nIf you want to sell your software to government agencies, start exploring our SDK [here.](https://archon.inc/docs)\n\n\\\n**We condense the FedRAMP process into 4 steps.**\n\n1. Integrate our free SDK (what we’re launching today)\n2. 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We’re [Gordy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gordysun/) and [Justin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin2028/). We’re excited to publicly announce what we’ve been building at Lakonia.\n\n**TL;DR:** Lakonia’s AI Command and Control platform acts as a tactical assistant by listening to radio communications and using AI to automatically extract key intel, map units, and recommend actions. We give first-responder, law enforcement, and military teams the situational awareness they need to make better, faster decisions.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrVPw4CVzxU\n\n# **The Problem:**\n\nPolice and military command and control technology is terribly archaic and outdated. Commanders in a central post rely almost entirely on fragmented radio chatter to understand complex situations, forcing them to build a mental picture from scratch on every incident/situation. And current software is woefully outdated - unintelligent and unintuitive.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95135&key=user_uploads/2944902/726ea501-6ff8-446d-9b30-a7fc9a3028fd)\n\nThese issues only get exacerbated during multi-agency operations, where different departments (like SFPD and CHP), military branches, or even allied forces cannot communicate seamlessly. Communication siloes, different cultures of radio etiquette, chains of command, etc. all make command and control even more difficult.\n\nAnd while at times this is just a daily annoyance, when it’s a matter of life or death, these communication breakdowns become **fatal**.\n\n# **Lakonia’s Solution:**\n\nOlympus is an **intelligent, real-time co-pilot** that plugs into existing radio networks, transforming chaotic voice chatter into a **clear, actionable operational picture.**\n\nOur AI engine works in real time by:\n\n**- Transcribing and diarizing** every transmission to identify who said what\n\n**- Parsing transmissions** to analyze and automatically tag critical information - for example, pinpointing addresses on a map, logging license plates, and identifying calls for backup\n\n**- Highlighting** the most urgent events and suggesting relevant next steps, **turning raw audio into structured intelligence**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95135&key=user_uploads/2944902/c78d42a9-f060-4024-a5e8-aac1466ad28d)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95135&key=user_uploads/2944902/4275d0a3-6853-4605-a15d-494eb39b5657)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95135&key=user_uploads/2944902/23e29921-35dc-449d-aa21-ea8880019c80)\n\nWe’ve also built a **mobile “Pip-boy” platform** for operators to access so that they can also be aware of what’s going on aside from their radio. 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