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To add to that, trucks are expected to drive 57% more miles in the coming years to keep up with demand.\n\n### **But aren’t we expecting driverless trucks to solve this?**\n\nTo some extent yes, but fully driverless long haul solutions has its own constraints, new costs, new risks and require **major** operational changes to how freight is moved today (i.e. point to point, direct to destination). Driverless freight needs to be routed via hubs → 2x stops, 2x handoffs and offers limited operational flexibility / geographical reach. Most small and medium carriers need operational flexibility + geographical reach.\n\nSo if we look at driverless trucks as a tool, its clear they are necessary, but we need complementary solutions that seamlessly work for most.\n\n### **The solution**\n\nEngineer autonomy such that it makes our existing drivers most productive and happy. So, we are building autonomy software that’s designed from the ground up to tag-team _with_ human drivers.\n\nWe offer our solution as an end-to-end service: autonomous ready freight search, automated driving in service zones, effortless payments.\n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/ohwis2MAaEYhyFZ_A7gxRCUgO6acSak3BzAD5rBNX5T5BDSrnaXTC9vZ9wx9U1AoU0H-rdrt5mfSS5_nxMY0m6f2JWq9UBQApkSzt_TmPPI_1nkfuc6TnjW0JwEa68r6pRSR98LHKrDAu1HHVTRRHrKlhLsj2wArEAh0aZkZfol97pO2knImqZliUBBlPw)\n\nFor truck drivers, having access to our software is like having access to a **second driver that drives on-demand.** This helps increase:\n\n* ⏳ **Productivity**\n* 🚛 **Trucking capacity**\n* 💰 **Driver and fleet revenue**\n\n### **How we are different?**\n\nWe’re _not_ building human-less trucks for a few large carriers.\n\nWe’re building the **most practical and driver friendly** autonomous system to serve 90% of the trucking industry\n\n* Using existing team driving model truckers are familiar with\n* Delivering both operational flexibility and geographical reach\n* _No need for_ new infrastructure, process changes or multiple hand-offs\n* In sync with current US [federal policy](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/04/04/fact-sheet-the-biden-administrations-unprecedented-actions-to-expand-and-improve-trucking-jobs/) related to trucker jobs\n* Similar monetary _savings_ for carriers, as driverless.\n\nOur tech stack’s architecture leverages advances in modern AI, making our dev 10x more capital efficient.\n\n### **About the founders:**\n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/X6gKAXbkWpIjj_XRuOC_kTd3henCDJAnZNraOJGg1v6OfearPdJ1rUGqM9gtReiDo9PzeAnXXMvS6bRr-6ArDK_N4PoUazl5BK2N1pPmuPwiBPHSzKwQT9Grx8wyb2CszzCyR-OrlqQNduBd8WtyaToOy2qBNLjMljgMxw3-Mblqivn7RclfFEcCgOj0QA)\n\n[Addwiteey](https://www.linkedin.com/in/addwiteey-chrungoo-06693320/) met [Sandesh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandeshgwd/) at Caterpillar where they helped bring the world’s largest autonomous trucks into production. 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We consolidate multiple back office functions such as compliance, payroll, and recruiting, so trucking fleets can manage their entire workforce in one place.\n\n### **WHY is Rippling (or Gusto, ADP) insufficient for trucking?** \n\nCompliance is uniquely challenging for trucking fleets because:\n\n1. The majority of their workforce consists of truck drivers who are regulated by the Department of Transportation (DOT).\n2. Due to the nature of the labor market, there is a high volume of truck driver turnover within fleets, resulting in a considerable amount of administrative overhead.\n3. In addition to personnel, they also need to manage a number of expensive assets, such as trucks, trailers, etc.\n\nGeneric HR solutions (e.g. Rippling, Gusto, ADP, etc.) are insufficient for trucking fleets because they are not designed to address these distinctive needs. 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That's the same performance improvement you'd get from hopping in a DeLorean to 2035 and coming back with batteries from the future. But it's available today - our tech has been derisked by testing supported by the National Science Foundation, the US Air Force, and the Australian Government. \r\n\r\nOur first product is a simple fixed-wing large cargo drone that is efficient enough to remove the \"green penalty\" currently associated with electric aviation. That's a step change from today's conventional platforms. \r\n\r\nFirst generation electric aircraft are heavy, expensive, complicated, and limited in terms of range and payload. In the entire history of aviation, that's never been a winning formula. When everyone already has access to the same batteries, materials, and motors, what really makes the difference? The answer is revolutionary aerodynamics, but in a form factor that suits today's operations and manufacturing. \r\n\r\nBeyond our own drone product line, we have partners across Aerospace helping incorporate our tech into their products. 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After 6 prototypes and a series of record-breaking flights in Australia, the performance and market data wasn’t adding up, **so the company undertook a pivot.** With backing from the National Science Foundation and the US Air Force we developed our Aerodynamic Flow Control and immediately felt stronger pull from customers for our ultra-efficient cargo drone - one that can operate from any short airfield, anywhere. The Australian Government has funded our $2m project to develop a full flight demonstrator of our cargo drone by 2026, which will also serve as our first saleable product to early adopters in Defense and commercial operators. " }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "Imagine a world where literally all short distance flight is electrified, quiet, direct, and low cost. Taking advantage of cutting-edge high lift technologies that we have government funding to develop, a much broader range of applications is on the horizon as we aim to be a global leader in large capacity drones as well as a high-value developer of key tech that can be used by every company pursuing electrified flight. 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After his PhD on the aerodynamics of low altitude flight, he led the aero/range team at EV startup Canoo from early through SPAC, and conducted funded research programs with NASA, Tesla, and Joby Aviation. He designed 2 solar-electric vehicles which set international land speed records. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-doig/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a31c91732204ac6b1751cdf7365ad61022f47494.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 65921, "title": "Seaflight ✈️ We make the world's most efficient airplanes", "tagline": "We use aerodynamic magic to make electric aircraft good enough to take over aviation", "body": "Hi everyone, Graham here, founder at Seaflight Technologies. We developed an aerodynamic technology for any fixed-wing aircraft that makes it possible to carry more payload, over longer distances - perfect for electric aviation to overcome the limitations of today’s batteries. Our first product is a large cargo drone called AURAE. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65921&key=user_uploads/881099/5f0e8973-d450-4958-aff1-e4820d36eae7)\n\n\n### **BATTERIES ARE NOT VERY GOOD**\n\nAviation is incredibly hard to decarbonize, and first generation electric aircraft are proving to be heavy, expensive, complicated, and limited in range. That formula has never been successful in the history of aviation. Could we just wait for better batteries? Not great - emissions keep rising, and progress is incremental - a few % improvement each year means a few % more range... What about better motors, or lighter structures? There’s a few % still on the table there too, sure.\n\nBut if you could _double_ the aerodynamic efficiency, you could double the range that’s possible with today’s batteries. \n\nSeaflight uses Aerodynamic Flow Control. It’s tech that suits today’s operations, manufacturing approaches, and form factors, and we’ve de-risked it to the point where it’s ready to fly. \n\n### **CONTROL THE AIR**\n\n**Thanks to over $2m in backing from the National Science Foundation, the US Air Force, and the Australian Government**, we’ve been able to develop and test our Aerodynamic Flow Control - an active system that pulls more air over the wing when we need it (takeoff and landing), but otherwise adds almost no mass or drag to the aircraft (unlike adding extra propulsion). \n\nBecause we triple the lift only when we need it, we can have smaller wings. Smaller wings mean less drag in cruise, which means much less energy used. \n\n**This is key enabling technology to make electric flight viable.** \n\nOur upcoming large scale flight demonstrator will take to the skies over Australia in early 2026, with a production version to follow. \n\nBest of all, this is universal technology. Every plane has wings… Seaflight’s tech can go on every plane. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65921&key=user_uploads/881099/4b0649c0-2cb1-47d2-900d-a8b8791842cf)\n\n\n### **HOW DID WE GET HERE**\n\nWill Sutton and Graham Doig founded Seaflight Technologies heading into the S22 batch. We originally worked on ultra-low-altitude “ground effect” flight. After 6 prototypes and a series of world-first flight achievements, we realized the numbers didn’t add up to viable economics. After pivoting to aerodynamic flow control and developing the new IP, including a test campaign at Caltech, it’s time to make the AURAE flight demonstrator a reality and break some world records for electric flight. \n\n### **About the founder :**\n\nGraham Doig has a PhD in aerodynamics and has worked on electric mobility for 19 years, including 2 world land speed records. He led the aero/range team at EV startup Canoo, and was a Lockheed Martin-endowed professor of engineering in a past life, working on projects with the likes of Tesla and NASA. \n\n### **Lastly, Asks 🙏**\n\nDo you know anyone involved in **logistics** that has already been looking at or using drone technology?\n\nDo you know any **wizards in electric or autonomous mobility** who are looking for a bonkers new professional challenge?", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H9F-seaflight-we-make-the-world-s-most-efficient-airplanes", "votes": 39, "created_at": "2022-09-08T07:48:51.950Z" } ] }, { "id": 26803, "name": "Tank Payments", "slug": "tank-payments", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4db7a5077a335ed33cdb02645791bdc760dba1ca.png", "website": "https://www.tankpayments.com/", "all_locations": "Austin, TX, USA", "long_description": "Tank Payments is building modern financial infrastructure for the trucking industry. We offer payables automation software for logistics businesses that make hundreds of payments to trucking businesses every day. For trucking businesses, we provide a best-in-class banking platform, designed to meet the unique financial needs of the trucking sector.", "one_liner": "Modern financial infrastructure for the trucking industry.", "team_size": 10, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech -> Payments", "launched_at": 1659420849, "tags": [ "Fintech", "SaaS", "Payments", "Logistics", "Supply Chain" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech", "Payments" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tank-payments", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/tank-payments.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Austin", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/82513538", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tank-payments", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4db7a5077a335ed33cdb02645791bdc760dba1ca.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": 765179, "full_name": "Dane Cook", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Dane is a co-founder of Tank Payments. Prior to Tank, Dane managed product teams at Amazon. Before that, he worked at a startup building a semantic knowledge graph and a startup that sold data to hedge funds. Dane started his career at a Wall Street investment bank.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dane-cook-b8402922/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/danecooked", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/77b7f0d48a431bc1443e57f1a0ded1b6a471ca48.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1086453, "full_name": "Jad Rahbany", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Jad is a co-founder of Tank Payments. Prior to Tank, Jad was a Software Engineer at Amazon working on the Alexa AI team, and a Product Manager at Google and Graphiq (acq. by Amazon). Originally from Lebanon, Jad graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Computer Science and a minor in Business.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jadrahbany/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/08edf98e6dfd34d9aae8d29b1fbcf81654799a93.jpg" }, { "user_id": 793427, "full_name": "Matthew Rybak", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Matthew Rybak is the co-founder of Tank Payments. Matthew heads factor business development and product at Tank. He started out in financial services (Citigroup), but quickly moved to a tech startup in Santa Barbara CA (FindTheBest/Graphiq), which was acquired by Amazon Alexa AI in 2017. Since departing Amazon, he has started a RE development firm, a website (Truckinfo.net), and Tank Payments. He earned a Bachelors and Masters in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewrybak/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/captainrybak", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/1eed17c86d493beb4042fed9177133676521db76.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 102422, "title": "Software Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tank-payments/jobs/AGM7jgV-software-engineer", "location": "Austin", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$120K - $165K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.25%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 102423, "title": "Senior Software Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tank-payments/jobs/ugnOzaS-senior-software-engineer", "location": "Austin", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$150K - $220K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.25%", "experience": "5+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Forbes 30 Under 30: Jad Rahbany", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/profile/jad-rahbany/?list=30under30-manufacturing-industry/", "date": "Dec 02, 2024" }, { "title": "Trucking fintech company Tank Payments nets economic empowerment prize - FreightWaves", "url": "https://www.freightwaves.com/news/trucking-fintech-company-tank-payments-nets-economic-empowerment-prize", "date": "Oct 19, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 65088, "title": "Tank Payments: The neobank built for trucking businesses", "tagline": "We get truckers paid faster.", "body": "We’re Dane, Jad, and Matt, and we’re excited to introduce Tank Payments.\n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\nWhen truckers haul loads, shippers stipulate 30 to 90 day payment terms, which is too long for many trucking companies that operate on thin margins. To access cash faster (1-3 days), trucking companies sell their invoices to financing companies called “factors” for a 2-5% fee. Many truckers end up paying up to $40 in fees per invoice to wire money from their factors if they need cash from their factors immediately, meaning that **some truckers give up close to 10% of their income to get access to the money they’ve already earned.**\n\nMoney movement in freight is not efficient, causing truckers to stitch together a variety of tools (Cash App, local commercial banks, factoring, fuel cards, and more) to manage their businesses. Even the business that pay truckers (e.g. factors) use dated payments infrastructure, exacerbating delays. This leaves an opportunity for software that addresses these financial needs in a way that’s purpose-built for the freight industry.\n\n## **✨ Our Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65088&key=user_uploads/793427/be064c4e-46a5-4172-8c84-dd10830f6b9a)\n\n**Tank Payments is a banking experience specifically designed for the freight industry, and its first feature allows truckers to get paid faster.** We give truckers instant access to their money by putting factors and truckers on the same financial infrastructure. Factoring companies partner with Tank because our infrastructure reduces their time spent on accounts payable, and helps them retain customers by offering a better funding experience.\n\nOver time, the Tank Payments will become the finance department for trucking SMBs, supporting the many unique financial requirements of freight businesses. We’ve pinpointed payroll, expense management, insurance, and P2P payments as areas of priority that our neobank is well-positioned to serve.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65088&key=user_uploads/793427/e85b3331-683f-4031-bd75-51747ce4bb4c)\n\nOur team worked together for the past 7 years, first at a startup (Graphiq, acq. 2017) and then at Amazon Alexa AI. We bring experience in financial services, data analytics, digital security, and natural language processing to a freight industry in the midst of a tech adoption boom.\n\n### **🙏 Asks**\n\n1. We would love to connect with founders and teams that have **experience embedding 1) payroll, 2) card rewards (e.g. fuel discounts), and 3) insurance into their software**.\n2. Tank wants to expand and distribute its neobank through entities that pay truckers, beyond factors. We want to learn more about how players like international freighters (e.g. Maersk), freight forwarding companies (e.g. Flexport), domestic shippers (e.g. Kroger’s Markets), and third-party logistics providers (e.g. C.H. Robinson) **perform payouts and if they could benefit from payment speed and/or coordination.**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gvo-tank-payments-the-neobank-built-for-trucking-businesses", "votes": 39, "created_at": "2022-08-03T05:00:27.064Z" } ] }, { "id": 26850, "name": "BiggerPicture", "slug": "biggerpicture", "former_names": [ "GetSett", "Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6639dccaea5b8ef9500bf764b86c635b323d7790.png", "website": "http://biggerpicture.co", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "BiggerPicture, Inc. runs the largest freight scheduling network in the industry.\r\n\r\nIt is a freight appointment network. 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Our AI-powered procurement agents:\n\n* Proactively email suppliers for order updates\n* Surface supply chain disruptions and extract supplier updates (like lead times & price updates) from emails\n* Save 20+ hours per week per team member\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82795&key=user_uploads/1376951/2c1d8412-6fe0-4a76-9d51-d461ec432b01)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82795&key=user_uploads/1376951/6000a50f-4441-40d4-afcb-470574a4b499)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82795&key=user_uploads/1376951/cf3b9f13-47b4-4d05-b8c2-bf5bb39865ec)\n\n## **Why It Matters**\n\nProcurement teams spend up to 80% of their time manually emailing suppliers for RFQs and PO update requests, leading to production delays and miscommunications that can result in millions or billions in lost sales. 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Terminal (_[_withterminal.com_](http://withterminal.com)_) is a Universal API for Telematics that makes it easy for these teams to integrate all of the top telematics platforms into their application without needing to worry about the complex underlying details._\n\n## 😰 **Problem**\n\nOur customers include (but are not limited to): insurance companies, fuel cards, invoice factorers, fleet management systems, digital freight brokers, load boards and transportation management systems. These folks need access to telematics data to support their end-users who are trucking companies and commercial fleets. Integrating telematics is often a must-have for them and there’s typically a direct correlation between their number of supported integrations and their sales closure rate.\n\nThe telematics market is fragmented, with hundreds of available platforms, each with their own type of integration (REST, SOAP, etc.), and documentation that is not always available. Companies that need to integrate into these vendors have large integration teams and are still unable to meet their customers' demand.\n\n## **🔮 Solution**\n\nTerminal's Universal API for Telematics enables companies to support all of the leading telematics platforms through a single integration. Similar to Plaid and Stripe - our mission is to increase the innovation velocity of transportation, logistics and fleet management through making fleet data more accessible.\n\nWe provide a white-labelled **User Interface** for fleet managers to grant access to telematics data like GPS, vehicle stats, driver hours and safety events.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72500&key=user_uploads/1241796/c7ebf48f-6014-4192-adc8-5eed6aef0aa9)\n\nOnce a fleet manager grants access, we extract, normalize, enrich, and sync the data for our customer. We also offer common data models, webhooks and access to raw telematics data to make it easy for customers to integrate. You can learn more about how it works in our [**API Documentation**](https://terminal.stoplight.io/docs/terminal).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72500&key=user_uploads/1241796/9b511455-57e1-4ced-a523-df860d3e67a8)\n\nCustomers also receive a **Support Portal** for managing their integrations, customer connections and data syncs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72500&key=user_uploads/1241796/42b9409c-1fbe-4a22-bb93-5d685c91598d)\n\n## **😇 Ask**\n\nIf you know any companies that currently integrate or are looking to integrate with telematics, please let us know at [**founders@withterminal.com**](mailto:founders@withterminal.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IrM-terminal-plaid-for-telematics", "votes": 62, "created_at": "2023-06-24T00:00:20.370Z" } ] }, { "id": 28880, "name": "FleetWorks", "slug": "fleetworks", "former_names": [ "FleetWorks", "Aproxy.AI", "Aproxy" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/09046cf3a124fcba9a014250e15826670a9a3e1b.png", "website": "https://fleetworks.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "FleetWorks is rebuilding the $1 trillion freight marketplace with AI.\r\n\r\nEvery year, companies spend over a trillion dollars moving freight across the U.S. — but the system for matching trucks with jobs is still slow, manual, and fragmented.\r\n\r\nFleetWorks is fixing that. 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We're Anna and Amy, sisters, co-founders, and the people who used to manually call 20 hotels for a single offsite.\n\nWe launched Nowadays on YC S23 as an \"AI copilot for event planning.\" Two years later, we want to show you what we actually built :)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103278&key=user_uploads/1347384/709549e5-8a04-4b5c-8557-76886ff145a0)\n\n# **TL;DR**\n\nNowadays is the AI-native platform for corporate retreats and meetings. Tell us what you need: we handle venue sourcing, contract negotiation, room blocks, attendee logistics, and post-event reconciliation. Fortune 500 teams and fast-growing startups use Nowadays to run offsites they're proud of, without burning out their ops team.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103278&key=user_uploads/1347384/53908cc7-1f81-4c15-afe7-5e0f11b7ad59)\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nPlanning a corporate offsite is a second job nobody signed up for.\n\nYour EA or ops lead spends weeks cold-emailing hotels, chasing RFPs, deciphering hotel contracts, and manually tracking room blocks in spreadsheets, only to do it all over again next quarter.\n\nThe vendors in this space are slow and expensive. Many of our customers have said the same thing: \"I got paired with a planner worse than myself.\"\n\nThe result: overpriced venues, cancellation penalties nobody caught, and an ops team that's exhausted before the event even starts. And for most enterprises, 65% of meeting spend is completely unmanaged, buried in expense reports, booked by admins outside any system.\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\nNowadays replaces the entire event planning stack with one AI-native platform, backed by a team that actually executes on your behalf. You tell us what you need. We handle the rest. Your team just shows up.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103278&key=user_uploads/1347384/67abf2bb-7640-4684-9bbf-c2bfb3a85d4a)\n\n## **1. AI-powered venue sourcing**\n\nDescribe your event, dates, headcount, vibe, budget, and we generate a curated shortlist of venues with proposals in 24 hours, not weeks. We have relationships with 400K+ hotels globally and we're a certified IATA travel agency.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103278&key=user_uploads/1347384/cedeb56d-e591-4eed-a1f6-b75d1eabf9b5)\n\n## **2. Contract negotiation, handled**\n\nWe negotiate directly with venues on your behalf, pushing on room rates, F&B minimums, attrition clauses, and cancellation terms. Our AI knows market rates from thousands of events and pushes back when hotels overcharge. Clients routinely save 20-30% vs. going direct.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103278&key=user_uploads/1347384/1156b34d-e9b9-4e1d-bc9a-7736a13901a9)\n\n## **3. Exclusive rates**\n\nWe aggregate demand across all our clients to secure rates individual companies can't get on their own.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103278&key=user_uploads/1347384/592bb426-c3e7-4457-ab13-860504f2fc0e)\n\n## **4. End-to-end logistics**\n\nRoom blocks, cutoff dates, rooming lists, supplier coordination, tracked in one place, managed by us. Nothing falls through the cracks while you're onsite.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103278&key=user_uploads/1347384/49563edb-1c99-4cc1-afbd-d590b691258f)\n\n## **5. Attendee registration and logistics**\n\nCustom registration forms, dietary needs, t-shirt sizes, room assignments, all in the platform. Your ops lead is not managing 12 spreadsheets.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103278&key=user_uploads/1347384/302d0f5a-5d1c-4b01-8cdc-32bffe7d01e8)\n\n## **6. Expert support**\n\nEvery client gets a dedicated Nowadays partner who knows your program, your preferences, and your budget. Our AI acts, and when you need a human, we're there.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103278&key=user_uploads/1347384/2afea73a-7a20-4209-b1b7-e2ded68d6a13)\n\n## **7. Post-event reconciliation**\n\nWe audit the final folio, catch billing errors, and close the loop financially. No more surprise charges two weeks after everyone's home.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103278&key=user_uploads/1347384/836fcdff-8837-4754-b447-cda95c651c11)\n\n## **Why we're different**\n\nEvery competitor you've heard of bolted AI onto infrastructure built decades ago. We built around AI from day one, which is why a small team can do at scale what legacy platforms need armies of account managers to do.\n\nOur AI calls venues in 22 languages, parses 50-page proposals into clean apples-to-apples comparisons, and routes every meeting through approval workflows, including the small ones EAs used to book on their own.\n\nOne Fortune 500 VP uncovered $18M in previously unmanaged meeting spend just by turning Nowadays on.\n\n# **Use Cases**\n\n* Quarterly offsites: for remote-first teams who need to meet all their new employees\n* Leadership retreats: for executive teams running strategic planning sessions\n* Sales kickoffs: with complex AV, F&B, and multi-day programming needs\n* International group travel: we handle the complexity of multi-country logistics end to end\n\n# **Where We Are Now**\n\nWe work with companies ranging from ones planning one epic kickoff a year to ones running thousands of meetings through the platform annually. Clients include Google, Airbnb, BlackRock, Anthropic, Pylon, and Mintlify.\n\nWe've run retreats from San Diego to Thailand, from 20-person leadership offsites to 500+ person company kickoffs.\n\nWe won both judges' choice and people's choice at Business Travel Show America 2025 and Business Travel Show APAC 2026, the two biggest innovation competitions in corporate travel.\n\n# **Why Now**\n\nCorporate travel spend is back and growing. But the infrastructure for planning events hasn't caught up. Legacy travel companies are slow, opaque, and not built for the modern distributed workforce. We're rebuilding this from scratch with AI at the core and a team that treats every event like it's our own.\n\n# **We're growing!!**\n\nWe're hiring across the board for founding team members, engineers, operators, and account executives who want to work on a problem that's genuinely hard and unsolved, with a really fun team in San Francisco.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103278&key=user_uploads/1347384/6174eee6-ebce-4c88-8465-b443a7584c55)\n\nSee open roles: [nowadays.ai/careers](https://nowadays.ai/careers)\n\n# **Get started**\n\nBook a call: [meetings-na2.hubspot.com/amy-yan](http://meetings-na2.hubspot.com/amy-yan)\n\nEmail us: [events@nowadays.ai](mailto:events@nowadays.ai)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103278&key=user_uploads/1347384/ee979b76-ff7a-42cc-99f8-18f3034a7d95)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Qrm-nowadays-ai-ai-native-platform-for-corporate-meetings-events", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2026-06-16T13:51:25.690Z" }, { "id": 73488, "title": "🎉 Nowadays: AI copilot for event planning", "tagline": "Take the hassle out of organizing corporate events", "body": "Hi everyone! We’re Anna and Amy, sisters and co-founders of [Nowadays](https://www.getnowadays.com/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73488&key=user_uploads/1374367/8abc167e-68ed-4057-ab7a-4f39e5f961ec)\n\n_From left to right:_\n\n[Anna](https://www.linkedin.com/in/annasun19): Software engineer from MIT, with PM & SWE experiences at DoorDash, Amazon, and Datadog. Organized events for 1300+ students as class president at MIT.\n\n[Amy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amysunyan/): 7+ years in strategy & operations roles at Google, Meta, and McKinsey. Organized events for 2000+ students as class president at Johns Hopkins.\n\n### **🧨 The Problem**\n\nCorporate event planners are bombarded with endless calls and emails while planning events. Stressing over tight schedules, planners are paying for full-time assistants or tools that cost them $100,000+ a year.\n\nWhat if we could transform this time-consuming and expensive process, making it not just simple, but enjoyable and efficient?\n\n### **🙌🏼 The Solution**\n\nMeet [Nowadays](http://getnowadays.com/), the first AI co-pilot for event planning. Recover hours lost to manual, repetitive tasks, and spend time focusing on what really matters.\n\n**Here’s how it works:** Share event details, and we'll automatically reach out to venues and vendors, manage emails and calls, and stay within budget.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73488&key=user_uploads/1347384/482a0ef3-b7e2-4569-bd63-3e15548b608d)\n\n_Want a venue with an onsite golf course? Done ✅_\n\n_Activities within walking distance? Booked ✅_\n\n_Keeping your costs under a certain budget? You got it ✅_\n\nBut that’s not all. Our AI doesn't just offer a one-size-fits-all approach. 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Follow along on our journey [here](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getnowadays/)!\n\n### Transform the way you plan events with **Nowadays** **🚀**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J7I-nowadays-ai-copilot-for-event-planning", "votes": 662, "created_at": "2023-07-27T14:15:04.307Z" } ] }, { "id": 29125, "name": "truemetrics", "slug": "truemetrics", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a6cd7b0f7663e8989ac828e2eeebe6e1968813d3.png", "website": "https://www.truemetrics.io/", "all_locations": "Berlin, Berlin, Germany", "long_description": "truemetrics helps logistics companies to find their customer's faster. By detecting and mapping entrances, we help GLS, a key logistics company in Europe, save 32.7 seconds on each delivery.\r\n\r\nThe way couriers navigate is broken.\r\n\r\n“You Have Arrived At Your Destination!” — or so Google Maps thinks. 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We were early engineers at Convoy (#12 and #50) and where there until the company was acquired by Flexport last Fall. Our broad and recent experience at Convoy has given us deep insights into the complexities of the freight industry. Manifold Freight is our response to simplifying a piece of the $800 billion freight industry. Our first target market is Asset Based Carriers - a radically underserved segment..\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79276&key=user_uploads/1114978/a0e2f5d7-5651-4bbd-8032-d0d267aed291)\n\n**The Underserved Large Asset-Based Carriers** 🚛\\\nOver the last decade, there has been a surge of tech investment into the freight industry (e.g., Convoy, Uber Freight) - but their focus has been maximizing the margin and capacity of smaller carriers (< 10 trucks). Medium to large Asset-Based Carriers, especially those operating with 50+ trucks, have seen minimal interest from tech despite representing more than \\~60% of the U.S. truckload capacity - roughly 2,600,000 trucks! ([data)](https://www.ooida.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Trucking-Facts.pdf)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79276&key=user_uploads/1114978/7b7c81c7-9724-4eba-adc4-bc4b21d048ab)\n\nNowhere is this more apparent than in the $100 billion spot freight market. Existing solutions don’t work well for medium and large Carriers. The spot freight market is fragmented across hundreds of load boards, thousands of brokers, and millions of shippers. For medium and large carriers, this fragmentation creates a logistical nightmare. Finding a single spot freight shipment requires a dispatcher to manually login, filter and compare each load against their fleet and availability. Sorting through thousands of emails, multiple load boards and making many time consuming phone calls.\n\nThe result? Dispatchers go the path of least resistance - large public load boards. They can’t take advantage of the much higher value, _shipper direct_ freight because it’s physically impossible to sort through them all every day. These public load boards take an 18-30% cut of the shipment price that otherwise could have gone to the carrier. For the average medium-sized carrier doing 50 spot loads a week, this represents almost $500,000 in lost yearly revenue (2,600 shipments x $700 × 24% = $462,280).\n\n**The Manifold Solution**\\\nManifold solves this problem by aggregating all available spot freight opportunities, including shipper direct spot freight, into one single dashboard. \n\nFinding and bidding on quality shipper direct freight is easier with Manifold than finding low quality loads on [DAT,](https://www.dat.com/) the current industry standard.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79276&key=user_uploads/1114978/9b466bfc-653b-4a74-8947-999518a12251)\n\n**Asks**\\\nIf you have connections in the freight industry; whether they be Carriers, Brokers, or Shippers. Send them our way! 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Our state-of-the-art remote teleoperation gives immediate efficiency gains, with our robot behavior models gradually taking over to reach full automation and drive costs down further. We’re starting with mobile order fulfillment, where a huge chunk of warehouse labor spend sits.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95475&key=user_uploads/1547615/e8add669-ff4f-4eaa-9579-da70973fc77b)\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzglTuRloCo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzglTuRloCo&t=1s)\n\n### ——————————————————————————————\n\n# **The timing**\n\nGeneral purpose robot **hardware has gotten 10x cheaper** in the past decade. And advancements in robot learning are helping automate **long-form, complex tasks**. **BUT** it’s still hard to achieve the **perfect human level success rates necessary** for deployment! The **opportunity lies in automating the shorter-form, easier-to-master tasks** that still have a level of complexity that made them impossible to automate in the past. 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It gets high throughput but costs tens of millions and requires an overhaul of warehouse space. 😢 **_HIGH COST_**_, 😊 **HIGH AUTOMATION**_\n\n\\- **AMR (Autonomous Mobile Robots)**: These robots carry shelves and goods around which reduces walking time. But they still require human picking. 😊 **_LOW COST_**_, 😢 **LOW AUTOMATION**_\n\n### ——————————————————————————————\n\n# **OUR SOLUTION**\n\n**We’ve created a 3 part embodied-AI platform that automates bin picking using off the shelf robots in brownfield deployments. 😊 _LOW COST, 😊 HIGH AUTOMATION_**\n\nhttps://youtu.be/UVmMSui2_FQ\n\nWith **ULTRON** (user-friendly low-latency **remote teleoperation** system) we **deploy first**, putting robots to use immediately in our customers’ operations and spinning up our data flywheel.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95475&key=user_uploads/1547615/6ddec526-7b14-48db-a5b1-387ea371943e)\n\nOur **WMS** (warehouse management software) **integration and** **orchestration** software routes orders from a warehouse’s WMS to our platform, instructing robots where to go and operators what to pick.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95475&key=user_uploads/1547615/583a510d-09f3-46e7-8b54-c44e0edc3e9b)\n\nOur autonomy stack **YGM** (Yondu General Manipulation) pushes the system to fully autonomous as we **gain more in-the-wild** experience. Over time the manipulation policy takes over more work and the operator is required less. YGM is responsible for:\n\n* Steering our robot policy to pick and place from the correct bins\n* Identifying how good a job it is doing and whether it is struggling so an operator can take over\n* Learning from new experiences and adapting to succeed in situations that it previously struggled in\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95475&key=user_uploads/1547615/663a0f0b-53ce-40b5-ad46-95980e70197b)\n\n_Operations in our partner warehouse_\n\n### ——————————————————————————————\n\n# Our Vision\n\nOur platform is **not limited to only helping us conquer bin picking**. Logistics warehouses still have many more repetitive-yet-slightly-complex tasks such as decanting, replenishing, and packing. And as **robot learning capabilities continue to grow**, our pipeline of _deploy→collect→refine→automate_ only increases in value. There will be **more brownfield robotics automation providers** for specific industries and increasingly complex tasks. They will need to integrate with their customers and spin up their own data flywheels. And the Yondu platform will be available for them so they can automate **any task** with **any robot**.\n\n### ——————————————————————————————\n\n# **Team**\n\nWe’ve gathered quite the team. Here are just a few of our talented members\n\n\\- **Michael Chen (CEO)** Ex-MIT Controls and Robotics\n\n\\- **Tahmid Jamal (CTO)** MIT AI & Aerospace\n\n\\- **Lianhao Yin (Head of Research)** MIT CSAIL Postdoc in Robotic Systems\n\n\\- **Jairo Maldonado (Teleop Lead)** Georgia Tech PhD in Robotic Prosthesis\n\n\\- **Mehul Kumar (Founding Researcher)** Industry veteran in VR, humanoids, simulations, and teleop\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95475&key=user_uploads/1547615/b5914757-4088-48a7-b88b-0252656f6300)\n\n### ——————————————————————————————\n\n# Ask\n\n\\- **3PLs**: If you are in charge of warehouse operations and think you’re spending more resources on a job than you _should_ be, **complain to us**!\n\n\\- **Robotics partner**: If you’re also in the robotics automation space and would like to use our platform, **let’s partner up**\n\n**Reach out to [founders@yonduai.com](mailto:hello@yonduai.com)**\n\n### ——————————————————————————————", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Opv-yondu-ai-enabling-the-robot-workforce-of-the-future", "votes": 58, "created_at": "2025-11-14T18:30:57.452Z" } ] }, { "id": 29478, "name": "Reform", "slug": "reform", "former_names": [ "Knowstory" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d1dc8f5914cad7c44e1fba45da40ae265dd9bfe2.png", "website": "https://www.reformhq.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "At Reform, we’re building a platform for building and managing AI agents that perform high-stakes operational work. Some of the most critical industries today run on outdated systems, spreadsheets, and manual processes - creating friction across every handoff, contract, and invoice. 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It’s [Saif](https://www.linkedin.com/in/saifabuhashish/), [Omar](https://www.linkedin.com/in/omarabuhashish/), and [Pradhit](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pradhit/) here to introduce you to [Reform](https://www.reformhq.com/)!\n\n🤓 **TL;DR**\n\nReform is the easiest way for dev teams to build modern logistics software fast. Logistics service providers use our pre-built components and APIs to build software that can automate tasks such as quoting, shipment creation, and customs clearance filing. \n\nOne of the largest freight forwarders in Latin America is using Reform to automate shipment creation and invoice processing.\n\n\\\n**❌ Problem**\n\nLogistics service providers rely on dated, archaic ERP and transportation management systems (TMS) to manage their operations. These systems are rigid, closed, and opinionated. Oftentimes, they require customization, and hence, the need for logistics service providers to hire development agencies to build bespoke customizations and internal tools on top of these systems to make them easier to work with. \n\nAn alternative these companies resort to is to build an internal system from scratch to fit their business needs. However, such an undertaking is long, costly, and is oftentimes a distraction from their core business.\n\n\\\n**⚒️ Solution**\n\n**Reform is the sweet spot between buying a generic off-the-shelf TMS and building one in-house**. Our APIs and pre-built components allow logistics service providers to build the modern transportation management system they need - faster, better, and without the maintenance overhead.\\\n\\\nOur first product is an AI-powered API suite that allows logistics service providers to build custom automations for mundane tasks related to their TMS. \\\n\\\nOur APIs are used to power automation use cases including:\n\n🚢 Shipment and quote creation\n\n👮 Customs clearance filing\n\n🏭 Warehouse order intake\n\n🧾 Invoice reconciliation\n\n\\\n⚙️ **How it works**\n\n**Eliminate manual document analysis:** Our customizable AI-powered data extraction API, purpose-built for the logistics industry, allows you to extract data with high accuracy from incoming emails and documents including commercial invoices, BOLs, packing lists, and more.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79036&key=user_uploads/1369382/b3cfab82-392b-4fee-853c-1adaed324808)\n\n\\\n**Integrate with any TMS**: Our Universal API allows you to plug extracted data into any system without the burden of building and maintaining integrations.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79036&key=user_uploads/1369382/259bb079-8490-4260-b8b8-fc598221c91b)\n\n**Build beautiful interfaces:** Our headless UI components allow you to embed our APIs directly in your products and customer-facing dashboards.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79036&key=user_uploads/1369382/1200b04a-798a-44ea-8de9-0bbe694a316c)\n\n**Meet The Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79036&key=user_uploads/1369382/28bdbda5-b565-4a50-8d9d-919bed1cac4f)\n\nSaif and Omar are brothers, born and raised in Jordan, before moving to the US to pursue a career in technology. Saif built warehouse robotics at Amazon, conversational AI at Capital One, and category-defining SaaS at Drift. Omar was a founding engineer at Altan Insights, followed by building 0 → 1 products at CoinTracker (YC W18). Omar was also Pradhit’s favorite co-worker at CoinTracker, where together, they led the new products team. Before that, Pradhit was at Microsoft where he built data pipelines to process petabytes of telemetry data.\\\n\\\n🙏 **Asks**\n\n* If you know any freight forwarders, 3PLs, or logistics software providers that might be interested in Reform, send them our way!\n* Think we can help, have questions or feedback? [Book a call](https://calendly.com/omar-abuhashish/20-min) or reach out to us at [founders@reformhq.com](mailto:founders@reformhq.com)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KYm-reform-the-fastest-way-to-build-modern-logistics-software", "votes": 62, "created_at": "2024-03-04T20:39:40.112Z" } ] }, { "id": 29499, "name": "Forge", "slug": "forge", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9a8698407a8cb5928c428073e83afe6e5668d63c.png", "website": "https://www.forgehq.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Forge manages international logistics for business around the world. We’re an AI native freight forwarder, customs broker, and tariff expert.\r\n\r\nWe’re growing rapidly and support small mom and pop business to the Fortune 1000s, including companies like Allegiant Airlines, Malbon Golf, and R.E.M. beauty.\r\n\r\nForge has raised capital from world class investors including Google, Y-Combinator, and Gradient Ventures.", "one_liner": "AI native freight forwarder and customs broker", "team_size": 7, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Supply Chain and Logistics", "launched_at": 1705516248, "tags": [ "B2B", "Logistics", "Supply Chain", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Supply Chain and Logistics" ], "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/forge", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/forge.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/forgehq/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9a8698407a8cb5928c428073e83afe6e5668d63c.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tom Blomfield", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tom-blomfield" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1143293, "full_name": "Emir Sahmanovic", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Emir is the co-founder and CEO of Forge. 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Most companies don’t file for drawbacks because it can be complicated & cumbersome. We solve this by taking on all the work for our customers from organizing data to filing, and automating it behind the scenes. Reach out to us at: [www.forgehq.com](http://www.forgehq.com).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89310&key=user_uploads/89898/703a07d3-3dad-49eb-9cd3-1c80cd2719a9)\n\nHello everyone! We're Emir and Haris, two brothers and the co-founders of Forge! We’re here to help companies save money on their tariffs & duties.\n\nHaris (left) is the CTO of Forge. Before Forge, he worked at Facebook and Vanguard as a backend engineer. Emir (right) is the CEO of Forge. Previously he was a lead engineer with experience designing, building, and testing rocket engines at Blue Origin and Stoke Space. At Stoke, Emir was part of a small team that became the fastest to ever go from seed funding to engine hot fire.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89310&key=user_uploads/1181593/44c70c94-7705-4dd2-8c02-215f92c83d2e)\n\n🧩 **The problem:**\n\nLast year, the US collected over $85 billion in import duties, and that number will increase dramatically with the newly established tariffs. However, when a business imports goods, they are allowed to claim a refund on the taxes they paid if they later export or scrap goods - this process is called duty drawbacks.\n\n$6 billion dollars of recoverable duties go unclaimed every year, and that was before Trump’s new tariffs. Most companies don’t file for drawbacks because the process is extremely cumbersome & complicated. The biggest companies have compliance teams & specialized customs brokers supporting them on multi-million dollar claims, but if you’re a small or medium-sized business, you have no options. Supply chain teams don’t have the time to manage all the work needed to run a drawback program, and brokers avoid supporting claims under $500k.\n\n💡 **Our solution:**\n\nOur team provides duty drawback as a white glove service while leveraging AI and custom internal tools to automate the work. This allows us to serve more businesses, while also requiring little to no effort from our customers. We file all paperwork with customs, extract all necessary data, and do the work to maximize their refund. The best part: it’s free upfront— we only get paid when our customers get paid.\n\nSupply chain & logistics are hard. Tariffs & duties make it even harder. We are here to make it easy for businesses to claim the revenue they deserve.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89310&key=user_uploads/1181593/8a06bd8f-bb66-428f-a439-d9727f160284)\n\n\\\n🙏 **Ask: How you can help**\n\nConnect us to importers, exporters, manufacturers, DTC brands, and any business impacted by the tariffs in your network! Email [emir@forgehq.com](mailto:emir@forgehq.com)\n\n* Check us out and talk with us at [forgehq.com](http://forgehq.com)\n* Share this post!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NEU-forge-getting-companies-refunds-on-tariffs-duties", "votes": 26, "created_at": "2025-04-07T21:36:45.016Z" }, { "id": 77785, "title": "🛠️ Forge - Procure hardware and control spend on one platform", "tagline": "Collaborate with manufacturers, track orders from quote to delivery, manage purchase approvals, and more!", "body": "**tl;dr:** We’re bringing everything related to your team's hardware procurement under one platform. [Forge](https://www.forgehq.com/) makes it easy to get your parts made while also providing insight into your teammates' purchases, the status of their parts, and more. On top of this, we give companies the ability to set their procurement policies in a straightforward manner, making it simple for everyone to follow. **Request a demo at [www.forgehq.com](https://www.forgehq.com/)**.\n\nHello everyone! We're [Emir](https://linkedin.com/in/emir-sahmanovic-976b71b5) and [Haris](https://linkedin.com/in/haris-sahmanovic-438884126), two brothers and the co-founders of Forge! We’re on a mission to help hardware teams move faster.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77785&key=user_uploads/1181593/f67f210b-2410-49ec-a452-9fa5eaf20b34)\n\nHaris (left) is the CTO of Forge. Before Forge, he worked at Facebook and Vanguard as a backend engineer. Emir (right) is the CEO of Forge. Previously he was a lead engineer with experience designing, building, and testing rocket engines at Blue Origin and Stoke Space. At Stoke, Emir was part of a small team that became the fastest to ever go from seed funding to engine hot fire.\n\n\\\n🧩 **The problem:**\n\nGetting parts into engineers’ hands sets the pace for hardware companies. However, procurement teams use email, spreadsheets, and phone calls to manage billions of dollars of spend. This causes huge coordination issues as many engineers don’t know whose approval they might need, when parts are coming in, and who ordered what. We saw it over and over again at companies of all sizes: poor supply chain operations cause constant delays and bottleneck the pace of development. In 2023, engineers were estimated to spend over 6 hours per week on procurement activities.\n\n**💡 Our solution:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77785&key=user_uploads/1181593/d75081e4-05ee-4d46-84c7-c0bf54dfac90)\n\nOur software allows you to request quotes from your suppliers, where you can attach drawings and CAD. We then organize the quotes into a format that’s perfect for comparing your options. Once a supplier has been selected, you can continue to work with them by messaging, sharing files, and getting feedback directly on Forge. All these actions are viewable by your teammates, ensuring everyone is on the same page without the need for time-consuming meetings or searching through documentation.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/ugOWDLKfrQ1vBzd6yGZ5v0K2sYRXfPy9B2clqANCArFWQZp_Ef68QtXryh9Nsrh5BGND-36ErJc2DUDj3QsBQIAY7SmXwNIdlX3ymAi9ycLecJm2Ir-iyzlNxJ6URwENwLBJ50xgGNFlqiG66AsGddU)\n\nMany companies struggle with unclear procurement operations. Forge offers a highly customizable tool for companies to publicly set their procurement flows in an easily readable manner. No more wondering who’s approval you need or what you’re waiting on. Even better - no IT team is needed for set up and changes can be made at any time!\n\nCombine all this with integrations into your other business software and you have a tool that makes collaborating with coworkers and manufacturers easier than ever before.\n[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hifUYQdYGJI)\n\n**🙏 Ask: How you can help**\n\n* Connect us to engineers, procurement managers, or supply chain teams in your network! Email [emir@forgehq.com](mailto:emir@forgehq.com)\n* Check us out and book a demo at [forgehq.com](http://forgehq.com)\n* Share this post!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KEb-forge-procure-hardware-and-control-spend-on-one-platform", "votes": 47, "created_at": "2024-01-23T19:41:15.869Z" } ] }, { "id": 29517, "name": "RetailReady", "slug": "retailready", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/199d48c929434ddb64281cd83b9621eb37c3ed62.png", "website": "https://www.retailreadyai.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Every time workers in a warehouse box an order, they reference a 100 page manual with instructions like where to put the shipping label. 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Building the next million robots to automate American warehouses", "tagline": "Warehouses are filled with dull, repetitive tasks still done by people. Ultra makes robots to change that.", "body": "**_TL;DR_**: Ultra robots automate e-commerce order packaging and returns in fulfillment centers. Traditional automation isn't working for warehouses because it's costly, rigid, and often underutilized. Our robots are different: they’re easy to deploy, resilient to changing environments, and powered by AI that’s trained with examples.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83218&key=user_uploads/36827/b95e65a5-16bd-4a49-9790-0cf80c5b5c27)\n\nHi everyone - we’re [Oliver](https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliverortlieb/), [Chetan,](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chetan-parthiban/) [Jon](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmschwartz11/), and [Max](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfriefeld/). 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Today, we are short over 1.3 million workers, causing companies to go understaffed or rely on high-churn temp labor.\n\nAnd yet, **traditional warehouse automation isn’t being adopted fast enough**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83218&key=user_uploads/36827/04cde5a1-5136-4f3b-b880-24464506183b)\n\n# **🤖 Ultrabots**\n\nUltra is building robots that can be dropped in at existing workstations and quickly trained to do repetitive tasks. They are more cost-effective than human labor and can operate around the clock, giving your team [✨](https://emojipedia.org/sparkles)superpowers[✨.](https://emojipedia.org/sparkles)\n\nWe use reliable off-the-shelf hardware so we can focus on rapid deployment. 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There are already $500,000 worth of free credits and discounts available, and new deals are constantly being added.\n\n**❌ The Problem**\n\nWe built YC Deals for our companies with a growing team. The founders still want to take advantage of the wide variety of discounts and free credits that YC companies receive, but their employees don’t have access to Bookface (our internal platform for YC founders), where these exclusive deals are listed. \n\n**✨ Our Solution**\n\nNow any employee of a YC company can redeem these deals and help their company save money. Building something new? There are dozens of dev tools like PostHog, Fivetran, and OneSignal.  First HR or ops hire? Get Deel and Stable up and running at a discount. In charge of security? Check out Vanta.  Also find deals on startup staples, like Gusto, GitHub, Algolia, and Amplitude. Help build and grow your company using world-class tools on a startup budget. \n\n![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/OVsQc12ujUnJFjcR_OxLDPXrIqj4mEsltXolYe2QhAQEnu2RuZ3Fxv57z2kkc_q2P9rfXhkFKPmJzqM2pJ-th57ArroztYuQQ43o04-PI_6lwk6qWZxnAWciWP6K7x5i8ZTQiBabH2s5ax5vH2n5nh7UUjf1Y4_F3-hK7cxIzjMPxTTyqYIzK0pp)\n\n**👉 Next steps**\n\nEmployees at YC companies can access YC Deals by completing a simple email verification flow using their company email address [here](https://deals.ycombinator.com/).\n\nIf you’d like to offer a deal to the YC community and their employees, you can submit one [here](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/deals/new). \n\nAny additional questions about YC Deals? 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Every unpaid invoice means emailing a customer, checking a portal, following up again a week later, and manually deciding which accounts are actually at risk — work that scales linearly with headcount and doesn't get easier as a book of business grows. DSO creeps up not because customers refuse to pay, but because no one has time to chase every invoice consistently.\n\nLighthouz built Lucie, an AI collections agent purpose-built for freight finance. Lucie works customer accounts the way a best-in-class AR analyst would, just continuously and across every account at once:\n\n* Email Collections Agent — drafts and sends context-aware payment reminders and follow-ups, escalating tone as invoices age\n* Portal Collections Agent — logs into customer payment portals to check status and submit documentation, so nothing stalls waiting on a portal check\n* Collections Work Queue — surfaces the accounts that actually need a human, with full context, instead of a flat list of overdue invoices\n* AR Risk Dashboard — flags at-risk accounts early using payment-behavior signals, before they become write-offs\n\nEvery action Lucie takes is visible to the AR team, with clear ownership indicators showing what's automated and what's waiting on a person — collections teams stay in control of the relationship, they just stop doing the busywork.\n\nFounders:\n\nSrijan and Sonali are married co-founders who met at IIT during undergrad and bring 15+ years of combined AI and supply chain experience. Srijan was a CS professor at Georgia Tech, a former Google research scientist, and a Stanford postdoc with 60+ publications. Sonali spent a decade as an AI/data engineer in fintech and insurance, including at Halliburton, Progressive, and American Family.\n\nKey Metrics:\n\n* DSO reduction: 5-8 days faster to collect\n* 30%-50% reduction in overdues \n* 45% of collections touches now automated\n* One AR specialist manages 2x more accounts\n\nTraction:\n\nLighthouz already powers finance operations of 40+ freight brokers and 3PLs, including Hoplite Logistics, Southern Reins Logistics, ADL, and NAD Logistics. Lighthouz AI has won the TIA 2025 and 2026 Technovator Awards.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/TcY-lighthouz-ai-ai-to-automate-collections-for-freight-brokers-and-3pls", "votes": 3, "created_at": "2026-09-07T20:11:49.454Z" }, { "id": 96349, "title": "Lighthouz AI: AI to automate AP and AR for freight brokers and 3PLs", "tagline": "3PLs invoice customers within 24 hours of delivery & get paid 5 days faster", "body": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNdu7kqN0MY\n\nFreight brokers and 3PLs still run AP and AR manually.\n\nAccounting teams spend days processing carrier bills, chasing missing PODs, delaying customer invoicing, and collections efforts. Cash flow stagnates. Before Lighthouz, teams typically take 3–5 days to approve carrier bills and send customer invoices — and still miss errors like duplicate payments and invalid accessorials.\n\n**At Lighthouz, we’ve built freight-native AI agents to automate AP and AR for brokers and 3PLs. With Lighthouz, brokers are invoicing customers within 24 hours of delivery and reduce days-to-get-paid by 5 days.** \n\n### **Who we are**\n\nWe’re **Srijan and Sonali**, the founders of **Lighthouz AI**. We’re part of YC S24. \n\nWe met a decade ago during undergrad at **IIT**, have been building together ever since, and have been married for 5+ years. Srijan and Sonali have 15+ years of combined experience in AI and supply chain, building AI systems for companies like Halliburton, The Home Depot, Google, and more. \n\n* **Srijan** an award-winning AI scientist with **60+ publications and 6,000+ citations**.  He’s been a **CS professor at Georgia Tech**, an **ex-research scientist at Google**, completed his **postdoc at Stanford**, and earned his **PhD from the University of Maryland**.\n* **Sonali** is a former **Lead AI Engineer** at **Halliburton**, **Progressive Insurance, and American Family**, specializing in **unstructured data** and building production-grade AI systems from scratch. She earned her **MS from the University of Washington**.\n\nWe’ve spent our careers building and deploying AI for complex, messy real-world data — which is exactly what freight finance looks like.\n\n### **What Lighthouz AI does**\n\nLighthouz handles the entire freight billing workflow:\n\n✅ Ingests **carrier bills, PODs, BOLs, lumpers, and invoices** from email and uploads\n\n✅ Extracts and structures **all freight data** — rates, accessorials, remit-to, signatures, handwritten notes\n\n✅ Verifies carrier bills against **rate confirmations / quotes**\n\n✅ Detects exceptions like **duplicates, overbilling, missing PODs, wrong factors, and invalid accessorials**\n\n✅ Auto-approves clean bills and routes **only true exceptions**\n\n✅ Approves and submits **customer invoices within 24 hours of delivery**\n\n✅ Sends automated **collections reminders** to customers pre- and post-due date \n\n✅ Creates a work queue for human collectors \n\n✅ Posts clean, validated data directly into the **TMS with full audit trails**\n\n### **Why this matters**\n\nManual AP/AR quietly kills cash flow in freight. Before Lighthouz, teams typically take **3–5 days** to approve carrier bills and send customer invoices — and still miss errors like duplicate payments and invalid accessorials.\n\nWith Lighthouz:\n\n* Processing time drops from **3–5 days → <24 hours**\n* Days to get payment from customers reduces by 5 days \n* One AP specialist can process **4–5x more volume**\n* Errors and rework drop dramatically\n* Teams scale without adding headcount\n\nThis isn’t generic automation. 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Getcho runs on top of third-party fleets, delivering $250,000 of merchandise per month.\n\n## The problem\n\nMerchants have embraced local / on-demand delivery—it boosts sales with urgent shoppers and is cheap, thanks to mega-fleets like DoorDash, Roadie, and Uber. But locally delivered packages are lost, misdelivered, or returned up to 10% of the time; some retail locations spend thousands of dollars each day replacing lost packages.\n\n## The solution\n\nGetcho prevents 95% of failed local deliveries. This saves merchants the costs associated with shipping replacements and, just as important, improves customers' perception of the merchant's brand.\n\nBy flagging GPS irregularities, using AI-assisted calls and texts to guide drivers at pick-up & drop-off, and scheduling around customer availability, Getcho ensures seamless and reliable deliveries.\n\n## Demo\n\n\n\n## About us\n\nJack and Evandro (\"Dro\") met in college. They started a software development firm called K-Optional that they ran for seven years. Mike, Jack's brother, joined K-Optional in 2021.\n\nThere they built logistics products that were acquired or continue to generate millions in revenue, including:\n\n* A [pig tracking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigging) platform that uses hardware and GPS data to check diagnostics on massive oil pipelines.\n* A scheduling platform in the catastrophe insurance space that maps claimants to appraisal locations.\n\nThey spun Getcho out of a curbside pick-up application and went all in once they had delivered a million dollars of merchandise.\n\n## Ask\n\nIf you or someone you know is in retail operations, we'd love to connect & chat.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MCp-getcho-a-local-delivery-platform-for-high-value-retail", "votes": 44, "created_at": "2024-11-08T00:02:17.366Z" } ] }, { "id": 30225, "name": "Trava", "slug": "trava", "former_names": [ "Vora AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3d0be0347387260245589e1f25ed7b5d45b73488.png", "website": "https://www.usetrava.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Trava is building AI agents for global trade compliance. 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We can help you recover up to 10% of duties paid this year.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/6lKXDCIQj8k\n\n# **Problem**\n\nUS importers have paid **over $200B in duties** in 2025, an all-time high. A significant share of that is overpaid, and most of them never realize it.\n\nTwo shifts explain why this is accelerating:\n\n1. **Tariff volatility has exploded.** Duty rates and HTS rules now change constantly. In 2025 alone, there’s been a wave of Section 301 updates, Section 232 expansions, new IEEPA/fentanyl tariffs, reciprocal tariffs, and more. The systems importers rely on were built for a more stable trade environment and can’t keep up.\n2. **“De minimis” rollback is exposing millions of new SKUs to duties.** Brands that never paid duties before now need accurate HTS codes for every SKU, often with no internal expertise, dramatically increasing classification volume and the risk of costly errors.\n\n**The combined effect:** filing errors and misclassifications are more common than ever, leading to margin leakage, missed refunds, and rising audit exposure.\n\nAnd today’s mitigations fall short:\n\n* Large importers hire **expensive consultants** who audit filings only after duties are paid, tying up cash for months and missing most issues because they review only a small sample.\n* Many lean on their **customs brokers**, who are incentivized to clear shipments quickly, not optimize duty burden, find refunds or classify goods. And capacity is shrinking, as the workforce is aging and fewer new brokers enter the field.\n\n**Importers carry the liability but are flying blind — overpaying duties and holding compliance risk they can’t see.**\n\n# **Solution**\n\nTrava gives importers a system that continuously reviews 100% of their customs entries and product catalog for duty and classification accuracy.\n\nImporters see three core benefits:\n\n1. **Recover margin** by surfacing overpaid duties and missed refunds. Once integrated, Trava often prevents the overpayment entirely by catching issues _before_ duties are even paid.\n2. **Reduce exposure** by flagging underpayments and risky classifications _before_ they turn into penalties because of a surprise CBP audit.\n3. **Classify accurately** with a copilot that suggests correct HTS codes on every SKU, critical as rules change constantly and millions of products lose de minimis protection.\n\nAI handles the heavy lifting, and Trava’s trade specialists validate edge cases and final outputs.\n\n# **Team**\n\nPushkar was an engineering manager at Plaid, where he led Privacy & Risk Engineering and built compliance systems that scaled to thousands of customers and millions of consumers. Before that, he was an early engineer on Meta’s crypto/fintech team (Libra/Novi) building digital payments infrastructure.\n\nHe’s seen firsthand how compliance breaks under scale and regulatory volatility, and how automation with human oversight can turn it into an advantage. He’s now bringing that same approach to the world of trade compliance.\n\n# **Our Ask**\n\nMessage [pushkar@usetrava.com](mailto:pushkar@usetrava.com) or visit [**usetrava.com**](http://usetrava.com) to request early access.\n\n1. **Importers:** We’re running a limited number of year-end duty and classification audits. If you oversee the P&L or compliance, we’ll show you exactly how much margin you’re leaving on the table, and help you classify products correctly.\n2. **Customs Brokers / Trade Consultants / Trade Attorneys:** We’re open to partnerships. 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Fill out **[**this form**](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScpjg68_IlN1c7xfXqEFsMMLLhxc3IYQpvjXNbdRQTFIWdAtg/viewform?usp=header)** for early access.**\n\n---\n\n### **🚨 The Problem**\n\nThe **best candidates aren’t actively looking** — they already have great jobs. But hiring managers **don’t have the time** to find and engage them.\n\n* **Recruiting software has historically failed** because it was built for **recruiters, not hiring managers** — which means more dashboards, more manual work, and little actual hiring.\n* **Existing tools (LinkedIn Recruiter, ATS systems) require too much effort** — hiring managers still have to search, craft outreach, and follow up.\n* **Recruiters and agencies are expensive and misaligned** — they optimize for placements, not long-term success.\n* **Spending on hiring has never been higher** — companies are publicly offering **$15K+ referral bonuses** just to find top AI engineers.\n\n### **⚒️ The Solution**\n\nWe give hiring managers an **AI recruiter** that automates sourcing and outreach. Instead of spending hours manually searching and messaging, hiring managers **assign the task**, and Vora **delivers**:\n\n* **Our sourcing agent** finds top talent (passive candidates who aren’t applying)\n* **Our research agent** crafts deeply researched emails that convert **5x better** than the basic personalization used by other tools today.\n* **Once they’re activated, our agent schedules them directly on the hiring manager’s calendar**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88327&key=user_uploads/2380951/39a04812-770c-4ac4-821e-6203bff527c8)\n\n_(Dashboard used by the internal Vora team)_\n\nBut here’s what sets us apart - we **sell the work, not just the software** - hiring managers don’t need to learn a new tool or spend time navigating dashboards. **They just get meetings booked with candidates delivered straight to their calendar.**\n\nHiring managers don’t need to log in to anything - they interact with **Rachel, our AI recruiter, directly in Slack**, just like a coworker.\n\nRachel **keeps hiring managers updated, asks for feedback, and refines searches — all in Slack.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88327&key=user_uploads/2380951/14407af6-d1f7-441a-ba9d-77120a6938b7)\n\n---\n\n### **💡 Our Wedge**\n\nWe help **fast-growing tech startups (Seed to Series B) attract the best engineers and hire faster.** Our early customers include:\n\n* **Early-stage startups** — Founders hiring their **first engineers** without an in-house recruiter.\n* **Scaling teams** — Hiring managers at **Series A/B companies** who need to grow their team quickly.\n* **VC-backed companies** — Startups competing for **top AI and engineering talent** in a competitive market.\n\n### **🚀 We’re already delivering results**\n\n* **Trusted by fast-growing AI startups** in SF & NYC (Seed to Series B)\n* **Multiple startups already running paid pilots**\n* **Hundreds of top candidates sourced & engaged**\n* **Dozens of hiring manager screens booked — directly on their calendars**\n\nHere’s a testimonial from an early customer:\n\n_\"In just two weeks, Vora booked six interviews with engineers we previously couldn’t even reach. 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Flott’s AI agents act as an extension of fleet managers, automating repetitive tasks and optimizing workflows. This enables companies to focus on what truly matters: growing the business.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/P6UUBwV7kVk\n\n**🚨 The Problem**\n\n**Fleet operations today are burdened by complexity, silos, and inefficiencies.**\n\nMost teams rely on a patchwork of disconnected tools, leading to:\n\n* Business owners **lacking clear end‑to‑end visibility**\n* **Manual workflows** and duplicated effort\n* **Endless back‑and‑forth** between dispatch, drivers, and admin\n* Delayed invoices, lost payments, and shrinking margins\n\nAs operations grow, so do the headaches — making it harder to scale without losing control. Many companies end up losing money without even realizing it, buried under operational inefficiencies and lack of visibility.\n\n**✅ The Solution**\n\nFlott unifies everything transport and logistics teams need into one AI‑powered control center.\n\n📆 **Planning**: AI-assisted planning and dispatch\n\n📍 **Live Tracking**: track your asset position but also resource consumption like fuel, mileage, driving hours…\n\n💸 **Invoicing & Payments**: Fast, automated billing and payment tracking — Dynamic and customizable pricing strategies\n\n👥 **Collaboration**: Collaborate within your team to get things done faster with the help of our **AI Agents**\n\n📊 **Insights**: Powerful analytics to reduce costs and increase efficiency — Track the KPIs that matter in real-time and get in-depth AI-based insights from operations to finance\n\n**Traction:** We are already at $200k ARR, growing 45% month over month, all of it through word of mouth.\n\n## **The Team**\n\nWe’re [**@Sylvanus MAHE**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sylvanus-mahe) and [**@Kanvaly Fadiga**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kanvaly-fadiga/), we are AI Engineers and ops specialists from McKinsey and Datadog. We’ve seen first-hand how fragmented tools drain margin and burn teams out when we launched our own car rental side business.\n\n### **🚀 Our Ask**\n\nWe’re onboarding logistics and mobility teams looking to unify their ops and grow faster. If you know anyone in fleet operations, transportation, trucking, or mobility in general — let’s talk.\n\n🌐 Website: [**https://www.flotthq.com**](https://www.flotthq.com)\n\n👉 Book a demo: [**https://cal.com/team/flott-hq/demo**](https://cal.com/team/flott-hq/demo)\n\n📬 Email us: [**founders@flotthq.com**](mailto:founders@flotthq.com)\\\nFollow us: [**Linkedin**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/flott-hq), [**X**](https://x.com/flott_hq)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90763&key=user_uploads/2092587/b1e79f7f-1f3a-42ba-9f73-9fbb07f7c6ba)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nbv-flott-hq-ai-native-operating-system-for-fleet-management", "votes": 40, "created_at": "2025-05-27T15:37:08.170Z" } ] }, { "id": 30519, "name": "Hemut", "slug": "hemut", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0130d4e41d286011dbbf71e01781948525f98d90.png", "website": "https://www.hemut.com/", "all_locations": "Fresno, CA, USA", "long_description": "Next-generation truck management software to automate back-office operations for trucking companies. 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This results in an industry that hasn’t paused for a tech update in years; in my time in the industry, I saw dozens of offices running on pen and paper or excel spreadsheets, documents being sent in WhatsApp group chats connected to printers, and I myself had 3 phones all on hold menus with different people. And even the largest of companies today navigate a maze of outdated, poorly integrated point-solutions.\n\nSo, alongside Anthony and Sam, I decided to build a product that rectifies those problems. With Hemut’s software, you can replace pen and paper scribbles with intuitive oversight of even national level fleets, replace the WhatsApp group chats and manual data entry with AI document parsing, and eliminate the need for 3 phones with AI agents to automate inbound/outbound calls. 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We’ll help you ship your most complex and important orders same-day.\n\n📧 Email us: [**founders@chrt.com**](mailto:founders@chrt.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90745&key=user_uploads/1381778/7e53965b-b0da-4f03-b2fa-d57d74b931d1)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nbd-chrt-logistics-platform-for-time-critical-shipping", "votes": 80, "created_at": "2025-05-27T15:37:13.489Z" } ] }, { "id": 30598, "name": "GETASAP", "slug": "getasap", "former_names": [ "GETASAP ASIA" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/642bff7a1b26de3309aed7fc5200498a8dca5180.png", "website": "https://www.getasap.us", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Founded in 2023, GETASAP is a San Francisco–based technology and supply chain infrastructure company transforming fresh produce distribution and freight.\r\n\r\nGETASAP Fresh provides same-day delivery to thousands of restaurants and retail locations across the USA, sourcing directly from farms internationally and operating global cold-chain infrastructure. 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Our drones and cameras scan your site and create a precise 3D reconstruction, so you always know exactly how much material is on the ground. We’ve got real-world experience and are already working with a major ag distributor. Know someone in ag, mining, or construction who deals with bulk materials? Send them our way: [founders@rebulk.com](mailto:founders@rebulk.com)\n\n**Problem**\n\nBulk inventory tracking is broken. Companies either rely on guesstimates or pay for expensive manual surveys which are still off by 20 to 30 percent. Without accurate numbers, it’s hard to plan logistics, like how many truckloads are needed. And it creates accounting issues by misreporting inventory value, hurting financial planning and leading to missed opportunities.\n\n**Solution**\n\nRebulk figures out what your inventory is, turns it into a 3D reconstruction, and tells you exactly how much you have, in both volume and weight. If your piles are smaller and indoors, like in a shed, we’ll use a fixed camera. If they’re bigger and outside, we’ll fly a drone to map them. And we don’t just stop at giving you the numbers. We plug into your system so the data helps you make real decisions, not just sit in a spreadsheet.\n\n**The Team**\n\nWe’ve lived this problem, and we know how to solve it. Warren saw it firsthand as a Product Manager at Milk Moovement, a Series A AgTech startup, working closely with bulk feed suppliers and managers to plan logistics. He also launched drone delivery programs at Chick-fil-A.\n\nCole was Head of Engineering at an AI startup and engineer #3 at Tropic, where he helped scale the company from seed to Series B. He started his career building aviation products at Garmin. 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We’re always curious and often surprised by the types of bulk inventory that don’t live in traditional boxes and barcodes.\n\nContact us at: [founders@rebulk.com](mailto:founders@rebulk.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92243&key=user_uploads/506363/6a28a0db-9489-4b8a-943f-7e096519535f)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nzn-rebulk-accurately-measure-and-monitor-bulk-inventory", "votes": 65, "created_at": "2025-07-17T17:45:34.353Z" } ] }, { "id": 30775, "name": "Fleetline", "slug": "fleetline", "former_names": [ "Axel AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8008d7d50f1ead47eae177bcede0c9d614312ad4.png", "website": "https://fleetline.ai", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Fleetline is building the first complete-context algorithmic load planner for mid to large-sized trucking fleets. Today’s dispatchers face an overwhelming task: balancing regulations, customer demands, live fleet data, and individual driver needs, all while coordinating across siloed tools and teams. Mistakes run rampant, and each mistake is thousands of dollars. Even the select fleets using algorithms that have fleet-wide context struggle: the outputs are rigid, hard to interpret, and are blind to real-world nuances like driver preferences and schedule exceptions. Fleetline solves this by combining advanced optimization with LLMs that can easily adapt algorithms to each fleet’s needs and capture driver-specific information. 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We solve this by combining advanced optimization with LLMs that can adapt algorithms to deliver intelligent planning for real-world operations. \\\nhttps://youtu.be/9LHYILVw6ks\n\n# **💥 The problem:**\n\nPlanning just one week of routes for a 50-truck fleet involves **more possible combinations than there are grains of sand on Earth**. For humans, consistently piecing together reasonable combinations is difficult. Making optimal ones is impossible. Dispatchers juggle:\n\n* Regulatory constraints, like drivers’ hours of service\n* Complex forecasts, like considering the likelihood of receiving a load from a flaky customer\n* And human preferences, like a driver’s disdain for a specific commodity\n\nThis complexity forces fleets to effectively **silo their operations**—assigning each dispatcher a subset of trucks to manage. **Instead of coordinating as a cohesive operation, fleets become mini-operations, resulting in load mismatches and under-utilized capacity.** For a low-margin industry like trucking, those inefficiencies are the difference between making or missing payroll. \n\nIn response, some fleets have adopted expensive load planning algorithms. While these traditional solutions are a marginal improvement over manual work, they fail to meaningfully solve the problem. \n\nRigid algorithms operate like complete black boxes, often leaving dispatchers with a lack of confidence in their decisions. Deterministic algorithms cannot be responsive to the soft preferences of either the fleet or the driver. For example, dispatchers may have to reshuffle their planning board because an algorithm cannot optimize for a driver needing to be home early one day for his daughter’s recital. \n\nThat means the algorithm's recommendations are largely not followed or, if they are, drivers are left unhappy. With an active driver shortage, fleets can’t tolerate the latter. \n\nTrucking is a trillion-dollar industry, yet its biggest players have no good option for load planning. \n\n# **✅ The solution:**\n\n**Fleets no longer have to choose between two existentially threatening options with Fleetline.** By combining traditional advanced optimizations with LLMs, we created a solution that allows fleets to optimize their schedules while being adaptive to soft preferences and surprises. All users need to do is prompt our AI agent with any changes / added constraints to include in the optimization algorithm, and the load planning is re-done. \n\nFor example, if a driver at a fleet needs to make it back home by 2 PM on a given Tuesday to see his daughter’s recital, instead of manually scrambling the planning board, our AI agent can re-optimize around the new constraint. \n\nWe’re already working with large fleets in California and talking to others across the country.\n\n# **🏋️‍♂️ The team:**\n\nSaurav and Veer are lifelong friends who have been working on projects together since they were 14. Saurav graduated from UIUC and has worked at Icon, Meta, and Nvidia, and is a previous founder (Blast AI). Veer was pursuing his master’s at USC, was a nationally ranked high school and college debater, and is an exited founder. \n\nWe’re excited about building revolutionary tech for a trillion-dollar industry that is functionally the backbone of the country. \n\n# **📈 Vision:**\n\nA dynamic algorithm unlocked by LLMs will allow fleets of any size to find value in our optimization software. \n\n### **Our ask:**\n\nPlease let us know if you have any connections at all in the trucking or logistics space 🙂\\\nWould also love to talk to anyone who has built RL environments or dynamic programming algorithms at scale!\n\n\\\nContact us at [founders@fleetline.ai](mailto:founder@fleetline.ai) ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O98-fleetline-optimizing-fleet-planning-with-data-driven-algorithms", "votes": 30, "created_at": "2025-08-07T21:08:34.390Z" } ] }, { "id": 30865, "name": "Lunavo", "slug": "lunavo", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3ddcb85e74794b0138c39337072b830c38a4934f.png", "website": "https://lunavo.ai", "all_locations": "BY, Germany", "long_description": "We build AI that runs carrier operations.\r\n\r\nLunavo is the AI assistant for carriers. 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Most communication is still handled manually.\n\nThis creates two problems. First, teams waste hours on busywork instead of managing operations. Second, the noise makes it nearly impossible to spot issues that need attention until it's too late. A delayed pickup, missing document, or customer escalation only gets noticed when it's already urgent.\n\nThe real complexity isn't in data entry. It's in catching and resolving issues early: rerouting around delays, finding backup capacity, flagging exceptions before they cascade. Carriers need visibility and time to handle what matters, not endless manual updates.\n\nWe sat with dispatchers managing hundreds of shipments a day and saw their inbox and phone effectively act as their task managers.\n\n·   Many handle between 50 and 100 emails per hour, and most of them are repetitive.\n\n·   Teams constantly pull data from emails, PDFs, and portals into their Transport Management System (TMS).\n\n·   They often jump between ten or more tools that don't communicate properly with each other.\n\nCompanies end up paying skilled employees to move data between tools instead of running logistics\n\n**Our solution:**\n\nLunavo integrates into a carrier's existing systems as an AI teammate. When a new order arrives, it automatically extracts details, updates the TMS, and confirms with the customer. Dispatchers see: \"New order from Customer X confirmed and scheduled.\"\n\n**The system handles routine work while monitoring for exceptions** like delayed pickups, missing documents, or customer escalations, surfacing issues before they become urgent. It understands task dependencies and escalates only what needs human judgment.\n\nBecause logistics workflows often depend on implicit knowledge, our system can understand customer workflows and adapt to it. Our agents self-improve through dispatcher feedback, company documentation, and user-defined rules, automatically adapting to each customer's unique requirements without manual reconfiguration.\n\nLunavo manages to understand incoming documents, extract relevant information, challenges the inputs on plausibility and integrates them into the TMS. In case of anomalies, the system loops in the dispatcher:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95229&key=user_uploads/2331002/607a54fb-83cd-423d-8c36-312523817e4b)\n\n**_Before Lunavo_**_:_ A driver is delayed. The dispatcher has to (1) log into the GPS portal, (2) inform the customer with an update, (3) manually update the TMS, and (4) update the customer's portal for delivery time. This takes up to 15 minutes of work.\n\n**_With Lunavo:_** Lunavo detects the truck's GPS delay. It _automatically_ emails the customer, updates their portal, and sends a single notification to the dispatcher to keep him in the loop: \"Driver 5 is delayed 30m. Customer X has been notified. No action needed.\"\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95229&key=user_uploads/2331002/bdb58f1b-2c10-4e29-b485-d64718f81c6f)\n\nLunavo helps trucking companies scale operations without scaling headcount.\n\n**About us:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95229&key=user_uploads/2331002/531e2a61-c332-4ee9-ae0a-520a28e47341)\n\nWe're Felix and Niclas, founders of Lunavo. 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This is [Ben](https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin--rubin/) and [Yining](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yining-z/) from [Norra](https://www.linkedin.com/company/norra-io/), the AI equipment operations platform for nursing facilities.\n\nTL;DR: Norra uses AI and real-time tracking to give nursing facilities operational intelligence they've never had.\n\n🚨**The problem:**\n\nNursing facilities are facing an existential crisis. With the aging population, demand is surging but they can't keep up. Medicare cuts coupled with inefficient operations mean that over 50% of facilities lose money and are struggling to keep their doors open, all while facing a massive impending staff shortage.\n\nFacilities run blindly with zero operational intelligence. They’re scrambling to manage equipment lifecycles, discovering things are broken too late (leading to failed audits), and over-purchasing because they don’t know what they have. This operational chaos costs each facility over $100K and 1,000 hours of staff time per year, time that could be spent caring for patients.\n\n💡**The solution:**\n\n\n\nWith custom hardwares, Norra creates a digital twin of their entire facility, giving staff complete visibility into everything happening on the ground. With all of this data, we are able to use AI to transform the operational chaos into proactive decision making. Instead of reacting to equipment going into disrepair or overpurchasing equipment due to lack of visibility, staff now get actionable insights to prevent waste before it happens.\n\nWhat it actually means: Preventative maintenance reminders and tracking, Intelligent and automated purchasing workflows, Insights to improve utilization and cut costs\n\n**⚡Impact:** \\\n\\\nWe've cut our first facilities' rental spend by 70% and projected to save them $100K+ this year.\n\n**👥 About Us:**\n\nBen and Yining met two years ago at NASA building astronaut operation software. They are two roommates turned cofounders passionate about using AI to make a real impact in healthcare. \n\nBen has spent 1000+ hours in hospitals and nursing facilities seeing first hand how broken their operations are.\\\n\\\nYining built applied AI solutions at MD Anderson Cancer Center, experiencing its potential to revolutionize healthcare.\n\n**🤝 Our Ask:**\n\nWe’re looking to connect with healthcare executives interested in modernizing their operations. If you know any, please reach out to [ben@norra.io](mailto:ben@norra.io).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95331&key=user_uploads/2732719/6b76a604-4597-47c7-bb1b-2dc3c6c1ee31)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Onb-norra-the-ai-equipment-operations-platform-for-nursing-facilites", "votes": 37, "created_at": "2025-11-08T21:49:04.058Z" } ] }, { "id": 31030, "name": "Haladir", "slug": "haladir", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6b1a47bf16f93d71a3d1f3af6d10a6c736e170b2.png", "website": "https://www.haladir.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Haladir builds advanced AI systems for logistics. We sit on top of your WMS, TMS and ERP, turning their data into decisions across supply chain planning and execution: solver-grade optimization that decides what should happen, and AI agents that run the workflows. Today's AI brought intelligence. 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We turn unreliable model outputs into **verifiable, optimal decisions** for industries like **logistics, critical software, and manufacturing**. We are working with one of the leading AI labs to bring our technology to post-training.\n\n**Launch Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caPPFAmL8Iw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caPPFAmL8Iw)**\n\n**The Problem**\n\nOperationally-complex companies (logistics, supply chain, etc.) need to make thousands of decisions a day under tight, real-world constraints. Even when given ample context, we observe that the top models often fail to understand these constraints when placed in difficult scenarios, providing suboptimal or confidently incorrect responses. Though they excel at individual tasks like coding and data analysis, optimizing across systems with millions of interdependent variables under hard constraints remains beyond what current models can do on their own.\n\n**The Solution**\n\nHaladir combines formal solvers with LLMs to give models a fundamental understanding of constraints rather than just semantic context. For logistics and supply chain companies, this means routing, scheduling, and resource allocation that AI can reason through rather than guess at.\n\nWe build at both the model training layer and the application layer. On the training side, we build solver-based RL environments and data pipelines for frontier labs. On the application side, we build model harnesses that allow deployed agents to operate within constrained, sensitive workflows and make optimal decisions. Decades of development in solvers like Gurobi and SAT/SMT have produced incredibly powerful technologies, but there's a growing gap between these tools and how AI is deployed today. We're here to close that gap.\n\nRead our research: [haladir.com/research](http://haladir.com/research)\n\n**The Team**\n\nIn high school, we published and were cited in IEEE and Elsevier Q1 journals for operations research and machine learning. We left Carnegie Mellon, Princeton, and UVA to build Haladir.\n\n**Our Ask**\n\nWe'd love to talk with you if:\n\n* You work at a logistics, supply chain, or manufacturing company where AI isn't yet delivering on real decision-making\n* You work at or with frontier AI labs interested in solver-based training environments\n* You know talented people in operations research, formal methods, or applied ML\n\n👉 Contact us at [founders@haladir.com](mailto:founders@haladir.com)\n\n💼 Follow us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/haladir\n\n📱 Follow us on X: x.com/Haladirofficial", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pe0-haladir-building-operational-superintelligence", "votes": 21, "created_at": "2026-03-08T21:01:35.301Z" } ] }, { "id": 31224, "name": "Servo7", "slug": "servo7", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f0947dcd80dc342c9f938f52c6f4959bc0b1b157.png", "website": "https://servo7.com", "all_locations": "Amsterdam, NH, Netherlands", "long_description": "We deploy robots in warehouses to automate the most demanding job in logistics: unloading loose-loaded containers.\r\n\r\nOur customers include 3PLs (CEVA, Stord), distributors (DHL, PostNL) and many more logistics companies.", "one_liner": "Container unloading robots for warehouses", "team_size": 3, "industry": "Industrials", "subindustry": "Industrials -> Manufacturing and Robotics", "launched_at": 1769385653, "tags": [ "Robotics", "Logistics", "Automation", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2026", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Industrials", "Manufacturing and Robotics" ], "regions": [ "Netherlands", "Europe" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/servo7", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2026/servo7.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "Amsterdam", "country": "NL", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/servo7", "x_url": "https://x.com/Servo7Robotics", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f0947dcd80dc342c9f938f52c6f4959bc0b1b157.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Ankit Gupta", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/ankit-gupta" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 2067100, "full_name": "Pieter Becking", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder of Servo7: Robots that unload containers in warehouses\n\nPreviously: Deep Reinforcement Learning at Boeing & LLM Engineer & shipped working Hyperloop. 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Built the first video generation model for autonomous driving before cosmos & sora.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasper-van-leuven-14a3ba1b6/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5a6bca74226ed2b3f26646eab57a36cd13bfade8.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 101951, "title": "Founding Hardware Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/servo7/jobs/yPnmJfu-founding-hardware-engineer", "location": "Amsterdam, NH, NL / Amsterdam, North Holland, NL", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Hardware", "salary_range": "", "equity_range": "", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizenship/visa not required", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 97659, "title": "Servo7 - Robots for Industry", "tagline": "Simple and rapidly deployed robots for industry work", "body": "Hey everyone, we’re [@Jasper](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/2827656) and [@Pieter](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/2067100), co-founders of [@Servo7](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/31224). We build simple and rapidly deployed robots for industry work.\n\n**TL;DR**\n\nToday, implementing robotics means redesigning your entire facility around a robot. This is inefficient and unnecessary. With Servo7, you don’t have to do any of that. Our robots adapt to your environment.\n\n\n\n**Problem**\n\nCurrently, industry robots are rigid single-purpose machines. Complete floor plans are redesigned around a single robot. As a result, the installation process is complex and inefficient.\n\nThis discourages many businesses from pursuing automation at all. That’s a missed opportunity.\n\n**Solution**\n\nInstead of adjusting the floorplan, redesigning the conveyor belts, and the outflow, our robots just work in the existing process.\n\nWe’re using AI models to train wheeled humanoids and robot arms. Once the robots are implemented, they’ll keep learning on the job: performing the tasks faster to increase throughput. The implementation of our robots is much faster and easier.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97659&key=user_uploads/2067100/e4f3ba51-26b4-4115-8b48-01502d7b9b6d)\n\n**How we got here**\n\nWe have been deploying robots and automating repetitive work for years, even in highly regulated industries like the military and hospitals. But, we also know the slow pain of traditional control methods. So we turned to AI to control robots, and found a much better way. Instead of pre-programming every possible movement, we put the robot to work with just a few demonstrations. We quit our jobs that same day to start Servo7.\n\nToday, we’re working with warehouses and CPG brands to automate their fulfillment.\n\n**Ask**\n\nIf you’re working in logistics, assembly, or manufacturing, our robots can help you improve your operations!\n\nReach out to us at [founders@servo7.com](mailto:founders@servo7.com) to chat. 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Whether it’s for inbound receiving, picking, or even truck loading, **more than 80% of warehouses in the US** have little to no automation.\n\n**E-commerce 3PLs** in particular suffer from this. Unlike large retailers or shippers, their inventory mix and volumes are **highly variable**, given their smaller size and greater exposure to e-commerce trends. Their contracts renew on an annual basis, their customers regularly go out of business, and the brands they work with frequently release new products.\n\nMost of the automation out there is designed for the big players. Stacker cranes, 2D/3D shuttles, or even more recently AMR-based systems - these all only make sense to invest in above a certain scale and predictability.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97934&key=user_uploads/1182398/487a824f-d1aa-4c7b-942e-add0a872b111)\n\nWhat _80% of 3PLs look like: rows of shelves of plastic totes and cardboard boxes with at best a couple conveyors._\n\n**Why is automation so limited?** Because existing solutions are expensive ($100-150K incl. solution + installation + servicing), bulky, and inflexible. They’re usually some mechanical system + a PLC that perform one rigid task repetitively with little to no room for customisation beyond some initial configurations. As a result, most 3PLs aren’t able to leverage these and stick to manual options.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97934&key=user_uploads/1182398/d87e20be-7be0-4950-a13c-1ea2671ad916)\n\n_Current automated packing stations: rigid mechanical systems with limited adaptability_\n\nYet this long tail of 3PLs is huge: \n\n* 70K 3PLs in the US\n* $1.2 trillion global market size\n* Growing at +8% per year given relentless rise of e-commerce\n\n**✅ The solution**\n\n**Remy AI is building flexible automation for e-commerce 3PLs.**\n\nWe deploy a robotic system that:\n\n* Adapts to new SKUs **without needing to be re-trained or re-programmed**\n* Can be dropped into **existing work stations** with minimal modifications\n* Can perform **dexterous tasks** that existing robots struggle with\n\nWe leverage a versatile bi-manual mobile platform which allows our system to be deployed on a **wide range of tasks**:\n\n* Mobile picking\n* Packing stations\n* Kitting\n* Receiving\n* …\n\nAnd crucially, we do this at a **50% lower cost** than existing solutions, by replacing mechanical complexity with intelligence.\n\n\n\n**🧠 How do we achieve this?**\n\nRecent developments in ML & robotics have made it possible to bring a human level of adaptability to robots. 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Every existing option fails on the same axis:\n\n* **Internal teams:** expertise and judgment, fixed capacity. It takes years to build and when someone leaves, the tacit knowledge that keeps operations running is lost.\n* **SaaS:** automation and visibility without execution. The customer still staffs the operation, supervises it, handles exceptions, and owns the result.\n* **Outsourcing:** capacity, expertise, and accountability, permanently labor-linked. More volume, suppliers, and locations require more service-delivery headcount.\n\nThe unmet need is operating capacity that **takes responsibility for completing the work** while becoming faster, more consistent, and more profitable as volume grows.\n\n## The insight\n\n* **Software can recommend actions; it cannot assume commercial authority.** The customer keeps execution, exceptions, and supplier outcomes. Whoever owns the exceptions owns the expertise, and expertise is the entire product in procurement.\n* **Incumbents cannot follow.** Consulting and outsourcing firms store process knowledge in employees and grow revenue through staff hours. Automation directly cannibalizes that model.\n* **The economics are breakable.** Traditional services sit below software economics: Accenture at Rule-of-22.6, Genpact at 24.1. An AI-native operator can reach **Rule-of-60**.\n\n## What we built\n\n**The proprietary platform SpaceFlow uses to operate procurement for customers.**\n\n* A **process-mapping engine** converts interviews, SOPs, approval rules, and existing system configurations into executable workflows. A supply-chain consultancy estimates it cuts customer launch from **26 months to 4**, a 6.5x jump in deployment capacity.\n* It **executes procurement end to end**, from demand and production planning through sourcing, contracting, purchase orders, exception resolution, and reconciliation, across the customer's own systems.\n* Operating across companies in the same vertical turns cross-company experience into **proprietary process and supplier intelligence**, while pooled demand creates **group-purchasing power**: better execution, prices, resilience, and terms for every customer.\n* The same platform **monitors service levels, resolves exceptions, and remains accountable** for completing the operation. Per-action autonomy limits, approval queues, and an immutable audit log make every task provable.\n\n## Proof so far\n\n* **Live:** $400M a year of supplier spend under management, zero systems migrated. Multiple six figure contracts signed.\n* **Demand for delegation:** our first customer cancelled 3 planned procurement hires, the CSCO invested his own money, and two chains are signing to progressively outsource purchasing, one planning a procurement team 90% smaller by 2027.\n* **Results:** 3x faster RFQ cycles, off-contract spend down 42% at one customer, $120K a year saved at another.\n\n## Where this goes\n\nSpaceFlow will replace legacy service providers across the physical economy. Traditional service firms grow by hiring; SpaceFlow grows output faster than headcount, targeting **$1B in revenue with headcount capped at 100**. \n\n## What's in it for you?\n\n1. **You run a physical-goods company with $100M+ supplier spend:** send us 12 months of PO history and we'll map one lane and size the savings, free. 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