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Before founding, he led product at Practo driving 1M+ app downloads and expansion to 10 countries. Holds an engineering degree from NIT Trichy. 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Zero panel bandwidth.\n\nAnd when interviews _do_ happen, **90% get rejected**, wasting everyone’s time.\n\nHiring shouldn’t mean spending most of your time on candidates who are **not a fit**.\n\n---\n\n## **Meet Nova: the digital twin of your best recruiter & interviewer**\n\nNova is really the digital twin of your best recruiter and interviewer, available 24/7.\n\nShe -\n\n1. screens candidates,\n2. makes sourcing calls & outreach,\n3. runs full voice/video interviews (with advance proctoring)\n4. do interactive coding round like an expert engineer\n5. provide detailed report with recommendation\n\nHere’s a real snippet of her interviewing a tech candidate:\n\nhttps://youtu.be/jNqugi34uOU?si=WyrdbA9V1gu9thF6\n\nNova takes over your **whole Level-1 process** so you can only focus on highly vetted candidates\n\nAnd she doesn’t stop there.\n\nShe also finds candidates for you, reaches out via InMails, email sequences, and even phone calls and books the first-round interview directly with herself 😉\n\nInbound, outbound, or referral, Nova owns everything until you receive a detailed, **decision-ready report** for every candidate, without spending a single minute. 👇\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95916&key=user_uploads/213135/784f0317-e896-4f96-87b1-fe4dfc08d939)\n\n\\\nAnd **candidates love it**. Here’s what they say 😄\n\n> I was immensely impressed with the kind of questions and the way the tool responded!\n\nLeo Parker, DevOps Engineer\n\n> The AI voice was quite friendly and human like, which really helped in setting the environment. For example, the pauses and use of ‘Uh’s made feel very natural.\n\nIsabella, Software Architect\n\n---\n\n## **How Nova screens like your best Interviewer?**\n\nAll you need to get started is give her the JD but **you control everything**:\n\n**Skills, depth, difficulty**, interview type, tone, and structure.\n\nNova makes the screening process exactly how you want it.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95916&key=user_uploads/213135/23d75b86-2360-4c0d-a7a6-95ba6a363884)\n\nAnd she gets smarter.\n\nNova learns from your company’s own data: job descriptions, past interviews, ATS notes, performance signals, employee lifecycle insights.\n\nShe turns all of that into **hiring insights** and screen with the judgment of your best people.\n\n## The Impact\n\nMost customers have reduced time-to-first-interview report from **4–5 weeks to under 48 hours**.\n\nHere’s what Sprinto, a hyper-growth SaaS startup had to say\n\n> Nova has been a game changer for our recruitment operations over the last six months. We initially started using it to automate resume screening and shortlisting, and the difference was visible almost immediately. \\\n> \\\n> What used to take hours of manual effort now happens with remarkable accuracy and consistency.\n>\n> Just for the first-round screening alone, we saved well over 100 hours of recruiter time, and that time was redirected toward more meaningful work.”\n>\n> **Shankar Singh, Head of Recruitment, Sprinto**\n\n## **Use Nova to hire your next best talent today**\n\nSee how human-like AI can speed up your hiring:\n\n[https://www.peoplebox.ai/nova](https://www.peoplebox.ai/nova?utm_source=yc_launch&utm_campaign=yc_post)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ox2-nova-the-world-s-most-human-like-ai-interviewer", "votes": 47, "created_at": "2025-12-02T15:44:19.920Z" }, { "id": 64863, "title": "🚀 Peoplebox - OKR & performance platform for hypergrowth companies", "tagline": "A single dashboard to track all strategic goals, initiatives and red-flags, in real-time", "body": "**TL;DR:** [**Peoplebox**](https://peoplebox.ai/) **solves the biggest problems of scaling companies - Misaligned teams and Poor Execution Speed. We do this by integrating with all your work tools, bringing every cross-aligned goal in one single dashboard to identify red flags on time.**\n\nHowdy, Everyone!\n\nWe are [@Abhinav Chugh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhinavchugh/) and [@Alagu M](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alagu2/), founders of Peoplebox, an OKR platform that makes it easy for growing companies to align their teams and execute faster.\n\nIt serves as a source of truth for all your strategic goals and initiatives to align your teams and identify red flags early **without the friction of new software.**\n\nWe are currently helping many companies, including **Razorpay (W15), Disney, Postman, Exotel, Khatabook (S18), StayQrious (W20)** achieve faster business results.\n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\nAs companies grow, they find it difficult to execute their strategy with the same speed as before due to misalignment and lack of cross-functional visibility. OKRs solve this problem, but they are hard to implement.\n\nIn fact, 7 out of 10 OKRs implementations fail, and no 1 reason is: **Set and Forget**.\n\nToday,\n\n* OKRs are written in spreadsheets\n* Metrics are tracked in BI tools\n* But MBRs (Monthly Business Reviews)/ QBRs are done in Powerpoints.\n\n## **✨ What makes Peoplebox different?**\n\nPeoplebox integrates with all your work tools (SQL, Jira, Hubspot, Asana, Slack etc) to make real-time goal tracking and business reviews **magically easy**.\n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/4PtJRPu4p_gt7Jzwxsz_fZ_CxxnHy7ip2_uaUdDMzhgkEy2aU5YuPiz7RBsSTejZP01lVKw9fpPnEouw4KDiuv2AMcUz3u4q4qTMD0xUMcLHG8TFd50aoztjPcan8j1PxX1vxAGHGLibmjKGvxspvAw)\n\nIt aligns and tracks all your strategic priorities, goals & initiatives in one place. This help identifies red flags early and makes timely corrections.\n\nIn addition, your business reviews are structured and super effective, ensuring that\n\n1. It happens on the same place where OKRs are set so you never miss talking about it.\n2. Plug data, narratives, screenshots and media easily.\n3. Can run structured reviews through templates, notes, and action items\n4. Takes a few hours instead of days to prepare for reviews because of automated updates of goals and initiatives\n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/9P-49NV7lpW0inlxEhtDD8KeEA1tlMrN8ogGT9VyS18s-E0pYouj0RVwi97N1SUuOxLsDWvhlBT_RWGVWfN6ZSJapDgdbtDesIVTuEt1wceLgO_UJvBtou3OgrhRiEB4pgm3_AKZKCrr-VatmYcEbaw)\n\nIt is also deeply integrated with Slack to make it super easy for teams to update OKRs progress and tag people to start a conversation and fix the issues instead of waiting for review meetings.\n\n**In addition, Peoplebox also lets you**\n\n* Run your performance reviews cycle entirely only Slack\n* Do effective and actionable 1:1s to build high-performing teams\n* Run automated pulse and engagement surveys to be on top of your culture\n\n### **Who are we, and why are we building this?**\n\nWe are techies turned product guys, having built our first startups in Dublin, Ireland, and SF (YC S12) respectively. We joined [Practo](https://www.practo.com/), one of Asia’s largest health-tech startups, when it had 250 employees and saw it grow to 3,000 in just a couple of years.\n\nWe witnessed the challenges of hypergrowth companies first-hand. 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Companies rely on old compensation survey data, which are updated only once every year.\n\nThe salary expectations of candidates in the market change significantly on a quarterly basis (**_\\~7% statistically_**) in the startup ecosystem.\n\nThis results in more than 50% of qualified/selected candidates not joining the company due to expectation mismatch.\n\n### [**🤩**](https://emojipedia.org/emoji/%F0%9F%A4%A9/) **The Solution**\n\n[HireSure.ai](http://HireSure.ai) is an API-driven compensation benchmarking tool. We integrate with your existing HR/payroll systems, removing the need for manual data entry, and also **getting updated in real-time**.\n\n\\\n[HireSure.ai](http://HireSure.ai) provides the most accurate real-time compensation benchmarking data which helps you **make the right offer** to the candidate. The platform allows you to communicate your offer to the candidate in the **most presentable and engaging manner**. It also uses behavior signals to **predict a potential dropout** in order to make course-correction to retain them.\n\n\\\nThis has the following advantages :\n\n* All the process of compensation **data submission is automatic** and needs no manual intervention\n* Since the job market is dynamic in nature, the offers made on [HireSure.ai](http://HireSure.ai)’s **real-time benchmarks** would be the most efficient\n* The presentation of the offer to the candidate makes it look **more appealing** and **explanatory** to the candidate\n* **Predicting a potential dropout** help companies put focused efforts into retaining the candidate\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65208&key=user_uploads/858890/d144ffa8-0f31-4014-b66a-4db7dd8c228c)\n\n\n### [**🤩**](https://emojipedia.org/emoji/%F0%9F%A4%A9/) **The Ask**\n\n* **Warm introductions to Indian startups** (above 100 employees ) for a product demo\n* If you wish to know more or have any feedback (especially negative), we would be very happy to get in touch [anurag@hiresure.ai](mailto:anurag@hiresure.ai)\n\n### **😀 The Deal**\n\n* All Indian YC companies that sign up by Sep’22 shall be getting compensation benchmarks **for free** (make sure you have this data before appraisals [🤭](https://emojis.wiki/face-with-hand-over-mouth/)).\\\n Reach out to me at [anurag@hiresure.ai](mailto:anurag@hiresure.ai) or [Sign Up Here](https://www.hiresure.ai/about/contact)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gxk-hiresure-ai-is-pave-for-india-to-benchmark-compensation", "votes": 49, "created_at": "2022-08-08T17:19:59.840Z" } ] }, { "id": 27704, "name": "FlexDesk", "slug": "flexdesk", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7ba7b37dc3c29d740d89959501d5950b59307a9f.png", "website": "https://www.flexdesk.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Real estate rent is often the largest non-payroll expense for companies. 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For employers, FlexDesk makes it easy to create spend policies, track bookings, and streamline billing across all employees, geos, & brands._\n\n### **🥴 Problem**\n\n**1 - Search and discovery:** The coworking landscape is fragmented. Less than 65% of people live within a 50 mile radius to a WeWork location. 75% of workers have experienced it taking longer than 30 minutes to identify and book a coworking space.\n\n**2 - Spend controls and tracking:** It is currently hard to create and enforce standardized spend/booking controls. Companies have reported employees renting $400+ daily conference rooms to serve as their ‘personal office’.\n\n**3 - Payments:** Employees are currently required to pay for each booking using a credit card and submit for reimbursement. 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Unlocks 60%+ savings compared to a traditional lease strategy.\n* **For People teams:** Empowers employees with the freedom of choice to find a coworking space that fits their needs and within a short commute.\n\n### **🤔 Why do companies use coworking space?**\n\n* **Distributed workforce:** Hiring across the US/world, while simultaneously downsizing and even exiting office leases given low utilization + high opex.\n* **Dynamic space needs:** Established an ongoing need to support employees with space for in-person collaboration, to meet with clients, and to escape WFH.\n* **Flexible and cost-efficient:** Coworking space offers companies the flexibility to address each of these needs at a significantly lower cost than a traditional lease.\n\n**Enter FlexDesk to offer spend controls, data visibility, and a booking engine with global coverage 🌎**\n\n### **😎 How to sign up**\n\nIf your business **currently uses coworking space or is thinking about it**, we would love to chat with you or the appropriate person at your company. Email [clark@flexdesk.com](mailto:clark@flexdesk.com) and [dhanvi@flexdesk.com](mailto:dhanvi@flexdesk.com) or schedule a meeting with us [here](https://calendly.com/clark-flexdesk/30-minute-meeting).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hqh-flexdesk-booking-engine-for-coworking-space", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2023-01-23T05:04:29.847Z" } ] }, { "id": 27710, "name": "Hammr", "slug": "hammr", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/38636c8d557c876f06607c37cab2b5419c77fbb5.png", "website": "https://www.hammr.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Generic payroll providers weren't built for construction - Hammr is. Our modern tools simplify construction payroll, HR and operations. We help construction companies boost profits, not paperwork. 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Our customers save up to 10 hours of busy work per week by ditching multiple systems and spreadsheets and streamlining their workflow on our platform.**\n\n\\\nHey YC! We’re Brek and Sanket, co-founders of Hammr.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69825&key=user_uploads/379301/327bced9-c820-4195-a1ab-59ec82a2546f)\n\n### **🏆 Why us**\n\nBrek has built one of the largest construction media outlets and generated 500 million organic impressions via our social media accounts in 2022. Sanket was a founding engineer at Superhuman and has built software used by millions of users at MyFitnessPal. As a team, we have the unique combination of domain expertise, distribution and engineering to build this company and modernize workforce management for the construction industry.\n\n### **💡How it started**\n\nBefore YC, we were building a labor marketplace. 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We deeply understand the perspectives of field workers who build, foremen who manage the field, and business owners and admin staff who run the back-office.\n\nWe’ve combined the simplicity of consumer products into the flexibility and robustness of business software, and created a solution that’s native to how construction companies operate.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69825&key=user_uploads/379301/812fbc44-844d-4319-accf-525b2e179af8)\n\n\\\nOur platform seamlessly combines…\n\n🕦 **Time Tracking**: Accurately track time and attendance for the entire workforce with compliant overtime calculations\n\n💰 **Payroll**: Calculate payroll automatically for both W2s and 1099 workers and ensure compliance with labor laws and regulations\n\n📈 **Job Costing**: Real-time fully-burdened labor cost per job helps owners make decisions to drive productivity and profitability\n\n👥 **HR Management**: Manage employee records, benefits, and compliance all in one place\n\n\\\nWe’re on a mission to help contractors spend less time on admin work, so they can focus on growing their business and investing into their biggest asset — their people.\n\n### **🙏🏼 Our Asks**\n\n📣 **Sharing**: Please share this announcement with your network and follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hammr/)!\\\n👥 **Referrals**: If you know anyone in the construction industry who could benefit from Hammr, please connect us.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IAD-hammr-rippling-for-the-construction-industry", "votes": 322, "created_at": "2023-03-01T18:38:33.176Z" } ] }, { "id": 28162, "name": "Verata", "slug": "verata", "former_names": [ "aiFlow", "AiFlow" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/04042feea68cfa6b3181b5712c149970e24f178f.png", "website": "https://www.veratainsight.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Source Proprietary Deals Through Your Network. 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We map your firm's entire network, show you warm paths to any target company, and combine that with private company intelligence—so you can source proprietary deals through relationships instead of cold outreach.\n\n**3 of the top 10 mega funds** already use Verata. We drive proprietary deal flow, due diligence, and the sourcing of deal advisors and portfolio operators.\n\n**Ask:** Know someone at a PE firm frustrated with deal sourcing? Intro us at [josh@veratainsight.com](mailto:josh@veratainsight.com).Want to try it yourself? Book a demo [here.](https://meetings.hubspot.com/josh-gardner)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96939&key=user_uploads/1236126/39421e1c-e8f7-442e-a8ad-39a754cf72eb)\n\n---\n\n---\n\n### **The Problem**\n\n**Private equity runs on relationships—but firms can't see their own network.**\n\nEvery PE firm has thousands of professional connections across partners, principals, alumni, operating advisors, and portfolio executives. When a deal team wants to reach a specific CEO or find companies matching their thesis, all that relationship capital is invisible.\n\nThe result:\n\n* **\"Do we know anyone at this company?\"** - Asked dozens of times a week, answered by guessing\n* **\"Who's our best path to this founder?\"** - Hours of LinkedIn searching for each target\n* **\"What companies fit our thesis?\"** - Days of manual market mapping\n* **Cold outreach to warm targets** - Missing relationships that could have opened doors\n\nFirms pay millions for databases of company information, but the most valuable data—their own relationships—sits unused.\n\n### **Our Solution**\n\nVerata combines relationship intelligence with private company data in one platform built specifically for PE.\n\n**Relationship Path Mapping**\n\nSee how your firm connects to any target company or executive. We identify high-quality, verified professional relationships—not LinkedIn's low-quality connections—and show you the warm paths that turn cold outreach into warm introductions.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96939&key=user_uploads/1236126/a9bebdb0-e58e-4038-8fdd-3253f96961b3)\n\n**Private Company Intelligence**\n\nResearch any target in seconds. Revenue estimates with transparent methodology, headcount trends, funding history, leadership profiles, comparable company analysis. One source of truth for target research.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96939&key=user_uploads/1236126/e1054869-f81f-4131-a395-5c60121a78a4)\n\n**Targeted Search**\n\nFind every company matching your thesis. Filter by geography, revenue range, sector, ownership type. Save searches and and see which targets you have warm paths to.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96939&key=user_uploads/1236126/32502b83-ccf5-4c02-9c2a-6390cbb2f4a9)\n\n**The Numbers:**\n\n* 1.5M+ executive profiles\n* 30M+ relationships mapped\n* Used by 3 of the to 10 firms by AUM\n\n---\n\n### **The Team**\n\n**Nick Manske** - Serial entrepreneur who previously co-founded AiFlow and Alariss Global, a software platform for international executive search that grew to 37 employees. Harvard '09, INSEAD '17J, former U.S. diplomat.\n\n**Josh Gardner** - Princeton-educated computer scientist with research published in top journals and experience leading startup engineering teams at Alariss Global and AiFlow. Princeton BSE ‘20, MSE \\*22.\n\n### **How We Got Here**\n\nBefore [Verata](https://www.veratainsight.com/), we built and scaled AiFlow—a software platform for executive search. We learned that relationship data is incredibly powerful when it's properly mapped, verified, and made actionable.\n\nWe also saw the same problem plaguing PE that we solved in executive search: brilliant professionals spending hours trying to answer a simple question—\"Who do we know?\"\n\nWe knew we could bring the network intelligence techniques we'd perfected to private equity deal sourcing. Today the [Verata](https://www.veratainsight.com/) platform trusted by 3 of the top 10 mega funds in the world.\n\n---\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\n1. **Intros to PE deal teams** - Know principals, directors, VPs, or business development folks at PE firms? We'd love an intro. Email [josh@veratainsight.com](mailto:josh@veratainsight.com).\n2. **Try Verata** - If you're at a PE firm or work closely with one, book a demo [here](https://meetings.hubspot.com/josh-gardner).\n3. **Follow our journey** - Connect with us on LinkedIn: [Nick](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-manske/) | [Josh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-gardner-957903134/)\n\nThanks for reading! For more information please email [josh@veratainsight.com](mailto:josh@veratainsight.com) or visit .\n\n— Josh & Nick\n\n---", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PDX-verata-network-mapping-for-investors", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2026-01-19T22:46:33.127Z" }, { "id": 88557, "title": "Verata - AI-Powered PE Intelligence Platform", "tagline": "Verata unifies financial data and executive profiles to help PE firms make better investment and talent decisions", "body": "Hey everyone 👋\n\nWe're Josh and Nick – co-founders of [Verata](https://www.veratainsight.com/).\n\n**TL;DR** Verata is the first unified intelligence platform for private equity that combines financial data and detailed executive profiles in one place. PE professionals spend hours jumping between LinkedIn, Pitchbook, and ZoomInfo manually compiling data. Verata saves firms 4.7x research time while providing verified executive attribution data that reveals which leaders truly drive returns.\n\nAsk: Are you a PE firm currently evaluating your research and intelligence stack for 2025? Book a [demo here](https://meetings.hubspot.com/josh-gardner) or email [josh@veratainsight.com](mailto:josh@veratainsight.com).\n\n\n\n❌ **The Problem** \n\nPrivate equity professionals waste 20+ hours per week on fragmented research across data silos (PitchBook, LinkedIn, ZoomInfo).\n\nA look at the numbers:\n\n* 71% of PE professionals toggle between 3+ platforms daily\n* 62% of executive hires fail to meet performance expectations\n* $380B in value creation is missed annually due to poor talent decisions\n* No solutions: existing platforms show where executives worked but not what they actually delivered\n\n🛠️ **Our Solution: One Unified Platform for PE Intelligence**\n\n**All-in-One System** 📊\n\n* End the frustration of toggling between LinkedIn, Pitchbook, and ZoomInfo.\n* Financial and people data in one place.\n* Complete profiles with PE-specific metrics\n* Seamless workflow with no \"stitching\" required\n\n**Performance-Verified Talent Intelligence** 👥\n\n* Find executives with proven PE value creation records\n* Validated historical performance across multiple PE cycles\n* Quantify what executives actually delivered\n* Identify true drivers of portfolio success\n\n**Superior Data Quality** 📈\n\n* Auto-updating, never stale data with continuous verification\n* Verified sources with clear citations\n* Transparent revenue estimation methodology\n* High accuracy on projections vs. actual reported figures\n\n**Comprehensive Market Mapping** 🗺️\n\n* Map your entire PE ecosystem in minutes\n* Superior competitor identification and market research\n* Eliminate the need to stitch data across multiple tools\n* Get the freshest insights on companies, executives, and investors\n\n🌟 **Results & Metrics**\n\n* 330k+ PE operators with verified experience and quantified metrics\n* $1.2T+ exit value tracked across our PE operator database\n* 4.7x faster research compared to traditional methods\n\n🙏 **Our Ask**\n\n* Are you a PE firm currently evaluating your research tools? Book a demo here.\n* Know any PE Operating Partners or Talent Partners who might benefit from our platform? Please share this post or introduce us: [josh@veratainsight.com](mailto:alex@verata.com)\n* Follow us on LinkedIn for the latest PE intelligence insights\n\nLearn more at [VerataInsight.com](http://VerataInsight.com)\n\n👫 **The Team**\n\nNick - Serial entrepreneur and repeat HR tech founder. He has deep expertise in people data and has built multiple advanced search systems for executive search professionals. Self-taught coder who graduated from Harvard and then worked as a diplomat in the US State department. \n\nJosh - Repeat founder and published algorithmic game theory researcher. 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We're on a mission to revolutionize executive search by harnessing the power of AI to deliver exceptional C-suite and board candidates faster than ever before.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82693&key=user_uploads/1236126/62fc49eb-65f1-4768-ac74-baa149328cbe)\n\n**Nick Manske:**  Harvard and INSEAD alumnus, previous co-founder of a cross-border talent marketplace.\n\n**Josh Gardner:** Princeton-educated computer scientist specializing in AI and NLP, who trained under one of OpenAI's GPT creators.\n\n🎯 **The Problem: Executive search is slow, manual, and often biased**\n\nTraditional executive search methods are time-consuming and labor-intensive. Search firms spend countless hours manually researching candidates, often relying on limited networks and potentially biased decision-making processes. 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We automate payroll, compliance, reimbursement, onboarding, and offboarding by seamlessly integrating with tools across the workplace.**\n\nHello, world! 👋 We are David and Akeed.\n\n### **🤕 Problem**\n\nEven today, companies across MENA manage payroll, employee information, documents, onboarding checklists, and a plethora of other tasks manually. They default to spreadsheets, legacy enterprise solutions, and dated basic HR solutions. This causes an array of issues and challenges, including:\n\n* **Human error and fraud**: Personal employee data is collected and managed manually on spreadsheets, email, and WhatsApp conversations with no tracking or logs.\n* **Weak compliance**: Mistakes due to manual work may result in fines due to incorrect reporting to authorities and extend to non-renewal of operating/trade licenses for the business.\n* **Costly and lengthy rollout timelines**: Legacy providers have steep set-up fees and take months (even years) to complete - and on top of that require consultants or 3rd party vendors to implement the system.\n* **Poor transparency and employee experience:** Employees have little to no visibility into people policies, time off and expenses, and payroll disbursement. This means following up manually with HR over email, slack, or Whatsapp for basic queries.\n\nAnd still, with NO single source of truth - “_a black box_”, for a company's greatest asset (and usually largest line item of spend) - its people. Isolated business tools and spreadsheets don't “_speak to each other_” which causes mismatches in data.\n\n### **🎯 Why Cercli?**\n\nWe flip this upside down. The platform has been built with design and engineering at its core - curated around our design partners and customers, with the goal of making Cercli a workplace system that feels human.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73789&key=user_uploads/670088/7153a0a8-7e25-434f-8e1e-a25b4441398e)\n\n**Fully automated payroll**\n\nEnd-to-end automated payroll from data ingestion, processing, and disbursement with audit trails and change logs at every step. Consolidate in-house and remote payrolls for a complete view of people spend.\n\n**All under one roof**\n\nConnect your HR, Finance, Accounting, IT, and Legal stack with key integrations, so your systems speak to each other to manage your back office with ease.\n\n**Smart data validations**\n\nA number of checks and balances to ensure 100% data integrity. No more pivot tables with misspelled country names, duplicate entries, or inaccurate FX conversion for multi-country people spend.\n\n**Workflow alerts, policies, and approvals**\n\nDitch the calendar reminder for that recurring expense every month, or the Slack notification to renew that employee's visa or insurance plan. Set up alerts and curated policies for your business across the employee lifecycle.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73789&key=user_uploads/670088/349ee9a5-3df1-4ed2-b5e8-5d9df3fc08f9)\n\n### 👥 About us\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73789&key=user_uploads/670088/6c6c5882-0afd-47d9-b802-d674b5fd1ef9)\n\n[Akeed](https://linkedin.com/in/akeedazmi) (_right_) left MENA unicorn [Kitopi](https://www.kitopi.com/), as the Head of Growth and Expansion to begin this journey after encountering the problem at work. Previously, he worked in operations and growth at [Careem](https://www.careem.com/) (acquired by Uber in 2020), where he met now co-founder, David (_left_).\n\n[David](https://linkedin.com/in/davidreche) was most recently VP of Product & Engineering at [Kingmakers](https://kingmakers.com/) (Draftkings for Middle East and Africa). Prior to this, David held product leadership roles at Careem.\n\n### 👋 **How can you help?**\n\n* Schedule a demo and join us in reimagining how employee data is managed. [Click here](https://www.cercli.com/join?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=yc).\n* Connect us with MENA based HR, Finance and IT leaders in your network. [Click here.](mailto:akeed@cercli.com)\n* Share the love. Check out our [website](https://www.cercli.com/?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=yc) and follow our journey on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cercli/) and [Twitter](https://twitter.com/cercliHQ).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JC9-cercli-automating-payroll-hr-compliance-onboarding-more-for-mena", "votes": 67, "created_at": "2023-08-03T21:28:02.499Z" } ] }, { "id": 28863, "name": "Serra", "slug": "serra", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/de1a90717852abf9734482354e7229c962c19089.png", "website": "https://www.serra.io/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Serra is an AI recruiter that fully automates candidate sourcing and outreach, finding ideal talent from LinkedIn, GitHub, Crunchbase, and your ATS. 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", "body": "Hey YC community! 👋 We’re the cofounders of [Serra](https://serra.io/) — an AI recruiting agent that automates sourcing, outreach, and warm introductions through your team’s network.\n\nCompanies like Waymo, Verkada and Replit use Serra to skip manual sourcing and get qualified interviews straight on their calendar.\n\nTell your agents who you’re looking for, and Serra will use your team’s combined network, LinkedIn, Github, and Crunchbase to find the right people and who can intro you to them.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94993&key=user_uploads/1241137/3894ace7-4e45-4e49-b12e-ed243d06f2ef)\n\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94993&key=user_uploads/1241137/9a73d72e-2304-4235-bafa-faa179b7b35e)\n\n\n### **Why we built it**\n\nRecruiters and founders spend most of their week manually searching LinkedIn, sending cold messages, and juggling tools.\n\nEvery company already knows thousands of great candidates through its employees—but that data just sits unused.\n\nSerra combines **outbound search** + **your team’s connections** to find warm paths to the best talent.\n\nIt drafts personalized outreach, tracks replies, and books interviews automatically.\n\n---\n\n### **What’s happened so far**\n\n* Serra has made hires for \\~100 companies like Replit, Verkada, and EquipmentShare\n* 5–10× higher reply rates on warm intros vs. cold outreach\n* Average recruiter saves 15 hours per role\n\n### **What’s next**\n\nWe’re expanding our **AI Referral Network** so that every recruiter and employee in a company contributes to a shared warm graph.\n\nThat means smarter recommendations, faster hires, and a compounding network effect with every new user.\n\nIf you’re a founder or recruiter who’s tired of cold sourcing, give Serra a try: https://serra.io/contact", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Oi9-serra-the-ai-recruiter-that-hires-through-your-network", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2025-10-29T03:19:26.500Z" }, { "id": 89379, "title": "Serra 🧑‍🏫 Your 24/7 AI Recruiter", "tagline": "Serra is your AI-powered recruiting assistant that sources and engages ideal candidates nonstop, letting your team focus on hiring—not searching.", "body": "Hey YC community 👋\n\n[Alan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanhlwang/) and [Albert](https://www.linkedin.com/in/albertjstanley/) here! We're excited to introduce Serra—the fully autonomous AI Recruiter that transforms how startups find and engage talent.\n\n**🚀 TL;DR**\\\nSerra autonomously handles your candidate sourcing 24/7. It identifies, evaluates, and engages top-tier talent so your recruiting team can focus on meaningful human interactions.\n\n📺 **See Serra in action:** \n\n**❌ The Problem**\\\nTalent sourcing today is still manual, inefficient, and repetitive. Recruiters spend countless hours creating Boolean search strings, sifting through profiles, and handling outreach manually—taking precious time away from meaningful interactions. This slows down hiring, increases costs, and risks missing top candidates.\n\n**🤖 Our Solution**\\\nSerra is your AI-powered sourcing partner, working around the clock to:\n\n* **Find ideal candidates** across LinkedIn, GitHub, and your ATS.\n* **Automatically review and shortlist** candidates by precisely matching your criteria.\n* **Engage proactively** via personalized, automated outreach sequences directly through LinkedIn and email.\n* **Continuously source** new talent, keeping your pipeline fresh without manual effort.\n\nSerra ensures your recruiting team spends their valuable time engaging and hiring the best candidates—not searching databases.\n\n**🛠️ How It Works**\\\nSimply talk or type your hiring criteria into Serra:\n\n> \"Hi Serra, find me a technical Head of Product at Series B-D startups, preferably with co-founding experience and recent promotions.\"\n\nSerra clarifies any additional details, conducts exhaustive searches, vets profiles automatically, and starts personalized candidate outreach—all autonomously.\n\n**📖 Our Story**\\\nWe built Serra after talking to dozens of YC founders experiencing firsthand the pain of inefficient sourcing in high-growth startups. The goal became very simple: help companies build better teams, faster.\n\n**🎯 Our Ask**\n\n* **Are you hiring or scaling your team?** We’d love you to try Serra firsthand. Visit [serra.io](http://serra.io/) and mention YC for priority onboarding.\n* **Know someone who could benefit from automated sourcing?** Introductions are greatly appreciated!\n\n👉 **Reach out directly:** [founders@serra.io](mailto:founders@serra.io)\n\nLet Serra handle the heavy lifting so your team can focus on what matters most—your people. Excited to hear your thoughts!\n\nCheers, \\\nThe Serra Team", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NFb-serra-your-24-7-ai-recruiter", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2025-04-10T16:44:46.577Z" }, { "id": 83930, "title": "Serra — Find the best talent using AI", "tagline": "AI search engine to find the best talent to hire", "body": "**✅ Value-Prop:**\n\nCutting down time to hire + increasing quality of candidates top-of-funnel. Try us out at cloud.serra.io.\n\n**TLDR;**\n\nInstead of manually selecting keywords and reviewing candidates one by one, recruiters can search in plain English on Serra and instantly see the best matches, with all their research done for them. Serra now has \\~1 billion candidates in their database, emails and phone numbers included. Watch our demo [here.](https://youtu.be/KWGNcVFMH_k)\n\n---\n\n---\n\n—\n\nHey everybody! We’re Alan and Albert, and we built Serra to speed up time- and increase quality-of-hire for founders and recruiters. We reached out to dozens of founders at Series A and B YC companies and found that hiring the right people, faster, was a recurring painpoint.\n\n**❌ Problem:**\n\nHiring requires sorting through hundreds of resumes, reaching out to dozens of candidates, and buying expensive search licenses that still rely on outdated keyword matching. Candidates can game ATS filters by stuffing their profiles with keywords. This wastes months of time and money, often leading to poor hires and this cycle repeating itself.\n\n**✅ Solution:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83930&key=user_uploads/1241137/27d9b45c-baa7-432c-a325-bb145e9d9c3d)\n\nSerra is a vector-based search engine that focuses on understanding the context of each profile. It delivers more accurate matches based on what you actually asked for rather than relying on exact keyword matches. Serra utilizes LLMs to rank and research millions of candidates simultaneously.\n\nSerra fact-checks what candidates put on their profiles—if a candidate claims they have experience in training and deploying machine learning models in production, Serra checks GitHub for tangible evidence.\n\nSerra can also hook up directly to your ATS, allowing you to apply the same search benefits to candidates inside of it.\n\n**❓Ask from us:**\n\nTry us out with 2 free searches at [cloud.serra.io](http://cloud.serra.io)!\n\nFor founders aggressively hiring and looking to source better talent faster, book a demo [here](https://calendar.app.google/ZiqkQL11E458DAV8A) or drop us a note at [alan@serra.io](mailto:alan@serra.io)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lpi-serra-find-the-best-talent-using-ai", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2024-09-11T04:01:03.076Z" }, { "id": 82024, "title": "🔍 Serra: AI-powered candidate search", "tagline": "Search engine for recruiters to find best-fit candidates.", "body": "**tldr;** [Serra](https://www.serra.io/) is an AI-driven search engine for recruiters to find best-fit candidates, both within their ATS and outside of it. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82024&key=user_uploads/1241137/9b4c6415-ec10-49a2-9543-f352447ab2bb)\n\nHi everyone, 👋 [Alan](https://linkedin.com/in/alanhlwang) and [Albert](https://linkedin.com/in/albertjstanley) here—we’re best friends from UCLA and co-founders of Serra!\n\n### **⛔️ The Problem**\n\nIdentifying best-fit candidates, both inbound and outbound, is time-consuming, manual work for recruiters.\n\nThis leads to longer hiring times, missed opportunities, and suboptimal hiring decisions.\n\n### **✅ Our Solution**\n\nSerra is a search engine for recruiters to find the best-fit inbound and outbound candidates.\n\nConnected to your ATS and external candidate sources, recruiters can search “B2B sales reps that have managed key enterprise accounts” and see top matches.\n\nSerra improves on keyword matching by understanding the context of candidates' profiles, ensuring you receive the most accurate results.\n\n**Key Features:**\n\n* **🔦 Analyze Inbound Applicants**: Uses vector search, GPT to sift through thousands of applications in your ATS for signal.\n* **🔍 Conduct Outbound Searches**: Scans external candidate databases to find profiles that match specific job requirements.\n* **🚚 Deliver Actionable Insights**: Get ranked candidate results, classify candidates, and automate pre-screening Q&A collection.\n* **📊 Visualize Results:** Get dashboards that track hiring efficiency, candidate engagement, and long-term employee performance.\n\n### **❓Our Ask**\n\nDrowning in inbound applications? Looking to speed up your hiring times while maintaining the quality of hires? Try out Serra to improve the quality and speed of candidates entering your recruitment funnel. Here's how you can get started:\n\n* **Demo and Consultation**: If you’re a startup that’s hiring and want a demo or wish to discuss your recruitment needs further, please book a call with us [here](https://calendar.app.google/b8ytpup7wg3EpgAX7) or shoot me an email at [alan@serra.io](mailto:alan@serra.io)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LKy-serra-ai-powered-candidate-search", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2024-07-10T14:03:16.813Z" }, { "id": 73883, "title": "🔹Serra - Simplify SQL with one command", "tagline": "SQL to PySpark Translator", "body": "**tl;dr:** never deal with unintuitive 1000+ line SQL scripts again. [Serra](https://github.com/Serra-Technologies/serra) simplifies SQL into modular PySpark objects that are much faster to run, reuse, and debug. Check out our repo [here](https://github.com/Serra-Technologies/serra)!\n\nHey everyone! We’re back again to announce the open-source launch of Serra—never deal with unintuitive 1000+ line SQL scripts again.\n\nWe’re also launching the beta of our translate feature with a free week trial! Get an easy starting point/suggestion for simplifying your SQL scripts into PySpark objects by running _serra translate your_script.sql_.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73883&key=user_uploads/1241137/65845ad3-4950-4357-a32b-dcd33981816f)\n\n### **❌ Problem:**\n\nSQL scripts are huge, messy, and hard to debug. Declarative, monolithic SQL gets overwhelming quickly for data analysts, scientists, and engineers—leading to huge time sinks and data outages.\n\n### **😌 How do we solve it?**\n\nWe’re a low-code ETL framework that simplifies SQL into modular PySpark objects that are much faster to run, reuse, and debug. Think end-to-end dbt with the benefits of object-oriented Spark!\n\nWe wrap all of this into a command-line tool that allows you to create your own PySpark jobs, run them locally, and simplify your SQL scripts to PySpark.\n\n### **👏 The Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73883&key=user_uploads/1241137/f1469834-d630-417d-942a-c9efec1a8e0d)\n\n[Alan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanhlwang/) and [Albert](https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?fetchDeterministicClustersOnly=true&heroEntityKey=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAABvJV34B9Kn2x938wSRljsdtR_Vu8-sNKUg&keywords=albert%20stanley&origin=RICH_QUERY_TYPEAHEAD_HISTORY&position=0&searchId=2590d498-3822-4c87-904c-47bec49bccd6&sid=DN6) are best friends from middle school Algebra. Alan is an ex-Data Engineer at Disney+ and a Statistics & Data Science alum from UCLA. Albert is an ex-Software Engineer at Amazon Alexa and a UCLA Master’s graduate in Computer Science.\n\n### **Asks:**\n\n* Check out (and star 🤩) the repo: \n* Intros to any companies struggling with their SQL/data workflow—we’ll help retool their data workflow! Email us at [founders@serra.io](mailto:founders@serra.io).\n* Try it out yourself by doing a pip install of serra! For setup help feel free to reach out—make sure you have python >= 3.10 installed!).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JDf-serra-simplify-sql-with-one-command", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2023-08-07T21:28:44.592Z" }, { "id": 73132, "title": "🔹 Serra - Low-code, modular SQL", "tagline": "Python-based dbt alternative", "body": "**tl;dr:** [Serra](https://www.serra.io) takes a 200-line SQL script and reduces it to a few lines of code. Serra simplifies complex pipeline logic with reusable testable objects, saving hours of development and maintenance time.\n\nHi everyone! We’re Alan and Albert, the best friends behind Serra. We want to simplify ETL so that even your dad (👨🏻) can maintain a data pipeline.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73132&key=user_uploads/1241137/e069458b-6108-48e2-b2b2-33304afc6880)\n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\nCompanies spend **$520K** annually building and maintaining data pipelines.\n\nData engineers spend **44% of their time** fixing pipelines that inevitably crash.\n\n> **12 data engineers** \\* **$98K salary** \\* **44% of their time** = **$520K** ([Fivetran](https://get.fivetran.com/rs/353-UTB-444/images/2021-CDL-Wakefield-Research.pdf))\n\nSo why do data pipelines crash and burn?\n\n* Complex scripts\n* Limited alerting, debugging\n* Inadequate testing\n\nAll of these make data pipelines a nightmare to fix, especially at 3am.\n\n## **✨ Our Solution**\n\n**Serra is a python-based DBT alternative that takes a 200-line SQL script and reduces it to just a few lines of code.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73132&key=user_uploads/1241137/7eec5a59-66c0-4007-9b22-efd89aa5e2ca)\n\nSerra’s framework emphasizes software engineering best practices like **readability, testability, modularity, and reusability**.\n\nSerra **simplifies** complex SQL scripts to just a few lines of Python code with modular transformers and in-house connectors.\n\nSerra provides **fully-customizable error logging** for every transformer and connector.\n\nWith a command line tool, developers can easily create pipelines, auto document them, **run local tests**, and **run jobs with their favorite data warehouse.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73132&key=user_uploads/1241137/0588746d-9b72-4e91-bc4f-cea9e6eab736)\n\n## **🤔 How are we different from DBT?**\n\nSerra is not tied to SQL and therefore handles all parts of ETL. Serra provides intuitive control flow, more complex transforms with Python, full streaming support, and comprehensive debugging/testing capabilities.\n\n## **👏 The Team**\n\n[Alan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanhlwang/) and [Albert](https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?fetchDeterministicClustersOnly=true&heroEntityKey=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAABvJV34B9Kn2x938wSRljsdtR_Vu8-sNKUg&keywords=albert%20stanley&origin=RICH_QUERY_TYPEAHEAD_HISTORY&position=0&searchId=2590d498-3822-4c87-904c-47bec49bccd6&sid=DN6) are best friends from middle school Algebra. Alan is an ex-Data Engineer at Disney+ and a Statistics & Data Science alum from UCLA. Albert is an ex-Software Engineer at Amazon Alexa and a UCLA Master’s graduate in Computer Science.\n\n## **🙏 Ask**\n\nTry out our live demo [here](https://replit.com/@serra-technologies/SerraDemo) (fork the Replit)!\n\nIf you like what you see, join our [waitlist](https://www.serra.io) and [Discord](https://discord.gg/3VbvqWbE)!\n\nIntros to any data engineers, data leaders, Databricks users, and anyone from companies that are trying to optimize their ETLs would be amazing. Please reach out at [founders@serra.io](mailto:founders@serra.io)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J1Y-serra-low-code-modular-sql", "votes": 52, "created_at": "2023-07-17T14:13:53.699Z" } ] }, { "id": 28976, "name": "Bolto", "slug": "bolto", "former_names": [ "Social Inc.", "Pampas Inc.", "Pampas", "Onnix", "Crew", "Crew AI", "Crew" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bd164a122dacc9defa9cfe1e3478f126b401b963.png", "website": "https://www.bolto.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "AI-powered payroll, hr, and recruiting platform. 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The process is highly rigorous— AI is used to vet candidates technically and create a holistic picture by assessing their public profiles, past projects, and performance on technical assessments. \n\nOur average candidate is an IIT (or global equivalent) grad who has worked at reputable companies and has a history of shipping good code.\n\n**💼 Global HR:**\n\nWe also service the full HR stack - so you can hire candidates as contractors or full-time employees using Crew instantly. Our legal, payroll, and HR teams keep you protected and globally compliant. \n\n![](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/665dcda85f9f2d88cd288899/665ecd5ca9750c3e0fb87e90_GP-Hero-Image.webp)\n\n**🚀 The Founders:**\n\n[Milan - Ex-Palantir AI/ML, Harvard](https://www.linkedin.com/in/milan-bhandari-623979163/)\n\n[Jake - Ex-Microsoft PM, Dartmouth](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-johnson-529b57139/)\n\n[Mrinal - Ex-Lazard IB, Dartmouth](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrinalsingh2/)\n\nAt our last start-up, we realized how difficult it was to find high-quality developers, pay them effortlessly, and manage global compliance. Crew AI is the platform and service we wish we had while building!\n\n**🤝 Quality Matters in Hiring!**\n\nWe know from experience that top hires can supercharge your company and propel it further. We’re hyper-focused on getting you the best bang for your buck. Our vetting process is:\n\n1. Rigorous resume and background screen for key success indicators\n2. Extended technical interviews and case studies\n3. AI behavioral interview and English fluency checks\n4. Professionalism training\n5. Final human-led vetting\n\n![](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/665dcda85f9f2d88cd288899/665f43639b41ab6cf17052a2_HIW%20Item%204%20-%20Image.webp)\n\n**Our Ask!**\n\nBuild your Crew! If you or anyone you know is hiring developers - please send them our way! Our website is [www.trycrew.ai,](http://www.trycrew.ai) and we can be reached at [info@trycrew.ai](mailto:info@trycrew.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LKf-crew-ai-ai-hiring-hr-platform", "votes": 25, "created_at": "2024-07-09T16:45:42.297Z" } ] }, { "id": 29106, "name": "Affinity", "slug": "affinity", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/883b7bc8ea92895dbca7a59f5ad014c489f3729a.png", "website": "https://itsaffinity.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Affinity is a compliance training platform designed specifically for regulated industries. 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We’ve previously built Bread - a fintech - from inception to a $450M exit and are leveraging that experience to solve the learning management needs of regulated tech companies from growth stage to large enterprise banks.\n\n### **Problem and Current Market**\n\nWhile scaling Bread, we learned how necessary training is in the fintech industry for all stakeholders both internal (your employees) and external (your vendors and clients), and how glaringly inefficient the process is.\n\nFor example:\n\n* Fintech bank sponsors lack standardized training across portfolio companies;\n* Fintechs themselves train thousands of their business customers using valuable human hours;\n* Compliance and HR teams use sign up sheets and spreadsheets to track internal trainings;\n* Ineffective trainings create bigger problems later on when companies are just starting to scale.\n\nAnd it’s not just fintechs who face these problems, **it’s all regulated industries**.\n\n### **How Affinity Solves This**\n\nWe’ve built:\n\n1. A platform that allows organizations, such as banks, to standardize training across external parties.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73139&key=user_uploads/599372/84a4ee60-ef53-4c9d-be35-655588e56f42)\n\n2. A workflow management tool that allow companies to assign trainings based on internal policy rules.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73139&key=user_uploads/599372/1794b23f-a480-4ce3-a239-5797646ab28b)\n\n3. Relevant, practical content and ways to customize the content.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73139&key=user_uploads/599372/df94140a-c1db-4654-adac-488c98aa1ed3)\n\n4. Data for reporting to regulators and auditors.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73139&key=user_uploads/599372/b751d335-f134-45fa-9201-7f14c9641c6c)\n\n\n_In short: we help regulated companies make compliance training seamless and powerful._\n\n### **The Future (to Affinity and beyond!)**\n\n* A dynamic content creation platform built in.\n* Leveraging AI and LLM’s for interactive learning experiences.\n* The best and most useful trainings available in every vertical and industry.\n\n### **The Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73139&key=user_uploads/599372/093dbfde-47dd-45bf-bce1-7642471e7eb1)\n\nWe have known each other for almost a decade and spent much of that time building out a buy-now, pay-later fintech together called Bread ($450M exit). Faraz led legal and compliance, and Peter led engineering. Through Bread’s growth we’ve learned how important compliance education is for teams to be effective in a regulated space.\n\n### **Asks from the community**\n\n* Introductions to Fintechs and tangential regulated companies (all sizes)\n* Introductions to Banks\n* Introductions to Compliance and HR teams\n* Tell us what you’re not getting from your current learning management systems\n\n### **How can your company use Affinity today?**\n\nWe’re live for fintechs today at: . We are also offering a discount to all YC companies for their first year, and while you can onboard yourself, we’d love to walk you through getting started. So, please reach out to us at [founders@itsaffinity.com](mailto:founders@itsaffinity.com) and we can start working together with your team!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J1f-affinity-the-compliance-training-platform-built-for-regulated-industries", "votes": 41, "created_at": "2023-07-17T16:58:49.486Z" } ] }, { "id": 29261, "name": "malibou", "slug": "malibou", "former_names": [ "Malibou" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d58137f5ea9c3d97a49e190602fc6dd4331ccf6d.png", "website": "https://www.malibou.com", "all_locations": "Paris, IDF, France", "long_description": "malibou is a web application helping French SMBs to manage employees, run payroll and track compliance in a single app.\r\n\r\nWhen processing payroll in France, you either have the choice between an accountant with good advice but no way to connect an HRIS with him, or a good HRIS that does not include payroll services. It was time for a change, to finally bring payroll and HR at the same place. \r\n\r\nDue to increasing competition in the space, French payroll engines have just opened their APIs. 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Now I'm back at YC for round #2, this time as CTO in the HR & Payroll space.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/alexandre-pernin-602308a3", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/008ce59d345cee77feb1fe4fe3163a3a5bdaf2cd.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Malibou: French Payroll Startup Raises $3.3 Million From Breega and YC - Business Insider", "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/malibou-french-payroll-startup-raises-3-million-from-breega-yc-2024-6", "date": "Jun 04, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 79030, "title": "🌴 malibou - Simple French payroll", "tagline": "Meet malibou, the first all-in-one payroll and HR software for French SMBs", "body": "\\[**tl;dr**\\] French payroll is so complex that no one has been able to build the Justwork or Gusto for France. This is coming to an end— we’re building the first all-in-one payroll and HR software for every French startup and SMB.\n\nHey y’all, we’re Max and Alex, the team behind [malibou](https://www.malibou.co/). We’re here to fix French payroll.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79030&key=user_uploads/89898/9981454f-3181-4baa-b681-a0fb9d76168d)\n\n**❌ The problem**\n\nRunning payroll in France is tough! There are 800 different labor agreements with its own set of rules, and each company belongs to a different one.\n\nSo when processing payroll in France, you either have the choice between\n\n1/ an accountant with good advice but no way to connect a good HRIS with him. Everything is manual (excel file, emails…)\n\n2/ a good HRIS that does not include payroll services— no one wants to deal with French payroll\n\n**✅ The solution**\n\nMalibou is the first all-in-one payroll and HR software for every French startup and SMB.\n\nOur promise is the following: 1/ We provide best-in-class HRIS designed for local compliance and 2/ We provide expert help so that HR managers and CEOs don’t have to deal with bureaucracy.\n\nThanks to malibou, companies can manage employee repositories, onboard newcomers in a few clicks, accept leave requests, validate and distribute payslips, pay their team from the app, and ask any questions related to social laws to our experts. Employees benefit from direct access to malibou.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79030&key=user_uploads/1585512/bc7eac7b-0867-422b-b423-d459248f6c2d)\n\n**👥 The team**\n\n[**Max**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxence-drummond-485057b4/) and [**Alex**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandre-pernin-602308a3/) here, originally from France 🇫🇷.\n\nMax was a VC partner at Breega, where he opened the London office.\n\nAlex is a software engineer and also an ex-YC founder.\n\n**🙏 Ask: How you can help**\n\n* Share this with anyone you know who is employing people in France\n* If you have questions or requests, email us at [maxence.drummond@malibou.co](mailto:maxence.drummond@malibou.co)\n* You can also book a meeting with Max [here](https://calendar.app.google/1raqzyT4ufWPmrxeA)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KYg-malibou-simple-french-payroll", "votes": 43, "created_at": "2024-03-04T18:55:43.779Z" } ] }, { "id": 29263, "name": "Alex", "slug": "alex-com", "former_names": [ "Apriora" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/98b76c25c75fac04ce234cc570b0dd988698507a.png", "website": "https://alex.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Alex interviews, screens, and schedules every candidate – over voice, video, and text – so talent teams hire more great people, faster, without adding TA headcount. The recruiter stays in control: every shortlist is approved by a human, and every relationship and offer is owned by the customer's team.\r\n\r\nWe're past 1M+ interviews, integrate with 33+ ATS platforms, and 96% of candidates prefer interviewing with Alex. We're revenue-generating, well-funded, backed by premier investors, and are focused on enterprise customers: selling to VPs of Talent Acquisition, CHROs, and CFOs at large employers who are rethinking how hiring gets done at scale.", "one_liner": "Alex is the AI recruiter for hiring great people.", "team_size": 30, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Recruiting and Talent", "launched_at": 1703103445, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Recruiting", "HR Tech", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Recruiting and Talent" ], "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/alex-com", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/alex-com.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/hire-alex/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/alexai", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/98b76c25c75fac04ce234cc570b0dd988698507a.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/99f8c1375ed8644f6f79629f5067068ce926e963.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Nicolas Dessaigne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1130140, "full_name": "Aaron Wang", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Before Alex AI, Aaron worked in quant finance and at Facebook AI. He studied computer science, applied math, and economics at Brown.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/aaronjwang", "x_url": null, "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/71e6853c488fbfca1724e6c8e382612f34fc4b47.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1649378, "full_name": "John Rytel", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Technical co-founder who just builds.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/john-rytel-955436221", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8ef282e7c673bc0b3bddb9a6ac5617ef163ddbb1.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 106606, "title": "Account Manager", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/alex-com/jobs/94T4yHu-account-manager", "location": "San Francisco", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$150K - $200K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.15%", "experience": "5+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 106644, "title": "Forward-Deployed Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/alex-com/jobs/tLgp1Yw-forward-deployed-engineer", "location": "San Francisco", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$100K - $180K", "equity_range": "0.05% - 0.15%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Alex: Your AI Recruiting Partner", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FJV-Gmrpa8", "date": "Sep 29, 2025" }, { "title": "AI recruiter Alex raises $17M to automate initial job interviews | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/29/ai-recruiter-alex-raises-17m-to-automate-initial-job-interviews/", "date": "Sep 29, 2025" }, { "title": "The Pitch Deck This AI Recruiter Startup Used to Raise Seed Funding ", "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/pitch-deck-ai-recruiter-startup-apriora-seed-funding-2024-5", "date": "May 15, 2024" }, { "title": "Your Next Job Interview May Be With ‘Alex,’ The AI Interviewer", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2024/05/10/your-next-job-interview-may-be-with-alex-the-ai-interviewer/?sh=3a44b4d976f2", "date": "May 10, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 78994, "title": "Alex (fka Apriora) - Your AI interviewer to identify the best candidates faster", "tagline": "Reduce recruiting overhead, interview more candidates, and make better hiring decisions.", "body": "### TLDR\n\n[**Alex**](https://www.alex.com/) **interviews job candidates in real time.** Companies using Alex reduce recruiting overhead, interview more candidates, and make better hiring decisions. For candidates, we provide an equitable, interactive interviewing experience.\n\n### 📸 Intro\n\nHey all! We’re [Aaron Wang](https://linkedin.com/in/aaronjwang) and [John Rytel](https://linkedin.com/in/johnrytel) from Alex (fka Apriora).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78994&key=user_uploads/1130140/794bc140-1ba0-4b71-bdaa-8b29d09722bf)\n\n### **❌** The problem\n\n**Interview processes are slow and expensive.** Companies spend over $5,000 per hire, most of which is time spent by internal recruiting teams and hiring managers interviewing candidates, and the average length for an interview process is \\~30 days.\n\nExisting video interviewing platforms were built to solve this for companies, but their one-way interfaces and cookie-cutter questions create a disappointing candidate experience, resulting in low completion rates and a limited hiring signal.\n\nHow can we offer companies the efficiency of interview automation while providing candidates with a personalized, conversational interview experience?\n\n### 🚀 The solution\n\n**Our AI interviewer conducts real-time video interviews with candidates**, including technical screens, phone screens, system design, coding, behavioral, and more.\n\nUnlike interviewing your candidates manually or with an automated assessment, Alex is:\n\n* **Convenient**: Your AI interviewer is ready to interview candidates 24/7 with unlimited capacity.\n* **Candidate First**: Over 90% of scheduled candidates complete their interviews with an average candidate experience rating of 4.5/5.\n* **Reliable**: Data-driven feedback after each interview is customized to your hiring goals so you can feel confident that you’re moving forward with the right candidates.\n* **Robust**: Alex’s fairness system flags cheating based on multi-modal data, so you can trust your interviewer’s feedback.\n* **Accessible**: One-click integration with your ATS so you don’t need to change your workflow.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78994&key=user_uploads/1130140/ef44f880-fb72-4e1d-a641-eb413571aaa5)\n\n_Check out a full interview at apriora.ai/demo_\n\n### 🙏 Ask: How you can help\n\n1. **Who do you know in recruiting or talent acquisition?** We want to learn more about their work and help them! Reach out to [founders@apriora.ai](mailto:founders@apriora.ai).\n2. **Who do you know that’s hiring and could benefit from AI interviewing?** Reach out to [founders@apriora.ai](mailto:founders@apriora.ai).\n\nThe blurb: “My friends are working on a YC company building AI interviewers that conduct real-time video interviews. I think this could be relevant to you, so feel free to check them out and contact [founders@apriora.ai](mailto:founders@apriora.ai) for more.”\n\n### **🤝** The Deal\n\n**Sign up before Demo Day** to get started with our YC Deal. Reach out to [founders@apriora.ai](mailto:founders@apriora.ai) to set up your custom interviewer.\n\n❤️ _Thank you for taking the time to read through this. We’d love to hear your thoughts about what we’re building. Find some time [here](https://calendly.com/apriora/aaron) or shoot us an email._", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KY6-alex-fka-apriora-your-ai-interviewer-to-identify-the-best-candidates-faster", "votes": 545, "created_at": "2024-03-04T02:36:40.405Z" } ] }, { "id": 29327, "name": "Central", "slug": "central", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3fd82ba2859916808ff0e5edd50e4947e539c317.png", "website": "https://centralhq.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Central kills back-office work for startups. While HR/payroll platforms give you software to figure it out, Central actually does all the work using AI agents and human experts: payroll, benefits, compliance, accounting, taxes, and more. That's 10+ hours back every month. \r\n\r\nThousands of founders trust Central. 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", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/pranav-kashyap", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5a75b764e2716fd5f153f2c101267b77c0e0d459.jpg" }, { "user_id": 206328, "full_name": "Nilay Modi", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Product & design", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/thenilaymodi", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/nilaymod", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/617b53a187d9dc0a6cfef02a8a19fc213baed841.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Central raises $8.6M from First Round Capital & YC", "url": "https://centralhq.com/first", "date": "Oct 16, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 93937, "title": "Central – Accounting, Taxes & R&D Tax Credits + Payroll, Benefits & State Compliance", "tagline": "Your entire back-office in one platform. ", "body": "\\~70% of every company’s expenses are related to people.\n\nBut today’s HR/payroll and accounting systems are separate. This leads to lost context, and founders end up with more work by having to answer the same questions repeatedly.\n\n**Central now solves this by consolidating your entire back-office:** accounting, taxes, R&D tax credits plus payroll, benefits, and state compliance.\n\n200+ YC companies have already made the switch to using Central for everything, including Wordware, Bitesight, Offstream, 1849 Bio and Undermind.\n\n**Learn more and get started for free at [centralhq.com](http://centralhq.com)**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93937&key=user_uploads/206328/caf3dadd-ad64-468b-9f5a-1cb92df3ec60)\n\n---\n\n—\n\n# **Why Central for accounting, taxes & R&D credits:**\n\n1. **One platform for your entire back-office**\n * Onboard once and never answer the same question again across vendors\n * Accurate closed books every month\n * Federal, state, and local franchise tax filings\n * Unlimited 1099s for all contractors\n * Complete R&D study & instant redemption to payroll\n * Includes Central payroll, benefits, and state compliance\n2. **Talk to your financials in Slack**\n * Query your burn, runway, revenue, etc.\n * Find docs like P&L, balance sheet, etc\n * Get answers to common financial questions\n3. **Bookkeeping built for fundraising**\n * Better categorization with more company context\n * Proper revenue recognition & asset depreciation\n * Financial summary every month to share with investors\n * Get custom diligence docs & reports fast\n4. **Dedicated startup CPA in Slack**\n * One point of contact who understands your business\n * Message them anytime in Slack\n * Catch mistakes before they happen.\n5. **White-glove migration / set up in 15 mins**\n * Run on QuickBooks or Puzzle (you own your account)\n * Just add us as an admin\n * Historical review and clean up\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93937&key=user_uploads/206328/126c04e8-f424-4519-84f7-fe3a3ffd8c76)\n\n—\n\n# **Comes with payroll, health insurance and state compliance:**\n\nMore info here - [centralhq.com](http://centralhq.com)\n\n1. **Payroll**\n * Pay US employees\n * Pay global contractors in 200+ countries\n * Unlimited pay runs, one-off payments, reimbursements, etc.\n2. **Compliance in 50 US states**\n * State foreign qualifications and registered agent (required to do business)\n * State payroll registrations (required to run payroll)\n * Workers' compensation insurance (required when you have 1 employee)\n * Government mail handling and past fine resolution\n3. **Benefits**\n * Access to a licensed health insurance broker\n * Medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance\n * Guidance to pick the right plans & save money\n * 401(k)\n4. **HR & team management**\n * Offer letters, CIIAA, and other docs\n * I-9 employment verification\n * Onboarding, off-boarding, severance, etc\n5. **Central AI Agent in Slack**\n * Find and edit anything like salaries or addresses\n * Start workflows like hiring or firing\n * Retrieve docs like paystubs or certificate of incorporation\n6. **24/7 human support & experts (Slack & email)**\n7. **White-glove migration & setup (takes 15 mins)**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93937&key=user_uploads/206328/23007f01-fa46-4733-b62f-e40644eb38cf)\n\n—\n\n# **Get started for free - [centralhq.com](http://centralhq.com)**\n\n* **First 50 companies (limited offer)** - Free payroll, benefits, state compliance (free period based on team size, needs and batch). Add-on accounting, taxes & R&D credits ([see pricing](https://centralhq.com/pricing))\n* **YC F25 -** Everything above + free accounting (ends when you raise post-YC or after 6 months)\n* One quick call to see demo & setup everything. Migrating? We do all the work.\n* No annual contracts. Cancel anytime.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OR7-central-accounting-taxes-r-d-tax-credits-payroll-benefits-state-compliance", "votes": 26, "created_at": "2025-09-18T19:49:49.798Z" }, { "id": 81853, "title": "Central: Payroll + benefits for startups. Save weeks of work & fines.", "tagline": "The first back-office platform that automates all the painful compliance work.", "body": "# **📝 TL;DR:**\n\n* [Central](https://www.centralhq.com/?utm_source=launchyc) is the first payroll & benefits platform for startups that automates all the painful compliance work – saving you weeks of work and fines.\n* **Start for free -** [**www.centralhq.com**](https://www.centralhq.com/?utm_source=launchyc)\n * _10 mins to setup + we’ll do all the migration work._\n\n# ——\n\nFounders are drowning in back-office work. Even with the current recommended platforms, payroll, benefits, compliance was a never-ending pain in the…\n\nWhy do founders still need to understand all this?\n\nWhy do founders still have to register in multiple states to run payroll, set up worker’s compensation, pay random payroll related taxes, deal with scary government mail, update addresses across state filings, troubleshoot with insurance companies?\n\nA tragedy…\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81853&key=user_uploads/206328/d5e37454-5cab-44bb-8571-603fab041299)\n\n# ——\n\n# **👋 HELLO CENTRAL: Save weeks of work & avoid fines.**\n\nCentral is the first payroll, benefits & ops platform designed for busy founders, not HR/finance professionals.\n\nUnlike other platforms, Central handles each compliance task from start to finish. You don’t need to learn or do anything. You just keep building because that’s what truly matters.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81853&key=user_uploads/206328/953f0471-3542-449f-adf7-4b7770223603)\n\nSo, here’s everything you get:\n\n**Payroll & compliance**\n\n1. **Hire and pay anyone globally:** Central supports founders & employees in all 50 U.S. states and contractors in 200+ countries. We’ll handle reimbursements, offer letters, NDAs, I-9 verification, and more.\n2. **Automated payroll state registrations:** Existing platforms make founders interface with state agencies, leading to errors & fines. Central automates this entire process resulting in accurate tax IDs and withholding rates.\n3. **Automated payroll tax filings:** Existing platforms cover some taxes, and leave founders to handle the rest, leading to mistakes and fines. Central pays all taxes and verifies payments with federal, state, and local agencies.\n4. **Automated worker’s comp:** When you hire your first employee in a state, you need state-specific worker’s compensation insurance. Existing platforms make you go to other platforms to get a policy, leading to missed coverage and fines. Instead, Central sets it up and ensures payment automatically.\n5. **Government mail monitoring**: Founders often miss important government mail due to address changes. To combat this, Central adds a virtual mailing address to all of your state filings. This virtual address stays the same when you move, so Central can notify you about government mail and take the appropriate action.\n\n**Business compliance & insurance**\n\n1. **Foreign qualifications & city registrations:** Central handles the necessary business filings & the registered agent in your HQ city/state and other states when required.\n2. **Continuous BOI reporting to FinCEN:** The Corporate Transparency Act requires companies to submit beneficial ownership information (BOI) reports to FinCEN. Central files this for you and keeps it updated as officers and their information change.\n3. **Business insurance:** Central can set up insurance for general liability, directors and officers, cyber, errors and omissions, and more.\n\n**Benefits**\n\n1. **Medical, dental & vision insurance:** Central offers plans from top carriers for small groups and individuals. We automate setup and payments, making it easy for you. Pranav (co-founder at Central) is a licensed broker and expert and can guide you to avoid common mistakes.\n2. **Life insurance:** Integrated with payroll for pre-tax deductions.\n3. **401k:** Central partners with Guideline to provide easy payroll integration and pre-tax deductions.\n\nAnd, support via a shared Slack channel, phone & email.\n\n# ——\n\n## **🏎️ GET STUFF DONE INSTANTLY VIA SLACK**\n\nExisting platforms are a maze. You need to dig through 7 layers of UI with a shovel to get anything done.\n\nWith Central, you simply ask our bot, and it handles it for you (with your confirmation).\n\nIt’s like your company’s first head of HR/finance.\n\nOur customers love the ease of:\n\n* **Retrieving company info & docs:** Get company EIN, certificate of incorporation, W-9, etc.\n* **Updating employee info:** Adjust salaries, start dates, titles, etc.\n* **Accessing personal docs:** Find offer letters, paystubs, health insurance cards, W-2s etc.\n* **Tracking offers & payroll:** See when employees sign, onboard, and get paid.\n* **Understanding their paystubs:** Break down taxes, pay dates, and more.\n\n# ——\n\n# **🎁 START FOR FREE -** [www.centralhq.com](https://www.centralhq.com/?utm_source=launchyc)\n\n_10 mins to setup + we’ll do all the migration work_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81853&key=user_uploads/206328/66b08b5c-d351-471e-8ddf-f16a0403be18)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LID-central-payroll-benefits-for-startups-save-weeks-of-work-fines", "votes": 135, "created_at": "2024-07-01T19:57:33.995Z" } ] }, { "id": 29574, "name": "Superunit", "slug": "superunit", "former_names": [ "Unit IQ" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fbd00107f697b5f5493bc13c93f8896ad8eff46b.png", "website": "http://superunit.com", "all_locations": "Los Angeles, CA, USA", "long_description": "Superunit deploys AI voice and email agents to complete employment verifications for background check companies—faster, cheaper, and more compliant than internal teams or outsourced call centers.\r\n\r\nOur agents call and email employers, collect verification data, and log every interaction for audit and compliance. Customers are replacing manual workflows with Superunit to scale without adding headcount or compromising quality.\r\n\r\nWe work with background screeners and banks to process thousands of verifications per month.", "one_liner": "Faster, more profitable background checks with AI", "team_size": 5, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Operations", "launched_at": 1719276994, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "HR Tech", "Enterprise Software", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Operations" ], "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/superunit", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/superunit.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "Los Angeles", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/superunit-ai", "x_url": "https://x.com/SuperunitHQ", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fbd00107f697b5f5493bc13c93f8896ad8eff46b.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 505183, "full_name": "Peter Marler", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Peter, CEO of Superunit, leads his second venture after founding the VC-backed Robin Golf. His career spans roles at Facebook, Quantifind, and NBCUniversal. He holds an MBA from Stanford.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/marler/", "x_url": "https://x.com/peter_marler", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/128aed7e2f70a6ef654af36c0e3af7dd4b475faa.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1869331, "full_name": "Zach Yellin-Flaherty", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Zach is a software engineer who spent years building payments infrastructure at Stripe and Index. He hold two Computer Science degrees from Stanford.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachary-yellin-flaherty/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/1dc96966b3303bac2296834bae778889bc200b46.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 97430, "title": "Superunit: We automate the most soul-crushing job in background checks", "tagline": "Employment verifications, end-to-end.", "body": "Hi we’re Peter and Zach from Superunit.\n\n**TL;DR:** Background screeners and banks have used us to process over 70,000 employment verifications. Our platform handles handles phone calls, emails, faxes, and compliance end-to-end.\n\n**❌ Employment verifications are soul-crushing, but necessary**\n\nEvery time someone gets hired, applies for a mortgage, or needs a background check, someone has to verify they actually worked where they said they did.\n\nThis means millions of phone calls per year to HR/payroll/admin departments. Leaving voicemails. Sending emails. Sending faxes (yes, in 2026). Waiting days for callbacks. Calling back. Getting transferred. Leaving more voicemails.\n\nBackground screeners and banks hire armies of people to do this. It's tedious, expensive, and the turnover is bad because the job is mind-numbing.\n\n**💡 What we built**\n\nSuperunit handles employment verifications end-to-end. We do contact research, call HR/payroll/admin departments, navigate phone trees, handle documents, send emails and faxes, and and publish the results back to your ERP.\n\n**🎬 See it in action**\n\n— Watch Ava Do an Employment Verification — \\\n\n\n— Check Out the Platform —\\\n[https://youtu.be/Z-s7F7sqbmE](https://youtu.be/iYKBcB-Y1Vo)\n\n**📊 Traction**\n\n* **65% results obtained**\n* **1 business day** average turnaround\n* **40+ customers** - Banks and background screening companies\n* **70,000 verifications processed**\n* **98% conversion rate** from pilot to full time\n* Two **top-10 background screeners signed**; all top 4 background screeners by revenue in active pipeline.\n\n**🔥 What customers say**\n\nOne customer: _\"If I have this technology, we will dominate the field.\"_\n\nA mortgage lender scaled their loan volume **20x** while keeping their verification team at just **2 people** - they avoided hiring 12 additional heads.\n\nAnother said: _\"You were a game-changer when we were in a really tight spot. We were growing quickly and losing customers because we couldn’t meet their expectations.\"_\n\n**🎯 But Why**\n\nWe pivoted a few months after demo day. We had been told by a product leader at Checkr that employment verifications were “soul crushing.”\n\nWe got curious.\n\nWe started building in January 2025, signed our first customer in March, signed a series C customer in April, signed a top-5 screener in September, signed our first mortgage lender shortly after, crossed 10k, then 50k, then 70k verifications processed, with many more to go!\n\n👥 **Team**\n\n[Zach Yellin-Flaherty](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachary-yellin-flaherty/) - CTO - ex-Stripe, ex-Index, Stanford BS/MS in CS\n\n[Peter Marler](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marler/) - CEO - 2x founder, ex-Facebook, ex-Quantifind, Stanford GSB\n\n**🙏 Our ask**\n\n* Are you doing employment verifications when hiring? Text me\n* Are you bored of people calling your team to get employment verifications? Text me\n* Play golf with people who work at mortgage lenders? Text me!\n\n**Phone:** (518) 207-5511\n\n**Email:** [peter@superunit.ai](mailto:peter@superunit.ai)\n\n👉 [superunit.ai](https://superunit.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PLS-superunit-we-automate-the-most-soul-crushing-job-in-background-checks", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2026-02-03T17:47:01.687Z" }, { "id": 82712, "title": "Superunit 💆🏼‍♂️ AI accounting agents for companies selling physical products", "tagline": "Effortlessly automate accounting, integrate inventory data, and eliminate financial statement errors", "body": "**🙈 TL:DR:** Companies selling physical products spend a fortune on accounting and are still left with incorrect financials because of inventory related complications. We fix that.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82712&key=user_uploads/505183/a2949d25-3407-403c-88d4-f6f9beff9ce7)\n\n🥵 **PROBLEM**: Companies selling physical products struggle with accounting and inventory operations. Current bookkeeping methods rely heavily on manual input and are often disconnected from accurate inventory data. This leads to mistakes in important financial figures like cost of goods sold (COGS), inventory value, margins, and cash flow. As a result, businesses spend a lot of time and money only to gain an inaccurate picture of their financial health. These inaccuracies lead to poor budgeting decisions, loan rejections, failed fundraising, non-compliance, and frequent cash flow crises.\n\n😍 **OUR SOLUTION:** A powerful AI accounting agent built specifically for companies selling physical products.\n\nOur platform automates bookkeeping and completes a variety of crucial product operations tasks such as calculating COGS, optimizing POs, and conducting contribution margin analysis with only a few clicks.\n\nAll financial and inventory data is connected and written back to QBO or your ERP, eliminating financial statement errors, saving dozens of hours per month, and thousands on accounting costs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82712&key=user_uploads/505183/56544b6d-0310-4c0e-a398-09bdb3945f94)\n\n💡 **THE INSPIRATION:** As the founder of Robin Golf, [Peter](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marler/) encountered this problem frequently. Doing the financials required an expensive team and the books were always inexplicably wrong. As as a result, the company was underwritten for debt and equity incorrectly, wasn’t able to make proper budgeting decisions, couldn’t forecast inventory needs, couldn’t optimize channel mix, and was blindsided by cash shortfalls.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82712&key=user_uploads/505183/46551b06-df3e-4d8c-bc8e-46a92a333bf8)\n\n👬 **THE TEAM**: [**Peter Marler**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marler/) (CEO) was the co-founder/CEO of Robin Golf, a venture backed, multichannel golf equipment company. Prior to that he held roles at Facebook, Quantifind, and NBCUniversal. He is a graduate of Stanford GSB.\n\n[**Zach Yellin-Flaherty**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachary-yellin-flaherty/) (CTO) previously built payments infrastructure at Stripe and Index. He holds two Computer Science degrees from Stanford.\n\n🙏🏼 **ASK:** We’re onboarding customers and looking to grow! We’d love intros to CEOs/CFOs/COO of companies selling physical products - ecomm brands, wholesalers, retailers, dropshippers.\n\n🔗 **LINKS:** Connect with us on these platforms in the meantime!\n\n[**Company Linkedin**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/unit-iq/)\n\n[**Peter Linkedin**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marler/)\n\n[**Zach Linkedin**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachary-yellin-flaherty/)\n\n[**Peter Twitter**](https://x.com/peter_marler)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LW4-superunit-ai-accounting-agents-for-companies-selling-physical-products", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2024-08-05T01:44:25.456Z" } ] }, { "id": 29704, "name": "Modus", "slug": "modus", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8658330ee98ad5bd743668f353f13f0f8106bd38.png", "website": "https://himodus.com", "all_locations": "Austin, TX, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Modus helps companies hire and retain only the people they need instead of becoming bloated messes. Modus connects your HRIS, ATS, and analyzes extensive data across your organization so leaders can detect, inspect, and correct their workforce plans - without relying on spreadsheets or complex systems. \r\n \r\nLin experienced these challenges firsthand as a VP BizOps at HashiCorp, scaling from 100 employees to IPO, while Chris and Amar faced similar issues scaling 40+ person teams as a fractional CTO. They’re motivated by the belief that companies should have the least number of employees possible. 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", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/linling1", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/linnyisms", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4339b606c67dcd01176017e64c9bad3a0ae70a3f.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 83088, "title": "Modus: Headcount management to save costs as you scale", "tagline": "We help companies hire and retain only the people they need without the unnecessary bloat.", "body": "[Modus](https://www.himodus.com) is headcount management that helps companies never over-hire as they scale. Modus brings Finance, HR, and Hiring Managers to detect, inspect, and correct their workforce plan in one unified workflow.\n\nToday, much time is wasted reconciling headcount across departments and exporting across disparate systems. Incomplete and outdated data adds to the pain. Companies overhire, then fire. Cycle perpetuates. Bloat and inefficiencies persist.\n\n[Lin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/linling1/) experienced these pains directly as VP of BizOps at HashiCorp, scaling from 100 to 2500 through IPO. Modus was founded on the belief that companies should have the fewest employees possible.\n\n# \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83088&key=user_uploads/1899616/a1595755-bf0e-4166-a296-2badb2dcff54)\n\n# 🤯 **The Problem: Headcount planning and reporting remains manual and painful**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83088&key=user_uploads/1899616/0dd981e5-f59d-40ec-8ee8-53782bb12622)\n\nOverhiring in tech has led to over 200,000 layoffs, costing companies billions. Workforce costs account for 70-80% of a company’s expenses, yet companies still make workforce decisions in error-prone, manual spreadsheets with incomplete data. Re-orgs, department changes add to the pain. Reconciliation is messy and time-consuming. Accuracy suffers. The cycle perpetuates. As Taylor Swift might say, _“I’ve seen this film before, and I didn’t like the ending.”_\n\n# 🪄 **Our Solution: AI-powered headcount management**\n\nModus integrates with your existing HRIS and ATS systems, using AI to help you detect anomalies, inspect, and correct your workforce plan.\n\nWith Modus:\n\n❌ Overhiring\\\n❌ Layoffs\\\n❌ Incomplete data \\\n❌ Useless meetings \\\n✅ Hire and retain only the people you need\\\n**✅** Increase visibility\\\n**✅** Collaborate off a single source of truth\\\n**✅** Save costs as you scale\n\nThe more Modus learns, the more it streamlines and automates your headcount management processes at scale.\n\n# 🙋🏻‍♀️**The Ask**\n\n**Share this post!**\n\nKnow anyone in your network managing headcount, bogged down by spreadsheets? A VP in Finance, HR, or Operations? Please share this post (or the blurb below).\n\n* _Modus is headcount management to save costs as you scale. With the help of AI, our software analyzes extensive data across your organization, helping you remove the bloat and correct your workforce plan – all in one unified workflow. Founders are Lin (ex-HashiCorp), Amar (ex-Finfare), and Chris (ex-OpenGov, 2x founder) with combined experience scaling companies from 0 to 1, to $8B+, and through IPO. Contact _[_lin@himodus.com_](mailto:lin@himodus.com)_ for a demo and trial._\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83088&key=user_uploads/1899616/63aaef2e-9c70-4e4e-a022-617e76385024)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lc8-modus-headcount-management-to-save-costs-as-you-scale", "votes": 60, "created_at": "2024-08-15T16:36:11.526Z" } ] }, { "id": 29790, "name": "YouShift", "slug": "youshift", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5a22f1efd256331a2e5ea299a5c6ecd931817254.png", "website": "https://www.you-shift.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "YouShift uses AI to automate hospital shift scheduling, replacing legacy software and eliminating the need for full-time schedulers. 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Schedulers and physicians spend hours adjusting shifts and then manually transferring data between disconnected systems, wasting time, increasing errors, and creating inefficiencies.\n\nBad scheduling impacts **hospital efficiency, staff well-being, and patient care** — a problem that healthcare simply can't afford.\n\n# **The Solution: AI scheduling that works for everyone**\n\nUnlike traditional scheduling tools, **we don’t just digitize spreadsheets — we replace them with an intelligent system that optimizes scheduling** for both staff and hospitals.\n\n\n\n# **Scheduling is just the beginning…**\n\nWe're not stopping at scheduling. Our vision is to build the **all-in-one healthcare workforce management system** — think **Rippling for healthcare**. This includes:\n\n* Payroll & time tracking\n* Credentialing & compliance\n* Hiring, staffing analytics & workforce optimization\n\n# **The Backstory: Why we’re building this**\n\nWe’ve seen this problem firsthand — we all grew up seeing **doctors in our family** who have struggled with chaotic schedules, last-minute changes, and burnout. Hearing their frustrations made us realize how **outdated the system is**, and we knew technology could do better.\n\nWhile still undergrads at Harvard, we decided to team up and tackle this problem. Now, more than 1000 doctors across Europe and the US use YouShift to create their schedules.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88083&key=user_uploads/1884173/df3b1762-ce6d-45dc-8c96-42423fc5be40)\n\n**Our Ask**\n\nWe’re looking to connect with **hospital leaders and medical teams** struggling with scheduling.\n\nIf you or someone in your network deals with scheduling challenges, let’s talk! 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We free up 80% of recruiters' time and see time-to-fill drop to as low as 2 days, which avoids costly downtime.\n\n\n\n### **Problem**\n\n# **Recruiters are drowning. Candidates aren’t happy.**\n\nRecruiters / Talent acquisition managers have a mountain of admin/screening work to find the right talent quickly. They often get 100s or 1,000s of (mostly irrelevant) applications for each job opening.\n\nWhen recruiters are drowning, quality, experience, and speed suffer. Lack of quality talent can cause downtime and lost revenue. Candidates suffer because they lack transparency & speed, leading to a poor candidate experience.\n\n### \n\n### **Opportunity**\n\n# **Customer-facing roles are the most underserved**\n\nOur focus is on customer-facing roles (anyone that interacts with customers). This covers roles ranging from CSRs, customer success managers, and sales associates to healthcare professionals and maintenance & repair staff. They need a mix of technical knowledge, communication skills, and EQ to be effective in their roles, which today is assessed purely by humans in an HR pre-screen. This is the most underserved sector in the recruiting space, bogged down by antiquated tools and manual admin work. They’re also the largest population of workers, making up 60% of jobs or \\~100M people.\n\n### \n\n### **Solution**\n\n# **Automate the recruiting process and free up valuable time**\n\nWe evaluate all inbound applications against the custom criteria for the role to surface the best matches. Our AI interviewer, Eve, then conducts live voice screening calls with top candidates - saving recruiters from spending their time on initial screens while removing human bias from the process. These 15-20 minute conversations bring resumes to life, highlighting important traits like communication skills and EQ (both of which are critical for customer-facing roles).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85204&key=user_uploads/1834517/ccfdae7e-945d-4512-b9f7-fad2301f073f)\n\nCandidates tell us they feel more comfortable talking with our voice AI interviewer than humans. They are less nervous and can more openly share their experiences.\n\nSymphony then handles all needed admin work, coordinating with hiring managers and candidates to schedule the next interview.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85204&key=user_uploads/1834517/a2856a65-43b8-4d1c-9092-d99864160261)\n\nWe integrate with all major ATS systems to make it easy for our customers to get started with us.\n\n### \n\n### **About the founders**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85204&key=user_uploads/1834517/8f98c53a-2cbd-4f49-8802-d6b53c3132cd)\n\nWe first met when Murtaza was Shobhit’s RA freshman year at Georgia Tech (go Jackets!). We’ve been friends for over 10 years and grew up just a few miles away from each other in Georgia.\n\nWe left our startup jobs about a year ago. Murtaza was VP of growth at Tractable (high-growth Series E computer vision startup) and EM at McKinsey. 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Here’s why:\n\n* Slow response times from lawyers (1-3 business days at least)\n* No help on complex compliance requirements after visa approval\n* Knowledge transfer and communication done via email or janky web forms\n* Confusing questionnaires or document checklists\n\n### **The Solution**\n\nWe help US employers spend as little time as possible worrying about H-1Bs and how to be compliant. Here’s how:\n\n* Fast online data intake process with AI-powered document intake that auto-fills your application\n* Easy to follow tooltips and comprehensive FAQ \n* Automated H-1B compliance for you and your team even after H-1B approval\n* An **experienced immigration lawyer** handles and reviews each individual case with the same level of scrutiny as a law firm\n* Fast turnaround time for legal questions\n* We use english, no legal jargon\n\n### **Moving forward**\n\nH-1Bs are just the beginning. We’ve already started working on expanding our offering to help both consumers and businesses with other types of visas such as O-1s, Fs, Ks and TNs. The US immigration service market isn’t built for the 21st century, and we believe by using a mix of AI and professionals in the loop we can change that.\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\n**Know someone who is hiring or has hired H-1B workers?** Whether it’s a startup, SMB, enterprise, university, or nonprofit, we’d love an introduction! You can email us at [**rahul@getgale.app**](mailto:rahul@getgale.app).\n\nWe’d also appreciate it if you could share this post, or our demo video and follow us on [**LinkedIn**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/galeapp) to stay updated on our journey!\n\n### **Team**\n\nRahul (CEO), Rishabh (CTO), and Haokun (CPO) have been building together since middle school and later studied at the University of Waterloo. 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Master's degree in Statistics at LSE.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuelsmeys/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/966e397c46b42f03d2d4ab5edad7d8c25df0da2d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 111818, "title": "BDR", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/spott/jobs/HGqPlMG-bdr", "location": "New York, NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$160K - $220K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 111819, "title": "Customer Success Manager", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/spott/jobs/m0vHaIl-customer-success-manager", "location": "New York, NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Support", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$140K - $200K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 99581, "title": "Spott: The AI workspace for agency recruiters", "tagline": "Outp(l)ace everyone", "body": "**TL;DR** \\\nSpott is the AI-native ATS/CRM for recruiting & staffing agencies. We are the modern alternative to Bullhorn and Loxo. We offer an all-in-one, AI-native system that truly understands your data and helps you act on it. This enables you to make more placements, faster.\n\nHundreds of recruitment agencies worldwide, from executive search firms to temp agencies of all sizes, already made the switch.\n\n\n\n**📉** **Problem**\\\nRecruiting is a $1T+ industry, yet the most widely used recruitment platforms were built 20 years ago. They were never built for AI and have shown a clear lack of innovation, which has led to a growing reliance on add-on functionality. Most of today’s \"AI features\" are just layers on top of outdated systems that can’t properly understand, update, or act on data. This is despite the enormous potential AI has in recruitment.\\\n\\\n**📈 Solution**\\\nWe built Spott from scratch in the AI era. It captures all your data, understands the meaning behind it, and can act on it. 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No add-ons required.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99581&key=user_uploads/2229948/d5bf76a4-6589-4a1f-9d97-9dafe14a3329)\n\nBook a demo at [Spott.io](http://Spott.io)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pu9-spott-the-ai-workspace-for-agency-recruiters", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2026-04-08T21:02:09.556Z" }, { "id": 87367, "title": "Spott: AI agents for recruiting firms", "tagline": "Supporting recruiters to focus on human interactions and increase placements", "body": "**TL;DR** \\\nSpott is building AI agents for recruiting firms to replace legacy recruiting platforms like Bullhorn. Today, headhunters use our first agent to generate detailed candidate presentation reports in their template within minutes, using data they already own.\n\n[Spott video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w3Ae-KDHEU)\n\n**📉Problem**\n\nHeadhunters create detailed reports for every candidate they propose to a company at the end of their search process. Manually writing these reports from scratch can take several hours, while most of the required inputs are readily available in their recruitment platform (think CV, cover letter, job description, interview notes). Similar tasks such as rewriting job descriptions and CVs are time and labor-intensive, adding up to \\~10% of the total workload. These tasks primarily involve converting raw information into standardized formats, which is time-consuming and slows down the hiring process.\n\n**📈Solution**\\\nSpott's candidate report writing agent streamlines this process by ingesting CVs, job descriptions, and interview notes to generate polished drafts in seconds. You can import recordings of in-person conversations and link transcripts from Zoom or Teams meetings to quickly create an 80% complete draft. Our context-rich editor, powered by AI, helps you efficiently finalize your report in minimal time. What sets Spott apart from ChatGPT and comparable solutions is the exceptional quality of its reports, the anonymized processing of sensitive client data, and the ability to export directly to your custom Word or PowerPoint templates. Our solution allows exec search recruiters to truly create reports in minutes rather than hours.\n\n**Founders**\\\nFounders [Manu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuvanderveeren/), [Samuel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuelsmeys/), and [Lander](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lander-degr%C3%A8ve/) bring recruiting expertise from McKinsey, BCG, and Bain. There, we saw clients struggle with legacy systems and realized AI-powered solutions could prove a transformative growth lever in executive search. Our goal: build the recruitment platform for the next generation of executive search firms.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87367&key=user_uploads/2229948/50385b80-397b-40ab-9ea7-d0da64422aff)\n\nContact us at [manu@spott.io](mailto:manu@spott.io)\\\nLearn more at [spott.io](http://spott.io)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mj9-spott-ai-agents-for-recruiting-firms", "votes": 27, "created_at": "2025-02-03T01:31:08.785Z" } ] }, { "id": 31011, "name": "Openroll", "slug": "openroll", "former_names": [ "Compensara" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e85636cc8d85e40e183c3547b34d3f05a5aa19c6.png", "website": "https://www.openroll.com", "all_locations": "Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden", "long_description": "Openroll is an AI-powered workspace for people and finance teams.\r\n\r\nOpenroll lets teams automate recurring work and run fully auditable workflows across their systems.\r\n\r\nCompensation, headcount, and budgeting in one platform.\r\n\r\nLearn more at https://www.openroll.com", "one_liner": "The AI workforce for People and Finance teams", "team_size": 4, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1758664179, "tags": [ "B2B", "Productivity", "HR Tech", "Enterprise Software", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "Sweden", "Europe" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/openroll", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2025/openroll.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "Stockholm", "country": "SE", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/openroll/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e85636cc8d85e40e183c3547b34d3f05a5aa19c6.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1762740, "full_name": "Mattias Lindell", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Mattias is the CEO and co-founder of Openroll, where he is building the agentic platform for People and Finance teams. 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Openroll ends that. Our AI agents reveal exactly how competitors pay – company by company, role by role – and guide leaders through salary decisions in real time.\n\nEarly customers are already closing candidates they used to lose, retaining their best people, and seeing 3X ROI in week one and six-figure P&L impact.\n\nKnow any tech People/HR leaders, CFOs, or CEOs? Let’s connect: [mattias@openroll.com](mailto:mattias@openroll.com)\n\nhttps://youtu.be/WfrVYtrUWmM\n\n**Problem**\n\nImagine playing chess without seeing the board.\n\nThat’s how companies set pay today. Salaries decide who joins, who stays, and who leaves – yet leaders still move blindly.\n\nIn fast-moving markets, the stakes are extreme. 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We're building Sona8.\\\nAt BCG and McKinsey we often interviewed a few dozen people, hired interpreters and came back with a deck. The processes that were written down were never the lived processes and a few dozen interviews never gave us the full picture.\\\n\\\n**How it works**\n\n* **Choose what you want to improve or automate.** Pick a question and the people to survey. This could be about sales quoting or mapping processes before implementing AI.\n* **Survey employees with AI voice agents.** Employees talk to our voice agent about their work, in their own language. The agent asks follow-up questions to understand the problems they describe.\n* **Use the findings and check progress.** See themes across interviews by department, get process maps, and ask again later to see what changed.\n\n\\\n**Already live**\\\nWe’ve completed more than 10,000 employee interviews and signed one of the top three consulting firms.\\\n\\\n**Where this is going** \\\nCompanies will try a lot of AI agents and automation tools in the next few years. Each one needs to know how the work is done before it changes anything, and most of that isn't written down. Sona8 creates infrastructure for AI automation tools. Over time we are building a live context graph of workflows by reading the systems a company already uses and connecting them to what employees say. \\\n\\\n**Who it’s for**\\\nSona8 is for corporate development and transformation teams in enterprises, and the consulting firms supporting them. Reach out if you want to understand and improve how work gets done, roll out AI, or build AI tools that understand real-world workflows.\\\n**👉 [Book a demo](https://sona8.com/book-demo) / [anton@sona8.com](mailto:anton@sona8.com)**\n\n\\\n**Team**\n\n* [Anton Hantel (CEO):](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anton-hantel/) ex BCG, MIT MBA (dropped out)\n* [Thilo Tamme (CPO): ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ttamme/)ex BCG X, TUM Conversational AI PhD (dropped out)\n* [Madeleine Malmsten (CTO):](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmalmsten/) ex McKinsey QuantumBlack\n* [Jakob Schepers (Founding Engineer):](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakob-schepers/) TUM CS Master's\n* [Niklas Schneider (Founding Account Executive): ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikschneider/) ITONICS, Maastricht SBE", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/VMv-sona8-ai-voice-agents-surveying-employees-about-their-work", "votes": 52, "created_at": "2026-10-09T14:30:04.447Z" } ] } ]