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After helping over 1,000 startups with their corporate taxes we are excited to bring you [**TaxPlan**](https://tryfondo.com/taxplan).\n\n![](https://assets-global.website-files.com/61d7d4dc76fa4b4793492a4f/6565864e5e7b3f872f4a87ee_7shots_so.png)\n\nThis is the most common question we get from founders:\n\n**\"Do I Need to File Taxes for My Startup?\"**\n\nYes. Once your startup is incorporated and funded, filing taxes is crucial. Not only does this meet legal obligations and fulfill your fiduciary duty to investors, but it's also essential for leveraging benefits like R&D tax credits. Failing to file on time can mean missing out on up to $500k in tax credits. Corporate tax is **NOT** handled by your payroll system (they handle payroll tax).\n\n[**TaxPlan**](https://tryfondo.com/taxplan) is the simplest way to know **where, when, and how much** your startup owes in corporate taxes -- including your [**Section 174**](https://www.tryfondo.com/blog/section-174) adjustment. 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[Create account](https://tryfondo.com/taxplan)\n2. Select “Yes” to TaxPlan (FREE)\n3. Receive TaxPlan via email\n\nThank you and I hope you’ll try us out!\n\nDavid\n\nCEO & Founder @ Fondo (W18)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/K2R-fondo-taxplan-get-your-startup-taxes-done-right", "votes": 27, "created_at": "2023-12-19T20:21:23.352Z" }, { "id": 69495, "title": "✅ Fondo - $1 Delaware Franchise Tax (due in 9 days)", "tagline": "Let Fondo file your Delaware Franchise Tax for $1", "body": "Hi everyone 👋,\n\nDavid here, former accountant and founder/CEO of Fondo. We’ve helped 1,000+ founders file their Delaware Franchise tax since launching in 2020.\n\nWe’d love to handle this for you for **$1**. \n\n# **Problem**\n\nAll Delaware Corporations are legally required to file Delaware Franchise Tax each year (beginning with their year of incorporation)\n\n• Deadline: 3/1/23 (in 9 days)\n\n• Tax Owed: $450+\n\n• Penalties: $200 +1.5%/mo of unpaid balance\n\nWhat often what trips founders up is that Delaware will notify you that you owe $50k+. This is because there are two methods to calculate the total franchise tax owed: the **Authorized Shares Method** and **Assumed Par Value Capital Method**. Delaware gives startups the flexibility to use the method that results in the lessor tax. This gets more complicated once you’ve raised a priced round. Fondo will make sure to file based on the lowest tax method legally possible, generally **Assumed Par Value Capital Method.**\n\n![](https://ph-files.imgix.net/00d7138c-e164-4837-b17a-e57cb37420ef.png?auto=compress&codec=mozjpeg&cs=strip&auto=format&fit=max)\n\n# **Solution**\n\nLet Fondo prepare and file your Delaware Annual Franchise Tax Report for **$1:** [**tryfondo.com/1**](http://tryfondo.com/1)\n\n![](https://ph-files.imgix.net/a3edb57f-b13b-4190-a5bb-566fb85fa437.png?auto=compress&codec=mozjpeg&cs=strip&auto=format&fit=max)\n\n# **🤝 Launch YC Deal**\n\n### Let Fondo prepare and file your Delaware Annual Franchise Tax Report for $1: [tryfondo.com/1](http://tryfondo.com/1)\n\n![](https://ph-files.imgix.net/2af8a957-a517-4816-a101-2ebdc3e11358.png?auto=compress&codec=mozjpeg&cs=strip&auto=format&fit=max)\n\n# **FAQ**\n\nHere is a comprehensive guide that answers all of the most common questions founders have about Delaware Franchise Tax: \n\n**Please note:** there is no additional purchase necessary, we will prepare & file for you for **$1**. You will still owe Delaware $450+, Fondo handles making that payment for you with your payment details.\n\nThank you!\n\nDavid", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I4t-fondo-1-delaware-franchise-tax-due-in-9-days", "votes": 31, "created_at": "2023-02-21T19:28:27.091Z" }, { "id": 65591, "title": "Fondo - 💰 Automatically get cash back from the IRS (average startup gets $21,000)", "tagline": "Automatically get cash back from the IRS (average startup gets $21,000)", "body": "👋 Hi everyone,\n\nDavid here, former accountant & CEO/Founder of [Fondo](https://tryfondo.com/credits) (W18). Last week, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law -- which includes doubling the **R&D Credit available per startup to up to $500k per year**. This is great news for startups and we’d love to help you get the maximum money back from the IRS.\n\n### 💰 **Automatically get cash back from the IRS (average startup gets $21,000)**\n\nToday, we are publicly launching [Fondo Tax Credits](https://tryfondo.com/credits) to help startups get cash back from the IRS.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65591&key=user_uploads/51966/d7c2588f-c394-4e86-8baf-ae15c253c2ae)\n\nThank you to [@Career Karma](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/career-karma), [@Explo,](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/explo) [@PostHog](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/posthog), [@Tydo](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/polyops), & [@Bottomless](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bottomless) being our first 5 Tax Credit customers.\n\n### **Does my startup qualify?**\n\nMost likely, yes! Startups with less than $5M in gross receipts will generally qualify. Because of the broad definition for qualified activities, startups from almost every industry have claimed R&D tax credits. If you have employees or contractors in the United States who spend any time developing new or improved products, processes, software, algorithms, formulas, or inventions, then you likely qualify for the R&D tax credit. [See if your startup qualifies →](https://tryfondo.com/credits-check)\n\n### **How much does my startup qualify for?**\n\nThe amount of money you can get back is based on your company's R&D expenses (founder/employee/contractor payroll) and can be up to $500k per year. [See how much you can get back with our Tax Credit Calculator →](https://tryfondo.com/credits-check)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65591&key=user_uploads/51966/73b455e4-aa8b-4ad6-8b75-ce55a8873d1f)\n\n### **How do I claim the credit?**\n\nFondo handles all of this for you — the credit is claimed by doing an R&D Credit study, filing additional forms with your corporate tax returns, and updating your payroll system. [Get started here →](https://tryfondo.com/credits)\n\n### **⚠️ Upcoming Deadline**\n\nThe deadline to claim this credit for 2021 is 10/17/22 (if you filed an extension), otherwise you can claim the credit for 2022.\n\n### 🤝 **DEAL: 25% OFF Tax Credits**\n\n_Sign up by 8/25/22 to use this deal._ You only pay Fondo if we can help you get money back. Typically, our fees will not exceed 20% of the amount we can help you get back. This deal will cap the amount you pay Fondo at 15%.\n\n[👉 Sign up here →](https://tryfondo.com/credits)\n\n### **What do you get?**\n\nThe benefits of claiming your tax credits with Fondo is that we can handle everything you need to get it done -- end-to-end. 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Lee went through YC in S09 (incidentally, the same batch as Stripe!) and supported us throughout our entire YC journey by providing valuable feedback on our application, giving us practical advice on the interview, and even flying into California just to attend our Demo Day! The written application itself was very straightforward. YC makes it extremely easy with their online application. If you are working on a startup or even just an idea, you having absolutely nothing to lose by writing and submitting an application! I will admit that the interview (in-person at YC’s HQ in Mountain View, CA) was quite stressful. The nervous energy that permeated the air of the lobby and lounge area, mere steps away from the rooms in which interviews were taking place, was palpable. Naturally, the interview was the classic 10-min rapid fire format. I recall one of the first questions we were asked was quite pointed: “Many have tried to build what you two are doing and failed. How are you guys different?” Deep breathe. Do not get defensive. Answer the question succinctly and confidently. The 10 min were over before we knew it. It was stressful, but fair. Afterwards, we went to Castro street in downtown Mountain View to have dinner. In the middle of dinner, we received the call that would forever change our lives (“We would love to fund you guys!”). We immediately accepted YC’s offer of funding over the phone. We ended up having about a month from our acceptance into YC until the actual start of the batch. In the interim, there were some housekeeping items to attend to such as sending copies of our startup’s incorporation documents and other legal documents to YC’s Legal team and Finance team for review so we could receive YC’s investment! While still in the Bay Area, shortly after our interview, I remember attending a pre-batch kick-off event where Michael Seibel welcomed us to YC. I recall Michael said (paraphrasing), “So, technically the ‘batch’ has not started yet officially… but ‘YC itself’ has already started. So… I suggest you all get started! Like, right now! You can literally start booking office hours today! Start building and talking to your customers! We’ll see you this summer!”) Before long the summer came and the formal programming of the batch began. Things moved fast and we quickly settled into what would become a familiar rhythm: Write code. Talk to customers. Write more code. Talk to more customers. Write even more code. Talk to even more customers. Rinse and repeat. The weekly small group office hours and dinner events were highlights of each week that served to inspire and invigorate. The first dinner event featured the co-founder of Airbnb as a guest speaker, and subsequent dinner guests included Garry Tan (now president of YC!), Brian Armstrong (Coinbase), and even a special guest appearance from the legends themselves - Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston! Demo Day and fundraising were the culmination of our three months of hard work during the batch. The event would be split over two days and held at the venerable Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Sadly, our batch (S18) would be the last batch to be hosted by the museum for Demo Day (due to the larger sizes of subsequent batches). Much like the lobby and lounge of YC’s HQ on interview day, the nervous energy in the backstage green room of the Computer History Museum auditorium was palpable with people pacing back and forth, meditating, or silently rehearsing their pitch one last time. Before long, it was our turn, and the Batch Director fitted the one of us who would be speaking (Olivier) with a microphone and sent us out on stage. The pitch exceeded our own expectations and was delivered with gravitas, poise, and even a touch of humor. The successful pitch was all thanks to the generous time and support of many partners, most notably our group partners Aaron Harris, Adora Cheung, and Yuri Sagalov, but also other partners including Dalton Caldwell. As soon as we finished our pitch, the “likes” from investors came flooding in through the Demo Day software. Fundraising is usually a tough slog and one has to usually deal with many rejections for every “yes” that they receive. The whole process can take several months to upwards of an entire year. We were very fortunate to be in the top-third of our batch in terms of ease of fundraising, with far more “yes” than “no” responses and we were ultimately able to wrap up our fundraising in less than a week. I will note that success in fundraising at Demo Day is not necessarily predictive of future success as a company - so do not get lulled into a false sense of security just because fundraising comes relatively easier to you at Demo Day. There is a quite a vast distance between the moment that one decides to start a company and the moment that one actually sees it get off the ground. Unfortunately, the reality of startup life is that the journey across this distance (and beyond) can often be emotionally brutal; rife with feelings of intense loneliness which have to be balanced against a massive faith in what you are doing – a faith that is hard to sustain alone. We can truly think of no other partner we would want more than YC in embarking on such a journey. Special thanks to our group partners Aaron Harris, Adora Cheung, and Yuri Sagalov. They did NOT read drafts of this write-up, but we can unequivocally say that we would not have made it this far if it were not for their support and wise counsel." }, { "question": "How have you kept in touch with the YC community and continued to use YC resources & programs since the batch ended?", "answer": "After our YC batch formally concluded in Sep 2018, we have kept in touch with the YC community through YC’s internal social network Bookface (think of it as a combination of LinkedIn, Quora, and Wikipedia). > Olivier: “I check Bookface at least once a day and it has been an invaluable source of knowledge, tips & tricks, and sometimes much needed humor/relief from the occasional ennui that comes with the territory of being a founder.”Alumni Demo Days (a dress rehearsal / practice-run of Demo Day in which the audience is made up of YC alumni / affiliates instead of professional investors) are also another excellent way for alumni to remained connected with the YC community. > Olivier: “I have attended every single Alumni Demo Day since becoming an alum. For the W19 and S19 batches, I was fortunate to attend in-person in San Francisco. These were very fun, well organized events and doubled as a kind of ‘YC mini-reunion’ of sorts - I miss them greatly. All subsequent batches (W20, S20, W21, S21, W22, S22) I have attended were done remotely through Zoom. Remote Demo Days have also been well organized (and with great music!), but naturally, they cannot compete with the experience of being in-person!”" }, { "question": "What's the history of your company from getting started until the present day? What were the big inflection points?", "answer": "Alpha Vantage began as a passion project created over winter break while the co-founders were in grad school together. 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It brings the magical experience of deploying your applications with a few clicks into your own cloud account. After a year since we closed down our self-serve flow, we are opening Porter back up for self-serve today.\n\n* [Sign up here](https://dashboard.getporter.dev) and start deploying applications on your own infrastructure that scales with you.\n* [Claim $10,000 in credits](https://gcpjnf9adme.typeform.com/to/lHMQdJYb) if your company is enrolled in YC Startup School. Along with the AWS credits you can claim from Startup School, this deal effectively lets you deploy on a PaaS for free - it’s like using Heroku with your AWS credits!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=71916&key=user_uploads/323071/cc2f3fac-340f-4f39-9e4d-533f7ab40053)\n\n## **What is Porter?**\n\nHi everyone,\n\nWe are Trevor and Justin from [Porter](https://porter.run/). 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I was the co-founder of LeadIQ, the leading sales intelligence platform. I managed a fast-growing team of 50 remote employees and onboarded everyone while creating a platform that handled millions of dollars every year. Mert is the CTO and he has over 10 years of experience building device security. Mert and I have both experienced issues of device security and Mert has been building a similar solution for the past 5 years. Jeremy is our sales. He was a former YC founder and recently joined us to drive our sales. He used to host virtual YC demo days." }, { "question": "How did you decide to apply to Y Combinator? What was your experience applying, going through the batch, and fundraising at demo day?", "answer": "Our batch mentor guided us on product iteration and helped us with pitch practices. 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We’re the team at [Swif](https://www.swif.ai?utm_source=yclaunch), and we're excited to introduce our **Swif Chrome Extension**, designed to solve the growing issue of Shadow IT in organizations. As businesses scale, it's easy for employees to start using unauthorized SaaS apps, creating security and compliance risks that IT teams struggle to monitor.\n\n**What’s the problem?** Shadow IT refers to apps and services used by employees without IT’s knowledge or approval. This often leads to unmonitored data access, increasing the risk of breaches, non-compliance, and lost productivity. Even well-managed IT teams find it hard to track all software being used across departments.\n\n**How does Swif’s Chrome Extension fix this?** Our Chrome Extension helps you automatically identify and monitor employee access to unauthorized SaaS apps. With **real-time visibility**, Swif detects email and password sign-ups to unapproved apps, enabling IT teams to track usage, ensure compliance, and take action quickly—before a security risk escalates. The extension fits seamlessly into your existing IT workflow, providing a single dashboard for comprehensive oversight.\n\nSwif’s strength lies in its automation. Instead of manually hunting down unapproved apps, our extension monitors usage, generates compliance reports, and offers automated solutions for securing access. This gives you control without adding complexity, saving both time and resources.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84069&key=user_uploads/28055/13b44543-ebbc-4d61-ad14-5dd5150a1dd1)\n\n**Why did we build it?** The idea came from our experience working with companies overwhelmed by Shadow IT problems. We saw firsthand how much of a challenge it is to maintain visibility over what employees are using, especially in remote and hybrid work environments. Our mission was to create a tool that does the heavy lifting for IT departments, making it easier to manage without sacrificing security or efficiency.\n\n**What’s next?** We’re excited to offer early access to the Swif Chrome Extension! If you’re managing a fleet of devices or overseeing IT security, sign up to be among the first to try our solution and take control of Shadow IT.\n\n**Call to Action**: Ready to tackle Shadow IT? [Create a Swif account](https://app.swif.ai/chromeextension?utm_source=yclaunch), download the extension, and start managing your apps with ease!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lrx-swif-solve-shadow-it-with-our-chrome-extension", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2024-09-17T02:14:17.061Z" }, { "id": 70930, "title": "Swif.ai - Compliance-First Device Security", "tagline": "The YC's Get Start Package for MDM & Compliance Automation", "body": "### **⛔️The problem**\n\n1. Fragmented device management across multiple operating systems and locations.\n2. Time-consuming manual compliance checks and reporting for various regulatory standards.\n3. Inefficient onboarding and offboarding processes for remote and global teams.\n4. Lack of visibility into shadow IT and unauthorized SaaS application usage.\n\n### **🚀The solution**\n\n[Swif.ai](http://Swif.ai) offers a comprehensive solution for device security, compliance management, and IT administration across Linux, Windows, and macOS. It automates patch management for various compliance frameworks, provides real-time compliance status reports, and enables remote device control. Swif's all-in-one platform integrates with HR systems, simplifying employee onboarding and offboarding processes while offering cost-effective access management compared to traditional SSO solutions.\n\n**Customer Benefits**\n\n1. Unified visibility and control over all organizational devices, regardless of operating system or location.\n2. 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Here is 1 min get started video.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70930&key=user_uploads/28055/12d9aeea-cdbe-4734-a6d9-441a31135956)\n\n### **✅Our asks**\n\n* Check out our [**website**](https://www.swif.ai) – play around with our **interactive demo**\n* [**Sign up**](https://app.swif.ai/) and use Swif — it’s free.\n* [**Reach out**](https://www.swif.ai/) if you’re interested in a live demo", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IS2-swif-ai-compliance-first-device-security", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2023-04-13T00:24:25.556Z" }, { "id": 66625, "title": "Swif - One-stop device management and security", "tagline": "Order, equip, manage your devices for your distributed teams", "body": "Hello, everyone! This is [Angelo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelokh/) here to introduce [Swif](https://www.swif.ai?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=yc_launch)!\n\n❌ **The Problem**\n\nIn my last startup LeadIQ, I managed 2 remote teams in the US and Singapore. It was really painful to manage devices and cloud app access for employees in different locations. We wanted a better understanding of company devices and employee’s cloud app access, and we used a giant Excel sheet to solve this problem, only to find that the solution can not scale. We took time to find solutions to set up, configure, and then discover that the capabilities of each solution were incomplete or buggy. Companies were wasting money and time. The challenges were real, painful and increased company risks. Employee onboarding and offboarding were a nightmare.\n\n✨ **Our Solution**\n\nSwif helps distributed teams manage their devices, purchase new ones, and retrieve them when employees leave the company. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=66625&key=user_uploads/28055/4b87f21a-cf0d-4381-b7ba-286c4c293b40)\n\nWhy do we need a new solution for device management?\n\nYou might work in California but have team members distributed in Texas, New York, Paris, and Singapore. Things like these might occur to you:\n\n1. Sending, retrieving, and storing devices for remote teams is painful. \n2. Losing data for security risks could keep you up at night.\n3. Employee data is across multiple platforms, eg. Gusto and Deel, and have no audit trails of who owns which devices.\n\n👉 **Next steps**\n\n1. Sign up for [Swif](https://www.swif.ai?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=yc_launch) and subscribe with promo code ‘ycdeal’ to enjoy one-year free premium features.\n2. Import your employees from your HRIS. We currently support 30 HRIS connections!\n3. 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MCP is what the future of LLC formation looks like in an agentic world.\n\nHappy to answer any questions here.\n\nLets doola it ⚡\n\nPS: If you’d like to partner with us to offer formation in your platform via MCP or API, please email me at [arjun@doola.com](mailto:arjun@doola.com) or you can grab some time to chat and [learn more about accessing our MCP + Formation API here.](https://www.doola.com/business-solutions/company-formation-api/)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QAU-doola-mcp-api-for-us-llc-formation", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2026-04-30T14:42:12.425Z" }, { "id": 93361, "title": "doola: AI Co-Founder", "tagline": "The First AI Business-in-a-Box™ for E-Commerce Entrepreneurs", "body": "[doola: AI Co-Founder](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63utsvP5Hx8&t=1s)\n\nIntroducing doola’s [AI Co-Founder](https://www.doola.com/ai-cofounder/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ai-cofounder&htrafficsource=yc&el=yc_08272025), the first intelligent partner built for global e-commerce entrepreneurs that cuts back-office work from hours per week to just minutes. So you can focus on building your brand and making sales.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93361&key=user_uploads/306058/df83bf9e-c5f7-4708-8d34-e5064c8fb5a6)\n\nGlobal e-commerce entrepreneurs were telling us the same story. That starting a Shopify or Amazon store is easy, but running and managing one is overwhelming.\n\nThat’s why we built [doola's AI Co-Founder](https://www.doola.com/ai-cofounder/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ai-cofounder&htrafficsource=yc&el=yc_08272025), the intelligent partner that takes care of your back-office tasks.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93361&key=user_uploads/306058/4cb6bc40-e222-49fd-96c6-0cdf662db309)\n\nE-Commerce entrepreneurs don’t want ten browser tabs and five service providers. They want one trusted partner who gets the job done. Our [AI Co-Founder](https://www.doola.com/ai-cofounder/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ai-cofounder&htrafficsource=yc&el=yc_08272025) is your business partner that never sleeps, is available 24/7, fluent in 175+ countries’ unique challenges, and gets smarter with every interaction.\n\n**What AI Co-Founder Delivers Today**\n\nUnlike generic chatbots, [AI Co-Founder is built for e-commerce entrepreneurs](https://www.doola.com/ai-cofounder/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ai-cofounder&htrafficsource=yc&el=yc_08272025) and automates tasks that usually drain founders' time:\n\n* **Banking & Payments:** Helps founders globally set up U.S. accounts and Shopify Payments quickly.\n* **Compliance & Filings:** Tracks state deadlines and fees, sending reminders before obligations are due.\n* **Bookkeeping & Accounting:** Advises on accounting methods and expense categorization to keep your books clean.\n\n**U.S. Tax Guidance:** Explains filing requirements based on a founder's home country and U.S. business structure.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93361&key=user_uploads/306058/01ea07eb-326f-4160-9c00-076b598a7e29)\n\ndoola isn’t just a formation service. We’re building the first [AI Business-in-a-Box™ for E-Commerce](https://www.doola.com/ai-cofounder/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ai-cofounder&htrafficsource=yc&el=yc_08272025).\n\nOur AI Co-Founder is the first step toward an intelligent, automated back-office that works for you, so you can focus on what you do best, while doola handles the rest.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OHp-doola-ai-co-founder", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2025-08-27T14:02:51.947Z" }, { "id": 89198, "title": "doola: Business-in-a-Box™ for E-Commerce", "tagline": "Your E-Commerce back office. Simplified.", "body": "[Introducing Business-in-a-Box™: The Back Office of E-Commerce is Finally Here](https://youtu.be/OROIndmHTQw?si=HIDSwQhQHiQj2RjB)\n\nThe front end of E-Commerce is Shopify and Amazon. The back-end has been fragmented and missing… until now.\n\nToday is one of the most important days in doola's history.\n\nWe're launching [doola Business-in-a-Box™ for E-Commerce](https://www.doola.com/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=businessinabox&htrafficsource=yc&el=doola_yc) - the first solution that brings the entire back-end of E-Commerce into one place.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89198&key=user_uploads/306058/15876394-8954-4de9-9cd4-6ef713e518e8)\n\n## E-Commerce Do'ers, you know the struggle:\n\n* Entity formation, compliance, and multi-state tax rules\n* Bookkeeping and financials that ensure you don't overpay the IRS\n* Business analytics to understand profitability across all your channels\n\nFor too long, you've been forced to stitch together a back-end solution from fragmented services, thinking that's just the way it had to be.\n\nWe built the solution E-Commerce founders deserve.\n\n## With doola, you get:\n\n✅ LLC formation and business banking set up the right way from day one\n\n✅ Bookkeeping and tax filings are handled (by humans) so you don't leave money on the table\n\n✅ Initial sales tax registration and reseller certificate? We got you covered.\n\n✅ Business analytics integrated to track profits across Shopify, Amazon, and beyond\n\n## Why this matters:\n\n* E-Commerce is exploding—online sales will surpass $6 trillion globally in 2025\n* Founders don't want five different vendors to manage their back-end\n* You should be focused on selling and scaling—not juggling compliance tasks\n\nThe best part? No U.S. Social Security Number is required. We've already helped 10,000+ entrepreneurs from 175+ countries turn their E-Commerce dreams into reality and scale to 7 figures and beyond.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89198&key=user_uploads/306058/9e1a4c84-9bfb-434a-85f1-c72c6efd480a)\n\nEverything you need is now in one place, [built specifically for E-Commerce.](https://www.doola.com/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=businessinabox&htrafficsource=yc&el=doola_yc) All the unsexy yet critical and required things you need to do—doola takes care of them for you.\n\nStop managing back-end tasks manually. Focus on what you do best while doola handle the rest.\n\n[Schedule a demo today.](https://www.doola.com/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=businessinabox&htrafficsource=yc&el=doola_yc)\n\nLet's doola this ⚡️", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NCg-doola-business-in-a-box-for-e-commerce", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2025-04-02T12:31:18.046Z" }, { "id": 84459, "title": "doola White Label Bookkeeping and Tax API", "tagline": "Add bookkeeping and tax filings to your product suite via API.", "body": "Hey everyone! 👋\n\nWe’re excited to announce the expansion of our API offerings to the YC community with the launch of the doola White Label Bookkeeping and Tax API. 🎉\n\nAt doola, we’ve always been on a mission to empower entrepreneurs to run their US business seamlessly, no matter where they are in the world. \n\nIt all started with our [**Company Formation API**](https://www.doola.com/business-solutions/company-formation-api/?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=listing&utm_campaign=formationapi): a solution designed to help founder s launch their US companies in minutes, fully remote, and hassle-free. Our API enabled platforms to offer a seamless US company formation experience, outsourcing all the filings and compliance to doola's automation — and unlocking new revenue streams for those platforms.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84459&key=user_uploads/306058/c0bc5c09-1648-47f8-9395-bbc8bcadb7a6)\n\nBut our vision didn’t stop at formation.\n\nToday, we’re excited to build on that foundation with our new [**White Label Bookkeeping and Tax API**](https://doola.com/bookkeeping/white-label-bookkeeping-tax-api?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=listing&utm_campaign=bookkeepingtaxapi), allowing platforms to offer not just company formation but also ongoing bookkeeping, financial statements, and tax compliance services, fully powered by doola.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84459&key=user_uploads/306058/2dca792c-361f-499f-9010-ca14df3d7bcf)\n\nHere’s what the API can do for you:\n\n⚙️ **Streamline Operations**: Automate formation, bookkeeping, and tax compliance for your users, simplifying their back-office needs from start to finish — all while we handle the complexities.\n\n📈 **Unlock New Revenue Opportunities**: Whitelabel doola’s comprehensive services or integrate them into your platform, giving your customers a full-suite solution and adding new revenue streams to your business. \n\nImagine your platform being the place where users can form their US LLCs, stay compliant, and handle all their bookkeeping and tax filings, without lifting a finger. Whether you're helping e-commerce sellers, SaaS entrepreneurs, or creators, our API equips you to offer this seamlessly.\n\n**Interested in partnering with doola?**\n\n[Talk to our team today](https://doola.com/bookkeeping/white-label-bookkeeping-tax-api), and let's team up to help more founders start, run, and grow their dream businesses.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LyF-doola-white-label-bookkeeping-and-tax-api", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2024-10-02T15:11:11.664Z" }, { "id": 78385, "title": "💸 doola Money - Start an LLC, store $USD, and move money globally in minutes", "tagline": "We empower global founders by helping them set up a US business without handling any complex paperwork.", "body": "Hey everyone! 👋\n\nWe’re thrilled to announce doola’s new fintech product for global entrepreneurs, which is now open to the YC community.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78385&key=user_uploads/306058/da2575af-7711-44ef-9f55-536803a6edab)\n\nAt doola, our mission is to empower global founders by helping them set up a US business without handling any complex paperwork.\n\nIn addition to business formation and tax compliance, doola’s new product will now allow global businesses and founders to deposit $USD and move money internationally from any continent, with no US Social Security Number required.\n\ndoola Money is a payment account that enables users to do a few things, including:\n\n* depositing and storing US dollars\n* making ACH and wire payments in the US\n* send money internationally using FX or currency exchange transactions\n* use your doola Money account for payouts from processors like Stripe or PayPal\n\nWhether you’re a seasoned entrepreneur or a first-time business owner, doola Money opens doors to international transactions without the hassles of social security numbers or credit histories.\n\nWe’re excited to continue empowering founders across the globe to turn their dream idea into their dream US businesses.\n\nYC companies can get early access to [doola Money](https://doola.com/money) today! 🚀\n\nYou can read and watch all about how to use doola Money here on [doola University](https://www.doola.com/university/a-guide-to-using-doola-money/).\n\nYou can check us out on [Product Hunt](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/doola-money).\n\nAnd you can see the coverage on social here ([LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mahadevanarjun_doolas-biggest-announcement-of-the-year-activity-7163166871607840768-L5ZO?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop) | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/ArjunMahadevan/status/1757403567294435728?s=20)).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KOH-doola-money-start-an-llc-store-usd-and-move-money-globally-in-minutes", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2024-02-13T15:33:58.929Z" }, { "id": 67380, "title": "doola Company Formation API 🔮", "tagline": "Create a US company from the command line and unlock a new revenue stream.", "body": "Hey everyone! 👋\n\nWe’re excited to open our [Company Formation API](https://www.doola.com/company-formation-api?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=listing&utm_campaign=formationapi) up to the YC community. 🥳\n\nAt doola, our mission is to help anyone turn their dream idea into their dream US business from anywhere in the world. To enable this for founders meant handling all the complex paperwork — something we spent hours manually filing forms with the state and IRS.\n\nThere had to be a better way. So we built a Formation API in-house. Today, we can file companies with the state in minutes upon receiving information from a founder. And we can do this for founders, 100% remotely, from anywhere in the world.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67380&key=user_uploads/306058/5cf78b55-cc08-4719-96e1-e41eb621a5c8)\n\nThe API we have built can now empower businesses of all types and sizes to offer US company formation and ongoing compliance at scale, fully powered by doola.\n\nThis now allows companies to use the tech we’ve built to:\n\n* ⚙️ Streamline operations and outsource formations and filings to doola’s automation.\n* 📈 Drive new revenue streams by offering a new product to your customer base (white-labeled or powered by doola).\n\nWe’re excited to continue empowering founders across the globe to turn their dream idea into their dream US businesses.\n\nYC companies can [access our API today,](https://www.doola.com/company-formation-api) and be sure to read through our [API docs](https://www.doola.com/company-formation-api) as well! 🚀\n\nYou can read all about how we’re building our API [here](https://www.doola.com/blog/doola-company-formation-api) on our company blog.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HWm-doola-company-formation-api", "votes": 44, "created_at": "2022-11-17T14:26:22.378Z" }, { "id": 67114, "title": "doola Banking", "tagline": "A new way for LLCs to bank and build credit in the US", "body": "Hey everyone! 👋\n\nWe’re so excited to share the launch of [doola Banking](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/doola-banking)! 🏦\n\n[doola](https://www.doola.com) helps global entrepreneurs form U.S. LLCs and DAO LLCs by supporting customers through the incorporation process so they can confidently collect payments, build credibility, stay legal, and make more money.\n\nTo date, doola has provided company formation, an EIN, a U.S. address, access to U.S. payments, tax consultations, U.S. tax support, $50,000 in startup perks, and today…\n\n… access to a US business bank account.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67114&key=user_uploads/306058/0cdb4068-a0de-4d8e-99ef-62def675c5c4)\n\n**We’re essentially enabling a new way for LLCs to bank and build credit in the US.**\n\nOur strategy is to deliver a seamless experience to help businesses on their path to growth. We’re engaging our customers with personalized insights, timely recommendations, cash management, team management, account tracking, and financial content, all to optimize daily financial operations — using the superpowers of a feature-rich digital bank.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67114&key=user_uploads/306058/db2e4e4f-2497-42bf-bd1e-ed92dd9e4f13)\n\nWe are now an all-in-one platform to:\n\n* 🗂 Register your US LLC or DAO LLC\n* 🏦 Open your US bank account\n* ✅ Keep your LLC compliant with Total Compliance (State Filings, IRS Filings, and Bookkeeping).\n\nAll. In. One. Go. No US SSN required.\n\nWe’re excited to continue empowering founders across the globe to turn their dream idea into their dream US business.\n\n[Check out doola Banking on Product Hunt as well!](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/doola-banking)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HSU-doola-banking", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2022-11-03T19:34:35.214Z" } ] }, { "id": 21906, "name": "webapp.io", "slug": "webapp-io", "former_names": [ "Layer", "LayerCI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/31c19d6a46df0610402b7fe27d52dc80c7cf4893.png", "website": "https://webapp.io", "all_locations": "Toronto, ON, Canada; Remote", "long_description": "Webapp.io's custom hypervisor makes webapp CI/CD, E2E testing, and preview environments as simple as writing a Dockerfile.\r\n\r\nIf your team is building a webapp + using github/gitlab/bitbucket, please reach out!", "one_liner": "Build webapps faster with 10x better CI/CD + preview envs", "team_size": 4, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1597858027, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "SaaS", "B2B" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2020", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "Canada", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/webapp-io", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2020/webapp-io.json", "year_founded": 2020, "city": "Toronto", "country": "CA", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/webappio", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/webappio", "fb_url": "https://facebook.com/webappio", "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/webappio", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/31c19d6a46df0610402b7fe27d52dc80c7cf4893.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 364633, "full_name": "Colin Chartier", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Technical founder, full-stack, system design, & devops\nTriple major (CS/stats/math) from University of Toronto", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/colinchartier/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/dedee6b5c2c7b303b9b535d6e693b72fdcd5c04f.jpg" }, { "user_id": 484938, "full_name": "Lyn Chen", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Prev. Dev Tools Founder (acquired), now doing human flourishing projects across emerging adulthood (18-25) and K-12. \n\n\n\n", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynchen/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/bb2c982f14878730856530996e4c877fb9e472b8.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 64193, "title": "𝙒𝙚𝙗𝙖𝙥𝙥.𝙞𝙤 - Instant per-branch VMs for E2E tests & ephemeral environments", "tagline": "Webapp.io is often 10x faster than creating full-stack environments in a regular CI like Github Actions", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64193&key=user_uploads/364633/589b9712-0cb1-49cd-9bf5-e059435f1451)\n\nHey! We’re Colin & Lyn from [webapp.io](http://webapp.io).\n\nWe’re helping webapp developers make new copies of their stack in seconds using memory snapshots. You can think of a cloud-agnostic, full-stack version of the branch deployments you’d get from Vercel, Netlify, Heroku, or Render - even if you’re using a regular cloud provider instead of a PaaS.\n\n[Webapp.io](http://Webapp.io) lets you create full-stack environments for every pull request in seconds. We’ve built a custom hypervisor that watches which files are used in which build steps, and skips repetitive actions like starting microservices, seeding databases, or building images.\n\nIt came out of our own frustrations from having to often skip end-to-end testing for commits just for the sake of developer velocity. 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We're on a mission to re-imagine how eCommerce is done today using Generative AI.\n\n**❓The Problem**\\\n96% of online visitors drop off after visiting a Brand’s website because of multiple reasons, such as not getting what they wanted or not knowing where and how to find what they want.\n\n**⭐️ Solution**\n\n[Manifest AI](https://getmanifest.ai)’s shopping page allows brands to have a fully personalised AI shopping experience for each visitor where they can ask what they want, for example, “I have a date night, pls suggest something in black?” Manifest AI enables product recommendation, engagement & purchase depending upon the intent of the visitor.\n\n**⚙️ How it works**\n\nAs soon as you sign up for [Manifest AI](https://getmanifest.ai), the LLMs gets trained on your eCommerce store & sales data, and generates an AI shopping page, the page can have different URLs depending upon the ads campaign making the AI shopping page to give a very personalised experience to each user. 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It acts like a human sales agent on your eCommerce website.\n\n👉🏼 Watch the full video [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4K_uE0RkQI)\n\n**💙 Manifest AI is contributing to real sales**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81809&key=user_uploads/341432/647489df-7448-48a0-a5b1-9123db34bf0d)\n\n**👉** You also get the Training quality score of your AI on the Manifest Dashboard.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81809&key=user_uploads/341432/80378219-9406-4ab5-acf8-cdb66f063c1f)\n\n👉 You can set up different URLs & experiences for your ads campaign.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81809&key=user_uploads/341432/bb32fc2d-fac8-46cf-9a18-ea4a162ad4ba)\n\nAI also has the capability to generate real-time quizzes based on intent, keeping the visitors engaged.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81809&key=user_uploads/341432/afd9ca35-ec7f-44bc-bbe1-a94f7fb0dcc8)\n\n**🙏 Asks**\n\nIf you have any eCommerce brands in your network, request them to try [Manifest AI](https://getmanifest.ai)!\n\nFollow us on [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getmanifestai) 😊\n\nIf you have 30 minutes to chat about Manifest AI, please book a time with me [here](https://bit.ly/4cluvJH) or [DM me here](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonakshi-nathani-473abb41/)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LHV-manifest-ai-introducing-ai-shopping-pages", "votes": 208, "created_at": "2024-06-27T20:59:36.368Z" } ] }, { "id": 22021, "name": "Mailwarm", "slug": "mailwarm", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/28e9d8c1afc2f855ecd63f4a8547074fb4563efd.png", "website": "https://www.mailwarm.com", "all_locations": "Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates", "long_description": "Mailwarm is the email deliverability company. We help senders get into the inbox and stay there, through products, tools, and services built for both humans and AI agents.\r\n\r\n✦ Mailwarm.com: The original email warmup tool. Build sender reputation automatically through real, positive inbox interactions across a large network of mailboxes, with built-in monitoring and deliverability insights.\r\n\r\n✦ ThemailX.com: Instant deliverability diagnostics for AI agents and humans. Check all protocols SPF, DKIM, DMARC, Inbox placement and more via MCP, API, or web. Get specific fixes and actions, not just scores.\r\n\r\n✦ Mailadept.com: Email deliverability on autopilot. A subscription-based, AI-native service where agents and deliverability experts collaborate to audit your setup, fix issues, and monitor inbox placement continuously.\r\n\r\nBuild reputation with Mailwarm, diagnose problems with themailX, fix and maintain with mailadept.\r\nDoing email marketing or cold outreach? 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Now experimenting with a startup studio focused on rapid validation. Passionate about building lean, testing fast, and failing on purpose until something works. YC and Station F alum.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/bengeekly/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7cae188eae424ccff6133289f3e956d6951bb268.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 101509, "title": "mailX by mailwarm - Instant deliverability diagnostics for AI agents & humans.", "tagline": "mailX tells you why emails go to spam and how to fix it, via web, API, and MCP.", "body": "Hey YC\n\nI’m [Amine](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bengeekly/), CTO of Mailwarm (YC S20) and today we’re launching [mailX](https://themailx.com).\\\n[Thami](https://www.linkedin.com/in/thami-benjelloun/) is the CEO, [Othman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/othmankatim/) is our Head of deliverability and we are ready to help you with all your email deliverability problems.\n\nWe’ve been working on email deliverability since 2020. Mailwarm started as an email warmup tool and became [#1 Product of the Day](https://www.producthunt.com/products/mailwarm) on Product Hunt. Since then, we’ve helped thousands of teams improve sender reputation and inbox placement.\n\nToday, we’re building a broader email deliverability ecosystem:\n\n* **Mailwarm** helps teams build sender reputation through real inbox interactions.\n* **mailX** helps humans and AI agents diagnose deliverability issues.\n* **MailAdept** helps companies fix and monitor deliverability continuously with AI agents and human experts.\n\nToday we’re launching [mailX](https://themailx.com).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101509&key=user_uploads/422675/836ee2bb-f82d-4b97-9c90-c77c6d0d62f0)\n\n---\n\n## TL;DR\n\n**mailX tells you why your emails go to spam and how to fix it.**\\\nYou can run a deliverability check from the web, use it through a JSON API, or plug it directly into AI agents through MCP.\n\nNo signup.\\\nNo API key.\\\nFree to use.\n\nTry it here: [**https://themailx.com**](https://themailx.com)\\\nMCP endpoint: [**https://themailx.com/mcp**](https://themailx.com/mcp)\n\n---\n\nYou can also book a call with one of our email deliverability expert [HERE](https://calendly.com/mailwarmsessions/mailx).\n\n## 🚨 The Problem\n\nEmail deliverability is technical, your marketing team can’t handle it.\n\nEmail is still one of the most important growth channels for startups.\n\nFounders use it for cold outreach.\\\nSales teams use it for outbound.\\\nMarketing teams use it for campaigns.\\\nProducts use it for onboarding, activation, and transactional emails.\n\nBut when emails start going to spam, most teams don’t really know why.\n\nThey check random tools.\\\nThey look at raw DNS records.\\\nThey ask ChatGPT.\\\nThey change things blindly.\\\nThey wait and hope inbox placement improves.\n\nThe problem is not only that deliverability is technical.\n\nThe real problem is that most tools show data, but don’t explain what matters or what to fix.\n\nAnd now, with AI agents sending emails, monitoring systems, and managing workflows, this problem gets bigger.\n\nAgents need access to live deliverability tools too.\n\n---\n\n## 💡Our Solution\n\n**mailX is a free deliverability diagnostic platform for humans and AI agents.**\n\nWith mailX, you can analyze a domain in seconds and get a clear report showing:\n\n* What is working\n* What is broken\n* Why it matters\n* What to fix next\n\nThe web app gives founders, marketers, sales teams, and developers a simple way to understand why emails may go to spam.\n\nThe API and MCP server make the same tools available to AI agents and developer workflows.\n\nSo instead of copying DNS records into different tools, your agent can directly check email authentication, blacklist status, mail server configuration, and deliverability signals.\n\n---\n\n## ⏳How it works\n\n1. Enter a domain on [**themailx.com**](http://themailx.com)\n2. mailX runs a live deliverability audit\n3. You get clear issues, explanations, and fixes\n4. Developers can use the JSON API\n5. AI agents can use the MCP endpoint directly\n\nThe best part is that you can lets you AI Agent fix your deliverability or directly integrate it to your Claude or ChatGPT.\n\nHere’s a quick demo of mailX:\\\n\n\nIn the demo, we show:\n\n* Running a domain audit\n* Getting clear fixes\n* Using the MCP/API layer for AI agents and developers\n\nWe currently support checks and tools for email authentication, DNS records, blacklist status, mail server configuration, and record generation.\n\n---\n\n## Why now?\n\nEmail deliverability used to be something only email experts cared about.\n\nToday, every startup relying on outbound, lifecycle emails, AI SDRs, or automated email workflows needs to understand it.\n\nAt the same time, AI agents are becoming part of the stack.\n\nBut agents need tools.\\\nThey need live data.\\\nThey need safe, structured ways to diagnose and act.\n\nThat’s why we made mailX available through:\n\n* Web app\n* JSON API\n* MCP server\n* Agent skill\n* LLM discovery endpoints\n\nOur belief is simple:\n\n**Email deliverability should be understandable for humans and usable by AI agents.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101509&key=user_uploads/422675/ffc97aad-6864-4525-a89d-0aa1f7890289)\n\n---\n\n## Backstory\n\nIn 2019, we failed a startup after 2 years of work.\n\nAfter that, we decided to test ideas much faster: one launch per week.\n\nEvery launch used the same growth channel: email.\n\nCold emails.\\\nPartnership emails.\\\nLaunch emails.\\\nFollow-ups.\n\nThat’s when we understood something obvious: If your emails don’t land in the inbox, nothing else matters.\n\nThat led us to build Mailwarm in 2020.\n\nAfter years helping thousands of teams improve deliverability, we kept seeing the same pattern: People don’t know why they land in spam.\\\nAnd even when they see the data, they don’t know what to fix.\n\nmailX is our answer to that.\n\n---\n\n---\n\n## 🙏 Our Ask\n\nWe’d love your feedback from the YC community.\n\nIf you are doing cold email, email marketing, transactional email, or building AI agents that send or monitor emails, try mailX and tell us what is missing.\n\nAlso, if you are building an AI agent or workflow where email deliverability matters, we’d love to talk.\n\nTry mailX: [**https://themailx.com**](https://themailx.com)\\\nBook a call through MailAdept if you want help choosing the right setup: [https://calendly.com/mailwarmsessions/mailx](https://calendly.com/mailwarmsessions/mailx?month=2026-05)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QPF-mailx-by-mailwarm-instant-deliverability-diagnostics-for-ai-agents-humans", "votes": 35, "created_at": "2026-05-18T17:10:14.688Z" } ] }, { "id": 22022, "name": "Memberstack", "slug": "memberstack", "former_names": [ "Memberstack Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3f928c1bbbe5bb0fb2a114872be6bf1ee17a9f0d.png", "website": "https://www.memberstack.com", "all_locations": "Williamsburg, VA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "3,000 companies have generate over 130 million dollars in recurring revenue. \r\n\r\nCompanies like American Airlines, Slack, Entreprenuer.com, Webflow, and reddit use Memberstack to serve millions of members every single day.\r\n\r\nNo code if you need it, tons of APIs if you need those, and 100% design control so that you can build any frontend. 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You can now get BigQuery, Looker, and use Mozart’s Sonata (free) offering to get your data to a central place and start your business intelligence reporting - ALL FOR FREE. \n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/VLxQv9WmV6PUd_VRSGK8Eycrlq_ZO1Ufsh86Omj4WGzYSvMSyio_aFAFFm50suDLOEAU-WxBaWkhLmaA3xUiPyt5R-ExWKpmzVaTg_UdguFvlDyPh485NNfvTdOeKZ6UN4hZhL7glPUNcbPJ6MGv3PQ)\n\nThis month, we’re launching **Mozart Data for BigQuery**. This is an extension of Mozart’s core offering: a **managed data platform** with best-in-class analyst support, so teams can reliably **centralize their data** and uncover actionable insights to drive their business more successfully. \n\nWe’ve helped hundreds of companies set up their data infrastructure without hiring a data engineer. 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If you have startup data volumes and you want a free solution that sets up in less than an hour with no data engineering needed, you can do this with the Mozart Data Sonata package. [Signup for FREE](https://app.mozartdata.com/signup-sonata)!\n\n—\n\nWe’re Dan & Pete, co-founders of [Mozart Data](https://www.mozartdata.com/), and the other maestros on the Mozart team.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70031&key=user_uploads/490519/74d9ddad-1710-4156-96fb-a83c044bf708)\n\n🧠 Dan is the CTO and a product-oriented software engineer, with expertise in user experience, data engineering, and data science. He has a long history of founding and working at numerous startups across a variety of industries, including gaming (Gamador YCW10), fintech (GogoCoin 500S15), and healthcare (Clover Health CLOV). 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Instead, we’ve optimized the data infrastructure onboarding experience to be achievable without any data engineers or experts.  Mozart will set up your data pipelines – seamlessly gluing world-class ELT, data warehousing, data transformation, data monitoring & alerting, cost-optimization, and governance all together for you. This gives you the full power of a modern data stack (Snowflake + Fivetran) even if all you know is some basic SQL, so you can focus on your specific product and business challenges.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70031&key=user_uploads/490519/fe251d78-d894-4e17-bfb9-10622d4ab9cb)\n\nEarly examples of analysis teams do with a Modern Data Stack:\n\n* Answer basic questions (with auto-update) like: How many customers do we have? 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Since then, two-thirds of our customers have incorporated AI prompts into their Reflect tests. We’re convinced that AI will lead to a step change in how products are end-to-end tested, and want as many devs as possible to be able to take advantage of this new technology.\n\nWith ZeroStep, you can get the benefits of easy-to-write test steps and less flaky tests, with minimal changes to your existing Playwright testing workflow.\n\n**The biggest benefits of ZeroStep are:**\n\n* **Tests are easier to write**. Writing an ai() step is equivalent to describing the action (“Fill out the form with realistic values”), assertion (“Verify there are no errors displayed on the page”), or extraction (“What is the shopping cart total?”) in plain English. The AI does the rest. There’s no need to write selectors, or add data-test-id attributes all over your app so that your tests have stable locators. 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No matter how extensive your test coverage, no matter how thorough your QA, no matter how much you put behind feature flags — your mobile team _will_ ship irreversibly-bad updates that break things and upset your users. \n\nThis is especially problematic for mobile because you can’t roll back immediately like your web or backend friends can. Rather, you have to triage the issue and assign it to the right team members, implement fixes (or carefully revert the offending changes), compile one or more RCs, upload to the stores, submit for review, then cross your fingers and pray to the store review gods for a speedy review. And the negative impacts of even just a few hours with a critically broken app can be eye-watering: tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenue, a flood of negative user reviews, and overwhelmed CX or ops folks.   \n\nBut what if it didn’t have to be that way? What if you could instantly resolve a critical issue in prod, with a single click? Now, you can. \n\n### Recover from production issues in zero time — literally\n\nCritical issue? Roll back instantly. In the background of every normal release cycle, Runway automatically re-signs your last live production build and preps it for a possible rollback release — including preemptive submission for review (iOS only) — to remove all possible sources of delay. Should something go wrong in prod, there’s always a corresponding rollback build ready and waiting for single-click release in Runway. \n\n![](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5ef1f28e08458502ba614d85/6555b0344379d5700b526a01_deploy-rollback-button.png)\n\nHere’s how the rollback flow works in a bit more detail:\n\n1. Your team is busy getting your next regularly-scheduled release out the door. Let’s call it version 1.2.0.\n2. In the background, Runway takes your latest live build in production — say, 1.1.0 — and re-signs it, bumping the version to 1.2.1 and incrementing the build number as necessary.\n3. Your team releases 1.2.0 as scheduled. Nice!\n4. The 1.2.1 rollback release is surfaced in Runway, just in case. For iOS, we also preemptively create a new version for the possible rollback in App Store Connect and submit the rollback build for review.\n5. Your team is monitoring the rollout of 1.2.0 and identifies a critical issue 🚨You halt the rollout.\n6. Right next to the button you used to halt the rollout, there’s another button to release the rollback build that’s ready and waiting. Click that, and you’re all set.\n\nWith rollback builds primed and ready to go, your team can address critical bugs in prod with a single click — cutting out all the lead time needed to investigate and implement a fix, get builds compiled and uploaded, and make it through the store review process.\n\n### Take the pressure out of hotfixes; triage more fully and fix more confidently\n\nEven if you ship a rollback to address an issue in prod, it doesn’t mean you’ll necessarily wait until your next regularly-scheduled release to issue a fix. In fact, it’s likely you’ll use rollbacks in conjunction with roll-forward hotfixes — and those hotfixes will be better as a result. Because rollbacks allow you to instantly stabilize a critical situation, you can take your time in triaging, investigating, implementing fixes, and then working through your hotfix release process.\n\n![](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5ef1f28e08458502ba614d85/6555b0ce132292bf3747a1af_rolllout-rollbacks-final.gif)\n\n### More predictable resolution timelines & fewer unanswerable questions from stakeholders\n\nEvery team knows the feeling of dread that hits when you’ve shipped a breaking change and leadership shows up in your #mobile Slack channel. _Is the fix in yet? Is the build approved by Apple? How about now?_ With rollbacks in Runway, you can actually respond to these kinds of asks, and give stakeholders confidence that the situation is under control.\n\n![](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5ef1f28e08458502ba614d85/6555b15743d1af6cfd9dcf50_slack-popup.png)\n\n### When you need a rollback, it’s there for you (batteries included). When you don’t, we’ll handle all the cleanup.\n\nRunway’s rollbacks functionality encompasses quite a few dependencies and steps which, if approximated manually each and every release, would require a lot of work — not just to prepare each rollback, but also to clean up unused rollbacks along the way. Now, you no longer have to choose between investing huge amounts of time and effort into setting up rollbacks manually or else forfeiting the safety net rollbacks provide.\n\n![](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5ef1f28e08458502ba614d85/6555b18d930993fe03666aaa_rollback-settings.png)\n\nWith rollbacks, Runway gives your mobile team _the quickest_ possible way to respond to critical issues in production. Instead of scrambling to identify, implement, and ship a fix, you can immediately “stem the bleeding” and resolve things with a single click. Stakeholders won’t hover wondering when a resolution will land, and your team can triage and implement fixes more confidently, without all the pressure that typically accompanies hotfix situations. Plus, rollbacks mitigate the serious negative impact to revenue and app store reviews that comes with a buggy app being in users’ hands for even just a couple of hours.\n\n### How to give Rollbacks a try\n\nYou can sign up for free on the [Runway site](http://runway.team), no credit card required, and we’re always available to give you a guided walkthrough — just get in touch!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JqL-mobile-rollbacks-by-runway", "votes": 9, "created_at": "2023-11-16T17:50:09.865Z" }, { "id": 71808, "title": "📲 🚀 Build Distro by Runway", "tagline": "Better mobile build distribution for teams", "body": "## Build Distro makes it dead simple to get the right app builds into the right teammates’ hands\n\nMobile build distribution is hard. There’s the provisioning and signing gauntlet, of course, but the challenges don’t end there. Getting the right builds in front of the right teammates takes constant effort and shepherding, and creating an install flow that’s pain-free is difficult. Existing tooling options tend to jumble all different kinds of builds together and offer half-baked installation flows; the “human factors” aspect of build distribution is secondary, or ignored altogether.\n\nWe set about building a better, more foolproof and human-centric way.\n\n### What is Build Distro?\n\nBuild Distro allows you to clearly define and group the different types of mobile builds your team distributes – from one-offs and work-in-progress dev builds, to staging builds, to release candidates. You can avoid the usual jumbled pile of builds that folks have to carefully sift through, and give technical and non-technical team members alike an easier way to grab builds, with streamlined installation via QR or Slack link. With hassle-free distribution, your team can check out builds earlier and more often, improving collaboration and app quality.\n\nHere are some highlights:\n\n📲 **Get the right builds into the right people’s hands**\n\nBuild Distro introduces the idea of build buckets to allow you to clearly define and group different flavors of builds. Instead of having all distributed builds landing in that jumbled pile, you can now separate different kinds of builds using definitions based on branch, CI workflow, or some combination of both — or using more freeform, ad hoc buckets. Not only are build flavors logically separated into buckets, but you can set up targeted notifications and scope access per bucket to ensure the right people are aware of and able to seamlessly install new builds relevant to them.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=71808&key=user_uploads/562880/830900f0-fe8a-4c8e-b050-5b86956de7d5)\n\n**✨ Share one-offs & early test builds more easily**\n\nWith branch-based and ad hoc, personal build buckets, Runway makes it much easier to share work-in-progress builds. You can create dedicated buckets for test builds and nightlies on your main development branch or any feature branches, and everyone on your team can also have their own personal buckets to drop updates into as they work. Product managers, QA, designers, and other engineers and stakeholders can now easily grab any WIP builds, earlier and more often during the development cycle, helping your mobile org improve quality and shift left.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=71808&key=user_uploads/562880/e0e69e93-f6bd-4497-a3ed-7d50a23c68df)\n\n🔒 **Make it impossible to ship the wrong build to prod**\n\nOne of the worst failure modes around build distribution has to do with test or staging builds getting accidentally shipped to production. It may be rare, but when it happens, it can be devastating. Confusion around distributed build flavors is often to blame, and Runway’s build buckets remove this risk. Clearly delineate prod and pre-prod builds, and scope access accordingly.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=71808&key=user_uploads/562880/5c3d452c-2760-44b9-98c6-eb3b97edef2d)\n\n**📥 Install app builds with less hassle, and more context**\n\nEven once someone has tracked down a build they want to check out, actually getting it onto their device comes with its own hassles. Runway makes installation foolproof and seamless: with each build, you can install directly by scanning a QR code or sending yourself a link in Slack. Plus, alongside each build you can see full context on the build flavor and exactly what work it contains — no more guesswork, pinging build numbers back and forth and hoping you’re grabbing the right version of the app.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=71808&key=user_uploads/562880/a26f0045-ebdb-4b8b-9048-82f90457d415)\n\n⚙️ **Integrate with your existing tools for zero extra overhead**\n\nGetting up and running is simple: connect your existing CI and… that’s it. Once you’re connected, Runway will get you started with a few default shared buckets for development and RC builds, and anyone on your team can easily create scoped personal buckets. To define a new shared bucket, simply select a workflow (from among any defined in your CI, automatically pulled in by Runway), a branch, or some combination of both.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=71808&key=user_uploads/562880/1bef9a17-07df-4d74-8d39-b1607e832e8e)\n\n🤝 **Standalone or tightly integrated with the rest of Runway**\n\nExactly how you leverage Build Distro is up to your team. You can spin up Build Distro by itself and use it as a standalone tool. Or, for a tightly integrated experience across the entire dev and release cycle, Build Distro plugs seamlessly into Runway’s end-to-end release management platform as a beta integration, allowing you to manage everything to do with pre-prod builds and testers alongside the rest of the release context. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=71808&key=user_uploads/562880/21fcb35f-06ec-4ee9-8b97-529a179561bc)\n\n### Who is Build Distro for?\n\nBuild Distro is for mobile teams of all sizes who care about getting builds into the hands of team members and testers early and often. \n\nThere are a few team members that might be especially excited about Build Distro:\n\n* Mobile engineers who want to get more eyes on their in-progress work, well before it makes its way to the team’s main branch\n* PMs who care about checking out product work as it’s being developed, without having to hunt around for specific builds\n* QA folks who want to stay on top of testing without the volley of unintelligible build numbers over Slack\n* Anyone on the team, technical or non-technical, who cares about the product and wants to check out and help test builds pre-production\n\n \n\n### How to give Build Distro a try\n\nYou can sign up for free on the [Runway site](https://app.runway.team/signup?intent=buildDistro), no credit card required, and we’re always available to give folks a guided walkthrough as well – just get in touch!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IgC-build-distro-by-runway", "votes": 9, "created_at": "2023-05-24T15:53:19.752Z" }, { "id": 67143, "title": "📲 📈 Rollouts by Runway", "tagline": "Automate app rollouts with a full picture of release health", "body": "# A single source of truth for mobile release health, instantly understandable – and actionable\n\nAs former mobile engineers ourselves, the Runway team and I have experienced the challenge of rollouts firsthand  — and now, we’ve built something that can help. We’re excited to announce [_Rollouts_](https://www.runway.team/blog/introducing-rollouts-by-runway), a new part of the Runway platform that helps your team navigate rollouts with less collective stress, and more confidence. _Rollouts_ allows you to easily keep tabs on release health in just one place instead of many, alerts you whenever configured metrics become unhealthy, and safeguards release health by automatically halting rollouts based on thresholds you define.\n\n# What is _Rollouts_?\n\nHere are some highlights:\n\n### 🗺 The only complete picture of release health\n\nRollouts integrates with the mix of different tools you use to measure app health – crash reporting, observability & product analytics, the app stores (for per-version user ratings) – to create a single source of truth and unified dashboard that gives your team a holistic and instantly understandable view of release health at a glance. No more context-switching, no more mental overhead.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67143&key=user_uploads/562880/098822f9-93e6-4ac4-a612-c13ce50f187e)\n\n### 🌡 You define exactly what “healthy” means for your team\n\nAcross all tools and every metric, you can configure granular thresholds that together define what “healthy” looks like for your team. Runway will surface a crystal clear view of how each release is tracking relative to that definition. With expectations around health codified this way, there’s no room for ambiguity or hand-waving when it comes to your team’s standards for quality of the product you’re shipping.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67143&key=user_uploads/562880/479df881-d88e-4e1e-9cc2-d4ac27941bc4)\n\n### 🚨 Avoid blind spots and delays with instant alerting\n\nThe moment any of your configured metrics become unhealthy during a rollout, Runway will alert your team, in specific channels of your choosing and with full context on which metrics are problematic. You can be confident that no bad trends will go unnoticed – and that they can be acted on more quickly.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67143&key=user_uploads/562880/115d18e8-0167-47e6-8ce4-630bed0f564a)\n\n### 🛑 Automatically halt unhealthy rollouts\n\nBuilding on the custom thresholds you define, Runway can automatically halt unhealthy releases. With this automation enabled, if certain metrics of your choosing fall afoul of your acceptable thresholds during a rollout, Runway will automatically stop the rollout and alert your team. This prevents delays and human error, saving you from the negative consequences of a bad release making it out to even more users.\n\n_(Available on the Runway Pro plan and above.)_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67143&key=user_uploads/562880/7f6156eb-df96-4332-b4d7-c432c4aac58f)\n\n### 💨 Automatically accelerate healthy rollouts\n\nIf all of your metrics are looking good and your rollout has reached a minimum number of users you define, Runway can accelerate things and release to all users immediately. Getting a good release out to all users more quickly can be just as impactful as halting a bad release!\n\n_(Available on the Runway Pro plan and above.)_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67143&key=user_uploads/562880/9088b19a-3ce0-467f-a390-2368f4c92464)\n\n# Who is _Rollouts_ for?\n\n_Rollouts_ is for mobile teams of all sizes who care about the quality and health of the apps they ship. If you want to ensure you’re not shipping bad product and your users are having the best possible experience, without painstaking babysitting, _Rollouts_ is for you.\n\nThere are a few folks _Rollouts_ might resonate with especially:\n\n* Release captains/drivers/pilots who want to de-stress and de-risk the experience of being in the driving seat during a rollout\n* Mobile engineers who are tired of poking PMs to check on key events in some analytics dashboard they don’t have access to or don’t understand\n* PMs who are tired of said mobile engineers poking them all the time\n* Mobile leads or EMs who want to be sure their entire team has the full picture of release health, to foster a healthy sense of ownership and accountability\n* Engineering leadership who care about keeping tabs on their mobile org, easily and noise-free\n* Anyone and everyone who cares about app health and preventing bad releases from making it out to even more users\n\n \n\n# How to give _Rollouts_ a try\n\nYou can sign up for a free trial via the [Runway site](https://www.runway.team), no credit card required, and we’re available to give folks a guided walkthrough as well – just get in touch!\n\nFor indies, small teams, and YC fam, we’re happy to talk discounting too.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HSx-rollouts-by-runway", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2022-11-04T20:56:59.348Z" } ] }, { "id": 22608, "name": "cloud humans", "slug": "cloud-humans", "former_names": [ "Cloud Humans" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/37f0dc4beddd72199475bab9ec433aaf3d593df6.png", "website": "https://www.cloudhumans.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA; São Paulo, SP, Brazil", "long_description": "cloud humans introduces claudIA, every startup's CX super agent.\r\n\r\nClaudIA is a GPT based bot who can answer any customer support tickets with zero tech effort and already integrated with your current flows and systems. \r\n\r\nWith ClaudIA, you can automate 55-90% of your customer's enquiries while maintaining the same service level you are proud of. 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By the time you've iterated your way to something that works, your competitors have shipped and your launch momentum is gone.\n\n**Introducing Vogent's Voice Agent Wizard.** Trained on thousands of real agent design processes, our wizard understands what makes voice agents work in production. Just describe what you want your agent to do, attach a few transcripts or conversation examples, and it builds a complete, production-ready voice agent in minutes—not weeks.\n\nThe wizard handles everything: reasoning through the right agent architecture for your use case, configuring optimal parameters, generating appropriate system prompts, and even anticipating edge cases based on patterns it's learned from real deployments. What used to take experienced engineers days of iteration now happens automatically.\n\nThe result? You can go from idea to deployed voice agent immediately. Test new use cases instantly. Iterate in real-time based on user feedback. Focus on building your product, not wrestling with infrastructure.\n\n**Try the Agent Wizard today at [app.vogent.ai](http://app.vogent.ai)**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95431&key=user_uploads/539546/0cb9a065-4760-44be-bdce-c3e00b4f1636)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OpD-vogent-voice-agent-wizard-build-voice-agents-with-just-a-description", "votes": 9, "created_at": "2025-11-12T15:44:28.405Z" }, { "id": 94839, "title": "Vogent Turn: State-of-the-art Turn Detection for Voice AI", "tagline": "Stop interrupting; teach your AI when to wait, and when to speak", "body": "**TL;DR: Vogent-Turn-80M is a state-of-the-art turn-detection model that detects when users are done speaking with extraordinary accuracy, so your voice AI can stop interrupting.**\\\n\\\nhttps://youtu.be/XQeSUc2ID6g\n\nWhat makes conversation feel natural isn't just what we say; it's knowing when to speak and when to listen. Current voice AI systems struggle with this fundamental challenge, either interrupting users mid-thought or waiting awkwardly long after they've finished. The problem? Existing turn detection relies on either audio-only signals (missing semantic context) or text-only analysis (losing critical vocal cues). When a user says \"I'm flying from San Francisco...\" are they pausing to think, or done answering? Audio and text alone can't tell; but humans know instantly.\n\n**Introducing Vogent-Turn-80M**. Vogent-Turn-80M solves this by doing what humans do naturally: processing both how you're speaking and what you're saying simultaneously. Built on a streamlined 80M parameter architecture, our model fuses acoustic features from audio with conversational context from text, enabling it to understand that \"123 456\" with rising intonation means more is coming, while \"I'm departing from San Francisco\" is incomplete when asked about two airports. This multimodal approach achieves 94.1% accuracy while running in just \\~7ms on a T4 GPU—fast enough to feel completely natural in real-time conversations.\n\nThe result? Voice agents that finally feel like talking to a human. No more frustrating interruptions. No more awkward pauses. Just natural, flowing conversation that responds at the right moment, every time.\n\nHugging Face: https://huggingface.co/vogent/Vogent-Turn-80M\n\nGitHub: https://github.com/vogent/vogent-turn\n\nBlog Post: https://blog.vogent.ai/posts/voturn-80m-state-of-the-art-turn-detection-for-voice-agents\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94839&key=user_uploads/539546/d4b5cab9-e1c3-47cf-bcc5-cc4d519a1d88)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Off-vogent-turn-state-of-the-art-turn-detection-for-voice-ai", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2025-10-23T14:37:17.278Z" }, { "id": 91917, "title": "Vogent Voicelab: API to run top open-source voice models, like CSM-1B", "tagline": "An API for fast, high-quality, and consistent text-to-speech generation from top open-source voice models, like Sesame CSM-1B, Dia, and more.", "body": "We’re excited to launch **Vogent Voicelab (vogent.ai/voicelab): an optimized API to run top open-source voice models.**\n\nNew open-source text-to-speech models come out every week, with many ranking as state-of-the-art on popular benchmarks.\n\nHowever, most of these models are not readily usable for high-volume, low-latency inference. Additionally, some research preview models can struggle with hallucinations and inconsistent outputs. Finally, as with any model, hosting yourself and managing compute can be a headache.\n\nVoicelab solves these problems:\n\n1. Voicelab maintains a proprietary inference stack that is optimized to serve text-to-speech transformers efficiently and scalably.\n2. Voicelab post-trains select models to improve consistency and offer high-quality professional voice clones.\n3. Voicelab manages all compute, so you can pay for these models per-character instead of managing GPUs.\n\nAll of this is exposed through a standard text-to-speech API (with streaming/websocket support) and an online playground.\n\nDocs: [docs.vogent.ai/voicelab](http://docs.vogent.ai/voicelab)\n\nTTS Playground: [app.vogent.ai](http://app.vogent.ai)\n\nhttps://youtu.be/KMIVXYhb7lY\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91917&key=user_uploads/539546/a6d5dd4f-0ed4-4ed9-9d69-8b12308b3e1d)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NuX-vogent-voicelab-api-to-run-top-open-source-voice-models-like-csm-1b", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2025-07-07T15:01:55.870Z" }, { "id": 89328, "title": "Vogent: *Insanely* Realistic Voice Agents powered by Sesame", "tagline": "Humanlike & realtime voice agents, powered by a re-engineered Sesame CSM-1B", "body": "TL;DR: Make your voice agents _way_ more realistic and stop getting hangups. Check it out in action at or talk to it yourself by calling our AI Trump voice agent at (510) 315-0014 or [**vogent.ai/sesame**](http://vogent.ai/sesame)\n\nVogent powers millions of voice AI phone calls for healthcare, customer support, travel, and more.\n\nToday, we’re launching the **most realistic realtime voice engine** ever. It inserts natural pauses and disfluencies (“um”, “uh”) without being explicitly prompted, and is _uncannily_ good at cloning voices. Check it out in the videos below:\n\n\n\n\n\nHow did we do it?\n\nIf you’ve been online recently, you’ve probably come across Sesame’s super humanlike voice AI, and their open-source launch of CSM-1B, a 1B-parameter text-to-speech model.\n\nWe’ve spent the past couple of weeks rearchitecting CSM-1B from the ground-up to support realtime, low-latency inference, and we’ve finally cracked it. The results are pretty insane; it’s a step-function increase in realism (customer hangup rates have decreased by 60%+), and we made it available out-of-the-box.\n\nIf you want to create your own Sesame agents, sign up at [**app.vogent.ai**](http://app.vogent.ai), and select one of our Sesame voices. You can also use Sesame to clone new voices, as long as you have a 10-15 second reference clip.\n\nWe’re also releasing a realtime Sesame TTS soon; email [j@vogent.ai](mailto:j@vogent.ai) for beta access.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NEm-vogent-insanely-realistic-voice-agents-powered-by-sesame", "votes": 97, "created_at": "2025-04-08T03:58:15.504Z" }, { "id": 88533, "title": "Vogent: Self-Learning Voice AI", "tagline": "Vogent builds voice AI agents that design and improve themselves", "body": "Announcing Vogent Self-Learning: 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬, learning from real failure cases and requiring no prompt engineering. No more need for hundreds of prompt iterations, or burning GPU (and human) hours on fine-tunes that don’t work.\n\nUsing reinforcement learning methods, like the kinds used by Deepseek and other research labs, our voice agents design themselves given call recordings, and improve themselves by evaluating every single dial and correcting bad behaviors.\n\nSign up by going to [app.vogent.ai](http://app.vogent.ai) and clicking “Self Learning”\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/N1x-vogent-self-learning-voice-ai", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2025-03-12T19:11:45.614Z" }, { "id": 87288, "title": "Vogent: Build Voice AI Agents, Fast", "tagline": "Vogent is the all-in-one platform for building effective voice agents quickly", "body": "**TL;DR**: [**Vogent**](https://vogent.ai/) is an all-in-one platform for building voice agents by using intelligent building blocks, including drag-and-drop conversational flow builders, IVR detection models, spelling-optimized voices, custom phone-ready LLMs, and more. Vogent is made for developers and no-code users alike.\n\n\n\n# The Problem\n\nWe’ve spent the past year building high-volume voice AI agents for a number of big-ticket customers, including the second largest prescription network in the US, the biggest flight and hotel booking sites in Europe, top-10 health insurance companies, car dealership chains, and more.\n\nWhile the core voice agent cycle (STT-LLM-TTS-VAD) is a mostly solved problem at this point, the last-mile problem for making these agents performant was frustrating. We ended up building a lot of band-aids, and we decided to consolidate all of the tools that we used to build these agents into a self-serve platform for developers and non-developers alike.\n\n# How Vogent Works\n\nVoice AI isn’t new, and neither are platforms to build agents. Our approach is to also offer higher-level building blocks that make it easier to build performant agents that can handle complex tasks. These include:\n\n* Our drag-and-drop flow builder, which lets teams build agents that are both conversationally flexible and aligned to a task.\n* Our counterfactuals feature, which lets you test new agents on past calls\n* Our IVR detection model, which can tell the difference between a human or prerecorded message and navigate the latter\n* Custom, in-house voices that are optimized for realistic numbers and spelling\n* LLMs fine-tuned on millions of phone conversations that can be easily prompted to follow phone-call tasks\n\nAs well as other powerful abstractions.\n\nOur other focus is providing as much to developers as possible. We expose most of our platform through GraphQL and REST APIs, and we have a JS SDK that makes voice as easy to add to your product as any other AI modality. (Mobile SDKs in beta – email [j@vogent.ai](mailto:j@vogent.ai) for access!)\n\n# Get Started \n\n* Sign up now at [**https://vogent.ai**](https://vogent.ai) \n* Join our Discord - [**https://discord.gg/JmThYcyG**](https://discord.gg/JmThYcyG)\n* Follow us on X - [**x.com/vogentai**](http://x.com/vogentai) \n* Follow us on LinkedIn - [**linkedin.com/company/vogent**](http://linkedin.com/company/vogent) \n* Email us directly: [**j@vogent.ai**](mailto:j@vogent.ai) \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87288&key=user_uploads/539546/65341827-c3b0-40fe-9fa1-e9fede328808)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mhs-vogent-build-voice-ai-agents-fast", "votes": 78, "created_at": "2025-01-29T20:41:57.759Z" }, { "id": 80688, "title": "Elto AI: The AI that makes phone calls", "tagline": "Elto is an AI that talks on the phone, automating tasks in healthcare, operations, staffing, government, and more.", "body": "**tl;dr:** Elto AI is a highly authentic, low-latency conversational AI that can make phone calls. Elto has automated phone calls to/for health systems, insurance providers, pharmacies, staffing agencies, municipalities, and more. Get a call from the AI at !\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80688&key=user_uploads/539546/d298a29f-a5c3-4cde-a2c4-d2455baa28be)\n\nElto is an end-to-end platform for training, deploying, and monitoring AI voice agents that make phone calls.\n\n### The Problem\n\nPhone calls are the most reliable way to execute tasks and receive information, whether it’s checking the status of an insurance claim or canvassing potential voters. Unfortunately, making phone calls is expensive, time-consuming, and resource-intensive; an offshore human caller can only make 100-300 dials a day, and increasing the number of humans dialing adds management burden. Making calls time-sensitive only adds to the operational complexity.\n\nOthers’ attempts to solve this problem with AI fall short; chaining together out-of-the-box API’s makes conversational agents that are difficult to train and **very** slow to respond.\n\n### Our Solution: Custom, Low-Latency Voice Agents\n\nIt took a while for us to get here -- we tried to get a version of this working a year ago by naïvely chaining together transcription, language, and text-to-speech services, but we ran into the problem that most AI voice agent solutions have: the latency was too high, instructing unspecialized models to execute tasks on the phone was difficult, and the realism was just not there.\\\n\\\nFast-forward a few months; our parallel dialer ([eltodialer.com](http://eltodialer.com)) was growing quickly, and we realized that it gave us what we needed to fix our earlier issues: from a small subset of consenting customers, we were able to gather troves of conversational data to train condensed, specialized models that were low-latency and worked well on the phone with prompting and few-shot fine-tuning. The dialer also gave us robust infrastructure for serving and monitoring hundreds of thousands of dials a day.\\\n\\\nWe've used that data and infrastructure to build an end-to-end in-house pipeline for training easy-to-teach, low-latency, realistic voice agents, and have worked with a handful of pilot customers to get the agents to execute tasks consistently. Elto's AI now runs tens of thousands of dials daily with no human oversight, automating work for verticals from logistics providers and healthcare payers to staffing solutions and municipalities, and more, with failure rates lower than those of human callers.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80688&key=user_uploads/539546/05909c0f-0456-453f-b49a-94de17a161ca)\n\n\\\n\\\nWe're now making the platform generally available on an invite basis. Sign up for an invite on the site!\\\n\\\nNote: we _do not_ support sales use-cases for Elto AI, due to TCPA regulations. 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We'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback! 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Please sign up and play around with the product. 🙏\n\nAnd if you find Odin useful, we'd really appreciate you sharing it with your network as we gear up for the official launch.🚀\n\nLet us know if you have any questions! 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Detect jet lag, catch illness before symptoms, spot sleep apnea, flag overtraining — and plug it all into your app in minutes, without a line of code.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXDRR_qU250\n\n## **What you can use Tyran AI for**\n\nSome early examples\n\n* Detect jet lag\n* Detect signs of potential asthma (NOT medical diagnosis, obviously!)\n* Detect the upcoming menstrual cycle\n* Understand recovery\n* Run multiple experiments: test different workout timings or rest protocols per user segment.\n\n## **How it works**\n\n1. Sign up, connect health data sources via plug-and-play auth widget.\n2. Pick an agent template (or prompt the agent).\n3. Define schedule + outcomes (alerts, notifications, adjusted plans).\n4. 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We’ve seen solutions for fitness, sleep, nutrition, telemedicine, longevity, and more.\n\nWe decided to reduce the complexity fully and embed all the AI experience within the dashboard so you can easily develop such solutions.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80833&key=user_uploads/356569/dac1c7ed-4d5d-4b2b-a337-d4e46ee93b8d)\n\n**How it works:**\n\n* Choose the wearables and health apps you want connected\n* Choose the AI you want, from GPT-4o to Claude 3.\n* Prompt the model\n* Choose your destination to receive the data\n\n**What’s coming next:**\n\n* More integrations with Perplexity, Llama and others\n* More destinations to store data\n* Improvement in prompting\n* Availability of voice, camera and more\n\n**Getting Started**\n\nCreate an account [here](https://dashboard.tryterra.co/) and choose your AI of choices from the processes.\n\n[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA2FR_A1pc0)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/L1l-terra-api-easily-create-ai-health-agents-with-wearable-data", "votes": 20, "created_at": "2024-05-14T16:46:02.256Z" }, { "id": 71969, "title": "OdinAI by Terra", "tagline": "Generate health recommendations for any app", "body": "### **TLDR**:\n\nTo date, it has been super difficult to generate health insights and recommendations for your application.\n\nWith [OdinAI](https://tryterra.co/products/odinai), we make it super easy for you to add health recommendations to your app! We built all the necessary software tools and help you deliver these recommendations through ChatGPT!\n\n* Get started [here](https://tryterra.co/products/odinai?ref=producthunt)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=71969&key=user_uploads/356569/bfda54d3-5766-4a7f-bf4f-c68ce32581d8)\n\n### What is [Terra](https://tryterra.co)\n\nAn API that makes it super easy for apps to connect to wearables and sensors.\n\nMany of our customers have been asking for an easy way to generate recommendations, so we connected with ChatGPT and made it possible.\n\n### The way it works:\n\n1\\. You upload your recommendations\n\n2\\. We prompt ML models and optimize them for your app\n\n3\\. 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We built [WebPushTest.com](http://WebPushTest.com) and made the code open source so more devs can try it out and share it with their coworkers!\n\nFor the longest time, iPhone apps needed to be “native” and downloaded from the App Store to utilize push notifications, but you will see that this is no longer true :)\n\nThis could be the thing that enables thousands of products to have native like presence, without the extra code, or having to deal with wrappers like Cordova. Apple is notorious for taking tech that has existed for years and propelling it into the mainstream \n\nAs long-time HN users, we also included an option to subscribe to a feed of top Hacker News posts delivered via push to you every six hours. It makes it a fun little app instead of a boring demo!\n\nWorth noting that we don't track any personal info (random UUIDs for user IDs, so not even device IDs).\n\nWe’d love any feedback or shares. 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You can include slides, PDFs, videos, Looms, calendar embeds — just about anything.\n\n🐣 Stop sending a bunch of erratic links and start sending a beautiful personalized Journey.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67033&key=user_uploads/19524/807a295a-fa12-4827-8d1c-51ead3435ba0)\n\n# **What is it, specifically**\n\nJourneys are webpages that have the structure of slides:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67033&key=user_uploads/19524/dd50c772-2e01-42cd-8bfa-7359735401d0)\n\nOn the left you have the steps of your pitch, and then each step can be all sorts of content: Slides, Videos, Onboarding Checklists, Calendars, or [anything else](https://www.journey.io/integrations).\n\n# **Okay. I made a Journey. 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Companies create an enterprise account on Deskimo and provide their employees a monthly budget that they can use at any of the listed workspaces on the app. As an employee, you can choose when to WFH and when to spend a few hours at a workspace to take important calls, attend a team or client meeting, or get some deep work done that requires full focus. Companies get one consolidated invoice per month and get billed only for the minutes used by their employees at any of the Deskimo workspaces.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64225&key=user_uploads/731649/583f07c5-1cbd-4205-86f2-0f33d9ceadb9)\n\nDeskimo is now live in Singapore, Hong Kong and Indonesia, and will expand to more countries soon.\n\n### **Founders**\n\nWe have previously co-founded Foodpanda (the “DoorDash” of Asia), now part of Delivery Hero ($DHER). Thereafter, we were the co-founders of HotelQuicky (the “Hotel Tonight” of Asia-Pacific), which turned into an OTA generating over $100M in annual GBV (exited in 2017).\n\nAfter HotelQuickly, Raphael then founded GoBeeBike, which was the leading bike sharing company in Hong Kong, before becoming the Head of Asia at Rocket Internet. Chris co-founded GuestReady, which is now the largest short-term rental management company in Europe and the Middle East.\n\nWe have made a lot of learnings in PropTech, hospitality and on-demand marketplaces. We combine these learnings with our own experience in working remotely for the most part of the past 10 years and decided to launch Deskimo in a period where most companies are moving to a hybrid work model. \n\n### **Asks**\n\nWe would love to get your feedback, if you happen to be living in Asia and like to work from different places. If you have friends or family in our markets, tell them about Deskimo! You can help us by testing the app:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64225&key=user_uploads/731649/1c9a5030-d2bb-4d0c-84d8-39025c78bd57)\n\nPlease send us any unfiltered feedback to [founders@deskimo.com](mailto:founders@deskimo.com)\n\nThank you 🙏,\n\n[Raphael](https://www.linkedin.com/in/raphaelc/), [Christian](http://www.christianmischler.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ght-deskimo-on-demand-workspaces-paid-by-the-minute", "votes": 23, "created_at": "2022-06-30T11:21:34.304Z" } ] }, { "id": 23956, "name": "Customily", "slug": "customily", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c8057663fa98c67ad45f460aa90f60f3fb6495bb.png", "website": "http://www.customily.com/", "all_locations": "St. Louis, MO, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Customily is a design tool that makes it easy for e-commerce stores to sell personalized products. 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Ideally they're fast to build, easy to manage and audit, and intuitive for everyone.\n\nHowever, the top of mind solutions have **tough trade-offs**.\n\n* Choose no-code for **speed**, but lose customization and **auditability** – and end up with un-debuggable mess of automations no one truly understands.\n* Opt to build in code for refinement, but sacrifice **months of expensive work** from engineers, who are focused on critical product tasks.\n\nAt this intersection of agility, power and governance, Abstra was born 🐣\n\n### Our Workflows\n\nWith Abstra Workflows, teams can spin up robust **business process automation in Python** as fast as they would with no-code, freeing up valuable time.\n\nDesign and **orchestrate** fully custom flows for solutions that fit **seamlessly** into your processes.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80549&key=user_uploads/512795/0507502c-c2b3-4721-adf5-e2c087e28ae7)\n\nAnd not only devs: with our AI features, **anyone with basic Python** skills can safely get **autonomy** from engineering teams. No technical overhead and countless **out-of-box benefits**, such as compliant logging, refined access control and custom notifications.\n\nSee beyond basic task automation to **tame** **critical** company **processes**, with **full visibility** into your challenges.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80549&key=user_uploads/512795/b13697ea-1739-47f5-9bc4-35c456e173e9)\n\n### How to get started\n\nIf you currently need to automate any company process and you tick one of these boxes:\n\n* You are struggling with no or low-code tools\n* You have critical scripts running locally in someone's machine\n* You need to give non-technical team members autonomy\n* You want visibility into how processes are being edited and executed\n* You are a Python fan\n\nAbstra was made for you. 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Our manual way of responding—jumping between Slack, PagerDuty, Datadog, and a dozen dashboards—just wasn’t enough. Every incident started with the same scramble: spinning up channels, pulling people in, figuring out who’s running point, trying to keep comms coherent, and stitching together context from different tools and threads. It worked when the team was small and the system was simpler. At scale, it turned chaotic and inconsistent.\n\nAnd the hardest part wasn’t even the debugging. It was the inconsistency. You’d rely on runbook checklists and tribal knowledge, hoping someone remembered what to do next—who to page, which workflow to follow, how to communicate internally and externally, what steps to capture for the retrospective. In the moment, that’s a lot to ask. 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It’s designed to be reliable and easy to use, with a beautiful mobile experience that makes getting paged somewhat enjoyable.\n\n**AI SRE Agents**\n\nRootly’s AI SRE agents help teams move faster during incidents by connecting the dots across signals like recent code changes, telemetry, and past incidents. Instead of starting from scratch every time, responders can quickly narrow in on probable causes, understand what changed, and get suggestions for fixes and next steps—along with the reasoning behind them.\n\n**Status Pages**\n\nRootly makes it easy to keep customers and stakeholders updated with public and private status pages, so incident comms don’t become another manual process during a high-stress event.\n\n**Retrospectives**\n\nRootly helps you turn incidents into learning. Create collaborative retros that teams can edit together, draft timelines and summaries faster, and track action items so the work actually gets done—not just written down.\n\n**AI everywhere responders actually feel it**\n\nDuring incidents, the biggest tax is cognitive load: listening, typing, summarizing, updating, and repeating yourself. Rootly uses AI to take that off the responder:\n\n* **AI Meeting Bot scribing:** Rootly can join your incident bridge, transcribe in real time, and capture key context so nothing gets lost.\n* **Instant catch-up:** Tag **@Rootly** in the incident channel to get a private, personalized summary of what’s happened so far, what’s been tried, and what’s next.\n* **Draft updates that match the audience:** Generate incident updates tailored to the recipient—customer-friendly language for external comms, crisp executive summaries for leadership, or detailed handoffs for engineering—so you’re not rewriting the same update five different ways.\n* **AI-generated retros:** Auto-draft retrospectives with timelines and context, then collaboratively refine and track action items to completion.\n* **Automated RCA:** Alerts, code changes, past incidents all analyzed at the speed of AI to determine probable root cause in minutes.\n\n**A full platform, or just what you need**\n\nUse Rootly as a complete incident management platform—or adopt products individually based on where you are today (Incident Response, On-Call, AI SRE, Status Pages, Retrospectives).\n\n## **Offer & Ask**\n\n* If you want to see how Rootly modernizes incident management end-to-end, book a demo and we’ll tailor it to your current stack and workflows.\n* If you’re a team with **<25 employees**, we also offer **Pay What You Can** so you can get world-class incident management without the “enterprise price tag.”", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HIm-rootly-ai-sre-on-call-status-pages", "votes": 86, "created_at": "2022-10-05T05:45:37.027Z" } ] }, { "id": 23985, "name": "FirstQuadrant", "slug": "firstquadrant", "former_names": [ "Koj", "Pabio" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7992570619d05ec7bff0789242805495d444dbf5.png", "website": "https://firstquadrant.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "FirstQuadrant helps revenue teams move faster, stay organized, and close more deals, by streamlining the behind-the-scenes sales-work so nothing ever slips through the cracks.\r\n\r\nIn October 2025, FirstQuadrant Inc. completed a confidential agreement with a leading AI technology company that recognized long-term strategic value in components of the FirstQuadrant platform and data infrastructure and sunset the platform.", "one_liner": "Sales AI that helps revenue teams move faster and close more deals.", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Sales", "launched_at": 1627835867, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Sales", "Sales Enablement", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2021", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Sales" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": true, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/firstquadrant", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2021/firstquadrant.json", "year_founded": 2020, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/firstquadrant-ai", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/firstquadrant", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/firstquadrant", "github_url": "https://github.com/firstquadrant-ai", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7992570619d05ec7bff0789242805495d444dbf5.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/video_event/54/1630620575366-hw1c77rvbdo-00987bdf88994adc8c8f1d9d5167d0bf/8c696b00b61d4dee7d8c243f2fe95775.mp4?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAQC4NIECABPQ2AHNW%2F20261020%2Fus-west-2%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20261020T022656Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=bbce4ff042dc193269a544e188c804ddaeaf29a86b611c0687c42aa14a1d48e8", "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/4838d34ed04af6906cafef07777528dd67b978ea.png" ], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 569815, "full_name": "Carlo Badini", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder at FirstQuadrdant. 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Today we’re making FirstQuadrant available for the public! This one’s been a long time in the making.\n\nAnand and I started working on this over 2.5 years ago (before ChatGPT was even released). And to be honest, it took a lot of fucking around and finding out. We spoke to over 300+ founders and heads of sales, rebuilt the product from scratch multiple times, and only after countless conversations did it finally click.\n\nSo today, we’re excited (and a bit nervous) to finally release FirstQuadrant to the public: An AI sales execution platform that helps founders and revenue teams move faster, stay organized, and close more deals, by streamlining the behind-the-scenes sales-work so nothing ever slips through the cracks.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/UG5RfdbKPfI\n\n**The Problem:** \n\nIf you’ve ever looked inside a CRM, you know how chaotic things can get. Deals are scattered, updates are missed, and there’s always this underlying anxiety:
“Did I forget to follow up?”
“Am I waiting on someone to respond?”
“Did I send the right documents?”\n\nMost sales reps are great at conversations and closing — but not at the repetitive, behind-the-scenes tasks before and after meetings. That’s where deals fall through the cracks.\n\n**The Solution:**\n\nFirstQuadrant solves these exact problems.
Our platform analyzes all your sales conversations and uses advanced AI reasoning to understand where each deal stands and what should happen next.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90182&key=user_uploads/569815/03bcb01a-7e6c-4c01-bb08-0a37d57a6a3f)\n\nIt automatically manages tasks like:\n\n\\- Following up with leads\n\n\\- Rescheduling missed meetings\n\n\\- Qualifying new inbound leads\n\n\\- Staying in touch with old or inactive contacts\n\n\\- Sending resources or summaries post-call\n\nAll of this is handled in the background, giving your sales team the mental space to focus on what really matters: selling, meeting with customers, and building relationships.\n\nAs a result, your deals move faster, your pipeline gets cleaner, and your reps aren’t constantly playing catch-up.\n\nThey don’t have to keep everything in their heads anymore. FirstQuadrant tracks it all and nudges them at just the right moments.\n\nAnd beyond just managing active deals, it also helps uncover hidden revenue by reactivating older, inactive business relationships (the ones reps never quite get around to following up with). And on the top-of-funnel side, it qualifies new leads that come in, lets you build custom-qualified audiences, and even runs AI-personalized outbound email campaigns at scale. So you’re filling your pipeline with high-quality leads and keeping everything organized and moving forward — all in one place.\n\n**About us**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90182&key=user_uploads/569815/59265b17-f07b-4a4f-ad44-1fa30b6f6091)\n\nAnand (CTO/CPO) is a technology entrepreneur, engineer, and designer. Previously, he founded the accessibility tech startup Oswald Labs and the fashion e-commerce company Melangebox at the age of 18. He has been recognized as a top open-source contributor, listed as a GitHub Star, and included in Forbes' 30 Under 30.\n\nCarlo (CEO) is a Swiss-born serial entrepreneur. Before founding FirstQuadrant, he established a Swiss design agency at the age of 20 and bootstrapped it to over 40 employees and multiple millions in revenue. He has been recognized by the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award and listed in Forbes' 30 Under 30.\n\n**Ask & Give**\n\n**What we’re asking:**\n\nIf you’ve felt the pain of busy-work in sales, we’d love for you to check out our launch. [Head over to Product Hunt and tell us what you think. ](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/firstquadrant)\n\n**What we’re giving:**\n\n1. A hidden, PH-exclusive sign-up link for priority access and 15% off for the first 12 months (only valid for 48 hours)\n2. Additionally the first 10 supporters get $250 worth of AI credits and a free 1h sales consultation where I help you with your entire sales setup (deliverability, channels, website conversion, tool stack... whatever you need help with)\n\nWe’re super excited to share what we’ve built — and even more excited to learn from you all. Thanks for checking out FirstQuadrant.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NSY-firstquadrant-maximize-b2b-sales-with-human-centered-ai", "votes": 19, "created_at": "2025-05-12T16:23:40.159Z" }, { "id": 78600, "title": "FirstQuadrant – All-in-one AI sales platform", "tagline": "Accelerate progress with infinitely scalable AI sales", "body": "**tl;dr: **[**FirstQuadrant**](https://firstquadrant.ai/)** is not another AI sales tool. If there were such a thing as a silver bullet, this is it. If you have a product that works and if you know who your customer is, FirstQuadrant will sell that product for you. Period. This is the startup’s philosopher stone — that turns lead into gold.**\n\nHi founders, after a year of working tirelessly on our AI sales product, we believe that we finally cracked the code to B2B sales. We’re incredibly proud to introduce FirstQuadrant:\n\n\n\n### All-in-One AI sales platform\n\nFirstQuadrant is an all-in-one AI sales platform that turns B2B sales into a fully scalable and fully autonomous system with artificial intelligence.\n\nFirstQuadrant encompasses a complete suite of AI tools for inbound, outbound, and nurturing sales, ensuring a unified approach to relationship management.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78600&key=user_uploads/569815/5b4c3eb9-2530-4fd4-a379-6a1e42f32fe5)\n\nFirstQuadrant handles everything — from sourcing leads or integrating with your CRM, enriching contacts, to converting sales. It operates autonomously yet allows for full control over the tone and content of messages. Choose full autonomy or approve every message.\n\nFast-growing YC companies like Athina and Caribou already love us. Matt of CoCEO has this to say:\n\n> _I don’t say this lightly but FirstQuadrant is absolutely astounding. In less than a month FirstQuadrant booked meetings on a weekly basis without me lifting a finger. My mind is blown._\n\n### Founding team\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78600&key=user_uploads/569815/9ed628aa-0e8b-4c96-9f7b-b61bd773550e)\n\n[Anand](https://twitter.com/AnandChowdhary) (CTO/CPO) is a technology entrepreneur, engineer, and designer. Previously, he founded the accessibility tech startup Oswald Labs and the fashion e-commerce company Melangebox at the age of 18. He has been recognized as a top open-source contributor, listed as a GitHub Star, and included in Forbes' 30 Under 30.\\\n\\\n[Carlo](https://twitter.com/carlobadini) (CEO) is a Swiss-born serial entrepreneur. Before founding FirstQuadrant, he established a Swiss design agency at the age of 20 and bootstrapped it to over 40 employees and multiple millions in revenue. He has been recognized by the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award and listed in Forbes' 30 Under 30.\n\n### Sign up now for priority access\n\nFirstQuadrant is currently in private beta, operating with a waitlist. We personally onboard each user to ensure optimal results, which limits our capacity. Currently, the wait time is 4+ months. Need urgent access? Sign up using the link below by Thursday, 12 PM PST, to bypass the waitlist.\n\n[1q.ai/skip-the-line](http://1q.ai/skip-the-line)\n\nFor more details, visit [firstquadrant.ai](http://firstquadrant.ai) and [x.com/firstquadrant](http://x.com/firstquadrant).\n\nThank you!\\\nCarlo and Anand", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KRk-firstquadrant-all-in-one-ai-sales-platform", "votes": 115, "created_at": "2024-02-21T16:42:59.502Z" } ] }, { "id": 24005, "name": "Goodkind", "slug": "goodkind", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/19b2d3b1ab50845c2cb174d05f4201d30e698595.png", "website": "https://www.goodkind.com/", "all_locations": "Toronto, ON, Canada", "long_description": "Universities and colleges use Goodkind to build their student communications via sms, video, chat, mail and more. 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We help product marketing teams identify competitive moats and weaknesses, marketing teams generate & understanding voice of customer and product teams gauge demand in feature requests based on customer pain points, all automatically from a company’s library of recorded sales and success calls.\n\n### **The Problem:**\n\n⏰ ”I don’t have the time to listen to all of the call recordings sales generates, but I want to & I probably should”\n\n🧐 “How do I learn where to go next? What are customers complaining about? Our sellers don’t know what to share with us and how it connects to our roadmap.”\n\n📉 ”My buyers are spooked with the downturn, but I have no idea where to start looking to figure out what’s going wrong.”\n\nWhile call snippets and anecdotes from individual calls are perfect for deal review, building customer strategy requires you to take account of the entire voice of customer, which may potentially span thousands of individual conversations.\n\nStrategic teams — product, marketing, product marketing — care about the relationships among the discussions and ideas inside these individual calls. There is no way to generate this type of connecting insight without manually slogging through call recordings or interviews.\n\n### **The Buzzle Solution**\n\nCustomer conversations hold the lifeblood of companies, because they are a collection of **ideas** and **relationships** that matter to companies: between question and answer, objection and handler, and product functionality and pain point. Buzzle understands those relationships between and among conversations, and uses that knowledge to automatically detect and highlight the most important trends to product and marketing.\n\nBuzzle can help you hone in on anything from competitors to customer pain points, and help you understand when those topics are coming up in calls (and how they affect your deals)\n\n![](https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/8bfae907-f705-49c4-8775-c060c9ae07b6/Untitled.png?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAT73L2G45EIPT3X45%2F20220802%2Fus-west-2%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20220802T124123Z&X-Amz-Expires=86400&X-Amz-Signature=a174460eb9b0d641b08f269fa9d82367209a3c5a0b788929a2f722c4efbfd4f7&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&response-content-disposition=filename%20%3D%22Untitled.png%22&x-id=GetObject)\n\nUnsure of the latest trends? No worries. Buzzle understands the trends for you, and automatically surfaces the ones that you might be most interested in.\n\n![](https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/8593432d-20f6-46d4-8633-df5d8f014b83/Darkened_-_VOC_Animatin.gif?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAT73L2G45EIPT3X45%2F20220802%2Fus-west-2%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20220802T124135Z&X-Amz-Expires=86400&X-Amz-Signature=2e2927cb74d0033427ff0aed3628353dd03dee3e58466d18e518ed6fa8c64fe3&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&response-content-disposition=filename%20%3D%22Darkened%2520-%2520VOC%2520Animatin.gif%22&x-id=GetObject)\n\n### **Where do you come in?**\n\nHave call recordings you never look at? Always wanted your product & marketing teams to get insights from data sales & success are generating? Give us a shout at [founders@buzzle.ai](mailto:founders@buzzle.ai) and we’ll get your team set up with a free trial to uncover the insights locked away in the call data you already have.\n\nWe’d love to connect! Follow along with Buzzle by:\n\n1. Emailing us at: [founders@buzzle.ai](mailto:founders@buzzle.ai)\n2. Give us a follow on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/buzzle-ai/)!\n3. 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As the CEO and Co-founder, he has led the company’s vision, driving product adoption and customer growth. Previously, he headed marketing at Cleartax, growing organic traffic 5x in one year, scaling CleartaxGST to 600,000+ signups, and driving multi-crore AUM in mutual funds.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/aquibur/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/AR_Bits", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/60752f1afd4e9e93a137a9cfe1ac971b1a48316a.jpg" }, { "user_id": 218594, "full_name": "Apurv Gupta", "title": "Founder/CPO", "founder_bio": "Apurv Gupta is a seasoned technology leader and serial entrepreneur with over 13 years of experience in building and scaling B2B SaaS startups. As the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Mailmodo, he has led product strategy and planning, served a variety of customers across industries, and built high-performing engineering teams. 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But setting up basic email flows? That still takes 2 weeks.\n\nI've watched this happen countless times. Founders ship their product, then get stuck navigating 15 screens, learning complex automation builders, and spending hours on segmentation logic. Meanwhile, every other business tool has gone conversational.\n\nEmail marketing, however, remained stuck in 2015:  painfully manual despite being the most important channel for early-stage growth.\n\n## **So, we built a solution**\n\nFor years, Mailmodo has been propelling emails into the future. We made them interactive through our drag-and-drop editor, turning inboxes into actionable playgrounds. But we weren't solving the real bottleneck: managing multiple workflows, juggling between tools, and wearing too many hats.\n\nSo we rebuilt email marketing from scratch around one idea: **What if you could run your entire email strategy from a single conversation?**\n\nYou describe what you want: _\"Create a 5-part onboarding series for SaaS trial users.\"_ Mailmodo AI handles strategy, copy, design, automation, segmentation, and analysis, all from one prompt, in one place.\n\nWhat used to take days now happens in minutes.\n\n## **How It Works**\n\nA founder types: _\"Create a re-engagement campaign for users who haven't opened emails in 30 days.\"_\n\nMailmodo AI instantly:\n\n* Segments the audience based on your data\n* Generates ready-to-send email designs\n* Builds the multi-email automation flow with strategic timing\n* Tracks performance and suggests improvements\n\n## **The Mission Remains**\n\nWe've always believed emails should do more, and we made it happen in 2021. Today,  they’re finally easier to create, automate, and analyze as well. \n\nFor those building and running growth engines in 2025, email marketing shouldn't take half ya day. Thankfully, now, it won't.\n\nThat's the modern era of email. That's Mailmodo AI.\\\n\\\n**Ask**\n\n* Please sign up on [mailmodo.com](http://mailmodo.com) and try it for free. First 500 email subscribers are free.\n* We’ve launched on PH. 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You can also create contact segments to send targeted emails\n* **Automate email sequences with our drag-and-drop journey builder** with a variety of triggers and actions.\n* Send 10k emails for free every month and **avail YC deal on all paid plans.**\n\nVisit us at [www.mailmodo.com](http://www.mailmodo.com). If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us at [help@mailmodo.com](mailto:help@mailmodo.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gkv-mailmodo-email-marketing-platform-for-higher-email-engagement", "votes": 36, "created_at": "2022-07-07T14:53:13.845Z" } ] }, { "id": 24049, "name": "Deed", "slug": "deed", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1b80a4df0b9154b81c10f1f6293cdab63dc635a1.png", "website": "https://www.joindeed.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA; New York, NY, USA", "long_description": "Deed makes it easy for employees to donate to their favorite charities and volunteer with great causes at work. Companies like Airbnb and Stripe use Deed to increase employee retention and happiness. Since launching publicly in January, we’ve increased our logo count by 4X with companies like DoorDash, Box, and Lob. 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Remote", "long_description": "Dailybot is the coordination platform for software teams where people and AI agents work side by side.\r\n\r\nAs engineering teams increasingly operate alongside multiple AI agents — coding agents, incident responders, research assistants — the gap between what's being worked on and what the team can actually see has become a critical problem. Dailybot closes that gap.\r\n\r\nTeams use Dailybot to run async standups, check-ins, retros, and custom workflows directly inside Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, and Discord. In Dailybot 3, those capabilities now extend to AI agents: every agent can report progress, surface blockers, and be monitored in a dedicated observability layer — all attributed to the humans who delegated the work.\r\n\r\nThe platform combines four capabilities: structured check-ins and forms in chat, AI-powered summaries and blocker detection, no-code workflow automation, and agent infrastructure (API, CLI, open-source skill pack, fleet monitoring). Leaders get a proactive view of what people and agents accomplished together — without adding meetings or dashboards to check.\r\n\r\nDailybot is SOC 2 and GDPR compliant, backed by Y Combinator (S21), and trusted by teams at IBM, Samsung, Pixar, and 8,000+ teams worldwide.", "one_liner": "Make all team work visible — people and AI agents", "team_size": 11, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1625092395, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "SaaS", "Collaboration", "AI", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2021", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dailybot", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2021/dailybot.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "Remote", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/dailybot/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/dailybot", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/HeyDailybot", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/dailybot", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f727e5abc1675504008ed497195c21034c360412.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 207324, "full_name": "Mauricio Morales", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CEO at DailyBot\n\nMauricio has been building internet products for over 15y. MsC and MBA. He has been involved in product management at different startups and helped build tech companies that have scaled rapidly and were acquired. He's lived in 3 countries.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/maomorales/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/maomorales", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0c8c909c734290d1b7b36a9c93d2c2aa7f12e5c3.jpg" }, { "user_id": 391363, "full_name": "Sergio Florez", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CTO at DailyBot — leading and building unique conversational experiences for asynchronous work. \n\nSergio is a computer science engineer, MSc in data science and passionate entrepreneur, with talent and more than 10y of experience building digital businesses. He's in the search of the ideation of disruptive business models as agents of change and success.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/xergioalex/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/XergioAleX", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c5d98fc547869ed7e082728e254f86af1044bb15.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": " DailyBot 2.0 - Make your chat 10x better | Product Hunt", "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/posts/dailybot-2-0", "date": "Jul 07, 2021" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 109411, "title": "Dailybot CLI: Your AI agents now report to the team", "tagline": "An open-source CLI and skill that turns private agent work into team updates, approvals, and workflows in chat", "body": "Hey everyone! we’re Mauricio and Sergio, co-founders of Dailybot (YC S21).\n\n**What Dailybot is**: a place for team updates, check-ins, and coordination inside Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, and Google Chat. For people and AI agents.\n\n**TL;DR**: we built an open-source CLI so people, scripts, and AI agents can drive Dailybot from the terminal. Updates, check-ins, chat messages, forms, and more land where the team already works: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, or Google Chat. **Ask:** ask your agent to try our skill ([**www.dailybot.com/skill.md**](http://www.dailybot.com/skill.md)), run one workflow that matches how your team actually works, and tell us which one helped you move forward today.\n\nDailybot skill: [**https://www.dailybot.com/skills/agent-skill/#install**](https://www.dailybot.com/skills/agent-skill/#install)\n\n**Demo**\n\n[**Dailybot CLI + Agent Skill: Connect your AI coding agent to your team**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwopfsPzgSQ)\n\n\\\n**The problem**\n\nTeams are getting real work done with coding agents and scripts. A lot of that work still finishes in a private session. The rest of the team only hears about it if someone rewrites it into Slack or a standup.\n\nSo you get the usual mess: invisible agent work, stale status during a release, approvals bouncing between tools, and check-ins that someone rebuilds by hand for every new project.\n\n**What we shipped**\n\nDailybot CLI. Same Dailybot account and team feed you already use, now from the command line. A few workflows we’re highlighting:\n\n1. Agent update to team chat — done / next / blockers show up in the feed, without a human rewrite\n2. One status message that stays current — one release/status message you keep updating, instead of a pile of outdated posts\n3. Simple approvals in chat — approve/reject in Slack or Teams; your system gets the result and work continues\n\nThere’s more under the hood (forms, check-in creation, agent inbox, activity into reports, kudos, teams, workflows). We’re leading with the ones that produce a visible team result fast.\n\n**Installing the CLI**\n\nEasiest path: pass the skill to your agent and ask it in plain language, e.g. “post a team update that we finished the CLI install path” – [**https://www.dailybot.com/skill.md**](https://www.dailybot.com/skill.md)\n\n**How we got here**\n\nWe’ve been building Dailybot for hybrid teams for a while: async check-ins, reports, and coordination inside chat. As our own team (and customers) started running agents all day, the gap got obvious: agents ship work, humans still retype the update.\n\nThe CLI is our answer to that gap. A bridge into the place the team already coordinates.\n\n**Our ask**\n\n1. Install and try one workflow: [**https://www.dailybot.com/skills/agent-skill/#install**](https://www.dailybot.com/skills/agent-skill/#install)\n2. Reply with the workflow you’d want documented/explored next\n3. If useful, intros to eng teams already running agents in production (contact our founders)\n\nThanks,\\\nMauricio & Sergio", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SSh-dailybot-cli-your-ai-agents-now-report-to-the-team", "votes": 22, "created_at": "2026-08-05T16:22:36.120Z" }, { "id": 70494, "title": "Dailybot+ AI 🧠 The assistant and toolkit for modern teams", "tagline": "Meet Dailybot, a ChatGPT assistant and AI workflow builder for your work chat", "body": "Hi! We are Mauricio Morales and Sergio Florez, the founders of [Dailybot](https://www.dailybot.com/product/ai?utm_source=YCLaunch).\n\nDailybot+ AI is a toolkit for modern work: a ChatGPT Assistant and an AI Workflow automation tool that takes asynchronous work and in-chat collaboration to another level. Compatible with Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, or Discord.\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nAI is the future, yes. But many people lack the knowledge and resources to effectively incorporate AI into their daily workflow, resulting in missed opportunities for creating impactful use cases.\n\n### **Our Solution**\n\nDailybot provides a chat assistant and platform that simplifies the integration of AI into daily workflows. With our technology, anyone can access an AI assistant (ChatGPT) in the work chat, and can also implement use cases that leverage the power of AI.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70494&key=user_uploads/207324/1d5a25dc-bc23-4f36-8315-61af16175cf6)\n\nWe provide key building blocks for you to combine and build multiple use cases on top of your chat workspace.\n\nThe building blocks of Dailybot are: **Check-ins** for stand-ups or recurring surveys; **Forms** for any data collection; **Chat Commands** for in-chat customization; **Workflows** for setting up triggers/actions; and the **AI engine**.\n\nThe Dailybot Workflows provide a Zapier-like interface where users can define triggers and actions (one or multiple) that should run.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70494&key=user_uploads/207324/7c533a87-fd19-4145-a9c9-4450a49a0e53)\n\nThe Actions can be AI content generation, sending messages (DMs or channels), sending emails, or triggering other building blocks of Dailybot.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70494&key=user_uploads/207324/dc811400-636e-4ffb-8773-aaefa373ddc2)\n\n### **A Few Examples**\n\n* You run a **Daily Stand-up** (built with Check-ins), then, **when a blocker is reported**, an **AI Workflow is run**. It analyzes the blocker and then suggests the employee ideas for solving the issue/bocker.\n* You create a **Form** that will be triggered with the in-chat command named “**product release**”, when the Form is completed an **AI Workflow is run**. It analyzes all the content of the release form **and generates a press release** that is posted into the #releases channel.\n* You create an **anonymous survey to monitor team morale**. The **AI analyzes all the responses** and sends a summary to the head of HR (via email or DM).\n\nWe're passionate about making remote work easier and more efficient and our goal is to make DailyBot the best companion for your team’s work.\n\n**Our Ask:**\n\nWe’d love to hear your ideas on what type of AI-powered daily workflows (in chat) will add value to your team, feel free to share the feedback at [support@dailybot.com](mailto:support@dailybot.com)\n\nWe offer a Free Trial, [**Try Dailybot here**](https://www.dailybot.com/product/ai?utm_source=YCLaunch).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IL0-dailybot-ai-the-assistant-and-toolkit-for-modern-teams", "votes": 40, "created_at": "2023-03-23T15:06:42.817Z" }, { "id": 64310, "title": "DailyBot 🤖 daily stand-ups, automation and chat assistant for work", "tagline": "⚡️ On a mission to provide one-click workflows for team collaboration and productivity via chat", "body": "👋 Mauricio and Sergio from [@DailyBot](https://www.dailybot.com/) here.\n\n### **TL;DR**\n\nDailyBot is a bunch of useful add-ons for your chat platform. Plug it into your chat and make Async Work a breeze for your team:\n\n* 1- Running async Daily Stand-ups, natively integrated in the chat\n* 2- Cutting unnecessary meetings with more types of recurring check-ins\n* 3- Spreading love and team recognition with DailyBot Kudos\n* 4- Socializing better with watercooler prompts and random 1:1 coffees\n\nAnd developers can build simple in-chat functions for their day-to-day operations, without the need to learn chat-platform-specific APIs.\n\nAvailable on Slack, Discord, MS Teams, G Chat.\n\n### **The problem**\n\nAsync work is the new way of working for many teams. Most teams use chat in any form with tools like Discord, Slack and others. As chat becomes the main app that workers interact with everyday, it becomes necessary to give it more purposes.\n\nNew purposes include workflows like team check-ins, surveys, platform notifications, tools for social engagement, or custom commands to trigger actions.\n\nCreating all this setup is a hustle:\n\n* 1- You have to use many apps, bots, plugins\n* 2- There is a lot of context switching, management overhead, more subscription fees, and more app fatigue for workers\n* 3- Most bots are not designed for protecting security and privacy\n\n# **DailyBot is the solution**\n\nWe are building the first super-bot for your chat. DailyBot comes with a bunch of use cases and features, all-in-one. Some workflows include:\n\n**Check-ins:** track automatically what your team is up to. You can run async and written updates, agile daily stand-ups, retrospectives, or periodic check-ins like 1:1s.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64310&key=user_uploads/207324/06136816-f0a8-4324-8e8b-db4bb9a0aa81)\n\n**Kudos**: give kudos and celebrate actions that contribute to better team culture. Create rewards and have fun activities with your team based on our leaderboard.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64310&key=user_uploads/207324/b523b354-332f-4d1e-9617-996320210eb7)\n\n**Forms**: create all-purpose forms that people can respond to in chat or on the web. Automate vacation requests, recurring feedback forms, and more.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64310&key=user_uploads/207324/91614956-ebf2-45e0-b746-678fac7349ec)\n\n**Custom commands**: create commands to increase your team’s productivity in less than a minute. Virtual coffees, birthday reminders, watercoolers, pomodoro timers, your own chat-ops and more.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64310&key=user_uploads/207324/974d041a-a4b9-4c5a-a1c0-2b810e40ec29)\n\n### **Security by design and SOC2 compliance**\n\nMost apps take a lot of permissions to access data from your chat. This becomes concerning when you are using dozens of apps to build your team workflows. We are designing DailyBot as a privacy & security first company.\n\nDailyBot only requests the minimal API permissions from your chat. It can only process messages that are directed to the bot.\n\nWe are SOC2 Type II compliant, giving confidence to small and big companies about our work and data management practices.\n\n**Join Us!**\n\nGet started for free. Go to [www.dailybot.com](http://www.dailybot.com) and install DailyBot on your chat (2-min setup). We have a bookface deal for our fellow YC members.\n\nSee you on the other side!\n\nPs: Join our [Discord community](https://discord.gg/StjtJ5u7QF) and follow us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/dailybot) and [LinkedIn.](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dailybot) ;)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GjG-dailybot-daily-stand-ups-automation-and-chat-assistant-for-work", "votes": 50, "created_at": "2022-07-04T18:21:28.389Z" } ] }, { "id": 24154, "name": "Tablevibe", "slug": "tablevibe-co", "former_names": [ "Tablevibe.co" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9212f9f0b96b04ad6f1ea1e8d1edd948fcc6ea81.png", "website": "https://www.tablevibe.co", "all_locations": "Singapore, Singapore; Remote", "long_description": "We help restaurants launch their own online ordering store and sell directly to customers.\r\n\r\nThis reduces costs by up to 80% compared to traditional delivery apps, grows sales, and gives restaurants full ownership of their customer data.\r\n\r\nOur software automatically books riders for on-demand delivery at low, distance-based rates.\r\n\r\nCurious to learn more? 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She'd already re-typed the spot counts into a spreadsheet once. She was about to do it again, by hand, to double-check herself because the instrument doesn't know what a \"positive\" is. It just counts spots. Someone has to turn that count into a decision, and that someone was her, at midnight, for the fourth night that week.\n\nThat's not a story about one analyst. That's the entire industry's relationship with lab data, and it hasn't meaningfully changed in a decade.\n\n## **The part everyone stops short of**\n\nMost labs eventually solve the easy problem: getting a file off an instrument and into some kind of system of record. That's plumbing, and plumbing gets built. What almost nobody automates is the step after deciding whether a result is even valid.\n\nDoes it clear the CV threshold?\n\nIs this well too confluent to trust (TNTC)?\n\nWhat's the right baseline to compare against? 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We built Smart Actions specifically because moving the data was never the finish line — it was the prerequisite.\n\n## **What we actually built**\n\n[Smart Actions](https://www.scispot.com/smart-actions) are AI-agent workflows inside Scispot that don't stop at moving data - they interpret it.\n\nA Smart Action parses a raw instrument export, maps every well to the right sample and treatment condition, applies your lab's QC rules automatically (CV thresholds, LLOQ cutoffs, TNTC handling), computes the real statistics — averages, fold change against baseline — and writes the _decision_, not just the number, straight into your Labsheets.\n\nThe ELISpot plate our analyst stayed up for?\n\nToday that run finishes, and by the time she opens her laptop, the QC-gated summary is already sitting in the [Scispot Labsheet](https://www.scispot.com/labsheets) - Positive, Negative, Indeterminate, or QC Fail, each one traceable back to exactly why. Not a spreadsheet she has to trust blindly. 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QA can't audit it.\n* **Governance leaks.** A general-purpose agent has no idea a CRO coordinator shouldn't see another sponsor's samples, or that a clinical reviewer's role limits what they can edit.\n* **AI initiatives stall.** Leadership wants AI outcomes. The data foundation isn't ready. CAP/CLIA and GxP teams say no until it is.\n\n📈 **Scispot's solution**\n\nWe built Scispot as the **governed operating system for sample-centric labs**: sample-first data model, RBAC, audit, approvals, and a single API surface across every workflow a lab actually runs. The MCP server makes that operating system addressable by any agent:\n\n* **27 tools** spanning sample search and lineage, structured tables, methods and protocols, freezer and inventory state, lab flows, and image retrieval — all consistent under one auth and audit model.\n* **RBAC at the tool layer.** Every call resolves the calling user's role. A CRO coordinator can't see another sponsor's samples through the agent. **This is what unblocks regulated buyers.**\n* **Audit + approvals inherited.** Every MCP action lands in the same activity stream as a UI action, with actor, timestamp, and diff. Sensitive writes route through the same approval steps. The agent isn't a back door for CAP/CLIA or GxP.\n* **OAuth 2.0 + PKCE** on top of a Scispot. Compatible with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Claude Web, Perplexity, Cursor, and ChatGPT.\n* **One system, not five.** Most customers retire 3–5 disconnected tools (LIMS, ELN, freezer, inventory, spreadsheets) on the way in. MCP gets one auth model, not five integrations.\n\n🚀 **Traction**\n\n* **Live in production** with 100+ labs\n* **27 production tools** shipped, with usage metering\n\n🙋 **What customers are doing with it**\n\n* **pharma R&D:** retiring a GraphPad + Claude + manual reporting stack. Their go-to prompt: _\"summarize all experiments linked to samples where Reagent Lot is XX-007.\"_ Answered against governed data, not a stale CSV.\n* **process development labs (e.g. fermentation) :** asking Claude to walk sample lineage and storage state: \"which box, which rack, which plate, which lineage\" without learning the Scispot menu hierarchy.\n* **translational teams:** wiring LaTeX-based methods writing to live experiments, so the methods section assembles itself from the actual run record. The next reader is a sponsor or regulator.\n* **AI/ML & Informatics teams:** treating MCP as the programmatic spine of an ML pipeline instead of maintaining yet another export script. Sample-first data model, no separate warehouse to keep in sync.\n\n📚 **Backstory**\n\nWe started Scispot because we watched scaling biotechs, molecular diagnostics labs, and regulated CROs lose weeks to fragmentation; every minute saved on the bench got eaten back at the spreadsheet. When MCP shipped, the standard finally let us put AI inside the governed system instead of beside it. We shipped MCP to the first cohort in March 2026.\n\n🚀 **Our ask**\n\n1. **If you run a sample-centric lab** — scaling biotech, molecular diagnostics, or regulated CRO — try the MCP server. Beta opt-in: [**survey.scispot.io/mcp**](https://survey.scispot.io/mcp)\n2. **Intros welcome** to Heads of Lab Ops, Informatics, or QA at labs feeling IND / CAP-CLIA / sponsor pressure. Email me directly: [**satya@scispot.io**](mailto:satya@scispot.io).\n\n **See it in context:** [**top 5 use cases**](https://www.scispot.com/blog/top-5-scispot-mcp-use-cases) · [**press release**](https://www.prweb.com/releases/scispot-launches-mcp-server-to-bring-governed-ai-actions-to-live-lab-workflows-302719006.html).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QX5-scispot-mcp-run-claude-inside-your-governed-lifescience-lab-data", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2026-05-26T21:48:47.952Z" }, { "id": 95334, "title": "GLUE Robo: Lab automation layer for robots & instruments", "tagline": "An event‑driven automation layer for high‑throughput life science labs", "body": "Hey everyone! This is [Satya](https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyaravisingh/) & [Guru](https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamguru/) from Scispot. We just launched [Scispot GLUE Robo](https://www.scispot.com/blog/glue-robo-automation-transforming-lab-efficiency) - lab automation layer that seamlessly connects high throughput plate movements with Scispot LIMS.\n\nTL;DR: GLUE Robo connects lab instruments, robots, and data systems so results flow into [Scispot labsheets](https://www.scispot.com/labsheets) and databases in real time. No manual copy‑paste. No brittle scripts. Researchers get cleaner data. Heads of Data get lineage and control. Teams get time back.\n\n🚨**The problem:**\n\nModern labs live between hardware, software, and complex protocols. Manual steps slow them down. Data gets siloed. Errors creep in.\n\nTake an example of a high throughput lab tracking plate movements.\n\nHigh throughput plate movements refers to the challenge of verifying and tracking the large volume of rapid, automated operations occurring in laboratory environments. When plates are moved frequently and at scale, it becomes difficult to maintain a consistently accurate record of each transaction, ensure none are missed or duplicated, and verify that every action is valid for downstream lab and data processes.\n\n💡**The solution:**\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osUdOo5COJQ\n\nScispot webhooks (offered by GLUE Robo) are essential in this context because they capture real-time, reliable updates for every eligible system call from the robot to Scispot. This enables seamless integration, error-catching, and audibility across platforms, ensuring data integrity and full traceability as throughput increases. Here are the key highlights of Glue Robo:\n\n* **Event‑Driven Automation.** GLUE Robo listens for lab events—plate movement, data capture, file drops, status changes—and reacts instantly.\n* **Instrument‑Agnostic.** Works with leading robots and instruments (e.g., Automata, Hamilton, and more). Connect once. Scale as you add hardware.\n* **No‑Code Workflows.** Build rules that match protocols, QC gates, or regulatory steps. Reconfigure as methods evolve.\n* **Auditable by Default.** Every action is logged. You get traceability, reproducibility, and peace of mind.\n* **Built for Throughput.** Designed to keep pace with overnight screens and multi‑run genomics pipelines.\n\n⚡**Impact:**\\\nScispot provides high throughput labs with real-time data synchronization, automation, and auditability for operations, ensuring accurate tracking and seamless integration across lab systems.\n\n**🤝 Our Ask:**\n\nWe’re looking to connect with high throughput labs who currently leverage one or all of the following at scale:\n\n* Automata LINQ\n* Hamilton STAR\n* qPCR systems\n* Plate readers\n\nScispot provides webhooks to seamlessly capture events from such systems so you can connect your computational workflows with wet lab.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95334&key=user_uploads/697526/5a103264-9e5d-46d5-992e-697f2b67b700)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/One-glue-robo-lab-automation-layer-for-robots-instruments", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2025-11-11T14:56:11.717Z" }, { "id": 85309, "title": "Plato - Scispot's multi-well plate agent", "tagline": "Connect your plate readers, Tecan, Hamilton using Scispot’s AI agent.", "body": "Scispot is launching the world’s first agent for multi-well plates called Plato.\n\n**Plato has the wisdom of plate automation not philosophy.**\n\nA multi-well plate is basically a lab tool with multiple tiny \"wells\" or slots in one single tray. Each well can hold a separate sample, letting you run lots of tests at once—ideal for experiments like drug screening or diagnostics. It’s like having a mini grid of test tubes all in one place, so you can work faster and more efficiently.\n\n**Plato is the agent that helps wet lab scientists design, load, integrate and run their multi-well plates using natural language.** It understands the input and output from various plate readers such as **BMG Clariostar** for your assays. It also seamlessly integrates with **Tecan** and **Hamilton** for dilution.\n\nWhile designing your experiments, scientists can use Plato to create controls— standards for their assays— using AI.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85309&key=user_uploads/697526/7c482e2c-a2a5-4cb1-b775-4f670c58c10c)\n\n### **Problem**\n\nA wet lab scientist typically follows the journey of\n\n* Designing a plate in excel\n* Enter sample details such as IDs, concentration, standards and controls\n* Prepare samples in plate according to layout and execute experiment\n* Get the readings\n* Add the raw data back to their ELN or LIMS system\n* Cross-check data for errors and manually correct if needed\n\nThis process is not only time consuming, but labor intensive and leaves room for a lot of errors. It also doesn’t create a complete chain of custody for your plate data. You end up compromising your data integrity.\n\n**In a high throughput lab you cannot follow this process for 100s of plates!**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85309&key=user_uploads/697526/e90e3342-c5e5-4eb7-b5bb-ad4ce911a5ab)\n\n### **Solution**\n\nWith Scispot’s AI-powered Plato, the process finally shifts to where it should be: automated. Plate configurations happen at the click of a button, data flows directly into Scispot (ELN/LIMS), and error-checking is automatic. The time saved here isn’t just convenient; it maintains the complete chain of custody. You can also create plates in bulk using Plato while automating the logistics of moving, and transferring data.\n\nOnce you have this data in one place called Scispot Labsheets (Scispot data lake), you can then easily run regression or analytics.\n\nAs a result, you save a LOT of time while being compliant with 21 CFR Part 11 compliance controls.\n\n\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\n* If you run a Biotech lab, join us for the official launch of Plato this Thursday, 7th November 2024. More details here: \n* If you are a YC bio company, you get Plato for free along with 50% off on your first year with Scispot YC deal - ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MBx-plato-scispot-s-multi-well-plate-agent", "votes": 32, "created_at": "2024-11-05T23:22:50.545Z" }, { "id": 81624, "title": "🧪+🤖 Scibot - AI lab assistant to accelerate your biotech R&D", "tagline": "Use natural language to design experiments, get at-the-bench assistance, search, discover, and analyze data.", "body": "**tl;dr:** Introducing Scibot, your AI Lab Assistant that supercharges biotech R&D. Simplify experiment design, get real-time insights, and streamline data management—all with natural language commands.\n\n---\n\n### Problems Scientists Face:\n\n* Managing and integrating vast amounts of structured and unstructured lab data.\n* Spending too much time on repetitive data entry and analysis tasks.\n* Needing quick, reliable assistance while conducting experiments at the bench.\n* Difficulty in visualizing complex data relationships and generating actionable insights.\n\nDisconnected lab data is stored across disparate systems, and it is super hard to make it AI-ready.\n\n### Solution: Scibot\n\n**Scibot - Your AI Lab Assistant to Accelerate Biotech R&D**\n\nFour years ago, we launched Scispot, the first ELN + LIMS alternative—a modern data lake that integrates both structured data (experiment metadata, instrument results) and unstructured data (lab notes, protocol deviations). Our goal: create the ultimate Lab Operating System (LOS) for biotech companies.\n\nNow, we’re taking it a step further with Scibot. Leveraging generative AI trained on scientific data and workflows, Scibot enhances your lab operations by:\n\n**1\\. Create Your Unified R&D Data Model Using Labsheets:** Standardize your data model based on workflows and data types. Labsheets link entities through relationships, making it easy to manage and visualize data. For instance:\n\n* Create a Labsheet to store and visualize LCMS data.\n* Manage cell line stocks with an inventory Labsheet.\n* Convert your notebook entries into structured data\n\n**2\\. Talk to Your Data:** Interact with your data using natural language. Ask Scibot to summarize key findings or perform complex analyses with simple commands. For example:\n\n* \"Summarize the key findings from samples submitted by customer ABC Biotech”\n* \"Display the heat map for ADME data to identify the best hit molecules based on solubility and permeability.\"\n* \"Summarize the key ADME properties of the top-performing compounds from my recent experiments.\"\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81624&key=user_uploads/697526/025c395c-f3ab-43bc-9570-f452b571307c)\n\n**3\\. Get At-the-Bench Assistance:** Scibot offers one-click support for capturing protocol deviations, checking inventory status, tracking samples, and performing calculations—all while your hands and eyes are busy with experiments.\n\n**4\\. Generate Real-Time Insights:** Get actionable insights to optimize experiments. Ask Scibot for recommendations based on historical data or to identify trends and patterns. For example:\n\n* \"What are the recommended parameters for improving the yield in my protein expression experiments?\"\n* \"Show trends in gene expression levels from my RNA-seq data over the past six months.\"\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81624&key=user_uploads/697526/4704f337-e098-41af-9770-eb831e984f45)\n\nThe real-time insights can be saved as “widgets” so you can create your own dashboard.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81624&key=user_uploads/697526/c50fd70a-dcc7-40ac-8d2f-380f39193255)\n\n**5\\. Convert Your Google Sheets, Excel, PDFs, and Docs to Notebook Entries and Registries:** Scibot integrates various data formats into your ELN and LIMS, converting data from Google Sheets, Excel files, PDFs, and Word documents into Labsheets. This centralizes and streamlines data management.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81624&key=user_uploads/697526/9f113306-0449-4812-b577-4d937ac7105f)\n\n**6\\. Maintain your security and privacy while using Scispot AI (Scibot)**\n\n* Customer data never leaves your Scispot instance.\n* We do not train any models on customer data.\n* Scispot AI upholds all enterprise-grade security and compliance requirements while fulfilling SOC 2 and HIPAA controls.\n* Customers can choose to switch off Scispot AI functionalities in their account if they prefer not to use them.\n\n### Ask:\n\n* Join our launch event today - \n* We’d love to chat if you use any ELN or LIMS system or want to explore new ELN or LIMS for your lab! Reach out at [team@scispot.io](mailto:team@scispot.io) or book a demo directly [here](https://www.scispot.com/demo).\n* We’d also appreciate sharing our launch and following us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/scispot-com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LEW-scibot-ai-lab-assistant-to-accelerate-your-biotech-r-d", "votes": 39, "created_at": "2024-06-20T14:35:52.031Z" }, { "id": 74769, "title": "🚀 Scispot's Lab-as-Code solution: Turn your biotech into an AI powerhouse", "tagline": "Think of it as Zapier + Snowflake of biotech", "body": "Hello YC Community,\n\nWe're thrilled to introduce [**Scispot’s Lab-as-Code solution**](https://www.scispot.com/), the best data infrastructure for biotech. Think of it as the Zapier + Snowflake of biotech.\n\n🔗 **Three Pillars of Scispot** 🔗\n\n1️⃣ **Self-Serve Integrations**\n\n* **Problem**: Labs struggle with integrating data from platforms and lab instruments, causing inefficiencies.\n* **Solution**: Integrate with Benchling, Snowflake, LabVantage, Veeva, and lab instruments.\n* **Real Example**: A client integrated Snowflake, Benchling, and mass spectrometer data, cutting data prep time by 50%.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74769&key=user_uploads/453596/078d26ca-a01d-4978-ac6d-0b6af72167d9)\n\n2️⃣ **Data Readiness for AI**\n\n* **Problem**: Raw data is messy, hindering effective AI applications.\n* **Solution**: Staging lakehouse with embedded Jupyter Notebook and R Studio for data cleaning and transformation.\n* **Real Example**: A client standardized genomic data, boosting predictive model accuracy by 20%.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74769&key=user_uploads/453596/2f23ec82-b0aa-48d7-8af7-b9429f9200e0)\n\n3️⃣ **API-First ELN & LIMS**\n\n* **Problem**: Traditional ELN and LIMS don't meet modern computational demands.\n* **Solution**: Our [API-First](https://docs.scispot.com/) ELN & LIMS add-on is designed for computational teams.\n* **Real Example**: A genomics lab automated 80% of workflows using our add-on.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74769&key=user_uploads/453596/151f63ab-ea24-4fcc-86e0-a47f07719880)\n\nJoin us in revolutionizing biotech with AI. Let's make science faster, smarter, and more efficient. \\\n\\\nYou can **book a free consultation call **[**here**](https://www.scispot.com/demo)**.**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JRx-scispot-s-lab-as-code-solution-turn-your-biotech-into-an-ai-powerhouse", "votes": 57, "created_at": "2023-09-11T22:33:50.203Z" }, { "id": 70891, "title": "Scispot GLUE - Stitch your biotech R&D data", "tagline": "Say goodbye to data graveyards and hello to faster R&D progress with GLUE!", "body": "**Tl;dr:** Scispot GLUE helps Biotech R&D labs extract data from Benchling, Notion, and Airtable, and easily transform it for auditing, visualization, and machine learning.  Scispot started as the world’s most configurable Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) and Lab Information Management System (LIMS) two years ago for modern biotechs. As we acquired more customers, we learnt that many of them wanted to stitch their data with existing legacy ELN + LIMS, so we decided to launch an extension called Scispot GLUE to sit on top of your existing lab informatics systems and augment them. **Check out more** [**here.**](https://www.scispot.com/scispot-glue)\n\n**Hi everyone, we are Scispotters, the team behind** [**Scispot GLUE!**](https://www.scispot.com/scispot-glue)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70891&key=user_uploads/697526/610d10ec-be64-440c-8046-56f005fe485a)\n\nWe’re a team of molecular biologists, computational biologists, data engineers, bench scientists, and biomedical engineers working to solve the data swamp challenge.\n\n**In Biotech R&D, 80% of the generated metadata and data never get fully analyzed or used.** \n\n* Biotech R&D labs generate vast amounts of metadata and data from various sources, including instruments\n* With the current ELN + LIMS landscape, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage, access, and derive insights from data\n* As a result, there is a disconnect between wet lab and computational workflows\n\nScispot GLUE is built to solve this.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70891&key=user_uploads/697526/366fb516-a78b-4b51-951f-1ba54060e2fc)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70891&key=user_uploads/697526/32f45378-ce40-470b-b2dc-8618457afa66)\n\nIf this resonates with you, [Schedule a demo](https://calendly.com/scispot/30min?back=1&%3Bmonth=2021-11&month=2023-04) of Scispot GLUE\n\n**Our ask 🙏**\n\n1. 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We’re Ryder, Matthew, Curtis, Manish, Veneta, and Sean aka the team behind [Whalesync](http://whalesync.com/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68930&key=user_uploads/689259/bc6a3ca8-c31c-4a1b-841c-7c5afd6dc221)\n\n### **The problem: connecting tools is hard**\n\nConnecting apps like Airtable & Webflow enables amazing use cases, but is actually really hard to do without code!\n\nWe started Whalesync because we repeatedly saw people spending weeks architecting multi-step automations only to find them brittle and unreliable.\n\nWhile we love automation tools, they’re really not built to handle true data syncing where you connect deeply and bi-directionally.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68930&key=user_uploads/689259/f59ab897-31e7-4717-8c1d-5353077f4f28)\n\n### **The solution: simple, no-code data sync**\n\nWhalesync is the no-code tool built to handle data syncing. 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We’re very excited to share the launch of our new product line with you!\n\n## **Founders Backstory**\n\nAs a product manager and engineering manager, we both suffered through months of wasted engineering time building CSV importers instead of core product features. Even after launch, the [maintenance never seemed to end](https://www.oneschema.co/blog/csv-importer-cost) - parsing issues, performance improvements, and UX issues always seemed to pop up. \n\nWe decided to build OneSchema so product teams could focus on the features that matter most to their customers.\n\n## **What is OneSchema?**\n\nOneSchema is an embeddable CSV importer for SaaS companies. Product and engineering teams use OneSchema to save months of development and maintenance time and provide a best-in-class CSV import process for their customers. 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Today we're launching our [SEO AI Agent](https://writesonic.com/seo-ai-agent) that automates end-to-end SEO workflows by connecting real-time data from Ahrefs, Google Search Console, and other key marketing tools.\n\n## TL;DR\n\nTraditional SEO requires endless tool-hopping and manual work. Our SEO AI Agent changes that by automating the entire workflow - from research to implementation. It works like an in-house specialist but faster, pulling live data from your marketing tools to turn weeks of work into minutes. After helping 10M+ users create AI content, we're now solving the bigger SEO automation problem. Watch our [2-minute demo here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnL8oaLWauQ).\n\n## The Traditional SEO Problem ⚠️\n\nHere's what teams currently deal with:\n\n* Spending 6-8 hours/week comparing keyword data\n* Paying agencies $5,000-10,000 monthly for basic SEO work\n* Wasting hours switching between different tools\n* Waiting weeks for competitor research and strategy\n* Getting stuck in endless iterations\n\n**A typical SEO project involves:**\n\n1. Initial consultation (1-2 hours)\n2. Tool research & data gathering (4-6 hours)\n3. Competitor analysis (6-8 hours)\n4. Strategy development (3-4 hours)\n5. Multiple revision cycles (1-2 weeks)\n\n## How Our AI Agent Changes This ⚡\n\nWhen you ask \"Help me rank for 'AI SEO' keyword in the US\", the agent:\n\n1. Does **keyword research** to understand search volume, difficulty, and related terms **using Ahrefs and Google Keyword Planner**\n2. Studies the current **Google SERP** landscape to understand content types and ranking factors\n3. Examines your site's current **Domain Rating and organic keywords**\n4. Identifies your top competitors in the US market for this keyword\n5. Analyzes relevant **backlink profiles**\n6. Performs technical SEO audit to spot improvement opportunities\n7. Compiles a comprehensive strategy based on all gathered data\n\nAll this happens in minutes, not weeks. Unlike ChatGPT or Claude, we're not making educated guesses - we're working with real-time data from your actual marketing tools.\n\n## Example Use Cases 💡\n\n**Keyword Research & Strategy**\n\n* \"Find easy-to-rank keywords in our niche\"\n* \"Analyze content gaps vs competitors\"\n* \"Map topic clusters for our features\"\n\n**SERP Analysis**\n\n* \"What's working for top-ranking pages?\"\n* \"Find SERP features we can capture\"\n* \"Discover untapped keyword opportunities\"\n\n**Content Optimization**\n\n* \"Optimize our post for featured snippets\"\n* \"Improve key product page rankings\"\n* \"Find missing content opportunities\"\n\n## Who's Using It? 🎯\n\n**Startup and Small Business Owners**\n\n* Get enterprise-grade SEO without hiring expensive in-house teams or agencies\n* Access tools like Ahrefs without separate subscriptions\n* Turn complex SEO into simple, actionable steps without needing technical expertise\n\n**Marketing Agencies**\n\n* Automate research and reporting for multiple clients simultaneously\n* Scale your client base without increasing headcount\n* Replace $5,000-10,000 monthly research costs with a single, efficient tool\n\n**In-House Marketing Teams**\n\n* Reduce or eliminate dependency on external agencies\n* Get instant, data-driven answers to SEO questions\n* Make faster decisions with insights pulled in real time\n\n## Real Results 📈\n\n* One user jumped from position 14 to 4 in two weeks\n* Teams capturing featured snippets for 30% of keywords\n* Agencies replacing $5,000-10,000 monthly costs\n* Content teams turning 2-week cycles into minutes\n\n## What's Next: The Full Marketing AI Agent 🔮\n\n![SEO AI Agent Dashboard](/media/?type=post&id=87645&key=user_uploads/490043/2e3af77c-fdd8-4e01-af26-31fa58c4b7f9)\n\nThis SEO Agent is just the start. We're building:\n\n1. Social Media Agent: Post scheduling, engagement and analytics\n2. Ads Agent: Multi-platform campaign management\n\nOur vision is an end-to-end marketing system where AI agents work together seamlessly.\n\n## Our Ask 🤝\n\n1. Try the SEO AI Agent free: \n2. Share feedback, especially if you're:\n * A business/startup owner trying to grow your business\n * A marketing team fighting manual workflows\n * An agency owner looking to scale\n3. Questions? Email [sam@writesonic.com](mailto:sam@writesonic.com)\n\nThe future of SEO is automated, integrated, and intelligent. We'd love your feedback on making it even better.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mnd-writesonic-the-ai-seo-agent-that-replaces-10k-month-agencies", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2025-02-13T16:17:23.820Z" }, { "id": 76934, "title": "GPT Router - API gateway for LLMs", "tagline": "Automatically route between 30+ LLMs, Vision and Image Models based on latency and uptime.", "body": "**Tl;dr:** GPTRouter is an open source LLM API Gateway that offers a universal API for 30+ LLMs, vision, and image models, with smart fallbacks based on uptime and latency, automatic retries, and streaming. Stay operational even when OpenAI is down. [Try it out today.](https://github.com/Writesonic/GPTRouter)\n\nWe are open-sourcing [**GPTRouter**](https://github.com/Writesonic/GPTRouter), an LLMOps tool we have been using internally at [**Writesonic**](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7141049399975075841/#) for handling millions of monthly requests for our users.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76934&key=user_uploads/490043/69dec2e5-ab07-4bda-b21c-2132c2f10bd9)\n\n✅ Universal API for 30+ LLMs, Vision and Image Models\n\n✅ Smart Fallbacks based on latency and uptime\n\n✅ Automatic Retries\n\n✅ Supports streaming\n\n## Why we built it\n\nSince embracing OpenAI GPT-3 in production in 2020, we at Writesonic have been serving millions of users and faced the typical scaling pains with generative AI models:\n\n1\\. Dependency on a single model risked total downtime.\n\n2\\. Latency issues with models like GPT-4 affected user experience.\n\n3\\. Integrating various models was tough due to different APIs and SDKs.\n\n**🌟 Early this year at Writesonic, we set out with a clear vision: to become model agnostic.**\n\nFaced with single-model limitations and diverse AI challenges, we began building GPTRouter - our bespoke solution to navigate and thrive in a multi-model AI world.\n\n**🔗 With GPTRouter's Universal API, you're the master of AI models.**\n\nSwap between OpenAI, Azure, Anthropic, Replicate, Cohere & more with just one line of code.\n\nIt simplifies model management to a great extent.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76934&key=user_uploads/490043/faa03edd-ebda-469b-8731-297fd33f0ffc)\n\n**🛡️ Downtime isn't an option.**\n\nGPTRouter's Smart Fallbacks mean your service is always on.\n\nYou can define a hierarchy of models for each use case. GPTRouter will constantly check for uptime/downtime, latency and other factors, and automatically fallback to the next best model with zero interruption.\n\n**♻️ Say goodbye to manual retries.**\n\nGPTRouter does the heavy lifting with Automatic Retries for failed requests, keeping your AI services sharp and consistent.\n\n**🌟 **[**GPTRouter's**](https://github.com/Writesonic/GPTRouter)** Edge:**\n\n✅ Universal API for seamless model switching.\n\n✅ Smart, automatic fallbacks for continuous service.\n\n✅ Reduced latencies for quick interactions.\n\nThis is just the starting point. We are also working on integrations with Langchain and Llamaindex.\n\nAdditionally, we will also be open sourcing our frontend LLMOps layer that provides a playground to test multiple models in parallel, keep a tab on the latencies for each model, track tokens and costs for each model and user all in one place.\n\n📈 With GPTRouter, we're not just solving our problems at Writesonic; we're offering a solution to other startups and companies looking to make use of Generative AI in production.\n\nTry it out here: \n\n### **🙏 Asks**\n\n[Do try it out](https://github.com/Writesonic/GPTRouter) and share your feedback at sam at [writesonic.com](http://writesonic.com) or open an issue on [Github](https://github.com/Writesonic/GPTRouter).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/K0s-gpt-router-api-gateway-for-llms", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2023-12-15T16:18:41.578Z" }, { "id": 68110, "title": "ChatSonic 💬 - Like ChatGPT but with real-time data, images & voice search", "tagline": "ChatGPT is great but limited to 2021 info. Say hi to Chatsonic - a chatGPT-like chatbot that integrates with Google Search to create content with the latest information. Additionally, it can create digital images and respond to voice commands.", "body": "**TLDR: ChatSonic surpasses the limitations of ChatGPT to give you factually correct results. Additionally, it can create digital images and respond to voice commands like Siri.**\n\n\n\nChatSonic is a powerful chatbot, powered by Google Search, allowing it to provide up-to-date and accurate content and hence superior to ChatGPT which can not generate content on topics after September 2021. Additionally, it can create digital images and respond to voice commands and many more additional features. So, ChatSonic has addressed all the limitations of ChatGPT.\n\n### ChatSonic can do more than what ChatGPT does:\n\n**🌐 Provides up-to-date factual information by using Google's knowledge graph** \n\nWe've integrated Google search into our chatbot to provide hyper-relevant content on any given topic, so you can always stay up to date.\n\n![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/xUw2dLycx8xyWJLTJBFTJtt7cStNrb8ZrVdouu9Uj1HV5QN5lVBSRGcjdNOSVuMBdXYwPIQaK9lme4FF6aprmhIwtbTx58TqPFQelCj16iV58_M5FUHw9WTz9mq7-Jf346zNRhfnzjcYSBcVT024o4qvJQb-WyHjUzffx7zKZehe0BvYovygBniHuaWphg)\n\n**🎨 Generates digital art and paintings from chat**\n\nChatsonic can also generate stunning digital artwork and images using AI so that you can bring your ideas to life.\n\n![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/TXxpsi62j8fT5svcw70UeZjxQumGXb4YCLt2Zwvx1Xok5ILX2hIHsY5SoaTXwmTB8aI1nohgVLetNO-6W7LE7dgDzdlEVfhx9XZHLD3Xg7YZ2L58Ivbk6FIoRrjtbN1T_VSeF2qdklrTX6BqJiaSe1GCvmRMxMFU3Mao9MGUK4QIhQf3ylbmT_XCsia9dg)\n\n**🗣️ Understands voice commands and talks back responses like Siri**\n\nWhy write when you can speak? Ask ChatSonic what you need via voice commands and have it read back the responses to you, just like Siri or Google Assistant does—you’ll be surprised!\n\n**🧠 Maintains the context of your conversations. Feels like you’re talking to a human**\n\nChatSonic maintains the context of your conversations just like you would with a person. It remembers past questions or comments in your conversation and can easily answer follow-up questions.\n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/EFXUSQpnbeaLdpMgOyrUyuFw3G0v9pOakaH4XV9aNPfyL5Nw2SpwDZNndGw5x9i0IIs9JyDKag96h1OOPc6vja3tKmNJlaTRwd4aV_KmbmyPNNQkWIRvxlvq_3sFyK6mZPfIQ3SgU1L4W7dlX-H8NFj8QRB5Sc19_H-d06zZnf1WmmzdCkP1PqYIL5y6Aw)\n\n**🔗 Gives you the option to share, edit, or download your conversations**\n\nShare a specific response or even your entire conversations with your friends, colleagues, family, and followers.\n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/tSwgstnhH_HC3gKtsn5rYDAIZAUz16t3gdGkBeUtcMhinACIxs9NCyt3AwBr571dv89-SswfeCEIDMrcya7J5JLU7QvFiqrizxLaRiDqXZ1cAa-QFMZP-k5K5eXgaHNABAzqOxKnLs07F3DsZNZ3AZBQsS6SKPfgd6NutL8wN9mlZJ4GHccz2vkbDeSMPQ)\n\n**🦸 Talk to a Personalized Avatar**\n\nTalk with your own personal avatar! Select your personality - English tutor, fitness trainer, Math teacher, and more - and ChatSonic will behave like them, providing accurate answers.\n\n![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/X2f-ePhJZhqDZPRlBxAkZvJh9nlEfIXfq7GbgTOpPVgrEKIOGhx0u_KEtAm9w6aG7QsItr7VPrkqe86DdASewDUnw-PNm17wvhycF-cZuJd95lflwr81nFb_THwUbTYE0rWK6weOBCQEv6MKaRj9N05lF7syXKWRM0jkkBZ5f9QsTcC2ccfpyZtrICtnNQ)\n\n**👨‍💻 Provides an API**\n\nChatSonic can be integrated with other applications and services through our simple-to-use API.\n\n_Insane, right?!_ \n\n**ChatSonic by Writesonic was one of the top products of the week on ProductHunt, with 3000+ upvotes.** \n\nAnd not everyone knows this, but we release new features almost every single day.\n\nWe're excited to bring you this amazing product, and we hope you'll try it.\n\nLooking forward to your feedback and suggestions 🙏", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HiY-chatsonic-like-chatgpt-but-with-real-time-data-images-voice-search", "votes": 41, "created_at": "2022-12-29T09:05:53.089Z" } ] }, { "id": 24538, "name": "Coast", "slug": "coast", "former_names": [ "Buffd" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ed33f81f04c7a7660bb89ef0d677adf2dcf0179e.png", "website": "https://trycoast.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "The first AI-powered demo platform designed to sell, market and implement technical products with ease. 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For developers, it’s a chore to work on unloved parts of the codebase that aren’t a priority for the business. And for other stakeholders in Product, Ops and Support, there’s never enough capacity to build the tools they desperately need, while the ones they have are slow, cluttered and the UX is often poor. \n\n### **🙌 How does Noloco help?**\n\n[Noloco](https://noloco.io?utm_source=bookface&utm_medium=forum&utm_campaign=postgres) is the no-code platform for teams to instantly create internal tools from databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, Airtable & Google Sheets.\n\nOnce you connect your data source (e.g. PostgreSQL), Noloco automatically builds an app for you from your chosen tables including collection views (e.g. tables and kanban boards), record pages to view individual records and forms to add new records.\n\nNoloco provides a totally no-code builder. This genuinely makes building and configuring internal tools 10x faster. 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This is because Noloco does so much of the work for you in building the basic structure and pages of your app. \n\nIf you’d like to try building internal tools for your team without writing a line of code, you can [sign up here](https://portals.noloco.io/register?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=forum&utm_campaign=launch).\n\nWe also have lots of useful resources to help you:\n\n* [Guides](https://guides.noloco.io/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=forum&utm_campaign=launch)\n* [Video Tutorials](https://noloco.io/video-tutorials?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=forum&utm_campaign=launch) \n\n### **💸 YC Deal**\n\nWe’ve published our first YC Deal - see [redemption instructions](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/deals/1610) here.\n\nCurrent batch:\n\n* Free during the batch\n* 50% off all paid plans for your first 6 months after the batch\n\nAlumni:\n\n* 50% off all paid plans for your first 6 months \n\n### **🙏 Asks**\n\n[Sign up](https://portals.noloco.io/register?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=forum&utm_campaign=launch) and see how quickly you can build internal tools for your team with Noloco.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hoc-noloco-build-internal-tools-for-your-team-without-code", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2023-01-17T13:35:13.594Z" } ] }, { "id": 24571, "name": "Adni", "slug": "adni", "former_names": [ "Lumify Care", "Lumify" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/48474c1b0337163fd12462fb6b72ee336a4ad010.png", "website": "https://www.adni.co/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Adni is the career community for 200,000+ nurses and allied health workers. 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He graduated computer science / chemical eng. from UNSW and MBA from London Business School and MIT.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "http://linkedin.com/in/aandrison", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0ce9fdf159a142e46711946b2bb326804278cfe8.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Lumina nets funding from YC, Alpha JWC", "url": "https://www.techinasia.com/lumina-funding-yc-alpha-jwc-ventures", "date": "Jan 24, 2022" } ], "launches": [] }, { "id": 25314, "name": "Trellus", "slug": "trellus", "former_names": [ "Databridge", "Capricorn", "Outpost" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6ac35e11423cda97ca4eaf626723895e8148a986.png", "website": "https://www.trellus.ai", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Trellus delivers simple coaching prompts to your salespeople in real time as they speak to prospects. Prompts are delivered in response to what is happening in a conversation. The goal of these prompts is to get more reps achieving quota and to reduce the time it takes to start attaining quota.\r\n\r\nPrompts are action-oriented steps toward empathetic listening and effective discovery. Examples include 'pause' (when talking too much), 'set next steps' (when wrapping up a call without them), and 'ask current state' (when encountering objections).\r\n\r\nTrellus is backed by Y Combinator and founded by former MIT researchers.", "one_liner": "Real-time sales coach for SDRs ", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Sales", "launched_at": 1660574140, "tags": [ "AI-Enhanced Learning", "SaaS", "B2B", "Sales", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Sales" ], "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/trellus", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2022/trellus.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/trytrellus/about/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/trellusai", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6ac35e11423cda97ca4eaf626723895e8148a986.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 832328, "full_name": "Ajinkya Nene", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Ajinkya completed his masters and bachelors in computer science from MIT where he focused on applied ML systems. He has experience in running top-level strategy projects as part of his experience at McKinsey & Co. and has been programming for over a decade. \n\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajinkya-nene-6200b871/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/ajinkya_nene", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5b8445e19f47f997e5d0d26b04c89753439aadff.jpg" }, { "user_id": 826752, "full_name": "Craig Bonnoit", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Craig has nearly a decade of professional experience leading teams and developing software. His works has spanned multiple domains including real-time autonomous systems and financial derivative pricing. He previously completed a PhD in Physics at MIT focused on computational techniques for experimental data analysis in strongly correlated materials.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-bonnoit/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/craig_bonnoit", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/bcd470a2232e1be82cb9c30c630f8ef6fd7b16d8.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Enterprise insights from YC S22 Demo Day | Wing Venture Capital", "url": "https://www.wing.vc/content/enterprise-insights-from-yc-s22-demo-day", "date": "Jan 16, 2023" }, { "title": "Sales Tech Trends to Watch in 2023 and Beyond", "url": "https://reply.io/sales-trends-2023/", "date": "Dec 22, 2022" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 119735, "title": "Trellus: From call list to callback inside Attio and GoHighLevel", "tagline": "Power and parallel dialing, call notes, and CRM-linked follow-up—without a CSV handoff.", "body": "Hi YC—we're Trellus (W22). We build a power and parallel dialer that works inside the CRM your team already uses.\n\nA call block shouldn't leave you with two lists to reconcile: one in the CRM and another in a dialer. And “call me Friday” shouldn't end up on a sticky note.\n\nWe've previously introduced our Attio and GoHighLevel integrations here. This launch brings the full workflow into focus: start with your CRM audience, have the conversation, save the result, and leave a callback attached to the right record.\n\n## Attio: your People list is the call list\n\nOpen a supported People list or Tasks view, map your phone fields, and choose power dialing or up to five parallel lines on an eligible plan. Keep the person context available while you call.\n\nAfterward, save the outcome and summary to Attio. With the right workspace permissions, Trellus can maintain structured call attributes; otherwise, details go into an Attio note. A requested follow-up can become a Person-linked Trellus Callback Task with a due date.\n\n[Watch the Attio walkthrough](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1wfr5A9uUc)\n\n## GoHighLevel: work the Smart List, then finish the contact\n\nStart in the active HighLevel location's Contacts Smart List. Trellus uses the filtered audience and valid contact phone numbers without a CSV export. Choose power or parallel dialing based on your plan.\n\nWhen the call ends, save a contact note with the selected outcome and available summary, apply a chosen HighLevel tag, and create a contact-linked callback task. Opportunity pipeline or stage views are available when confirmed during setup. Agency-branded domains need compatible site access and a setup check.\n\n[Watch the GoHighLevel walkthrough](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTTAieDWJms)\n\n## Try it on the call block you already run\n\nBring one real CRM view and the follow-up your reps need to save. That's a better starting point than migrating your whole sales process.\n\nThese workflows are for teams running repeatable outbound blocks. If you only make a few calls a day, basic click-to-call may be enough. Calling modes and coaching depend on your Trellus access and workspace setup.\n\n[Explore Trellus for Attio](https://www.trellus.ai/integrations/attio?utm_source=launch_yc&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=attio_ghl_call_to_callback_20261006&utm_content=attio) · [Explore Trellus for GoHighLevel](https://www.trellus.ai/integrations/gohighlevel?utm_source=launch_yc&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=attio_ghl_call_to_callback_20261006&utm_content=gohighlevel)\n\nTell us which CRM view you call from and what needs to happen after a conversation. We'd love your feedback.\n\n![Trellus connected-call screen alongside a GoHighLevel Contacts Smart List, using demo contacts](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/633ef5e495fbc54172ea70ad/6a9f50a21e95ee66a59e2d14_trellus-gohighlevel-complete-workflow-2026-09-07.png)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/V9D-trellus-from-call-list-to-callback-inside-attio-and-gohighlevel", "votes": 2, "created_at": "2026-10-07T14:16:07.449Z" }, { "id": 112632, "title": "Trellus: Embedded dialing, Salesfloor, and live coaching at half the price of Nooks", "tagline": "Run more outbound calls with embedded power and parallel dialing, a live Salesfloor, and real-time coaching in one platform.", "body": "\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=112632&key=user_uploads/832328/f3d998f2-1dec-4aa3-b5ce-2e40154d9dfd)\n\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=112632&key=user_uploads/832328/88403df8-0b92-475b-bde6-87ed22e349db)\n\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=112632&key=user_uploads/832328/fb0a9225-9c8c-4266-8352-9a976fe560e6)\n\nHey everyone — we're Ajinkya and Craig from Trellus (YC W22).\n\n**TL;DR:** Trellus combines embedded power and parallel dialing, a collaborative Salesfloor, and live AI coaching in one product. Reps can dial up to five lines from supported CRM, sales-engagement, prospecting, and spreadsheet workflows. Managers can run call blocks, listen to live calls, coach reps, and pull people into private huddles without leaving the floor. Trellus is typically about half the price of Nooks for teams buying a comparable dialing and Salesfloor workflow.\n\n## The problem\n\nOutbound teams usually stitch together a dialer, their CRM or sales-engagement platform, a virtual sales floor, call recording, analytics, and a coaching tool. Reps bounce between tabs. Managers see the call after it is over. Remote call blocks lose the energy and fast feedback of a real sales floor.\n\nWe built Trellus so the list, the call, the team room, and the coaching loop can stay connected.\n\n## What a call block looks like in Trellus\n\n1. A rep opens the workflow they already use in a supported platform such as Salesforce, HubSpot, Apollo, Attio, lemlist, GoHighLevel, or Google Sheets.\n2. Trellus adds one-line power dialing or up to five-line parallel dialing directly to that workflow, so the rep does not have to rebuild the list in a separate dialer.\n3. The team joins a shared Salesfloor to dial together, see who is active, chat, and celebrate wins.\n4. Managers can listen to live calls and coach in the moment. Trellus can also surface real-time guidance for objections, discovery, pacing, and next steps.\n5. When a conversation needs privacy, a manager can pull a rep or small group into an audio huddle and return them to the shared floor when it is over.\n6. Calls are transcribed and available for team analytics and review after the block.\n\n## One product for the whole calling workflow\n\n* Embedded power dialing and up to five-line parallel dialing\n* Voicemail drops, phone-number rotation, and number-health workflows\n* A live Salesfloor for remote and hybrid call blocks\n* Private manager-rep huddles inside the floor\n* Live listening and real-time coaching\n* Transcripts, call review, scoring, and team analytics\n* Practice conversations with AI roleplay bots\n\nTrellus works on top of the sales tools your team already uses, so reps keep the account context and workflow they know. You get the high-volume dialing and collaborative floor experience without buying a separate product for every step.\n\n## Why we think this matters\n\nNooks helped establish the modern parallel-dialer-plus-salesfloor category. Trellus gives teams that same core buying outcome—more live conversations and a shared place to run call blocks—while adding embedded workflows and live coaching in one product at roughly half the price.\n\nWe are building for sales leaders who want more activity without treating reps like call-center seats, and for reps who want help during the conversation rather than another dashboard after it.\n\n## Our ask\n\nIf your team runs outbound call blocks, try Trellus and tell us where your current workflow breaks. We are especially interested in feedback on embedded dialing, live manager coaching, and how remote teams use private huddles during a floor session.\n\nWatch the [two-minute product walkthrough](https://www.tella.tv/video/2-min-trellus-walkthrough-9b4y).\n\nSee [Trellus for sales teams](https://www.trellus.ai/sales?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=salesfloor_launch_2026).\n\n[Try Trellus](https://app.trellus.ai/install?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=salesfloor_launch_2026).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=112632&key=user_uploads/832328/21b3444b-9071-4e01-bb09-7fa6e8fa525a)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/TIe-trellus-embedded-dialing-salesfloor-and-live-coaching-at-half-the-price-of-nooks", "votes": 1, "created_at": "2026-08-31T15:02:02.119Z" }, { "id": 101968, "title": "Trellus: Parallel or Power Dial on any Platform + 50% cheaper than Nooks/Orum", "tagline": "Trellus alllows you to parallel dial directly inside your platform of choice (eg Sheets)", "body": "Trellus allows you to parallel dial directly in Google Sheets or GoHighLevel. Turn Sheets or GoHighLevel into a full dialing sequencer.\n\nTLDR: Trellus is an AI-powered parallel-dialer + sales coach to help you book 5x more meetings on your cold calls that works natively inside your CRM or SEP (we also support Salesloft, Hubspot, Outreach, Amplemarket, Apollo, Clay, Zoho, Salesforce)\n\nReps using Trellus have seen a 2-3X increase in the number of dials and 25-50+% increases in meeting booked conversion rates — AI assistants are the future of cold calling.\n\nGrab time with our team directly at [www.trellus.ai](https://www.trellus.ai) to get access.\n\nWatch a video on how it works (eg in Google Sheets): \n\nHow it works\n\n1. Download the Chrome extension at and activate parallel dialing\n2. Load up any contact list in GHL or any sheet in Google Sheets, and map your columns to the right fields - Trellus works across all major SEP/CRM platforms\n3. Start parallel dialing and begin booking more meetings\n\nFeatures\n\n1. Seamless integration into your dialer platform of choice (e.g., simply add the Chrome extension)\n2. Parallel or power dialing (takes notes, dispositions calls, hangs up on voicemails)\n3. Real-time AI coaching based on events that occur in the calls\n4. Real-time transcription for all your dials", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QWe-trellus-parallel-or-power-dial-on-any-platform-50-cheaper-than-nooks-orum", "votes": 3, "created_at": "2026-05-26T14:45:22.434Z" }, { "id": 100003, "title": "Trellus: Parallel/Power Dial directly inside of Attio, Lemlist, Hubspot, Amplemarket, Salesforce, Google Sheets and more", "tagline": "Embedded parallel dialing natively inside of Attio, Lemlist, Hubspot, and more", "body": "Trellus allows you to parallel dial directly in Attio, Lemlist, Hubspot, Amplemarket, Salesforce, Google Sheets and more\n\nTLDR: Trellus is an AI-powered parallel-dialer + sales coach to help you book 5x more meetings on your cold calls that works natively inside your CRM or SEP (we also support Salesloft, Hubspot, Outreach, Amplemarket, Apollo, Clay, Zoho, Salesforce)\n\nReps using Trellus have seen a 2-3X increase in the number of dials and 25-50+% increases in meeting booked conversion rates — AI assistants are the future of cold calling.\n\nCheck out how to use Trellus on these major platforms in our video guides below\n\nAttio: \n\nLemlist: \n\nHubspot: \n\nSalesforce: \n\nGoogle Sheets: \\\n\\\nHow it works\n\n1. Download the Chrome extension at and activate parallel dialing\n2. Load up any contact list in GHL or any sheet in Google Sheets, and map your columns to the right fields\n3. Start parallel dialing and begin booking more meetings\n\nFeatures\n\n1. Seamless integration into your dialer platform of choice (e.g., simply add the Chrome extension)\n2. Parallel or power dialing (takes notes, dispositions calls, hangs up on voicemails)\n3. Real-time AI coaching based on events that occur in the calls\n4. Real-time transcription for all your dials", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Q0x-trellus-parallel-power-dial-directly-inside-of-attio-lemlist-hubspot-amplemarket-salesforce-google-sheets-and-more", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2026-04-21T14:51:07.698Z" }, { "id": 97859, "title": "Trellus: Parallel/Power Dial directly inside of Attio", "tagline": "Embedded parallel dialing natively inside of Attio within minutes", "body": "Trellus allows you to parallel dial directly in Attio\n\nTLDR: Trellus is an AI-powered parallel-dialer + sales coach to help you book 5x more meetings on your cold calls that works natively inside your CRM or SEP (we also support Salesloft, Hubspot, Outreach, Amplemarket, Apollo, Clay, Zoho, Salesforce, Sheets)\n\nReps using Trellus have seen a 2-3X increase in the number of dials and 25-50+% increases in meeting booked conversion rates — AI assistants are the future of cold calling.\n\nYou can try it out directly from our website at [trellus.ai](http://trellus.ai) (see below for how it works)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97859&key=user_uploads/832328/ba910ffc-f5f6-4433-9c00-5ff24b882a58)\n\nHow it works\n\n1. Download the Chrome extension at and activate parallel dialing\n2. Load up any contact list in Attio\n3. Start parallel dialing and begin booking more meetings\n\nFeatures\n\n1. Seamless integration into your dialer platform of choice (e.g., simply add the Chrome extension)\n2. Parallel or power dialing (takes notes, dispositions calls, hangs up on voicemails)\n3. Real-time AI coaching based on events that occur in the calls\n4. Real-time transcription for all your dials", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PSN-trellus-parallel-power-dial-directly-inside-of-attio", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2026-02-16T19:56:18.096Z" }, { "id": 94302, "title": "Trellus: Real-time AI + Call Quality assistant for ViciDial", "tagline": "Get a real-time AI assistant + automatic call QA for all calls placed through ViciDIAL ", "body": "**TLDR**: [_Trellus_](https://trellus.ai/) _is an_ [_AI powered real time sales coach_](https://www.trellus.ai/post/how-does-real-time-sales-ai-coaching-work) _for sales development reps in their cold calls. It guides reps to exceed quota by identifying common situations in sales calls and delivering simple action-oriented suggestions at the moment they are needed. Trellus also completes all post-call work for reps including note-taking and call summarization._ [_Real-time AI is the future of sales support_](https://www.trellus.ai/post/real-time-ai-sales-coaching) _- check out our chrome extension today_ [_here_](https://app.trellus.ai/install-now)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94302&key=user_uploads/832328/a165ef44-7cbf-407c-9c33-2bd363d0af1f)\n\n# **The Problem**\n\n**For sales reps** - it is hard to master all the skills necessary to have consistent and repeatable success in prospecting calls. A few examples of what reps need to stay on top of in each call:\n\n1. Who the prospect is and how to build rapport\n2. [What to respond to common cold call objections](https://www.trellus.ai/post/five-common-cold-call-objections)\n3. Any qualification questions that need to be worked through - and the prospect's response\n4. Their own delivery cadence - tempo, talk time, etc.\n5. When to go for the close and book the next steps\n\n**For managers** - it is hard to effectively supervise and train a team of reps since a team of reps has far more (combined) hours to make calls than a manager has time to review them. Existing sales intelligence tools like Gong / Chorus are commonly used for recording and review but offer limited help in coaching reps because [the analytics are less focused on prospecting calls and the feedback is often delayed.](https://www.trellus.ai/post/sales-coaching-is-broken)\n\n# **The Solution**\n\nTrellus solves these issues by giving your sales reps a real-time AI-powered sales coach that is available 24x7 to them. Trellus enables your reps to deliver the right message at the right moment to your prospects.\n\nWe do this by mixing a blend of behavioral and content coaching suggestions to help your sales reps learn best-in-class sales techniques.\n\n### **Features**\n\n* Seamless integration into your dialer platform of choice (it’s as simple as downloading our chrome extension)\n* Behavioral coaching on monologues, cadence with a whole host of features coming soon (filler words, pauses, tone)\n* Objection handling for classic cold call objections (e.g., “I’m not interested) with the ability for your sales enablement team to customize suggested responses for your reps\n* Battle cards for competitors (e.g., “I use X”) - whenever one of your competitors is mentioned on a call, your rep will get suggested talking points\n* Real-time transcription for all your dials\n* Real-time localized data on your prospects (e.g., news, weather) to provide additional data sales reps can leverage to build repertoire\n* Automatic call summarization and disposition entry\n\n### **How you can get started!**\n\n**1) Take it for a spin!** Trellus is totally free for individuals to try out - they can get started in less than 5 seconds by downloading our chrome extension [here](https://app.trellus.ai/demo)\n\n**2) Talk to us!** If you’re interested in trialing Trellus with your sales reps, [grab a quick time slot](https://calendly.com/ajinkya_nene/general-meeting) for a white-glove onboarding or let us know in the comments!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OX0-trellus-real-time-ai-call-quality-assistant-for-vicidial", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2025-10-03T01:06:47.186Z" }, { "id": 93555, "title": "Trellus: Parallel/Power Dial directly inside of Google Sheets and GoHighLevel", "tagline": "Embedded parallel dialing natively inside of Google Sheets and GoHighLevel within minutes", "body": "Trellus allows you to parallel dial directly in Google Sheets or GoHighLevel. Turn Sheets or GoHighLevel into a full dialing sequencer.\n\nTLDR: Trellus is an AI-powered parallel-dialer + sales coach to help you book 5x more meetings on your cold calls that works natively inside your CRM or SEP (we also support Salesloft, Hubspot, Outreach, Amplemarket, Apollo, Clay, Zoho, Salesforce)\n\nReps using Trellus have seen a 2-3X increase in the number of dials and 25-50+% increases in meeting booked conversion rates — AI assistants are the future of cold calling.\n\nGrab time with our team directly at https://calendly.com/ajinkya_nene/meeting to get access.\n\nWatch a video on how it works: https://www.tella.tv/video/parallel-dialing-in-google-sheets-ghuy\n\nHow it works\n\n1. Download the Chrome extension at https://app.trellus.ai/install and activate parallel dialing\n2. Load up any contact list in GHL or any sheet in Google Sheets, and map your columns to the right fields\n3. Start parallel dialing and begin booking more meetings\n\nFeatures\n\n1. Seamless integration into your dialer platform of choice (e.g., simply add the Chrome extension)\n2. Parallel or power dialing (takes notes, dispositions calls, hangs up on voicemails)\n3. Real-time AI coaching based on events that occur in the calls\n4. Real-time transcription for all your dials\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93555&key=user_uploads/832328/3daf29f0-1be2-4cdc-abc0-135e42133a70)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OKx-trellus-parallel-power-dial-directly-inside-of-google-sheets-and-gohighlevel", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2025-09-04T15:02:03.441Z" }, { "id": 88465, "title": "Trellus: Parallel Dial directly inside of Clay", "tagline": "Trellus allows you to parallel dial natively inside of Clay within minutes", "body": "# **Trellus allows you to parallel dial directly in Clay - allowing you to turn Clay into a full dialing sequencer**\n\n**TLDR**: [_Trellus_](https://trellus.ai/) _is an_ [AI powered parallel-dialer + sales coach](https://trellus.ai/) to help you book 5x more meetings on your cold calls that works natively inside your CRM or SEP (we also support Salesloft, Hubspot, Outreach, Amplemarket, Apollo)\n\nReps using Trellus have seen a 2-3X increase in number of dials and 25-50+% increases in meeting booked conversion rates — [_AI assistants are the future of cold calling._](https://www.trellus.ai/post/real-time-ai-sales-coaching)\\\n\\\n_Grab time with our team directly _[_here_](https://calendly.com/ajinkya_nene/clay-parallel)_ to get access_\n\n# **How it works**\n\n1. Download the chrome extension at and activate parallel dialing\n2. Load up any clay list and map your columns to the right fields\n3. Start parallel dialing and begin booking more meetings\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88465&key=user_uploads/832328/5499360e-cb6a-49d6-8762-d111a6e15830)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88465&key=user_uploads/832328/c42858db-bd7f-4bfe-bce1-ef7ca6c6b53b)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88465&key=user_uploads/832328/92a5df42-b068-496b-be27-bbd6329aac4c)\n\n**Features**\n\n* Seamless integration into your dialer platform of choice (e.g. Clay - simply add the chrome extension)\n* Parallel dialing (takes notes, dispositions calls, hangs up on voicemails)\n* Real-time AI coaching based of events that occur in the calls\n* Real-time transcription for all your dials", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/N0r-trellus-parallel-dial-directly-inside-of-clay", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2025-03-11T14:52:46.229Z" }, { "id": 86681, "title": "Trellus - Parallel Dial Directly Inside Hubspot, Salesloft, Outreach, or Apollo", "tagline": "Trellus native parallel dialer allows users to dial 5x the number of contacts while staying in the platforms they're used to.", "body": "**TLDR**: [Trellus](https://trellus.ai/) _is an_ [AI-powered parallel-dialer](https://www.trellus.ai/post/auto-dialer-vs-parallel-dialer-whats-the-best-choice-for-your-sales-team) _+ sales coach_ that helps you book 5x more meetings on your cold calls. Trellus automates all calling activity (e.g., call dispositions, call notes, choosing which prospects to dial, hanging up on voicemails, etc.) and works natively inside your sales enablement platform or CRM (specifically Outreach, Hubspot, Salesloft, or Apollo).\n\n# Trellus is a chrome extension that turns your SEP or CRM into a parallel dialer. Trellus is also half the price of any competing platform like Nooks or Orum.\n\nBelow is an image of how Trellus operates on top of Outreach. Here’s a [clickable demo](https://app.storylane.io/share/tgkyvivx5ays) that walks you through how it works on different platforms.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86681&key=user_uploads/832328/55ff7ef6-064f-4efd-9250-d93761f08f42)\n\nReps using Trellus have seen a 3-5x increase in their cold call output. It’s as simple as adding our Chrome extension [here.](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/trellus/enhpjjojmnlnaokmppkkifgaonfojigl)\n\n### **What You Can Expect**\n\nWithin the first week of using Trellus, you can expect your reps to easily place 150+ calls/day directly inside their platform. With standard connection rates of around 10-15%, you can expect reps to have around 10-20 conversations/day.\n\nThere’s limited set-up and training required, given that Trellus works in your existing tech stack, reducing any context switching.\n\n### **How Parallel Dialing Works**\n\n1. Trellus automatically detects voicemails or busy tones to hang up/drop VMs for you automaticall.y\n2. Trellus automatically detects bad numbers and removes them from your system\n3. Trellus automatically detects live connections and routes your reps within seconds of the call to avoid any awkward pauses\n4. Trellus fully syncs with your CRM/SEP to ensure all call logs and records stay consistent with your expectations\n5. Trellus provides automatic AI notes and coaching on every call to ensure your reps are conducting quality calls\n\n### **How To Get Started**\n\n1. Download the chrome extension [here](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/trellus/enhpjjojmnlnaokmppkkifgaonfojigl)\n2. Grab time with us [here](https://calendly.com/ajinkya_nene/15min)\n\n ---\n\nHappy dialing!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MY5-trellus-parallel-dial-directly-inside-hubspot-salesloft-outreach-or-apollo", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2025-01-08T15:14:41.021Z" }, { "id": 83230, "title": "Trellus - Add AI to Salesloft, Outreach, Hubspot, or Apollo", "tagline": "Trellus adds an AI copilot for cold calling/cold emailing to existing sales platforms.", "body": "# Trellus adds an AI copilot for outbound sales to Salesloft, Outreach, Hubspot, Apollo, and others. \n\n### **Reps today face tool fatigue**\n\nSales reps today face tons of tool fatigue when doing their outbound work. It’s a constant balance of managing what’s the latest and greatest in AI with their core tech stack. At [Trellus](https://www.trellus.ai/), we took the view that reps should be able to still live in their existing tools while getting all the benefits of the newest advances in AI.\n\n### **TRELLUS repurposes your existing sales stack with the latest ai tools**\n\nTrellus uses a [Chrome extension](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/trellus/enhpjjojmnlnaokmppkkifgaonfojigl) (free to try out!) to inject AI assistance across your workflow - whether that be in researching a prospect, automating your dial work, or deciding what to write as part of your sales emails. By doing this, you can easily **2-3x** your output in your existing stack **without spending $$$$.**\n\n**Get Custom AI Emails directly in your tech stack**\n\nTrellus learns your company’s value prop, understands your prospects, and analyzes previous conversations, all in an effort to generate a personalized AI email that you can send off with one click.\n\n![Trellus AI Copilot Walkthrough 🤖](https://www.tella.tv/api/stories/cm02hdd3t000603lc7fbh9htu/thumb.gif?version=2024-08-20T14:07:08.783Z&resolution=640x360&inpoint=105000)\n\n**Automate all non-dialing work with Trellus’ embedded AI power dialer**\n\nTrellus will automate every single button click you do inside your current dialing tool to make sure you can enter the flow state. Even better, we have Spotify and YouTube integrations that will let you blast tunes while dialing.\n\n![Trellus AI Copilot Walkthrough 🤖](https://www.tella.tv/api/stories/cm02hdd3t000603lc7fbh9htu/thumb.gif?version=2024-08-20T14:07:08.783Z&resolution=640x360&inpoint=167000)\n\n**Get real-time AI suggestions on your cold calls on what to say**\n\nTrellus will give you real-time suggestions and context on your calls. Whether that be on what opener you should use or how to objection handle, Trellus will be there to guide you through the call effectively.\n\n![Trellus AI Copilot Walkthrough 🤖](https://www.tella.tv/api/stories/cm02hdd3t000603lc7fbh9htu/thumb.gif?version=2024-08-20T14:07:08.783Z&resolution=640x360&inpoint=175000)\n\n**Get Automatic Custom AI Research on your prospects with 1-click**\n\nTrellus will analyze the prospect’s website to understand any information you may need on them to better your outbound to them.\n\n![Trellus AI Copilot Walkthrough 🤖](https://www.tella.tv/api/stories/cm02hdd3t000603lc7fbh9htu/thumb.gif?version=2024-08-20T14:07:08.783Z&resolution=640x360&inpoint=175000)\n\n**Watch our full video walk through at** \n\n**Get started today by grabbing the **[**free Trellus extension**](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/trellus/enhpjjojmnlnaokmppkkifgaonfojigl)** or learning more about us** [**HERE.**](https://www.trellus.ai/)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83230&key=user_uploads/832328/7083fc17-24ff-4091-be93-f95beae9dba1)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LeQ-trellus-add-ai-to-salesloft-outreach-hubspot-or-apollo", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2024-08-20T18:14:34.698Z" }, { "id": 77167, "title": "Trellus: An embedded AI auto-dialer that's 5x cheaper than any parallel dialer", "tagline": "The 10x you need for your cold calls ", "body": "**TLDR**: [_Trellus_](https://trellus.ai/) _is an_ [_AI powered auto-dialer + sales coach_](https://trellus.ai/autodialer) to help you book 5x more meetings on your cold calls. Trellus automates all calling activity (e.g., call dispositions, call notes, choosing which prospects to dial, hanging up on voicemails, etc.) while giving your reps real-time suggestions on what to say durinng the call.\n\nReps using Trellus have seen a 2-3X increase in number of dials and 25-50+% increases in meeting booked conversion rates — [_AI assistants are the future of cold calling._](https://www.trellus.ai/post/real-time-ai-sales-coaching)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77167&key=user_uploads/832328/655782f0-f7cd-4077-8237-b86caca1ca2f)\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nCold calling without automation is inefficient due to low pickup rates and often times reps are not effectively able to convert prospects who do pick up.\n\nOn the flip side, parallel dialers that offer automation solutions cost $$$ (upwards of $300/rep/month for their base packages).\n\n### **The Solution**\n\nTrellus offers an affordable solution that provides not just call automations but also an AI-powered real-time assistant.\n\nOur AI models automate all mundane calling tasks so that reps are given more time to sell rather than do admin work.\n\n### **Features**\n\n* Seamless integration into your dialer platform of choice (it’s as simple as downloading our chrome extension)\n* Automated dialer (takes notes, dispositions calls, hangs up on voicemails)\n* Real-time AI coaching based of events that occur in the calls\n* Real-time transcription for all your dials\n\n### **How you can get started!**\n\n**1) Check out a demo** [here.](https://trellus.ai/autodialer)\n\n**2) Talk to us!** If you’re interested in trialing Trellus with your sales reps, [grab a quick time slot](https://calendly.com/ajinkya_nene/general-meeting) for a white-glove onboarding or send us an email at [founders@trellus.ai.](mailto:founders@trellus.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/K4d-trellus-an-embedded-ai-auto-dialer-that-s-5x-cheaper-than-any-parallel-dialer", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2024-01-02T20:31:00.659Z" }, { "id": 68816, "title": "Trellus - real-time sales AI coach for cold calls", "tagline": "Trellus - the AI copilot to supercharge your cold call outbound (join 400+ reps and counting today!)", "body": "**TLDR**: [_Trellus_](https://trellus.ai/) _is an_ [_AI powered real time sales coach_](https://www.trellus.ai/post/how-does-real-time-sales-ai-coaching-work) _for sales development reps in their cold calls. It guides reps to exceed quota by identifying common situations in sales calls and delivering simple action-oriented suggestions at the moment they are needed. Trellus also completes all post-call work for reps including note-taking and call summarization._ [_Real-time AI is the future of sales support_](https://www.trellus.ai/post/real-time-ai-sales-coaching) _- check out our chrome extension today_ [_here_](https://app.trellus.ai/install-now)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68816&key=user_uploads/832328/639aa519-23ad-4c93-a11a-bdbcd74084f0)\n\n# **The Problem**\n\n**For sales reps** - it is hard to master all the skills necessary to have consistent and repeatable success in prospecting calls. A few examples of what reps need to stay on top of in each call:\n\n1. Who the prospect is and how to build rapport\n2. [What to respond to common cold call objections](https://www.trellus.ai/post/five-common-cold-call-objections)\n3. Any qualification questions that need to be worked through - and the prospect's response\n4. Their own delivery cadence - tempo, talk time, etc.\n5. When to go for the close and book the next steps\n\n**For managers** - it is hard to effectively supervise and train a team of reps since a team of reps has far more (combined) hours to make calls than a manager has time to review them. Existing sales intelligence tools like Gong / Chorus are commonly used for recording and review but offer limited help in coaching reps because [the analytics are less focused on prospecting calls and the feedback is often delayed.](https://www.trellus.ai/post/sales-coaching-is-broken)\n\n# **The Solution**\n\nTrellus solves these issues by giving your sales reps a real-time AI-powered sales coach that is available 24x7 to them. Trellus enables your reps to deliver the right message at the right moment to your prospects.\n\nWe do this by mixing a blend of behavioral and content coaching suggestions to help your sales reps learn best-in-class sales techniques.\n\n### **Features**\n\n* Seamless integration into your dialer platform of choice (it’s as simple as downloading our chrome extension)\n* Behavioral coaching on monologues, cadence with a whole host of features coming soon (filler words, pauses, tone)\n* Objection handling for classic cold call objections (e.g., “I’m not interested) with the ability for your sales enablement team to customize suggested responses for your reps\n* Battle cards for competitors (e.g., “I use X”) - whenever one of your competitors is mentioned on a call, your rep will get suggested talking points\n* Real-time transcription for all your dials\n* Real-time localized data on your prospects (e.g., news, weather) to provide additional data sales reps can leverage to build repertoire\n* Automatic call summarization and disposition entry\n\n### **How you can get started!**\n\n**1) Check out a demo** [here](https://app.trellus.ai/demo)\n\n**2) Take it for a spin!** Trellus is totally free for individuals to try out - they can get started in less than 5 seconds by downloading our chrome extension [here](https://app.trellus.ai/demo)\n\n**3) Talk to us!** If you’re interested in trialing Trellus with your sales reps, [grab a quick time slot](https://calendly.com/ajinkya_nene/general-meeting) for a white-glove onboarding or let us know in the comments!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Htw-trellus-real-time-sales-ai-coach-for-cold-calls", "votes": 27, "created_at": "2023-01-29T21:04:03.414Z" } ] }, { "id": 25315, "name": "Rebill", "slug": "rebill", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ac317d3596d742abd3e551f40119a6ba9a7f3d40.png", "website": "https://www.rebill.com", "all_locations": "Buenos Aires, CABA, Argentina", "long_description": "Rebill is the financial infrastructure platform for the Americas.\r\n\r\nThe companies shaping software, AI, travel, and digital services use Rebill to operate across Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, and the United States.\r\n\r\nRebill brings local payments, installments, recurring billing, stablecoin rails, treasury, global payouts, and financial operations into one platform built for how money actually works across the Americas.\r\n\r\nEvery market is different. Rebill makes the infrastructure consistent. Engineering, finance, and operations teams can manage local currency acceptance, market-specific payment behavior, funds, and financial workflows from the same platform.\r\n\r\nCompanies can launch in Latin America in as little as a day and expand across markets without rebuilding their financial stack country by country.\r\n\r\nBuilt locally. Designed to scale globally.", "one_liner": "Financial infrastructure for the Americas", "team_size": 11, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech -> Payments", "launched_at": 1645553649, "tags": [ "Fintech", "SaaS", "Payments", "B2B", "Subscriptions" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech", "Payments" ], "regions": [ "Argentina", "Latin America", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": [ { "question": "How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)", "answer": "Rebill started from a clear problem: companies wanted to sell in Latin America, but payments were too fragmented to scale efficiently. Approval rates were weak, local methods were missing, subscriptions were hard to manage, and every country required a different setup.\r\n\r\nWe began by solving that pain directly, helping merchants collect more effectively across the region. As we went deeper, it became obvious that the real gap was not just billing software, but infrastructure. Companies needed a single platform that could abstract away local complexity and let them operate across markets with speed.\r\n\r\nThat is how Rebill evolved from solving recurring payments into building payments infrastructure." }, { "question": "How did you decide to apply to Y Combinator? What was your experience applying, going through the batch, and fundraising at demo day?", "answer": "We applied to YC because we were building in a category with a much bigger opportunity than people usually assumed. We did not want to build a regional tool. We wanted to build infrastructure with global relevance.\r\n\r\nYC helped us sharpen the story, move faster, and think much more clearly about category, ambition, and execution. It pushed us to simplify the message and focus on what truly mattered.\r\n\r\nThe batch and Demo Day helped us position Rebill as a company solving a fundamental infrastructure problem, starting with LATAM and expanding beyond it." }, { "question": "How have you kept in touch with the YC community and continued to use YC resources & programs since the batch ended?", "answer": "We stay active in the YC community through Bookface, founder relationships, and ongoing use of YC resources across fundraising, hiring, product, and tactical problem solving.\r\n\r\nWhat continues to matter most is access to founders who are building with intensity and clarity. YC remains part of our operating environment, not just part of our history." }, { "question": "What's the history of your company from getting started until the present day? What were the big inflection points?", "answer": "Rebill started by addressing recurring billing and payment problems for companies operating in Latin America. Early on, we focused on helping merchants navigate subscriptions, collections, and the operational complexity of the region.\r\n\r\nThe first major inflection point was realizing that software alone was not enough. The deeper problem was payment infrastructure itself: local rails, local methods, acquiring, recovery, and settlement.\r\n\r\nThe second major inflection point came when we moved closer to the rails and began building direct infrastructure instead of depending only on third parties. That changed the economics, product depth, and strategic value of the business.\r\n\r\nToday, Rebill is building a broader payments infrastructure layer for LATAM and the US, with the long-term goal of becoming the financial infrastructure for underserved markets." }, { "question": "What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?", "answer": "The core problem is that companies expanding across LATAM and similar markets face fragmented payment infrastructure.\r\n\r\nThey need local methods, better conversion, subscription support, transparent settlement, and a fast path to launch, but the market is still dominated by patchwork solutions, slow enterprise processes, and country-by-country complexity.\r\n\r\nThis is a big problem because payment performance directly affects growth. Poor infrastructure means lower approval rates, less access to local demand, slower launches, and lost revenue.\r\n\r\nWe decided to work on it because we saw firsthand how large the gap was and how few companies were actually productizing a solution that developers and operators could use quickly." }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "Our long-term vision is to build the financial infrastructure layer for underserved markets.\r\n\r\nWe are starting with payments in LATAM and the US because that is where companies feel the pain most immediately: collecting money, scaling across markets, and doing it without operational chaos. Over time, we want to make entering complex markets as simple as launching in the most developed ones.\r\n\r\nIf we succeed, companies will no longer need to assemble fragmented providers, local entities, and manual workflows just to operate internationally. They will integrate once and scale across markets through infrastructure that makes difficult geographies feel simple." } ], "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rebill", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2022/rebill.json", "year_founded": 2020, "city": "Buenos Aires", "country": "AR", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/rebill", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/rebillteam", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/rebill-inc", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ac317d3596d742abd3e551f40119a6ba9a7f3d40.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 43569, "full_name": "Nahuel Candia", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Nahuel is the Founder and CEO of Rebill, building financial infrastructure for global companies in LATAM and the US.\nHe is an MIT-recognized entrepreneur who built 3 companies before 30.\nDeveloper since 14, he remains highly hands-on across product, engineering, and execution.\nBefore Rebill, he founded Shovel Apps and was CTO of Ando.la, later acquired by Moova.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/nahuelcandia/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/dncandia", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3e324ec6481088e92fa92133c49f2dcc6d2ecedd.jpg" }, { "user_id": 598544, "full_name": "Ariel Diaz Ailan", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Building the financial infrastructure platform for the Americas at Rebill. 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Built by a team that ran a credit fund for 15 years.", "one_liner": "FundOS — AI operations for fund managers", "team_size": 11, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech -> Banking and Exchange", "launched_at": 1641821942, "tags": [ "Fintech", "SaaS", "Workflow Automation", "Analytics", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech", "Banking and Exchange" ], "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/vantedgeai", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2022/vantedgeai.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "Norwalk", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/vantedgeai", "x_url": "https://x.com/vantedgeAI", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/vantedgeAI", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/8vdx", "github_url": "https://github.com/8vdx1", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/12fd444a2c7a34b121c256f9259458e601b0351a.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 754637, "full_name": "Ravi Chachra", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Ravi cofounded VantedgeAI (W22), and has invested in over 270+ YC companies through a demo day fund, Eight Capital. In 1999, he co-founded SNAZ, a venture backed mobile wallet and universal shopping cart. After the Dot.com bust, he set up a distressed fund to acquire busted convertibles bonds of tech cos that could thrive in the future. In 2019, he set up a pvt. credit fund which was sold in 2021 to his JV partner, J.C. Flowers & Co. 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We’re building **an agent marketplace** with a secure data layer infrastructure and compliance framework **for institutional investors and fintech AI startups**.\n\n### **🧠 The Problem**\n\nInstitutional Investors know they need to adopt AI — but where does one start?\n\n* AI is new, noisy, and fragmented.\n* Consultants lack the required knowledge and are expensive.\n* Broadly available mainstream AI tools aren't built with investor workflows, compliance, or security in mind.\n\nMeanwhile, fintech AI startups are building targeted specialised agents — but distribution to investment funds is a huge challenge.\n\n### **💡 Our Solution**\n\n**Vantedge AI** is the first Agent marketplace with distribution to a rapidly expanding client base of 10+ blue-chip institutional investors managing **$100B+ in AUM**.\n\n* **For investors:** A secure, plug-and-play platform with curated AI agents to streamline research, diligence, and analysis.\n* **For AI startups:** A distribution and infrastructure layer that gets your agents in front of institutional clients, with SOC 2-level compliance, usage tracking, and real-world data access.\n\nWe’re now opening up access to our Agent Marketplace for startups building fintech AI tools.\n\n### **⚙️ How It Works**\n\n* Investors can upload any document or search for filings and instantly run a vetted AI agent — like an SEC filings parser or investment memo generator.\n* AI startups can integrate their agents through our SDK and securely run them inside investor workflows — no sales motion required.\n* All data is stored in a secure Data Vault with workspace-level access, so funds can collaborate and startups can serve verticalized use cases.\n\n🎥 [Here’s a 90-second demo of how it works](https://youtu.be/piElxwuZXbM):\n\n---\n\n### **🎯 Who It’s For**\n\n* **Investors and funds**: Looking to adopt AI but want a secure, curated, and compliant solution.\n* **AI startups**: Building tools for the investment ecosystem and looking for distribution, infrastructure, and real customers.\n\n---\n\n### **📣 Call to Action**\n\n* 🎯 **Funds**: Want to try the platform? **Please reach out to us at** [**founders@vantedgeai.com**](mailto:founders@vantedgeai.com)\n* 🤖 **AI startups**: Want distribution to $100B+ in AUM? [**Join the Agent Marketplace waitlist**](https://forms.gle/cHen2Hh74n3B1Npr8)\n\n### **🙌 Thanks YC**\n\nWe wouldn’t be here without the YC community, and we’d love your feedback, intros, or support. If you’re building in AI, fintech, or investing, we’d love to connect.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NF1-vantedge-ai-the-agent-marketplace-to-scale-your-investing-workflows", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2025-04-08T19:51:06.367Z" }, { "id": 80487, "title": "Yardstick - Data-driven startup valuation and KPI benchmarking tool", "tagline": "Benchmark and value startups with ease", "body": "Hello, YC community! We're Ravi and Vijay, data enthusiasts and startup founders who've faced the significant challenge of quantifying startup success. Through our experiences in building and growing companies, we've recognized a glaring need in the market for transparent, accessible benchmarking and valuation metrics—tools that rely on data rather than just intuition or incomplete data. Here is a [quick demo](https://app.storylane.io/share/916eqxtsotpo). \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80487&key=user_uploads/763615/96e63adc-0b0b-46db-a6cc-0ddca5afeb65)\n\n**What Yardstick Offers:**\n\nYardstick delivers comprehensive tools for accurately benchmarking startup performance and estimating valuations. _Our platform utilizes an extensive dataset of startup performance metrics, providing growth rate percentiles to precisely position startups against a broad database. Moreover, Yardstick computes valuation estimates_ through sophisticated models that analyze KPIs in relation to valuation data and qualitative insights from hundreds of startups.\n\n**The Problem and Our Journey:**\n\nNavigating the vibrant startup ecosystem, we found that evaluating these ventures has traditionally been more art than science_. Our experience in assessing hundreds of early-stage startups for equity and debt investments revealed the difficulty of understanding their market standing without resorting to costly market research or external consultants_. This challenge inspired the creation of Yardstick.\n\n**Our Solution:**\n\nYardstick seamlessly integrates into the workflows of fintechs, investors, and entrepreneurs wanting to underwrite a startup’s performance. Our solution offers not just KPI benchmarking but also insights into current valuations. _With both an API and a user-friendly web application_, Yardstick serves both technical and non-technical users, ensuring comprehensive accessibility.\n\n**Give it a try:**\n\nWe are thrilled to introduce Yardstick and are eager for your feedback. Whether you are a fintech looking to perform KPI benchmarking on potential clients, an investor in need of data-driven tools, or a startup founder trying to understand where your startup stacks up against peers or what should be the latest valuation based on current traction, [we invite you to try out Yardstick](https://ventureinsights.ai/yardstick/) (without a need to sign up!) and share your insights. For those interested in integrating our tools directly, check out our [API documentation](https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/32615745/2sA35G3MMX).\n\nWe look forward to your feedback!\n\nThank you,\n\nRavi and Vijay", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KwB-yardstick-data-driven-startup-valuation-and-kpi-benchmarking-tool", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2024-04-29T16:44:40.352Z" }, { "id": 79828, "title": "Ventureinsights.ai - Stay on top of your angel portfolio with Smart Updates", "tagline": "Effortlessly oversee your investments, with all the critical information you need at your fingertips", "body": "As an angel investor, if you have more than a handful of startups in your portfolio - staying on top of how each company has been performing through their investment updates is hard as it is difficult to remember their KPIs and goals from their past investment updates. At [VentureInsights](https://d2vchz04.na1.hs-sales-engage.com/Ctc/I9+23284/d2VcHZ04/Jll3l5QDW7Y8-PT6lZ3p1W5CnVzJ74HHFqW2cDQZK3w0lS2N2DPgRM2mnSXW7jhCrx1-80tGW6KWBsH3yQ423W3dCVRC4zzGg0W7SFwY58DSQxwW1wh6wZ1yNz2yW2vwcTV6R2x7WW8wFCM24RdyFBW3pbYyX8JcB6mW9dC9Yy98f9RLW8GM13H59q25kN5JDmyQ5NJfHW7bflGj4W15DbW39dwrq2sZ44lW5MSk1L4Ytt7YN29Pt1s17ZP8W39H9Nq1CPqbrW3DBFhf1SJ7qyW4mfrMn7_yq8fW4rPFC65-11JFW2VLKHY4BjmnYW7grPCC5NJqgZW3nxBSB4yr6LxMdG2b7tjzyDf5J9l9b04), we understand the value of your time and investments. That's why we've developed a tool that makes it super easy to monitor and manage your angel investments - introducing the [Smart Updates](https://d2vchz04.na1.hs-sales-engage.com/Ctc/I9+23284/d2VcHZ04/Jll3l5QDW7Y8-PT6lZ3p0W8fMLXx20nsnJW1Fvfzk6LTlP8W7_dsKt4MkxzyW7T-3sj5km1B2W8lqhdj1vMTQrW6sggCG8Jq_dqN2NQgS0YVlbcW5xtKvn5wf6VvVvQ49m70_-3zVgNJNn8k216sW2_mcJy5Hl3wLW1TfLDV4Q-LdNW6j82r87k1rF4W6q-ZFr2YTTCqW3GHkcR7hz18dN7-ndQnKdzldW4qwwSL8MqJHbW3nV7Fy6Y_TGpN3B7ZKfrf5MmW1Ww_9j5Mkt4vVL6n3X3FwV22W5L00xN6LMzKFW8KLgCj5GB_fDV3P8q38yQBpxW583JwQ83tvL8W6L7LzC8dLjx4f4qcN9T04) tool.\n\nYou can check out a quick demo here: \n\n[Smart Updates](https://d2vchz04.na1.hs-sales-engage.com/Ctc/I9+23284/d2VcHZ04/Jll3l5QDW7Y8-PT6lZ3nvW2KsthG7X96xrN50pTLK_FNYWN7015NBP-H4NW2FHRff7hYp1rW3VxbFM4fFNvrN7TZNPL81Rx1W6g377d734DhZW5ypF8m8W5nZpW804f8l5DhMsDW4XB9ss2dfGn-W1BkkVW551P7yW1fFJD868ChbQN7sgyWVP3wjQW3LCD753v0hbRW71Nzv42zVC0bVjpXy21wGF9zW19W_D443lVc-W12vQXT8kPHLHW1Kck915rMMt8W4LMN0J4K92bwW5qvD716NvgvwW8cBhhG81-GHDW2GMCy15YydKNW2BPzxL6mQrXwW5DvtKh6Gw1ssW7fSQNv5nF78FdTBS7P04) is designed to streamline your investment oversight process. It collates, summarizes, and visualizes the key performance indicators (KPIs) of your portfolio companies through engaging graphs and concise summaries. Our tool also smartly tags and organizes periodic updates from founders, allowing for a seamless review process.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/HW6OYmd-pGO2k9jwRLHrY6Z-zCB79mLvmx-8DMW4240EyJR-mvVMQCRFg3etNY5M_K7k1nUfGt3Mz9VQaUR1RaJ8RsPyYqrPAE29lM0DudvTL7enJ4Y4RSIYZS2Tnel5DmBJx42arzcePasBykiBY-o)\n\nImagine having the ability to effortlessly oversee your investments, with all the critical information you need at your fingertips. [VentureInsights](https://d2vchz04.na1.hs-sales-engage.com/Ctc/I9+23284/d2VcHZ04/Jll3l5QDW7Y8-PT6lZ3ngW3ryJGW988LTtVCB1qF3P6-vKV36xRM2qB12PW8cD7cx7NSV9-W5xfpFw676htDW7V4P7D1qWRpSW7Zv5Rb1nlw6TW4cnG0F3P4XD2W6T2KzH3yzsB0W6qM6Gj8VF64tN55l1Xf_hxnGW2YXl3T1Vt3rgW7W86w07jC8DvW7GRV6N4qWD6DW6nzz735lLkhXW2jCN6Z63jGhrW68NjHW81PX0xW6jkWXD2X_LYGW5RZHt835pHw1N78K1WkRJFMcW1t90vJ545dxkW5x3mW95jRDPCW5gy2LH6qbJKHW16_zgx13L1c-W43SF4V62lwBgW8FL4Pt3HpS31f6Z0gDF04) makes this possible, through a dashboard with the insights you need to make informed decisions and maximize the potential of your portfolio.\n\nWe believe that effective monitoring leads to better support for your investments and, ultimately, to higher returns. Let VentureInsights take the complexity out of managing your angel investments, so you can focus on what you do best - identifying and investing in the next unicorn! \n\nLearn more and sign up by visiting [VentureInsights](https://d2vchz04.na1.hs-sales-engage.com/Ctc/I9+23284/d2VcHZ04/Jll3l5QDW7Y8-PT6lZ3nHW1sBdsm3Nnz8wW9llzzq4q5vt3N3mz7FK7GZxJW22YdHZ6NL9dLW1Q2VPz4_hWr7VFBrpq8bcvRSN846zRq1lLBFN1dwH99HldbCN2W3fM0jzHRhW3zQ73V93GGl8N52DSZBB67vnW3m6MSS6LN4DXW5LmmR18wC_SQW4VkpTP3Bdc2LW1419rf3Yzkp8W2R3VGW10-MwfN1x34MPHjqgQW9hHggj96cYLQW43PKsz8H3q0hW71rLtY2xG6H2N3kYKzmf7-MQVKvxSz26_tGvW1SZp0X3wWy8nW4WMzfB5BNhStW4JSl5t7YnKsfW2DF5Z52Z8wPlf1xW0tv04) today. \n\n Best,\n\n8vdx Team", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KlY-ventureinsights-ai-stay-on-top-of-your-angel-portfolio-with-smart-updates", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2024-03-30T21:34:33.124Z" }, { "id": 76266, "title": "🚀 VentureInsights: Intelligent data-driven decision-making for investors", "tagline": "VentureInsights harnesses AI to empower VCs and angels with actionable intelligence and data-driven decision-making.", "body": "Hey everyone! 👋\n\nWe're thrilled to unveil [**VentureInsights**](https://www.8vdx.com/ventureinsights/), our latest venture in revolutionizing early-stage investing. Having backed over 90 YC startups, we've crafted a solution to the persistent challenges of investment discovery, analysis, and monitoring.\n\n[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDo_EN21P4E)\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nEarly-stage investing is fraught with scattered data, cumbersome discovery, and a lack of effective tools for analyzing startups with minimal track records. Post-investment, investors grapple with the pain of tracking scattered investment updates, often losing out on pivotal insights.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\nEnter VentureInsights, your AI-driven hub for early-stage investing. Here's how we're changing the game:\n\n1. **Easy Discovery**: Connect with actively fundraising startups, reducing the grunt work of finding investment-worthy ventures.\n2. **In-Depth Analysis**: Convert inbound founder communications into detailed investment profiles with our AI Analyst tool, giving you the essentials to make informed decisions swiftly.\n3. **Smart Monitoring**: Our Smart Updates feature parses regular updates from your portfolio companies, offering a continuously refreshed performance snapshot and industry benchmarking via the 'Yardstick' score.\n\nAlready, many YC founders have expressed interest in VentureInsights. Experience VentureInsights firsthand with the [**click-through**](https://app.storylane.io/share/sfhx5tbvsqmv) demo or just book a personal demo with our team through this [**calendar link**](https://meetings.hubspot.com/vijay-lavhale/vi-demos).\n\nTo celebrate our launch, we're providing $200 in joining credits that can be applied towards subscription fees ($19.99/month), and AI reports ($9.99/report). No credit card is needed to start your trial.\n\nJoin the venture revolution with us, and let's navigate the investment journey together.\n\nCheers,\n\nRavi and Vijay (Founders@8vdx.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Jq6-ventureinsights-intelligent-data-driven-decision-making-for-investors", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2023-11-15T23:47:27.197Z" }, { "id": 68625, "title": "8vdX - Extend your seed extension with a ‘seedex booster’ of up to $1M", "tagline": "Venture debt marketplace with a fundraising stack for early stage startups", "body": "**We are excited to announce the launch of 8vdX Seedex Booster, a new addition to our expanding product portfolio at 8vdX. This product offers early stage startups the opportunity to access seed extension debt of up to $1 million.**\n\nUntil recently, we were focused on providing bridge to Demo Day loans to current YC batches. However, the current market environment has given us the opportunity to expand our product offering.  The 8vdX Seedex Booster aims to solve some of the fundraising challenges currently being faced by founders including;\n\n* Not enough funding runway to meet the performance benchmark expectations of series A investors\n* Decreased valuations that require founders to achieve significantly higher targets in order to avoid a down round \n* Raising seed extension rounds can be challenging in the current environment\n\n8vdX's Seedex Booster program augments a startup’s seed extension raise with up to $1 million of additional funding with founder friendly venture debt.\n\n**How it works is pretty simple:**\n\n**8vdX is offering to contribute up to 25% of a startup's seed extension round**, with the remaining 75% sourced from insiders or others. Our ticket size is between $250k-$1 Mn, capped at 25% of your seed-ex round. Here is an example of how it would work:\n\n* Let’s say you are a startup which has just launched a **$1 Mn seed-ex round** and applied for the 8vdX seedex booster. After evaluating your startup, 8vdX gives a commitment of $250k representing 25% of the total seed-ex round. \n* **We will disburse the $250k** along with the $750k equity investment from other investors. _If you raise $750k in multiple tranches, we can make pro-rata disbursements_.\n* Maturity of up to 18 months or Series A closing, whichever is earlier\n\n_Assuming, the following terms have been negotiated and agreed upon by both parties:_\n\n* Interest cost: \n * cash interest of 1% per month ($2.5k) that you pay each month and\n * bonus SAFE of 5% i.e. ($125k) with the same valuation cap as the seed extension investors. \n\n_8vdX allows for flexibility in selecting a combination of cash interest and bonus SAFE._\n\n* Repayment schedule: The seedex booster will be repaid with the Series A funding. However, founders have the option to create an amortization schedule to prepay the loan or extend it upon maturity.\n\nOverall terms are founder-friendly terms as there is **no prepayment penalty, no collateral, no personal guarantees & no enforcement action.**\n\n**Please apply at** [**8vdx.com**](http://8vdx.com) **or email us at** [**zeronote@8vdx.com**](mailto:zeronote@8vdx.com)\n\n**Our aim is to help you achieve your maximum potential and successfully raise Series A funds.** How do we know this approach works? We have firsthand experience using it to drive growth and secure successful fundraises for startups. In fact, our own business model was developed through observing startups leverage our capital to accelerate their growth and secure successful fundraises.\n\nWe are thrilled to have already partnered with over 20 YC startups and look forward to supporting you as well. Join us in driving this innovative approach to fundraising!\n\n**Interested startups, please visit our digital** [**platform**](https://8vdx.com/) **to learn more and apply.** The entire process is simple, transparent, fast, and completely digitized. If you have any questions, please feel free to email us and we will be more than happy to set up a call.\n\nThanks,\n\nTeam 8vdX", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hqr-8vdx-extend-your-seed-extension-with-a-seedex-booster-of-up-to-1m", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2023-01-23T16:24:03.035Z" }, { "id": 66668, "title": "Fundraising CRM for early stage startups from 8vdX", "tagline": "Enabling startups to fuel their growth through our fundraising stack and alternative sources of capital", "body": "Hi guys! **We are so excited to share our new fundraising CRM!** This is a product that is something we desperately needed, so we built it to help not only us, but the larger startup community. 🥰\n\n**The Problem:** \n\nAs we all know, fundraising can be overwhelming **😩** and hard to keep track of:\n\n* Leads can be hard to organize and schedule. \n* Following up with everyone who contacts us can be difficult!\n* Research on the caliber and reputation of VCs can be hard to gauge. Do they have a history of investing in companies like us? What are their normal check sizes? 🧐 Who is in their existing portfolio?\n\n![My Dumpster Fire Is Filled To The Brim Sarah Wayne Callies GIF - My Dumpster Fire Is Filled To The Brim Sarah Wayne Callies Robin Perry GIFs](https://media.tenor.com/lMrxlxggxXMAAAAC/my-dumpster-fire-is-filled-to-the-brim-sarah-wayne-callies.gif)\n\nWe could go on, but you get it– we’ve lived it, after all. \n\n**The Solution 😃:**\n\nOur new fundraising CRM makes organizing your raise easy by:\n\n* Keeping track of your leads, including follow ups and replies. \n* Making it easy to upload your leads and track them from initial contact to close in a single place\n * This is particularly useful for anyone who is still fundraising from the S22 batch!\n* Targeting investors with high conversion rates and larger check sizes 🤑\n* Providing a clear snapshot of where you are in your goals with our dashboard. 🥳\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=66668&key=user_uploads/763615/2e7f70ea-bd3f-4ae2-b052-3b4331a3af10)\n\n**We just launched and would love any and all feedback on this!** Your time is valuable, so the **first 20 startups** able to get on a zoom call with us will get a **$100 gift card to Amazon.**\n\nMuch love,\n\nThe 8vdX fam❤️", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HLI-fundraising-crm-for-early-stage-startups-from-8vdx", "votes": 46, "created_at": "2022-10-12T17:04:14.257Z" } ] }, { "id": 25329, "name": "PromptLoop", "slug": "promptloop", "former_names": [ "Kiter" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7c8a8c2a5044b70f4b7cfd2ff37e4a2c34a9bdf2.png", "website": "https://www.promptloop.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "PromptLoop helps GTM teams automate account research and data enrichment at scale. 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Instead of deleting records or ignoring bad data, sync in a list of accounts and have **AI research every single one** - validating gaps and filling in your market map.\n\nYou can create custom research or find new decision makers in **as little as 30 minutes** with a project that used to take months.\n\nMore: [Here](https://www.promptloop.com/salesforce)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94672&key=user_uploads/291176/e684898a-0636-49d9-a82a-7c591c1ac27e)\n\nWant to see how it works for your industry in as little as 15 minutes?\n\nBook a demo with our Founders here and we will see if you’re a good fit:\n\n[**Book a Demo**](https://www.promptloop.com/demo?src=yclaunch)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ocy-promptloop-ai-research-agent-that-syncs-leads-to-hubspot-salesforce", "votes": 27, "created_at": "2025-10-16T00:31:38.512Z" }, { "id": 86382, "title": "PromptLoop - Run AI automation tasks that get sales teams exactly the data they need", "tagline": "Scrape 10x more website data in 10% of the time. Trusted by fast growing teams.", "body": "🎯 **TL;DR:** Sales teams use PromptLoop to automatically pull the exact data points they need from target accounts. Our platform turns manual prospecting into automated, accurate intelligence at scale.\\\n\\\nHey Everyone!\n\nPromptLoop helps dozens of fast-growing sales teams get the custom data they need to close more deals. While existing sales databases and emailing tools provide basic company information, modern GTM teams need deeper, more nuanced data about their target accounts specific to their offering. Sales teams with a focused approach are massively outpacing those ignoring targeting and timing and getting lost in inboxes, regardless of sending optimizations.\n\n**The Problem:**\n\n* Sales teams waste hours manually researching prospects\n* Existing data providers are expensive and often outdated\n* Critical buying signals are buried in websites\n* Sales reps lose time calling unqualified leads\n* Integration with existing tools is complex\n\n**Our Solution:** PromptLoop gives sales teams superpowers with:\n\n* Custom AI models that extract exactly what you need\n* Web intelligence that's 90%+ accurate\n* One-click integration with HubSpot or your CRM w/ API\n* Ability to process thousands of companies in minutes\n* No engineering required - just describe what you want\n\n❤️ **What Teams Are Saying:**\n\n> PromptLoop is great for when we needed to build out custom datasets for lead sourcing that aligns with our criteria.\n\n> Our BDR team is loving these lists. Total game changer!\n\n> The PromptLoop team is amazingly helpful and we have been able to build large datasets much faster than we hoped for and at a fraction of the cost.\n\n100% of new customers in the past two quarters have ended up running far more on the platform than originally anticipated.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86382&key=user_uploads/291176/bc7d8df8-7a00-4818-bdb4-327c0282a717)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86382&key=user_uploads/291176/202231bd-f4eb-4816-aad3-76d4beaa7678)\n\n**What Makes PromptLoop Different:**\n\n* Run AI tasks that extract exactly what matters for your ICP\n* Accurate data (90%+ across difficult domains vs 60% on alternatives and in house attempts as reported by customers)\n* Get answers formatted how you need them\n* Process thousands of companies in minutes\n* One-click sync with your CRM\n* No engineering required\n\n**We're already helping teams across:**\n\n* Enterprise SaaS\n* Vertical SaaS targeting Services industries\n* Private Equity teams\n* Healthcare Tech\n* Professional Services\n\nReady to supercharge your sales data?\n\n* [Book a demo](https://www.promptloop.com/demo)\n* Email us: [team@promptloop.com](https://mailto:team@promptloop.com)\n* Read our case studies: [Link](https://www.promptloop.com/docs/excel/growth-sales)\n\nSpecial Launch YC Offer: Now until Jan 15 free pilot with 5k credits and hands on advice for startups who have raised under 10M. Just mention this post when you get in touch!\n\n#sales #b2b #saas #ai #salesintelligence", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MTG-promptloop-run-ai-automation-tasks-that-get-sales-teams-exactly-the-data-they-need", "votes": 34, "created_at": "2024-12-18T17:21:03.626Z" }, { "id": 77420, "title": "PromptLoop: Supercharge Your Web Research and Data Tasks", "tagline": "Run AI tasks on 1000s of rows of spreadsheet data", "body": "Hello everyone! We're Peter and Andrew, co-founders of PromptLoop, launching our powerful new AI platform to empower you to automate and optimize your data tasks. Specifically designed to cater to investors, consultants, and those involved in extensive online research or web scraping.\\\n\\\n**TLDR:**\n\n[PromptLoop](https://www.promptloop.com/) lets you create AI data automations and run them effortlessly on thousands of rows from a spreadsheet. Create tasks to pull formatted data from websites, categorize research, and find insights needed to filter and act on your research. PromptLoop helps fast-moving teams create accurate, visible, and flexible [AI web-enabled research tasks](https://www.promptloop.com/docs/custom-tasks) easily, saving 80%+ on outsourced services and allowing for insights and data your competitors do not have.\n\n**🚧 The Challenge**\n\nNo matter if you are an investor scouting for potential acquisition targets, a consultant supporting a market study, or a business owner looking to up the bar on your company data inputs, there are common roadblocks:\n\n* Tedious manual data collection\n* Time-consuming and erroneous manual web scraping\n* The need to filter a large list down to relevant targets\n* Difficulty in processing and unraveling insights from the collected data\n* Missing columns that need enrichment\n* Small company data is hard to find or stale\n\nWhile this is easy for a small amount of data, scaling this to 1000s of websites quickly becomes untenable. We have conservatively estimated it takes a human 1 minute to open, read, and extract information from a site. That would be seven days to get through 10k sites.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77420&key=user_uploads/291176/d4e97758-eebe-4c6e-9d3a-c2ce621e281e)\n\n**🚀 Our Solution**\n\nPromptLoop lets you create and use automation like AI web scraping in your existing workflow. Taking spreadsheets of inputs, simple instructions, and getting reliable results in record time. Automate and streamline your data tasks without leaving your spreadsheet or with our drag and drop file tool. Our AI-enabled tools facilitate:\n\n✅ **Automated Data Tasks:** Use our Autoloop feature to schedule and [automate AI data automations on every row of a dataset](https://www.promptloop.com/docs/autoloop). Completing the tens of thousands of data enrichment and AI operations in under an hour, with the results emailed to you.\n\n✅ **Custom Tasks:** Tailor our AI models to extract insights, enrich data, and generate custom reports. Examples include:\n\n* Classifying websites/companies into specific categories\n* Content summarization\n* Determining whether a company x provides a service y\n* Extracting a company's customers or their target customers for lead enrichment.\n* Determining the number of reviews and locations, providing data points on estimated size.\n\n✅ **Spreadsheet Integration:** Apply AI functions directly to your Excel and Google Sheets data, allowing real-time analysis and streamlining your workflow. \n\n**🔄 Drag and Drop Data Enrichment and Custom Tasks**\n\nAutoloop is our automation feature that handles your repetitive data processing tasks. You can read more about Autoloop here.\n\nIt’s time to stop using the same data sets everyone else has access to. Custom Tasks offer flexibility by creating AI-driven automation tailored to your distinct business needs. Whether it's [web scraping](https://www.promptloop.com/docs/web-browsing-capability), analyzing data, or curating custom datasets, Custom Tasks adapt rapidly to meet your objectives. Learn more about Custom Tasks [here](https://www.promptloop.com/docs/custom-tasks).\n\n**🔁 Seamless Spreadsheet Integration**\n\nWe bridge the gap between Google Sheets, Excel, and AI, allowing you to directly apply complex AI functions like text categorization, data extraction, and content generation onto your spreadsheet. \n\n**👋 Our Ask** \n\nConnect with us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/89570147) and share with anyone who yearns for automated and insightful data tasks.\n\nFinally, if you have a few minutes to chat about PromptLoop, please book a slot with us directly [here](https://www.promptloop.com/demo). We're eager to understand your needs and show you how PromptLoop can revolutionize your data tasks.\n\nWith PromptLoop, let's put AI tools to work on your spreadsheet data - [Start for free today.](https://www.promptloop.com/)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/K8i-promptloop-supercharge-your-web-research-and-data-tasks", "votes": 22, "created_at": "2024-01-10T22:55:21.291Z" }, { "id": 69781, "title": "PromptLoop: AI tools for spreadsheet data", "tagline": "AI tools for market research and web browsing in Excel", "body": "Hey everyone, we are PromptLoop, and we make it easy to leverage powerful AI language models inside Excel and Google Sheets!\n\n**TLDR**: [PromptLoop](https://www.promptloop.com/) provides on-demand access to AI language models for analyzing, formatting, and generating text in spreadsheets. Customize and chain together models to analyze text data, automate accurate and up to date web research without scraping, and power company research that goes beyond common datasets like Pitchbook and Crunchbase.\n\n## **🤔 The Problem:**\n\nData-driven teams know that research takes time and great research takes even longer. Whether working with text or gathering accurately sourced insights on companies or new markets. They also know that exporting a CSV and sorting rows is the fastest way to accomplish goals quickly and build reports.\n\nSpreadsheets work well because every business is different, but they **weren’t designed for unstructured text** data that is the lifeblood of effective Sales and Marketing teams.\n\n### **💡 The Solution:**\n\n⚡ Powerful **AI Language Models** inside **Excel and Google Sheets** ⚡\n\n[PromptLoop](https://www.promptloop.com/) provides a set of easy to use AI functions that power common tasks and allow customization for every use case.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69781&key=user_uploads/291176/6d16c164-9e4c-4711-b833-a4be1f543c7c)\n\nPromptLoop provides dependable and scalable access to dozens of AI language models with a simple formula. Teams use our platform to build spreadsheet models that streamline workflows for more output with fewer people, all in a customizable and accessible interface.\n\nWith [dozens of templates](https://www.promptloop.com/templates) and [video guides](https://www.youtube.com/@promptloop4510/videos) to get you started and resources for Research Analysts, Consultants, and Investing due dilligence teams, it's never been easier to stay ahead of the field and future-proof your operations with the best technology available. PromptLoop provides immense value [across any vertical](https://www.promptloop.com/customers) that uses spreadsheets.\n\nExamples of what teams are building with PromptLoop:\n\n* 🏷️ 95% time saved on web research and data categorization\n* 📈 Label and segment existing datasets with labeling AI models for better insights\n* ⬆️ Augment existing data sources for a fraction of the cost like Crunchbase, Pitchbook and Zoominfo\n* 👍 Reducing outsourcing and staffing needs on data gathering without reducing quality\n\nWhether you are a small business or a global consulting firm with ambitious growth goals this year amid cost cuts - PromptLoop is the perfect solution.\n\nSince we launched last year, we have emphasized reliability and performance at scale for hundreds of companies and thousands of users that need dependable and measurable results.\n\nOrganizations can start with [Google](https://workspace.google.com/u/4/marketplace/app/promptloop_ai_in_sheets/831127607357) or [Microsoft 365](https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/office/WA200005194?exp=ubp8&tab=Overview) single-sign-on inside Excel and Google Sheets and deploy custom AI models organization-wide with a simple web interface.\n\n### 💪 Why Us?\n\nBefore PromptLoop, our founder, Peter, taught the Excel course at EY and got his start programming while developing algorithm-backed spreadsheet models for a quantitative trading fund. Andrew studied computer science with a concentration in machine learning at Stanford.\n\nWe take pride in dependability and top-tier support. This includes a wealth of video and written tutorials, a community support group, and a team that is constantly updating and improving our models dozens of times a week.\n\nWe want to empower teams to build on their industry advantage using their data and allow them to customize how they use AI in this fast-evolving landscape.\n\n### 🙏 Our Ask\n\nTry PromptLoop today and start using AI models in Excel or Google Sheets by [signing up here!](https://www.promptloop.com/welcome)\n\nWant a custom spreadsheet that your team can start using? 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We are [Beau](https://github.com/hartshorne) and [Dirkjan](https://github.com/djc), and we're here to present [Strobe](https://strobe.app/?utm_source=launch-yc&utm_medium=yc-platform&utm_campaign=yc), an AI tool that helps you **find proven influencers who already love your product.**\n\nDirkjan is a [rustls](https://github.com/rustls/rustls) maintainer and built a fast open-source [vector database](https://github.com/instant-labs/instant-distance) in Rust before anyone knew they needed one. 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But it’s nearly impossible to review thousands of posts by scrolling.\n\n### Our solution\n\n[Strobe](https://strobe.app/?utm_source=launch-yc&utm_medium=yc-platform&utm_campaign=yc) connects first-party social APIs with modern LLMs so you can quickly find and evaluate influencers in your community. We’re launching with Instagram and will soon roll out integrations with LinkedIn, YouTube, and other platforms.\n\n1. [Strobe](https://strobe.app/?utm_source=launch-yc&utm_medium=yc-platform&utm_campaign=yc) finds influencers in your social communities who already love your products. You can also import your existing customers to find influencers who already use your products.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80532&key=user_uploads/10064/7c4f48ef-9042-4b52-a9d3-5362a373b7e9)\n\n2. [Strobe’s](https://strobe.app/?utm_source=launch-yc&utm_medium=yc-platform&utm_campaign=yc) fine-tuned LLMs instantly review thousands of posts with dozens of GPUs to identify key performance metrics, topics, controversial topics, brand partnerships, and unlabeled sponsored content.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80532&key=user_uploads/10064/800331c9-de29-4c76-8f94-48fa13aecf9d)\n\n\n### Our customers\n\n[Strobe](https://strobe.app/?utm_source=launch-yc&utm_medium=yc-platform&utm_campaign=yc) helps growth and marketing teams at software companies find great content partners at scale. Here are two examples:\n\n1. A large public B2C software company with \\~1M followers uses [Strobe](https://strobe.app/?utm_source=launch-yc&utm_medium=yc-platform&utm_campaign=yc) to segment and analyze their audiences, including customers, to find content partners for influencer marketing.\n2. 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Most teams rely on disconnected tools, leading to lost conversations and frustrated customers.\n\n### **Introducing Atlas for Discord**\n\nAtlas now integrates with Discord, turning real-time conversations into structured, trackable support tickets—while keeping everything in sync across platforms.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88252&key=user_uploads/90048/b0eec499-af11-4d79-894a-bb69a476f60a)\n\n### **Key Features**\n\n✅ **Turn Discord messages into tickets** – Automatically or manually, so nothing slips through the cracks.\\\n📢 **Multi-channel support** – Works with general chat, forum discussions, private VIP threads, and dedicated support forms.\\\n🔄 **Bidirectional sync** – Reply to Discord messages directly from Atlas—no more switching between platforms.\\\n💬 **Structured, searchable support** – Keep conversations organized and trackable inside Atlas.\n\n### **Try it out**\n\nIf you’re running a Discord community or know someone who is, I’d love to connect. 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Our no-code SaaS application allows organizations to build internal mobile applications to manage field teams of any size.\r\n\r\nFieldproxy's vision is to be the Operating System for Field teams.", "one_liner": "Building AI agents for complex operations", "team_size": 15, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1643264607, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Productivity", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "regions": [ "India", "South Asia" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/fieldproxy", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2022/fieldproxy.json", "year_founded": 2020, "city": "Chennai", "country": "IN", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/snipp", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/fieldproxy", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/fieldproxy", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fieldproxy", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/29d280b26b9013cd722967a3c3239ae0da94db1c.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 494169, "full_name": "Swaroop Vijayakumar", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "2x enterpreneur, love solving problems for customers, IIM Kozhikode", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/swaroopcmc/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/swaroop_vij", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/87f7aa0750246d2db3a2732f12e48934409c4454.jpg" }, { "user_id": 160377, "full_name": "Balakrishna Balasubramanian", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Worked across a variety of roles in software development, as expected of a tech co-founder.\nLove working on new products and ideas. If it changes the world, great. If it doesn't, at least I'd have some fun.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/balakrishna-b-a624a8106", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/2e848526d36ce366d98c61638bfc6f527b427224.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Y Combinator leads $750k round of India-based SaaS firm | techinasia", "url": "https://www.techinasia.com/combinator-leads-750k-indias-saas-firm", "date": "Jul 13, 2022" }, { "title": "Streamlining On-Ground Teams, DIY Style | Outlook Business", "url": "https://www.outlookbusiness.com/enterprise-3/big-idea-14/streamlining-on-ground-teams-diy-style-6358", "date": "Jan 09, 2022" }, { "title": "SaaS Startup Fieldproxy Raises INR 2 Cr Seed Funding Round", "url": "https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/383795", "date": "Sep 06, 2021" }, { "title": "[Funding alert] SaaS platform Fieldproxy raises Rs 2 Cr in seed round", "url": "https://yourstory.com/2021/09/saas-platform-fieldproxy-raises-seed-round/amp", "date": "Sep 05, 2021" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 64305, "title": "🚀 Fieldproxy — Retool for field teams", "tagline": "Meet Fieldproxy, the platform that helps you build internal apps using no-code", "body": "**👋 Hi All!**\n\nThis is [Swaroop](https://www.linkedin.com/in/swaroopcmc/) and [Bala](https://www.linkedin.com/in/balakrishna-balasubramanian-a624a8106/) and we are extremely stoked to launch [Fieldproxy](http://fieldproxy.com/) to the world\n\n---\n\n💡 **Problem**\n\nWe ran a product development agency prior to this where we had built around 60 internal apps across 20 companies to manage their on-ground teams. These companies were across legacy industries like consumer goods, mining, telecom, pharma and energy.\n\nOrganisations across these industries have been using archaic decades-old ERP systems to manage their on-ground field teams. These systems are extremely rigid and inflexible. There are very limited options for such companies to choose.\n\n80% of the mobile workforce is deskless, but the majority of the productivity and internal SaaS tools are being built for 20% of desk workers. Hence the need for these companies to build reach out to development agencies to build bespoke internal applications or hire an in-house internal tech team - both of which are bound to lead to disastrous results, given technology is not the forte’ of such industries\n\n---\n\n💛 **What We Do**\n\nWe help businesses with field teams build internal mobile applications within 10 minutes to streamline their on-field operations.\n\nThink giving the power of building tools similar to what Uber or Doordash may use to manage their on-ground workforce to some of these traditional industries!\n\nYou can check out our detailed product overview page [here](https://www.fieldproxy.com/product)\n\n---\n\n💪**Product Demos/Walkthrough of Use Cases**\n\n1. Quick Product Overview - click [here](https://fieldproxy.hippovideo.io/video/play/t5JWAkAwEnG3dJiJsnfap_pEOhi1ZH8tokDbs9lhJ6k?utm_source=hv-campaigns&hreferer=private&_=1648446641)\n2. If you are in the Logistics space and want a take a look at the detailed location intelligence possible on the platform - click [here](https://www.loom.com/share/21288e2dcadf421981f09921f9294578?sharedAppSource=personal_library)\n3. If you run a Field servicing or field operations, click [here](https://fieldproxy.hippovideo.io/video/play/mH8rVjfpdDG-V1yHuwtjmkjedPkNUnVFegAPVZlC5ZA?utm_source=hv-campaigns&hreferer=private&_=1648446631) to see a short video on how to\n4. If you manage a Field Sales team, click [here](https://fieldproxy.hippovideo.io/video/play/WBhOyuWNfypZKDTx5_B_SEYNZeV3WpxVHJwSjGTsO94?utm_source=hv-campaigns&hreferer=private&_=1648446631) to see a short video on how to build a simple app with CRM-like functionality for your on-ground sales team\n\n---\n\n---\n\n💁‍♂️ **Asks**\n\n* **No-Code experts**/Founders of No-Code companies - If you are in the no-code space, would love to connect. We are still figuring out our GTM - and would love to have a quick 20-minute chat with people who have been there and done that. We will ensure we keep the questions very concise and specific!\n* **Industry Experts -** We are scaling up our template library in the consumer goods and field service verticals. If you are targeting similar industries or know someone in these industries who is up for a 40-hour paid consulting gig, please do let us know!\n* **Users** - Finally, if you do manage an on ground team, please do let me know! Would love to get on a call and help setup the workflows and applications that can help you get visibility and streamline your field operations\n\nIf there are any queries, feel free to drop a mail at [swaroop@fieldproxy.com](mailto:swaroop@fieldproxy.com) ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GjB-fieldproxy-retool-for-field-teams", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2022-07-04T13:04:03.510Z" } ] }, { "id": 25521, "name": "Happl", "slug": "happl", "former_names": [ "Tahora", "Happl (formerly Tahora)" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4c17a303b95defe0b51fc282067b942a4dbdaa25.png", "website": "https://happl.com/", "all_locations": "London, England, United Kingdom", "long_description": "Happl - Personalised benefits for employees to choose what’s right for them, and tools for managers to engage their teams, whilst we take care of all the compliance and admin.\r\n\r\nFounded in 2020 and based in London, UK, Happl works with some of the UK’s leading employers to bring their hybrid working culture to life!\r\n\r\nhttps://www.happl.com/", "one_liner": "Your personalised benefits and engagement platform for global teams", "team_size": 11, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Human Resources", "launched_at": 1639472348, "tags": [ "SaaS", "HR Tech", "Insurance" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Human Resources" ], "regions": [ "United Kingdom", "Europe", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/happl", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2022/happl.json", "year_founded": 2020, "city": "London", "country": "GB", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/happl", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/joinHappl", "fb_url": "https://facebook.com/joinhappl", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tahora", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4c17a303b95defe0b51fc282067b942a4dbdaa25.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Nicolas Dessaigne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 401900, "full_name": "Ben Towers", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Ben (24) is Co-Founder at Happl (formerly Tahora). An entrepreneur since he was 11 years old when he started his first business, Towers Design, Ben has always been motivated by creating things that help people. By 18 he was named by The Times as 'the smartest teenager on the planet' and working with the UK Government and Royal Family on their entrepreneurship programmes. Prior to starting Tahora, Ben was the Communications Director at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). 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For leaders, we handle flexible benefits, allowances, insurance, and manager-to-employee gifting, all whilst ensuring you’re staying compliant. For employees, we use benefits as communities within your existing stack to engage, as well as understand them on a personal and inclusive level through interests and goals.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67761&key=user_uploads/401900/adb698a0-abe5-447b-a433-7efa64ed283e)\n\n**🤯 The problem**\n\nEmployees are not offered personal and inclusive benefits that have an impact, resulting in poor uptake, whilst often founders aren’t sure how to engage their global teams effectively.\n\nCompanies often roll out company-wide benefits such as a meditation app, or learning platform, in the hope that it’s going to magnificently fix their engagement and retention problems. We hate to break it to you, but that isn’t cutting it.\n\n**Our solution? Flip traditional benefits on their head ⬇️**\n\n* Flexible spend allowances, with controls and international support\n* A marketplace fo recommendations and discounts of quality over quantity\n* Community benefits, connect over shared benefits within slack\n* Personal and inclusive employee profiles for impactful recommendations\n* Manager engagement budgets with prompts and reminders for employee gifting\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67761&key=user_uploads/401900/e2d3eb7b-274d-433d-8e17-b3c4c4d9dc14)\n\n**Who’s it for? 🌍**\n\nWe know what it’s like firsthand to scale a company with the weight of ensuring your team is engaged, and it’s not easy. Many of our users, who we like to call Happling’s (we’re working on that) have employees in many regions and simply want to consolidate their benefit allowance and roll it out with ease. Others want to make sure they’re getting the best prices and save money through benchmarking.\n\nWe support start-ups from 5 employees or more, all the way through to more mature companies with thousands of employees like Google, NatWest Bank, The Metropolitan Police, and more.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67761&key=user_uploads/401900/68a6073b-3a03-4904-931c-1b839f8f041c)\n\n**How it works 💡**\n\nWe handle everything from the get-go, with a speedy onboarding process through connecting with your HRIS and Accounting software. Rolling out spend allowances or manager expense cards is as simple as choosing an amount. We automatically detect multiple locations and convert the allowances so it’s fair for all employees.\n\nEmployees can sign up with SSO and curate a profile that's personal and inclusive to them. We can share this information with managers prior to gifting or organising a team event to engage.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67761&key=user_uploads/401900/91d47b14-2cea-4925-8b3e-8cf5127451c0)\n\n**How to get on it 🖥️**\n\nTake advantage of our YC Deal email me at [ben@happl.com](mailto:ben@happl.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67761&key=user_uploads/401900/07b30ce0-15a9-4a7e-badc-30b4dbfead31)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hcv-happl-set-up-global-benefits-and-recognition-in-seconds", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2022-12-07T14:51:48.316Z" } ] }, { "id": 25522, "name": "Unlayer", "slug": "unlayer", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fcefc5d17d05bbb0fe7c4b9b5875db24dc093a45.png", "website": "https://unlayer.com", "all_locations": "Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates", "long_description": "Unlayer helps companies add AI-powered content creation into their products without building it from scratch. Developers can embed visual builders for emails, pages, popups, and documents, then connect them to AI agents, templates, asset storage, exports, and APIs. We give teams the building blocks to let users and AI workflows create, edit, personalize, translate, and ship content directly inside their own product.", "one_liner": "AI-powered content creation infrastructure for apps", "team_size": 35, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1644263477, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "SaaS", "Design Tools", "AI", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "regions": [ "United Arab Emirates", "Middle East and North Africa", "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/unlayer", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2022/unlayer.json", "year_founded": 2017, "city": "Dubai", "country": "AE", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/unlayer/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/unlayerapp", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/unlayer", "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/unlayer", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fcefc5d17d05bbb0fe7c4b9b5875db24dc093a45.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/924f8b7578a775a2708d8d52957fb146f20f3132.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 105300, "full_name": "Adeel Raza", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I'm a serial technology entrepreneur with strong product focus.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/adeelr/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/adeelraza", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c256c8b582e82d21fc788b7b62ffd519e22590e2.jpg" }, { "user_id": 118900, "full_name": "Muhammad Umair Siddique", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/umairsiddique", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/umairsiddique", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f37a4b5a14da90ea421b007669006f7f5d3ba8cc.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 105004, "title": "Elements by Unlayer - Open-source React components for emails, pages, and PDFs", "tagline": "Elements lets developers and AI agents create emails, web pages, and PDFs from the same React codebase.", "body": "**TL;DR:** We’re launching Unlayer Elements, an open-source React content layer that lets developers and AI agents create emails, web pages, and PDFs from the same codebase. Write once in React, render everywhere.\n\nToday, we’re launching something new and open source:\n\n# Unlayer Elements\n\nAn open-source React content layer for developers and AI agents to create emails, web pages, and PDFs from the same codebase.\n\nGitHub: \\\nDocs: \\\nDemo: \n\n## **The Problem**\n\nEvery SaaS product eventually needs content creation.\n\nAt first, it’s just one transactional email.\n\nThen it becomes welcome emails, password resets, receipts, invoices, reports, landing pages, PDFs, internal templates, previews, exports, and visual editing.\n\nMost teams end up maintaining separate systems for each output:\n\n* one system for email templates\n* one system for web pages\n* one system for PDFs\n* one system for visual editing\n* one system for exports\n\nThe content is often similar, but the implementation is different.\n\nThis becomes even more important now that AI agents are generating more code and content. Agents can create fast, but teams still need the output to be structured, reusable, version-controlled, and production-ready.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105004&key=user_uploads/105300/5911c2cd-ca33-48e8-86ff-72e1ce4fcfe7)\n\n## **What We Built**\n\nWe built Unlayer Elements: open-source React components for creating emails, web pages, and PDFs from the same codebase.\n\nDevelopers can use familiar components like:\n\n* <Email>\n* <Page>\n* <Document>\n* <Row>\n* <Column>\n* <Heading>\n* <Paragraph>\n* <Button>\n* <Image>\n* <Custom>\n\nEach output mode is tuned for where the content will live:\n\n* <Email> renders email-safe table HTML\n* <Page> renders responsive web HTML\n* <Document> renders print-ready HTML for PDFs and documents\n\nSame component system. Different surfaces.\n\nA few examples of what you can build:\n\n* Transactional emails\n* Landing pages\n* Web versions of emails\n* Invoices\n* Receipts\n* Reports\n* Internal template galleries\n* PDF documents\n* AI-generated content flows\n\nElements also connects with the broader Unlayer platform. Developers can define content structure in code, and when visual editing is needed, teams can bring that work into Unlayer’s Builder so marketers, admins, or end users can edit without touching code.\n\n## **Our Ask**\n\nWe’re open sourcing this early because we want feedback from people building with React, Next.js, email, PDFs, templates, and AI-generated content.\n\nWe’d love for you to:\n\n1. Try it and tell us what feels useful or missing.\n2. Star the GitHub repo if you want to support the project.\n3. Share examples of emails, pages, PDFs, invoices, reports, or AI-generated content workflows you’d want Elements to support.\n\nGitHub: \\\nDocs: \n\nWould love feedback from the YC community.\n\nEmail: [founders@unlayer.com](mailto:founders@unlayer.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RJc-elements-by-unlayer-open-source-react-components-for-emails-pages-and-pdfs", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2026-07-08T19:42:04.469Z" }, { "id": 102816, "title": "Unlayer: AI-powered content creation for your product", "tagline": "Let your users create beautiful emails, pages or documents with AI.", "body": "**TL;DR:** [**Unlayer**](https://unlayer.com) is an AI-powered content creation platform for developers. It gives you **embeddable builders**, templates, APIs, and AI toolkit so your users can create **emails**, **pages**, **documents**, and other content directly **inside your product**.\n\n\n\n—\n\n## The Problem\n\nAlmost every software product eventually needs users to create content.\n\nEmails, landing pages, proposals, invoices, documents, announcements, templates, PDFs, and more.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=102816&key=user_uploads/105300/df31db0c-923c-4ac3-977d-bd881f9586d1)\n\nAt first, this looks like “just add an editor.” Then you need responsive rendering, templates, merge tags, asset management, permissions, versioning, exports, personalization, localization, and now AI generation.\n\nA small feature quietly becomes an entire content creation platform.\n\n—\n\n## What We Built\n\n**Unlayer gives developers the building blocks to add AI-powered content creation into their own products.**\n\nYou can embed visual builders for emails, pages, popups, and documents, then connect them to templates, file storage, exports, APIs, and AI workflows.\n\nYour users can visually create and edit content. Your AI agents can generate, personalize, translate, and modify that content through APIs and skills.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=102816&key=user_uploads/105300/c9995728-e131-44cd-93cc-d295f255cf1b)\n\nOver time, Unlayer has grown to **1,000+ customers**, from startups to teams at **Netflix**, **Fidelity**, **Bank of America**, **Mastercard, Twilio, Chargebee**, and others.\n\nThat has given us a front-row seat into the same pattern: almost every product eventually needs users or AI to create content inside the product itself.\n\n—\n\n## Why AI Changes This\n\nContent creation is moving from manual editing to assisted and automated workflows.\n\nA user should be able to say:\n\n* **_“Create a launch email for this feature.”_**\n* **_“Translate this landing page into Spanish.”_**\n* **_“Turn this proposal into a branded PDF.”_**\n* **_“Personalize this announcement for each customer segment.”_**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=102816&key=user_uploads/105300/639a8626-7790-4094-b684-c4800407a6c6)\n\nBut for AI to do this well inside a product, it needs more than a text box. It needs access to templates, design structure, brand rules, assets, exports, and the final builder where humans can review and edit.\n\nThat is what we are building with Unlayer.\n\n—\n\n## Our Vision\n\nWe think the future of content creation inside software has two interfaces:\n\n1. A visual builder for people\n2. An action layer for AI agents\n\nPeople should be able to drag, drop, edit, approve, and fine tune.\n\nAI should be able to create, rewrite, personalize, translate, export, and eventually ship content automatically.\n\nUnlayer is the infrastructure layer that connects both.\n\n—\n\n## Backstory\n\nWe started Unlayer because we kept seeing teams rebuild the same content creation stack over and over.\n\n**Email HTML is painful**. Landing pages need **forms** and scripts. Documents need **PDF generation**. Templates need **permissions**. Assets need **storage**. Every product needs customization. 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We are building \"Rippling for trucking\", an all-in-one workforce management solution for trucking fleets. While researching the industry through building an audience on TikTok, I saw the myriad of back office challenges that fleet owners faced and started Drivingforce. \n\nCheck us out on TikTok!\ntiktok.com/@truckingnewbie", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinzhuang10/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/kevinzhuang10", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/59ba84689212952d3677cc290f09b87e9377e5f7.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Y Combinator Company Exits Stealth Mode", "url": "https://www.freightcaviar.com/y-combinator-company-exits-stealth-mode/", "date": "Jun 23, 2023" }, { "title": "Meet the 29-Year-Old Behind TikTok's \"Trucking Newbie\"", "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-trucking-newbie-california-ab5-port-oakland-protests-2022-9", "date": "Sep 12, 2022" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 72422, "title": "Drivingforce - Rippling for trucking", "tagline": "All-in-one workforce management solution for the trucking industry", "body": "### **TLDR**\n\nDrivingforce is building “Rippling for trucking”, an all-in-one workforce management solution for the trucking industry. 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. Consequently, fleets resort to adopting various point solutions alongside their HR providers, resulting in increased operational complexity of managing multiple systems.\n\n### **Solution**\n\nDrivingforce is an all-in-one workforce management solution designed for trucking fleets. It consolidates multiple point solutions into a single platform, simplifying compliance, fleet management, and HR operation. Key modules include:\n\n* **Compliance:** Automated monitoring and alerts ensure DOT and regulatory compliance.\n* **HR:** Streamlined onboarding and tracking of essential employee data and documents.\n* **Asset Management:** Efficiently track assets, assignments, and maintenance schedules.\n* **Hiring:** DOT-compliant digital application portal and applicant tracking system (ATS) optimized for driver recruiting.\n* **Payroll:** Seamless payroll processing, accommodating various pay structures like hours, miles, or load.\n\nWith Drivingforce, trucking fleets can effectively manage their back office all within a single platform.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72422&key=user_uploads/425869/797d4bd4-c4af-456f-9cbe-629c7a608668)\n\n### **Backstory**\n\nMy path to Drivingforce was not linear, and I had no prior experience in trucking. Previously, I worked on another supply chain idea related to manufacturing, but decided to pivot. While exploring other supply chain sectors, I became intrigued by the trucking industry due to its immense size and potential opportunities.\n\nAs I got started, I reached out to several other trucking founders in the YC community for guidance. Interestingly, a few of them independently shared a similar piece of advice: _\"If you want to learn about trucking, go to truck stops and talk to truckers.”_\n\nTaking their advice to heart, I embarked on a series of visits to truck stops. Along the way, I decided to document my experiences and learnings through [**TikTok, under the name “Trucking Newbie”**](https://tiktok.com/@truckingnewbie). Some of these videos gained traction within the trucking community. As the TikTok account grew, content creation became a unique way for me to engage with users and conduct market research.\n\nDuring my exploration, I consistently heard trucking company owners express their challenges in managing a dynamic workforce. As I delved deeper, I observed how they pieced together various tools and processes to manage their personnel and equipment while trying to comply with DOT regulations. Witnessing their frustrations with juggling multiple systems in their daily operations, the idea for Drivingforce took shape.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72422&key=user_uploads/425869/fe60374d-d25c-4e12-8e19-69727d333451)\n\n### **Asks**\n\n* **📣 Share:** Share this post with your network.\n* **🔔 Follow:** Follow us on [TikTok](http://tiktok.com/@truckingnewbie) and [LinkedIn.](https://www.linkedin.com/company/drivingforcehq/)\n* **🤝 Refer:** If you know of any trucking fleets that could benefit from Drivingforce, please connect us ([kevin@drivingforce.co](mailto:kevin@drivingforce.co)).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Iq6-drivingforce-rippling-for-trucking", "votes": 136, "created_at": "2023-06-21T15:18:17.920Z" } ] }, { "id": 25583, "name": "Bunkyr", "slug": "bunkyr", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bab71568a30f64680488b01543947e165355c6d6.png", "website": "https://bunkyr.com", "all_locations": "Denver, CO, USA", "long_description": "Bunkyr enables companies to protect their users’ data with a simple, hardware-secured API. When a user forgets their password, applications using Bunkyr can provide them a familiar, robust recovery method to restore access to encrypted data.\r\n\r\nZero-Knowledge architectures and end-to-end encryption are the only true safeguards against data breaches, but come with large user-experience burdens and engineering overhead. 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Worked and scaled several startups from initial stage to high growth stage - Flipkart, Lendingkart and Hevo Data. Currently building Castled Data.\n\nI build products which make a positive impact on people and businesses. Apart from work, I am also interested in travel, food and spirituality.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/manishsingh123/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/_manish_s", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0bca0162c2f22d6dd390a92246912772a90cdbdf.jpg" }, { "user_id": 845155, "full_name": "Franklin George", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I’m an engineer by training with a passion for solving complex problems. Over the years, I’ve built and scaled enterprise-grade storage systems, immersing myself in challenges to design and deliver impactful solutions.\n\nNow, I’m embarking on an exciting entrepreneurial journey as the founder of Castled Data, where I’m fortunate to work alongside an incredible team that shares my vision and drive.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/frgeorge", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c2e6faf7feef6919f31a4eae735079e12a764c75.jpg" }, { "user_id": 846239, "full_name": "Abhilash Thulaseedharan", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "As a coder by chance and an entrepreneur by choice, I love to design systems which is to make an impact on the people around me.\n\n15 years of experience in enterprise product development, leading the development of mission-critical systems like flight operations and cargo handling for one of the biggest airlines in the world, where downtime of even a minute meant grounded flights and millions of dollars in loss.\n\nCycling, running and working out keep me sane.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhilashtdharan", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/abhilashtdharan", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/74be0c72cc9c1668653d46997278e7ab3aefccc3.jpg" }, { "user_id": 847651, "full_name": "Arun Thulasidharan", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I was the founding engineer of leading startups like MediaIQ and Hevodata and was among the initial 10 employees of both these companies. I have also spent considerable time in large companies like Flipkart and Applied Materials. \n\nBesides that, I am a huge movie buff and like watching and playing cricket.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/arun-thulasidharan-53a1322b/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b62db1a73f42c9490812711a4a857c3377b0d234.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 70296, "title": "Castled - Build audiences on your data warehouse without SQL", "tagline": "The No-Code Customer Segmentation Engine tailor made for Product and Marketing teams", "body": "**tl;dr** **Marketers often wait weeks or months for data teams to sync customer data to their advertising and marketing tools. Castled Audiences help marketers take charge of their data by providing a No-code Customer Segmentation Engine directly on top of cloud data warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery and Redshift.**\n\n### 😰 The Problem\n\nModern-day marketers are increasingly adopting data warehouses like Snowflake and BigQuery as the source of truth for customer data. However, they are still forced to rely heavily on the data teams to get the data out of the data warehouse to their advertising/marketing tools.\n\nThe restriction is primarily due to the complex SQL queries required to create even the most straightforward customer segments. For example, here is the SQL to create a segment of abandoned cart users on Snowflake.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70296&key=user_uploads/846239/c2471db8-ecb8-437d-bdab-f11e59503dcf)\n\nTherefore, marketers are often forced to make tradeoffs in their campaign efficiency as a result of the constraints imposed by limited engineering resources.\n\n## 🛠 How Castled Audiences solve this problem\n\nThe Audiences feature offers a point-and-click Segmentation tool, which helps marketers create the customer segments they need without SQL and send them to a destination of their choice, e.g., Google Ads, Braze, HubSpot, etc. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70296&key=user_uploads/846239/e71e7f81-811b-4a9b-888e-f2f742c2c1c9)\n\nHere is a 3-minute demo of how marketers can create a segment of cart abandoners directly on Snowflake and then sync them to Google Ads for retargeting.\n\n\n\n## 🚀 Get Started\n\nWe would love for you to try us out and share your feedback. Signup at [castled.io](http://castled.io) and give it a spin. Or, if you have a google account, directly sign in using [app.castled.io](http://app.castled.io). \n\nAlso, if this resonates with you, we'd love to chat! - Shoot an email to [founders@castled.io](mailto:founders@castled.io), or book a demo [here](https://www.castled.io/audiences-demo).\n\n**Castled Audiences is available in our Starter Plan irrespective of the number of destinations or the volume of data.**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IHo-castled-build-audiences-on-your-data-warehouse-without-sql", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2023-03-15T13:37:04.972Z" }, { "id": 66283, "title": "Castled - Customer Engagement using Customer 360 in your data warehouse", "tagline": "Robust and Cost-effective Marketing Automation Platform that sits on top of your Cloud Data Warehouse.", "body": "**tl;dr** **Marketers often make trade-offs in campaign efficiency due to various limitations in existing marketing automation tools. Castled helps businesses overcome these pain points by providing a Marketing Automation Platform built natively on top of Cloud Data warehouses.**\n\nWe're [Arun](https://www.linkedin.com/in/arun-thulasidharan-53a1322b/), [Abhilash](https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhilash-thulaseedharan-3a3a451a/), and [Frank](https://www.linkedin.com/in/frgeorge/), and our vision is to bring the power of Customer 360 in the data warehouses to visionary marketers.\n\n### 🎙 Why yet another Marketing Automation Platform\n\nWe started our journey by building an open-source Reverse ETL solution to make quality customer data available to marketers.\n\nHowever, after talking to 100s of marketers, we realised that there are other fundamental limitations in the existing tools that prevented the marketers from leveraging this data in its true sense. That's when we changed course and built a solution to address these problems.\n\n### 😰 Limitations of existing Marketing Automation tools\n\n* **Need for maintaining a leaky pipeline:** Traditional marketing automation tools needs a pipeline to move the customer data to the tool, which is always at risk of breaking.\n* **Immoderate dependency on the Data & IT Team:** Dependency on the data team for the above-mentioned pipeline maintenance and for running campaign-related queries which often results in delays affecting campaign effectiveness.\n* **Unavailability of quality customer data:** Unavailability of quality customer 360 with relevant historical behavioural data, which is vital for up-selling, cross-selling and re-engaging existing customers\n* **Unreasonable data volume-based pricing:** Traditional marketing automation tools charge in terms of the data points consumed or MAUs, which can get unreasonably expensive for most B2C businesses as the data to move is generally exorbitantly high volumes.\n* **Customer Data Security concerns:** Info-sec team have concerns about the regulatory, privacy and data protection requirements and external security audits as the customer data moves out of the system.\n* **Restrictive data retention:** The data retention in most tools is limited to a few months, drastically reducing the accuracy of the marketing campaigns.\n* **Unreasonably high Time to Value**: It takes months of tech integrations and resource bandwidth before the marketing tools start delivering value.\n\n### 💡 Advantages of our Solution\n\n* **Reduced dependency on the data & IT team:** Since the data don’t leave the warehouse, the dependency on the data team is considerably reduced and is limited to the initial setup. No pipelines to maintain.\n* **Increased data security:** Since the customer data don’t leave your warehouse, we are secure by design.\n* **Cost-effective:** Castled does not store the customers' demographic or event data. This makes Castled 75% more cost-effective than a traditional marketing tool. \n* **Unlimited data retention:** Marketers can use all their customer and behavioral data in the warehouse during customer segmentation. It enables the marketer to cross-sell, up-sell or reengage existing customers more efficiently to increase their LTV.\n* **Low TTV and ease of getting started**: All the data required to run the campaigns are already sitting in the cloud data warehouse. Get started in hours instead of months.\n* **Improved data consistency:** Castled uses Customer 360 in the warehouse directly. No sync is needed to keep data consistent.\n\n## 🛠 How Castled works\n\nCastled is the CEP a modern marketer needs, as it provides the flexibility in creating relevant and dynamic user segments directly on top of the Customer 360 in your data warehouse with _no dependency on the data team or requiring SQL knowledge to do so._\n\nCreate relevant and timely campaigns or user journeys in Castled to engage the segment of users across different channels.\n\n\n\n## 🚀 Get Started\n\nSignup at [castled.io](https://castled.io) and give it a spin. Or, if you have a google account, directly log in using [app.castled.io](https://app.castled.io).\n\nIf this resonates with you, we'd love to chat! - Shoot an email to [founders@castled.io](mailto:founders@castled.io), or grab a time [here](https://calendly.com/arun-castled/castled-demo).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HF5-castled-customer-engagement-using-customer-360-in-your-data-warehouse", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2022-09-24T16:55:24.917Z" } ] }, { "id": 25593, "name": "Cardda", "slug": "cardda", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/64a0a5dd4f5579a046ac96d45ad1b947731896cf.png", "website": "https://cardda.com", "all_locations": "Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile; Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico", "long_description": "All-in-one spend management for businesses in Latam.\r\nWe give customers tools for bill payments, automated local transfers and corporate cards.", "one_liner": "All-in-one spend management for businesses in Latam", "team_size": 5, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech -> Payments", "launched_at": 1644575523, "tags": [ "Fintech", "SaaS", "Payments", "B2B", "Neobank" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech", "Payments" ], "regions": [ "Chile", "Mexico", "Latin America", "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/cardda", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2022/cardda.json", "year_founded": 2020, "city": "Santiago", "country": "CL", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/cardda/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cardda", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/64a0a5dd4f5579a046ac96d45ad1b947731896cf.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 285661, "full_name": "Cristóbal Grinbergs", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Cardda CEO and cofounder, the all-in-one spend management for business in Latam. 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There is a nice video story [here](https://fightingfor.nd.edu/2023/fighting-for-breast-cancer-patients/).  We already have 4 systems sold to customers ($123k) and just received a letter that the FDA agrees with our regulatory pathway.\n\n**The Problem**\n\nOncologists have the difficult task of assessing the efficacy of chemotherapy drugs and proper dosing, with the majority of breast cancer patients not showing pathologic complete response (pCR). Imagine taking drugs that devastate your immune system, cause hair loss, nausea, later to find the treatment is ineffective. Further, it takes months to tell if a therapy is working. Those months are critical to survival for patients with aggressive disease progression.\n\n**Our Solution**\n\nNearWave's core imaging technology and accompanying prediction models have been shown in multi-center studies to predict pathologic complete response in breast cancer patients in as early as a week\\[[1](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30338678/#:\\~:text=Notably%2C%20logistic%20regression%20based%20on,CI%3A%200.82%20to%201)\\]\\[[2](http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/76/20/5933.short)\\]\\[[3](https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-biomedical-optics/volume-29/issue-06/066001/Functional-hemodynamic-imaging-markers-for-the-prediction-of-pathological-outcomes/10.1117/1.JBO.29.6.066001.full#_=_)\\]. If oncologists knew efficacy in a few days, they would make real-time adjustments to therapy, personalizing care for each patient \\[[4](https://www.mendelspod.com/p/precision-oncology-at-the-community-544?utm_source=publication-search)\\].\n\n📸 Device and iPad app showing a tumor simulating phantom scanned with the system.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80934&key=user_uploads/749007/8f146342-1e4a-4bcb-a40f-639be01f52be)\n\nWhen a therapy is not showing a response, physicians can increase dosage, iterate to other therapies, or move to surgery much sooner, reducing side-effects for patients by as much as 50%, while reducing cost in direct-to-surgery cases. In the future we will expand our indication to cover benign/malignant lesion classification at the ob/gyn bed-side, where ½ the world population undergoes exams, a true **billion user** technology. \n\n**How it works**\n\nThe underlying technology uses [fdNIRS](https://nearwave.co/technology/fdnirs/), a form of near infrared spectroscopy which is deep tissue, non-invasive, does not require injectable contrast, and uses no ionizing radiation.  We measure the molecular absorption and scattering of light of biomarkers (blood, water, lipid) to monitor changes in metabolic and hemodynamic information in tissue \\[[5](https://opg.optica.org/boe/fulltext.cfm?uri=boe-12-11-7261&id=462776)\\]. Metabolic changes are an excellent indicator of therapy response, which our AI models use to categorize and predict the treatment outcomes. \n\n🌈 Here’s how light travels in tissue, and how it works with our system.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80934&key=user_uploads/749007/6ffa11ac-d114-48d8-a27b-8e50c0c1e2ab)\n\n🤖 Workflow for our AI model therapy response grading. Breast images are from a study patient responding to therapy.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80934&key=user_uploads/749007/2a7c993c-4938-4648-b042-61af9cdfe9f5)\n\n🤯 Here we visualize a 3d tumor, measured with our system on a physical tumor phantom of actual breast tissue properties.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80934&key=user_uploads/749007/e47ac6ad-99d0-4b3a-a421-9d535916dc28)\n\n**Asks**\n\nIf you know anyone affected by breast cancer that was a candidate for neoadjuvant chemotherapy, we’d love to talk to them to hear about their experience. 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We’re founded by Aaron Neiderhiser and Coco Zuloaga, former senior execs from Health Catalyst and Strive Health. We realized data transformation and data quality is the fundamental problem preventing the healthcare industry from building scalable data products. We launched Tuva and joined the W22 batch of Y Combinator to solve this problem for the entire industry. Since January 1st, we signed our first customer (paying $10k per month) and completed the first major release of the Tuva Project. At Tuva, our goal is to (1) become the open standard for healthcare data transformation and (2) build the data network for multi-site benchmarking, research, and machine learning on top of this open standard.", "one_liner": "Open source software that cleans and transforms messy healthcare data.", "team_size": 3, "industry": "Healthcare", "subindustry": "Healthcare -> Healthcare IT", "launched_at": 1646583399, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Digital Health" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Healthcare", "Healthcare IT" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tuva-health", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2022/tuva-health.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "Salt Lake City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/tuva-health/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/tuva-health", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/27d0f5dffe2ad73d820ca925decb3e3f02234a84.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 836875, "full_name": "Aaron Neiderhiser", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronneiderhiser/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/068374c5f1e80778454e01adea60ce931d2dd01f.jpg" }, { "user_id": 879667, "full_name": "Coco Zuloaga", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Before co-founding Tuva, I worked at Strive Health as VP of Data Science, where I focused on using techniques in machine learning, statistics, and analytics engineering to improve outcomes in value-based care. Prior to Strive Health I served in leading data science roles at different healthcare tech companies. Before my life in data science I was a mathematician and physicist doing research in high-performance scientific computation.\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorge-zuloaga/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f0565a8df2e38da418767f2eb66ce1a963e3cda7.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [] }, { "id": 25663, "name": "Velt", "slug": "velt", "former_names": [ "Snippyly Inc.", "Snippyly", "Velt", "Velt: Collaboration SDK" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/36bc77538c7b2b901965b5e1ff49fe05b84cc1f1.png", "website": "https://velt.dev", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "For most of software's history the hard part was making things. Writing the code, drafting the document, putting the report together. That is the part that is getting cheap. An agent can now produce in an afternoon what used to take a team a month.\r\n\r\nWhat doesn't get cheaper is verifying it. Someone still has to look at what the machine did, decide whether it's right, and answer for that decision later. Output goes up, review capacity doesn't, and that is where the work now piles up.\r\n\r\nVelt is the infrastructure for that step, and it treats agents and people as the same kind of reviewer. A review agent takes the first pass and catches what a machine can catch. A person makes the call on what actually matters. Both work on the same object, in the same thread, under the same rules. Only after approval is the change applied, through your own webhook, and every decision is recorded, so you can always show who allowed what and when.\r\n\r\nTeams build this themselves and it takes about two quarters. Comments, approvals, review agents, notifications, audit trails: the boring parts nobody thinks about until they're three months in. With Velt it's a few components you drop into a React, Next, Vue, or Angular app.", "one_liner": "SDK for adding an agent and human governance layer to your product", "team_size": 15, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1646206414, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "SaaS", "Collaboration", "Compliance", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/velt", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2022/velt.json", "year_founded": 2020, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/veltjs/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/veltjs", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/velt-js", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/36bc77538c7b2b901965b5e1ff49fe05b84cc1f1.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 195692, "full_name": "Rakesh Goyal", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I am the co-founder & CEO of Velt. Previously, I was a Product Manager at Google for 9 yrs. I've launched strategic products like AR in Google Maps & Search.\n\nNothing great was ever built alone. Technology has made the world a small place. It enables people to work together no matter where they are. This was never possible before. Velt will make the world more collaborative & build more great things. \n\nI grew up in India & now live in San Francisco. I love camping 🏕 & star gazing 🌌", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmgoyal/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/rakesh_goyal", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/130b61c6f2fe2f7eb4bec4c6108ba11a13e07db4.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 64525, "title": "Software Engineer (Frontend)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/velt/jobs/B263s2e-software-engineer-frontend", "location": "IN / Remote (IN)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "₹2M - ₹3M INR", "equity_range": "0.50% - 1.00%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Angular", "Node.js", "TypeScript" ] } ], "news": [ { "title": "A Y Combinator-backed startup called Velt wants to make more apps collaborative", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/04/a-y-combinator-backed-startup-called-velt-wants-to-make-more-apps-collaborative/", "date": "Dec 04, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 111289, "title": "Superflow AI: QA agents for your website", "tagline": "AI agents that QA every page of your website", "body": "## TL;DR\n\nAI made creating websites fast. Checking still costs what it always did. [Superflow](https://usesuperflow.ai/) closes that gap: it turns your QA checklist into AI agents.\n\n* They sweep every page of your site and handle the black and white issues: a dead link, a typo, a form that doesn't submit, a layout that breaks a written brand guideline.\n* You handle taste: the calls with no reference to check against, like whether a design direction is right or a page is good enough to ship. An agent can flag a page. Only a person can approve one.\n* They learn from every review, so the hundredth site gets checked better than the first.\n* Teams tell us the agents catch about 90% of what they used to find by hand. The other 10% needed a person all along.\n\n## Demo\n\n\n\n## The problem\n\nAn agency founder told us, \"We're never changing our QA process. It's tight.\"\n\nThen he sent us the checklist: 400 rows. Ten people clicking through every page by hand.\n\nWe ran our agents on one of his live sites. First finding: placeholder text, live for months. It was on the checklist. Row 212.\n\nChecklists don't fail because they're wrong. They fail because a human is on row 212 at 9pm on a Friday.\n\nAnd the misses that hurt aren't broken links:\n\n* A phone number in the header that doesn't match the footer.\n* \"Award winning\" on a site with no award. In dental, that's a regulator problem.\n* A previous client's name in a testimonial because the page was cloned.\n\nCreating a site collapsed to an afternoon. Checking it didn't budge.\n\n## How it works\n\n* Upload your checklist as is: spreadsheet, PDF, or doc. No reformatting.\n* Superflow turns it into a set of agents, including any custom checks on your list.\n* They run in parallel on every page, phone and desktop. A full site takes minutes.\n* Every finding is pinned on the page with a screenshot, so if the layout shifts later you still have the picture.\n* It fits your process: custom statuses, private team comments (agent findings stay team-only until you clear them), two way sync with your task tool, and a daily recap.\n* Agents learn. Reject a finding and it stops coming back. Catch a miss yourself and it becomes a check on every site after.\n\n## Backstory\n\nLast week we moved our own site from Framer to Next.js.\n\nThe step that used to eat the timeline, clicking through every page to catch what silently broke, our own agents did before sign off.\n\nThe build took a week. We were live in two, start to finish.\n\nCreating done by AI. Checking done by agents. Judgment kept by people.\n\n## Ask\n\nTry [Superflow](https://usesuperflow.ai/) on one page of your own site. No card, no login for reviewers.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Swz-superflow-ai-qa-agents-for-your-website", "votes": 2, "created_at": "2026-08-18T15:55:44.561Z" }, { "id": 99540, "title": "Velt Cursor plugin: Add Real-Time Collaboration to your App in 10 mins", "tagline": "/install-velt. One command. Add CRDT, comments, activity logs, and notifications to your app in one command.", "body": "Type **/install-velt**. The agent reads your codebase, asks which features you want, and scaffolds everything.\n\nComments that attach to specific elements. Real-time editing (CRDT). Presence. Cursors. Notifications. Activity logs. All wired up. Working app.\n\nAdding collaboration features looks like a weekend project. It's not.\n\nComments that anchor to elements. CRDT editing that doesn't corrupt data. Live cursors. Notifications. Activity logs. Each one is simple alone. Together they touch auth, state, routing, permissions, websockets. Get the order wrong and nothing works.\n\nMost teams skip it or spend months on it. Regret both.\n\nWe encoded 140+ implementation rules into the plugin so the agent doesn't make those mistakes. It also includes two MCP servers and a velt-expert agent persona for architecture questions.\n\n→ Watch the demo: \n\n→ Cursor Directory: \n\n→ Cursor plugin: \n\n→ Claude Code plugin: \n\n→ Docs: \n\nIf you try **/install-velt** on an existing project and something breaks, tell us. That's the case we most want to stress test.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PtU-velt-cursor-plugin-add-real-time-collaboration-to-your-app-in-10-mins", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2026-04-07T20:19:13.619Z" }, { "id": 99380, "title": "Velt Activity Logs: Audit trail for humans and AI agents", "tagline": "One audit trail for every action in your product. Who did what, and when.", "body": "\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99380&key=user_uploads/195692/08763c82-d915-4369-8e0d-2d5a820be7de)\n\nRight now, most products have no idea what their AI agents did yesterday.\n\nThat's going to seem crazy in two years.\n\nEvery SaaS product is adding AI agents that write, edit, and approve things. But only human actions produce an audit trail. AI agents just act. No record. No attribution. No proof a human reviewed the output.\n\nThis breaks the moment a customer's compliance team asks one question: \"Did a human approve this?\"\n\n**What we built:**\n\nVelt is a collaboration infrastructure SDK. Comments, presence, real-time editing (CRDT), recording, notifications. Activity Logs is the newest piece.\n\n→ Auto-captures comments, reactions, recordings, CRDT edits. Zero config. \n\n→ createActivity() for your own events. One function call. \n\n→ AI agents produce the same record as humans. Same schema. Same attribution. \n\n→ Immutable by default. SOC 2 Type II. HIPAA with BAA.\n\nAgent acted → Human reviewed → Decision recorded. The pair is the proof.\n\n**Ask:**\n\nIf your enterprise buyers are asking for proof of human oversight over AI, we built this for you. Try it and tell us what's missing.\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pqu-velt-activity-logs-audit-trail-for-humans-and-ai-agents", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2026-04-02T19:32:54.147Z" }, { "id": 98498, "title": "Velt Claude plugin: Add Real-Time Collaboration to your App in 10 mins", "tagline": "Claude Code plugin that adds CRDT, comments, presence, and notifications to your app in one command.", "body": "Building collaboration features from scratch is one of those problems that looks simple and isn't.\n\nCRDT for live sync. Presence to show who's online. Comments that attach to specific elements. Notifications. Permissions. \n\nIt compounds fast. Most teams either skip it or spend months on it and regret both decisions.\n\nWe've been building this infrastructure for 4 years. Varonis, Pendo, HeyGen, Freshworks, Trumpet already use it in production.\n\nToday we're launching a Claude Code plugin that installs all of it in under 10 minutes.\n\nYou run one command. It asks which features you want. \n\nYou give it your API key. It installs, configures, and wires everything together.\n\nThat's it.\n\n→ Watch the demo: \n\n→ Get started: \n\n→ Docs: \n\nWe're a small team and we read every message. \n\nIf you try it and something doesn't work, tell us.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pcg-velt-claude-plugin-add-real-time-collaboration-to-your-app-in-10-mins", "votes": 3, "created_at": "2026-03-05T17:38:44.587Z" }, { "id": 94308, "title": "Velt: Multiplayer Editing Toolkit for React Flow (Build Multiplayer Agent Workflows)", "tagline": "Add multiplayer editing capability in minutes.", "body": "If you are building AI agents and AI workflow builders inside your product, then you are most likely using[ React Flow](https://reactflow.dev/) to power these experiences. Now with[ Velt](https://www.linkedin.com/company/veltjs/), within a few minutes you could make these workflows multiplayer just like Figma's FigJam! We’ve created a purpose-built plugin for React Flow that makes any react flow implementation multiplayer out of the box.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94308&key=user_uploads/195692/38bab09b-d530-458b-9c03-25444a9d5758)\n\n**Velt does the heavy lifting:**\n\n* fully managed ultra low latency backend\n* real-time merges and conflict resolution (CRDT via Yjs)\n* offline support\n* presence indicators\n* slack-style huddle\n* figma-style comments and notifications\n* custom encryption for additional security\n\nYou can focus on delivering epic value to your users. No more building complex infra from scratch.\n\n**Demo**\n\n* [Demo video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgz0jOCLyUA)\n* [Live Demo](https://velt-reactflow-crdt-demo.vercel.app/)\n* [Sample code](https://github.com/velt-js/velt-reactflow-crdt-demo)\n* [Docs](https://docs.velt.dev/realtime-collaboration/crdt/setup/reactflow)\n\n**Customers**\n\nWe power multiplayer experiences for companies like **Heygen**, **Pendo**, **Runway**, **Vellum** etc\n\n### [**Try today**](https://velt.dev/multiplayer-editing)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OX6-velt-multiplayer-editing-toolkit-for-react-flow-build-multiplayer-agent-workflows", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2025-10-03T01:06:50.117Z" }, { "id": 84853, "title": "Velt: Tiptap Comments", "tagline": "Enable comments and collaboration in your Tiptap editor.", "body": "With [**Tiptap Comments Extension**](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@veltdev/tiptap-velt-comments), you can add Google Docs-style overlay comments to your Tiptap editor. Here is a [**demo video.**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIWBwV3IHok) You can [**try it here.**](https://documentation-app-demo.vercel.app/)\n\n![](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=84853&key=user_uploads/195692/d711f012-f784-4ed9-b481-5ee328b75f07)\n\nIt's fully customizable and comes with a lot of powerful built-in features like attachments, mentions, recording, notifications and more.\n\nAdding comments and notification features have shown to boost engagement and growth with platforms. If you use Tiptap in your product, you could enable powerful collaborative experiences using [Velt](https://velt.dev/).\n\n### **Installation**\n\nYou can install the NPM package [here.](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@veltdev/tiptap-velt-comments)\n\n### **Supported Frameworks**\n\nAll major JS frameworks like React, Next, Angular, Vue, Svelte.\n\n### **More about Velt SDK**\n\nWith Velt SDK you can add powerful collaboration features to your product extremely fast.\n\nThe SDK provides **fullstack components**:\n\n* UI and behavior are fully customizable to match your product's needs\n* fully-managed on a scalable realtime backend\n\nFeatures include:\n\n* **Comments** like Figma, [Frame.io](http://Frame.io), Google Docs, Sheets and more\n* **Recording** like Loom (audio, video, screen)\n* **Huddle** like Slack (audio, video, screensharing)\n* In-app and off-app **notifications**\n* **@mentions** and assignment\n* **Presence**, **Cursors**, **Live Selection**\n* **Live state sync** with Single Editor mode\n* **Multiplayer editing** with conflict resolution\n* **Follow mode** like Figma\n* ... and so much more", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/M4b-velt-tiptap-comments", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2024-10-17T22:07:51.992Z" }, { "id": 84000, "title": "Embedded Recording SDK by Velt", "tagline": "Add AI powered Loom-style recording to your product!", "body": "We're excited to launch [**Embedded Recording in the Velt SDK**](https://velt.dev/recording). Build AI-powered Loom-style recording features (voice, video, and screen) **into your product** in minutes. It automatically generates summaries and transcriptions.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84000&key=user_uploads/195692/5f8d698a-2c7e-4d5e-bba5-4add9671cbee)\n\n# **Why this matters:**\n\nYour users are probably already using tools like Loom to communicate. That's time and data they could be spending in your product. Keep your users in your product with native communication features and boost engagement. It's a win for everyone.\n\n# **Products that benefit:**\n\n* Ticketing tools _(Jira, Linear)_\n* Project management tools _(Asana, ClickUp)_\n* Email marketing tools _(Apollo, Customer.io )_\n* Sales tools _(Salesforce, Hubspot)_\n* Development tools _(Github for code reviews)_\n\n# **How it works:**\n\nVelt is a JS SDK that handles everything—UI/UX, full functionality, backend server, and storage. No configuration is needed. You can fully customize it to fit your brand. It works with Next.js, React, Angular, and more.\n\n4 easy steps to get started (see [docs](https://docs.velt.dev/async-collaboration/recorder/setup)):\n\n1. Initialize Velt SDK\n2. Add the recorder components\n3. Customize\n4. That's it!\n\n# **Key Features:**\n\n* Native voice, video, and screen recording\n* AI transcriptions and summaries\n* Built-in recording and playback UI\n* Cross-browser and device compatibility\n* Fully customizable\n* Fully managed and scalable storage and backend", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lqq-embedded-recording-sdk-by-velt", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2024-09-13T02:03:03.103Z" }, { "id": 79688, "title": "Velt: Full-stack Comments SDK", "tagline": "Build powerful commenting features into your SaaS product crazy fast.", "body": "**TL;DR:** Build powerful commenting features into your SaaS product crazy fast. Make it just as collaborative as the big dogs—Google Docs, Sheets, Figma, Frame io... Keep your users collaborating in your app instead of Slack or Zoom. Watch your engagement soar.\n\n[**Demo Video**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27tIG8jEAbc)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79688&key=user_uploads/195692/3b9b3bc9-6a81-4e98-82e8-abb2d917f9b5)\n\n### **🤔 Why?**\n\nYour customers want to have discussions within your product – feedback, questions, ideas. Since they can’t do it in your product, they move off-platform to slack, emails, zoom etc.. It's friction for your customers (and you'll watch their engagement drop.)\n\nLuckily, the solution is simple. Add a comment layer across your product. Let customers comment and discuss anywhere, without opening up Slack or Gmail.\\\n\\\nI know what you're thinking. \"How am I going to build that? That's months of engineering and product effort we haven't scoped in.\"\n\n### **✅ Solution**\n\nWe built a complete full-stack Comments feature components for any SaaS product. Embed it anywhere and enable experiences you see in your favorite products like Google Docs, Figma, Sheets and more.\n\nBackend, Frontend - all included.\n\n### **✅ Products that benefit from commenting**\n\n* _Video tools: Frame-by-frame feedback on videos_\n* Documentation tools: Inline comments for better edits\n* _Analytics / Data tools: Questions answered directly on charts and tables_\n* Design tools: Review design assets\n* Form builders, CRMs and so many more\n\n### **🚀 Key Features**\n\n* Commenting Styles: Google Sheets, Google Docs, Notion, Figma, [Frame.io](http://Frame.io), Charts, etc.\n* Loom-style audio, video, screen recording\n* Task management: Statuses, Priority, approval, @ mention\n* Intelligence: AI categorization, AI transcription\n* Customize layout, css & behavior\n* In-app notifications, email notifications, realtime Webhooks\n* Performant and Robust: Buttery smooth. Binds and adapts to changes in your DOM and data.\n\n### **🚀 Try here:** [**https://velt.dev/comments**](https://velt.dev/comments)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KjI-velt-full-stack-comments-sdk", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2024-03-25T21:40:45.302Z" }, { "id": 79200, "title": "Superflow: Frame by frame review on Lottie files", "tagline": "Get approvals with fewer rounds of reviews and ship more assets fast!", "body": "We fixed the mess of Lottie animation reviews. Frame-by-frame comments mean you ship more animations faster. [Here](https://drive.usesuperflow.com/lottie?id=YVUxTXhLUDByY2EyVVh3S2k4YmxfXzMzYmQzYjg3ZWM3ZjI2NTUxOTQxYjMyMjQ2ZjJhOTAxX19sb3R0aWU%3D&version=v1&_gl=1\\*59beb5\\*_gcl_au\\*MTc5OTQ4OTk4OS4xNzA3NzA3MTc4) is a live demo.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79200&key=user_uploads/195692/caa35638-b3e5-4704-9cf3-be7fc8e57db9)\n\nOur mission is to make every creator 10x. We believe creators build the future and your time is precious. Superflow makes you a 10x creator: create 10x more, create 10x better work, grow 10x.\n\n**🤔 Why are we building this?**\n\nWe built this because the old way sucked. Screenshots, endless emails, live meetings just to tweak an animation... that's not how things should work in 2024. So we fixed it!\n\n**✅ Solution**\n\nSuperflow lets creative teams review and provide frame-by-frame feedback on Lottie files.\n\nThis enables you to get approvals with fewer rounds of reviews so that you can get back to animating. With Superflow, you deliver more beautiful animations at light speed.\n\n**🚀 Key Features**\n\n* Pinpoint feedback on frames and individual elements.\n* Voice, Video + AI notes for when typing is too slow.\n* Built-in task management to streamline the process.\n* Works on all devices and browsers.\n* Integrates with your existing tools: Asana, ClickUp, Monday, Slack, you name it.\n* Built-in approval flow just like Docusign.\n* Share easily with a click and get notified when someone visits.\n\n[**Get started**](https://usesuperflow.com/lottie-files-review), it’s free.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KbQ-superflow-frame-by-frame-review-on-lottie-files", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2024-03-08T03:28:50.378Z" }, { "id": 66899, "title": "Superflow: Comment and collaborate directly on your product!", "tagline": "Comment and collaborate on your staging and prod websites.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=66899&key=user_uploads/195692/536286e1-bb3b-475f-a06a-b7a9d275aac7)\n\n_(_[_demo video)_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdnfBEw8TfI)\n\n[SuperFlow](https://usesuperflow.com/) makes it super easy to comment on live websites just like you comment on Figma. You can use is to get Copy or UI feedback right on the website you are building. Feedback can be provided in rich formats like audio and video. The best part is that you and your clients don’t need a browser extension.\n\nSuperFlow brings collaboration to wherever you are. Everything is just weaved into one cohesive experience. We have curated the best features of top products like Slack, Loom, Figma into one tool.\n\n### **👩🏼‍💻Who this is for**\n\nWeb agencies, freelancers, product or design teams.\n\n### **Key problems**\n\n* Scattered feedback across emails, slack etc.\n* Endless back and forth, screenshots, unnecessary meetings etc.\n* Clients have to install & learn new tools.\n\n### **📝 Use cases**\n\n* Get copy or UI feedback from clients.\n* Assign tasks to internal team members.\n\n### **💵 Value**\n\n* Reduce website review cycles and ship faster.\n\n### **🙏 Our ask**\n\n* Try our product [**usesuperflow.com**](http://usesuperflow.com) before 31st oct and get 40% off for a year.\n* Share this post with web agencies or freelancers you know build websites.\n\n### **Setup**\n\n**Step 1: Install JS tag on client website in 10 secs.**\n\nYou can just install a JS tag in the footer of the website. \n\n![image.png](https://codahosted.io/docs/TJ6E9cySHQ/blobs/bl-XGbnRxc0Ty/6140d41636b973449d24659aeacab52fd67900c5654c7c113ffc4ad3bf5306eeed19b1162a8b3ccde2cfa635c642722135a4d4a2a87642b35d5f4ec7b6325a88fecd86969d39bd8043dde97a4cf4f9c00515efb075c175855fcb3da704047bd6edbd9efc)\n\n**Step 2: Turn on review mode by adding ?review=true to the URL.**\n\nYou can then turn the review mode on or off on demand by adding **“?review=true”** to the URL. The comments will not be visible to a regular website visitor.\n\n![image.png](https://codahosted.io/docs/TJ6E9cySHQ/blobs/bl-WB9sVT7ZmM/5570471db96e4ea68d9d74f0835939d91e707a467094fd00c51b9eb97542df4a9a84996faeccd683f74aab60fda711f099cf8e9568c42c86c9dd28eef6ef1b80a1ac503d3fb04104fa11b10b749058363a6b3ad58d51f58a20f1483ca8f276fe07d44cfc)\n\n### **🔥 Top features**\n\n**1. Comment on live website, just like Figma:**\n\n![image.png](https://codahosted.io/docs/TJ6E9cySHQ/blobs/bl-NDI5rEj4Ae/8c9caf47c3a53155af4d62231f4d767096816c6d91ba0306fce57e04b642ecb3e5bd70514556c11fb51189d028ea5cb34356c5a0eeff686a40289176667f86af011dd92122307ac44176b1b46c7d7c449652d008714c34e435bc8b41f9fa0bb810973eb3)\n\n**2. Record your screen & camera just like Loom (& attach it to a DOM element).**\n\n![image.png](https://codahosted.io/docs/TJ6E9cySHQ/blobs/bl-JCblThJt6X/57029764bf3d09a31f0a0d1bcaadfac8a927f26b8a63a34ab1236ca4490454ad7c70a081861e6e4b277d5e920e409af0c7a18a6db1be2ac823ba50e3cfc9a5a957bf8ae09430389015c9c72d969ff467cbc01a75320a63735e073d370371dc2d59dc52e9)\n\n**3. Manage tasks across projects in one place.**\n\n![image.png](https://codahosted.io/docs/TJ6E9cySHQ/blobs/bl-eFWGPbIP0M/2e74eaed9a5b399778c9521b9c65a0682fdd12c879322c8dcf4a8ce5e403f5a9b53516680ed1f4b1ad3655c55820b95a233b0a9e074aa9c8fcd4b56fa355607e6648216389a985f7a0a240dd0a55840bbb78b2225e2fea42c0970ace85763b76f8785c7e)\n\n**4. Start live audio/video huddle or screensharing just like Slack.**\n\n![image.png](https://codahosted.io/docs/TJ6E9cySHQ/blobs/bl-XBrG5e-yJd/fa5e98c2123e926dd9f3199da059dbc03e0dfd31c1f25ffdfa582150df6b53b92847bd8a7c005cfdba9c1cdbf0b375e0a757e59679d39f62c465c6a3f0b4936077e41ba5155058db8dae976623f327f1f68288483a1eef47751f1d252e09fb9712d85c8c)\n\n**5. Personalized Slack & email notifications.**\n\n![image.png](https://codahosted.io/docs/TJ6E9cySHQ/blobs/bl-OkDBML4l8F/f1bb3bd394f220a23f2e7b454de8ec767c322dac395eddbffdcf0beece7775d08797d40c89282e889abb5e5915b492b8db98cb12a1847492859dfc18bafa94fd06df75266314f7e71aa5b7a8bcc122e919cbc5f5280aceb9b31c90e13f32a269da77cef5)\n\n**6. Add internal comments for team & external ones for clients.**\n\n![image.png](https://codahosted.io/docs/TJ6E9cySHQ/blobs/bl-ECwdHMSTuh/81021b5d9a38077d7650507ff098d256af6cee5751f22b1c0da8f08b027eb0ef49ba9545316ee9b4ed4d70c17f7e0f98c41d78a7524437b660e213ba2f623b0e01834ef467c04069952f603cc48837e657130abd66a548c3e92ba6a5812574862ec11e5e)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HP1-superflow-comment-and-collaborate-directly-on-your-product", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2022-10-25T03:03:03.856Z" } ] }, { "id": 25679, "name": "Sero", "slug": "sero", "former_names": [ "Taktile Technologies, Inc.", "Takt" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/dc613b83486084b72c7376074fa84d16dbd06dbc.png", "website": "https://www.sero.so", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We help onboarding, implementation and professional services teams at B2B companies onboard customers faster, more consistently and more efficiently with AI agents.", "one_liner": "Intelligent Customer Implementation Platform for B2B", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1648183351, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Customer Success" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "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/sero", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2022/sero.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/sero-so/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/sero_dot_so", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/sero2021/", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sero-4ec0", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/dc613b83486084b72c7376074fa84d16dbd06dbc.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 737853, "full_name": "Jai Thirani", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "- Building an intelligent customer implementation platform for B2B\n- CS from Penn Engineering and Finance from Wharton\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jai-thirani-a0381112b/", "x_url": "https://x.com/ThiraniJai", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d5445b8646817a302358dfcf117b330767fa9420.jpg" }, { "user_id": 738750, "full_name": "Aditya Padwal", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "- Building an intelligent customer implementation platform for B2B\n- CS from PICT\n- Full-stack Engineer at Loop (YC W20)\n- Built complex insurance tools\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/aditya-padwal-a9b003169/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/65d213ae5907e3b1118fc2562401452c66c5d8d1.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 99567, "title": "Sero - Intelligent Customer Implementation Platform for B2B", "tagline": "Sero helps implementation & professional services teams at B2B companies onboard customers faster, more consistently and more efficiently with AI agents.", "body": "Hey YC! We’re Jai & Aditya - co-founders of Sero.\n\n## TL;DR\n\nSero is an all-in-one platform purpose-built for B2B **implementation & professional services teams**. Our AI agents help you launch customers faster, more consistently and more efficiently.\n\n\n\n## ❌ The problem\n\nBefore Sero, we built a workflow automation platform for customer success teams. Our main learning: **\\~40% of customer churn is caused by poor implementations.** Yet, implementation is still the most broken function in the B2B SaaS GTM stack. And it’s getting worse:\n\n* AI-native platforms are rapidly replacing legacy enterprise software → the # of implementations is exploding\n* AI agent deployments require deep collaboration with customers → implementations need to be customer facing\n* Every company is shipping features faster → implementations are getting more complex\n\n## 👁️ What it looks like today\n\nWhile sales has a CRM, support has a helpdesk and customer success has a CSP, implementation teams are still onboarding customers using generic project management tools and spreadsheets that are siloed. The result?\n\n* Onboarding processes aren’t repeatable\n* Customers don’t know where implementations stand\n* Teams are spending 6+ hours a week manually chasing customers\n* Go-live delays are getting caught too late\n\n**As companies scale, teams are spread thin, implementation quality drops further, and churn increases rapidly.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99567&key=user_uploads/737853/5992809d-3af3-4c53-92c7-1b6a53efe640)\n\n\n## 💡 How Sero fixes this\n\nSero is the **system-of-action** for implementation teams, supercharged by agents:\n\n* **Project Execution**: Adaptive templates turn customer requirements into tailored project plans, so every implementation starts perfectly. Agents keep tasks on track and flag at-risk projects before it's too late.\n* **Customer Collaboration**: A branded customer portal replaces messy email threads. Our accountability agent chases customers for you, so nothing stalls.\n* **Resourcing & Utilization**: Forecast team capacity against future demand to stay ahead of staffing gaps. AI categorization makes time tracking instant.\n\nThe result: Sero makes implementation a competitive advantage - accelerating time-to-value, delighting customers, and driving retention.\n\n## 🙏🏻 Our ask\n\nSero is growing fast. Two ways you can help:\n\n* **If you're scaling and feeling the pain of implementations,** whether it's go-live delays, chasing customers, or inconsistent onboarding, let’s chat! You can book a call here: .\n* **If you know any implementation, onboarding or professional services leaders** — we'd really appreciate an intro. You can email me at [jai@sero.so](mailto:jai@sero.so) with their details and I’ll send across an email that’s easy to forward!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ptv-sero-intelligent-customer-implementation-platform-for-b2b", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2026-04-08T15:27:16.226Z" } ] }, { "id": 25681, "name": "SpadeWorks", "slug": "spadeworks", "former_names": [ "Yskool Edtech Innovations Pvt Ltd", "Edustack" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9e3ab6dfee04b0656a2f1305abae1a3f240453a1.png", "website": "https://www.spadeworks.co", "all_locations": "Hyderabad, Telangana, India", "long_description": "Spadeworks transforms how trade contractors handle customer service through AI agents that work 24/7. We answer every call, schedule every job, send every reminder, and follow up with every customer - turning missed opportunities into booked revenue. Trade businesses grow faster because they never miss a lead again.", "one_liner": "AI agents that turn every call into revenue for trade businesses", "team_size": 13, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Operations", "launched_at": 1643345127, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Operations" ], "regions": [ "India", "South Asia", "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/spadeworks", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2022/spadeworks.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Hyderabad", "country": "IN", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/spadeworks", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/spadeworksco", "fb_url": "https://m.facebook.com/100090203779290/", "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9e3ab6dfee04b0656a2f1305abae1a3f240453a1.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 794601, "full_name": "Vamsee Koneru", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "2X Edtech Entrepreneur\nBootstrapped, built and exited $4 Mn YoY company\nDeep understanding of B2B Edtech space \nExceptional connects in Edtech space \nExperience of working in India, MENA, UK", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/vamsee-koneru", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/Vamsee7566", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/448506fa62bbc5d6bd02aa097e68a4c8573bdcdb.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 70645, "title": "SpadeWorks: AI agents for trade businesses", "tagline": "AI agents that turn every call into revenue for trade businesses", "body": "Hi All,\n\nI’m excited to share [Spadeworks](http://www.spadeworks.co) with you all\n\n## Problem\n\nTrade contractors lose 40% of potential revenue because they can't answer calls while working on jobs. Every missed call is a missed customer - whether it's an emergency plumbing call at 9pm or a pest control inquiry during a busy day. Traditional solutions like call centers are expensive and don't understand trade-specific needs like emergency vs routine calls, seasonal pricing, or multi-visit treatment protocols.\n\n## Insight\n\nTrade contractors have predictable, repeatable customer interactions that follow industry-specific patterns. A pest control call about wasps needs immediate scheduling, while routine maintenance can wait. HVAC emergencies have different urgency than annual tune-ups. These conversations follow scripts that can be automated, but only if the AI understands trades terminology, pricing structures, and seasonal patterns.\n\n## Solution\n\nSpadeworks provides AI agents specifically trained for trade industries. Our AI answers calls, triages by urgency (emergency vs routine), schedules appointments based on technician availability and geographic routes, generates quotes using the contractor's pricing, sends SMS reminders, and handles follow-ups. When complex issues arise, it seamlessly transfers to humans with full context. 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They also see this as a secondary source of revenue.\n\nHowever, the process of making that happen today is extremely complex because the insurers don’t have the tools to make this happen seamlessly.\n\n**How does Curacel Grow solve this problem?** \n\nCuracel Grow  provides APIs and tools that enables anyone easily embed insurance products within other digital experiences. \n\nWith our API, any company can add any type of insurance to their product. Our API enables any digital business to display a real time insurance quote on their product, and their customers can complete a purchase without leaving the app.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64527&key=user_uploads/123045/08c0bda0-c628-45c6-ba1e-42b4fba6bde9)\n\n**Curacel Grow lets you:** \n\n* Increase Customer Lifetime Value\n* Increase Customer Loyalty\n* Increase Customer Retention\n\n**We’d love to hear from you!**\n\nWant to embed insurance quickly into your product? 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On average, building, maintaining, and orchestrating cloud infrastructure accounts for \\~25% of a software team’s budget. 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For companies that collect customer-relevant information in SaaS tools, Bracket is the simplest way for engineers to get this data in front of customers in real time.\n\n—\n\nHey everyone! We’re Vinesh, Ian, and Kunal and we’re building Bracket.\n\n![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/xrZwklibKE9wZuf_lyCSiei3Nt082k0IncnOuMZsmtUqwLV_JLbWEPilfCw1HJ41-GfqJg7XruoZP4cigIcN3RfnS7vKItZsqlzx8uyAMRBJs1dQItNfvU8E8f9I7qWzJZZHT1NhxwblRHAdUajPh4s)\n\n### **The problem**\n\nCompanies often need a way to manually adjust the info that a lead or customer sees - think of the sales team of a software company that wants to customize a demo environment for a high-value lead, or the ops team of a car rental company that needs to manage which cars are available for customers to book. \n\nThe job of designing, implementing, and championing a fix falls to engineering. Engineers can either build a custom UI for their teammates, or connect with the tools they already use, like Salesforce or Airtable. \n\nThere are a few problems with this:\n\n1. Custom UIs run against the grain of the tools that business teams already use and can even require double data entry on the part of those teams. This leads to low adoption. \n2. This leads most engineers to integrate with their business teams’ existing tools. However, setting up real-time two-way syncs is a highly technical challenge that can take entire quarters of implementation time.\n\nIn short, custom-built solutions lead to low adoption, and built-from-scratch integrations with business teams’ tools can take months of engineering effort.\n\n### **How we solve it**\n\n**Using two-way syncs, Bracket is the easiest way to keep data in sync between business teams’ existing tools, like Salesforce, and databases, like Postgres.** \n\nThis creates a win-win-win. 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Over the past 3 years, we’ve been working with commercial real estate finance teams to streamline their bank account data. We’ve built a multibank dashboard to provide a single login to teams working with hundreds of accounts across 10+ banks. \n\n💸 Today we’ve launched **multibank payments**, further reducing the need for teams to log into separate bank portals. Now, teams can fully manage their account inventory, reconcile transactions, and make transfers in a single dashboard.  \n\n🚀 Recently, we have **expanded our focus beyond** real estate to satisfy all entity structures. 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Email [Alexandra.zwiener@arpari.com](mailto:Alexandra.zwiener@arpari.com) or [book a demo here](https://www.arpari.com/book-demo)\n\n  \n\n# **❌ The Problem**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89175&key=user_uploads/859217/57361321-c472-4677-955d-e6feecc21f04)\n\nFinance teams who are responsible for balance reporting and transaction reconciliation often scramble at month end, don’t report at the frequency they’d like, or sacrifice reporting accuracy altogether.   \n\n1. **ACCOUNT INVENTORY**: Using multiple banks can mean liquidity is an unknown, especially for teams who work with many accounts. Bank accounts tracked in Excel—many unnamed or vaguely labeled—makes effective management nearly impossible. Often accounts are missed, and cash misplaced. \n2. **MANAGING ACCESS**: Financial operations are severely hindered by fragmented bank access scattered across multiple team members. 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Incumbent solutions price with bank-by-bank implementation, which doesn’t work for users who have hundreds of accounts across 10+ banks, with their account and bank list constantly in flux. \n\n  \n\n# 👩‍💻  **Our Solution: One login for all finance teams needs**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89175&key=user_uploads/859217/7bf3d96a-04c3-4687-b9a6-6d369a929170)\n\n  \n\nWe’ve built a dashboard for finance teams to interact in one place. When teams are doing the same manual tasks 10+ times, why not do them once? \n\n### STABLE CONNECTIONS\n\nWe leverage various connection methods to banks to provide stable, usable data daily to our customers. 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You know automation could help, but it faces three major issues:\n\n1. **Existing business systems are rigid,** and systems of record like CRMs and ERPs make customization frustrating, complex, and expensive, often requiring external consultants or their own dedicated developers \n2. **No-code tools still have a significant learning curve,** and teams still spend weeks figuring out how to configure and build custom workflows properly before they can deliver value\n3. **Pure no-code solutions struggle to handle edge cases** or highly custom business logic, requiring complex and clunky workarounds.\n4. **Existing tools struggle to fully capture real-world business processes,** which involve complex processes that require a mixture of automation and human-in-the-loop, involve multiple teams and stakeholders, and extend across days, weeks, or even months.\n\n   \n\n## **Our Solution**\n\nWorkflow86 is an AI workflow engineer that takes natural language descriptions of business processes and automatically creates fully configured automations with forms, tasks, AI steps, integrations, and more. \n\n### **Design and deploy automations in minutes**\n\nThis allows anyone to build and deploy custom business processes and workflow automations by chatting to their own on-demand workflow automation expert. \n\n1. **Describe your process** in natural language or even upload an image, flowchart, or process diagram\n2. **AI asks clarifying questions** and develops an implementation plan just like a business analyst would\n3. **AI builds and implements everything** using a combination of forms, human-in-the-loop tasks, database queries, AI steps, API integrations, and even custom JavaScript/Python code\n4. **Deploy immediately** or iterate. You can manually edit the workflow yourself or with more AI assistance\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91547&key=user_uploads/854439/594b669e-574d-4954-a739-3b809de40c01)\n\n### **Combining the best of code and no-code, AI and human-in-the-loop**\n\nWorkflow86 goes beyond just connecting different apps together and builds end-to-end workflows with a range of nodes designed to handle the most complex real-workflow business processes and use cases. \n\n**Visually model complex business processes** and workflows end-to-end in one place via an intuitive visual flow interface with notes, descriptions, and AI explanations to keep everything up-to-date and easy to understand. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91547&key=user_uploads/854439/86e66142-9d21-49b4-be71-e8fc1475c132)\n\n**Run custom code** nodes to provide the power and flexibility of code to handle edge cases and complex, or highly customized steps. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91547&key=user_uploads/854439/410c36be-1f4a-4668-aced-8181193ca9a8)\n\n**Create AI-powered workflows** with AI nodes that use the latest LLMs to perform tasks inside of their workflow, including summarizing content, extracting values, searching the web, and more. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91547&key=user_uploads/854439/ecf9b065-7f6a-4a7e-87b1-63eab31c1875)\n\n**Built-in forms and human-in-the-loop** tasks keep everything in check for workflows requiring human review, approvals, and more. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91547&key=user_uploads/854439/54f85e87-704b-4b49-bfda-3c58bb26755d)\n\n**Integration nodes to seamlessly connect** to your existing systems and apps, allowing workflows to be triggered from your existing systems and apps (like your CRM, ticketing, email, and HR systems), and to trigger actions and events in these apps as well. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91547&key=user_uploads/854439/755a1ce8-00c1-48e4-8881-a1f8fd60ef62)\n\n### Use cases and examples\n\nHere are some real-world examples you can try:\n\n> Create an employee onboarding workflow that sends welcome emails, creates IT tickets for equipment, schedules meetings with the team, and tracks completion of training modules\n\n> Build a contract approval process that routes based on contract value, requires legal review for contracts over $50k, collects digital signatures, and notifies stakeholders\n\n> I need a lead scoring system that enriches leads from our website, scores them based on company size and engagement, assigns to sales reps by territory, and creates follow-up tasks\n\n> Set up a customer refund process that validates the order, checks refund eligibility, gets manager approval for amounts over $500, processes the refund, and updates our CRM\n\n> Create an expense approval workflow where employees submit receipts, AI categorizes expenses, routes to managers based on amount, and syncs approved expenses to QuickBooks\n\n## Try it today\n\nVisit[ workflow86.com](http://workflow86.com) to start for free. 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Security policies, large code base, and complex build setup all stand between the promise of code-first front-end design and reality.\r\n\r\nThe Chordio Workbench helps non-technical team members prototype new experiences on top of their existing products even when they don’t have access to the source code.\r\n\r\nThe full workflow runs in Claude Code on your local machine. It starts with cloning the front-end of the product into the workbench repository directly from the browser and compiling it into code a coding agent can work with. This means anyone can start prototyping in minutes without having to worry about a complex environment setup.\r\n\r\nThe Workbench includes agent skills to help ensure prototypes meet team standards, are backed by research, and presented to stakeholders with clarity.", "one_liner": "Claude Code design workspace built for product teams", "team_size": 4, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1657219322, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/chordio", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/chordio.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Issaquah", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/chordio/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/chordioapp", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b29418be152187b38ccc249652bf446728ba67bc.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Nicolas Dessaigne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1010497, "full_name": "Ehud Halberstam", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "I'm the co-founder and CEO of Chordio. From 2014-2017 I was a co-founder and CEO of Brand.ai, where we built a platform that solved problems of design at scale at the enterprise. \nIn 2015 Brand.ai participated in the Techstars accelerator and raised financing from amazing investors. It was acquired by InVision in 2017. \nFrom 2017-2022 I helped build Brand.ai into InVision DSM, InVision's second commercial product.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "http://www.linkedin.com/in/halberstam", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/ehudhal", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b8c0008c97acd1a307f0ae85cc3269ac49799896.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1018980, "full_name": "Amit Bar", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CTO - Chordio.\n\nPreviously co-founded Brand.ai - a platform for design system management. Sold to InVision in 2017, and stayed on as an engineering manager and director of engineering. Continued to scale and evolve the product into InVision's DSM (Design System Manager).\n\nMoved on in 2022 to lean into the project management space, where I see many familiar patterns and challenges waiting to be solved.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://il.linkedin.com/in/amithalb", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5e0f8946755dfb901df90ccf603e6855f8ecb88e.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 96377, "title": "Design Rails: Generate an agent-ready brand identity in minutes", "tagline": "Chat with an AI Creative Director to craft a complete brand from logos to voice & tone. Export as a design system your coding agents use to build consistent, on-brand interfaces.", "body": "Hey everyone, Ehud here, CEO of Chordio, the company behind Design Rails.\n\nOver the last year, like everyone else, we've been building products with Claude, Cursor, and other coding agents. We wanted to ship a number of products rapidly to see what resonates most with customers.\n\nWe hit two separate problems:\n\n**Problem 1: The UI looked polished at first glance, but \"wrong\" in ways we couldn't unsee**\n\nThis went beyond the “purple gradient syndrome”. The agent would invent new components with inconsistent styles. It added static labels that looked like buttons. It embellished non-interactive cards with confusing hover states. It used emojis instead of elegant icons. Random choices everywhere.\n\n**Problem 2: We lacked a cohesive brand**\n\nWe were ready to launch a new product experiment within a week. The product worked, but it still felt like a prototype. We worried a “weekend project” look would distort our launch metrics and push us to the wrong conclusions. But we also were not willing to sink thousands of $ into branding before knowing anyone cared.\n\nAs ex-founders of Brand.ai (acquired by InVision), we believed there was a better way. Here’s what we built.\n\n**The solution**\n\nDesign Rails helps you craft your brand through chat, then export structured files your AI agent would use to stay on brand and generate polished UI.\n\nIn under 20 minutes, you get a design-context.zip package that includes a markdown spec, and design-tokens.json that specify:\n\n* Color palette\n* Typography system\n* Component guidelines\n* Voice & tone guide\n\nPlus\n\n* Logo assets in SVG and PNG with light & dark versions.\n\nIt works for new or existing products:\n\nYou drop the files into **/design-context** in your codebase, and tell your agent to\n\n```\nRead design-context/agent-instructions.md and create an integration plan for implementing this design system in our codebase.\n```\n\nThe agent will update your styles, move logos, configure components, and update your LLM instructions ([CLAUDE.md](http://claude.md/), .cursorrules, etc.) to reference the new design system.\n\nWe built this for AI builders who want to ship fast, iterate fast, and have their design look cohesive from day one.\n\nAlso, we’re trying something new (we’ll see how it goes!) - Outcome-based pricing. No token credits. No vendor lock-in. Use Design Rails for free, and only pay to download if you’re happy with the result.\n\nWould love your feedback, questions, and use cases you want us to support next.\n\nThanks for checking out Design Rails!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96377&key=user_uploads/1010497/204826ee-b53a-44f3-897f-f9947699012d)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96377&key=user_uploads/1010497/7c5faacb-d99e-4a2f-bdff-45bb8586ba01)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96377&key=user_uploads/1010497/42b6af05-017a-4fba-bf7d-ba6af209ee58)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96377&key=user_uploads/1010497/df99fc11-2fe6-440b-b00d-c353337ea564)\n\nSee it in action: https://youtu.be/TZ3gPYrCLUQ \\[2:19 mins\\]", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/P4T-design-rails-generate-an-agent-ready-brand-identity-in-minutes", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2025-12-27T15:41:38.795Z" }, { "id": 95564, "title": "Design Rails: Give your coding agent its own product design team", "tagline": "Ship better UX faster with specialized design agents", "body": "Hi everyone! We're excited to introduce a set of specialized AI agents that give your coding agent the design expertise it’s missing.\n\n# **Problem**\n\nYou ask Claude or Cursor to build a feature, and you get working code in 2 minutes, but you're stuck with prototype-level design:\n\n* **Visual glitches**: misaligned cards, text bleeding outside containers, buttons cut off\n* **Generic \"AI-feel\" style**: yet another purple gradient that doesn't fit your brand\n* **Flawed UX**: ignored existing navigation pattern, unlabeled icon buttons, missing loading states\n\nYou end up iterating for hours to reach production quality, if you get there at all.\n\n# **Solution**\n\nDesign Rails is an MCP server that connects to AI coding agents (Claude, Codex, Cursor, …) and unlocks production-ready design through three key capabilities:\n\n**1. Design foundation setup** - Design Rails first establishes a strong design foundation to understand your product like a senior designer would:\n\n* Brand & Design System (extracted from your codebase, or built from scratch)\n* Product Context (what you're building, user personas, key workflows)\n\nThis foundation is captured as .md files in your project. You own the files, version them, and can edit them.\n\n**2. Spec-driven design** - Your coding agent consults Design Rails when facing design decisions. Design Rails orchestrates specialist AI agents including a UX Designer, UI Designer, Accessibility Specialist, and UX Copywriter. Each agent has deep context of your brand, unique design domain expertise, and access to a library of proven patterns from top products.. They work in parallel to produce comprehensive design specs. Your agent gets a detailed blueprint to implement.\n\n**3. Automatic design reviews** - Design Rails spins up a browser to see the rendered results, validating implementation against the spec to catch visual glitches and design inconsistencies before you even see them.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95564&key=user_uploads/1010497/4aa73593-8ee3-481f-bcf8-2aaf25f9842c)\n\nSee live before and after examples here: https://designrails.com/#examples\n\n# **Transform glitchy prototypes into production-ready experiences**\n\nTry it out on your existing project, or give it a quick try using an example project we provide as a playground. We’d love to hear your feedback and question- get in touch at [hello@designrails.com](mailto:hello@designrails.com).\n\nTry it now for free at [designrails.com](http://designrails.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OrM-design-rails-give-your-coding-agent-its-own-product-design-team", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2025-11-17T17:46:13.194Z" }, { "id": 92765, "title": "Chordio - AI-powered design reviews that guard your standards", "tagline": "Remove QA grunt work, catch issues early, and ship polished interfaces with confidence.", "body": "👋 We’re excited to introduce [Chordio](https://chordio.com), an AI-powered design review tool for designers.\n\n# The Problem\n\nAs generative AI increases the pace of design work, maintaining quality through manual review is quickly becoming impossible. Manual review is slow, inconsistent, and costly. Mistakes slip through, standards drift, and QA turns into a painful bottleneck.\n\nTeams need a better way to answer, “Is this good?” for every design, every time.\n\n# The Solution\n\n**Chordio** is an AI-powered design review tool purpose-built to help product teams raise the quality bar and reduce overhead as they scale up their output. Here’s how it helps:\n\n* **Enforces Quality and Standards**: Chordio checks your designs against your organization’s unique standards, not just generic best practices. You get actionable, relevant feedback that aligns with your team’s guidelines.\n* **Scales Best Practices**: By automating reviews and surfacing helpful resources, Chordio makes it easy for teams of any size to consistently apply best practices and grow design maturity.\n* **Shifts Review Left**: With our Figma plugin, designers can catch and fix issues early—when changes are cheap and easy.\n* **Reduces Friction**: Chordio proactively flags issues before hand-off, so designers, developers, and QA don’t need to play “catch up” later. Fewer last-minute surprises mean less frustration and less design debt.\n* **Broad Review Capabilities**: Our Chrome extension lets you review _any_ webpage, in Staging or Production, so you get broader test coverage.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92765&key=user_uploads/1010497/bf4fd533-cc44-45e2-bb2f-35c4bea089bf)\n\n# The Backstory\n\nWhile building a design assistant, we realized how much teams view QA as a burdensome overhead. We noticed that as AI-generated designs become the norm, the gap between design and QA capacity grows wider. The need for a smarter, faster way to review designs became urgent.\n\nThat’s why we built Chordio. Our goal is to help every product team answer “Is this good?” confidently and at scale.\n\n# Try Chordio\n\nIf you’re a designer, product manager, or engineer who cares about quality and wants to keep moving fast, we’d love for you to give Chordio a try. Your feedback will help us shape the future of automated design review.\n\n# Free consulting\n\nIf you’re looking to establish team or company standards or connect your existing ones to an automated QA workflow, let’s get on a call.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92765&key=user_uploads/1010497/82027ecc-ee92-4b4f-bc34-4a82d9609f91)\n\n— The Chordio Team", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O8D-chordio-ai-powered-design-reviews-that-guard-your-standards", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2025-08-06T16:06:30.835Z" }, { "id": 90093, "title": "PRDKit: AI-powered PRDs and supporting GTM artifacts in one place", "tagline": "Turn fuzzy feature ideas into clear specs — then auto‑generate the wireframes, user flows & GTM assets that follow.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90093&key=user_uploads/1010497/cb87b05b-b9dc-4021-9428-9092d8176677)\n\n👋 Excited to introduce [PRDKit](https://prdkit.ai) - an AI-powered PRD workbench (web + Slack) for product managers and builders.\n\n**Problem:**\n\nWriting great product requirement documents (PRDs) is hard. These documents lay the foundation for a product or feature, yet they’re often bloated, confusing, and missing edge cases.\n\nThis leads to expensive downstream problems from a lack of team alignment to unnecessary work that gets thrown away.\n\nWrangling ChatGPT to write PRDs _works_, but it returns lots of fluff and quickly feels like running a sprint board in a spreadsheet—powerful yet awkward.\n\n**Solution**:\n\nPRDKit is a focused AI tool that captures rough ideas, structures them into clear, lightweight PRDs, and—at the click of a button—spins up the follow‑ups you always need:\n\n* Wireframes & user‑flow diagrams\n* Modular instructions for a dev AI‑agent like Bolt or Loveable for faster prototyping\n* GTM copy snippets\n\nFurther, it’s contextual. It helps you quickly capture the essence of your existing product (enter the homepage URL) to craft PRDs that cater to your personas and existing workflows.\\\n\\\nHere’s a [2-mins demo video]( https://youtu.be/QKNcrOjpUrQ) where you can see it in action. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90093&key=user_uploads/1010497/7b05811f-7e8b-478a-8b4a-9f30b40c112e)\n\n**Back story:**\n\nWe were deep into building a UX assistant when we found that product specs were slowing us down. Even with the aid of ChatGPT and Claude, requirements were bloated and disorganized.\n\nSo we spun up a quick internal project on the same AI infrastructure we’ve built, aimed solely at turning fuzz into structure. The team loved it; specs got sharper, hand‑offs got quieter.\n\nThat side project has now been packaged for public use. We want to learn where it shines—or breaks—outside our walls.\n\nProduct managers and builders: [take it for a spin](https://prdkit.ai)! We’ll top off your credits for feedback.\n\nThe PRDKit team\\\n[hello@prdkit.ai](mailto:hello@prdkit.ai)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90093&key=user_uploads/1010497/2d54b5da-4c61-492d-9951-eff6893615a4)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NR7-prdkit-ai-powered-prds-and-supporting-gtm-artifacts-in-one-place", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2025-05-06T19:11:11.772Z" }, { "id": 80115, "title": "Chordio: Your generative UX assistant", "tagline": "Go from a product idea to screen wireframes 10x faster.", "body": "**TLDR;**\n\nChordio is a generative UX assistant that designs screen wireframes based on their description to help product teams increase their product iteration velocity.\n\nAs a founder, you can use Chordio to visualize a new concept quickly, speed up the customer feedback loop, and save time and money building the right solution.\n\n[Here’s a 1-min video](https://youtu.be/eKQ_YJazFZs):\n\n**Problem**\n\nUX design is expensive. Visualizing and prototyping new concepts manually is a laborious task for designers and agonizingly slow for non-designers. This limits the number of designs a product team is able to vet early and leads to expensive redesigns of features down the road.\n\n**Solution**\n\nChordio helps founders and product managers run faster user feedback loops, improve communication clarity, facilitate faster team alignment, and reduce design costs.\n\nYou can think of it as a ChatGPT that’s pre-built for generating product wireframes. With it, you can:\n\n* Generate multiple screen wireframes at a time based on text description.\n* Refine the generated designs with text feedback.\n* Co-create effective copy and UI. Think of Chordio not only as a design assistant but also as a UX writer assistant.\n\n**Backstory**\n\nOur previous startup, [Brand.ai](http://Brand.ai), which helped designers and developers work better together, was acquired by InVision. We’ve been building software to support product teams since.\n\nThese days, AI is reshaping how products get built. GitHub Copilot and similar assistants speed up the development phase. Yet, the design phase is largely left unassisted, creating a new bottleneck in the product development lifecycle.\n\nWe’re building Chordio to remove this bottleneck and help teams build the right products faster.\n\nGet started for free at [chordio.com](https://chordio.com)\n\n---\n\n---\n\n**Contact us to customize Chordio for your team’s existing product and design system.**\n\n\\- Ehud & Amit", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KqB-chordio-your-generative-ux-assistant", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2024-04-11T19:21:38.063Z" }, { "id": 65037, "title": "Chordio - Lightweight sprint planner for remote development teams", "tagline": "Planning made easy. Accurately reflect workload and give everyone a voice to quickly align on a plan forward.", "body": "👋 Hi everyone! Ehud and Amit, co-founders of [Chordio](https://chordio.com) here. We previously co-founded [Brand.ai](https://Brand.ai) to help designers and developers work better together. We sold the company to InVision in 2017 and worked on improving product team collaboration since. With Chordio, we’re looking to help teams at any size plan their work better.\n\n### **Why we’re building Chordio**\n\nExisting tools focus on issue tracking, and underserve the upfront project planning needs. Prioritization, estimation, and capacity planning are commonly problems teams are left to struggle with. The transition to remote work made planning harder still, as planning had often started with a whiteboard huddle. The average project management tool doesn’t speak casual. It’s built for an official plan, due dates, and commitments.\n\nThat’s why over 80% of the teams we’ve talked with reach for a general-purpose solution like a spreadsheet for their planning activities. They then face a different set of problems: sweating over manual work, getting formulas wrong, dealing with random editors breaking fragile automations, accumulating massive backlogs, and losing sight of the source of truth among a sea of documents.\n\nSo, we’re building Chordio as the best of both worlds. A lightweight, collaborative tool with key planning features built-in.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65037&key=user_uploads/1010497/73819665-290c-41d1-9d44-5cfe67e9ba8b)\n\n\n### **How it works**\n\nChordio lets you work at the right planning fidelity. Go from a casual brainstorm to evaluating rough plan outlines, to an official release plan. When you’re done, export the work to Jira or your issue tracking tool of choice. - Integrations are coming soon.\n\nYou can create any number of planning boards where you can specify a focus for the sprint, list features, provide estimates, and assign to people. As you assign tasks you’ll see the capacity graph of individuals getting updated so you can protect people’s time and ensure an optimal sprint scope.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65037&key=user_uploads/1010497/68d67d7e-1ce9-4713-a9c9-9e4eaf8d69ed)\n\n\n### **Partner with us?**\n\nWe’re looking for design partners. That is, companies that will pilot Chordio’s next major release and provide early feedback to guide our roadmap. **If you’re running multiple projects and interested in improving upfront planning, and ongoing visibility into teams’ work at any level, let’s talk.** Here’s a [Calendly link](https://calendly.com/ehud-chordio/design-partnership) to book some time.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Guz-chordio-lightweight-sprint-planner-for-remote-development-teams", "votes": 22, "created_at": "2022-08-01T07:05:06.639Z" } ] }, { "id": 26661, "name": "Stream", "slug": "stream", "former_names": [ "Beam" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4afa12f148d4692ca9eb6839e409ffa30655b470.png", "website": "http://www.stream.claims", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "At Stream, we’re on a mission to modernize the insurance industry. Our product—the Stream AI Claims Workbench—uses custom AI agents to turn a constant stream of PDFs into automated workflows and high-value signals. 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At Stream we automate the high-touch workflows workers’ comp claims adjusters do on a daily basis. Our platform saves adjuster time spent on repetitive tasks like calling and faxing, allowing the adjuster to focus on the high-value claim activities that improve the injured workers’ claim experience and optimize financial outcomes for insurance companies.\n\n**The Problem** 🤕\n\nWorkers’ Compensation (WC) insurance is a government-mandated program that provides benefits to workers who get hurt on the job. When a workplace injury occurs, a claim is filed on behalf of the injured worker. This claim pays out for the wages and medical treatment needed to get the employee back to work.\n\nToday, claim adjudication is a grossly manual process which involves adjusters spending the majority of their day either on the phone tracking down information or entering unstructured notes into legacy systems. The average adjuster handles 140 cases at any single time and takes 5 business days to respond to inquiries from injured workers.\n\nConsequently, the Injured worker is left alone to navigate an unfamiliar and complex claims process. Imagine feeling vulnerable with no clue how your bills will be paid. This pushes injured workers to the brink and inevitably to the front door of their local injury lawyer. In states like CA & FL, over one third of all WC claims are litigated - and the moment an attorney gets involved, that claim balloons 5x in cost.\n\n**\\~ Stream**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65582&key=user_uploads/986387/9172c9b2-5a9e-4064-80b6-d180a335c129)\n\nThe two of us met at Next Insurance, where Eric led WC product and Eilam led Risk Engineering. Eric also previously worked at Liberty Mutual as a WC claims adjuster for 5 years. At Next, we realized nothing has changed since Eric’s days as an adjuster and none of the automation we were building for the underwriting side exists in claims management today. That’s why we left to build Stream.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65582&key=user_uploads/986387/9c055997-8925-4c23-b75b-7117213d6550)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65582&key=user_uploads/986387/b33699f2-0c61-43aa-a3fc-a98ddeca5c3f)\n\nStream saves up to 40% of an adjuster’s time spent on the phone, sending faxes, and manually typing notes into their claim system. Moreover, we also improve the claim experience for the injured worker by providing real-time information such as claim status and financial updates, and help facilitate services such as transportation to doctors offices - all via text.\n\n**Our ask**\n\nKnow anyone working in commercial insurance or with experience in claims processing? We’d love an intro!\n\n\\\nFeel free to reach out to us - [founders@stream.claims](mailto:founders@stream.claims)\n\n\\\nThanks,\n\nEric & Eilam\n\n[www.stream.claims](http://www.stream.claims)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H3m-stream-modernizing-the-workers-comp-claim-process", "votes": 34, "created_at": "2022-08-23T19:30:31.281Z" } ] }, { "id": 26666, "name": "Airtrain AI", "slug": "airtrain-ai", "former_names": [ "Sematic AI", "Sematic" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/75317513ffcf6008b389c1e9fada5072394a8511.png", "website": "https://airtrain.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Airtrain AI is a no-code data platform for Large Language Models.\r\n\r\nProprietary AI models such as GPT-4 are very powerful but also very costly, slow, unreliable, and unsecured.\r\n\r\nAs businesses look to scale their AI prototypes into production-grade products, they struggle with large AI bills, slow APIs and large failure rates.\r\nOn the other hand, smaller language models have been proven to be able to perform on-part with large ones with fine-tuned on high-quality datasets.\r\n\r\nAirtrain AI lets AI practitioners explore alternatives to proprietary models, build up training datasets, evaluate, fine-tune, and serve a large selection of open-source LLMs.", "one_liner": "No-code data curation for LLM fine-tuning and evaluation.", "team_size": 5, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Infrastructure", "launched_at": 1657048120, "tags": [ "AIOps", "Developer Tools", "SaaS", "Cloud Computing", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Infrastructure" ], "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/airtrain-ai", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/airtrain-ai.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/airtrain-ai/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/AirtrainAI", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/sematic-ai", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/75317513ffcf6008b389c1e9fada5072394a8511.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Nicolas Dessaigne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1014902, "full_name": "Emmanuel Turlay", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Hi, I am Emmanuel.\n\nI spent my foundational years in academia (particle physics research at CERN) then branched out into tech. I built the order and payment infrastructure at Instacart, and lead ML platform at Cruise.\n\nI am the CEO and co-founder of Sematic (S22).\n\nReach out and say hello.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuelturlay/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/neutralino1", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/69cdd805022f44e70ed65f68b182f02ab503f7ab.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Sematic Blog – Sematic Raises $3M to Build an Open-Source Continuous Machine Learning Platform", "url": "https://www.sematic.dev/blog/sematic-raises-3m-to-build-an-open-source-continuous-machine-learning-platform", "date": "Nov 17, 2022" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 64701, "title": "Sematic – Prototype-to-production ML in days not weeks", "tagline": "Build and productionize arbitrary end-to-end ML/DS pipelines with only Python in a few hours.", "body": "**TL;DR –** [**Sematic**](https://sematic.dev) **is an** [**open-source**](https://github.com/sematic-ai/sematic) **framework to build and run arbitrary end-to-end ML/DS pipelines developed by two ex-Cruisers.**\n\nWhen COVID hit and restaurant parklets popped up around San Francisco, the Cruise robotaxis needed to update their ML models in a matter of days.\n\nThis fast turnaround in data processing > model training > evaluation > simulation > metrics generation > deployment was enabled by talented ML Engineers using **state-of-the-art pipelining tools**.\n\n## Your problem\n\nIf you are an **ML/DS developer** 🧑‍💻, you likely spend a lot of time battling obscure infrastructure instead of leveraging your core competency: extracting insights and predictions from data.\n\nIf you are a **business leader** 🧑‍💼, you likely want more models to grow and optimize your business; and retrain them frequently to adapt to ever-changing world conditions (hello COVID!).\n\nExisting solutions (e.g. Kubeflow, Argo, Airflow, Prefect) are still too low-level and not usable by ML/DS developers.\n\nTools such as Ruby on Rails and Heroku enabled generations of web developers to build prototypes into unicorns. **Where is that experience for ML/DS development?**\n\n## Our solution\n\n[Sematic Beta Launch Demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Hj0T-bbiY)\n\n[Sematic](https://sematic.dev/) is **a lightweight** [**open-source**](https://github.com/sematic-ai/sematic) **ML/DS pipeline development and execution framework based on learnings from working at Cruise**.\n\nWith easy-as-pie onboarding, simply **use native Python** to develop and run arbitrary end-to-end pipelines that track and version all your assets and artifacts (models, datasets, plots, metrics, etc.), and visualize them in a slick UI.\n\nRun locally or **leverage your cloud resources** (GPUs!!) seamlessly without infrastructure work.\n\n**Collaborate with your team** in Sematic to keep the conversation close to the data context.\n\n**Sematic aims to facilitate the journey from Notebook prototypes to automated production-grade pipelines.**\n\n## Our ask\n\n⭐ [Star our Github repo](https://github.com/sematic-ai/sematic)\n\nTry us out:\n\n```\n$ pip install sematic\n$ sematic start\n```\n\nJoin our [Discord](https://discord.gg/4KZJ6kYVax) **and give us your feedback to make the product more useful to you and your company**.\n\n## Early Bird offer\n\nWe offer a white-glove onboarding service and dedicated support to build out your end-to-end pipelines.\n\n[Try us out](https://sematic.dev/), reach out on [Discord](https://discord.gg/4KZJ6kYVax), or email us at [emmanuel@sematic.dev](mailto:emmanuel@sematic.dev).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GpZ-sematic-prototype-to-production-ml-in-days-not-weeks", "votes": 27, "created_at": "2022-07-18T17:06:21.384Z" } ] }, { "id": 26669, "name": "Mercator", "slug": "mercator", "former_names": [ "Quincy's" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/23caaf66a486729b29c6d411b709dcf89cc1a019.png", "website": "http://www.mercator.tech", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Mercator is your AI-assisted data analytics platform for writing faster, cheaper, and smarter SQL. 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Founders and sales reps waste TONS of time manually searching, qualifying, and engaging leads on the platform.\n\nCiro makes prospecting on LinkedIn 10x easier:\n\n* **Ciro Autopilot** scans profiles (in Sales Navigator), qualifies them against your ideal customer profile, and builds a ready-to-contact list in minutes\n* **Ciro Enrich** instantly reveals phone numbers and emails on profiles — whether you’re on a free or paid LinkedIn account (from our network of 13 high-quality data providers)\n\n[Here’s a video](https://youtu.be/z0dYm46MfsM) of me using Ciro & watching Netflix with Ciro’s CEO, Richard.\n\n### **The Problem:**\n\n1. **A huge time commitment.** Sales reps (and Founders!) lose hours each week sifting through Sales Navigator searches, poking around profiles for the right fit\n2. **Hard to filter out unqualified leads.** A great title alone doesn’t always mean they’re a great prospect — context matters, and double checking is a chore\n3. **Zero contact info.** You’ll find the perfect lead, then pay for yet another tool just to get their email or phone\n4. **Expensive integrations + data providers.** Connecting to LinkedIn so you can push to CRM? That’s $1600 annually, per seat. A license to Zoominfo? $10k a year. It adds up!\n\n### **Why We Built Ciro**\n\nLike many YC companies, Ciro’s customers operate on lean budgets but expect high quality output from their sales teams. The only way to bridge that gap is to arm them with great tools. We saw a few common problems:\n\n* **Bottlenecks** **form** when companies rely on humans to parse information — revenue growth is gated on executing manual, repetitive tasks\n* **Many products do too little** (simple browser extensions) or **require** **complicated orchestration** that takes forever to set up\n* **Finding great contact data** is expensive and usually requires several additional subscriptions\n\n### **Our Ask (Try It!) + How It Works**\n\n_(for LinkedIn Sales Navigator subscribers)_\n\n1. **Install** [**Ciro**](https://app.ciro.io/)\n2. Edit the AI-generated Persona & Sales Navigator filters\n3. Click Run! Watch the magic 🪄\n4. 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Push contacts directly to your CRM or download CSV\n\nWe’re excited to see how much you’ll accomplish with Ciro Autopilot at your side — and how many more deals you close!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87107&key=user_uploads/928465/b390a939-694c-48b6-8276-6a7cf8e1e96d)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mex-ciro-10x-your-prospecting-on-linkedin-sales-navigator", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2025-01-23T19:02:27.063Z" }, { "id": 64232, "title": "Ciro 🚀 The GTM Platform for companies selling to SMB and Local businesses", "tagline": "Ciro helps companies selling to SMB and Local businesses close more revenue by making it easy to find good leads for their business.", "body": "### **What’s the Problem?**\n\nIf you run a business selling to an SMB vertical, you’ve probably found it **impossible to** **find rich data on the prospects in your market…** and that existing data solutions are rife with missing records, infrequent updates, and incorrect contact information.\n\n### **What’s the Solution?**\n\nCiro handles prospect list building so you don’t have to.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64232&key=user_uploads/928465/3ca9d271-95f9-45da-80ce-a085a8052544)\n\nOur solution combines hundreds of vertical-specific web crawlers that run every day, plus a data ingestion engine that joins dozens of public and proprietary data sources. 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We’re [James](https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-thomas-b713b15/), [Tony](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonyginart/), and [Tejas](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tejassundaresan/) from [Dialect](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dialect-2).\n\n**_TL;DR_** [_Dialect_](https://www.usedialect.com/) is an AI copilot that auto-drafts responses to vendor questionnaires. Using generative AI grounded in your best content, we help you respond to RFPs and security questionnaires in a fraction of the time.\n\n### **The problem**\n\nCompanies today face customer questionnaires in all shapes, sizes, and formats. Security questionnaires, DDQs, and RFPs are critical gates within the sales process. Companies want to put their best foot forward and [map their solutions to customer requirements](https://blog.hubspot.com/sales/solution-selling). \n\nHowever, doing so can take **days** of rote copying & pasting, searching through old documents, and answering the same question over and over again.\n\n* **Every questionnaire comes in different formats** (sheets, docs, webforms) and every question is worded differently than before – making it time-consuming to port past answers into new questionnaires.\n* Finding the right answer to a question could **require searching across potentially dozens of files**, scanning question banks with thousands of entries, and involving multiple team members.\n\n### **Our solution**\n\n[Dialect](https://www.usedialect.com/) is a copilot that auto-drafts any vendor questionnaire. Our browser extension sits directly within your editors of choice, such as Google Sheets and Docs, and cuts the time needed to complete a questionnaire by >80%. 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After talking to E-commerce companies, we realized the problems they faced and decided to find a solution.\n\n**Problem:** E-commerce brands are overwhelmed by the increasing volume of customer inquiries, leading to slow response times, frustrated customers, high support costs, and lost sales.\n\n* Limited support 🚫: Current support models lack 24/7 availability, causing missed inquiries and lost opportunities.\n* Delayed responses 🕐: Long wait times and inaccurate information frustrate customers and damage brand perception.\n* Inconsistent communication 😕 : New agent training leads to conflicting information and inconsistent brand messaging.\n* Inefficiency and High Cost: Agents waste time on basic questions, hindering their ability to solve complex issues and prevent problems.\n\n**Solution:** SigmaMind AI seamlessly integrates with your Shopify store and Gorgias to automatically resolve customer tickets, freeing up your human agents for more complex issues. Our powerful AI can:\n\n* Respond to frequently asked questions about products, orders, shipping, and returns.\n* Suggest personalized product recommendations based on individual customer preferences.\n* Create subscriptions on Recharge, cancel orders on Shopify, and tag tickets appropriately.\n* Close tickets automatically once the issue has been resolved.\n* Generate draft responses for human agents, saving them valuable time.\n* Learn from your Shopify store, past tickets, FAQs, and other data sources to ensure accurate and personalized support.\n\n**How does it work?**\n\n[Check out this short demo video](https://youtu.be/6RgqHcCJ5Ew?si=PuxtgQyPoGlIcsLm)\n\nSigmaMind AI works within helpdesk tools like Zendesk/Gorgias and needs to be linked to your Shopify store. 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Dive in and test it using our [Playground](https://superpowered.ai/), [Python SDK](https://github.com/SuperpoweredAI/superpowered-python-sdk), or [clone these examples](https://github.com/SuperpoweredAI/superpowered-examples).\n\n### Problem 🤔\n\nMany uses for LLMs, including most customer support and employee productivity applications, require effectively connecting LLMs to external knowledge sources. Doing this well is very hard. Current retrieval augmented generation (RAG) methods just take existing information retrieval methods and stuff the results into an LLM prompt. This works for simple demos, but usually isn’t reliable enough for real-world production applications.\n\n### Solution 🧠\n\nSuperpowered AI offers a simple API that lets you connect external data sources (like product documentation, for example) to LLMs. We leverage proprietary RAG technology we’ve developed (we call it the [SuperStack](https://superpowered.ai/blog/the-superstack)) to dramatically improve performance and reliability for a wide variety of use cases.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76118&key=user_uploads/733585/063e897c-eaa8-4a3a-874c-f0bad5249909)\n\nOur solution is end-to-end, so you don’t have to worry about stringing together different APIs for different parts of the retrieval and generation pipeline. Here are some key features:\n\n* Support for uploading various types of text files, PDFs, website content, and audio files\n* 94 languages supported\n* Use our knowledge retrieval pipeline on its own with our Query endpoint, or take advantage of our Chat endpoint for a fully end-to-end solution for building conversational applications connected to external knowledge sources.\n* Usage-based pricing, so you only pay for what you use, and $50 in free credits to all new users!\n\n### The SuperStack 🦸\n\nThe SuperStack has three components that directly tackle the problems with standard RAG pipelines:\n\n[**AutoQuery**](https://superpowered.ai/blog/introducing-auto-query) → Convert user inputs into well-formed search queries for better retrieval results.\n\n[**Relevant Segment Extraction (RSE)**](https://superpowered.ai/blog/introducing-relevant-segment-extraction) → Dynamically group clusters of relevant results into longer sections of contiguous text to provide better context to the LLM. This is especially useful for more complex questions, where the answer isn’t contained in a single sentence or paragraph.\n\n[**AutoContext**](https://superpowered.ai/blog/introducing-auto-context) → Automatically inject descriptive context into text chunks and embeddings, to capture the full context of each chunk of text, reducing the likelihood of poor search results and hallucinations.\n\n### Chat Endpoint 💬\n\nGiven that LLM applications often involve conversational interactions, we recently launched our Chat endpoint to make it easy to configure and deploy chat applications that utilize our knowledge retrieval pipeline. We currently support GPT-3.5-Turbo and GPT-4, with more models coming soon.\n\n\n\n### Custom Solutions 🌐\n\nFor companies that don’t have the resources or expertise to build their own LLM-based solutions, we’re here to help. 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We turn complex infrastructure into a few simple API calls, making it easy to retrieve the right information and deliver highly relevant responses to your users. \n\n### 🦉 Who is it for?\n\nWhether you’re using LLMs to improve your customer experience, increase efficiency within your company, or launch an LLM-based application for end-users, **Superpowered AI can provide your app with external knowledge and long-term memory without requiring you to be an AI expert** – all at a low cost. How low? We’ve set our pricing at half the cost of popular alternatives like OpenAI embeddings + Pinecone. Please note, our product is completely free for now, so feel free to query your heart out!\n\n### 💡 How does it work?\n\nSimply upload files (including audio) to a Knowledge Base, and then you can begin querying! 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This hits **retail operations** especially hard because of the industry’s unique operational makeup of supply chains, online marketplaces, and varying sales channels. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91217&key=user_uploads/965414/c28e51ee-4b3f-4f22-80b3-8ac011720893)\n\nRetail operators basically must choose between:\n\n* **Legacy ERP**: Bulky, monolithic systems that take several months or years to implement.\n* **Point solutions that don’t scale**: Tools for inventory, order management, or light manufacturing can solve short-term pain but aren’t API-first and break easily ops need to scale.\n* **Spreadsheets or homegrown**: Even fast-growing brands run core ops on Google Sheets, Airtable, or in-house tools held together by duct tape.\n\n \n\n### **✅ The Solution: Tailor Omakase**\n\n**Tailor Omakase** is a curated, customizable ERP lite built for fast-growing retail brands. It helps operations teams manage purchasing, inventory, and orders across DTC, wholesale, and 3PL — without needing a full-time ERP admin, multi-year contracts, or expensive agency support.\n\n[Product Demo](https://youtu.be/tzSZw3MEIk0)\n\n🟣 **Fast to deploy:** Launch your first module in weeks — not months or years — with preconfigured views for purchasing, inventory, and order workflows \n\n🟣 **API-first & low-code:** Seamlessly integrate with any tool like Shopify or ShipStation, or easily build custom modules.\n\n🟣 **Flexible**: Don’t change your operations to accommodate your software. Whether you're juggling DTC + wholesale orders or creating products in-house, Tailor’s modular and headless architecture adapts to you.\n\n🟣 **Modern UI**: An intuitive frontend that ops teams love to use, plus the flexibility to ship beautiful customer-facing experiences \n\n**HubSpot** filled a gap for SMBs who couldn’t compete with **marketing** from enterprise giants using enterprise tools and budgets. **Tailor Omakase** does the same for **retail and ecommerce brands** when it comes to **operations**.\n\n### **🔧 What’s under the hood**\n\nTailor Omakase runs on the same powerful [platform](https://www.tailor.tech/platform) we use to build internal tools and custom workflows for global enterprises.\n\n* **Instant CRUD APIs**: Generate GraphQL/REST APIs from schema definitions in seconds, complete with validation, filtering, pagination, and relationships.\n* **Composable backend**: Launch headless apps with custom logic, workflows, and event triggers without writing boilerplate code.\n* **50+ pre-built integrations**: Seamlessly connect to Shopify, QuickBooks, 3PLs, and more using Tailor’s API-first architecture.\n* **Automation-ready**: Use Pipelines, Functions, and Event Triggers to automate business logic and cross-system workflows.\n* **State machine support**: Handle complex approval flows and record-level transitions using schema-defined states.\n* **AI-native tools**: Enable vector search, parse documents with OCR, and integrate LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-source models like Llama.\n* **_Coming soon —_** **_Fabrix_**: Auto-generate UI components from GraphQL schemas using Tailor’s open-source framework, Fabrix\n\n### **🏅 Our early customers**\n\n* A strategic textile supplier to a $20B+ global clothing retailer\n* A Japan-based hospitality company generating nearly $1B in annual revenue\n* A custom jewelry company growing sales across Shopify, Pinterest, Etsy, TikTok and Amazon\n\n### **🙏 Asks**\n\nKnow a **retail brand** trying to scale operations and growth? 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In Mundi, you collaborate with Kue, our AI GIS agent, to edit your map, rather than physically interacting with tools as you would in a legacy GIS.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91491&key=user_uploads/786838/49388e35-2edf-4711-8aa7-f22aed832b08)\n\n# Here’s how Mundi is bringing AI to GIS:\n\n**Mundi makes PostGIS much more accessible 📂** \\\n\\\nWhen you connect a PostGIS database to your project, Kue digests it and builds you a wiki to better understand its contents and how everything relates together. Then, if you want to add some data, all you have to do is tell Kue what data you want and it will figure out what is best and add it to your project.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91491&key=user_uploads/786838/585270c1-b025-4ebf-953d-09a0aef2417f)\n\n\\\n**You can run QGIS geoprocessing in the cloud ⚙️**\\\n\\\nKue has access to all of the QGIS geoprocessing algorithms so you get the power of a desktop GIS with the power of cloud processing. 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[Brendan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanashworth/) and [Michael](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-egan-4941a4145/) here to introduce [Bunting Labs](https://buntinglabs.com).\n\n🗺 **Problem**\n\nIf you want to implement spatial data into your software, you need to use a spatial database. But, because spatial data is heterogenous, creating the ETL scripts, cloud infrastructure, and analysis pipelines to use it takes months—something we saw ourselves.\n\nWe spent a year trying to analyze real estate with AI, and the first three months were dedicated to building these data pipelines. We realized every company that wants to use spatial databases suffers from the same problems.\n\n**🔧 Solution**\n\nWe handle the pipeline and the database for you. Behind the scenes we do all the leg work to work with spatial data so you can focus on building your product. 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For reps, this eliminates hours of admin work a week spent reviewing calls and updating the CRM (instead of selling). For sales leaders, this is the only way to ensure that high-quality data is produced and logged from every sales call.\n\nHi everyone, I’m Max - the founder of Pilot AI.\n\nI’ve previously worked as a software engineer at Salesforce, built and scaled Tech & Product at Clipboard Health (W17), and then built out Revenue Operations at Welcome (S20), where it was my job to chase down sales reps every week to update Salesforce. Our reps could spend two hours a day going back through calls to take detailed notes and update the CRM - they all complained loudly about it, and they could have spent that time selling more.\n\nPilot frees up all of this wasted time through automation and makes it possible to maintain a clean CRM that can be used to produce accurate forecasts.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65138&key=user_uploads/1028295/b95d6aca-12e8-4c0f-b641-c01c8d281c49)\n\n## **What’s the problem?**\n\nSalespeople can spend 25% of their day writing up notes and updating the CRM, which they could spend generating more revenue. Every salesperson despises this part so much that frequently, they just don’t do it. This causes numerous problems including making deals difficult to review, handoffs impossible and forecasting inaccurate.\n\n## **The Solution?**\n\n**Stop relying on salespeople to take notes and update the CRM**.\n\nPilot is an AI assistant that generates detailed notes and structured data that call that updates the CRM for every call. The notes are easy to read and don’t include the rambling, small talk and pauses of the conversation but instead capture the most important points. \n\nForm every conversation, Pilot produces:\n\n1. A scannable summary\n2. Datapoints that map to CRM fields\n3. Every question asked by the rep and the most important parts of the prospect's answer\n4. Additional essential points that the prospect made during the call\n\n## **We'd love to hear from you!**\n\nIf you’re facing this problem in your organization - we’d love to show you our magic trick. [Schedule a demo!](https://calendly.com/max-pilot-ai/30min)\n\nIf you’re thinking of a sales leader that this would help, we’d love an intro! [max@getpilot.ai](mailto:max@getpilot.ai)\n\nWe’re always interested in talking to reps as well; send me an email if you’d like to use Pilot!\\\n\\\n\\\n[max@getpilot.ai](mailto:max@getpilot.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gwc-pilot-ai-turns-your-sales-calls-into-crm-data-automatically", "votes": 45, "created_at": "2022-08-04T17:48:02.591Z" } ] }, { "id": 26742, "name": "Boostly", "slug": "boostly", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6153c2d55508c4c573ba2dcb29993d7dfb36bfbf.png", "website": "https://boostly.com", "all_locations": "Lehi, UT, USA", "long_description": "Boostly provides everything necessary for restaurants to attract new guests and turn them into regulars. From AI-powered SEO, paid ads, behavioral-based text marketing with gamified engagement, and AI driven reputation management, Boostly provides 10x greater guest engagement when compared to others in the industry. \r\n\r\nBoostly’s patented processes enables them to build opted-in subscriber lists bigger and faster than anyone on the market.", "one_liner": "Premier growth platform for restaurants", "team_size": 50, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1652482383, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Messaging", "Food Tech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/boostly", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/boostly.json", "year_founded": 2017, "city": "Lehi", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/goboostly", "x_url": "", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/GoBoostly", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/boostly", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6153c2d55508c4c573ba2dcb29993d7dfb36bfbf.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/5e039700f2731963afc99ec46a1952f286752f9e.png", "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/45c56c7a4899941a8d23de68a8eaaaddc6f36fbc.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 365280, "full_name": "Shane Murphy", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Shane is the Co-founder and CEO of Boostly. He previously ran sales for Jolt, a restaurant operations software company (acquired by Digi for $145M), and was a sales leader, early team member, and investor in American HealthCare Lending (acquired by Prosper Marketplace for $21M). 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We’re just getting warmed up and plan to grow our marketing channels during YC. \n\n## **Problems**\n\n* Restaurants live or die based on their ability to get their customers ordering regularly, but over 60% of a restaurant's customer base never make it in for a 2nd visit.\n* Customer data is notoriously hard for restaurant owners to access because it’s in several different systems with various accessibility challenges.\n* Restaurant owners are strapped for time and often lack any marketing know-how.\n* Most restaurant marketing lacks good tracking to know exactly how it’s working.\n\n## **Our Solution**\n\n* We aggregate customer data from several data sources for the restaurant & get customers to opt in to receive texts from the store.\n* We put text marketing on autopilot with weekly offers, birthday deals, & relevant reminders.\n* While the customer eats, we solicit feedback via a 2 click survey and help to connect the restaurant with the guest if there was an issue or generate a 5 star review on Google.\n* We track the restaurant’s ROI across all of their sales channels (online, over the phone, or in-store).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gee-boostly-s22-text-marketing-feedback-on-autopilot-for-restaurants", "votes": 37, "created_at": "2022-06-23T19:13:00.409Z" } ] }, { "id": 26752, "name": "Delegasi", "slug": "delegasi", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/401f1712c75af775727056181128d235a71bb8e5.png", "website": "https://delegasi.co/", "all_locations": "Bandung, West Java, Indonesia", "long_description": "Financial statements are definitely a hassle for business owners. Many accounting software are available, yet not everyone has the capability to operate them.\r\n\r\nAmidst this problem, Delegasi dares to provide a solution. As the first virtual financial manager in Indonesia, we assist SMB owners in putting together their financial statements and business analysis. By simply uploading receipts and bank statements, owners will receive their financial statements and business analyses with guaranteed accuracy, allowing them to make well informed financial decisions.", "one_liner": "Automated accounting service for small businesses in Indonesia", "team_size": 8, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1659248138, "tags": [ "Fintech", "SaaS", "B2B" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "regions": [ "Indonesia", "Southeast Asia", "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/delegasi", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/delegasi.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Bandung", "country": "ID", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/delegasi/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/401f1712c75af775727056181128d235a71bb8e5.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/c77a8acc3810d5c8dad14bd276b8bc750f1b356a.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 950917, "full_name": "Okky Pratama", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Okky has an MBA from MIT, and he was Senior VP of Business & Operations for Modal Rakyat (Fazz Financial Group) before starting Delegasi. He is passionate about finance and analytics, he even reads financial statements as a hobby.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/yudha-okky-pratama-84217331/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/okky_pratama", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f416946e36f2f2d51e9270dd359326d654bd20c0.jpg" }, { "user_id": 857522, "full_name": "Ans Syuhada", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Anshorimuslim (Ans) is technology and social cause enthusiast. Ans has wide range experiences from product development to data intensive system and leadership role. He also actives to nurture tech community and giving talks. His recent deck and writings can be seen on https://speakerdeck.com/ans4175 - https://ans4175.dev/\n\nHe is on quest helping Food and Beverages Industries understand their Finance Statement better for scaling their company better. Business Intelligence for everyone.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/anshorimuslim", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/ans4175", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/20fbfe86d77240a5e5987586097951795f9cc65c.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 65034, "title": "Delegasi - The first automated accounting service for Small Businesses in Indonesia", "tagline": "An automated accounting service that connects to your POS data for small businesses in Indonesia, starting with restaurants and cafes.", "body": "👋 Hi we are Okky and Ans, founders of Delegasi.\n\nWe assist small business owners in putting together their financial statements and analysis automatically. To generate the financial statements, business owners can simply connect their POS and upload their receipts.\n\n—\n\n## ❓ The Problem\n\nAccounting is always a hassle for small business owners. As they need to handle lots of things (marketing, operations, purchasing, etc.), finding time for accounting is too hard. Not to mention, they need to learn accounting to do it properly.\n\nMany accounting software have claimed to help make the process faster and easier, yet many business owners we spoke with stop using them in the first 1-2 months, even after paying a one year subscription fee. Turns out, these software are still too complicated for users without accounting knowledge.\n\n## ✅ **Our Solution**\n\nIf you are a restaurant owner, you can simply:\n\n1. Connect your POS and food delivery service data;\n2. Upload your receipts, bank statements, and stock opname data; and\n3. Your financial statements and analysis are ready\n\nWith Delegasi, no manual input nor accounting knowledge are needed to generate your financial report. Additionally, you will get financial analysis that is catered to restaurants and cafes’ owners.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65034&key=user_uploads/857522/d23ceef6-9399-4cc0-a253-0f93f3316faa)\n\nSeveral analysis that we provide\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65034&key=user_uploads/857522/0f1fe63a-03c0-4ba8-b9b3-33faa52fb34a)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65034&key=user_uploads/857522/5533c32f-d4f2-41b7-a3aa-4bb3ce4d6294)\n\n### 🗒️ **Founders Backstory**\n\nWe have known each other for more than twelve years since college. In early 2021 we started to try finding solution for restaurant and cafe owners around staff hiring problems. Turned out, every businesses that we pitched always mentioned accounting as one of their most painful problems. Thus, we took major pivot and tried to find solution on this one. We helped our friends’ businesses and crafted our first products. After experimenting for a few months, we received positive feedback and realized that this could become huge 📈. That was how we started Delegasi 🚀\n\n### 🌐 **Visit Us**\n\nVisit our website (in Bahasa) at and our Instagram account 🙏🙏\n\n---", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Guw-delegasi-the-first-automated-accounting-service-for-small-businesses-in-indonesia", "votes": 21, "created_at": "2022-08-01T01:49:17.694Z" } ] }, { "id": 26764, "name": "Tranch", "slug": "tranch", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d8b861c2c1bab1a070d8a629f1ffa13248ae51a6.png", "website": "https://tranch.com", "all_locations": "London, England, United Kingdom", "long_description": "Tranch is the invoice to payments platform for enterprises who want to optimize cash flow by offering their business clients an unparalleled payment experience.\r\n\r\nBased out of New York City and London we enable Services firms, software and marketplaces to be paid faster via our automated invoice to payment solutions. 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Customers can spread invoices from $10k to $250k over 3 to 12 months.\\\n\\\n[tranch.com - launch video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKPApUN5HAI)\n\n## As startup execs, we dreaded large invoices\n\nPhilip’s time as a scale up CFO taught us\n\n1. Payment options are inflexible for crucial SaaS tools and professional services.\n2. Monthly repayments required lengthy negotiation and often a 20%+ premium.\n3. Large invoices are usually offline, email based journeys.\n\n## Payment options for the big stuff suck\n\n1. SaaS companies want recurring revenue upfront and Services have limited cash flow to defer payments. Customers want to spread large invoices. It’s always a negotiation.\n2. SaaS companies & Services can’t offer credit (risk, regulation, etc).\n3. 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Stellar is launching an AI product to tackle the biggest obstacles startups face when implementing OKRs.\n\n### **Problem**\n\n* **Writing cascading goals is hard -** after defining topline lagging metrics (revenue, churn, LTV, etc), each team member might not know how to write SMART goals that ladder up to them.\n* **Operational best practices are a mystery -** it’s hard to know where to start when creating a goal management process.\n* **A hero is required to drive accountability** - someone needs to step up to implement and enforce the process throughout the quarter, in addition to their full time job.\n\nIntroducing Stellar AI – a copilot for every employee that simplifies writing SMART, cascading goals and derisks them throughout the quarter.\n\n### **How it works**\n\nAnswer 4 simple questions and Stellar spins up a customized OKR workspace. An integrated experience uses GenAI to write your unique inspiring top-line goals and cascading domain-specific goals at all levels.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72653&key=user_uploads/997645/6097185e-9f26-4846-aaea-cdea8c355d6f)\n\nOnce goals are written, Stellar automates a recurring check-in process for your team throughout the quarter and year. These updates create an agenda for business reviews.\n\nStellar’s smart notification system drives accountability, resulting in an average of 85% of all goals being updated weekly. 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", "body": "👋 We’re [Angela](https://www.linkedin.com/in/angeladao/), [Elise](https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisetnguyen/) and [Quan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/quanzhou1/), the co-founders of [Stellar](https://www.stellarapp.io/)! We were early hires at multiple unicorns and saw OKRs both fail and succeed. The orgs that get it right are those that act quickly and adapt to new information consistently over time.\n\nStellar is a goal tracking platform focused on agile communication so your team has a fighting chance of hitting their OKRs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65966&key=user_uploads/997645/a7331fc6-b81e-4306-90a5-15f1ff0d625f)\n\n### **The problem with OKRs**\n\nSetting business goals is easy, but iterative execution is hard.\n\nToo many companies set OKRs, forget them in an isolated document and then realize they haven’t made sufficient progress. When OKRs aren’t reassessed openly on a recurring basis, you miss the opportunity to motivate your team, collaborate and unblock progress together.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65966&key=user_uploads/997645/ed098364-c2e7-449f-9436-f637d0041fc2)\n\nThe designated responsible person (usually a founder or Chief of Staff) spends hours a week running this process, when they could be working on strategic work.\n\n### **Achieve your goals with confidence**\n\nIf you’re ready to embed OKRs and agile collaboration in your organization, Stellar will help you:\n\n1. Stay focused and organized by linking your goals in an OKR tree\n2. Raise and remove blockers quickly through effective, asynchronous check-ins\n3. 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Simplified Temporal with automatic app generation. Usable as a self-hosted AWS Lambda.\n\nSync your scripts from your GitHub repo or write them directly on Windmill, have them be converted to apps and no-code modules automatically. Use those apps as standalone (triggered on demand, by webhook or schedule) or build powerful flows using those scripts. The experience is similar to no-code tools except that at any point, any module can have its code inspected and tweaked. Leveraging the open-source community, we will build an exhaustive library of scripts for all APIs and generic tasks on [hub.windmill.dev](https://hub.windmill.dev/).\n\nYou may also wrap Windmill with your own frontend to provide automation as a feature on top of your own SaaS.\n\nFocus on your business logic for all kind of flows, Windmill is the platform to build, share and run them.\n\n## Active Founders\n\n**Ruben Fiszel**\n\nRuben was top of his class MSc in CS at EPFL, did research on compilers from Scala to Hardware at Stanford, built the first open-source library for reinforcement learning for Java, built distributed systems at scale at Palantir and ran the engineering team at a Multi-Party Computation startup. He is now building Windmill, an open-source alternative to Retool, Pipedream, Airplane that contains the infra to run it and that you can deploy at scale.\n\n### The sweet spot between low-code and code from scratch\n\n### Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Pipedream and Airplane. Simplified Temporal\n\nTo build internal apps for ops, integrations between services that cannot talk to each other directly, or to run background jobs that run your business logic and analytics, the two main options today are no-code solutions and old-fashioned, roll-your-own scripting. Both have problems, and our goal with Windmill is to find a new sweet spot between the two. No-code solutions are productive _if_ your problem matches the tool exactly - but if not, they are rigid, hard to extend and quickly become tech debt, annihilating their initial time advantage. Indeed, no-code is just code but made by an opinionated someone else and hidden as a blackbox with an UI.\n\nThe alternative is to do it the old-fashioned way, writing everything from scratch, both backend and frontend, perhaps deploying it on the latest flavor of serverless, and pray to never have to touch it again because that took way too much time and it has now became a burden that the ops and business team might poke you about regularly.\n\nFurthermore, the landscape of SaaS is specialized tools for everything—alerting, data analytics, administration panels, support management, integration between services—when it feels like a few scripts and some SQL would have been as good or even better and spared you the need of depending on one yet another tool. This could be even further facilitated if there was a way to import the right bunch of scripts from a fellow community of engineers, tweak it and deploy it like you can do in communities where automation can be shared as simple JSON files, for instance in the node-red or home assistant community… That’s the idea of Windmill: to bring back the power of scripting in an easy but high-scale production-grade way.\n\n## What are good use cases for Windmill\n\n1\\. The biggest pain we solve is to turn scripts that you would run on your own laptop as internal apps that you can share with your team.\n\n2\\. Avoid SQL queries to production in favor of templatized SQL made into apps instead (automatically!). Making live SQL queries is common in DevOps, support and ops in general. It can be very error-prone, stressful and inconvenient.\n\n3\\. Integrations between tools you already use but that are unable to talk to each other.\n\n4\\. 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What's the one thing you're missing the most?\n\nDM me on Twitter at 👉 \\\nOr email us at 👉 [founders@popsy.co](mailto:founders@popsy.co)\n\nThank you and happy building! 😊🚀\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65849&key=user_uploads/187910/1d1d9e3d-365a-419e-bfb7-dee8f32da480)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65849&key=user_uploads/187910/539fe163-5e4a-4fd2-a908-38243e8bb78c)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65849&key=user_uploads/187910/513b9234-3c49-4889-87f7-d82819121c74)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H85-popsy-no-code-website-builder-that-works-like-notion", "votes": 80, "created_at": "2022-09-05T16:42:31.958Z" } ] }, { "id": 26802, "name": "Apply Design", "slug": "apply-design", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/731fd6f22634f935a03484945b5b569dae8c8ed9.png", "website": "http://www.applydesign.io", "all_locations": "Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel", "long_description": "Apply Design is a leading AI-powered virtual staging app that empowers real estate professionals to showcase the full potential of their properties to prospective buyers, helping them sell homes faster and for higher prices. \r\n\r\nWe virtually stage over 10,000 properties monthly, transforming images of vacant or outdated spaces into fully furnished, captivating property photos. 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They can then play with those designs and see how that home fits their needs and tastes.\\\n\\\nWe entered the market with a product that allows anyone to create virtual realistic interior designs for empty property images automatically.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64479&key=user_uploads/1014282/0c4976d5-00b5-45dd-85c0-decb4111d476)\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nAn excellent online property listing can help you sell your property faster and for a higher price.\n\nBut property listing websites haven’t changed for the last 20 years and are very one-dimensional, although prospective buyers have different needs and tastes.\n\nBy using computer graphics and ML, Apply Design created a way to automatically create realistic virtual interior designs that enable the homeowner to easily create a website that showcases the home's potential in a way that is personalized to the buyer. A way that sells better than Zillow.\n\n### **About Us**\n\nYaniv Knoll and I are based in Tel Aviv and met in the IDF in a small intelligence unit specializing in 3D solutions for special operations. Our work was recognized with the highest intelligence award for 2015.\\\nFor the last 10 years, we’ve built 3D and computer vision-based solutions in military, HR, construction, and real estate.\n\nThe idea was born last year when my parents tried to sell the apartment that I grew up in. A month went by with no offers after the empty pictures sat on Zillow waiting for anyone to show interest, so I created a dedicated website showing how the home fits different family structures and purposes, using editable interior realistic designs for each room of the house. Within days of prospective buyers using our product, we went from no offers to three, and a 10% higher asking price than expected.\n\n### **I want it! How do I try it?**\n\nIn case you have or plan to publish a property listing (or if you just want to test it out, it's really fun! ), you can try our first product at [applydesign.io](http://applydesign.io), which allows you to upload an image and add realistic furniture to show the potential of your property.\\\nThe best part is that the first image is for free 💸!\n\n---\n\nIf you do try it out, make sure to **send me feedback** about the experience and the potential you see.\n\n**_If you know any realtors, property managers, or even friends and family who are about to sell or rent a property, please tell them about Apply Design. 🙂_**\n\nThanks!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Glz-apply-design-shopify-for-property-listings", "votes": 108, "created_at": "2022-07-10T14:34:11.660Z" } ] }, { "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. 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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. 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We’re Ernie and John from [Chainsight.](https://www.chainsight.com)\n\n# **Chainsight: Provide real-time insights to secure your digital assets.**\n\nChainsight provides Web3 Background Checks API to detect web3 risks and secure your digital assets!\n\nSo if you are web3 wallet providers, developers or users, our API can help you check \\\n\\- the authenticity of tokens, NFTs\\\n\\- the liquidity of crypto exchanges or DeFi protocols\\\n\\- the credibility of addresses, smart contracts, or websites\n\nOur API can help you protect your users from web3 risk and inform you when there is any risk with your counterparties in real-time.\n\nLet’s build a safer and more trustworthy world for web2 and web3 users!\n\n```\n🔍 What is Chainsight?\n```\n\nRisks are everywhere for web3 users and companies. However, people and companies actually can mitigate their risk by running the risk analysis and checking the identity, the the history of the blockchain addresses they transact with.\n\nChainsight API is an effective solution to identify the riskiness of the parties you are transacting with and validate the authenticity and credibility of tokens and NFTs you are purchasing.\n\n```\n🧐 How does it work?\n```\n\nWe help web3 users and internet companies check whether there is any risk given any crypto address, smart contract, token, NFT, or URL.\n\n![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/d9yJQMyrCBZq0rhUr9ySv_Z9sRnp480h9EF8ugBl2jClTJ31UNS9fGLK3tvCzhVS3K-xHelbMd-WZcPsC7u4HLHON3DdWLzDTSQSHT1CGTDPUPXzzUZiR6jdoYcCmEclsVAlKMqwd4gqAe1o9jKxe02jO1LBSYrqQU3Z5YZpShKkKbnie73WePU-mw)\n\nThe Chainsight Background Checks platform is based on our proprietary database and transaction analytics platform which have been recognized and sponsored by G20, Bank for International Settlements, and used by famous web2 and web3 companies with a total of more than 350 millions end users.\n\nToday, millions of people are scammed and lose their life savings! We believe our API can help web3 users and internet companies avoid scams, leading to a safer and trustworthy world for web2 and web3 users!\n\n```\n🚀 Wanna try our Web3 Background Checks?\n```\n\nIf you are interested in doing a quick web3 background check on any address/website or know more about Chainsight , **please request a** [**demo here**](https://www.chainsight.com/#contact), and you’ll receive the free trial soon!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H58-chainsight-api-for-web3-background-checks", "votes": 425, "created_at": "2022-08-28T22:49:23.473Z" } ] }, { "id": 26860, "name": "NewsCatcher", "slug": "newscatcher", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4e6df1d33e5151e6b36a83a91e94b8bb2550c930.png", "website": "https://newscatcherapi.com/", "all_locations": "Kyiv, Ukraine; Remote", "long_description": "CatchAll by NewsCatcher is a recall-first web search API built for queries where the results are spread across hundreds or thousands of pages on the web. Instead of returning the top ranked links like traditional search engines, CatchAll retrieves a large candidate set from the web, validates which pages actually match the query, and extracts structured records of real-world events.\r\n\r\nDevelopers and data teams use CatchAll to answer “long-list” questions such as tracking regulatory actions, funding rounds, product launches, corporate expansions, or cybersecurity incidents. 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(i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)", "answer": "Me (Artem) and Maksym, childhood pals since school days and university companions, teamed up to launch NewsCatcher in February 2020. Both Data Engineers with a knack for problem-solving, we were fed up with the status quo but passionate about data, laying the groundwork for our startup. Embracing the ethos of rapid iteration, we wasted no time, kicking off our journey by creating a Telegram chat dubbed \"First million\".Following Y Combinator's mantra of swift action, we rolled out our beta in April 2020, fuelled by AWS credits from YC Startup School. Our early strides were apparent when a Python package we crafted gained traction on Reddit, attracting a flurry of sign-ups. By June 2020, we debuted our V1 product on RapidAPI, landing our first paying customer—a serendipitous encounter with a US student bound for YC W24 batch. Our trajectory continued with applications to accelerators like TinySeed and YC, ultimately opting for TinySeed's rapid application process, albeit declining YC's offer later on. With strategic hires and laser-focused growth, we had a revenue surge from $3,000 to $25,000 MRR within a year. We circled back to YC, securing entry in May 2022 with $300,000 ARR. Despite hurdles, like my temporary detour to aid the Armed Forces of Ukraine, we thrived, clinching enterprise contracts and elevating ARR to $450,000 by Demo Day. Post-YC, while grappling with revenue challenges hindering our progress, we gleaned valuable insights into customer alignment, reaffirming our dedication to efficient growth and customer-centricity." }, { "question": "How did you decide to apply to Y Combinator? What was your experience applying, going through the batch, and fundraising at demo day?", "answer": "Deciding to apply to Y Combinator was a big step for us. We wanted to take NewsCatcher to the next level, and YC seemed like the perfect fit with its reputation for helping startups succeed. In early 2021, we applied to TinySeed, Alchemist Accelerator, and YC for the third time. TinySeed offered us a spot, which we accepted, even though we also got an interview invitation from YC. We had a monthly revenue of $3,000 at that time. Over the next year, we hired Aditya, Aakash, and Ibrahim and grew our monthly revenue to $25,000. This encouraged us to apply to YC again. In May 2022, despite the challenges of the Ukraine conflict and Artem's temporary absence to help the Armed Forces, we decided to reapply to YC. Our dream came true when Michael Seibel interviewed us, and we got in. Joining YC with around $300,000 in yearly revenue, we embraced their focus on fast growth and solving real problems. Throughout the program, we learned a lot from mentors and other founders. By Demo Day, our yearly revenue had grown to $450,000. After YC, Artem spent two days fundraising and found a great investor in Uncommon Capital, led by Jamie Quint. We also got support from other YC alums." }, { "question": "How have you kept in touch with the YC community and continued to use YC resources & programs since the batch ended?", "answer": "Staying connected with the YC community has been super important for us as we figure out life after our time in the batch with NewsCatcher. We've been using all the cool stuff YC offers to help us grow and get better. Their knowledge base has been a goldmine of tips and tricks that have really helped us make NewsCatcher bigger and better.We've also been talking to other folks in the YC community for advice on running our business and bouncing around ideas. It's been awesome to have a bunch of other founders and experienced mentors cheering us on and giving us advice as we tackle the challenges of starting up.Plus, we've been taking advantage of discounts YC offers for different services, which has been a huge help in making our operations smoother and saving us some money. The YC community has been super generous in sharing their resources and expertise, and we're really grateful for all the support and camaraderie. It's been a big part of our journey as founders, and we couldn't have done it without them!" }, { "question": "What's the history of your company from getting started until the present day? What were the big inflection points?", "answer": "**February 2020:** me and Maksym, both Data Engineers, co-found NewsCatcher driven by a shared passion for data and dissatisfaction with existing solutions. **April 2020:** Launch of NewsCatcher's beta, followed by the release of V1 product on RapidAPI in June, attracting first paying customers. **January-February 2021:** Joining TinySeed accelerates growth, leading to rapid revenue increase and team expansion. **May 2022:** Reapplication and acceptance into Y Combinator highlight commitment to excellence and innovation. **2023:** NewsCatcher experiences significant growth, achieving an ARR of $1.13 million. **2024:** Setting ambitious goals, aiming to grow ARR to $3.7 million. Focus on building scalable customer success processes to maximize retention and upsells. Additionally, hiring first Account Executives to drive sales growth and expand market reach." }, { "question": "What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?", "answer": "NewsCatcher is all about tackling the big challenge of making real-time news data easy to access from a wide range of sources. Many businesses and researchers struggle to get up-to-date info for things like market analysis, trend tracking, and content creation. It's a pain to manually gather news from lots of places—it takes forever and isn't very efficient. We decided to tackle this problem because, as Data Engineers ourselves, we know the frustration of trying to get good news data for projects. We realized that making this info more accessible could have a huge impact, so we decided to use our skills to do something about it.With NewsCatcher, our goal is to make real-time news data available to everyone. We've gathered news from over 70,000 sources and made it easy and affordable for anyone who needs it. We believe that by solving this problem, we can help spark innovation and improve decision-making.We're all about prioritizing data quality, adaptability, great customer service, and keeping things simple. That way, our customers can always count on getting the news they need to succeed." }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "Our long-term vision for NewsCatcher is to change the game when it comes to how businesses get and use news data, making the business world more informed and connected. If we truly succeed:\\* Businesses of all sizes will have equal access to real-time news data.\\* Decision-making across industries will be more informed and agile.\\* Innovation will be accelerated, driving economic growth.\\* Transparency and accountability in business operations will be enhanced.\\* Global connectivity and collaboration among businesses will be strengthened.Basically, we want to give businesses the tools they need to succeed in today's fast-paced and interconnected global market." } ], "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/newscatcher", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/newscatcher.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "Kyiv", "country": "UA", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/newscatcherapi/?viewAsMember=true", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/newscatcherapi", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4e6df1d33e5151e6b36a83a91e94b8bb2550c930.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 444913, "full_name": "Artem Bugara", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Artem Bugara is the co-founder, CEO of NewsCatcher. Artem works with data and risk teams to help them integrate actionable signals from online news. Previously he ran a team of data engineers for one of the largest underwriting companies within the aviation, energy, and space insurance sectors.\n\nHe earned a degree in Econometrics from Toulouse School of Economics. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/artem-bugara/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/bugaralife", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/717c77848f35ff3f50a1978f5ec2430ab5b55273.jpg" }, { "user_id": 472880, "full_name": "Maksym Sugonyaka", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Maksym Sugonyaka is the co-founder and CTO of NewsCatcher. After one year of a stable job, Maksym understood that the only place where he could realize his potential was entrepreneurship. Now in NewsCatcher, Maksym is the one to take key strategic and technical decisions in order to make the best News API on the market. \n\nHe has a Master's Degree in Data Science and Finance from Paris Sorbonne. But then, he became a self-taught Data Engineer. \n\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/msugonyaka/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/kizy625", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0d3748b7ed0c74799452205a4a62beb4d707d66b.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 92394, "title": "Software Engineer (Backend & LLM)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/newscatcher/jobs/cuGf2UW-software-engineer-backend-llm", "location": "LB / UA / PL / LT / RO / Remote (LB; UA; PL; LT; RO)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Backend", "salary_range": "$60K - $85K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.30%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizenship/visa not required", "skills": [ "Kubernetes", "Python", "Docker" ] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 99812, "title": "CatchAll: Recall-first web search API", "tagline": "Turning the web into a structured database of real-world events", "body": "Hello, hackers! We’re Artem and Maksym, founders of NewsCatcher.\\\n\\\nWe’re building a structured, event-centric index of what happens in the real world. Today, that starts with CatchAll — a recall-first search API that finds all relevant matches to a query, extracts structured facts, and delivers clean, ready-to-use datasets.\\\n\\\n\\\n\\\n**The problem**\\\nTraditional web search — and most search APIs — were designed for humans. They optimize for **speed and ranking**, which works well when one page contains the answer:\n\n* “Who is the CEO of a company?”\n* “What’s the latest acquisition in X?”\n\nBut many high-stakes questions don’t have a single answer:\n\n* _All_ regulatory actions affecting an industry\n* _Every_ cybersecurity incident in a given week\n* _All_ funding rounds, policy changes, or facility expansions\n\nIn these cases, **recall is everything**.\\\nIf 200 valid events exist and your system surfaces 5, your recall is 2.5%. No amount of prompting or post-processing fixes that.\n\nLLMs and “deep research agents” haven’t solved this. They still open and read pages one by one, hit context limits, and end up sampling rather than exhausting a topic.\n\n\\\n**The solution**\\\nCatchAll is a recall-first web search API built for long-list answers — answers distributed across the open web.\n\nCatchAll:\n\n* Pulls a large candidate set from NewsCatcher’s proprietary web index (often tens of thousands of pages)\n* Validates which pages actually match the criteria\n* Extracts structured fields (companies, dates, locations, actions, amounts — defined by the user)\n* Normalizes and deduplicates everything into clean records\n\nThe output isn’t links.\\\nIt’s a dataset that didn’t exist before — and can be kept up to date by turning the query into a **live monitor**.\n\nFor teams, the end result is fewer searches and more reliable alerts.\\\n\\\n**Backstory**\\\nMaksym and I have known each other for almost 20 years. NewsCatcher is our first startup — we've been building it since 2020. It started as a bootstrapped self-serve news API for startups, and then grew into custom enterprise solutions (powering the US Department of State, Transparency International, Samsung, 50+ enterprise clients). CatchAll is us coming back to self-serve: same infrastructure, now optimized for the AI agent ecosystem.\\\n\\\nSign up [here](https://platform.newscatcherapi.com/catchall?utm_source=launch_yc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Launch_YC_CatchAll&utm_id=catch_all_YC), test CatchAll (for free), and give us feedback (we’ll 5x your credits!).\\\n\\\nShare your use-cases:\\\n[artem@newscatcherapi.com](mailto:artem@newscatcherapi.com) or DM on [https://www.linkedin.com/in/artem-bugara](https://www.linkedin.com/in/artem-bugara/)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99812&key=user_uploads/444913/74de4236-76fc-4c2b-8ef4-d02248dd0837)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pxs-catchall-recall-first-web-search-api", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2026-04-16T15:13:11.193Z" }, { "id": 65153, "title": "NewsCatcher - News API for risk and data teams", "tagline": "We help data and risk enterprise teams get instant access to machine-readable news from over 40,000 online news sources", "body": "**tl;dr:** We make it easy for data, market research, and risk teams to integrate machine-readable news feed into their internal analytics system. \\\n\\\nHey Fam, we're [Artem](https://www.linkedin.com/in/artem-bugara/) and [Maksym](https://www.linkedin.com/in/msugonyaka/) and we're building [NewsCatcher](https://newscatcherapi.com/). We're on a mission to empower data-driven organizations with the highest quality and easiest-to-use News API. \\\n\\\n**❌ The Problem**\n\nIt’s easy to consume news as a human: you open Google News and read.\n\nNow, imagine:\n\n* you work for a bank, and you have to perform negative news searches for all new & existing accounts for anti-money laundering & financial crime checks\n* you work for a PR firm that has to monitor news mentions on your clients and their competitors\n* you’re an analyst in an investment firm, and you need to calculate news sentiment for each company on the market over the past N years\n* you want to show relevant news to the users on your app to make them spend more time on it\n\n“Humans reading the news” is not a scalable way to resolve a problem anymore, and it’s expensive.\n\n**✨ Our Solution**\n\nSearch and integrate news with code. Find news articles by any topic, country, language, website, or keyword with REST JSON News API.\\\n**Go ahead, and make some API calls on our** [**demo page**](https://demo.newscatcherapi.com/)**.**\n\nWe’ve built a generic news crawler that automatically finds new articles, normalizes them, and indexes them. So, you can now automate the news consumption and analysis via an API.\n\nYou can read more over this [link](https://docs.newscatcherapi.com/knowledge-base/how-newscatcher-works) from our knowledge base.\n\nHere is how an article would look in our search:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65153&key=user_uploads/444913/1c4d6e37-3e46-4c2a-a864-a969a80279e4)\n\n\\\nTop 3 use cases from our clients:\n\n* **risk intelligence**: find insights in the news before they get visible in financial reports days or months later\n* **integrate news** into your app\n* **media monitoring** on millions of companies all around the world\n\n\\\n\\\n**🙏 Asks**\n\n1. Try our News API: claim your [API key](https://app.newscatcherapi.com/auth/register), or/and [book a technical session with us](https://savvycal.com/newscatcher/chat)\n2. Are you experienced with extracting data from HTML, or you’re an NLP expert? We’d love to chat!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gwr-newscatcher-news-api-for-risk-and-data-teams", "votes": 46, "created_at": "2022-08-05T13:27:00.532Z" } ] }, { "id": 26869, "name": "Sytex", "slug": "sytex", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/911263357a6383968942bb9fe2d9288aa036b92e.png", "website": "https://www.sytex.io", "all_locations": "Córdoba, Cordoba, Argentina; Remote", "long_description": "Sytex is a project management platform for Field Infrastructure, starting with Telecom.\r\nFor example, companies like Telefonica and Claro use Sytex to build and maintain their networks.", "one_liner": "Project management platform for Field Infrastructure.", "team_size": 22, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1652710127, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "regions": [ "Argentina", "Latin America", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sytex", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/sytex.json", "year_founded": 2019, "city": "Córdoba", "country": "AR", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/sytexpm", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/SytexHQ", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/911263357a6383968942bb9fe2d9288aa036b92e.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Nicolas Dessaigne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 347622, "full_name": "Mariano Lisiotti", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Excited to simplify work for project teams worldwide.\nFather of 3. Telecom Engineer, former VP Projects for South America in NERA. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariano-lisiotti-0635622/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/MarianoODD1", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c2c9cf22d32afaf0cbccf07b76e25f443102750b.jpg" }, { "user_id": 347996, "full_name": "Juan Alvarez", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Started coding mIRC scripts at 15 :)\nStudied telecom engineering, but have been coding and hacking on GNU/Linux ever since those first scripts. \nWorked for a corp and kind of hated it. \nLoving the founder rollercoaster ride so far. \nLearning a lot from my wonderful daughter. \nWannabe rock climber. 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Now building software that makes work feel less like… work.\nReally like online games 🤣.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/juanjo-ferrero-926026b9/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6e8762839da92a94172c0c89758d6e74d2148645.jpg" }, { "user_id": 819585, "full_name": "Federico Garcia Dura", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "With over 15 years in the software industry, my passion has always been the same: being able to materialize a customer's need into a working solution.\nLove gliders, my guitar and rubik's cube :)", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/federico-garcia-dura", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0cfb472706cb5dab6f95ac3f6b558d69f33f23ed.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 65252, "title": "Sytex - Project management for industrial projects", "tagline": "Sytex helps project teams to deliver faster by empowering collaboration.", "body": "**Hi! we're Sytex, and we want everyone to have great connectivity, anywhere in the world.**\n\nTechnology-deploying industries, like energy and telecom, manage thousands of activities, field crews, documentation, and materials, all in parallel. For project teams, it's nearly impossible to keep up to date with everything that happens while executing, and that's where excel files start flying around.\n\nLarge companies have corporate platforms in place, but mainly to please the necessary management reports.\n\nAs a result, your own connectivity is compromised by delays, miscommunications, and worse of all, quality problems.\n\n## **Our Solution**\n\nAn OS for project teams deploying technology, that's great to use!\n\n* Design and create processes in minutes\n* Manage activities and documents with our mobile app\n* Integrate stock, contractors, quotations, checklists, and much more\n\nOur goal is to make it easier to deploy technology. Creating a community where project resources and field crews showcase their abilities is our next step. We believe this will help everyone to find and source the best talents, and thus, transform rollouts everywhere.\n\nWe are already working with the largest players in LATAM (Telefónica, Claro), Tower companies, and ISPs of all shapes and sizes.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65252&key=user_uploads/347622/e15df937-edb8-45e2-afeb-33b7e5a207b1)\n\n## **Who we are**\n\nWe're Mariano, Juan, Fede and JJ, all Telecom & Software Engineers, with experience delivering project mgmt software, planning, and sales for large industrial companies worldwide.\n\nIn our previous jobs we found that collaborating on information is the biggest driver for a project's success, but today is not encouraged by current software solutions.\n\n## **We’d love your support** 🍻\n\nWe love understanding new project scenarios, geographies, and companies.\n\nWant to give it a try? Know someone that faces these challenges?\n\nWe'd love to talk!\n\nEmail us at [info@sytex.io](mailto:info@sytex.io)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GyS-sytex-project-management-for-industrial-projects", "votes": 325, "created_at": "2022-08-09T22:11:39.603Z" } ] }, { "id": 26872, "name": "Neosync", "slug": "neosync", "former_names": [ "Nucleus" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0f9b88ea0ac50da754bbb784bc3e860890a742e2.png", "website": "https://neosync.dev", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Neosync is an open-source platform that allows you to create anonymized or synthetic data and sync it across all environments for testing and machine learning. Companies in highly regulated industries such as FinTech, HealthTech, InsureTech and those with sensitive data can use Neosync to create production-like data to use for debugging and building features in lower-level environments without the security and privacy risk of using production data. 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Before Nucleus, he was one of the first Product hires at Skyflow, a data privacy and security company, and led Product and GTM for the Fintech market from Seed -> Series B. Prior to Skyflow, he was Head of Product at Truedata, a Managing Consultant at IBM and started his career in Enterprise Sales at Experian and Oracle. He was born in Albania, grew up in Boston and currently resides in San Francisco.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/evisdrenova", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/evisdrenova", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a9794d66ff66b64605d665552bec291fda9e4897.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Nucleus aims to simplify the process of managing microservices • TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/16/nucleus-aims-to-simplify-the-process-of-managing-microservices/", "date": "Jan 16, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 85312, "title": "Neosync - PII Detection and Anonymization in Free-form Text", "tagline": "Real time PII detection and redaction in structured and unstructured data.", "body": "We’re an open source data anonymization and synthetic data platform that companies like Intel, Siemens, C2FO, Alasco and others use to anonymize their sensitive production data and sync it to lower-level environments.\n\nToday, we’re launching a new product designed to detect and anonymize PII data in free-form text.\n\nThese are two main use cases:\n\n1. **Detecting and redacting PII data before sending it to an LLM for inference**. If you’re building agentic systems or working with LLMs and sensitive data, you shouldn’t be sending your sensitive data to those LLMs. You can now use our API to first detect and anonymize that data and then send it to your LLM provider.\n2. **Detecting and redacting PII data before training.** You generally want to avoid training a model on PII (especially if others will be using it). You can use our API to detect and redact free-form text in training data so that you’re not training it on PII.\n\nFor example:\n\nThe text:\n\n```\n{ text: \"Dear Mr. John Chang, your physical therapy for your rotator cuff injury is approved for 12 sessions. Your first appointment with therapist Jake is on 8/1/2024 at 11 AM. Please bring a photo ID. We have your SSN on file as 246-80-1357. Is this correct?\"}\n```\n\nWould be transformed to:\n\n```\nAnonymization result: '{\"text\":\"Dear Mr. \\u003cREDACTED\\u003e, your physical therapy for your rotator cuff injury is approved for 12 sessions. Your first appointment with therapist \\u003cREDACTED\\u003e is on \\u003cREDACTED\\u003e at \\u003cREDACTED\\u003e. Please bring a photo ID. We have your SSN on file as \\u003cREDACTED\\u003e. Is this correct?\"}' \n```\n\nYou can also customize this with custom allow/deny lists and even custom recognizers.\n\nWe’re already working with companies in Healthtech and Fintech on this and would love to open it up to more companies. If you’re interested in trying it out, shoot me a note at [**evis@neosync.dev**](mailto:evis@neosync.dev), and I can get you a sandbox and free credits to trial it.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85312&key=user_uploads/89898/ea3d02aa-68e7-4a21-8bd0-c35f9786490e)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MC0-neosync-pii-detection-and-anonymization-in-free-form-text", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2024-11-06T01:45:44.699Z" }, { "id": 64124, "title": "Nucleus - The Modern Backend Platform for Microservices", "tagline": "Nucleus automates security, observability, secrets management and more for microservices in a single platform.", "body": "**Nucleus is a platform that helps developers build, deploy and manage a production-grade microservices architecture in minutes.**\n\n### **Problem**\n\nBuilding a microservices architecture is complex and can easily take 6+ months. From our experience at our own companies and from talking with many engineering teams, we see that most engineering teams try to build this platform from scratch by piecing together AWS or GCP building blocks. The problem is that this is difficult, incredibly time consuming and if not done right, can be a massive security risk. You shouldn’t have to be an infrastructure and security expert to have a secure, scalable architecture. That’s where Nucleus comes in. \n\n**Who uses Nucleus?**\n\nCompanies that want to use microservices but don’t want to spend months building out their infrastructure. These can be early stage companies that are just starting out, to mid-market companies that are architecting for growth.\n\n**How it works**\n\nNucleus is delivered through an interactive CLI that helps you declaratively define your service. Here is an example of the declarative file:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64124&key=user_uploads/980900/fb0612aa-3ab3-4e0f-8a48-aa76dd40fb8b)\n\nHere is how to deploy a microservice:\n\n1. Install the CLI through homebrew and sign up for an account.\n2. Write your service’s code or use one of our example repos to quickly get started.\n3. Declaratively define your service using the interactive Nucleus CLI. All services are automatically authenticated and secured. Manage things like environment variables, secrets, and logging, all from the CLI.\n4. Deploy your service, and it will be available in less than 2 minutes.\n\n**Can I try it?**\n\nYes! We just kicked off our private beta and would love to have you test the system to the limits. To get started, just shoot us your email so we can add you to the allowlist. Easy as that!\n\n**The Ask**\n\n1. Try us out and give us feedback. 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Shoot me an email at [evis@usenucleus.cloud](mailto:evis@usenucleus.cloud) or feel free to book some time directly here: ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GgG-nucleus-the-modern-backend-platform-for-microservices", "votes": 39, "created_at": "2022-06-28T01:18:30.749Z" } ] }, { "id": 26876, "name": "Zoltar Labs", "slug": "zoltar-labs", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8c6e0f60f05c93e4aa70e811f7fa2df38afbb600.png", "website": "https://www.zoltarlabs.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA", "long_description": "", "one_liner": "AI-assisted CX tool built with your knowledge.", "team_size": 9, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1655313874, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Customer Success", "Customer Support", "Enterprise Software" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zoltar-labs", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/zoltar-labs.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/zoltar-labs", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/ZoltarLabs", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/zoltar-labs", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8c6e0f60f05c93e4aa70e811f7fa2df38afbb600.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 849908, "full_name": "Jensen Kuo", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder and CEO at Zoltar Labs. 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Examples of use cases include: 1) helping e-commerce marketplaces automate customer requests to process an item exchange or track order status, 2) helping freight marketplaces automate customer requests to change a delivery address. \n\nZoltar can be deployed across different support channels including live chats and emails, and is integrated with Intercom / Zendesk / Salesforce / Kustomer so companies can leverage existing systems to resolve user issues more efficiently. \n\n**Who is This For 👶**\n\nCompanies that spend extra time and headcount to process repetitive customer requests, such as:\n\n* ✍️ Tracking orders or returns/refunds\n* ❓Questions related to canceling orders, user accounts being blocked, reactivating user subscriptions, etc\n* Any other repetitive inquiries that your reps are faced with\n\n---\n\n**Why We Built This 😷**\n\nWhen customers contact support, they expect resolution right then and there.\n\nMost AI tools / chatbots on the market today are limited to extracting and presenting information to customers, and cannot offer direct resolutions to customer problems. That means something as simple as changing details about a purchase (in the case of e-commerce, for example) still requires a human rep to resolve. We believe there is a much more efficient way to serve customers.\n\nUnlike common AI chatbots, Zoltar takes action on your customers’ queries with the appropriate API calls, alleviating support reps from manually processing customer requests or performing repetitive tasks.\n\n---\n\n**We’d Love to Hear From You** 🤝\n\nEmail us at [jensen@zoltarlabs.com](https://mailto:jensen@zoltarlabs.com) or [james@zoltarlabs.com](https://mailto:james@zoltarlabs.com) if…\n\n* You are a founder/business owner looking to automate customer tasks that were traditionally done manually \n* You are a COO/CTO/customer ops/customer support director looking to increase support efficiency and reduce cost-per-contact\n\n---\n\n**Sign up for our** [**demo**](https://www.zoltarlabs.com/) **today!**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ghd-zoltar-ai-assisted-cx-tool-built-with-your-knowledge", "votes": 439, "created_at": "2022-06-30T02:36:56.264Z" } ] }, { "id": 26877, "name": "Peoplebox.ai", "slug": "peoplebox", "former_names": [ "Peoplebox Inc", "Peoplebox" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d90945bbd65aa37022870fefcb46d282f82e8624.png", "website": "https://www.peoplebox.ai", "all_locations": "Bengaluru, KA, India", "long_description": "Peoplebox.ai is an AI-native talent platform used by 500+ companies to hire, manage, and grow their people.\r\n\r\nAt the center is Nova, the world’s most human-like AI teammate, for all talent conversations. 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Previously co-founded VideoCrisp in Dublin - a cloud-based video creation platform recognised as one of the world's top 50 startups, featured in PBS and Silicon Republic. Also built Waybiz, a B2B trust marketplace spanning 80,000+ businesses across 110 countries. Holds a B.Tech from IIT Delhi and an MBA from UCD Smurfit Business School. Invited to the U.S. International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP). Passionate about AI, startups & building globally.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhinavchugh/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/abhichugh", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6837d89fbaf16397dc902f9efc2a423a2ea983cb.jpg" }, { "user_id": 551, "full_name": "Alagu M", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Alagu is Co-Founder at Peoplebox. Previously co-founded Askmile, India's popular online relationship counseling platform, and Markupwand (YCS22) a PSD to HTML software. Before founding, he led product at Practo driving 1M+ app downloads and expansion to 10 countries. Holds an engineering degree from NIT Trichy. Passionate about AI, badminton, yoga and Sushi.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alagu2/", "x_url": "https://www.twitter.com/alagu", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/649a049547a0bb38bf536966a8e7be6e558807ac.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 95916, "title": "Nova: The world’s most human-like AI interviewer", "tagline": "Never screen a resume or do a first-round interview manually", "body": "**TL;DR:** [Nova](https://www.peoplebox.ai/nova?utm_source=yc_launch&utm_campaign=yc_post) speeds up your hiring by automating resume screening, interviews, live coding, and instant decision-ready reports - with the most human-like AI.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D6qJRYV2Qc\n\n---\n\n## **The Problem**\n\nYou open your ATS. 300 applicants.\n\nYou start screening. After 10 resumes, everything looks identical.\n\nYou move to interviews.\n\nNo-shows. Rambling candidates. Zero panel bandwidth.\n\nAnd when interviews _do_ happen, **90% get rejected**, wasting everyone’s time.\n\nHiring shouldn’t mean spending most of your time on candidates who are **not a fit**.\n\n---\n\n## **Meet Nova: the digital twin of your best recruiter & interviewer**\n\nNova is really the digital twin of your best recruiter and interviewer, available 24/7.\n\nShe -\n\n1. screens candidates,\n2. makes sourcing calls & outreach,\n3. runs full voice/video interviews (with advance proctoring)\n4. do interactive coding round like an expert engineer\n5. provide detailed report with recommendation\n\nHere’s a real snippet of her interviewing a tech candidate:\n\nhttps://youtu.be/jNqugi34uOU?si=WyrdbA9V1gu9thF6\n\nNova takes over your **whole Level-1 process** so you can only focus on highly vetted candidates\n\nAnd she doesn’t stop there.\n\nShe also finds candidates for you, reaches out via InMails, email sequences, and even phone calls and books the first-round interview directly with herself 😉\n\nInbound, outbound, or referral, Nova owns everything until you receive a detailed, **decision-ready report** for every candidate, without spending a single minute. 👇\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95916&key=user_uploads/213135/784f0317-e896-4f96-87b1-fe4dfc08d939)\n\n\\\nAnd **candidates love it**. Here’s what they say 😄\n\n> I was immensely impressed with the kind of questions and the way the tool responded!\n\nLeo Parker, DevOps Engineer\n\n> The AI voice was quite friendly and human like, which really helped in setting the environment. For example, the pauses and use of ‘Uh’s made feel very natural.\n\nIsabella, Software Architect\n\n---\n\n## **How Nova screens like your best Interviewer?**\n\nAll you need to get started is give her the JD but **you control everything**:\n\n**Skills, depth, difficulty**, interview type, tone, and structure.\n\nNova makes the screening process exactly how you want it.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95916&key=user_uploads/213135/23d75b86-2360-4c0d-a7a6-95ba6a363884)\n\nAnd she gets smarter.\n\nNova learns from your company’s own data: job descriptions, past interviews, ATS notes, performance signals, employee lifecycle insights.\n\nShe turns all of that into **hiring insights** and screen with the judgment of your best people.\n\n## The Impact\n\nMost customers have reduced time-to-first-interview report from **4–5 weeks to under 48 hours**.\n\nHere’s what Sprinto, a hyper-growth SaaS startup had to say\n\n> Nova has been a game changer for our recruitment operations over the last six months. We initially started using it to automate resume screening and shortlisting, and the difference was visible almost immediately. \\\n> \\\n> What used to take hours of manual effort now happens with remarkable accuracy and consistency.\n>\n> Just for the first-round screening alone, we saved well over 100 hours of recruiter time, and that time was redirected toward more meaningful work.”\n>\n> **Shankar Singh, Head of Recruitment, Sprinto**\n\n## **Use Nova to hire your next best talent today**\n\nSee how human-like AI can speed up your hiring:\n\n[https://www.peoplebox.ai/nova](https://www.peoplebox.ai/nova?utm_source=yc_launch&utm_campaign=yc_post)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ox2-nova-the-world-s-most-human-like-ai-interviewer", "votes": 47, "created_at": "2025-12-02T15:44:19.920Z" }, { "id": 64863, "title": "🚀 Peoplebox - OKR & performance platform for hypergrowth companies", "tagline": "A single dashboard to track all strategic goals, initiatives and red-flags, in real-time", "body": "**TL;DR:** [**Peoplebox**](https://peoplebox.ai/) **solves the biggest problems of scaling companies - Misaligned teams and Poor Execution Speed. We do this by integrating with all your work tools, bringing every cross-aligned goal in one single dashboard to identify red flags on time.**\n\nHowdy, Everyone!\n\nWe are [@Abhinav Chugh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhinavchugh/) and [@Alagu M](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alagu2/), founders of Peoplebox, an OKR platform that makes it easy for growing companies to align their teams and execute faster.\n\nIt serves as a source of truth for all your strategic goals and initiatives to align your teams and identify red flags early **without the friction of new software.**\n\nWe are currently helping many companies, including **Razorpay (W15), Disney, Postman, Exotel, Khatabook (S18), StayQrious (W20)** achieve faster business results.\n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\nAs companies grow, they find it difficult to execute their strategy with the same speed as before due to misalignment and lack of cross-functional visibility. OKRs solve this problem, but they are hard to implement.\n\nIn fact, 7 out of 10 OKRs implementations fail, and no 1 reason is: **Set and Forget**.\n\nToday,\n\n* OKRs are written in spreadsheets\n* Metrics are tracked in BI tools\n* But MBRs (Monthly Business Reviews)/ QBRs are done in Powerpoints.\n\n## **✨ What makes Peoplebox different?**\n\nPeoplebox integrates with all your work tools (SQL, Jira, Hubspot, Asana, Slack etc) to make real-time goal tracking and business reviews **magically easy**.\n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/4PtJRPu4p_gt7Jzwxsz_fZ_CxxnHy7ip2_uaUdDMzhgkEy2aU5YuPiz7RBsSTejZP01lVKw9fpPnEouw4KDiuv2AMcUz3u4q4qTMD0xUMcLHG8TFd50aoztjPcan8j1PxX1vxAGHGLibmjKGvxspvAw)\n\nIt aligns and tracks all your strategic priorities, goals & initiatives in one place. This help identifies red flags early and makes timely corrections.\n\nIn addition, your business reviews are structured and super effective, ensuring that\n\n1. It happens on the same place where OKRs are set so you never miss talking about it.\n2. Plug data, narratives, screenshots and media easily.\n3. Can run structured reviews through templates, notes, and action items\n4. Takes a few hours instead of days to prepare for reviews because of automated updates of goals and initiatives\n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/9P-49NV7lpW0inlxEhtDD8KeEA1tlMrN8ogGT9VyS18s-E0pYouj0RVwi97N1SUuOxLsDWvhlBT_RWGVWfN6ZSJapDgdbtDesIVTuEt1wceLgO_UJvBtou3OgrhRiEB4pgm3_AKZKCrr-VatmYcEbaw)\n\nIt is also deeply integrated with Slack to make it super easy for teams to update OKRs progress and tag people to start a conversation and fix the issues instead of waiting for review meetings.\n\n**In addition, Peoplebox also lets you**\n\n* Run your performance reviews cycle entirely only Slack\n* Do effective and actionable 1:1s to build high-performing teams\n* Run automated pulse and engagement surveys to be on top of your culture\n\n### **Who are we, and why are we building this?**\n\nWe are techies turned product guys, having built our first startups in Dublin, Ireland, and SF (YC S12) respectively. We joined [Practo](https://www.practo.com/), one of Asia’s largest health-tech startups, when it had 250 employees and saw it grow to 3,000 in just a couple of years.\n\nWe witnessed the challenges of hypergrowth companies first-hand. We realized as companies grow, the problems of misalignment and lack of cross-functional visibility only becomes larger, resulting in poor execution speed, missed goals, high talent turnover, and sometimes death.\n\nOur vision at Peoplebox is to become the Operating System for strategy execution to help companies align and achieve moonshot goals.\n\n# **🎁 Let’s talk**\n\nIf you are using OKRs or planning to use them, please [check us out](https://www.peoplebox.ai/) and book a demo to see how Peoplebox can help you implement it successfully and accelerate your business growth.\n\nAbhi and Alagu\\\n[www.peoplebox.ai](http://www.peoplebox.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GsB-peoplebox-okr-performance-platform-for-hypergrowth-companies", "votes": 49, "created_at": "2022-07-25T17:02:31.738Z" } ] }, { "id": 26890, "name": "Latent Space", "slug": "latent-space", "former_names": [ "wagmi", "Payable" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6c0b56165e84e87a8ef9fc8ec4eddc18beadea9d.png", "website": "https://latentspace.sh/", "all_locations": "Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia", "long_description": "Latent Space develops AI applications specifically designed to address the unique challenges and opportunities in emerging economies. 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Completely automate your infra docs and compliance materials.", "body": "Hi we are Dan and Phi…\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65103&key=user_uploads/690046/00d3f03c-7be2-4245-be6a-b1ac5931d882)\n\n… and we are building Pluralith!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65103&key=user_uploads/690046/f7d9a731-4769-423f-9dfd-7bdf920137e6)\n\n### **TL;DR**\n\nTitle says it all. Pluralith lets you generate instant infrastructure diagrams from your Terraform codebase, locally (for development) and in CI (for documentation). [**Try it out here!**](https://docs.pluralith.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65103&key=user_uploads/690046/9884a243-92d0-46ea-92f7-7dcd0cedb91c)\n\n### **Watching > Reading**\n\nSo here’s a [freshly baked demo](https://youtu.be/Jbbil9kA-EE) just for you!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65103&key=user_uploads/690046/42257960-a912-40f1-acb6-f089d4da1153)\n\n### **The Problem(s)**\n\n**Problem 1**: Infrastructure documentation is super important and often even required for proper compliance, but can be really time intensive and nobody wants to do it. So you’ve got two options:\n\n→ Stay compliant and have good docs **BUT** loads of dev hours spent on them\n\n→ No/few dev hours spent on docs **BUT** break compliance and no docs when you need them\n\n**Problem 2**: Terraform is awesome, but can become quite messy and intransparent at scale. Understanding what is actually going on requires digging through loads of code and terminal output. Again, lots of dev hours lost here.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65103&key=user_uploads/690046/1fc7af56-e700-4227-bcb9-0fc872b49446)\n\n### **The Solution: Enter Pluralith**\n\n**_Pluralith completely automates problem 1 away._**\n\nRun it in CI, automate parts of your compliance process and always have up-to-date infra diagrams whenever you need them. We throw them into PR comments and have a dedicated markdown integration so you can plug it straight into your existing docs (ReadMes, Confluence etc.). We do change highlighting, drift detection, cost calculations and compliance checks (coming soon) and keep a history of all this stuff in your Dashboard for you so you have a perfect record on how your infra changes over time.\n\n**_Pluralith alleviates problem 2._**\n\nReplace miles of terminal output on a terraform plan with a comprehensive diagram that shows you what your infrastructure looks like, how it’ll change on apply, how much it’ll cost and wether it breaks compliance (coming soon). All you have to do is run `pluralith plan` instead.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65103&key=user_uploads/690046/079e25e0-225e-443b-b052-3eaab564aa50)\n\n### **How It Works**\n\n**Locally**: Download our desktop app and follow it’s setup guide. In a minute you should be able to run `pluralith plan` in any of your Terraform project directories and get a diagram instantly.\n\n**In CI**: The illustration below says it all. Set up Terraform in your pipeline, run Pluralith and there you go. Right now we have dedicated integrations for _GitHub Actions_ and _Gitlab CI._ (Many more to come)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65103&key=user_uploads/690046/42ca4f68-1bff-48c5-a0c0-e9b1c3786746)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65103&key=user_uploads/690046/0f6a5cbc-52d6-4a6c-bfdf-bb4672190d94)\n\n### **Help Us Out?**\n\n→ [**Give it a run**](https://docs.pluralith.com) (either in CI or locally) and let us know all the ways our stuff broke through the emails below!\n\n→ Our open source CLI is looking for some stars. 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But answering a ticket doesn’t fix the outdated help article or product issue that caused it. Someone still has to investigate, gather evidence and make the fix. That’s the work we built Scout to take on.\n\n**Scout lives in Slack and works across your support tickets, customer reviews and threads.** You can ask it:\n\n* “Why did CSAT drop last month, and has it recovered?”\n* “What are customers asking that our help center doesn’t cover?”\n* “Which product issues keep coming up, and who’s affected?”\n\nIt investigates and brings back answers with evidence and customers’ own words. It can then draft a knowledge update or file a Jira/Linear bug with the findings attached. Your team approves every change.\n\nIt also runs recurring reviews, so the work keeps moving without someone remembering to ask. Teach it a rule like “Always exclude our test tickets” and it remembers for future work.\n\n**What customers are seeing:**\n\nAt TrainingPeaks, weekly knowledge upkeep went from 6 hours to 1. At Snapdocs, the share of customer questions covered by approved knowledge grew from 44% to 72% in 11 weeks.\n\nScout works with your existing support stack. You don’t need to use Fini’s customer-facing agent.\n\n**We’d love feedback from YC founders and support teams.** Reply here or DM me and we’ll help you get set up.\n\n\n\nWhat’s one thing buried in your customer conversations that you wish your team had time to investigate?", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/W5J-scout-by-fini-an-ai-teammate-for-your-support-team", "votes": 3, "created_at": "2026-10-19T16:29:07.812Z" }, { "id": 96968, "title": "Fini: Accuracy-first AI for high-stakes support", "tagline": "AI customer support with 100% compliance and 0% hallucinations", "body": "Hey everyone! 👋\n\nWe’re Deepak and Hakim. Before founding Fini (YC W22), we led product and growth teams at Uber, operating at the scale of 200 million+ support tickets every year. We founded Fini believing that AI support can (and should!) be held to a higher standard than human support.\n\n**TL;DR** If you run support for a bank, fintech, insurance company, or any regulated industry, chances are you’ve tried your hand at generic AI support chatbots and realized they’re not a fit. A single hallucinated response can lead to lawsuits and PR disasters, destroying customer trust you’ve worked hard to build over decades. Fini AI was built specifically for these high-stakes environments, resolving 80% of support queries with full compliance and zero hallucinations.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96968&key=user_uploads/1010279/fe000980-ba95-4470-9469-32c24fb5516a)\n\n\n### **Support in regulated industries is broken**\n\nCompanies in finance, insurance, and healthcare face a brutal trade-off:\n\n* **Scale support with humans:** Expensive, hard to hire, and training takes months.\n* **Scale it with generic AI:** High risk of hallucinations, compliance breaches, and protocol violations.\n\nIn regulated spaces, hallucinations or protocol violations aren’t just isolated bad user experiences; it’s a potential regulatory fine. A class-action lawsuit. A PR disaster waiting to happen. Because of this, most teams are forced to stick with slow, expensive manual support, leaving customers waiting even for straightforward queries.\n\n### **The (accuracy) problem**\n\nIf you lead a support team in a regulated industry, you can't just let an LLM loose on your knowledge base.\n\n* Generic models prioritize \"fluency\" over \"factuality.\"\n* They often make up policies or promise refunds that don't exist.\n* Audit trails are often non-existent or hard to parse.\n\nYou end up blind to what the AI is actually saying until it’s too late. This risk forces many companies to pull back on AI support entirely, leading to burnt-out agents and frustrated customers.\n\n### **Fini solves this**\n\nWe built Fini to be accuracy-first. 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We’re Deepak & Hakim, and we have worked on AI systems for customer interaction at companies like Uber, Accenture, and PwC.\n\nWe’ve seen **companies in multiple sectors lose millions of dollars** trying to solve various customer interactions manually through agents - spanning from healthcare claims for insurance companies to millions of customer inbound tickets for B2C enterprises.\n\nAt Fini we categorise and resolve all your customer inbounds in real-time across 50+ languages, and integrates with your CRM systems in less than a week.\n\n**Problem:**\n\nWhen a company tries to scale its operations, it often runs into the following roadblocks in terms of handling customer contact:\n\n1. Customer requests come from multiple channels (emails, CRM, typeform, chatbots, in-app)\n2. These requests are currently solved manually by agents. Actioning this feedback at scale is slow and expensive.\n3. Customer insights are not generated in real time\n\n**How can Fini help me?** \n\nWe can help you to:\n\n* **Integrate channels into one overview:** Collecting requests from across your systems.\n* **Product driven resolution:** Our software redirects customers to self-serve product integrations to solve their issues without any human touch.\n* **Get real-time product insights:** Dashboards tailored to your use-case precisely illuminating customer pain points.\n\n**Want us to help you?** Email [hello@usefini.com](https://mailto:hello@usefini.com) to get set up within a week!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GfI-fini-lightning-quick-customer-contact-resolution", "votes": 34, "created_at": "2022-06-25T00:31:19.513Z" } ] }, { "id": 27040, "name": "Grai", "slug": "grai", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/217dbf57c9649c7822bbee101a62b2d34a750a85.png", "website": "https://www.grai.io", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; London, England, United Kingdom; St. Louis, MO, USA", "long_description": "Grai is open source version control for metadata. 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We make testing data flows between applications painless.**\n\nGo to 👉 [grai.io](http://grai.io)\n\n### 😭 **Problem**\n\nTracking (let alone testing) data once it leaves a production environment is challenging. Whether in a data engineers transformation pipeline, an ML model, or the CFO’s metrics dashboard, that data _will_ be used elsewhere. Without visibility on those use cases data changes remain risky and outage prone.\n\n### 🚀 **Solution**\n\nGrai is an open-source data management platform designed to help you better use your data.\n\n* **Automated data lineage** - Pre-built connectors to keep metadata fresh.\n* **Integrated with git** - Changing a column in your DB? Run data integration tests for all downstream users as part of your standard CI/CD process.\n* **One-stop-shop** - A unified model of your entire data stack.\n* **Your data belongs to you** - Grai is open-source & self-hosted with a cloud option coming soon.\n\n### 🎉 **Closing thoughts (and asks!)**\n\nMy ask: give it a shot!\n\n* Browse the [code](https://github.com/grai-io/grai-core)\n* Check out the [demo](https://github.com/grai-io/grai-core/tree/master/examples/quick_start_postgres)\n* Reach out! 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Best way to deal with unsolved problems no one solving is to solve yourself and that's the genesis of my entrepreneur journey at HireSure.ai ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramesh-k-b6044b51/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/863df2d9ce15f2fa239d0c10354dd767f3307007.jpg" }, { "user_id": 861181, "full_name": "Anshul Mishra", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Having learned product and technology while creating value out it, has been my journey so far. \n\nInto my second stint as a founder, I am very passionate about developing scalable products and making things that is loved by its users.\n ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/anshul-mishra01/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9b0dc01a4f43c650f2909ba7a78b49a9e78e497c.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "HireSure.ai Bags Funding From Y Combinator To Help Companies Eliminate Pay Disparities", "url": "https://inc42.com/buzz/hiresure-ai-bags-funding-from-y-combinator-to-help-companies-eliminate-pay-disparities/", "date": "Feb 15, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 65208, "title": "🚀 Hiresure.ai is Pave for India to Benchmark Compensation", "tagline": "HireSure.ai provides the most accurate real-time compensation benchmarking data which helps you make the right offer to your candidates", "body": "Hi YC fam [👋.](https://emojipedia.org/waving-hand/) We’re [Anurag](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/858890), [Anshul](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/861181), and [Ramesh](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/861169) and we’re excited to launch [HireSure.ai](http://HireSure.ai)\n\n\\\n😎 **TLDR**: [HireSure.ai](http://HireSure.ai) is a tool that provides the most accurate and **real-time compensation benchmark data**. [HireSure.ai](http://HireSure.ai) allows companies to prepare and communicate their offer to the candidate while predicting the chances of offer decline.\n\n### **😡 The problem**\n\nWith over 500M white-collared job offers rolled out annually, companies find it very **difficult to be certain about what to offer**. Companies rely on old compensation survey data, which are updated only once every year.\n\nThe salary expectations of candidates in the market change significantly on a quarterly basis (**_\\~7% statistically_**) in the startup ecosystem.\n\nThis results in more than 50% of qualified/selected candidates not joining the company due to expectation mismatch.\n\n### [**🤩**](https://emojipedia.org/emoji/%F0%9F%A4%A9/) **The Solution**\n\n[HireSure.ai](http://HireSure.ai) is an API-driven compensation benchmarking tool. We integrate with your existing HR/payroll systems, removing the need for manual data entry, and also **getting updated in real-time**.\n\n\\\n[HireSure.ai](http://HireSure.ai) provides the most accurate real-time compensation benchmarking data which helps you **make the right offer** to the candidate. The platform allows you to communicate your offer to the candidate in the **most presentable and engaging manner**. It also uses behavior signals to **predict a potential dropout** in order to make course-correction to retain them.\n\n\\\nThis has the following advantages :\n\n* All the process of compensation **data submission is automatic** and needs no manual intervention\n* Since the job market is dynamic in nature, the offers made on [HireSure.ai](http://HireSure.ai)’s **real-time benchmarks** would be the most efficient\n* The presentation of the offer to the candidate makes it look **more appealing** and **explanatory** to the candidate\n* **Predicting a potential dropout** help companies put focused efforts into retaining the candidate\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65208&key=user_uploads/858890/d144ffa8-0f31-4014-b66a-4db7dd8c228c)\n\n\n### [**🤩**](https://emojipedia.org/emoji/%F0%9F%A4%A9/) **The Ask**\n\n* **Warm introductions to Indian startups** (above 100 employees ) for a product demo\n* If you wish to know more or have any feedback (especially negative), we would be very happy to get in touch [anurag@hiresure.ai](mailto:anurag@hiresure.ai)\n\n### **😀 The Deal**\n\n* All Indian YC companies that sign up by Sep’22 shall be getting compensation benchmarks **for free** (make sure you have this data before appraisals [🤭](https://emojis.wiki/face-with-hand-over-mouth/)).\\\n Reach out to me at [anurag@hiresure.ai](mailto:anurag@hiresure.ai) or [Sign Up Here](https://www.hiresure.ai/about/contact)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gxk-hiresure-ai-is-pave-for-india-to-benchmark-compensation", "votes": 49, "created_at": "2022-08-08T17:19:59.840Z" } ] }, { "id": 27096, "name": "Relate", "slug": "relate", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0725d56b3f25795eb6a4bdff83720f3b685c1167.png", "website": "https://www.relate.so/", "all_locations": "Seoul, Seoul, South Korea; San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Relate is a modern Sales and Marketing CRM platform for B2B companies.", "one_liner": "All-in-One Sales and Marketing CRM for B2B teams", "team_size": 7, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Sales", "launched_at": 1654126259, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Sales", "CRM" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Sales" ], "regions": [ "South Korea", "United States of America", "East Asia", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/relate", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/relate.json", "year_founded": 2019, "city": "Seoul", "country": "KR", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/relatecrm/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/relatecrm", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pixelic", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0725d56b3f25795eb6a4bdff83720f3b685c1167.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 12460, "full_name": "SJ (Sangyong) Jung", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "SJ (CEO) was the co-founder and co-CEO of Sentbe (2015-2018), a fintech company offering cross-border money transfer services. 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Our customers kept asking for a simple email tool that works with our CRM.\n\nSo we built it. They loved it. Then we realized everyone wants simpler email sending. That’s why we made it a standalone product — Spread.\n\n**Spread.** **We're making email simple and easy.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88529&key=user_uploads/380923/68398109-cf5f-4980-bea5-1eb8c83b6d13)\n\n**tl;dr**\n\n* **Spread is an email sending platform that combines sales emails (cold), marketing, product, and transactional email together.**\n* Give it a try: [**www.spread.so**](http://www.spread.so)\n\nEmail is still the best way to reach customers. Unlike social media, emails wait in your customer's inbox until they're read. \\*\\*Write something worth reading, and engagement follows.\\*\\*\\\n\\\n**But sending emails is still painful.** Writing a simple oneoff campaign is too complicated. We were tired of using multiple tools for marketing, product, transactional and sales emails.\n\nWorse, managing contacts across tools is chaos - endless CSV exports/imports between marketing, sales, product, and transactional emails.\n\nSpread makes it easy by:\n\n* Notion-like email editor (markdown supported!)\n* Easy integration with emails\n* Automatic 1:1 email sequencing\n* Triggered emails based on contact adds\n* Forms, Docs, Calendar to capture leads", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/N1t-spread-simple-email-sending-for-marketing-sales-product-and-transactional-emails", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2025-03-12T18:46:02.099Z" }, { "id": 76188, "title": "Relate: Modern Sales CRM for B2B Startups", "tagline": "Meet Relate, a modern sales CRM platform for B2B startups and small businesses!", "body": "Hey YC!\n\nAfter nearly two years of building in private, we are finally opening our doors to build Relate with a broader public user community. **Today, we're launching **[**Relate**](https://www.relate.so/)** — a modern sales CRM software built for B2B startups.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76188&key=user_uploads/380923/6293f5c2-08fd-4db5-9062-f5e8b3a9bdce)\n\n### **Why are we building a new CRM platform?**\n\nIt started with scratching our own itch. Before building Relate, we spent our [first four pivots](https://www.relate.so/blog/six-applications-y-combinator/) working on various B2B products. We needed a way to track our early sales and customer development activities, so we picked a CRM available on the market then — and we quickly found we were limited with old processes.\n\nOur sales motion, as a result, was very slow. We jumped around different CRM solutions, but none worked for us. Adding customer profiles was cumbersome and felt manual. Updating deals daily was taking longer than the selling itself.\n\nWhy isn't there a simple and easy-to-use CRM that just works out of the box?\n\nFor chat, we love using Slack. And for issue tracking, we love using Linear. But what about sales? Why isn't there a CRM that gives you similar excitement and joy as Slack and Linear?\n\nFrustrated by failing to find one, we built Relate to solve our problem.\n\n### **Introducing Relate CRM**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76188&key=user_uploads/380923/b84023b5-8f7a-4d1c-91cd-3a40d059d3f2)\n\nRelate offers a simple way to build customer relationships and collaborate with teams in one place.\n\n**Why Relate?**\n\n* It’s simple. No feature bloat, no heavy implementation, workflow setup.\n* Crafted product experience for startups\n* Powerful workflows and collaborative features that come with the product\n* Free plan! Get started without paying\n\n**Relate lets you:**\n\n* Track prospects, deals, and customers in one place\n* Manage your sales workflow and pipeline\n* Link and keep all your sales notes and email history together\n* Collaborate with your team on sales\n* Analyze and monitor sales productivity and efficiency\n\n**Try out for yourself!**\n\n* [**Get started free on Relate CRM**](https://www.relate.so/)\n\n**YC Deal**\n\n* 50% off — Standard Plan for 1 year\n* How to redeem: email [we@relate.so](mailto:we@relate.so) with a screenshot of your company profile on Bookface!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Joq-relate-modern-sales-crm-for-b2b-startups", "votes": 20, "created_at": "2023-11-13T22:03:51.456Z" }, { "id": 64070, "title": "Relate - Simple CRM that makes sales easy for startups", "tagline": "Relate lets you track customer communication and manage sales in one place.", "body": "[**Relate**](https://www.relate.so/) **is a simple sales CRM designed for startups and SMBs.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64070&key=user_uploads/380923/a66d17d0-fbf0-4b4e-a395-242b8d45dc14)\n\n\\\nWe tried every sales CRM out there and couldn't find a simple, easy-to-use CRM for startups like us. We just wanted something simple - a good way to track leads, deals, and customer communication in one place.\\\n\\\nSo we decided to build it!\n\n**Relate lets you:**\n\n* Track leads & customers in one place.\n* Track deals and manage sales pipeline.\n* Collaborate with your team on customer communication.\n* Use Command+K bar and shortcuts to navigate between customers from your keyboard! 🏄⌨️\n\n**Collaborative sales:** Comment on emails, notes, and deals with your team. Invite your developers, PMs, etc. as guests to share/discuss sales opportunities or customer inquiries together.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64070&key=user_uploads/380923/b55bc706-7849-4472-b7a3-8fe61abece74)\n\n\\\n**Keep your sales notes, emails, customer data in one place:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64070&key=user_uploads/380923/25b3f56f-d824-4627-ba4b-0d87a07fe750)\n\n# **Who's it for?**\n\nEarly-stage B2B founders & sales teams that need easier way to track customers and sales.\n\n# **How does it compare vs. spreadsheets and/or Notion template?**\n\n\\- Relate is simple as spreadsheets, but it is a full-fledged CRM that integrates with your Gmail/Outlook. You can **send/reply to emails in Relate and view email history** for all your customers.\\\n\\- Relate links leads, customer lists, sales pipeline, and your sales notes together.\n\n# **Get early access**\n\nGet on our waitlist & sign up for early access onboarding call today!\\\n👉👉 [**Get Early Access**](https://www.relate.so/)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GfO-relate-simple-crm-that-makes-sales-easy-for-startups", "votes": 129, "created_at": "2022-06-25T04:51:54.178Z" } ] }, { "id": 27108, "name": "Sanifu", "slug": "sanifu", "former_names": [ "Patika Technology Limited", "Patika" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/dc10943e14517d77a119ecad164eb2d76d6db52b.png", "website": "https://sanifu.ai", "all_locations": "Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya; Remote", "long_description": "Sanifu automates the repetitive work spreadsheets are used for. Teams across finance, marketing, operations, and revenue simply describe their repetitive work like cleaning and validating data, matching records, preparing reports and moving data from emails, PDFs and Excel exports into dashboards and other systems. Sanifu captures the steps, rules and outputs so the work is repeated reliably every time\r\n\r\nSome of these work never needed spreadsheets to begin with; the likes of data cleanup, bank reconciliations, report consolidation, payment allocations, channel attributions. Spreadsheets have become the standard workbench for handling these tasks and in the process, teams lose valuable time doing manual data entry, filling templates, formatting data, applying formulas, deleting rows or columns.\r\n\r\nSanifu is replacing the spreadsheet while maintaining the logic and processes behind the work, getting you from inputs to your desired outputs in seconds. This significantly reduces time spent on copy-paste work, spreadsheet cleanup, and manual entries and checking, while improving accuracy, consistency, and operational visibility. Sanifu helps teams scale critical back-office processes without relying on brittle spreadsheets, scripts, or general AI tools that reinvent the logic every run.\r\n\r\nSanifu is a full operational platform with 5k+ app integrations, 1k+ native functions, forms, scheduler, data stores, dashboards, approvals, reviews, AI-powered entity matching among many other features that make it an end-to-end data app management platform", "one_liner": "Automate the repetitive work spreadsheets are used for", "team_size": 5, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Operations", "launched_at": 1655225496, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Analytics", "Data Engineering", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Operations" ], "regions": [ "Kenya", "Africa", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sanifu", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/sanifu.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "Nairobi", "country": "KE", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/sanifu", "x_url": "https://x.com/SanifuAi", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/Patika-Africa-103542242060777", "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/dc10943e14517d77a119ecad164eb2d76d6db52b.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/21096d7db5182ef9ab5248fc56a7e958ee819e84.png" ], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 747527, "full_name": "Sidney Rema", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder & CEO at Patika - helping finance, marketing, operations, and revenue teams automate the manual data processes they currently do across spreadsheets, emails, PDFs, and disconnected systems.\n\nTrained as a Medical Doctor (Partly). 5 Years+ experience in Banking - Extending credit to micro & small businesses in Nairobi, Kenya. 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Teams across finance, revenue, and operations simply describe their repetitive work like cleaning and validating data, matching records and moving data across systems. Sanifu captures the steps, rules and outputs and runs it automatically and reliably every time.\n\nThis significantly reduces time spent on copy-paste work, spreadsheet cleanup, and manual entries and checking, while improving accuracy, consistency, and operational visibility. Sanifu helps teams scale critical back-office processes without relying on brittle spreadsheets, scripts, or general AI tools that reinvent the logic every run.\n\n\n\n### **The problem**\n\nAnalysts and teams in finance, revenue, and operations spend a huge part of their day doing manual data work. Cleaning data, preparing reports, moving things across systems, tracking work. It's repetitive, boring, and takes time away from the parts of their job that actually matter. The same work gets done repeatedly because their data is scattered across systems, emails, PDFs, and files. Only a few people know the rules and exceptions. When they leave, the process breaks.\n\nExisting tools don't solve the whole problem. Spreadsheets, macros, and scripts are brittle and hard to maintain. General AI tools can help, but they reinvent the logic on every run, so outputs need constant checking and can't be trusted for critical workflows.\n\n### **How Sanifu solves this**\n\nAnyone can turn their manual data work into an autonomous data app—just by describing it.\n\n1.⁠ ⁠You describe the process.\n\nIn plain English, you walk Sanifu through what you do. It asks the right questions, handles edge cases, understands your rules, and works with your real data (files, emails, systems) to define the full workflow.\n\n2.⁠ ⁠Sanifu runs it with you.\n\nIt executes the process end-to-end, showing real-time progress and outputs. You review results, make changes, and refine the workflow until it matches exactly what you expect.\n\n3.⁠ ⁠It becomes a reliable operations platform.\n\nOnce approved, Sanifu saves the entire process and turns it into a data app. All future runs replay the exact steps whereby the same input plus same context equals same output. It’s more than a workflow tool: built-in data stores, dashboards, forms, integrations, scheduled and event triggers as well as audit trails.\n\nSanifu is a full operational platform with 5k+ app integrations, 1k+ native components, forms, scheduler, data stores, dashboards, approvals, reviews, AI-powered entity matching among many  other features that make it an end-to-end data app management platform.\n\nSome of the fastest growing teams in various industries are already using Sanifu to save their team’s hundreds of hours per day of manual data handling.\n\n**Asks**\n\nIf you run a SaaS, finance, ops, or sales team and you have a workflow that involves cleaning, matching, moving data across systems or manual reporting, please reach out. We'll build your first data app with you, free, in exchange for honest feedback.\n\n* Get Free $25 Credits at  \n* Talk to us: [founders@sanifu.ai](mailto:founders@sanifu.ai) or WhatsApp +254 712 983 630\n* Intros welcome: anyone in finance, ops, RevOps, or biz ops at a YC company is exactly our ICP.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QLn-sanifu-automate-the-repetitive-work-spreadsheets-are-used-for", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2026-05-13T18:32:52.849Z" }, { "id": 64212, "title": "🚀 Patika - Receivable Automation & Payments for Africa’s SMBs", "tagline": "Enabling SMBs in Africa to track customer debt, facilitate the repayments and manage their cash flow", "body": "**Patika enables Africa’s SMBs to track customer debt, facilitate the repayments and manage their cash flow**\n\nMy mum runs a small shop and we saw her struggle with this problem. She was spending up to 3 hours a day doing phone call follow ups and reconciliations.\n\n### **Problem**\n\nSMBs in Africa are using pen and paper to record and track customer debt which is ineffective and time consuming. As a result, up to 60% is paid late and they lose as much as $2k a year to non-payments.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64212&key=user_uploads/742381/aaeddd2a-247c-4173-bfcf-07ba02343ced)\n\n### **Solution**\n\nWe are automating previously manual processes like debt repayment reminders, billing, payments and reconciliations.\n\n1. A business on Patika adds their customer and the debt amount.\n2. Patika sends automated payment reminders directly via SMS or WhatsApp.\n3. The customer can pay them directly through the payment link they received or if paid in cash, they can record the repayment on the app and issue a receipt.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64212&key=user_uploads/742381/9aff975c-0730-4a97-9e40-a87d1b2fff2f)\n\n\n### **Want to join us?**\n\n1. You can reach us at [founders@patika.africa](mailto:founders@patika.africa)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ghg-patika-receivable-automation-payments-for-africa-s-smbs", "votes": 43, "created_at": "2022-06-30T05:47:38.319Z" } ] }, { "id": 27140, "name": "Boton", "slug": "boton", "former_names": [ "Hero" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/358e3bc7c5a63ac1e3b373ee88906f1251181ba4.png", "website": "https://www.botonapp.com/", "all_locations": "Panama City, Panama, Panama", "long_description": "SMBs in Latam use Boton to get real-time financial statements prepared by an autonomous agent. We match you with a partner accountant that may review your books and answer your questions.", "one_liner": "Accounting software with an AI agent", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1658191841, "tags": [ "SaaS", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "regions": [ "Panama", "Latin America" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/boton", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/boton.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "Panama City", "country": "PA", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/botonapp", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/358e3bc7c5a63ac1e3b373ee88906f1251181ba4.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/8abbb4ed82c45a4e6b5b74a8c79cec007e1c0f12.png" ], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 376933, "full_name": "Alvaro Sosa", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Founder at Hero", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alvaro-sosa-281478ba/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/asosa16", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f6c0186a83ddb80fea33a2d2d2e388096828b30b.jpg" }, { "user_id": 367160, "full_name": "Fernando Varela", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Ex quant. 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Some get lost, some get erased, and some become a source of questioning. What was that receipt for?\n\nEventually someone makes a **spreadsheet**, **prints** it out, and staples it to corresponding receipts. His/her boss approves these by **signing** with a **pen**.\n\nLater on, an accountant **transcribes** these into some sort of **accounting** software.\n\nIt takes months for decision makers in the company to know how much they are really spending.\n\n### **Companies with Hero**\n\nAn employee uses his/her **Hero Card** to make a purchase. He/she immediately receives a **WhatsApp** message from our bot, asking for a **picture** of the receipt.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65394&key=user_uploads/376933/c4c4b771-3bc0-4bf6-835d-7e7955e40181)\n\nUsers use our **webapp** to create **reports** and manage **reimbursements**.\\\nAll expenses go through Hero’s **OCR engine.**\n\nAccountants use our webapp to **export** expense information to their **accounting** **software** of choice.\n\nDecision makers see in realtime how much their company is spending.\n\n### **Why We Built This**\n\nAlvaro was managing the expenses for a remote company. Employees would send him pictures of receipts via WhatsApp along with a typed out table, asking for reimbursement. \n\nWe hacked away a no-front-end version that saved Alvaro 2 hours per week. We eventually polished the product and started selling it.\n\n# **How can you help us?**\n\nIf you’re in Latam and you spend time reporting expenses or dealing with receipts, reach out to us!\n\nGive us a [follow](https://www.instagram.com/hero_facturas/)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H0k-hero-bill-com-for-latam", "votes": 35, "created_at": "2022-08-16T13:56:54.161Z" } ] }, { "id": 27153, "name": "UpLink", "slug": "uplink", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2ea767a408cc57b55584c2042808e466cf2c64d6.png", "website": "https://www.uplinkapp.io", "all_locations": "Palm Beach Gardens, FL, USA; Washington, DC, USA; Remote", "long_description": "UpLink's founding team worked as auditors and software engineers at PwC where they saw firsthand how difficult it was to collect thousands of documents from clients.\r\n\r\nAlex Maher and Alex Grant met working on PwC’s big data analytics platform, scaling it from 0 to 20k users globally. Brady and Nick met while studying CS at a top 5 public university, but still insist they were self-taught. They were, by far, the top developers on Alex Maher’s team before starting UpLink. 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After teaching himself to code, he switched into an internal role at the firm managing software development teams. \n\nHe left the accounting world in 2018 to become the Director of Software Development at a publicly traded telcom construction company. He worked there 4 years before leaving to start UpLink in May of 2022.\n\nAlex lives in Florida with his wife, Laura, and their two sons, Brooks (6) and Jack (2).", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/maher-alex/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0f04399733a06aa4accd291a026bf4ef66b0d15c.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1033897, "full_name": "Alexander Grant", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Alex is a strong technical leader with a passion for software development. He specializes in the end-to-end software delivery cycle, from writing scalable and understandable code to complete full-stack automated testing. 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Even code scanning and attack surface management are built in\n* We deal with external auditors, so you don't have to, speaking their language when needed\n* We act as an extension of your team, providing ongoing expert security help\n\nㅤ\n\n# **How It Works**\n\n1. **Scoping** – We assess your infrastructure, security concerns, and compliance needs\n2. **Custom Program** – We craft security that fits your size and needs\n3. **Expert Setup** – Our team of security and compliance experts guides you through implementation minus the jargon\n4. **Penetration Testing** – OSCE-certified experts find your weak spots\n5. **Compliance Automation** – We streamline SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and more\n6. **Auditor Wrangling** – We battle incompetent external auditors so you don't have to\n7. **24/7 Protection** – Continuous monitoring keeps you secure, always\n\nㅤ\n\n# **What We Offer**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84326&key=user_uploads/233375/ddd8e80c-171f-45c2-a7bb-ce6baba122f5)\n\n* Compliance automation that actually works (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, & PCI)\n* OSCE-certified penetration testing\n* Third-party auditing with external auditors who get security\n* vCISO services\n* Employee Portal\n* Code security scanning\n* Attack surface monitoring\n* Mobile Device Management (MDM)\n\nㅤ\n\n## **Ready to Ditch Security Theater?**\n\nIf you're tired of pretending to be secure and want the real deal:\n\n* Book a call: https://calendly.com/d/cwr7-ztb-xxq/oneleet-introduction\n* Email us: [founders@oneleet.com](mailto:founders@oneleet.com)\n\nStuck with another platform? 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Before Palantir, Youssef obtained an MEng from Imperial College London in EEE.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/youssef-rizk-397b19107", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/youssefarizk", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b0511bffdeb8b4d1ad42a2b53763f5992d38ed09.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1010390, "full_name": "Dimitris Nikolaou", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Dimitris co-founded Wondercraft after spending 4 years as an engineer at Palantir, where he also met Youssef. Before that, he graduated with an MSc in CS from Imperial. During studies, he did a few internships as a Data Scientist and at a Hedge Fund. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitris-nikolaou-29753080/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/dimireadsthings", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e0636737dc5f948c5020c5143651d89db4ed175c.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Wondercraft raises $3 million Seed funding for the 'Canva of audio' - Tech.eu", "url": "https://tech.eu/2024/01/29/wondercraft-raises/", "date": "Jan 29, 2024" }, { "title": "Wondercraft: Audio AI Startup Raises $3 Million in Seed Funding", "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/wondercraft-audio-ai-startup-raises-3-million-in-seed-funding-2024-1", "date": "Jan 29, 2024" }, { "title": "Wondercraft raises $3m to build AI-powered Audio Studio", "url": "https://www.wondercraft.ai/blog/wondercraft-launches-audio-studio", "date": "Jan 29, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 71541, "title": "🎙 Wondercraft - Create studio-quality podcasts in seconds", "tagline": "We enable anyone to create studio-quality podcasts in seconds using AI-powered text-to-speech technology.", "body": "**_Tl;dr:_** _Wondercraft leverages AI to simplify podcast creation. Tell us the name of your podcast and what you want to talk about in this episode and we’ll generate a podcast for you in seconds. Add your own music, voices, and make sure it’s just right for your use-case. Whether you're a seasoned podcaster or new to the game, _[_Wondercraft_](https://www.wondercraft.ai/)_ makes it easy to create engaging content._ _Curious how it sounds? Check out the [_Hacker News Recap_](https://www.buzzsprout.com/2170103)._\\\n[_CHECK OUT DEMO_](https://youtu.be/0VYh2TFYVCY)\n\nHey there, we are Dimitris and Youssef, co-founders of Wondercraft. Our mission is to empower podcast creators with cutting-edge AI technology, making podcasting accessible to anyone.\n\n### **🧨 The Problem: Podcasting can be time-consuming and challenging**\n\nCreating high-quality podcasts is not easy, and finding the right voice for your content can be a struggle. Moreover, recording your own voice can be time-consuming, and outsourcing it can be costly.\n\n### **🎉 The Solution: AI-Powered Text to Speech Technology for effortless Podcast Creation**\n\nWondercraft is redefining podcast creation with AI-powered text-to-speech technology. Our virtual studio seamlessly translates your content ideas into an engaging script, brought to life by a spectrum of realistic AI voices. For a more intimate connection with your audience, you can even utilize a clone of your own voice. Complementing the narrative, you can layer-in music and sound effects for a richer listening experience. And the best part? Publication to podcast platforms is a breeze - execute it all directly from our integrated platform.\n\n### **🔦 Use Cases: Business marketing, newsbites and more**\n\nCrafting marketing podcasts for businesses, transforming blog posts into auditory experiences, and producing quick newsbite podcasts for various publications are just a few of the exciting uses for our platform that we're currently seeing. Even podcast studios are loving this as an accelerant to their current work. **A standout success story** has been the [Hacker News Recap podcast](https://hackernewsrecap.buzzsprout.com/). This daily digest, reviewing the top 10 posts on Hacker News, is created entirely through Wondercraft's automated tools. Impressively, in just 1 month, it climbed into the [top 40 tech podcasts chart on Spotify](https://www.wondercraft.ai/post/ai-podcast-enters-top-50-in-28-days).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=71541&key=user_uploads/1010390/0578d4af-68b2-4a03-8930-1fca74a0c5af)\n\n\\\n**💲Opportunity: The Exciting Future of Podcasting**\n\nPodcasting is on the brink of a big change. AI tools are making it easier than ever to start your own podcast and connect with your audience.\n\nWhat's more, we see a future where podcasts are tailor-made for every listener. With AI making the audio, the only hurdle left is picking the content - a challenge that many have already mastered. Want to learn more? Reach out to [team@wondercraft.ai](mailto:team@wondercraft.ai).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ibt-wondercraft-create-studio-quality-podcasts-in-seconds", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2023-05-12T16:18:07.685Z" }, { "id": 65039, "title": "Moonshot - Angel Investing in athletes 🏈🎾⚽️🏀🚀", "tagline": "Support you favourite athlete early on, share some of their future success", "body": "**tl;dr** 🏈🎾⚽️🏀\n\nWith Moonshot you can angel invest in athletes. We enable promising athletes to fund their professional journey with the help of a community of backers, in exchange for a portion of their earnings when they make it.\n\nHey everyone! We’re [Youssef](https://www.linkedin.com/in/youssef-rizk-397b19107/) and [Dimitris](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitris-nikolaou-29753080/), co-founders of Moonshot. We met working at Palantir as software engineers and recently left to build on a mission that is near and dear to our hearts.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65039&key=user_uploads/1010390/8bc31829-f3dc-4348-8582-2f85da5d3501)\n\n**What’s the problem?**\n\n**Becoming a professional athlete is expensive and risky.** Professional tennis players spend more than $100,000 annually to finance tournament fees, travel, accommodation, coaching, etc, which is prohibitive for most mere mortals. As a result, only those privileged enough to sustain this deficit can really make it in the sport. This is a real problem for those with underprivileged backgrounds, but don’t just take our word for it, take Hollywood’s. [The Blind Side](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0878804/) (true story) and [Hustle](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8009428/) capture this essence in their storylines.\n\n**How do we solve this? We bring supporters to the rescue**\n\nBack your favourite up-and-coming athlete by investing in their career! When they make it big, you’ll have secured the ultimate bragging rights, and you’ll make a nice return on your investment in the form of a cut (think \\~5-10%) on their future earnings.\n\nAthletes get the money they need to continue their professional career. Backers get to meaningfully support their favourites and a significant financial stake in their success. Win win.\n\n**Some concrete use cases we’ve come across**\n\n1. Individual sports (Tennis, Golf and Motorsports) - capital may act as a catalyst, by providing the opportunity to fund competition participation and better coaching.\n2. Team sports (Basketball and Football) - capital may act as an insurance policy. A college athlete can capitalise on the potential of a future large contracts in the NBA or NFL.\n3. In most sports, there are one-off career changing events - think of preparation for the NFL Draft Combine, or making a run for the Olympics. Capital may act as a bridge in order for the athlete to reach peak level at the time of the event.\n\n**Want to contribute**\n\n1. Sign up to our backers [waitlist](https://moonshot.li/). We’re launching in September and spots are limited (250).\n2. Know athletes who could benefit from Moonshot? Refer them to [info@moonshot.li](mailto:info@moonshot.li) and get a talent referral bonus if they sign up!\n3. Know backers who’d passionately love to invest in a sport? Refer them to [info@moonshot.li](mailto:info@moonshot.li) and get a backer referral bonus.\n4. Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/86677997), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/moonshotli/) and [Twitter](https://twitter.com/moonshot_li)!\n\n**quick blurb to copy & paste**: Check out this YC company that is building a platform that allows you to support your favourite up and coming athlete by investing in their career. [This](http://www.moonshot.li/) is their website - contact [founders@moonshot.li](mailto:founders@moonshot.li) for more.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gv1-moonshot-angel-investing-in-athletes", "votes": 107, "created_at": "2022-08-01T14:25:50.808Z" } ] }, { "id": 27172, "name": "Clearline", "slug": "clearline", "former_names": [ "Lancey" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/53a34147e63b67c7a9270226ba55f80c0701d86e.png", "website": "https://useclearline.com", "all_locations": "Kitchener, ON, Canada", "long_description": "Clearline is the AI operating system that captures, routes, and converts every revenue opportunity across your dealership without adding headcount.", "one_liner": "AI for modern automotive dealerships", "team_size": 5, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1655587130, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "AI", "Automotive" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "Canada", "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/clearline", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/clearline.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Kitchener", "country": "CA", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/teamclearline/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/53a34147e63b67c7a9270226ba55f80c0701d86e.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": 942902, "full_name": "Adi Patel", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CEO @ Clearline", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/pateladi/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/39fe4dd168336efa366aa995815ff74af1c5e6bc.jpg" }, { "user_id": 970753, "full_name": "Abhi Patel", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Making something people want", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhishek-patel27/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/80aa2c99c9f71ff91ccb8cc6feba51b95f2d34df.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Led by former Ada employees, Lancey secures $2 million to let B2B software buyers “try before you buy” | BetaKit", "url": "https://betakit.com/led-by-former-ada-employees-lancey-secures-2-million-to-let-b2b-software-buyers-try-before-you-buy/", "date": "Dec 05, 2022" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 99746, "title": "Clearline | AI native revenue engine for automotive", "tagline": "Clearline deploys AI agents that answers every inbound call, follows up on every lead, and tracks every customer interaction for car dealerships, 24/7.", "body": "Hey everyone! We're Adi and Abhi, the founders of Clearline.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99746&key=user_uploads/942902/e3dbee2c-c4a0-4485-ad87-4509317bb2c9)\n\n### The Problem\n\nCustomer experience at car dealerships is broken. Not because the teams don't care, but because the systems were never built for how customers actually behave today.\n\nHere's the reality:\n\n* **23% of dealership calls go unanswered.** 85% of those callers never call back. That's revenue walking out the door every single day.\n* **Most lead follow-up dies by day 5.** Dealerships spend thousands driving traffic and generating leads, then let them rot in a CRM nobody checks.\n* **Sales uses one system. Service uses another. Nobody has the full picture.** Reps waste time on manual logging, managers guess at what's happening, and customers repeat themselves every time they call.\n\nDealerships have tried to solve this with more tools, more staff, more process. It doesn't work. The stack is fragmented and nothing talks to each other.\n\n### The Solution\n\nClearline is an AI-native operating system for dealerships. Three products, one platform:\n\n**Inbound** - AI answers every sales and service call instantly. No voicemail, no hold music, no transfers. It qualifies intent, routes to the right department, and books appointments in real-time. 24/7, including nights and weekends.\n\n**Outbound** - Automated follow-up via calls, texts, and email. Clearline responds to new inquiries within seconds and runs disciplined cadences from day 1 through day 90. No lead gets forgotten.\n\n**CRM** - One unified record across sales, service, and BDC. Full call transcripts, automatic logging, next steps triggered without anyone typing a note. Managers get complete visibility with real data.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99746&key=user_uploads/942902/dd50c407-f1a1-4910-b1c3-7124bd3e294b)\n\n### Results\n\nDealerships see this in their first 30 days:\n\n* **$60K+ revenue recovered** from missed calls and dead leads\n* **240% more leads engaged**\n* **4+ tools consolidated** into one platform\n\n> _\"Recovered $78K in service and sales revenue from 400 missed calls per month._\n\n> _\"Show rate on outbound appointments went from 38% to 64% in the first month._\n\n### You're Always in Control\n\nThis isn't about replacing dealership staff. Clearline augments your team:\n\n* AI escalates to a human anytime a situation needs real judgment\n* It only operates within rules you define (hours, routing, boundaries)\n* It only uses dealership-approved responses for pricing and policies\n* Every call, message, and booking is logged and reviewable\n\n### Try Clearline\n\nIf you run a dealership or know someone who does, we'd love to chat.\n\n[Book a demo](https://useclearline.com/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=launch_yc)\n\nReach us directly at [founders@useclearline.com](mailto:founders@useclearline.com) or check us out at [Clearline](https://useclearline.com/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=launch_yc)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pwo-clearline-ai-native-revenue-engine-for-automotive", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2026-04-14T21:10:47.506Z" }, { "id": 95485, "title": "Lancey - connect your customer signals to your codebase", "tagline": "Every AI coding tool writes code. Lancey helps you decide what to buid.", "body": "### **TL;DR**\n\nMost teams know what their customers want. It’s buried in Slack threads, support tickets, and calls. But turning that into shipped code still takes months.\n\nLancey is the first autonomous coding agent that builds what your customers want.\\\nIt listens to your customer channels, understands your codebase, and ships ready-to-merge PRs, all in the background.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/1g76HQkrdyQ\n\n---\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nCustomer feedback already tells you exactly what to fix or build. The issue isn’t knowing _what_ to do, it’s the manual steps between understanding and shipping.\n\nSupport tickets, Slack threads, and bug reports pile up. Engineers spend hours triaging. Product teams chase context. PMs and devs are stuck in loops instead of shipping.\n\nEven AI coding assistants today still need you to _prompt_ them, _explain the bug_, and _review every output_. It’s still work, just faster typing.\n\n---\n\n### **Why Lancey Exists**\n\nWe built Lancey because we think software should respond directly to its customers. Without human bottlenecks.\n\nLancey continuously scans your customer channels and codebase to spot high-impact bugs or requests. When it’s confident, it drafts and submits a PR. When it’s unsure, it asks for review.\n\nNo tickets, no triage, no context handoffs. Just a system that quietly keeps your product aligned with your users.\n\n---\n\n### **How It Works**\n\n* **Understands your customer context** - Connect Slack, Zendesk, Intercom, and more.\n* **Understands your code** - Builds a deep map of your repositories and dependencies.\n* **Builds autonomously** - Drafts fixes, features, and improvements as ready-to-merge PRs.\n* **Collaborates by default** - Keeps engineers and PMs in the loop so nothing feels like a black box.\n\n---\n\n### **Who It’s For**\n\nEngineering and product teams who want to spend less time triaging and more time shipping what actually matters to customers.\n\n---\n\n### **Why Now**\n\nWe’ve reached a point where LLMs can not only reason over customer data, they can write safe, context-aware code. The missing piece is connecting these two worlds.\n\nLancey makes **customer-driven engineering autonomous**.\n\n# **How you can get access**\n\n* Sign up for a free account [here](https://lancey.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Oq5-lancey-connect-your-customer-signals-to-your-codebase", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2025-11-13T16:04:17.494Z" } ] }, { "id": 27177, "name": "MovingLake", "slug": "movinglake", "former_names": [ "Moving Lake" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ca7dff480b4b49f376fc3b90d1adc3c17872277f.png", "website": "https://movinglake.com", "all_locations": "Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico; Remote", "long_description": "MovingLake is Fivetran for event-driven architectures. 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Please reach out if this would be interesting to your company.\\\n\\\nWe are available at [andres@movinglake.com](mailto:andres@movinglake.com) and [edgar@movinglake.com](mailto:edgar@movinglake.com) ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IVa-movinglake-vertical-first-realtime-ai-enabled-data-platform", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2023-04-24T19:26:45.556Z" }, { "id": 64655, "title": "MovingLake: Realtime, event-driven data connectors", "tagline": "Proprietary data connectors which feed both data and transactional systems", "body": "Hey YC!\n\n[Edgar Cabrera](https://www.linkedin.com/in/edgarcabrera-dev/) and [I](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrespaezmartinez/) are excited to launch [Moving Lake](https://movinglake.com/) today.\n\n**TLDR: MovingLake aims to do ETLs for event-driven architectures. Power your data warehouse as well as your microservices using the same API connectors.**\n\n### ⚠️ **What’s the Problem?**\n\nAfter talking to dozens of data engineers as well as technology stakeholders, and from our past experience, we uncovered a set of intertwined problems with current data connectors:\n\n1. A data connector does not provide data to transactional systems. This can lead to duplication of integration work plus lack of reliability between different sources of data. For machine learning this can be real trouble\n2. API integrations done in house are flaky and require a lot of investment in development and maintenance\n3. Event-driven architectures are reimplementing over and over again the same pieces of infrastructure such as schedulers, pollers and webhook receivers\n4. Batch extractors can skip states and so end up with missing data. For example if I have a booking business and a reservation gets cancelled 10 minutes after created, the batch pipeline will only see the cancelled state but not the created state.\n5. Running automations and other workflows is impossible with batch data connectors.\n\n### 👍 **What’s the solution?**\n\n**Realtime, event-driven, deduplicated, replayable, ELT friendly and SDK ready connectors which feed both data and transactional systems at the same time.**\\\nWe are rolling out connector for APIs which give you the ability to add any number of destinations including data and backend systems. We provide on top of that transformations for the data side so that you get the data in nicely formatted tables. Plus we also aim to provide easy to use SDKs so that consuming MovingLake’s webhooks is as easy and fast as possible.\\\n\\\n❓ **What’s the ask?**\n\nDo you have recurring issues with data reliability? Do you end up writing batch scripts to recover lost data from webhooks? 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Meet Pump, FinOps fully automated with AI.", "body": "[Pump](https://bit.ly/3ZeSLWM) is the FASTEST to save up to 60% on your AWS bills with zero engineering effort and financial risk.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=71529&key=user_uploads/1048566/9e12619b-721e-4678-99f3-a8a18080e2ed)\n\n**🤖 How Pump saves so much:**\n\nPump’s AI to continuously optimizes AWS discount commitments, our customers get the best price without needing to constantly monitor and adjust their AWS usage. Our optimization algorithms identify which hourly commitments are most cost-effective for your specific usage patterns, so you never pay for more than you need. Additionally, we offer a group volume tier discount, similar to Groupon, based on combined usage across all our customers.\n\nList of all the AWS services we support is [here](https://help.pump.co/overview/list-of-aws-discounts). We are the **_ONLY_** company that has this breadth on market.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=71529&key=user_uploads/1048566/18daa710-01d2-4183-b9b7-d6a5d5a6664f)\n\n**😎 Our Happy Customers:**\n\nSince we launched last month on Product Hunt as #1 of the day, we have had signups reaching up to over 100+ customers, saving them hundreds of thousands of dollars. Check out what they have to [say!](https://www.pump.co/#love)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=71529&key=user_uploads/1048566/1cd2bdd1-d070-448b-88ba-6676f8a83804)\n\n**⚙️ How to get started:**\n\nJust 3 clicks to start saving and a fully self serve experience that doesn’t force you to talk to a human (unless you want to?)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=71529&key=user_uploads/1048566/59c0d8ae-7374-44cc-8c5a-311c7a0f828d)\n\n**😎 Why we are a _no-brainer_:**\n\nPump monetizes through a small percentage from the volume discounts of the collective large spend achieved. 100% of our revenue comes from AWS. 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The renewal calendar and usage insights help teams optimize spend, avoiding the waste of unused or forgotten subscriptions.\n\n• **Automatic Usage Tracking**: AccessOwl automatically tracks usage and flags unused accounts so you can cut out the fat and make every dollar count.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85154&key=user_uploads/165231/5203a6b2-3e37-4441-9a66-726230261a02)\n\n**Uncover all of your SaaS apps first**\n\nThe [free Shadow IT scan](https://www.accessowl.com/scan) gives you a quick and easy overview of every SaaS app that’s used within your organization.\n\n**🚀 Getting started with tracking, managing, and reducing SaaS spend**\n\nVisit [AccessOwl.com](http://AccessOwl.com) to learn more, or book a demo [here](https://calendly.com/d/dyj-q7w-qmb/accessowl-demo).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/M9S-accessowl-saas-spend-management", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2024-10-30T18:56:16.804Z" }, { "id": 81875, "title": "AccessOwl: Discover every hidden SaaS app and their users", "tagline": "🔍 Losing track of your SaaS apps? Uncover your Shadow IT with a single-click", "body": "Losing track of who has access to which apps is a nightmare. In [**Mathias Nestler**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathias-nestler-a8436044/) and my previous roles as CTO, COO, and CEO, the problem usually came up in one of three ways:\n\n1. **Missed Employee Offboardings:** If I don’t know which apps the employee used, it’s impossible to fully offboard them. There’s nothing worse than finding out an employee who left for your competition still has access to company data.\n2. **Failing Compliance:** The first question an auditor will ask is what systems you use. Knowing where your company data lives is at the core of any audit.\n3. **Unwanted Costs:** It sucks to find out that you pay for multiple apps that essentially do the same. You can only keep your team accountable if you know what they use.\n\nIn the world of IT administration this challenge is called ‘Shadow IT' - apps you are not aware being used by your team.\n\nHistorically, the only options have been to repeatedly ask employees to fill out a Gsheet with any apps they remember using or to manually search through Google Workspace OAuth logs.\n\n**Here’s a better option:** [**Uncover all SaaS apps and their users in a single click!**](https://www.accessowl.io/scan)\n\n![](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=81875&key=user_uploads/165231/04941cdd-2f76-4b0c-b7f4-e44d0b1a41d1)\n\n[**Scan now!**](https://www.accessowl.io/scan)\n\n_The Shadow IT scanner will find any SaaS app your employees use in combination with Google or Microsoft sign-in._\n\n### FAQ\n\n> **Why do you offer this for free?**\n\nKnowing who has access to what should be the standard for all of us. We want to bring attention to the need to manage your access proactively, which is why we decided to offer a part of our product for free.\n\n> **How does it work?**\n\nAccessOwl reads your organization’s OAuth logs and matches them with our SaaS database. As a result, you’ll see which apps have been used and by whom.\n\n> **What if a user signed up with email/password and didn’t use ‘Sign in with Google/Microsoft’?**\n\nThis feature is not currently part of the free scan. However, our core product offers advanced Shadow IT detection, which includes checking for invitation emails.\n\n> **Is this safe to use?**\n\nYes, reading OAuth logs is common practice for SaaS management vendors. The data is only extracted when you actively request a scan. AccessOwl is SOC 2 Type II audited and GDPR compliant.\n\n[**Start your Shadow IT scan now!**](https://www.accessowl.io/scan)\n\nSurprised by the results? [_Book a free 1:1 consultation_](https://calendly.com/accessowl/30m) _with one of the AccessOwl founders to learn about best practices for keeping track of user access!_", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LIZ-accessowl-discover-every-hidden-saas-app-and-their-users", "votes": 19, "created_at": "2024-07-03T15:20:28.896Z" }, { "id": 64758, "title": "AccessOwl: Automate SaaS access for your employees", "tagline": "SaaS account provisioning and permissioning for your workforce. Save 30 minutes on every access request.", "body": "**tl;dr AccessOwl automates how your employees receive access to SaaS tools. Provision any tool, no matter what API is available. IT teams from companies like Zeplin save 30 minutes on every access request.**\n\n## **📜 The Story**\n\nManually creating software accounts, documenting it in Gsheets and rushing through dozens of tools with every offboarding. Those are struggles we faced time over time when building prior startups. Available solutions only cover a fraction of the tools and require expensive upgrades to enterprise-subscriptions ([SSO.Tax](http://SSO.Tax)). That’s why we built an easy-to-use tool with a Slack-UI that every employee knows how to work with and bundled it with unmatched provisioning capabilities (hundreds of apps!).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64758&key=user_uploads/165231/b1769bda-60e3-4cf9-9085-59489077abd7)\n\n## **❌ The Problem**\n\n1. **30 minutes wasted for every Access Request**: Your workforce needs to request, approve, provision, communicate & document for every single access request\n2. **Enterprise subscriptions needed**: Other solutions only work with specific APIs (SCIM/SAML) for which the highest enterprise subscription is needed (”SSO Tax”).\n3. **Compliance & Security**: Documenting who has access to what is a manual and tedious process that never is 100% accurate\n\n## **✨ The Solution**\n\n1. **Automated workflows in Slack**: On- & Offboardings, Access Requests and Approvals all handled directly in Slack. Stop the JIRA ticket-flood - saving your workforce time and nerves.\n2. **Provisioning & Permissioning**: AccessOwl is the future of Access Management. It handles all account changes (creation, deletion, updates) for all SaaS applications. The best: It works no matter what API is available.\n3. **Stay SOX, SOC2, HiPAA, ISO27001 compliant:** Full Audit-trail about who has access to what and ability to schedule recurring Access Reviews.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64758&key=user_uploads/165231/22da2853-f0c9-4beb-afd3-0d940596e675)\n\n## ⚡ **How it Works**\n\n1. **Install it in Slack:** Give your employees access in one single click\n2. **App Discovery & Sync**: Let AccessOwl discover all applications used by your team by connecting to your Google Workspace\n3. **Start (De)Provisioning**: Have AccessOwl automate all of your provisioning and deprovisioning tasks\n\n## 🌐 **Integrations**\n\nAccessOwl already works with over 100+ applications. 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Shortly after, your teammate pulls the latest changes and everything crashes because they're missing that variable.\n\nYou come back to angry messages from your teammate and quickly send them the variable over text, risking a security vulnerability. Everything seems to be working until the next day when you deploy to production, and once again, everything crashes because you forgot to add the environment variable to the production environment.\n\nSounds relatable?\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69599&key=user_uploads/942802/d8e6a881-8412-4baf-8f54-b8defb0ecd46)\n\n\n## **Problem**\n\nSecrets play a critical role in every stage of the software development lifecycle, from local development to staging, testing, and production. Even so, teams routinely run into challenges dealing with secret management:\n\n* **Missing secrets across infrastructure**: Having secrets sprawled across infrastructure with no central visibility and control often leads to missing secrets. In turn, applications crash in production and developers lose precious time debugging what’s missing.\n* **Leaking secrets to source control**: Even the biggest companies accidentally expose hardcoded secrets and .env files. When it happens, the consequences are grave.\n* **Lacking self-hosted alternatives**: Many great solutions are not self-hostable or end-to-end encrypted, a challenge for companies requiring it. In a world where security and privacy are increasingly paramount, having these options are essential.\n\n## **Solution**\n\nInfisical provides an open-source, end-to-end encrypted platform for developers to manage their application secrets and sync them across their team and software development lifecycle.\n\nWith Infisical, you can:\n\n* **Securely store and deliver** application secrets to your infrastructure with integrations available for Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Vercel, GitHub Actions, etc.\n* **Inject secrets** into applications instead of using .env files that often get leaked.\n* **Self-host** Infisical on your own infrastructure.\n* **Enhance observability** of secrets and teammates with secret versioning, rollbacks, and audit logs for every action taken.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69599&key=user_uploads/942802/afe74cca-1292-4f25-b0d5-03ae9fc21327)\n\n\n## **Asks**\n\n* Check out Infisical at \n* Contact [tony@infisical.com](mailto:tony@infisical.com) if your company needs help with secret management\n* Intros to companies that in your experience may benefit from Infisical", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I6Z-infisical-the-open-source-secrets-manager-for-developers", "votes": 58, "created_at": "2023-02-23T15:39:57.107Z" } ] }, { "id": 27666, "name": "Middleware", "slug": "middleware", "former_names": [ "Middleware Labs Inc" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/dc8d28e84cb985c9cc0b597aae845c99c32f9a23.png", "website": "https://www.middleware.io", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Middleware is a full-stack cloud observability platform. 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It then fixes these issues with a single click and generates a pull request in GitHub. ", "body": "I’m [Laduram](https://www.linkedin.com/in/laduramvishnoi/), founder and CEO of Middleware. \\\n**TL;DR** \\\nVery excited to introduce our latest launch: [Ops AI](https://middleware.io/product/ops-ai/) — your observability co-pilot that _not only detects_ issues in production, but actually _fixes_ them.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91625&key=user_uploads/1149383/7d2659aa-933b-4206-856a-f6107e930704)\n\nWith Ops AI, resolving production problems becomes as simple as clicking a button. When something breaks, you’ll get an alert. From there, just ask Ops AI for a fix — it analyzes the issue, identifies the affected code using GitHub’s MCP server, and automatically creates a pull request with the fix. No more digging through logs or guessing root causes.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29pzH-1_Dpc\n\n### Why Ops AI?\n\nMiddleware is a full-stack observability platform — we do infra monitoring, APM, Logs, RUM, Synthetic monitoring, and browser testing. That means we have complete context when something goes wrong and can resolve issues faster and smarter than traditional tools.\n\n# **🙏 Our Ask**\n\nTo celebrate our launch, we’re offering an exclusive **2 million free tokens** and [YC deal](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/deals/2598) to all the YC companies — just [sign up](https://app.middleware.io/auth/register?ga=enabled) and ask for the deal! Or [book a quick demo with me](https://cal.com/laduram/30min?user=laduram).\n\nWould love to hear what you think 💙", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Npp-ops-ai-by-middleware", "votes": 73, "created_at": "2025-06-25T15:14:51.809Z" }, { "id": 68705, "title": "🚀 Middleware 📊 : A unified observability platform for cloud native, microservices and distributed apps", "tagline": "A real-time cloud-native observability platform to bring all metrics, logs, and traces in one unified timeline to debug issues faster.", "body": "Hey YC! 👋 \\\n\\\nI am super excited to launch [Middleware](https://middleware.io)—a **real-time observability platform** that brings all the **metrics, logs, traces, and events** into a single timeline so you can monitor your distributed apps and cloud native platforms in real time.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68705&key=user_uploads/1149383/7c01ff47-1f21-4647-9254-b2951dc8d1b8)\n\n### **Problem with existing legacy products**\n\nCurrent observability solutions are built to monitor monolith architectures, not distributed and microservices. This results in the following problems: \n\n* Surface-level information makes it **extremely hard to debug** issues. 🧐\n* Costs 💵 to monitor everything in the infrastructure and applications are **incredibly high**.\n* All the data live in separate apps like logs, metrics, traces, and events and can’t **correlate to causation**.\n\nBecause cloud native produces more data than ever, it’s become more challenging to understand what’s happening inside applications and infrastructure. Unfortunately, the result often **wastes engineering time** tracking incidents, creates alert fatigue, and, yes, costs a fortune.\n\n### **Why we founded Middleware**\n\nI faced this problem when building my last startup. While building out the backend, it was **challenging to monitor microservices and Kubernetes**, as there was no all-inclusive cloud monitoring tool available.\n\nMy few early engineers from **Splunk** and **Newrelic** faced this problem as well. After speaking to engineering and IT leaders at several other companies—and they were facing the same problem—we started to work on Middleware full-time.\n\n### **Our solution to cloud native observability**\n\nMiddleware is a **real-time observability platform** for cloud-native, microservices, and distributed apps that brings all the metrics, logs, traces, and events to a **single timeline**. This empowers **dev and ops teams** to find and debug issues faster. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68705&key=user_uploads/1149383/84b686ed-f3f2-4a40-9ad4-b4fec457d860)\n\nAdditionally, our **AI-powered algorithms** collect and analyze data from across your entire infrastructure to spot signs of potential problems before they even occur. \n\nMiddleware offers a wide range of observability from **infrastructure** monitoring, **logs** monitoring, application performance monitoring (**APM**), **synthetic** monitoring, **database** monitoring, and real-time **alerting** solution with cost-effective prices.\n\n### **What our customers say about us!**\n\nCliff from **Puresend** - \"_We migrated from Datadog to Middleware because we absolutely love their unified view. It's such a simple but incredibly useful tool. This, among other features, made it a no-brainer for us to migrate. We monitor our logs, metrics, and traces at a very affordable cost. I highly recommend Middleware as the best in class for cloud-native monitoring._\"\n\nEduardo from **Berliner Philharmoniker** - “The Digital Concert Hall only uses cutting-edge technology, and Middleware was able to provide that with its all-in-one monitoring solution and near real-time metrics.”\n\n### **Reinventing observability for the future 🔮**\n\nOur mission is to change how companies **observe infrastructure and applications** cost-effectively. Our tools provide everything you need to **remediate issues** faster while getting observability data growth under control. It provides real-time insight into your cloud-native infrastructure, applications, and business.\n\n* Vendor agnostic by using and contributing to **Open Telemetry**.\n* Store only the data that you need to save on **costs.** 💰\n* Correlate the traces from the **browser to the front end and back end** with logs and metrics.\n* Using **AI to predict** any anomaly and possible downtime.\n\n### **Our ask/ how to reach us with contact detail 🗓️**\n\n1. Try Middleware and give us feedback. We love to work with **YC companies**. [TRY AT LEAST FREE FOREVER PLAN!](https://app.middleware.io/auth/register)\n2. Tell us your use case; we love building solutions quickly. **Schedule 15 mins** to call me [here](https://calendly.com/middleware_io/15-min-quick-call).\n3. If you are paying too much for your Observability, we love to **cut costs by 2x to 3x.**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hs9-middleware-a-unified-observability-platform-for-cloud-native-microservices-and-distributed-apps", "votes": 217, "created_at": "2023-01-25T16:49:47.084Z" } ] }, { "id": 27671, "name": "Miracle", "slug": "miracle", "former_names": [ "Miracle Health" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/708f104e98cf6195b515828cadc85b8d47cfc8d4.png", "website": "http://www.miracleml.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Miracle is building the control room for clinical trials. Today, biotech companies rely on fragmented software systems, spreadsheet trackers, and manual processes to manage complex clinical trials. Miracle integrates and consolidates data from disparate sources into a single platform, giving teams real-time visibility, helping them identify risks early, and streamlining workflows to make faster, better decisions.\r\n\r\nBy unifying clinical trial data, we're also laying the foundation for AI-powered analytics and automation.\r\n\r\nOur mission is to modernize how clinical trials are run so new treatments can reach patients faster.", "one_liner": "Accelerate clinical trials with real-time, actionable insights", "team_size": 7, "industry": "Healthcare", "subindustry": "Healthcare -> Drug Discovery and Delivery", "launched_at": 1677015940, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Biotech", "Healthcare" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Healthcare", "Drug Discovery and Delivery" ], "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/miracle", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/miracle.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/miracleml/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/708f104e98cf6195b515828cadc85b8d47cfc8d4.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/74b4283cb1ebc054eb4fa6c4a1481bd2f87c97af.png", "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/2d3a0199b0e90622eba48919390f5831419408d4.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 985589, "full_name": "Jin Kim", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Founder & CEO of Miracle | Former US Archery Team | MIT", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jinkimx10/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e97bf55bc790777059bb0e762555118288873f5b.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 69664, "title": "Miracle - Speeding up clinical trials 💊", "tagline": "Speeding up clinical trials by connecting patient recruitment sources", "body": "**TL;DR** Miracle helps biotech and pharma companies accelerate clinical trials by connecting all patient recruitment data sources. Each day of a clinical trial that Miracle’s software can help shave off is worth on average $2M in additional patent-covered revenue opportunity.\n\nHi everyone! My name is Jin, and I’m the Founder & CEO of Miracle. When I was competing for medals as a former athlete on the USA Archery Team, I used to aim my bow and arrow down at a target 70 meters away. Today, I have my eyes set on improving healthcare by bringing science to life and into hands of patients more quickly.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69664&key=user_uploads/985589/5efd5b1c-4740-45b5-88b5-9824dd2ce30b)\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nBiotech and pharmaceutical companies (“sponsors”) must run clinical trials (phase 1-3) in order to get FDA approval to market their drug. The **average cost to bring a new drug to market is >$2B**, and clinical trials can take up **7-10 years** of a 20-year patent window. Over **80% of clinical trials are delayed** from patient recruitment, but vendors and clinics do not play along nor provide the transparency necessary for sponsors to account for ROI and, ultimately, runway.\n\nToday, Clinical Operations teams within biotech companies spend **15% of their time manually compiling information** from multiple vendor portals and creating visualizations to report up to management and the board on the study progress – all of which take valuable time that they could be using to focus on improving the study operations.\n\nHowever, the bigger problem is that without transparent consolidated reporting, **they have no choice but to throw money at vendors and research sites** in hopes of recruiting patients quickly. They have a hard time optimizing the millions of dollars spent each year in a way that would actually expedite their trial.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\nMiracle is a **one-stop shop** for biotech/pharma to fully automate and consolidate their clinical trial reporting needs. We integrate with their vendors and research sites to **eliminate time wasted** on aggregating metrics and compiling reports, **free up their time** to focus on patient recruitment, and make it possible to **optimize ROI on vendors and sites** that are meaningfully speeding up the trial.\n\n### Examples from Miracle\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69664&key=user_uploads/985589/3de6c2ca-0f94-45de-97d7-a781f5228494)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69664&key=user_uploads/985589/03be693f-8201-4534-aee3-050853ee439a)\n\n### Our Ask\n\n* If you’re at a biotech company running a clinical trial, we’d love to chat with you.\n* Any intros to biotech/pharma reps (especially in Clinical Operations) would be greatly appreciated.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I7c-miracle-speeding-up-clinical-trials", "votes": 60, "created_at": "2023-02-24T21:32:28.618Z" } ] }, { "id": 27676, "name": "Cardinal", "slug": "cardinal", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b5d014c36052bdd4a69088606fa34d3acd89ab7a.png", "website": "http://cardinalapp.io", "all_locations": "Austin, TX, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Cardinal is an opinionated feature backlog. It pulls in your customer feedback, CRM data, and task management issues and uses AI to assess which customers want which features, how important is it for them, and how much are they worth", "one_liner": "Your AI product backlog", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1677706257, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "SaaS", "B2B", "Productivity", "Analytics" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cardinal", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/cardinal.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "Austin", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "http://linkedin.com/company/cardinalappio", "x_url": "http://twitter.com/cardinalappio", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b5d014c36052bdd4a69088606fa34d3acd89ab7a.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1136316, "full_name": "Wiz 👋🏻", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Entrepreneur. Father. Geek.\nLove coffee and coffee loves me.\nFull name is Nadav Weizmann 😉\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "http://linkedin.com/in/nadavwiz", "x_url": "http://twitter.com/nadavwiz", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5d606a1d1f1b363bd34e8188a52699a96c3fc165.jpg" }, { "user_id": 965968, "full_name": "Mor Sela", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Building something new.\nProduct builder at heart and a professional code whisperer.\n\nLed engineering teams through product development, acquisitions, strategic changes, and reorganizations at Cardinal (acq by Miro), Epic Games, Houseparty (acq by Epic Games), Docady, and the israeli 8200 unit\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/selamor/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/slmosl", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/49100a77ccbc80deeb7f2b9cc5af8eae6a75965d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 69853, "title": "☕️ Cardinal - Enabling product teams to build measurable features", "tagline": "The system of record for product teams enabling them to build the right things and achieve data-driven goals", "body": "☕️ **TL;DR**\n\nCardinal is the platform for product teams to define strategies, break it down to goals and set specs (features) with live data and KPIs across systems, consistently through teams and projects.\n\nHi, we’re [**Wiz**](https://twitter.com/nadavwiz) and [**Mor**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/selamor/), co-founders of Cardinal.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69853&key=user_uploads/1136316/88bc6831-ff37-45c6-b40d-54c6c1c654ea)\n\n**🏆 Why Us**\n\nWe’ve lead product and engineering at Epic Games (Directors).\n\nWe’ve lead product and engineering at Houseparty (acquired by Epic Games).\n\nWe’ve started and worked at startups (Docady, Onavo \\[Acquired by META\\]).\n\nWe’ve lead deep tech teams at 8200 (Israeli NSA).\n\nWe’ve been working together for 15 years and built internal tools to document and communicate strategies, progress, and try and track measurements of those throughout. From startup scale to corporate scale, it was always needed and insufficient.\n\nWe’re excited to fix this!\n\n**😩 Problem**\n\nManaging product teams, building and shipping features is hard. Product discovery, spec-ing, prioritization, alignment, measurements and learnings all take a toll on teams trying to execute and build impactful features.\n\n**🧠 Solution**\n\n1. Managing strategy: through time, initiatives and stakeholders.\n2. Methodology: all your teams are aligned and work the same way\n3. Documentation & Knowledge Management: know your history and use it easily.\n4. Data & Insights: connect various systems and set real, live goals.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69853&key=user_uploads/1136316/b98d3f9e-9e77-4dde-aefb-4796c1a5a5ae)\n\n\n**🙏🏻 Our Asks**\n\nSign up to the beta at [cardinalapp.io](http://cardinalapp.io), give us real feedback.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IAf-cardinal-enabling-product-teams-to-build-measurable-features", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2023-03-01T22:19:29.195Z" } ] }, { "id": 27678, "name": "Traceloop", "slug": "traceloop", "former_names": [ "Rovie", "Vecinity", "Enrolla", "Traceloop", "traceloop" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/284ee8dcb70cf1539c35db6e20ec3370746244d6.png", "website": "https://www.traceloop.com", "all_locations": "Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel", "long_description": "Traceloop gives you full visibility into every prompt, response, and failure. 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Tech savvy with a vast experience leading software development projects from SaaS products and experiences to Data & ML infrastructure.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/gal-kleinman-16898384/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/GalKlm", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5524a403dd9b534f881c200ba4ddb5bedbfe43ec.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 90818, "title": "Traceloop: LLM Reliability Platform, powered by OpenTelemetry", "tagline": "Know what your AI Agent is doing — and why it’s failing", "body": "**TLDR**: [Traceloop](https://www.traceloop.com/?utm_source=YCLaunch) helps teams test, troubleshoot, and improve AI agents with automated performance evaluations, ensuring reliability before and after every release. We bring the same rigor to AI that developers expect from the rest of their stack.\n\n---\n\nHi everyone, we’re Nir and Gal, co-founders of [Traceloop](https://www.traceloop.com/?utm_source=YCLaunch), and we're part of the Y Combinator Winter 2023 batch.\n\n🚨 **Problem**\n\nBuilding and deploying AI agents today often feels like guesswork. Public model benchmarks don’t predict how well an AI will perform in real-world applications, and businesses are stuck in a cycle of trial and error, tweaking prompts and manually testing. But as AI agents become more complex and critical, these outdated methods just don't cut it. When AI misfires — hallucinating, taking wrong actions, or producing unpredictable outputs — users disengage instead of filing bug reports.\n\nAt [Traceloop](https://www.traceloop.com/?utm_source=YCLaunch), we believe **prompt engineering shouldn't be a guessing game**. We need to bring the same quality assurance processes to AI that we’ve come to expect from software engineering.\n\n🧠 **Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90818&key=user_uploads/1024399/2e0c1c99-adce-411c-948b-1e0263e8ca47)\n\nTraceloop provides **evaluations** and **real-time monitoring** for AI agents, reducing the guesswork and ensuring performance is consistent before reaching end users. Our open-source foundation, [OpenLLMetry](https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry) and [Hub](https://github.com/traceloop/hub), collects LLM interactions at scale and our our commercial platform is now helping businesses:\n\n* **Train evaluators** to catch hallucinations and detect quality issues.\n* **Experiment** with different models to choose the right one for your use case.\n* **Monitor and Evaluate AI agent performance** in real-time or during CI.\n\nWe help teams **reduce risk, accelerate iteration**, and ensure that their agents behave as expected in production environments.\n\n🎯 **Asks**\n\n⭐ Star us [OpenLLMetry](https://github.com/traceloop/openllmetry) and [Hub](https://github.com/traceloop/hub) on GitHub and follow us on [Twitter](https://x.com/traceloopdev)!\n\nIf you're building LLM apps, we'd love to show you how Traceloop can help improve your agent’s performance and reliability. [Reach out](https://calendly.com/d/cq42-93s-kcx) and let’s explore how we can help.\n\nIf you know teams working with AI, please forward this to them!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nco-traceloop-llm-reliability-platform-powered-by-opentelemetry", "votes": 29, "created_at": "2025-05-28T17:04:16.342Z" } ] }, { "id": 27679, "name": "rift", "slug": "rift", "former_names": [ "Archipelago", "Rift" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bad003b9e6b5d5aa5f2dbd605812cd3b2604a327.png", "website": "https://rift.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "rift is B2B lead routing made simple.\r\n\r\nInbound workflows leak revenue at every step. Routing is manual. Calendar links are generic. No-shows go unrecovered. The handoff between form fill and booked meeting is where pipeline quietly dies.\r\n\r\nrift fixes that. One system for the full inbound lifecycle:\r\n> Capture. Custom web forms that collect and qualify leads in real time.\r\n> Route. Instant validation, enrichment, and assignment to the right rep.\r\n> Schedule. Top prospects get the best calendar slots, matched to real availability.\r\n> Recover. No-shows and ghosted leads are automatically re-engaged.\r\n\r\nrift is built by growth engineers who ran inbound at high-velocity B2B companies and got tired of watching pipeline fall through the cracks.\r\n\r\nrift is the system we wished existed — opinionated, fast, and wired into the tools sales teams already use: HubSpot, Apollo, Google Calendar, Gmail, Slack, Zoom, Stripe, and more.\r\n\r\nBacked by Y Combinator (W23) and Sequoia Capital.\r\n\r\nnever lose an inbound lead → rift.com\r\n", "one_liner": "B2B lead routing made simple", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Sales", "launched_at": 1676577207, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Sales" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Sales" ], "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/rift", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/rift.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/rifthq/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/getrift_com", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bad003b9e6b5d5aa5f2dbd605812cd3b2604a327.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/9eb35bd1d538dfff288ea61043eb5551eea422b8.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 179324, "full_name": "Fil Twarowski", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CEO @ rift (W23) || first biz hire @ Pulley (W20) || CEO @ Point API (W18) | MIT '17", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/filip-twarowski-00996a54/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/FilipTwarowski", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c7ef389c8e8e973418986ca44596a2fbca754f0f.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1157002, "full_name": "Edvard Eriksson", "title": "Founder/CPO", "founder_bio": "Product and Growth at Rift. Formerly Growth at Samsara and Pulley.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/edvarderiksson/", "x_url": null, "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f4290c990622e9f7cde56a4b0f01ec27d0b4a65f.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Announcing our seed", "url": "https://www.rift.com/announcing-our-seed", "date": "Jul 24, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 69370, "title": "📮 rift — Close more deals, without landing in spam", "tagline": "Send more cold emails that actually get replies. rift combines email automation and deliverability in a single product.", "body": "Hi YC!\n\nFil and Eddie here - we’re co-founders at [rift](http://getrift.com) (W23). We met while working on the growth team at Pulley (W20). At Pulley, we learned that setting up your cold outbound email channel is really hard, rift is our attempt at making it easier!\n\n### ❌ **The problem**\n\nYou’re a B2B business, and you’ve been sending sales emails to your prospective customers. Here are some of your stats:\n\n* You’re sending **100+ emails/day.**\n* Open rates are below **50%.**\n* Reply rates are around **1%**.\n* Bounce rates are upwards of **\\~5%**.\n\nIf you don’t change anything, your next campaign will likely perform worse. Over time, open and reply rates will drop, and your bounce rate will go up.\n\nEventually, your domain reputation will be low enough that you won’t be able to contact your leads or existing customers. This is a tough situation to get out of, and it might take months to recover your domain reputation.\n\n### 🎉 **The solution**\n\nYou need to do two things to effectively sell over email:\n\n1. Set up your cold email infrastructure correctly.\n2. Send relevant sales emails to the right people.\n\n**rift does it all for you in a single platform**. You don’t need to be an expert in email deliverability or cold outbound.\n\nOur product implements the email infrastructure for you, so you can focus only on growing your business. We will work with you 1:1 on writing sales emails that actually get replies.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69370&key=user_uploads/179324/3c9d9e74-f0c5-4e41-945f-42dec2000604)\n\n### **🏎️ How do I get started?**\n\nSchedule a call with Fil and Eddie here: . We’ll help you fix your outbound email, whether rift is a good fit for you or not.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I2s-rift-close-more-deals-without-landing-in-spam", "votes": 49, "created_at": "2023-02-16T20:16:58.897Z" } ] }, { "id": 27680, "name": "Trigger.dev", "slug": "trigger-dev", "former_names": [ "API Hero" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/737382941e8e44eb83d28fa6b26854131dcdfcf9.png", "website": "https://trigger.dev", "all_locations": "London, England, United Kingdom", "long_description": "Trigger.dev is the open source platform for building AI agents and workflows in TypeScript. Long-running tasks with retries, queues, full observability, and elastic scaling.\r\n\r\nPreviously, the founders built JSON Hero, an open source JSON viewer that is currently used by more than 35k developers a month. Eric was CTO of Code School, an early code learning platform that was acquired in 2015. Matt created two iPad apps that won Apple’s App of the Year.", "one_liner": "Build and deploy fully‑managed AI agents and workflows", "team_size": 17, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1665673307, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "SaaS", "B2B", "Open Source", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United Kingdom", "Europe", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/trigger-dev", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/trigger-dev.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "London", "country": "GB", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/triggerdotdev/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/triggerdotdev", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/737382941e8e44eb83d28fa6b26854131dcdfcf9.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1093116, "full_name": "Matt Aitken", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Matt Aitken is the CEO of Trigger.dev, a developer tool that makes creating automation workflows a great experience in your codebase. He's a programmer who previously created two iPad apps that went on to win Apple's iPad app of the year award. He's worked on several startups including building JSON Hero, a popular developer tool.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattaitken1985/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/mattaitken", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ba11771aa265e16fe4cefb3896574af8b7012897.jpg" }, { "user_id": 969974, "full_name": "Eric Allam", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Eric Allam is the founder and CTO of Trigger.dev, the developer-first open source Zapier Alternative. He's previously co-founded CodeSchool.com and works on JSON Hero, a popular developer tool.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-allam/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/maverickdotdev", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/790c4ff0a80fb39e496af3c03dfabb5d1f221ff5.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1102924, "full_name": "Dan Patel", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder of Trigger.dev; the open source background jobs platform, and JSON Hero.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielkpatel/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/DKP__", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/53e3239d7b75fe2bbbe7a483cd4a24288faece5d.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1093162, "full_name": "James Ritchie", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I'm co-founder and frontend engineer of Trigger.dev, a developer tool for creating background jobs in code. Previously I was a product lead at a number of VC backed startups. I also built JSON Hero, another popular OSS developer tool.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesritchiecv/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/samejr", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/560ddc0914b111f0013472ce8d4aa60c4ae2d123.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "From Zapier for Devs to Powering 90% AI Agents", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y7siiS-V5A", "date": "May 09, 2026" }, { "title": "Trigger.dev raises $3M", "url": "https://trigger.dev/blog/3m-dollar-seed-round", "date": "Aug 25, 2023" }, { "title": "Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative | Hacker News", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34610686", "date": "Feb 01, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 69600, "title": "✨ Trigger.dev: The developer-first open source Zapier alternative", "tagline": "We make it easy for developers to create powerful workflows directly in code.", "body": "**🔥 TL;DR** [**Trigger.dev**](https://trigger.dev?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=trigger.dev&utm_id=launch.yc) **is an** [**open source**](https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev) **platform that enables developers to effortlessly create event-driven background tasks directly in their codebase – for example, when a Stripe payment fails, open a Linear issue and send an email to yourself, or easily create a drip email campaign. Write workflows using our SDK, and view a detailed history of all runs in our web app.**\n\nHey! We’re Matt, Dan, James and Eric, the founders of [Trigger.dev](https://trigger.dev?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=trigger.dev&utm_id=launch.yc).\n\n### **👀 The Problem:**\n\n* As developers, we find that current workflow / automation tools like Zapier, n8n or Make are great for simple tasks, but not suitable for more advanced use cases.\n* Developers often end up creating important workflows in no/low-code tools on behalf of non-technical team members.\n* Some of these tools let you drop down into code, but it’s not a great developer experience. Developers prefer using their own IDEs with version control and access to the best tools like GitHub Copilot.\n* Connecting together APIs in code is painful – you need to deal with authentication, lots of SDKs and docs for each API you use.\n* Some workflows need to use a database query or access very private data. That data shouldn’t leave your servers and you shouldn’t need to give database access to a third-party.\n\n### **✨ Our solution:**\n\n[Trigger.dev](https://trigger.dev?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=trigger.dev&utm_id=launch.yc) makes it easy to create workflows in response to API events (webhooks), on a schedule or on-demand by sending your own events.\n\nAll of this lives in code alongside everything else in your codebase. We handle API authentication with external services, allowing more time to be spent writing functional code, rather than dealing with credentials. We also support long delays of up to a year that survive your server restarting.\n\nAll workflow runs can be viewed in our web app providing great observability for debugging.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69600&key=user_uploads/1102924/b7793d79-dfc0-4c9f-b6d1-f4535a24f5ad)\n\n### **🛠 How it works**\n\n* Install the [Trigger.dev](https://trigger.dev?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=trigger.dev&utm_id=launch.yc) SDK to get access to our custom packages and functions\n* Trigger workflows from webhooks, custom events or schedules (CRON)\n* Use our growing library of API integrations for the best experience. We will support all of the most popular services, including Slack, Airtable, Linear, Stripe, GitHub, SendGrid, Notion and many more. We’re adding more each week with the help of our open source contributors.\n* Support for Fetch and subscribing to generic webhooks for any service.\n* Add delays of up to 1 year. Workflows will resume where they left off, even if your server has gone down.\n* Observe every workflow run in the app (great for debugging).\n* Your private data is kept private – you have control over where your data is sent.\n* Our open source MIT license lets anyone self-host the platform.\n\nIt’s clear from our [launch](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34610686) and customers that developers want to be creating workflows in code rather than in an unfamiliar UI. We expect this trend to continue, especially with the rise of AI code writing assistants such as Copilot and Ghostwriter. Leveraging these tools will only improve [Trigger.dev](https://trigger.dev?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=trigger.dev&utm_id=launch.yc) as time goes on, and make the creation of complex workflows more and more accessible to all developers.\n\n### **🙏 Our asks**\n\nIf you have a workflow you want to build and would like to try our platform - we would love to hear from you!\n\n* Try us out for free at [Trigger.dev](https://trigger.dev?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=trigger.dev&utm_id=launch.yc).\n* Book a 15 min workflow session [here.](https://cal.com/team/triggerdotdev/15-mins-about-your-automation)\n* Want to migrate an existing workflow? [Let us know.](https://cal.com/team/triggerdotdev/migration-consultation)\n\n### **⭐️ Our YC deal:**\n\n* **YC W23:** for 12 months, get unlimited workflows with 100k runs per month for free.\n* **YC Alumni:** for 6 months, get unlimited workflows with 50k runs per month for free.\n\nIf you have any questions or want to access the YC deal, please email me at [matt@trigger.dev](mailto:matt@trigger.dev).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I6a-trigger-dev-the-developer-first-open-source-zapier-alternative", "votes": 51, "created_at": "2023-02-23T15:51:43.990Z" }, { "id": 67467, "title": "🦸 API Hero: make every API you use faster and more reliable with one line of code", "tagline": "An open source API proxy that makes debugging and caching APIs trivial", "body": "**_🔥 TL;DR_** _API Hero routes API traffic you select through our edge proxy to provide caching and full visibility of requests and responses, speeding up your APIs and making debugging super easy. Check it out for free_ [_here_](https://apihero.run/)_, or schedule a call with us to help you get started_ [_here_](https://cal.com/team/apihero/request-a-demo)_._\n\nHi everyone 👋\n\nWe’re James, Matt, Eric & Dan and we’re building [API Hero](https://apihero.run). We’re on a mission to make using and working with APIs **super easy.**\n\n### **🤦 The problem**\n\nThere are two major headaches we’re tackling:\n\n* Slow APIs dramatically reduce the speed of your site, and adding caching to solve this can be hard\n* Debugging API issues is painful. You want full visibility of requests and responses so you can figure out what’s going on, during development and production (although we make production logging optional)\n\n### **🦸 With API Hero, you can:**\n\n* Monitor all your API traffic (or just the parts you want)\n* Speed up every API you use by enabling caching (this can also save you money!)\n* Get alerts when issues arise\n* Improve reliability with automatic retries\n\n### **🛠 How does API Hero work?**\n\n* Login to [API Hero](https://apihero.run/) (it’s free!)\n* Follow the simple onboarding steps – we’ll automatically populate your dashboard as soon as a request is sent\n* Configure the settings to proxy only the traffic you want\n* Sit back and watch those logs come in!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67467&key=user_uploads/1093162/90670a20-df63-4740-af17-46c35e850deb)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67467&key=user_uploads/1093162/ed99841e-bcd2-411c-94ac-6298c3a28d78)\n\n### **💬 We’d love to chat to:**\n\n* Anyone suffering from API issues\n* Any company working with 3rd-party APIs or building APIs\n* Anyone who’s checked out API Hero and has feedback", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HYB-api-hero-make-every-api-you-use-faster-and-more-reliable-with-one-line-of-code", "votes": 29, "created_at": "2022-11-22T17:09:53.152Z" } ] }, { "id": 27683, "name": "Versori", "slug": "versori", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/72ebeb10f18857a66bed8b775cde8113255925d4.png", "website": "https://www.versori.com/", "all_locations": "Manchester, England, United Kingdom", "long_description": "Orchestrate custom integrations, workflows & agents in hours, not months. Take control of your integration strategy and breathe easy with maintenance on AI Autopilot.\r\n\r\nFor Product Teams: Build better integration libraries. Build a feature-rich integration library, for your users to enjoy. Offer out-of-the-box integrations that work for you and your customers. Embedded IPaaS typically locks you into connector or endpoint limitations. Versori gives you to tools for limitless customisation. Proactive, self healing agents, scan your connected apps for endpoint or schema changes. You get alerted, Versori AI fixes the change. Embed Versori built integrations into your app with the Versori SDK. Flexible to your development approach with advanced user management.\r\n\r\nFor Operations Teams: Get your internal systems speaking the same language. Deliver integrations for new software in days, not months—so you can start unlocking value immediately. Versori’s speed to value reduces typical deployment fees by half—or more. Low code for speed. Full code for control. No more limits from inflexible integration platforms.\r\n\r\nFor GTM & Sales Teams: Say yes to any prospect's integration request. Stop bouncing between teams to get integrations built. With Versori, Sales can go straight to yes. No more escalations or delays. 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", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean1brown/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/70365dc4555fdca3d8fb6a8d8dadd0d42615f3ad.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1164100, "full_name": "Dan Jones", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Dan is a CTO/Founder who loves getting stuck into code and is an advocate for all things cloud-native. With experiences in both public and private sectors, spanning industries such as Finance, Telecoms, Healthcare and Commerce, Dan has grounded himself as a versatile software engineer capable of solving complex problems in simple ways.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-jones25217", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/97873b83b1e5f25d6c4c67f81c216b9f2ff7dbbd.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Manchester start up Versori wins $500k Y-Combinator funding Prolific North", "url": "https://www.prolificnorth.co.uk/news/manchester-news/2022/10/manchester-start-versori-wins-500k-y-combinator-funding", "date": "Oct 18, 2022" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 91368, "title": "Versori: Integration & workflow automation magic", "tagline": "Go live with integrations built with Versori AI in hours, not weeks", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=91368&key=user_uploads/1164100/21b1f014-0560-4373-9b82-52041e7d69b8)\n\nHey YC 👋\n\nWe just rebuilt the way integrations are done.\n\nLike many of you, we’ve wrestled with the limitations of traditional iPaaS tools: rigid templates, slow development cycles, poor customisation, and too many disconnected tools. \n\nSo we decided to take a different approach.\n\n**Versori AI** is a generative AI-powered integration and automation platform that enables businesses to build, deploy, and manage custom integrations and workflows with unprecedented speed and ease. \n\nWith Versori AI, businesses can connect APIs, automate processes, and deploy powerful integrations, across legacy systems, modern SaaS tools, and everything in between. Without the heavy lift of coding or cobbling together multiple platforms.\n\n[Here’s an intro to the new platform.](https://youtu.be/BF5_oVSQnKQ?feature=shared)\n\n**Key Features:**\n\n* **Prompt to Build:** Describe your integration needs in natural language, and Versori's AI will generate a complete workflow, including connector creation, data mapping, and deployment. ​[versori.com](http://versori.com)\n* **Flexible Modes**: Use a visual low-code editor, go full-code, or let the AI take the wheel. You’re in control.\n* **Transformer Mapping**: Powered by Agentic AI, we handle complex data transformations and mappings instantly, no manual field-matching required.\n* **Enterprise-Grade Security:** Benefit from SOC 2 compliance, data encryption, isolated environments per organization, and 24/7 monitoring and support.\n\nWe’re here to redefine what’s possible with integrations. Faster builds, deeper automation, more control, with the power of generative AI behind every step.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nlg-versori-integration-workflow-automation-magic", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2025-06-18T04:47:50.968Z" }, { "id": 73415, "title": "Versori Sparkboard: AI Integrations", "tagline": "Create integrations and workflows with just a prompt", "body": "[**Sparkboard**](https://sparkboard.versori.io/) is a prompt-based data integration and workflow automation tool. Just tell Sparkboard what you want to connect and automate and it will use generative AI agents to create a task list and get to work with those tasks.\\\n\\\n**Sparkboard will:**\\\n\\- Create a task list for agents to fulfill \\\n\\- Scrape the internet for the appropriate documentation\\\n\\- Build an OpenAPI spec with the correct auth methods and operations\\\n\\- Use [Versori](https://www.versori.com/) transformation tools to transform and map data\\\n\\- Offer full editing of the workflow with additional tools\\\n\\- Review your finished integration and publish!\n\n[Super Cool Marketing Video (please watch)](https://youtu.be/oIPXrf2088c)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73415&key=user_uploads/920068/b7876f5d-4802-444f-b1db-56d8e631c262)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73415&key=user_uploads/920068/59d61e64-5a49-4597-8446-225a5bcde39a)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73415&key=user_uploads/920068/1289df89-e45c-4da3-a7c3-8cccdfc29470)\n\n**Try it for free:** [**https://sparkboard.versori.io/**](https://sparkboard.versori.io/)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J67-versori-sparkboard-ai-integrations", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2023-07-25T16:54:38.432Z" }, { "id": 69359, "title": "Versori - System & data integration platform", "tagline": "We help enterprises connect any internal system to any external system without hiring expensive consultants.", "body": "**Hello YC!** 👋\n\nAwesome to be here and proud to be part of this fantastic community.\n\nWe’re Sean and Dan, the Founders of [**Versori.**](https://www.versori.com/)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69359&key=user_uploads/920068/f5ba23d6-ef01-4adc-ac46-181a9a2236d9)\n\n### **The Problem 😫**\n\nThe enterprise integration market is controlled by traditional system integrators (Accenture, Cognizant, Capgemini etc), who charge for professional services and manual development.\n\nTime, money and resource is wasted on manual system and data integrations. Complex iPaaS solutions aren’t easy, and easy iPaaS solutions aren’t complex.\n\n### **The Solution 😊**\n\nVersori “Switchboard” is a no-code system and data integration platform, primarily for major retailers that lets them connect any internal system to any external system without hiring expensive consultants. \n\nFor example, Sephora used Versori to build an integration that imports 3rd party brand products into its own ecommerce site in a few clicks. Reducing integration time from 9 weeks to 2 hours.\n\n[Here’s an intro video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7T1z3nxoD0&t=3s&ab_channel=Versori)\n\n**Create data sources (connectors) in seconds, not weeks.**\n\n* Drag and drop or paste the URL to your API specs\n* Switchboard strips and stores the auth and server types, end points, operations and schemas.\n\n**Build complex and advanced integrations with no-code tools**\n\n* **_Transformer_** provides functionality to take data from multiple sources into a format suited for your target, with all the features you’d expect such as filtering, converting and mapping.\n* **_Selectors_** gives you access to any data from all previous steps in your board, allowing you to perform complex tasks such as merging or flow-control.\n* **_Data Mapping_** allows you to define mappings where some value in one system is equivalent to another value in another system. These can be defined up front in our dashboard, or interactively updated within your board.\n* **_Filter_** allows you to stop or continue execution of a workflow based on a set of conditions. These conditions can be as simple or as complex as your data requires, and can be combined with Selectors to compare data from multiple workflow steps.\n* **_Delay_** halts execution of the current message until a predefined duration has elapsed.\n* **_Batch_** aggregates all data received over a specified batch period before releasing the result to subsequent steps and is useful when integrating real-time APIs with bulk import/export APIs.\n* **_Trigger_** allows a board to be triggered manually or via a schedule instead of via an external API call\n* **_CSV Processing_** allows you to truncate, join and deduplicate CSV files\n* **_Splitter_** takes in an array and outputs multiple new messages for each element in that array\n\n**Deploy integrations and workflows your way**\n\n* Public Cloud\n* Private Cloud\n* On Prem\n* SDK\n\n### **We can integrate your systems, that Zapier can’t.. ⚡️**\n\nYou need the break free from the static guard rails of existing integration platforms!\n\nIf your company has bespoke system or data integration requirements, that can’t be done with an existing IPaaS provider, please reach out to us at [sales@versori.io](mailto:sales@versori.io). We would love to give you a demo!\n\n### **The Deal 🤑**\n\nFor all YC Alum, the first 10,000 data messages are on the house!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I2h-versori-system-data-integration-platform", "votes": 132, "created_at": "2023-02-16T17:19:59.571Z" } ] }, { "id": 27684, "name": "Struct", "slug": "struct", "former_names": [ "Bumper", "Struct", "AvenHQ" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/15ecb8a9d903b0fb450aa6187f3b78313fc656ca.png", "website": "https://struct.app", "all_locations": "Remote", "long_description": "Struct is the platform for multi-lingual AI voice agents for any phone-based task. Our agents are already live doing tens of thousands of calls daily across the globe and in multiple languages. 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Today, we're launching **Creator Discovery**, a new way for brands and agencies to find the right influencers by analyzing what's actually inside their content.\n\n# **TL;DR:**\n\n* 🎯 Describe your ideal creator in plain English – Syncly finds them by analyzing video content, not just profiles\n* 🔍 Search by visual aesthetic, storytelling style, spoken mentions, and more - things no filter can capture\n* 🚀 Discover organic brand advocates who mention you without tags or hashtags\n* ⚡ What used to take hours of manual scrolling now takes seconds\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99264&key=user_uploads/971454/b5ed5c9d-8ded-464c-b93f-ff4ce144df33)\n\n**Ask:** If you run influencer marketing at a brand or agency,[ try it free](https://social.syncly.app/login?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=influencer-discovery) and tell us what you think. We'd love your feedback.\n\n**Offer:** Book a demo through Launch YC, and we'll include a personalized social listening audit alongside your creator discovery walkthrough →[ Book a demo](https://syncly.app/demo?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=influencer-discovery)\n\n \n\n---\n\n# **❌ The Problem**\n\nInfluencer marketing is no longer a nice-to-have - it's a core growth channel. But finding the right creators is still painfully manual.\n\nThe current process looks like this: you open a platform, set some filters (follower count, category, location), scroll through hundreds of profiles, and then manually watch their content to figure out if they're actually a good fit. Does their aesthetic match our brand? Have they worked with competitors? Do they tell stories in a way that resonates with our audience?\n\nThese are the questions that matter most, and none of them show up in metadata.\n\nTraditional discovery tools search profiles. They can tell you a creator has 50K followers in the beauty category. But they can't tell you whether that creator films in a warm, cozy bedroom aesthetic or a bright studio setup. They can't tell you that a creator mentioned your competitor's product in a GRWM last Tuesday, without a hashtag or tag.\n\n---\n\n# **🛠 How Syncly Solves This**\n\nSyncly Social analyzes what's actually happening inside the content – every frame, every word, every sound. Instead of filtering by metadata, you describe what you're looking for in natural language, and Syncly finds creators whose content matches.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99264&key=user_uploads/971454/5f564bfa-9007-4d33-8a16-a08eef2493ae)\n\n### Here's what you can search by:\n\n* **Visual mood & aesthetic** - \"clean minimal apartment with natural lighting\"\n* **Creator persona** - \"fitness-forward creator, athletic build, gym setting\"\n* **Content format** - \"GRWM morning routine\" or \"before-and-after transformation\"\n* **Spoken mentions** - find creators who organically mention your brand in their videos, no tags required\n* **Storytelling style** - conversational, educational, high-energy, or laid-back\n* This means you can find creators that genuinely fit your brand's identity - not just creators who check the right demographic boxes. And because you never have to watch a single video yourself, it scales.\n\n---\n\n# **🏢 Who This Is For**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99264&key=user_uploads/971454/38e3c357-5fb2-4172-97e7-85fc6eba9532)\n\n**Brand marketers:** Find creators who match your brand's specific criteria - visual style, tone, values - without spending hours on manual research. Just describe what you want and get results.\n\n**Agencies:** Turn vague client briefs into concrete creator shortlists. Discover rising creators early and deliver them to clients before anyone else does.\n\n---\n\n# **🚀 Try It Now**\n\nCreator Discovery on Syncly Social is live and free to try:\n\n👉[ **Start your free trial**](https://social.syncly.app/login?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=influencer-discovery)\n\nIf you want a personalized walkthrough or want to see how it works for your specific use case:\n\n👉[ **Book a demo**](https://syncly.app/demo?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=influencer-discovery) - book a demo through this link, and we'll include a social listening audit + personalized creator discovery session.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pp2-syncly-social-find-creators-by-what-s-actually-in-their-content", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2026-04-01T05:33:08.094Z" }, { "id": 93013, "title": "Syncly Social - AI social listening for video", "tagline": "The first social listening platform for the video era", "body": "# **TL;DR:**\n\nSyncly Social - AI Social listening platform for Videos like TikTok, Reels, etc. We’re trusted by leading brands, such as Brita, Logitech, adn Laura Geller.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93013&key=user_uploads/971454/300cd2ad-0740-4e0f-8d9b-4beb5f2a7ce5)\n\n# **Challenges of Social listening 1.0:** Limited to text-based social media contents.\n\n* In today’s world where video dominates, this is no longer valid.\n* Unable to analyze what’s being said or shown, or gather demographic intelligence on creators.\n\n# **What you can do with Syncly social (Social listening 2.0)**\n\n* **Competitive Analysis**: Decode the video strategies driving your rivals' success. Outsmart your competition with data-driven social campaigns.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93013&key=user_uploads/971454/10cf6f9b-6296-4899-b365-205da5b00456)\n\n* **Brand Perception**: Measure how well your brand is landing with your customers. Instantly identify the gap between your intention and customer perception, then close it with data-driven, timely action.\n* **Influencer Discovery**: Uncover and partner with influencers who truly resonate with your brand. Amplify your brand's reach with authentic voices that drive engagement.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93013&key=user_uploads/971454/d1db78fb-a26a-420c-9555-eed8191dda65)\n\n\n# **How do I get started?**\n\nIf you’re interested in learning more use cases how leading brands achieves competitive advantage through Syncly social, book a demo [HERE](https://syncly.app/demo-social-yc).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OCD-syncly-social-ai-social-listening-for-video", "votes": 23, "created_at": "2025-08-14T23:52:42.170Z" }, { "id": 87956, "title": "Syncly Social - AI social listening platform for modern brands", "tagline": "970K+ Mentions, 10+ Social Platforms, 1 Breakthrough Solution.", "body": "Introducing [Syncly Social](https://www.syncly.app) - AI social listening platform for modern brands. We aggregate reviews, posts, and conversations from socials and e-commerce (Amazon, Instagram, Reddit, retailer-specific reviews, and many more) for market, competitor, and consumer intelligence, and provide actionable insights, faster and more accurate than ever.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87956&key=user_uploads/971454/f0894f43-dfd0-4b93-bb57-828ad0328971)\n\n# **Challenges of Social listening platform 1.0**\n\n**High volume of Noise data:** Legacy platforms rely on simple keyword queries to gather data. The problems are:\n\n* **Time-consuming**: Takes up to a couple of months to setup, repetitively.\n* **Less than 10% data is relevant:** For example, product names or sub-brands with generic or common imagery (like Discover and United) can lead to irrelevant content being collected.\n\n**Lack of Granularity in Analysis:**\n\n* Let’s say \"picture quality\" may be frequently mentioned for mobile brand. So what? To translate that into specific product or marketing insights, the insight should be more granular, but what you can get from legacy platform is the summary, at most, like “_People generally praise the picture quality on Samsung phones, particularly on their high-end models.”_\n\n**One-Dimensional Sentiment Analysis:** Traditional sentiment analysis often fails to capture the full context, especially when posts contain mixed emotions.\n\n* For example, a review that says, \"It’s not as bright as {product name}\" might seem negative, but since {product name} is a brand’s another product, it isn’t necessarily a critique of the brand as a whole. This inaccuracy complicates efforts to identify precise product improvements or refine marketing messages.\n\n# **Why we need Social listening platform 2.0 - Syncly social**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87956&key=user_uploads/971454/daffa167-4b77-47ae-8b0a-edf4809e5be5)\n\n* **⚡️ 90% Faster Setup:** Forget tedious keyword lists of what to include and exclude that often take up to a couple of months🤯. Syncly's AI automatically filters irrelevant chatter.\n* **🎯 Hyper-Targeted Insights:** Brands went _beyond_ basic sentiment to identify specific product issues and opportunities.\n* **😊 Nuanced Sentiment Analysis:** Syncly pinpointed _exactly_ which features customers loved (or hated) with aspect-based analysis.\n* **🌎 Language Agnostic Brand Tracking:** Global consumer brands, like LG Electronics, could track brand mentions in different languages without needing to translate keywords.\n\n# **Impact**\n\nInsights that once took **months** now surface in just **days**, enabling your brand to refine products, optimize marketing, and stay ahead of competitors, fast.\n\n# **Learn more use case**\n\nIf you’re interested in learning more use cases how Modern brands achieve competitive advantage through social listening, [schedule a demo](https://www.syncly.app/demo) with me.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mse-syncly-social-ai-social-listening-platform-for-modern-brands", "votes": 38, "created_at": "2025-02-24T18:23:58.940Z" }, { "id": 81714, "title": "Syncly - Get product insights from everyday customer communication for fast-growing companies", "tagline": "Bringing AI to help CX and Product team to understand customer issues before they churn.", "body": "[Syncly](https://syncly.app/) is an AI customer feedback analysis platform. I know you are running a customer-driven product. But do you understand in detail what’s driving negative customer sentiment and what needs to be done to elevate the experience?\n\nHere’s how Syncly helps top B2C companies like:\n\n* **Logitech, Boundless, Gamma,** and many others\n\nand fast-growing YC companies like:\n\n* **Speak**, **Ello**, **Navattic**, and many others.\n\n# **The Challenge: Do you know what’s driving negative customer experiences on your product and how to address them?**\n\nIt’s difficult to get visibility into the user sentiment trends and what can be done to elevate customer experience from a product perspective. Even when you get it, it’s not actionable. Why?\n\n* **Product insight is not granular enough:** unable to pinpoint customers/customer groups at risk and understand the details of their issues on your product.\n* **It takes loads of manual effort** to read and analyze customer feedback data. By the time you have it, it’s too late. Tagging provides stats but no story.\n* **Scattered data sources:** Difficult to aggregate various customer touch points (i.e., Zendesk, Intercom, Front, [gong.io](http://gong.io), Slack, Discord, reviews, and many others)\n\n# **The Solution: Syncly AI surfaces trending/urgent product** **issues automatically, based on all your customer touch points. Syncly does it with minimal effort from users and provides a granular level of insight on a customer level.**\n\n* With [**Smart Insight**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsoTigJI9F4), identify the most critical product gaps and issues that hinder customer experience without having to read all customer interactions across multiple channels (Zendesk, Intercom, gong.io, Front, Slack, Discord, reviews, and others).\n* Ask **Syncly AI** to pinpoint the positive and negative sentiment drivers and get instant action items to elevate the customer experience.\n* With **Customers AI**, monitor sentiment trends by account and individual user, to proactively engage with customers with underlying issues before they become at-risk.\n\n ![](https://framerusercontent.com/images/uTiFzlfEY2imgMwq5c8r1XDKCrE.png)\n\n\n### Learn more use cases\n\nIf you’re interested in learning more use cases and getting a free trial:\n\n* [**schedule a call**](https://www.syncly.app/demo) with Co-Founders at Syncly!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LFy-syncly-get-product-insights-from-everyday-customer-communication-for-fast-growing-companies", "votes": 174, "created_at": "2024-06-24T19:17:19.745Z" }, { "id": 69973, "title": "🚀 Syncly — AI customer feedback analytics that drives retention", "tagline": "Syncly enables Revenue teams to better understand customer insights to drive retention and team productivity. ", "body": "Hey, We are Joseph, Kwan, Jongsoo from [Syncly](https://www.syncly.app) (YC W23).\n\nOur team founded and sold an AI startup for $200M, and decided to bring our technology to help Revenue team drive retention by delivering the right value for customers.\n\n### **TL;DR**\n\nSyncly uses AI and Chat-GPT to enable Revenue teams to better understand customer insights to drive retention and team productivity.\n\n### **The Challenge**\n\n* **Manual tagging and insights:** Your revenue team wants to understand the most impactful product or operational feedback, but the team spend a lot of time manually aggregating and analyzing. As a result, you come to learn what had gone wrong _AFTER_ the damage.\n* **Measuring team efficiency**: Hard to track most of what problems your Revenue team is doing, but seems your team is doing a lot. Currently, done by 1-on-1 meetings or manual tagging, which is not scalable.\n* **Post-action impact:** Hard to measure how customer feedback has changed after certain actions.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\n* **Automating feedback insight:** Syncly finds urgent and impactful customer issues. Your team can proactively engage with customers _BEFORE_ the damage.\n* **Boosting team efficiency:** Spread best practices within the organization to help Account managers, Customer success & support managers focus on delivering more value to the customer.\n* **Post-action visibility:** By monitoring customer feedback trend, you can measure the impact of each release and action.\n\n\\*Syncly’s integrations include **Intercom, Slack, Salesforce**, and other customer communication platforms.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69973&key=user_uploads/971454/777aa42c-a17a-40a9-8418-feaf2f342c4d)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69973&key=user_uploads/971454/ab5abf25-c974-4eed-8e29-1f07e7bff28c)\n\n### **Our Asks**\n\n* If you wanted to get as many actional insights from your customers feedback, schedule a call with us here: [https://www.syncly.app](https://www.syncly.app/) (Click “Book a Demo”)\n* Feel free to shoot me an email at 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Sales teams at fast-growing B2B companies do 14%+ more calls per week because they no longer have to spend hours updating their CRM.**\n\n![](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=70012&key=user_uploads/312272/108c66cb-2f3c-4a62-865b-c88b96f03b74)\n\n### **The Problem:**\n\nThere are over **3 million** B2B salespeople in the US, and each of them spends 3-6 hours each week manually updating their CRM with data about their customers and live deals. \n\nThis creates a problem at every layer of large and fast-moving sales teams.\n\nReps at companies like Nextdoor, Twilio, Checkr, and Front spend **10-15% of their time** on data entry versus actually selling; Sales leaders spend hours chasing reps for updates; and sales-ops / rev-ops teams deal with their **CRM missing \\~50% of opportunity data**. This has always made it difficult for sales teams to know what is really happening and which deals are at risk.\n\nIn an environment where many B2B companies have to do more with less, something has to give.\n\n### **Our Solution:**\n\n**Paperplane solves this problem by automatically updating Salesforce after every sales call.** \n\nWe plug into a sales team’s conversational intelligence platform (e.g. Gong, Chorus, Wingman) and Salesforce.\n\nAfter the call, Paperplane transcribes and extracts the required Salesforce fields (eg. next steps, follow-ups, pain points, MEDDIC) and notes. No keywords, tracking words, or scripts to adhere to. Paperplane’s NLP model is built to retrieve the correct data regardless of phrasing and is grounded to mitigate hallucinations that are common with language models today.\n\n![Paperplane application dashboard](https://assets.website-files.com/61dda3a6f044ba05c5199801/63c85e1f69303cf09805823d_PIc%203.svg)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70012&key=user_uploads/312272/b1a55bb7-eba1-42d4-b245-fcbc8dd9e1c8)\n\nOnce done, sales leaders get the updates and notes they need in minutes and reps no longer spend hours moving data from their notes into Salesforce.\n\nWe’re currently working with a handful of fast-growing B2B companies to increase their pipeline visibility, improve sales productivity, and help them understand why they’re winning/losing.\n\n## **Our Ask 🙏**\n\n1. If you’re interested in a pilot, please email us at [founders@paperplane.ai](mailto:founders@paperplane.ai).\n2. Share this post with any sales or revops leaders or sales teams that fight Salesforce everyday. 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If your team spends time mapping data for customer data onboarding, data normalization between systems, or mapping for data integrations, we can help! Please go to our [website and sign up](https://www.lume.ai/?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=launch_yc_5_24) for a free trial.\n\n—-\n\nHi everyone! We are Nicolas, Nebyou, and Robert, the founders of Lume. We are on a mission to automate the painstakingly manual process of data mapping, after experiencing this frustration as engineers ourselves. We have onboarded several customers who are growing and are excited to help more teams use AI in their data mapping workflows.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81770&key=user_uploads/1159508/77b12bac-08ae-40df-9984-f0cbc0f10c1d)\n\n**🧨 Problem**\n\nThe usual mapping process involves a labor-intensive cycle: analyzing data to determine what's relevant, selecting the appropriate properties, developing the mapping logic, and constantly updating mappers to accommodate schema changes in source or target systems. This process, we learned, takes days, weeks, or even months for most teams, and automating it has traditionally been borderline impossible due to unique differences in data.\n\n**✨ Solution**\n\nLume uses AI to automatically map data between any start and end schema, whether it is customer data, external sources, or anything else. Lume provides this via an API and a no-code platform where you can generate mapping logic, review and edit it, and manage multiple data pipelines. Whether you want to onboard customer data, normalize data from multiple sources, or create auto-mapping UIs over Lume, Lume delivers. With automated transformations and data delivery, error and type checking, auto-maintenance with schema inference, and execution via an API or a no-code App for different use cases, teams can spend more time delivering their core value to customers instead of wrangling and manually mapping data.\n\n**🚀 Key Features**\n\n* ✨ Generate mapping logic in seconds: via our API or the Lume app, simply pass in a sample of your source data and a target format, and Lume will generate the mappings.\n* 🛠️ Edit mapping logic: review and edit the mapping logic and mapped data as needed to ensure you have the desired outcome. Leverage tools ranging from natural language all the way to full code edits to edit the mappers quickly and easily.\n* ✅ Deploy mappers: Use the mappers deterministically in your code via our API or the app, allowing you to reliably move data between schemas as you scale your data pipelines.\n* 🤖 Auto-maintain mappers: Lume detects changes in your schemas, notifying you and allowing you to use AI to update the mapping logic, effectively automating your maintenance.\n* 📊 Manage and organize mappers: use Lume’s dashboard to have visibility over all of your mappers and live data pipelines.\n* 📑 Handle any format: Lume supports JSON, CSV, XLS, PDF, and other formats! You can move data through the API or the app.\n* 🔮 Upcoming: adding custom logic with lambda functions, custom validation rules, python SDK, transferring your existing mappings when migrating to Lume, and more.\n\n**⚙️ How it works**\n\n* To create mappers: specify your target structure and provide a sample of source data. This can be done via the Lume API or the Lume Platform.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81770&key=user_uploads/1159508/d27fd09d-3943-4748-817a-cb16a4b5952a)\n\n* ✨ Lume’s AI system creates the mappings between any two schemas, ranging from simple 1-1 mappings, time-series aggregations, complex calculations, and ontology classifications.\n* Use the generated mappings and mapping logic: Use the Lume API or the Lume Platform to upload new incoming data and retrieve the corresponding output mapped data and mapping logic. Your data has just been automatically mapped with AI!\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81770&key=user_uploads/1159508/c25b7d28-9b19-49b5-b103-ad8a69ef21e7)\n\n* For creating robust data pipelines, review and edit the generated mapping logic before running production data. Once saved, you can confidently use these mappers as deterministic pipelines. This is helpful for your data integrations between systems.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81770&key=user_uploads/1159508/c9f8696c-e294-4c01-b602-aa16f3635f21)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81770&key=user_uploads/1159508/b2766b97-2eda-4dca-baf5-9f87ffb22d8d)\n\n* Alternatively, build on top of the Lume API to deploy your own auto-mapper UI to allow customers to self-onboard.\n\n**💡 Use Cases**\n\nLume handles three core use cases:\n\n* Onboarding Client Data\n* Normalizing Data from Multiple Sources\n* One to Many Integrations\n\nHere are three customer success stories:\n\n* For a growth-stage battery analytics company, mapping each customer’s sensor data went from 2 weeks to 1.5 hours with Lume.\n* For a large HR analytics platform, Lume mapping accuracy reached 95% for their most recent batch of integrations, saving them weeks of onboarding time for mapping and classifying data from incoming systems.\n* For an early-stage financial product startup, Lume is handling \\~500 live data pipelines that are externally facing, constantly mapping and adapting to new incoming data.\n\nAll of these have the common theme of having to map data between unique schemas, where even discrepancies as minor as column name variations make this process time-consuming and near-impossible to automate. This gets even worse at scale. Clients previously were allocating engineers, customer success teams, or offshore labor to analyze incoming data, map the data, and route it to their new systems. This process used to take up to multiple months for some teams, costing significant time and money.\n\nWe serve multiple industries ranging from ecommerce, insurance, manufacturing, and financial products.\n\n**👨‍💻Meet the Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81770&key=user_uploads/1159508/fe023d78-6ef6-49c3-b202-d264bc80270e)\n\nMy co-founders Nebyou Zewde (right), Robert Ross (middle), and I (left) all met during our first year at Stanford. As engineers ourselves, we’ve spent plenty of time grudgingly going over the manual task of mapping data. We quickly learned that we were not the only ones who faced this problem - most companies spend too much time on this. As AI grads, and with a fire for this problem, we built Lume AI. We are part of the Y Combinator W23 batch, and we’re excited to be launching here.\n\n**🙏 Our ask**\n\n* Sign up for a free trial to get started by [visiting our website](https://www.lume.ai/?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=launch_yc_5_24) or [booking a call here](https://cal.com/team/lume/intro). We’ll get you on a Slack and onboarded quickly.\n* Share this with anyone who works on data mapping for customer onboarding, data normalization, or moving data between any two systems. We support a variety of use cases.\n* Upvote and share this post!\n\n**💥 The Deal**\n\nMention you saw Lume via Launch YC, and we will give you a 50% discount for your first 6 months. We also offer a free pilot.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LGs-lume-automate-data-mappings-using-ai", "votes": 40, "created_at": "2024-06-26T17:31:22.598Z" }, { "id": 70009, "title": "Lume - No-code tool to create and maintain custom data integrations", "tagline": "Lume uses AI to automatically transform data between any start and end schema.", "body": "**TL;DR**\n\nLume helps engineering teams build and maintain custom data integrations with no code. If you spend countless hours manually transforming data for custom integrations, we can help! Please go to our [website](https://www.lume.ai/?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=launch_yc_5_23) and sign up for our private beta.\n\n—-\n\n---\n\nHi everyone! We are Nicolas, Nebyou, and Robert, the founders of Lume. We are on a mission to empower companies to focus on delivering their core value proposition rather than spending time on data integrations and transformations. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70009&key=user_uploads/1157038/0a606e9a-7357-4f36-bd06-be63bddcd635)\n\n**🧨 Problem** \n\nEngineers spend countless hours manually transforming data for custom integrations or pay large amounts to consulting firms to do the same. Dynamic schemas from different clients or apps require engineers to build and maintain custom integration pipelines one by one, and companies spend days, weeks, and even months building integrations. Lume is tackling this problem head-on. \n\n**✨ Solution**\n\nLume uses AI to automatically transform data between _any_ start and end schema and pipes the data directly to your desired destination. Lume provides this through a no-code platform where you can build and maintain your custom data integrations. Whether you want to map multiple sources to your internal unified schema or connect to your third-party apps without manual mapping, Lume delivers. With automated transformations and data delivery, backtesting and data quality checks, and version control, engineers can spend more time delivering their core value to customers instead of wrangling and manually mapping data. \n\n**⚙️ How it works**\n\n* You connect your custom schemas and authenticate into your desired apps.\n* Lume’s AI system creates the transformations between any two schemas, ranging from internal schemas to structured third-party apps.\n* Once you validate the transformed data, Lume will pipe the correct data to your specified destination.\n\nWe can connect to your data warehouse and leverage its compute to keep your data in-house.\n\n**Common Use Cases:**\n\n* Internal: Transforming separate data sources into one unified internal ontology\n * Ex: a unified schema between Salesforce, Hubspot, Quickbooks, and Pipedrive.\n* External: Custom syncs between your SaaS apps\n * Ex: Enrich CRM data from multiple sources before sending it to your BI tool\n* Onboarding: Mapping prospective client data to fit your product’s input schema\n * Ex: Consulting firms mapping each new clients’ unique ERP schemas to their internal ontology on Snowflake.\n* Migration: Creating custom integration pipelines between competitor products to yours \n * Ex: New productivity tool startup creates an “Import from Notion/Evernote” for newly converted users.\n\n**👨‍💻Meet the Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70009&key=user_uploads/1157038/86b2a6a9-5fb4-4300-be17-30125bdb80fa)\n\nMy co-founders Nicolas Machado (right), Nebyou Zewde (middle), and I (left) all met during our first year at Stanford, where we received our undergraduate and Master's degrees in computer science with a focus on Artificial Intelligence. With experience working at both unicorn startups and big tech companies, our team has knowledge and experience building and deploying applied machine learning systems.\n\n**🙏 Our ask**\n\n* Sign-up for our [private beta](https://www.lume.ai/?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=launch_yc_5_23) if you want to try Lume and see a demo.\n* Share this with anyone that works on custom data integrations.\n* Upvote and share this post!\n\n**💥 The Deal**\n\n**Sign-up before demo day for a 50% discount for the first year!**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IDB-lume-no-code-tool-to-create-and-maintain-custom-data-integrations", "votes": 251, "created_at": "2023-03-07T18:12:57.774Z" } ] }, { "id": 27698, "name": "Viddy", "slug": "viddy", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1dfe2f7acf5297dd4c70e312a5b1f29fe5205ad7.png", "website": "https://www.viddyapp.io/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "A brand new way to create landing pages that's video-native. Traditional ways of building landing pages are too costly (money & time) and brands want to experiment more. Our landing pages rely on video content to do the heavy lifting from a dev & design perspective.\r\n\r\n\r\nOur landing pages convert well (+15-30% across channels such as paid ads, email, and sms) and take <20min to create. This means brands can test over 10x what the currently do with Viddy.", "one_liner": "A new way to create landing pages that is video-native.", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1673896172, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Video", "E-commerce" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/viddy", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/viddy.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/viddyapp", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/viddyapp", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1dfe2f7acf5297dd4c70e312a5b1f29fe5205ad7.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1164333, "full_name": "Harris Gani", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Harris is a co-founder of Viddy. He has a product and engineering background having worked at a variety of companies such as Frame.io, Pangaea Holdings, Zynga, and Sotheby's. In his free time you can likely find him playing tennis, exploring art exhibits, or shooting on his film camera.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrisgani/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/HarrisRules13", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ffbb2d8cd9d6f70c79312b30658287e35cfe17b1.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1164831, "full_name": "Nihar Patil", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Nihar is a co-founder of Viddy. He has a product and engineering background having worked at a variety of companies such as Uber and Pangaea Holdings. In his free time you'll find him producing music or playing his guitar.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/niharpatil/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e940d79b6eabee8a6827e488e3bb5577ebedd204.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 74475, "title": "Viddy - E-commerce video storefronts that convert paid social ads better than Shopify", "tagline": "We optimize DTC brands’ paid social marketing by creating fast video shopping experiences that feel like social apps.", "body": "Hi everyone, we’re Harris and Nihar — we’re reinventing online shopping experiences to make content the focal point so that they perform more efficiently for marketers on social platforms like Meta (Facebook & Instagram), TikTok, and Snapchat!\n\n## **📔 TL;DR**\n\nOur Video Storefronts are a new shopping experience designed specifically for paid social ads. We enable e-commerce brands to create a cohesive shopping journey from video-first social platforms to their storefronts. Using them, our customers have been able to increase return on ad spend (ROAS) by 30% and decrease CAC by 20%. As a part of this launch we’re offering 1 Month Free as outlined below in the ‘Asks’ section.\n\n## **❌ The Problem: E-commerce brands are losing marketing efficiency on paid social ads due to iOS 14**\n\nDue to iOS 14’s privacy tracking updates, e-commerce brands are facing rising customer acquisition costs (CAC) and declining ROAS on social platforms like Meta, TikTok, and SnapChat. Brands are lacking efficient and modern shopping experiences to combat this.\n\nOnline shopping hasn’t changed in 10+ years, but _where_ shoppers are discovering brands has changed dramatically. Now, shoppers are discovering brands on social media platforms where video is the main medium. This preferred medium of video is completely lost when a shopper arrives on a Shopify website from social media - a pretty large disconnect.\n\nBuilding shoppable video experiences that feel as snappy as an app in the browser isn’t something Shopify and other site builders support. This limits brands to testing simple things like copy changes and different hero images on their websites…things that don’t really move the needle from a core metrics perspective (CAC, ROAS, conversion rate, etc.)\n\n## **🎉 The Solution: Shopping experiences native to social media**\n\nOur Video Storefronts enable a new shopping experience that is native to the video-first medium of social media. Brands have success using our Video Storefronts as the landing pages for their paid social ads.\n\nBrands can create as many Video Storefront links as they’d like so they can create a storefront per product, per video, per ad campaign, per you name it! This lets brands curate each experience for the shopper and ultimately create a more cohesive end-to-end shopping experience.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74475&key=user_uploads/1164333/178bda56-a114-4b9b-921a-0d60da5ef58c)\n\n## **⚙️ How it works**\n\nUsing our Video Storefronts is very straightforward. Since we don’t touch a brand’s actual website and host everything ourselves on your subdomain, we actually require zero engineering resources to get live!\n\nAll we need from a brand to create a Video Storefront link is (1) a video and (2) a products list to feature in the storefront. It usually takes brands <1 day to get their first Video Storefront live. Once a brand has their storefront link, they can drop it in their social ads manager platforms to be the landing page for existing ad campaigns. This lets brands monitor results using tools they are already familiar with.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74475&key=user_uploads/1164333/efda7308-5465-48bc-a5a8-8fb7b5773bdb)\n\n## **📈 What results can you expect?**\n\nWe work with 7-figure and 8-figure revenue brands and have increased their ROAS by 30% and decreased their CAC by 20% by using our Video Storefronts. We are constantly A/B testing improvements on our shopping experience (the UX, layouts, interactions, etc.) and rollout the winning tests we conduct on your behalf so things are always improving 🙂.\n\n## **🙏 Asks**\n\nFor a limited time, we’re currently offering 1 Month Free of our Video Storefronts product for e-commerce brands doing at least $1M in annual revenue that [**sign up from this link**](https://www.viddyapp.io/partnerships/yc-video-storefronts-launch?utm_source=yc-launch&utm_medium=yc-launch-video-storefronts&utm_campaign=yc-launch-video-storefronts&utm_id=yc-launch-video-storefronts).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JND-viddy-e-commerce-video-storefronts-that-convert-paid-social-ads-better-than-shopify", "votes": 19, "created_at": "2023-08-29T15:43:24.279Z" }, { "id": 68494, "title": "🛒 Viddy - Shoppable video experiences for e-commerce", "tagline": "We let e-commerce brands add interactive and shoppable video experiences (think Instagram Stories and TikTok feeds) to their websites to increase personalization and conversion rate.", "body": "**🚀 TL;DR Short-form video is the new default medium of content consumption, but e-commerce hasn't adapted and has been static text & images for +10 years. Viddy bridges this gap by bringing familiar and interactive video UIs that are shoppable to e-commerce.**\n\nHi everyone👋 Harris and Nihar here from Viddy! We’re on a mission to change the future of online shopping.\n\n### **🚨 The Problem**\n\nConsumer behavior is shifting towards consuming more short-form vertical video (thanks to TikTok, Instagram, SnapChat, YouTube Shorts, etc.), yet e-commerce has been static text and images for over 10 years.\n\nE-commerce brands and their storefronts have struggled to adapt to this video-first trend, leading to their conversion rate and engagement consistently dropping year over year. Lower conversion rate and engagement leads to lower revenue, retention, and LTV.\n\n# \n\n### **🎯 Our Solution**\n\nWe've built familiar video UIs (such as Instagram Stories, animated carousels, swipeable TikTok feeds, among others) that can be easily embedded on an e-commerce website. See examples below:\n\n![](https://t20558217.p.clickup-attachments.com/t20558217/75c857dc-99f2-43e9-9bca-7019b7908c91/img1.png)\n\nBrands can feature custom call-to-actions within videos (for example: taking a quiz, booking a demo, viewing a product page, etc.). See our mobile optimized video player in expanded view below:\n\n![](https://t20558217.p.clickup-attachments.com/t20558217/054c0633-9fb3-4424-bd51-e0561c6ee71b/img2.png)\n\nEverything is configurable and customizable in terms of what videos a brand wants to use to the look & feel of our video player. See our CMS below:\n\n![](https://t20558217.p.clickup-attachments.com/t20558217/3f897964-6394-486e-8fa9-d421676c5953/image.png)\n\n**You** [**try a live demo here**](https://www.viddyapp.io/?utm_source=yc_launch_post&utm_medium=yc_launch_post&utm_campaign=yc_launch_post&utm_id=yc_launch_post#live-examples) **here** **to play around with our video experiences firsthand!**\n\n# \n\n# 🧐 **How it works**\n\n1. Upload your video assets to the Viddy CMS\n2. Add any call-to-actions you want within your videos\n3. Select which video UI you want to use (Stories, Carousel, Floating Player)\n4. Copy code embed and place on your site and voila!\n\nIt usually takes 1-2 days to get live and all our customers have seen a +10x ROI.\n\n# \n\n# **💬 Backstory: we come from e-commerce**\n\nWe come from the e-commerce industry and have led growth and experimentation of large DTC brands. We led a men's skincare brand that struggled to educate men on how to use skincare products (what does each product do, how much, how often, which order, etc.). Explaining this with video always performed better than static text, but getting people to engage with YouTube or Vimeo embeds wasn't great.\n\nWe noticed that video UIs that are on par with mobile social apps are not readily available to non-technical website managers (a growing segment with the advent of Shopify, Webflow, Wix, etc.) and we're here to fix that.\n\n# \n\n# **⚡️ Our ask**\n\n* **If you know any folks at e-commerce brands and can make a warm intro, please email us at** [**founders@viddyapp.io**](mailto:founders@viddyapp.io)\n* **Want to join the platform? 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These data help companies understand how their profitability breaks down by product and customer, allowing them to make optimal strategic decisions about pricing, resource allocation and cloud architecture.\n\n### Problem\n\nMost tech companies **don’t know how much it costs to serve each of their customers with each of their products**. Cloud costs are typically a tech company’s second-largest cost (after personnel), and they can vary significantly even on a per-unit basis, i.e. irrespective of volume.\n\nWithout per-customer and per-product cost information, companies can’t reliably know:\n\n1. What’s our margin on Customer A?\n2. What’s our margin on Product B?\n3. Which usage events drove Customer C’s costs last month?\n4. What are our costs likely to be on new Customer D?\n\nNormally, if an engineering or finance team wants to know the answer to one of these questions, they have to either 1) **make an estimate that could be wildly inaccurate** based on average total costs or 2) “**track down an engineer** to run experiments in AWS.” (That was a direct quote from a CFO.)\n\n### Solution\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70237&key=user_uploads/1165030/8fb86e1e-9f54-4127-ad9e-e0ac5daf701f)\n\n**Dashdive answers these questions** by monitoring backend services (servers, databases, etc.) with lightweight agents. These agents **attribute the activity on each cloud service to specific features and customers** using distributed tracing and continuous profiling. Then, the usage data are **mapped to cost** data via AWS/GCP/Azure billing APIs. The result is a complete picture of who and what are driving cloud costs over time.\n\nGranular cloud cost data allow companies to:\n\n1. Know if they’re pricing an existing customer too low—or below cost.\n2. Hone in on individual lines of code and architectural decisions that incur disproportionate costs. (Other tools can only give generic cost-cutting recommendations based on total costs, e.g. “consider reserving storage in advance for a discount,” since they just repackage existing AWS billing data.)\n3. Give customers who complain about high bills or opaque pricing an adequate explanation (and perhaps even suggested usage patterns to reduce future bills).\n4. Better forecast the cost of serving a new customer based on expected usage. This helps teams price contracts optimally to hit margin goals consistently.\n\n### Setup\n\nInstallation only involves deploying Dashdive agents to each service of interest. This takes five minutes and requires **zero code changes**. Although our backend is cloud-based by default, **Dashdive can be self-hosted** for companies that need to keep all data within their ecosystem.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70237&key=user_uploads/1165030/943447c4-84fd-4a29-a67c-46f3ae266fcc)\n\n_This is the entire setup for AWS Lambda, a popular cloud service._\n\n### Why Now\n\nSupply and demand factors make now the perfect time to launch this product:\n\n* **Supply**: Monitoring technologies eBPF and OpenTelemetry have come a long way in the past few years. Both technologies allow seamless monitoring of different technology stacks, removing friction where engineering teams would have otherwise needed to make significant investments in setup and maintenance. Application performance monitoring companies like Datadog have proven that monitoring dozens of services is technically feasible and can be profitable even at scale.\n* **Demand**: As the cost of capital has increased and fundraising has become less certain, profitability is the only way to guarantee business survival. Business and engineering leaders are placing newfound importance on margin health.\n\nGiven these factors, this opportunity emerged in the last twelve months.\n\n### Get in Touch\n\nMore information at [dashdive.com](http://dashdive.com). Inquiries can be sent to [team@dashdive.com](https://mailto:team@dashdive.com).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70237&key=user_uploads/1165030/e5803ab1-04cb-4a16-b4f5-f87c2ec6bb68)\n\nDashdive’s founders met in college at Stanford University. Bringing strategy and sales experience, [Micah](https://www.linkedin.com/in/micah-wheat/) (left) worked at the Boston Consulting Group. 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Request early access** [**here**](https://mzgq3tvfxmu.typeform.com/to/DD8HB5A5)\n\nHey everyone, we're the founders of Nebula!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69881&key=user_uploads/888634/dd916b21-6237-4b46-ab5b-91a02851586a)\n\n**Shanelle** was previously a PM at Google, where she saw firsthand the productivity loss that came with complex microservice architectures.\n\n**Vishnu** is a second-time founder who has previously built developer platforms & ML-based document retrieval systems.\n\nWe've experienced the frustration of seemingly simple features taking months to launch because of the complexity of unwieldy microservice architectures. Building on open-source tooling designed to handle Google-scale codebases, Nebula aims to make it simple and painless to develop microservices.\n\n### Problem 😔\n\n[85% of enterprise companies](https://www.statista.com/statistics/1236823/microservices-usage-per-organization-size/) use a microservice architecture. However, as these codebases scale in size & complexity, developer velocity often slows drastically:\n\n1\\. **trivial changes take weeks to implement** because they impact multiple services or teams across the org\n\n2\\. it takes **longer to debug** issues because it's hard to track the flow of data across your system\n\n3\\. **onboarding** a new developer onto your codebase can take weeks, if not months\n\nCompanies that switch to microservice architecture often see a dramatic increase in the cognitive overhead required for their engineers to be productive.\n\nWe've done deep dives with best-in-class companies like Netflix and Linkedin to learn how they dealt with the growing complexity of their codebases. We're combining their most effective strategies with insights from Shanelle's experience at Google to build Nebula.\n\n### How it works [🥳](https://emojipedia.org/partying-face/)\n\nNebula deploys in your cloud & continuously analyzes your codebase to generate an index of inter-service communication, then exposes this info in three ways:\n\n1\\. An **IDE extension** that shows how a line of code fits into the overall system (e.g. service dependencies, cross-references, recent traces, etc.)\n\n2\\. An **auto-generated service catalog** that includes service interfaces, usage examples, and service contributors (no maintenance required)\n\n3\\. 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[Intro us](mailto:shanelle@trynebula.com?subject=YC%20Launch%20-%20Nebula%20customer%20intro)! **If your referral becomes a paying customer, we'll send you a $500 Amazon gift card**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IB7-nebula-understand-debug-enterprise-scale-codebases", "votes": 130, "created_at": "2023-03-02T19:58:46.522Z" } ] }, { "id": 27707, "name": "Trackstar", "slug": "trackstar", "former_names": [ "Trackstar", "Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b1c2e3341674792a8d56306cb0073f98a11cd136.png", "website": "https://www.trackstarhq.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Trackstar is the Plaid for supply chain logistics. Our universal API provides a simple and well-documented way for companies to integrate with hundreds of warehouse management systems (\"WMS\") in minutes, not months. 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We are on a mission to digitize the global supply chain – one API at a time.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70084&key=user_uploads/1155870/53fd0b5a-6777-4d6c-94e5-a8057c816dad)\n\n### 🩺**The Problem**\n\nInnovation in the supply chain industry is stifled by the lack of accessible data. For example, there are hundreds of warehouse management systems, most of which are legacy tools with poorly documented APIs or no APIs at all.\n\nCompanies that work on inventory planning, supply chain visibility, product returns, financing, warehouse operations, and more, are forced to build, maintain, and normalize data across one-off supply chain integrations. \n\nThese companies…\n\n* **Drain time and resources** trying to integrate with enough of the WMS market;\n* **Miss out on winning new business** by not supporting integrations that their customers need;\n* **Or never start** because the integration hurdle prevents them from even entering the market.\n\n### 💡**Our Solution**\n\nA universal API for the global supply chain. Our API for warehouse management systems lets software companies build once against a single API and instantly read and write data from any WMS. \n\nWMS is just the beginning. Digitizing these systems will enable a wave of existing and new SaaS companies to build a more efficient and sustainable supply chain.\n\n### **📜How It Works**\n\nWith our universal API, companies can offer WMS integrations without the dev work, and focus their time and resources on their core product.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70084&key=user_uploads/1155870/7e55987e-cc1c-44f7-a7be-d2ab21e3d1da)\n\n### ⚡**Asks**\n\nIf you know any companies that currently integrate with or are looking to integrate with WMS, please send intros to [founders@trackstarhq.com](mailto:founders@trackstarhq.com).\n\nWant to be an early customer? 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Since then, we’ve expanded to become a full product integration platform for developers. We now support 400+ APIs, 600+ pre-built integrations, and custom integrations-as-code.\n\nDemo video: \n\nEach API in our catalog comes with auth handling (OAuth, API keys, etc.), two-way syncing, retries, rate limit management, pagination, webhooks, observability, etc.\n\nWe also have pre-built integrations for common use cases like fetching HubSpot contacts, creating GitHub issues, syncing Salesforce data, and hundreds more.\n\nIf an API or integration you need isn’t supported yet, you can implement it yourself on Nango (or ask us to prioritize it).\n\nEverything related to API authorization is free forever, and you can either self-host or use our cloud version.\n\n([API catalog](https://www.nango.dev/api-integrations) / [Docs](https://docs.nango.dev/) / [Repo](https://github.com/NangoHQ/nango) / [Try it](https://app.nango.dev))", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/N04-nango-embed-600-integrations-from-400-apis-in-your-saas", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2025-03-11T14:52:52.000Z" }, { "id": 70266, "title": "🔌 Nango: Get OAuth tokens for APIs. 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Just connect your Shopify, Amazon, or other store and we handle the rest.\n\n* Registration: We can register companies in all 47 sales tax charging states.\n* Monitoring: We monitor for sales tax rate changes and automatically adjust your tax settings.\n* Filing: Lastly, we submit tax returns & payments on your behalf.\n\n![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/xkilm56kCWPHeUyHBIY4a-dsuiEyZgxaIoWV0bcsxo-WXl3fZxZ2qWf5D3I6xy0at4xZ8gvmkxmM245gEWXLIil-WFtvKERRMZmy22bsNB4A95owzOuA7mY1MC3FwQLB9A1gRsqPiG9o85HRpybvCaI)\n\n### **Why us?**\n\n**Kevin** - Kevin is a licensed CPA in the state of California. After working in Big 4 Accounting, Kevin went on to start multiple ecommerce businesses. Kevin and Sam co-own a Shopify brand that does $10M+ in annual revenue.\n\n**Sam** - Sam ran his own bootstrapped e-commerce studio that generated over $50M in revenue over the last 4 years. 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On top of Google Search, Web Scraping, and GPT, we’ll be adding a plugin to make REST API calls, which will unlock every API and the ability to chain arbitrary code execution by calling your code on [repl.it](http://repl.it)\n\n# **Team**\n\nBefore Double, we :\n\n* Studied engineering at Waterloo\n* Worked on autonomous vehicles at Waymo and Tesla, and\n* Built Ninja, Canada’s first 10-minute delivery service. Ninja raised $2M and offered deliveries in 2 cities with a team of 80+ couriers before it was acquired in 2022\n\n# **Ask:**\n\n* Got a process you want to automate? [Try Double for free today](https://www.usedouble.com/), or reach out to us if you need a hand setting up\n* Share our [Twitter launch thread](https://twitter.com/geepytee/status/1636066726973702149?s=20) and our website on your Twitter, LinkedIn, Tiktok, or other social media! 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The launch of Glass AI led to >50K AI queries and more than 5K sign-ups for the Glass Health platform.\n\nWe used the feedback from those queries to create an entirely new clinical layer for Glass AI. In this new video [demo,](https://twitter.com/GlassHealthHQ/status/1631001866564927488?s=20) our AI creates a clinical plan for a patient with heart failure. Glass AI 2.0 has been created by a team of 20 physicians and outputs state-of-the-art clinical plans with up-to-date and accurate medical references.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69950&key=user_uploads/76099/27c5a00b-4805-4ede-8353-ff8a89cb6feb)\n\n**About Us**\n\n[Dereck Paul](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/glass-health) is a physician who trained at the UCSF School of Medicine and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. During his clinical training, he encountered the archaic software doctors use to practice medicine and became passionate about providing clinicians with a new generation of software. \n\n[Graham Ramsey](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/glass-health) was an early engineer and product manager at Modern Fertility and built a telemedicine EHR at Plushcare, where he became passionate about building for clinicians.\n\nDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, we founded Glass Health because of our shared belief that technology should be fully leveraged to optimize the practice of medicine and improve patient outcomes. Please contact us at [founders@glass.health](mailto:founders@glass.health) to learn more about our mission or our Demo Day.\n\nIf you’re a clinician, we’d love to have you try our platform. Please sign up for the Glass AI 2.0 waitlist [here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCdTtVQiufki0qZqDUiQRZ8TuVbjp9j0GwM5gk75jjBY_o-g/viewform).\n\nFollow us on Twitter at [@GlassHealthHQ](https://twitter.com/GlassHealthHQ) for more updates.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/ICE-glass-ai-2-0-demo-chatgpt-for-doctors", "votes": 4, "created_at": "2024-01-09T21:40:10.162Z" }, { "id": 70581, "title": "Glass AI - GPT for doctors", "tagline": "We empower doctors with our platform for AI-assisted diagnosis and clinical decision-making.", "body": "**Glass AI** 🩺\n\nPhysicians spend 2x more time with the computer than they do with patients. Generative AI has the potential to assist doctors with their work, but base LLMs (e.g. ChatGPT) cannot be used in the clinical environment. Base LLMs can output incorrect and outdated treatment plans. \\\n\\\nWe combine a base LLM with a proprietary clinical knowledge database and human (physician) reinforcement training to help doctors diagnose patients and generate accurate clinical plans in seconds. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70581&key=user_uploads/76099/68c8b1d6-25ad-4fc3-a4e5-1aaaf32d5958)\n\n**About Us**\n\n[Dereck Paul, MD](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/glass-health) is a physician who trained at the UCSF School of Medicine and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. During his clinical training, he encountered the archaic software doctors use to practice medicine and became passionate about providing clinicians with a new generation of software. \n\n[Graham Ramsey](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/glass-health) was an early engineer and product manager at Modern Fertility and built a telemedicine EHR at Plushcare, where he became passionate about building for clinicians.\n\nDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, we founded Glass Health because of our shared belief that technology should be fully leveraged to optimize the practice of medicine and improve patient outcomes. Please contact us at [founders@glass.health](mailto:founders@glass.health) to learn more about our mission or our Demo Day raise.\n\nIf you’re a clinician, we’d love to have you try our platform. Please sign up for the Glass [here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCdTtVQiufki0qZqDUiQRZ8TuVbjp9j0GwM5gk75jjBY_o-g/viewform).\n\nFollow us on Twitter at[@GlassHealthHQ](https://twitter.com/GlassHealthHQ) for more updates.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IMP-glass-ai-gpt-for-doctors", "votes": 35, "created_at": "2023-03-28T14:36:11.359Z" }, { "id": 68710, "title": "Glass Health — Frictionless software for learning and practicing medicine 🩺", "tagline": "Glass is an AI-powered platform for medical knowledge management and clinical decision making that helps clinicians provide better patient care.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68710&key=user_uploads/76099/471cfb16-bd60-47be-8b49-b60d0faa66a6)\n\n**🤔 PROBLEM**\n\nWe saw physicians struggling to manage an ever-expanding world of complex clinical information from heterogeneous sources. We also experienced this problem first-hand in the clinical environment. Our friends in medicine had phones and email accounts full of disorganized journal articles, tweets, clinical images, lecture slides. They could not easily reference these important digital assets when needed to enhance their care of patients.\n\n**🩺 SOLUTION**\n\nGlass is a medical knowledge management platform, aka “Notion for doctors.” Our platform is tailored to how clinicians capture, organize, store, and retrieve medical knowledge.\n\nWe’ve created medicine-specific knowledge management features, including:\n\n* Schemas, Scripts, and Cases: store content in special page templates tailored to common medical knowledge constructs.\n* Pearls: capture snippets of clinical knowledge encountered during patient care and later organize them in your notebook.\n* Linking and Visualizations: easily backlink pages and later view their relationships with medicine-specific visualizations.\n* Community Library: view and save pages published by others in the Glass Health Community.\n* Glass AI: draft differential diagnoses and clinical plans using generative AI. ([Glass AI Demo](https://glass.health/ai))\n* Team Collaboration (coming soon): track key information about patients in a HIPAA-compliant team collaboration environment.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68710&key=user_uploads/76099/ba37b973-9395-4320-b3dd-9771299ce305)\n\nThese features help clinicians bring all medical knowledge assets they encounter throughout their careers into one place. This helps them achieve clinical mastery faster and leverage their ever-growing digital external brains to better care for patients.\n\n**📖 FOUNDER BACKGROUNDS**\n\n[Dereck Paul, MD](https://twitter.com/dereckwpaul) was a resident physician in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and a medical student at the UCSF School of Medicine.\n\n[Graham Ramsey](https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-ramsey/) interned at Watsi (YC W13) and designed and built the EHR at the telemedicine company PlushCare. He was an early product team member at Modern Fertility (YC S17) until its acquisition by Ro in 2021.\n\nContact us at [founders@glass.health](mailto:founders@glass.health).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HsE-glass-health-frictionless-software-for-learning-and-practicing-medicine", "votes": 25, "created_at": "2023-01-25T17:58:38.335Z" } ] }, { "id": 27774, "name": "Versive", "slug": "versive", "former_names": [ "Mirio" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6c576ccab62c99fd845635ad445e0305d08a2681.png", "website": "https://www.getversive.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Versive is an all-in-one research platform that helps teams make faster customer-informed decisions.\r\n- Collect richer insights: AI-moderated studies that deliver interview-quality results at the survey speeds\r\n- Accelerate your analysis: AI-assisted analysis that instantly turns transcripts into shareable insights\r\n", "one_liner": "AI-first user research platform", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1677539488, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Design Tools", "Market Research", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/versive", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/versive.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/versivehq", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/getversive", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6c576ccab62c99fd845635ad445e0305d08a2681.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 239074, "full_name": "David Correa Orozco", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "David is the CEO of Versive. He started his career as a PM at Microsoft working on the Windows Build System. He then became one of the founding engineers at Bread (NYSE: BFH) where he developed multiple fin-tech products. Most recently, he spent the last 3 years working on Serverless Networking systems at Google Cloud. He is now focusing on building an AI-survey platform that enables teams to gather better user insights, faster.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/correa-david/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e0b4b18e7029206e3b43fc16489fc4d5745b682b.jpg" }, { "user_id": 322456, "full_name": "Eric Li", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Eric is the co-founder of Versive. Previously, he led product and design at Vareto, designed marketplace products at Uber Eats, and was the first designer at Bread (NYSE: BFH). In a past life, he studied Economics at UChicago and was an investment banker at J.P. Morgan. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/28ac3abe347a9bab347de881822f3592553885b0.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 83020, "title": "Versive - AI-powered synthesis for user interviews", "tagline": "Instantly turn user interviews into shareable reports and actionable insights.", "body": "We’re [Eric](https://www.linkedin.com/in/erictli/) and [David](https://www.linkedin.com/in/correa-david/), the founders of [Versive](https://www.getversive.com/).\n\n**tl;dr:** Versive now helps you turn user interviews and customer calls into ready-to-share reports. Upload your recordings to get shareable research reports with key quotes and actionable takeaways. Plus, use AI chat to dive deeper and get answers to specific questions.\n\n# **Problem**\n\nTalking to users helps companies make better decisions, but the process of conducting and analyzing user research is slow and manual.\n\nImagine you’re a researcher who just interviewed 10 users. To share your findings, you need to watch each recording, summarize the conversations, extract key themes and quotes, consolidate your notes into a single report, and then package everything into a polished document. It’ll take at least a week before you can share actionable insights with your team, and you’ll have spent hours that could have been used to drive actions or launch new studies.\n\n# **Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83020&key=user_uploads/322456/bf2ff14a-662f-4762-be93-3ec32360a76b)\n\nVersive’s mission is to help companies make faster, customer-informed decisions by making it easier to conduct high-quality user research. Our [AI-moderated interviews](https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/K81-versive-ai-powered-surveys-that-collect-interview-quality-insights) have already helped leading brands gather in-depth feedback from thousands of users. However, we believe that human-moderated interviews are still key for capturing nuanced feedback and building customer empathy.\n\nThat’s why we’re launching a new product that enables research teams to instantly synthesize interview recordings into shareable reports and summaries.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83020&key=user_uploads/322456/4bd673aa-28a0-439e-a631-23f32c25dc7f)\n\n# **How it works**\n\n1. **Customize your reports:** Tailor the structure of your reports to fit the needs of your study, no coding or prompting expertise required.\n2. **Upload interviews:** Import audio/video recordings or VTT transcripts.\n3. **Get instant summaries:** You’ll get consistent, shareable summaries for each interview, complete with quotes and actionable takeaways.\n4. **Get an aggregate report:** We’ll also generate a report for your entire study, with citations that link back to your transcripts.\n5. **Chat with your results:** Have more questions? Chat with your study data and get immediate, citation-backed answers.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83020&key=user_uploads/322456/d8ce7917-30ea-4966-85d6-a746146e5410)\n\n## **Get in touch**\n\nWe’re already working with leading research, design, product, and customer experience teams to accelerate their user research. If you’d like to learn more:\n\n* [Request a demo on our website](https://www.getversive.com/) or reach out to us directly at [hi@getversive.com](mailto:hi@getversive.com).\n* [Follow us on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/versivehq/) for product and company updates.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lb2-versive-ai-powered-synthesis-for-user-interviews", "votes": 29, "created_at": "2024-08-14T01:39:13.325Z" }, { "id": 77377, "title": "Versive - AI-powered surveys that collect interview-quality insights", "tagline": "We make it easy to gather high-quality user insights and customer feedback", "body": "**tl;dr:** _Versive makes gathering user insights and customer feedback easier. Our AI-powered surveys ask intelligent follow-up questions to give you interview-quality insights in a fraction of the time._\n\nHi everyone, we’re David and Eric, the founders of Versive.\n\n## **The problem**\n\nMost companies don't speak to their users enough, especially as they scale. As a result, it's difficult to make informed product and marketing decisions.\n\nIn Eric’s past life as a product manager and designer, he conducted dozens of user studies at startups and public companies. Each time, it took weeks of scheduling, interviewing, and synthesizing to get from questions to answers. As a result, his teams collected feedback and validated ideas far less than they would have liked.\n\nExisting tools don't solve this problem well. Interviews and focus groups are time-consuming and expensive to set up. Surveys only yield surface-level insights and are cumbersome to build. Even at companies with dedicated research teams, few requests get approved, leaving most PMs, designers, and marketers on their own.\n\n## **The solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77377&key=user_uploads/322456/1c77cc3e-958b-4f93-9803-ec92b67eadfe)\n\nVersive enables teams to collect interview-level insights at the scale and speed of a survey. We support voice interviews, dozens of languages, concept and design testing, structured questions, branding customization, and more.\n\n1. Build your survey in Versive, or ask our AI assistant to generate one in seconds.\n2. Our AI moderator administers your survey and asks intelligent follow-up questions to dig deeper into user responses.\n3. We'll auto-generate summaries and insights, plus give you transcripts for each response.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77377&key=user_uploads/322456/96a56e72-eb80-41d8-a926-8474268d77ce)\n\n## **Who is this for?**\n\nWhether you’re creating B2B software or selling consumer products, we can help.\n\n* **Product and design teams:** you'll validate designs, roadmaps, and requirements in hours instead of weeks.\n* **Marketing and customer teams:** you'll conduct market research and collect customer feedback more efficiently and with higher quality.\n* **Research teams:** you'll be able to offload simple requests so you can focus on high-value studies.\n\n## **Our team**\n\nWe're David Correa and Eric Li. We met as early employees of Bread (NYSE: BFH) and became fast friends. Eric is a designer and product manager who's experienced these problems firsthand at Uber and several startups. David is a software engineer who's worked at Google and Microsoft.\n\n## **Our asks**\n\n* If you’re interested in trying us out, sign up at [getversive.com](https://www.getversive.com/) or email us at [founders@getversive.com](mailto:founders@getversive.com) for a demo.\n* Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/versivehq) or [Twitter](https://twitter.com/getversive) for product updates.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/K81-versive-ai-powered-surveys-that-collect-interview-quality-insights", "votes": 106, "created_at": "2024-01-09T22:16:01.952Z" }, { "id": 69820, "title": "🪄 Mirio - Spin up personalized demos for your API product in minutes", "tagline": "Mirio is the easiest way to create personalized demos for your API product", "body": "**tl;dr: Mirio enables sales teams at API companies to spin up and personalize demo apps in minutes. Stop demoing docs and show every customer a personalized use case.**\\\n[**👉 Book a demo**](https://trymirio.com)\n\nHi everyone, we’re [David Correa](https://www.linkedin.com/in/correa-david/) and [Eric Li](https://www.linkedin.com/in/erictli/), the founders of Mirio.\n\nMirio is a demo platform for sales teams at API companies. Instead of bugging engineers to build custom demos or screen-sharing documentation, sales teams can use our no code-platform to clone, deploy, and personalize demo apps in minutes.\n\n### **For sales teams selling API products**\n\nWe spoke to account executives and SDRs at API companies and heard the same problems:\n\n* Developers are okay with documentation but decision-makers want to visualize the impact on their business and product.\n* Sales tries to convince engineers and designers to create custom demos but are usually told no (When David and I were asked to help create demos, we hated it too)\n* As a result, they only personalize demos for top prospects and end up demoing the same documentation and code for most customers, which often doesn’t land.\n\n### **Create personalized demos in minutes with Mirio**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69820&key=user_uploads/322456/74b71732-cae7-4f78-a69e-c02341ab8cb3)\n\nMirio empowers sales teams to spin-up and personalize real apps (connected to your API) so they can convey the magic of your product to every customer.\n\n1. Connect your demo apps to Mirio, we’ll help you set them up so they can be customized.\n2. From your Mirio dashboard, account executives and SDRs can clone and deploy demo apps in one click. They can then personalize branding, content, and more using our no-code editor.\n3. Use your personalized demos in live meetings, SDR outreach, website embeds, leave-behinds, and more. Track demo engagement from your dashboard.\n4. Wow more customers and close more deals! **🚀**\n\n### **Why us?**\n\nDavid and Eric met at as early employees of Bread Financial (NYSE: BFH) where the sales team bugged us every week to help create custom demos for Bread’s developer-facing product. This was time-consuming and painful but we saw the impact that personalized, interactive demos had on closing deals.\n\nOutside of Bread, we’ve also built software, designed products, and led teams at companies like Google, Microsoft, Uber, and Vareto.\n\n### **We’d love to chat**\n\n* If you’re selling an API product and want to personalize demos with the least amount of effort, book a demo at [trymirio.com](http://trymirio.com) or email us at [founders@trymirio.com](mailto:founders@trymirio.com).\n* If you’re not, we’d love intros to anyone who is.\n\nFor us, demos are the first step in helping to improve sales and onboarding for API products. If you have related challenges or a unique use case you’re not sure we can solve, reach out ([founders@trymirio.com](mailto:founders@trymirio.com)). We’d love to chat and see if we can build a solution around your problem.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IA8-mirio-spin-up-personalized-demos-for-your-api-product-in-minutes", "votes": 77, "created_at": "2023-03-01T18:01:30.590Z" } ] }, { "id": 27785, "name": "Pledge Health", "slug": "pledge-health", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/dce31c6ca3dabf16bfd5ee207762b419f47372bd.png", "website": "https://www.pledge.health/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Our AI browser assistant automates insurance tasks like verifying benefits, submitting prior auths, checking claim statuses, and more across all payer portals, directly from the clinic's EHR. It does exactly what the admin team is doing today, just helps them do it 10x faster and as thoroughly as a seasoned teammate.", "one_liner": "AI RCM assistant that handles any insurance task on payer portals for…", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Healthcare", "subindustry": "Healthcare -> Healthcare IT", "launched_at": 1673114409, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Health Tech", "B2B", "Workflow Automation" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "Healthcare", "Healthcare IT" ], "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/pledge-health", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/pledge-health.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/pledge-health-inc", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/dce31c6ca3dabf16bfd5ee207762b419f47372bd.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 820961, "full_name": "Andrew Tang", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-tang-033a6088/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3766177ca06466cd82979e976a35d4e640fe41e3.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 69977, "title": "Pledge Health - Automated patient billing for healthcare clinics", "tagline": "We automate cost estimation and billing so clinics get paid by their patients faster", "body": "Hi! We’re Shreya and Andrew, the team behind [Pledge Health](https://www.pledge.health/?utm_source=launch_yc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=launch_yc).\n\n**TL;DR** Pledge automates patient billing for independent healthcare clinics. We estimate how much insurance will cover for each visit, so clinics can charge patients at the time of service, rather than waiting weeks for insurance to process.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69977&key=user_uploads/632299/dfd59475-c145-471f-966b-d69acf3819ef)\n\n### 🤯  **The Problem**\n\nA larger share of healthcare clinics’ revenue is coming from patients instead of insurance companies, so clinics are trying to charge patients upfront for care. However, the manual process of estimating how much a patient will pay after insurance is error-prone, expensive, and time-consuming.\n\nTake Dr. Emily for example; she **spends more than 20 cents to collect every $1 from a patient**. Despite the high cost and effort, her office is only able to collect 50% of the patient's responsibility at the time of the visit.\n\nThere are over 200k clinic owners like Dr. Emily in the US, **struggling to collect $47 billion in patient payments** every year.\n\n### 💡 **Our Solution**\n\n* Automatically verifies patient insurance benefits ahead of their appointment.\n* Creates personalized out-of-pocket cost estimates by combining the patient’s insurance benefits, the predicted services for the visit, and contracted prices.\n* Communicates the estimated cost and final bills clearly with patients via email and text and allows patients to schedule payments.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69977&key=user_uploads/632299/e1fa730d-526f-440b-99b8-53fc81ffa657)\n\n📈 Results with Pledge\n\n* Reduce time spent on collecting patient responsibility by 75%\n* Increase collections by 17%\n* See > 90% patient satisfaction\n\n### 🤠 **Team**\n\nAndrew was a founding engineer at CancerIQ, where he built integrations with electronic health record systems that are crucial to automating billing workflows at Pledge.\n\nShreya was a software engineer at Microsoft, where she worked on healthcare and ML applications.\n\n### 🫶 **Our Ask**\n\nAre you a digital health company or know someone who owns/works at a private healthcare practice that accepts insurance? **Please connect with us at **[**engage@pledge.health**](mailto:engage@pledge.health)**!**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69977&key=user_uploads/632299/b78a4d89-22e0-40dd-bed0-1fdd421c39e8)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/ICf-pledge-health-automated-patient-billing-for-healthcare-clinics", "votes": 299, "created_at": "2023-03-07T05:01:21.102Z" } ] }, { "id": 27811, "name": "Tennr", "slug": "tennr", "former_names": [ "Elegant" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f3807f5ec8c0c63e791201050e45457f0ca05759.png", "website": "https://www.tennr.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Tennr is solving the black hole problem in healthcare by leveraging models to digitize the flow of paperwork between healthcare providers.\r\n--\r\nToday, when you go to your doctor and need to be referred to a specialist (e.g., for sleep apnea), your doctor sends a fax (yes, in 2024, 90% of provider-provider communication is a 1980s fax). These are often converted into 20+ page PDFs, with handwritten (doctor’s handwriting!) notes, in thousands of different formats. The problem is so complex that a person has to read it, type it up, and manually enter your information. 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Without clear visibility, planning your budget is a guessing game.\n* **Lack of Context:**\\\n General-purpose coding agents are great at updating application code, but often struggle to find the subtle connections between different configuration files.\n* **Bad Training Data:**\\\n LLMs will generate an average of the content they see online, but the average cloud configuration online is messy and filled with bugs. 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Includes integrations with [**FastAPI**](https://docs.launchflow.com/docs/framework-guides/fastapi), [**Flask**](https://docs.launchflow.com/docs/framework-guides/flask), and [**Django**](https://docs.launchflow.com/docs/framework-guides/django).\n\n**Try it out**\n\nIt only takes 3 commands to launch your first app to GCP or AWS\n\n1. install the Python SDK with pip\n\n ```\n $ pip install launchflow \n ```\n2. setup launchflow in any Python project\n\n ```\n $ lf init \n ```\n3. deploy everything used in your code to GCP / AWS\n\n ```\n $ lf deploy {env} \n ```\n\nFollow the [**Get Started Guide**](https://docs.launchflow.com/docs/get-started) to launch an example FastAPI app in a matter of minutes.\n\nNo account required.\n\n**Easily collaborate with your team**\n\nLaunchFlow Cloud is an optional service you can use to create collaborative cloud environments that automatically share infrastructure, configuration, and secrets with your team. You can also access preconfigured GitHub release pipelines, audit logs, RBAC security, and more.\n\n![](https://www.launchflow.com/_next/image?url=%2Fhome%2Fconsole.png&w=2048&q=75)\n\nYou and a teammate can try LaunchFlow Cloud 100% free forever - signup at [**console.launchflow.com**](http://console.launchflow.com/) to get started.\n\n**Contact us**\n\nIf you are interested in anything mentioned above, we would love to hear from you!\n\nYou can email us at [**team@launchflow.com**](mailto:team@launchflow.com) or book some time on [**my calendar**](https://calendly.com/josh-from-launchflow/chat).\n\nHappy launching! 🚀", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LPq-launchflow-a-terraform-pulumi-alternative-for-python-developers", "votes": 4, "created_at": "2024-07-22T20:54:00.610Z" }, { "id": 80185, "title": "LaunchFlow: A better developer experience on GCP and AWS", "tagline": "The easiest way to build Python apps on GCP and AWS", "body": "## **TLDR**\n\n[**LaunchFlow**](https://www.launchflow.com/) manages cloud environments in your own GCP / AWS account that are secure, scalable, and cost-effective by default. Import Postgres, Redis, and other cloud resources in your Python code, then deploy everything to your cloud with a single command.\n\n—\n\nLaunchFlow is an [**infrastructure-from-code**](https://infrastructurefromcode.com/) tool that aims to dramatically improve your developer experience on GCP and AWS. We automatically deploy infrastructure to dedicated environments in your cloud as you use it in your code and ensure it's configured for both local development and production deployments.\n\n## **The Problem**\n\nWe believe managing and using cloud infrastructure is far more complex than it should be. It's hard to set up deployment pipelines. It's frustrating to run your application locally. It's annoying to keep your cloud configuration in sync with your application code.\n\nMost teams cobble together their own DevOps automations using a mixture of Terraform, Pulumi, custom scripts, and environment variables. These automations are great when they work but are often brittle and eventually become the main source of overall system complexity.\n\nWe believe there's a better way.\n\n## **The Way**\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/86TIu-MtInbRpmbfJWeL50XX54rQ0LV8KadWXaHHZJyZ9pmJ6ZMCKUwHoDLmDDukyiDubynyYQShtBsOLdrrdf08-ZYYEflSKKUIhrb7x9OY8YMNs_OBI_0ydBleeUpuU-jZqe2ycmB_N-PynbDzc7U)\n\nUse LaunchFlow’s Python SDK to import Postgres, Redis, and other cloud resources in your Python code, then deploy everything to dedicated environments in your cloud with a single command.\n\nEverything in the LaunchFlow ecosystem is fully configured for local development and cloud deployments by default.\n\n**Environments**\n\nLaunchFlow **deploys** and **manages** your infrastructure inside [**Environments**](https://docs.launchflow.com/docs/concepts/environments) that run in your own cloud account. These Environments satisfy most compliance requirements by default and are automatically configured for cost, security, and reliability.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/Qa6mHTluFv0JTJqD6JwWs9vzQHmZxtn5j54fqvXUTmieIg20B7nBtZIrTOJ3SquGLPJaYtHvGHUKMuHOmv1zLJge7zLy5KYr8pNzmeSX3abNorK2DQ3I2_2iV6qNP6bRMsh80d1jZFUpjUmAURGpLcY)\n\n**Resources**\n\nYou can **create** and **connect** to cloud [**Resources**](https://docs.launchflow.com/docs/concepts/resources) in an Environment by simply importing them into your code. Our SDK provides ready-to-use client APIs for every Resource so you can immediately start using them in your application both locally and when deployed.\n\n![](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=80185&key=user_uploads/808343/085c12a5-8f53-44b9-8a97-1799f53ff2f4)\n\n**Deployments**\n\nYou can **build** and **deploy** Python applications in the same environment as your resources with a single command. LaunchFlow [**Services**](https://docs.launchflow.com/docs/concepts/services) lets you deploy your APIs to GCP / AWS with all resource permissions and networking settings automatically configured. We will be adding Jobs and Notebook deployments in the next couple of months.\n\n![](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=80185&key=user_uploads/808343/b7c23093-c085-4a3d-97ac-60ebb78d92f5)\n\n## **Works anywhere that Python runs**\n\nLaunchFlow Resources manages its own configuration and can be plugged into any existing Python app. We’re framework-agnostic and work anywhere that Python runs - we also include a library of common utilities for building FastAPI, Flask, and Django apps on the cloud.\n\n## **Why not just use Terraform / Pulumi?**\n\nTools like Terraform and Pulumi make it easy to automate cloud infrastructure, but there is still an added cost of maintaining a separate IaC tool and keeping it in sync with your application encode.\n\nOn top of this, these tools only help you create the infrastructure, but they don't help you actually _use_ it. Engineers can spin up infrastructure in a few minutes, but they'll often spend the rest of the day (or longer) stumbling through docs and blogs, trying to figure out how to actually connect it to their application.\n\nThings only get worse once you add a release pipeline into the mix and now need to figure out how to structure your code to work across multiple environments.\n\nThis creates a tradeoff between automation and overall system complexity, which is why many teams put off IaC practices until they can afford a DevOps engineer/team to maintain the automations for the company.\n\n## **Our ask**\n\nWe are looking for pilot users who would like to start using LaunchFlow today.\n\nIf you’re interested in using LaunchFlow, please email me at [**josh@launchflow.com**](mailto:josh@launchflow.com) or schedule a demo call using my [**Calendly**](https://calendly.com/josh-from-launchflow/one-on-one-with-josh-founder).\n\nHappy launching! 🚀", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KrJ-launchflow-a-better-developer-experience-on-gcp-and-aws", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2024-04-15T17:39:39.355Z" } ] }, { "id": 27824, "name": "Coperniq", "slug": "coperniq", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9213f506809754ff509502961f8e99070b3ed411.png", "website": "https://coperniq.io", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Coperniq is workflow software for solar & energy contractors.\r\n\r\nIt cuts soft cost per installation by $3K (17% of total cost) & accelerates project completion by 45 days (30% of project timeline).\r\n\r\nWe replace Salesforce, spreadsheets, pencil-&-paper, & other hacky workarounds with an industry-specific application for the underserved energy workforce. \r\n\r\nMain benefits for our customers \r\n1. Finish projects faster and cheaper: Our platform cuts 17% of soft costs, allowing contractors to deploy more projects, faster, and cheaper, with 5-star customer experience every time\r\n2. Turn costly (often unprofitable) service calls into a revenue engine: By integrating with hardware OEMs (Enphase, SolarEdge, etc...), Coperniq gives you real-time health checks for your install base, automates service tickets, & drives referral revenue\r\n\r\nCoperniq does all this and much more in one beautiful platform!\r\n\r\nAre you or someone you know running or thinking about starting a solar company? [Schedule a call with us :)](https://calendly.com/coperniq-sales/discovery-web-v2 )", "one_liner": "Workflow software for solar & energy contractors ☀️😎", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Supply Chain and Logistics", "launched_at": 1677047552, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Solar Power", "B2B", "Climate", "Renewable Energy" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Supply Chain and Logistics" ], "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/coperniq", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/coperniq.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "http://www.linkedin.com/company/69833957", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/coperniqinc", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/Coperniq", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/coperniq", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9213f506809754ff509502961f8e99070b3ed411.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/5af20c4633cfa0245ba92887c231f7f0741f83a9.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 869130, "full_name": "Abdullah Al Zandani", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "sales&ops @ two solar companies || energy efficiency building auditor @ ADM | B.S. Energy Engineering Cal '21", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/azandani/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/abdullahzandani", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/03c19e298002f8fccbcb6e82592d7ce534361c04.jpg" }, { "user_id": 541919, "full_name": "Max Kazakov", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Skills: Software, Data, UX/UI;\nEdu: CS & Philosophy @ UC Berkeley", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mxkzk/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5257d5a23f9bd9afec90f725efb3640f93885630.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Coperniq raises $4M seed round to bring SaaS to solar installers | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/06/coperniq-seed-round", "date": "Nov 06, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 69996, "title": "😎☀️ Coperniq — Workflow software for solar & energy contractors", "tagline": "Coperniq automates the entire solar workflow so contractors can focus on growing their business & helping more homeowners go solar!", "body": "What’s up YC 👻 , Max & Abdullah here - co-founders of [Coperniq](https://www.coperniq.io/) (W23).\n\n# **🏃‍♂️ TL;DR**\n\nCoperniq is workflow software for solar & energy contractors. It cuts soft cost per installation by **$3K (17% of total cost)** & accelerates projects by **45 days (30% of project timeline)**.\n\nIt automates the entire workflow so contractors can focus on growing their business & helping more homeowners go solar 😎☀️\n\n# **🤯 Problem**\n\nAbdullah used to work in the solar industry, first in the sales department, and later in operations management.\n\nHe witnessed first-hand that while **“going solar”** was a no-brainer and took consumers 5 minutes, the process of getting a solar system **turned on** was a nightmare for companies and customers alike, taking 6-9 months instead of the promised 90 days. \\\n\\\nThis is because despite being one of the most important industries of our lifetime, solar is in the dark ages technologically. Bloated Salesforce instances, spreadsheets with 300+ columns, and pencil-and-paper workflows in the field…\n\nThis results in project managers working 60-hour weeks, human error & delays at every step of the process, and some of the [worst customer experience](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1877039252445470) in the entire home improvement sector.\n\n# **💡 Solution**\n\nCoperniq is the first industry-specific platform for the underserved energy workforce. It helps…\n\n## **1\\. Finish projects faster and cheaper**\n\nOur platform cuts up to 25% of soft costs, allowing contractors to deploy more projects, faster, and cheaper; with 5-star customer experience **every time**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69996&key=user_uploads/541919/dc586ac8-2cc9-4216-a3ff-95737f8c9942)\n\n### **2\\. Turn costly (often unprofitable) service calls into a revenue engine**\n\nBy integrating with hardware OEMs (Enphase, SolarEdge, etc…), Coperniq gives you real-time health checks for your install base, automates service tickets, & drives referral revenue.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69996&key=user_uploads/541919/2e40aa5b-e1cd-4413-9efc-4780e32d1f28)\n\n# 🙏 **Ask**\n\nAre you or someone you know running (or thinking of starting) a solar company?\n\n* Email us at [team@coperniq.io](mailto:team@coperniq.io)\n* or [schedule a call here :)](https://calendly.com/coperniq-sales/discovery-web-v2)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/ICy-coperniq-workflow-software-for-solar-energy-contractors", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2023-03-07T05:46:34.556Z" } ] }, { "id": 27841, "name": "Bujeti", "slug": "bujeti", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/62a7ef894596096ec275d7930a661da71c364631.png", "website": "https://www.bujeti.com", "all_locations": "Paris, Île-de-France, France; Remote", "long_description": "Control spending, process payments, manage payroll, and multi-currency operations with approval workflows, total visibility and control, from one unified platform", "one_liner": "The Finance Control Centre for African Businesses", "team_size": 35, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1673189707, "tags": [ "Fintech", "SaaS", "Payments", "B2B" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "regions": [ "France", "Europe", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bujeti", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/bujeti.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "Paris", "country": "FR", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/bujeti", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/Bujetihq", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/62a7ef894596096ec275d7930a661da71c364631.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 156795, "full_name": "Achille AROUKO", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/achille-arouko", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/alekaizer", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/01307d9c3411ba249b3b7b3fabc88b74d656b1ea.jpg" }, { "user_id": 882789, "full_name": "Samy Chiba", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "COO at Bujeti ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/samychiba/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5d565bd8ec98695b5319331f901c48d289a0247a.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Bujeti launches AI agents to automate routine finance work", "url": "https://techcabal.com/2026/09/16/bujeti-launches-ai-agents-to-handle-finance-work/", "date": "Sep 16, 2026" }, { "title": "Bujeti launches payroll to drive financial control for African businesses | TechCabal", "url": "https://techcabal.com/2026/05/21/bujeti-payroll-for-african-businesses/", "date": "May 21, 2026" }, { "title": "Bujeti launches tax management solution as Nigeria's reforms shape | Business Insider Africa", "url": "https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/markets/bujeti-launches-tax-management-solution-as-nigerias-reforms-shape/yegcdn1", "date": "Feb 12, 2026" }, { "title": "Bujeti to Power Financial Inclusion for 10M Nigerians", "url": "https://punchng.com/bujeti-signs-partnership-with-presidential-committee-to-power-financial-inclusion-for-10-million-nigerians/", "date": "Feb 06, 2026" }, { "title": "YC-backed fintech Bujeti raises $2M for its corporate cards and spend management platform | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/07/yc-backed-fintech-bujeti-raises-2m-for-its-corporate-cards-and-spend-management-platform/", "date": "Dec 07, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 69607, "title": "💳📈 Bujeti - Corporate cards and expense management platform for African businesses", "tagline": "We help African businesses issue corporate cards, control and manage their expenses", "body": "**TL;DR:** We help African businesses in industries such as Healthcare, Logistics, Agriculture and Construction easily issue corporate cards to their employees and contractors to streamline their spendings. We help them control and manage their expenses by setting up spending limits, restrictions and approval flows for their decisions makers, staff and suppliers.\n\n## **Who are we?**\n\nHello everyone, we are Achille and Samy from [Bujeti](https://www.bujeti.com)\n\n🧠 [Achille](https://www.linkedin.com/in/achille-arouko): Drives ideas and make things come to life. 8yoe engineer, 3+ years at [Paystack](https://paystack.com), and 3x founder in Fintech and AI.\n\n🧠 [Samy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/samychiba/): He keeps us compliant and makes operations go smoothly. 2 MsC in Business Administration, 2 years at Ariane Group, former ceo SmartSoft Europe.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69607&key=user_uploads/156795/e5c7ef67-82e9-4d84-b95d-7bc5b2190f28)\n\n# **What is a corporate card and why is it hard to get one in Africa?**\n\nA corporate card is a debit or credit card issue by a business to its employees, generally issued to upper management (CXO, Accountants, Team Managers, etc.) and a select number of employees to make payments on behalf of the company.\\\nIn the US and EU, bank card penetration is very high and the process for businesses to get multiple cards from their banks is pretty straightforward— but in Africa where card penetration is still low, getting a card for a business isn’t as straightforward as it should be, much less for multiple cards.\n\nThis is an even a bigger problem for traditional businesses in industries like Agriculture, Logistics, Healthcare, Construction— businesses that are not tech heavy, but contribute to a big part of the GDP of most of African nations. To go around that, businesses generally have one card that they pass around which causes a lot of security, control and fraud issues.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69607&key=user_uploads/156795/062f9c7e-3473-43c3-a797-c4dfc1932fd1)\n\n# **How do we fix it?**\n\nTo help fix that problem and allow African businesses to issue cards at will to their employees, while maintaining the control of their spendings, we launched Bujeti, an all-in-one corporate cards and expenses management platform.\n\nWe also help them:\n\n* **Budget** their expenditures to keep their finances afloat\n* **Monitor** and **track** all the expenses made in the company\n* Facilitate **receipts** tracking and collection\n* Automate **Account Payables & Receivables**\n* Set up **spending limits and approval** flow to make sure the resources are well used and create value\n* **Reimburse** out of pocket expenses of their employees\n* **Run payroll**\n* Integrate their **accounting softwares**(QuickBooks, Xero, etc…)\n* Automate **reconciliation** and **reporting**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69607&key=user_uploads/156795/43997f82-7bf2-4595-a226-48eccb71c0db)\n\n# **How did we get here?**\n\nAchille wanted to build a personal finance and expenses management app for the African Diaspora that helps automate remittances while keeping an eye on how money sent back home was being spent. While building that, he realized the problem he was trying to solve for individuals, was in fact a problem that also affected businesses. That’s when we pivoted from B2C to B2B to solve expense management issues for African businesses.\n\n# **Our ask 🙏🏾**\n\n* Connect us to **CFO, Accountants, Country Managers** and **HR** leaders that operate in Africa in your network\n* Connect us to an African Logistics, Construction, Healthcare, Agriculture company in your network\n* Connect us VISA or Mastercard\n* Connect us to your CFO or Accountant to help us understand even better their needs and improve our offering\n* Share our post on your social media to help us increase awareness 🚀", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I6h-bujeti-corporate-cards-and-expense-management-platform-for-african-businesses", "votes": 47, "created_at": "2023-02-23T17:48:51.970Z" } ] }, { "id": 27844, "name": "Cloudchipr", "slug": "cloudchipr", "former_names": [ "Cloudchipr Inc" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/96f17fae40f55e74f9d214af11045d8eed8f096f.png", "website": "https://cloudchipr.com/", "all_locations": "Berlin, Berlin, Germany", "long_description": "Cloudchipr is an actionable FinOps platform that keeps multi-cloud spend under control 24/7 with AI agents.", "one_liner": "The #1 Actionable FinOps Platform", "team_size": 25, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1667473991, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "FinOps", "SaaS", "B2B" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "Germany", "Europe", "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/cloudchipr", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/cloudchipr.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Berlin", "country": "DE", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloudchipr", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/cloudchipr", "fb_url": "https://facebook.com/cloudchipr", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cloudchipr", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/96f17fae40f55e74f9d214af11045d8eed8f096f.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1159850, "full_name": "Ashot Ayvazyan", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Ashot is an engineer and entrepreneur with a computer science background and 14 years of experience in the design, implementation, and operations of distributed computing systems based on cloud and bare metal infrastructures. 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A distributed computing systems and cloud guru, who can smell coffee ☕ and sniff expensive infrastructures 📈 from at least 1000 feet away 😄\n\n**Suren** (right) worked on platforms serving 100,000,000s users from all over the world while at Picsart, AWS and Wayfair. A foodie with the power of Spring Boot as his spirit animal 🐩 😄\n\nWe got a lot of battle scars figuring out what’s the best way to operate your cloud. Now we’ve built Cloudchipr so that you don’t have to! 🚀\n\n### ❌ **The Problem**\n\nAll clouds make it very easy to start using resources. That’s how they are designed and that’s why they won. Problem is, that freedom very quickly turns into a mess eventually hurting the bottom line and becoming an operational hurdle.\n\n**Where it hurts Product and Engineering:**\n\n* Services and resources sprawl out of control across various geographies and cloud regions.\n* Resources get wasted to ensure developer convenience (dev machines run over weekends, holidays and non-working hours alike).\n* Routine operational maintenance becomes a burden and a time consuming activity for expensive DevOps and SRE engineers.\n* Every launched resource in the cloud becomes a monument - once it’s there no one risks to touch and it lingers around forever.\n\n**Where it hurts the Business side:**\n\n* Accountability and trackability becomes an issue: ask any series B (or later stage) company startup CFO how much a particular project costs on a cloud and see them roll their eyes.\n* Cloud is treated as a black box. Although being one of the largest cost centres finance has little visibility into what is actually going on. They are expected to foot the bill with 0 insights or understanding how the money is actually spent.\n* Very hard to forecast spend and act on if it gets out of hand.\n\n### **🪄 The Solution**\n\nWatch our [Demo Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QLy74eGnLg)\n\nCloudchipr is an AWS qualified SaaS platform (we also support GCP and Azure) which provides a suite of powerful tools for cost tracking, resource management, and automation. It simplifies cloud operations, streamlines DevOps workflows while giving financial visibiliy, predictability and control. \n\n✅ **Cost Optimization by granular cost tracking and reporting.** It allows to monitor cloud expenses in real-time and optimize their usage to reduce waste. \n\n✅ **Resource Management:** Cloudchipr provides a centralized dashboard that provides full visibility into their cloud infrastructure across all geographies and cloud regions.\n\n✅ **Automation workflows:** Cloudchipr's automation features enable teams to streamline their DevOps workflows and automate routine operational tasks. With Cloudchipr, businesses can set up notifications and actions based on their criteria and free up valuable time and resources for other important tasks.\n\n**For example:**\n\n* If a resource is underutilized, Cloudchipr will notify the owner to take an action.\n* If there are resources without an owner, a slack message will be sent.\n* Stops expensive GPU nodes based on configurable usage criteria (e.g. idle more than 3 hours)\n* Stops/Starts the selected dev databases and virtual machines at night and on weekends\n* Takes care about resources being properly tagged.\n\n✅ **LAST BUT NOT LEAST:** It’s 2023, so you should be able to talk to your cloud and your cloud should talk back!  We are launching the first version of **CloudChat -** an interactive Natural-Language interface for querying, reporting and setting automations for your cloud. \n\nCloudchipr automates the cloud cost saving and reporting, and helps the finance and engineering departments save money and time by removing the friction around the costs saving. 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You sit down, stare at a menu, look around wondering what others at the venue like, and a few “Uhmmm”s later, staff comes around to take an order you are still not even sure about. Splitting and paying the bill is a tedious waiting game, and tipping staff is close enough to a math exam. **What could be done in a few seconds, takes several minutes.**\n\n**A coffee shop is no different**. Join the line and wait a few minutes until it's your turn to go “Uhmmm”, just like everyone before you. Finally you get to sit down, and start sipping. Did you just run out of that delicious matcha latte? Stand up, and wait on line again!\n\n**What’s frustrating for guests is wasteful for venues.** Restaurants, coffee shops, and hospitality venues alike have seen their margins shrink well before covid, especially small and medium venues. They operate in an industry where costs are highly volatile, staff turnover rate is a staggering 75% (higher than any other industry), and guest preferences are quickly changing. \n\nResources are limited, especially for these venues. **So how does PoloPay help?**\n\n### 🫗**Our approach**\n\nWe built an easy-to-use tool that **restaurants love**. PoloPay improves how teams and staff manage their menus, fulfill orders, and collect payments. \n\n**To help venues sell more,** our QR codes expose guests to beautiful pictures of dishes and the perfect drink pairing. PoloPay makes it as easy as possible to order that next dirty martini while giving staff a breather during peak hours; eliminating unattended parties and decreasing checkout times to seconds. **We seek to perfectly complement the warmth of hospitality.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70252&key=user_uploads/961294/f79e41b8-9451-48d3-90f1-863eadda2878)\n\n**Are costs increasing?** Venues can adjust menu prices or food offerings, instantly charge for them, and forget the need to spend on reprints or waiting for new menus to arrive. **PoloPay also leverages data** to help capture guests' preferences, identify new areas of opportunity, and surprise guests on their next visit. Automatic language translations, powerful availability and pricing scheduling, 86-ing, and in-menu promos are a few other reasons why chefs, staff, and owners love us.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70252&key=user_uploads/961294/4d22eff1-056e-4079-a89d-0f201144c2a4)\n\nBeautiful experiences are at the core of what we build. We aim to grant guests a seamless experience and give much-needed control back to restaurant teams. We are not “X for LatAm”, **we are PoloPay**.\n\n### 🍽️**Our ask**\n\nIf you, or someone you might know, manages a restaurant or coffee shop, [reach out!](https://polopay.co/demo) **We would love to start working with your venue and would appreciate any warm intros too.** [Sign up](https://polopay.co/demo) before April 1st and enjoy a 50% discount during your first two months!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IH6-polopay-dynamic-menus-for-latam-restaurants-and-coffee-shops", "votes": 498, "created_at": "2023-03-14T00:58:35.798Z" } ] }, { "id": 27852, "name": "Frigade", "slug": "frigade", "former_names": [ "Ombord" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2ebf166f7f6e8f6d186e2ea4a16a6cf16becaf7b.png", "website": "https://frigade.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Frigade AI is an in-app assistant that intelligently guides and onboards your users through your product. 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When a user gets stuck and needs help, companies tend to go one of two ways.\n\n1. Buy a help agent (Frigade Assistant, Fin, etc.). Now you have two agents and two chatboxes, and your users cannot tell which one to use for what.\n2. Have your own agent handle it. Agents in that case usually answer out of a knowledge base or help center with basic RAG. Docs are stale or incomplete more often than not, and even when the snippet is right it puts the work back on the user, who has to read it and then figure out how to apply it in the app.\n\n**SOLUTION**\n\nWe already solved the docs problem with Frigade. Our browser agent signs in to your product with the same permissions a real user has, works through your real workflows, and maps how your product works. No manual documentation or screenshots to take. It trains again every time you ship, so it always knows the version of your product that's live.\n\nNow, with the Assist API, we can solve the two-agent problem too.\n\nThe Assist API a single tool call. Your agent calls it and gets back an answer grounded in how your product behaves today, or a personalized walkthrough rendered on the page the user is already on. For most AI agent frameworks, you can add it with just these lines of code:\n\n```\nimport { frigade } from '@frigade/ai'\n \nconst frigade_guide_tool = {\n description: 'Call this tool to answer product ' +\n 'questions or guide the user through a task.',\n parameters: {\n query: {\n type: 'string',\n description: 'What the user is asking or wants to do',\n },\n },\n run: ({ query }) => frigade.assist({ query }),\n}\n \n```\n\nThe SDK forwards the call to the browser and Frigade acts on the page the user is on, highlighting the real element with the next step attached. Your agent decides when to call it and stays the only thing your user talks to.\n\nWhat you get with it:\n\n1. **Personalized in-product guides**, generated on demand. A new user gets walked through first-time setup without leaving the page. Someone stuck mid-workflow gets shown the next step instead of a link to an article.\n2. **Visibility and control for the people who own support**. Your support and product teams see who Frigade is helping and where, and can steer the output without any engineering help.\n\nWe are already working with Retell AI to extend their agent's onboarding capabilities. They build agents for a living and still chose to plug in Frigade rather than build something like this themselves.\n\nThis is for teams who already own an agent and care about product adoption. And if you do not have an agent, our drop-in Frigade Assistant is still the fastest path.\n\nIf you want to give it a spin, reach out and we'll get you a demo. \n\nChristian and Eric", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/TkA-frigade-assist-api-give-your-ai-agent-the-ability-to-generate-in-product-guides-and-support", "votes": 4, "created_at": "2026-09-08T22:26:18.625Z" }, { "id": 105121, "title": "Frigade Skills: the in-app AI agent that learns your product and acts for your users", "tagline": "Frigade learns your product by using it, then takes real actions for your users through Skills your team approves with no code.", "body": "Hi everyone, Eric and Christian here, co-founders of [Frigade](https://frigade.com) (W23).\n\nFrigade is an AI agent that lives inside your product and [guides users through it](https://frigade.com/blog/product-help-where-users-stuck). Point it at your app and it learns your UI in minutes. You don't wire anything up or write docs.\n\n**Today we're launching a major new upgrade to our agent called [Skills](https://frigade.com/features/skills).**\n\nSo far, Frigade has guided users and [answered their questions](https://frigade.com/blog/how-to-deflect-support-tickets). With Skills, it can take real actions for them too: looking things up, creating, editing, deleting.\n\nSkills are the actions Frigade figures out on its own while it trains on your product. It documents each one, your team approves it with no code from the dashboard, and from then on Frigade runs it for any user who needs it. You can still wire in your own custom tool calls with our SDK, too.\n\n\n\nIf you've used Linear's AI agent, Frigade is that as an embed: the same kind of in-app agent, dropped into your product with [one snippet](https://frigade.com/blog/walkme-alternatives-without-six-month-rollout). You get about 80% of it out of the box, with no eng work required.\n\n**How it works:**\n\n1. Add the snippet. Frigade starts using your product and learns it, like a new user would.\n2. It turns the actions it finds into Skills. Your team reviews and approves them, no code.\n3. Frigade runs those Skills for your users and answers their questions as they go.\n\n**Here it is running on popular products we don't embed in.**\n\nWe just pointed it at each one and let it learn to see how it performed:\n\n* [Jira](https://demo.frigade.com/?skill=jira)\n* [Spotify](https://demo.frigade.com/?skill=spotify)\n* [Hacker News](https://demo.frigade.com/?skill=hackernews)\n\n**Frigade is best for:**\n\n* Teams drowning in \"how do I...\" tickets\n* CS teams who want [onboarding](https://productonboarding.com/articles/what-is-product-onboarding) to happen without a call\n* Product teams who want every feature to be [self-serve](https://productonboarding.com/examples)\n* Anyone with a complex product or non-technical users who keep getting stuck\n\nMany teams are also building their own agents in-house. If that's you, we're launching the Frigade API soon so you can add our generative assistance capabilities into your agent. More on that soon.\n\nIf your product's complex or your users aren't super technical, we'd love to show you what Frigade does on your actual app. Send us a note, or book a demo at [frigade.com](http://frigade.com).\n\nEric & Christian\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105121&key=user_uploads/123251/18d6ac08-4814-47bc-b966-4268a0da843a)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RLV-frigade-skills-the-in-app-ai-agent-that-learns-your-product-and-acts-for-your-users", "votes": 9, "created_at": "2026-07-09T17:34:23.119Z" }, { "id": 95912, "title": "Frigade: Product onboarding that builds itself", "tagline": "The help center is dead. Your product is the teacher now.", "body": "Hey everyone, we are Eric and Christian, founders of [Frigade](https://frigade.com).\n\n**TL;DR:** Frigade automatically learns your product and provides expert, in-product assistance to users. Now with Suggestions, Frigade can proactively teach your users in the context of the product itself.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/FhHSj8YpR2U\n\n# **🔴 The problem**\n\nMany users never see the best parts of a product. Teams try to fix this but run into the same issues:\n\n* Onboarding flows take too long to build\n* Feature tours get stale as the product changes\n* Users ignore help docs :( \n* Customer Success loses hours teaching users on Zoom\n* Product teams rely on outdated screenshots, Looms, and Slack to explain the product\n\nIn-product guidance should be easy to create and maintain, but today it is neither.\n\n# **🟢 The solution**\n\nFrigade automatically learns your product by using it, and Suggestions create guidance directly inside your product from simple prompts.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95912&key=user_uploads/123251/af21223e-4d69-40f8-9cc3-c34827827206)\n\nWrite what you want users to learn:\n\n“Show users how to use the new Calendar view in the Sales tab. Walk users through the key features.”\n\nFrigade understands the latest version of your product and generates the experience directly from that context. You do not need a help center, articles, or any existing documentation for Frigade to work. It learns directly from the product itself.\n\nNo user flows. No element targeting. Nothing to wire up.\n\nYou can create:\n\n* Onboarding for new signups\n* Guided tours for new features\n* Help for confusing parts of the UI\n* Workflows for power users\n* Role or plan specific nudges\n* Contextual support at the right moment\n\nEverything runs inside your real product and stays accurate as it evolves, without depending on any external help documentation or content.\n\n# **🧪 Preview, refine, publish**\n\nInstantly preview Suggestions to watch the experience run in your product. Tweak the prompt to adjust the tone or structure. Choose who should see it and publish. Users will see it at the right moment and can launch the experience instantly.\n\n# **🧵 Who is using it today**\n\nTeams across SaaS, AI, fintech, marketplaces, and more use Frigade to:\n\n* Onboard users without a human in the loop\n* Increase feature adoption\n* Reduce support tickets\n* Walk customers through complex workflows\n* Educate users inside the product rather than sending them elsewhere\n\n# **🚀 Try it out**\n\nFrigade Suggestions are live today. Create your first in-product experience from a single prompt [**https://frigade.com**](https://frigade.com)\n\nWe’d love your feedback or questions: [founders@frigade.com](mailto:founders@frigade.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Owy-frigade-product-onboarding-that-builds-itself", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2025-12-02T15:44:08.899Z" }, { "id": 92353, "title": "Frigade AI: In-app support agent that adapts to your product automatically", "tagline": "Frigade AI uses your product to learn how it actually works, then guides users with live, step-by-step support directly inside the UI—right when they need it.", "body": "**TL;DR: Frigade AI** is an in-app agent that keeps users moving forward with contextual, real-time guidance. It can generate step-by-step tutorials for complex workflows, highlight relevant features at the right moment, and even take actions directly on users' behalf to eliminate friction. Unlike traditional chatbots that rely on outdated help center documents, Frigade AI learns your product by actually using it and automatically adapts to every product update without any work from your team.\n\n📅 Book a demo → [calendar](https://cal.com/forms/ed0e923f-6f00-4191-a08f-7bebba6636b6)\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SjL4OfPs3I\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nMost onboarding tools assume users follow a perfect path. They don’t. Users skip steps, explore features early, and ask questions that don't fit your predefined paths.\n\nSupport teams can’t scale to handle every question. Engineering teams don’t have time to build and maintain hardcoded walkthroughs. And most AI chatbots fall short, offering generic responses based on outdated help center docs. \n\nWhat users actually need is guidance **in real time**, **in context**, and **on demand**. Not just during sign-up, but throughout their entire journey.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\nToday, we’re officially launching [**Frigade AI**](http://frigade.ai), a fully integrated agent that lives inside your product and helps users get personalized support instantly. \n\nUnlike traditional chatbots, Frigade AI learns your product by actually _using_ it. It explores your interface, navigates your workflows, reads your documentation, and builds a working model of how your product functions. Just like a real user would.\n\nThe goal? **Help users succeed from their first session** and keep them unblocked at every step.\n\nIt works alongside everything you’ve already built, like checklists, tours, help centers, and fills in the gaps with real-time support when your users need it most. Frigade AI:\n\n* **Unblocks users instantly** with dynamic step-by-step guides for any workflow\n* **Eliminates friction** by taking product actions directly for users\n* **Answers open-ended questions** with contextual product support\n* **Escalates seamlessly** to Zendesk, Intercom, and other live support tools\n* **Gets running in under an hour** with minimal engineering effort\n* **Stays current automatically** as your product evolves\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usspoSsWIb4 \n\nThe result is an AI agent that **turns every user into a power user,** removing confusion and guiding users to success.\n\n### **See It in Action**\n\nIf you're building a web app and want to better support users at scale, without scaling your existing support team, we’d love to show you what we’re working on. \n\n🔗 Check out our website at [https://](https://frigade.ai)[frigade.ai](http://frigade.ai)\\[\\\n\\](https://frigade.ai) 📅 Book a demo → [calendar](https://cal.com/forms/ed0e923f-6f00-4191-a08f-7bebba6636b6)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92353&key=user_uploads/123251/ef0698cc-01a2-4f96-97e6-f0c2a151ec6e)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O1Z-frigade-ai-in-app-support-agent-that-adapts-to-your-product-automatically", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2025-07-22T15:51:42.115Z" }, { "id": 85509, "title": "Trench: Open Source Analytics Infrastructure 🌊", "tagline": "Fast and scalable. No bloat. GDPR compliant. Powered by ClickHouse and Kafka.", "body": "Hey everyone! We’re Christian and Eric from Frigade. [Trench](https://trench.dev) is open source analytics infrastructure for tracking events, identifying users, and querying data in real time.\n\nIt’s built on top of ClickHouse and Kafka for speed and scale, and it can be deployed with a single production-ready Docker image. Trench is a major part of Frigade’s infrastructure and powers our own in-product analytics and user targeting for millions of end users.\n\nThe code is MIT-licensed at . We just launched, and Trench gained over 1,000 GitHub stars ⭐ in less than a week.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85509&key=user_uploads/123251/443f6361-9b1a-45d5-921e-e79504ebdcea)\n\n# **Demo:**\n\nCheck out our open source demo to see how to build your own version of a Google Analytics dashboard powered by Trench in less than 15 minutes.\n\n\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85509&key=user_uploads/123251/049bc7b3-bd4a-4038-8128-faa2a8e2cc67)\n\n# **🚨 The Problem: Postgres doesn't scale for tracking and querying millions of events at scale**\n\nAs we’ve scaled [Frigade](https://frigade.com) to millions of end users, our Postgres table we used for event tracking was quickly ballooning in cost and becoming a performance bottleneck. Many companies run into the same problem as us (e.g. [Stripe](https://brandur.org/fragments/events), [Heroku](https://brandur.org/fragments/events)). \\\nEngineers start by adding a basic events table to their relational database, which works at first, but breaks down as the user base scales. It's usually the biggest table in the database, the slowest one to query, and the longest one to back up. Postgres (or MySQL for that matter) simply isn't a good solution for tracking and querying events in real time at 1M+ end users scale.\n\n# **The Solution: Fast, scalable, and affordable event tracking**\n\nWe knew we wanted to move to technologies like Kafka and ClickHouse that are purpose-built for ingesting and querying thousands of events per second. When we looked for existing solutions, all the existing OSS projects we found were either bloated with unnecessary features, UIs and spaghetti code, or simply antiquated. So we built Trench.\\\nWith Trench, we've put together a single Docker image that provides a production-ready tracking event table that scales. When we migrated our tracking table from Postgres to Trench, we saw a 42% reduction in cost to serve on our primary Postgres cluster and eliminated all lag spikes from autoscaling under high traffic. We're happy with how Trench has solved event tracking for us, and now we’re excited to share that with other teams.\n\n### **Core Features**\n\n* Compliant with the Segment tracking specifications\n* Can handle thousands of events per second on a single node\n* Query tracking data in real-time with read-after-write guarantees\n* Send data anywhere with throttled and batched webhooks\n* Single production-ready Docker image\n* Easily plugs into cloud-hosted ClickHouse/Kafka solutions\n\n### **Use cases**\n\nWhat can you build with Trench? There are many use cases:\n\n1. **Real-Time Monitoring and Alerting** – Monitor your services and get alerts through tracking custom events like errors, usage spikes, or specific user actions, and send that data anywhere with webhooks.\n2. **Event Replay and Debugging –** Capture all user interactions in real time for event replay services.\n3. **A/B Testing Platform** – Capture events from different users and groups in real time. Segment users by querying in real time and serve the right experiences to the right users.\n4. **Product Analytics for SaaS Applications** – Embed Trench into your existing SaaS product to power user audit logs or tracking scripts on your end-users' websites\n5. **Build a custom RAG AI model** – Easily query event data and give users answers in real time. LLMs are really good at writing SQL.\n\n# **Try it out and give us a star ⭐**\n\nWe hope you’ll find Trench useful if you’re facing or have ever experienced a similar problem with analytics at scale. Here are some links to get started:\n\n* Trench website: \n* Quickstart guide: \n* Github repo: \n* Product demo: ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MFB-trench-open-source-analytics-infrastructure", "votes": 9, "created_at": "2024-11-12T22:22:46.640Z" }, { "id": 78903, "title": "Frigade – Growth platform for modern software teams", "tagline": "Frigade is a low-code tool for building product growth loops", "body": "# **tl;dr**\n\n[Frigade](http://frigade.com) is a low-code tool for building product growth loops. It comes with pre-built React UI components, a web app, and flexible APIs. Our customers use Frigade to build product growth experiences similar to those used by companies like [Notion](https://www.productonboarding.com/notion-feature-announcement), [Github](https://www.productonboarding.com/github-embedded-promotions?view=components), and [Mercury](https://www.productonboarding.com/mercury-new-user-onboarding).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78903&key=user_uploads/123251/7ac8ec05-e94e-4f88-93c2-561aae34289d)\n\n\\---\n\n# **Founding Story**\n\nOur team first met at LinkedIn where we built internal tooling to help accelerate company growth. Turns out many of the best companies in the valley also had large growth teams dedicated to building the same powerful tooling.\n\nThese platforms made it easier to ship new experiences with functionality like user targeting, air traffic control, state management, admin tooling, and much more.\n\nHowever, many companies lack the resources to develop this kind of tool. With Frigade, we are building the growth platform we wished we had everywhere we’ve worked since LinkedIn, and we’re making it available to all teams.\n\n\\---\n\n# **What kind of experiences can Frigade power?**\n\n* **Onboarding forms** — like Typeform, but native\n* **Product checklists** for user activation\n* **Guided tours** for feature adoption\n* **Announcements** for engagement and adoption\n* **House Ads** to nudge users toward upgrades and adoption\n* **Surveys** for user research and account enrichment\n* **Custom Flows** to power unique in-app experiences\n\n\\---\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78903&key=user_uploads/123251/cc206e9a-c6cf-4e23-ade4-d1a8b60e924a)\n\n# **How does Frigade work?**\n\nFrigade combines React components, an admin dashboard, and flexible APIs to allow teams to build growth loops, faster.\n\n**React UI Components**\n\nFrigade includes a library of beautiful, pre-built React UI components based on industry best practices. Our components are fully customizable to your brand and product so they feel seamless.\n\n**Web App**\n\nFrigade’s web app helps technical and non-technical users alike with user targeting, performance metrics, user and account progress, and more. Frigade integrations help you connect tools like Mixpanel and Segment with a few clicks.\n\n**Flexible APIs**\n\nThe Frigade API is designed to give teams full control over their experience, unlike rigid no-code tools. Teams can even use our APIs to build fully custom Flows.\n\n\\---\n\n### **Our asks:**\n\n* **Sign up** for free at [frigade.com](http://frigade.com) to get started\n* **Grab a demo** with our team [here](https://cal.com/team/frigade/frigade-demo) to discuss your use cases", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KWd-frigade-growth-platform-for-modern-software-teams", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2024-02-29T17:52:18.262Z" }, { "id": 68103, "title": "💻 Frigade - The easiest way for developers to build product onboarding.", "tagline": "Frigade helps developers build better native onboarding and product education, faster. ", "body": "**_TL;DR_** _Frigade helps developers build best-in-class product onboarding and education_ faster. _Check us out at_ [_frigade.com_](http://frigade.com)_!_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68103&key=user_uploads/123251/acaad972-6a2d-45b3-817c-00685b328449)\n\nHello everyone! We’re [Christian](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cmathies/) and [Eric](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericbrownrout/). We’ve been working together since 2015 when we first met as interns at LinkedIn, and we’re excited to be building Frigade. Our goal at Frigade is to make it easy to build great product onboarding so developers can spend more time building their core product experiences.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68103&key=user_uploads/123251/c42721d4-9f20-4993-b0ce-cac1c7a69fe2)\n\n### **🔴 Problem: Product Onboarding is Hard**\n\nProduct onboarding is essential to customer activation and retention, but building great onboarding is difficult and time consuming. We know because we experienced this problem firsthand at our previous startup where we spent enormous amounts of time building onboarding and education for our app through trial and error. Time that could’ve been spent developing our core product offering.\n\nㅤ\n\n### **🟢 Solution: Powerful API and Open Source SDK**\n\nFrigade’s API and open source SDK take the hard work out of building and scaling great product onboarding. With Frigade, developers can:\n\n* 🛠️ Quickly build beautiful onboarding within their own app UI\n* 🔄 Ingest onboarding data from our API into their backend\n* ⚡ Make instant changes to copy, assets, and logic via API\n* 🎯 Easily build user targeting (powered by Segment, MixPanel, etc.)\n* 📚 Automatically leverage built-in industry best-practices\n\nAs a result, developers can spend less time building features for product adoption and more time building the product roadmap.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68103&key=user_uploads/123251/e768b350-e12d-4e11-976b-042f82f1def3)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68103&key=user_uploads/123251/52788266-214c-4314-a0a9-dc7d270afdde)\n\n[_Frigade SDKs_](https://github.com/FrigadeHQ) provides beautiful, extensible boilerplate for critical flows.ㅤ\n\n### **💻 Try it yourself**\n\nCheck out our [GitHub page](https://github.com/FrigadeHQ) and [website](https://frigade.com). We’re here to help! Feel free to contact us at [founders@frigade.com](mailto:founders@frigade.com) with any questions regarding implementation, feature requests, or to chat generally about your product onboarding needs. And if you’re in San Francisco, come say hey!\n\nㅤ\n\n**Thanks!**\n\nEric and Christian", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HiR-frigade-the-easiest-way-for-developers-to-build-product-onboarding", "votes": 35, "created_at": "2022-12-28T22:08:51.477Z" } ] }, { "id": 27854, "name": "Suger", "slug": "suger", "former_names": [ "Suger Inc" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cb9d2b3f8db8157f79ade98fcbf86f4de21dd0a0.png", "website": "https://www.suger.io/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "The cloud marketplaces on AWS, Azure, and GCP have become the App Store for B2B software products. It’s growing close to 100% year-over-year since it gives software sellers access to cloud budgets and makes procurement 40% faster. The core problem is the cloud marketplace is hard to navigate and requires an upfront technical investment without knowing the expected ROI. Suger eliminates the need to reinvent the wheel with your own engineering resource or spend a fortune on consulting-based solutions. 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Our first Agent is automating the maintenance coordination process. 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Propify's API allows companies to integrate with these systems in weeks, not years.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69838&key=user_uploads/997737/fbfa8b9c-aac6-449d-af99-d9696611c11e)\n\nHey everyone! We're Remen, Nick, and Ben from [Propify](http://www.getpropify.com). We entered the proptech world in 2020 and quickly realized the single biggest problem was accessing the data from the major systems of record.\n\n# ⚠️ **The Problem: Fragmentation and Legacy Software** \n\nThe managed real estate market includes 290k companies, 80M tenants, and $300B in rent payments. This market is not only for \"proptechs.\" Amazon, Lowes, and Progressive Insurance actively sell into the space. \n\nThe most significant headwind to innovation has been the effort to integrate with the systems of record: Property management software. \n\nIt is a fragmented market where SOAP APIs are the norm and documentation is rarely available. In addition, companies like Zuma (S21) have entire teams managing these integrations - they often take years to build the complete list.\n\n  \n\n# 👨‍🔬 **The Solution: A unified API**\n\nPropify's API and unified data model allow a company to integrate with the six most prominent players in weeks.\n\nAdditionally, we provide modern developer tooling like Webhooks, which is largely missing from the native integrations.\n\n# 👨‍🔬 **How it works:**\n\nWith Propify, you integrate once to access all of our supported integrations. In addition, our REST API is well documented, and we simplify integrating and scaling your company with additional tooling that your engineers will love!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69838&key=user_uploads/997737/49132478-7f99-47d2-985d-562b77f4f415)\n\nA company can manage the systems and integrated buildings through its Propify Portal. They can also manage users, export datasets, and set up Webhooks.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69838&key=user_uploads/997737/d543d0d9-66a4-43af-91b1-774a8a9867e1)\n\n\n# 🙋 **Propify is for: Almost Everyone**\n\nThis market is significant - tens of millions of renters live in professionally managed housing + hundreds of thousands of property management companies that need services. Examples of tools that do well in the space:\n\n🏢 Proptech\n\n🏗 Construction tech\n\n💸 Payments\n\n👨‍💼 Insurance\n\n🖥 Marketing\n\n🏷 Sales\n\n🎧 Support\n\n✅ Productivity\n\n📈 Reporting\n\n📞 Communication tooling\n\n🚗 Transportation\n\n❓ Unsure? 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To achieve this, you need to aggressively minimize distractions. It's crucial to eliminate the constant stream of alerts, often leading to full nights of stressful debugging.\n\n### **Solution:** AI agents can knock down issues before they get to engineers\n\n**Our AI agent kicks off every investigation by querying logs, metrics, DBs, and code to surface information and resolve issues.** The initial steps in investigations are predictable and automatable, but they take time for a human to perform. We save that time. **In many companies this simple step already cuts MTTR by 50%.** \n\n[▶️▶️ Chat with us to join the beta.](https://calendly.com/wildmoose-yasmin/30-min)\n\n**How it works:**\n\n1. **Collects data from monitoring data sources**\\\n When a new production issue is found, the moose kicks off by collecting data from your monitoring data tools, such as Datadog, Snowflake, New Relic, Cloudflare, etc.\n2. **Generates an enrichment report**\\\n The moose runs an investigation in real-time, analyzing the data collected to present its findings.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80510&key=user_uploads/281723/a7ca493a-891b-4da7-8326-920b6f4a4025)\n\n3. **Concludes and recommends next steps**\\\n The moose presents a summary of its findings along with recommended next steps, focusing on impact and mitigation.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80510&key=user_uploads/281723/30f636da-7ddf-45e0-bae4-493b21055e76)\n\n4. **Improves over time**\\\n You can indicate what information was useful or ask the moose to fetch more. Based on this feedback and an underlying model of your system, our model learns over time the actions it should take in different scenarios.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80510&key=user_uploads/281723/65c3bd53-edd3-492d-bff1-7a27a0ea0fa3)\n\n\n### **Try it out and tell us what you think!**\n\n[▶️▶️ Let’s chat and get you on our beta.](https://calendly.com/wildmoose-yasmin/30-min)\n\n**We’re looking to work with companies that are making an effort to improve their reliability**, preferably companies that already measure MTTR or are interested in starting to do so. \n\n* **_You don’t have to prepare your data or monitoring tools_**. We know things are often messy - our model works just as well with data that is unstructured\n* **_You do need to have your logs and/or metrics stored in a SaaS platform_** (Datadog, New Relic, Coralogix, etc.).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KwY-wild-moose-alert-enrichment-solve-production-issues-before-they-get-to-engineers", "votes": 36, "created_at": "2024-04-30T15:03:33.825Z" }, { "id": 69325, "title": "🔥 Wild Moose: Solve production incidents faster with Gen AI", "tagline": "Helping on-call developers quickly identify the source of production incidents with conversational AI trained on their environment.", "body": "**TL;DR When you’re on-call and everything’s on fire, instead of frantically sifting through logs and going through other people’s code, our moose just gives you the answers.** [**Chat with us**](https://calendly.com/wildmoose-yasmin/15min) **to try it out.**\n\n**—-**\n\n👋 We’re Tom, Yasmin, and Roei, founders of [Wild Moose](https://wildmoose.ai?utm_source=YC+newsletter&utm_medium=blog+post&utm_campaign=Launch+YC). \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69325&key=user_uploads/281723/afaf46a4-84f9-46c1-b638-ee353587eaa5)\n\n[Yasmin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasmin-dunsky-519a4ab2/) has an MBA from Stanford and is a third-time founder & CEO. [Roei](https://www.linkedin.com/in/roei-schuster-0ba818aa/) got a PhD at Cornell University focusing on Large Language Models (LLMs), and [Tom](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-tytunovich-70a13886/) has had the dubious pleasure of fixing hundreds of incidents in production over his 15 years of engineering.\n\n### **The problem**\n\nWith developers spending over 30% of their time on production issues, and incidents leading to millions in lost revenue, there’s no need to say much about the headache that is production debugging. Instead, we asked Midjourney what a developer dealing with a prod incident looks like:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69325&key=user_uploads/281723/a629390c-47b7-403e-bae9-d523c690b62d)\n\n### **Enters the moose**\n\nDebugging in production with our moose allows you to solve issues in minutes instead of hours, reducing MTTR 100x. It helps you avoid costly downtime, save time, and keep your SLAs in check. You’re able to:\n\n* 🕵️ Navigate through heaps of logs, metrics, and other people’s code\n* 🧠 Build queries like a pro for any observability tool (Elastic, Datadog, SQL DBs, etc.)\n* 🔀 Get next-step recommendations so you stay on track when the pressure is on and you’re flooded with data\n\n### **How it works**\n\n**💪 We help you hit the ground running –** unlike humans, our AI is happy to wake up at 2 AM and get cracking, instantly up to speed and ready with useful data on the state of the system\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69325&key=user_uploads/281723/7468e24d-8b94-403d-a59e-98e0994ef3f6)\n\n**💪 You don't need to debug alone –** using Wild Moose is like having a fellow engineer take the grunt work off your hands. 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Crucially, we also validate the produced answers against the original sources of truth, giving you trustworthy information when you need it the most.\n\n### **We can help you fix production issues**\n\nIf your company has 25+ developers, you measure the cost of downtime, and your observability stack includes Datadog, Sentry, and/or Elastic, we would love to help you manage production issues! Just hop on a call with us [here](https://calendly.com/wildmoose-yasmin/15min) or reach out at [yasmin@wildmoose.ai](mailto:yasmin@wildmoose.ai).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I29-wild-moose-solve-production-incidents-faster-with-gen-ai", "votes": 59, "created_at": "2023-02-15T20:55:49.267Z" } ] }, { "id": 27893, "name": "BuildJet", "slug": "buildjet", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6581ded9fa54308e7ffa3c61c36bd6ef62e369cd.png", "website": "https://buildjet.com", "all_locations": "Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Remote", "long_description": "BuildJet makes CI faster by running its own cloud on top of Gaming CPUs\r\n\r\nToday, BuildJet offers a CI product that makes GitHub Actions 2x faster and cheaper, by plugging in BuildJet's Gaming CPU Cloud into GitHub Actions. 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Lian later moved to become the CTO of Germany’s largest market research company, Civey, where he worked closely with Adam to scale the company and gain insight into the significant impact of gaming CPUs on CI speed.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/chemhack/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3e9b5890a69d9bbc29d3d3300ac0b5798e215fc4.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 69746, "title": "BuildJet - Change 1 line, get 2x faster & cheaper GitHub Action builds", "tagline": "Managed high-performance runners for GitHub Actions", "body": "### **⚡️ TL;DR**\n\nHey, this is Adam & Lian from [@BuildJet](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/buildjet)\n\nBuildJet makes GitHub Actions faster, by running the workflows on our Gaming CPU cloud. You still keep everything GitHub Actions, we just replace the underlying GitHub Actions runner with our Gaming CPUs.\n\n\\\n**Change 1 line, and get 2x faster and cheaper builds.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69746&key=user_uploads/730963/214d6b00-fec2-4f4a-8a6b-132c63f8c6cb)\n\n### **GitHub Actions is slow**\n\n* **Developers are wasting their time –** Waiting for GitHub Actions to get a green checkbox on a PR, is wasteful and extremely tedious.\n* **GitHub Actions runner hardware is old and slow –** GitHub Actions use old and slow machines from Azure. Some of your workflows run on servers from 2015.\n* **GitHub Actions use the wrong type of hardware** – CI workflows are usually computing intense, and specifically require high single-core performance. GitHub Actions uses server CPUs, which generally have low single-core performance.\n\n### **Our Solution**\n\nGitHub Actions rely on server CPUs from Azure. **Server CPUs mostly have low single-core performance.** This is where BuildJet differentiates itself, with its fundamentally different approach to computing, using dedicated **high-performance gaming CPUs** that all have a very high-single core performance.\n\nThis provides an inherent speed advantage for BuildJet, even without software optimizations. High single-core performance is the key to a fast CI process, and BuildJet's gaming CPU cloud is optimized to deliver just that.\n\nTake a look at our at the chart below, **MacBook Pro 2015 hardware beating GitHub Actions runner in 2022.** It’s yet another instance where you can see the limitation of using server CPUs in tasks that need high single-core performance.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69746&key=user_uploads/730963/40b07ca7-7828-4ae1-9c6b-20b8d1ea0026)\n\n### **Founding Team**\n\nLian and I, first met at a data privacy startup in Berlin in 2014, where we developed a strong working relationship and launched many products together. After leaving that company, we joined a German startup that runs the biggest market research panel in Germany, Civey, with Adam as CPO and Lian as CTO. When scaling the company, we quickly learned **the great impact gaming CPU's have on CI speed.**\n\n### **Next Steps**\n\nHead over to , sign up in 1 minute and start accelerating your GitHub Actions workflows.\n\nIf you have any questions about your CI pipeline, don’t hesitate to reach out to [adam@buildjet.com](mailto:adam@buildjet.com), and I’ll make sure to help you out!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I8w-buildjet-change-1-line-get-2x-faster-cheaper-github-action-builds", "votes": 45, "created_at": "2023-02-28T15:31:40.834Z" } ] }, { "id": 27896, "name": "Truewind", "slug": "truewind", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2282cdd4a81eac40181a6efc3ce3c3d32c9eb037.png", "website": "https://www.trytruewind.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Truewind is a technology company based in San Francisco developing a digital staff accountant. 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The solution that has helped over a hundred companies with their month-end close is now available for accounting firms and internal accounting teams.\n\n## **Introducing the next-generation AI-powered accounting solution**\n\nHow does an “AI-powered” accounting solution improve your current operations?\n\n**With the power of LLMs, you are able to:**\n\n* Auto-classify bank and credit card transactions with >90% accuracy\n* Identify accrual entries and auto-create a work paper in 1-click\n* Collect supporting documentation automatically with 0 intervention\n* Match supporting documentation to your accounting journal entries\n\nThink of Truewind as a **_digital accountant._** A digital accountant that does the repetitive work of categorizing transactions, finding supporting documentation, and closing the month-end books. A digital accountant that works while you sleep.\n\n![](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=80520&key=user_uploads/391490/6cbbea13-2d87-450a-a42a-1fdb6484d02e)\n\n## **Most alternatives are service providers that are prone to manual errors and overhead costs**\n\nThere are many vendors that help startups with bookkeeping and accounting. These service companies are easy to start because, in the background, they have an army of operational staff who **manually** enter your data into an accounting system.\n\nIf the transaction is missing an invoice or receipt, they will **manually** follow up with you for that document. Accrual journal entries are **manually** tracked in an Excel sheet and **manually** updated monthly. Lastly, reports are **manually downloaded** and shipped to you for review.\n\nWhy is this problematic? The **manual**\\-intensive process is an error-prone one. The Excel file below is an example of how they manage this; now multiply this by 100 rows and 20 tabs. Maybe they get it right as high as 99% of the time. But inevitably, with humans **manually** going back and forth between Excel tabs and traditional legacy systems, it’s never going to be 100%.\n\n![](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=80520&key=user_uploads/391490/8992ac60-7524-4111-83de-b92a2ca382f1)\n\n## **Month-End Close Powered by AI**\n\nTruewind helps accountants close their books faster without the administrative overhead costs that come with most month-end close management solutions.\n\nTraditional month-end close solutions’ is a checklist. Accountants dislike these solutions because they add administrative workload. Accountants track their month-end checklist in Excel or Google Sheets because it works, but because their company decided to purchase a month-end close software, they have to **manually** move their checklist into the software each month.\n\nTruewind is different in that we _actually do the work for you_. Truewind is a **_digital accountant_** that does the journal entry work while you rest. Each day, you get into the office with your morning queue of work prepared for you to review.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80520&key=user_uploads/391490/5b2c1d58-32c4-4d82-807c-468aa2ec6981)\n\n**Here are just a few examples:**\n\n* The AI model is trained on your client’s historical data so that bank and credit card transactions can be **auto-classified** to the correct account, payee, and department\n* By studying historical patterns, Truewind identifies prepaid expenses and **auto-capitalizes** the transaction as an asset. Each month, we **auto-update** the work paper and write the journal entry\n* By studying historical patterns, Truewind identifies and recognizes an accrued expense even though an invoice or payment is missing; when it arrives next month, we **auto-adjust** the journal entries\n* Rather than manually searching for supporting documentation, our integrated AI agents **auto-identify** the supporting documentation that is tied to each journal entry and transaction\n\n## **Visit us at AICPA Engage 24 - Silver Sponsors**\n\nIn addition to this product launch, I’m excited to announce that Truewind is a Silver Sponsor of the AICPA CIMA Engage 24 Conference 💎\n\nAICPA & CIMA Engage is the largest gathering of accountants and finance professionals in North America, with close to 4,000 attendees. And we are thrilled to be a Silver Sponsor for this event. In the coming weeks, we will post about how Truewind helps accounting firms and internal accounting teams close the books closer and get their life back.\n\nWe have many fun activities and talks planned. Follow us on [**LinkedIn**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/truewindai/) & [**Twitter**](https://twitter.com/truewindai/) to stay tuned for more.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80520&key=user_uploads/391490/1da64d47-c89b-4171-b484-2b7ea7df06ee)\n\n## **How to learn more and sign up**\n\nAll of these capabilities are available today for our early accounting firm partners and will be available broadly on June 1, 2024. Our accounting firm partners include fast-growing boutique firms and top 50 national firms.\n\nWe have room for 2-3 more accounting firms in our May onboarding batch. Then, in early June, we will be showcasing this and more at the Engage 24 conference.\n\n**If you’d like to see a live demo and potentially sign up:**\n\n1. **Fill out this **[**Tally form**](https://tally.so/r/3qA68k)** or**\n2. **Email** [**launchyc@trytruewind.com**](mailto:launchyc@trytruewind.com)\n\n## **Made with 💛 from our team**\n\nUnfortunately, Mochi 🐶 didn’t make this photo. During our Launch YC a year ago, Truewind was a team of three. Today, we’re 15 strong with over a hundred customers, including multiple top 50 accounting firms. From our team to everyone - Thank you to the many startups and accounting firms we get to work with day in and day out. We look forward to meeting many more of you.\n\n![](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=80520&key=user_uploads/391490/c033be10-ba6d-4be4-bd50-045a6052e405)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Kwi-truewind-ai-powered-accounting", "votes": 117, "created_at": "2024-04-30T16:34:41.677Z" }, { "id": 69622, "title": "⛵️ Truewind: AI-powered bookkeeping and finance software for startups", "tagline": "Fast growing companies use our AI-bot to automate transaction labeling so they see fewer errors and faster monthly closes.", "body": "Let's get down to brass tacks. You need **bookkeeping to stay compliant** with Uncle Sam 🇺🇸 and you need a **financial model for fundraising**. That's what you need. And that's what we do for you.\n\nOn a lighter note, hey everyone! 👋\n\n### **What we do for you**\n\nI’m super excited to launch [**Truewind**](https://www.truewind.ai/) to all of you! **⛵️ Truewind is AI-powered Bookkeeping and Financial Modeling for Startups**\n\nThrough a combination of generative AI and concierge service, we deliver a delightful financial back office experience.\n\n* Reliable bookkeeping\n* Detailed financial models\n* Built exclusively for startups\n* Fast, responsive expertise\n\nBecause you need investor-ready financials. Your dedicated Truewind team prepares your monthly financial statements reliably and accurately, so you have investor-ready financials when you fundraise.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69622&key=user_uploads/391490/1f76d30b-864d-4cb1-a600-223fc9065871)\n\n### **We use Generative AI to capture the business context that only you have**\n\nWe are **delivering a 10x better experience to you, the operator**, by making it easier to provide business context.\n\n* We connect to your bank account and then auto-categorize the transactions that we recognize.\n* For the ones we don’t, we’ll send you a message notifying you that we do not recognize this transaction. You reply in **plain simple English** and we’ll handle the rest.\n* For accrual accounting, upload contracts and invoices on Truewind and our software will read those pdf files.\n* If we’re missing information, say we don’t know the duration, we’ll send you a message that we need more information. You reply in **plain simple English** that the duration is 12 months.\n\nFinance and accounting isn’t simply numbers, **it requires business context that only the operators have.** This is where Generative AI shines. We use GPT-3 to digest your natural language inputs, translate it into accounting journal entries, and learn from it so future journal entries can be automated.\n\n### **Most accounting & finance companies are service providers, prone to manual errors**\n\nThere are many vendors that help startups with bookkeeping and financial models. These services companies are easy to start because, in the background, they aren’t building **reliable** accounting and finance software.\n\nThese service providers have armies of operations staff who **manually** enter your data into an accounting system. Then, they **manually** download reports and ship it to you for review.\n\nWhen they don’t recognize a transaction, they ask _you_ to **manually** categorize the data. Then, next month, they’ll ask you to **manually recategorize** the same transaction. Without native accounting and finance software, they do not remember and learn from previous inputs.\n\nWhy is this service provider approach problematic for your company?\n\n**Service providers are error prone.**\n\nLet’s say a wire of $16K comes into your bank account but the memo says `[Online 13875836747 To Jayson (_########62846)]`\n\nWe don’t know what it is, nor do other accounting companies. So you, **the operator**, has to go thru a drop down of 50 items with words you barely understand and you’re expected to figure out what it should be categorized as. Half the time, you just pick something and move on 👎\n\n![uploaded image](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=69622&key=user_uploads/391490/675a6b16-8efd-4ad7-bd94-61144b3ce66d)\n\n### **Our ask**\n\nIf you haven’t picked up a bookkeeping solution yet, give us a chance at winning your business! And even if you already did, give us a chance to change your mind 😆\n\n**Help us become the #1 recommended financial back-office provider for startups 🔥**\n\n**Truewind Customer Form:** \n\nFill out this Typeform to get started with me, Alex. I’ll answer any questions you have on the call, get you onboarded, and even start on the financial model!\n\n### **Our Customers**\n\nYour finances are a delicate thing, I know. Many other fast-growing startups already work with us (listed below). Hopefully this gives you some confidence 🙂 Many of them YC, many of them not, and many of them current batchmates!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69622&key=user_uploads/391490/216923c2-b785-4af4-9414-d46873d95f67)\n\n### **A little bit about us and Mochi**\n\nIt feels weird introducing ourselves in a product launch but given we’ll be working with your financial data, I thought you should know about us.\n\n* I’m a second-time YC founder, ex-Boeing engineer, and ex-VC. As an ex-VC, I worked very closely with startup financial statements and I could build a financial model in my sleep.\n* My co-founder Tennison took a whirlwind of a journey: studying business in school → self taught developer → worked at Flexport Pinterest Alibaba → and now building a fintech startup\n* Mochi is our 2-year old Samoyed pup and the chief motivating officer. Kiddo doesn’t understand fiscal responsibility, all he wants is the best organic food.\n\n![uploaded image](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=69622&key=user_uploads/391490/4837a8f8-f03f-4543-9d54-ab438664be98)\n\n### **Hit us up if we can help you!**\n\nWe published a **Y Combinator W23 Generative AI Landscape** on LinkedIn that has over 800K views - [check it out here](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alexlee611_ai-startup-generativeai-activity-7033871151416164352-mMeR?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop).\n\nWe love working with founders, accountants, and finance leaders, so pls don’t be shy. Mochi would love to meet you 😁\n\n![uploaded image](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=69622&key=user_uploads/391490/7af98c54-b696-4df4-b34f-5f15b55694cd)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I6w-truewind-ai-powered-bookkeeping-and-finance-software-for-startups", "votes": 234, "created_at": "2023-02-23T21:26:20.125Z" } ] }, { "id": 27897, "name": "TableFlow", "slug": "tableflow", "former_names": [ "Inquery" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fad6d127e5843dda3d9f06585de22ad73a6df795.png", "website": "https://tableflow.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "TableFlow builds AI teammates for data tasks, helping operations and data teams automate the messy, manual tasks buried in PDFs, spreadsheets, images, and emails.", "one_liner": "AI Teammates for Data Tasks", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Operations", "launched_at": 1676487521, "tags": [ "Documents", "SaaS", "Data Engineering", "Automation", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Operations" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tableflow", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/tableflow.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/tableflowhq", "x_url": "https://x.com/tableflow", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tableflow", "github_url": "https://github.com/tableflowhq", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fad6d127e5843dda3d9f06585de22ad73a6df795.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 405594, "full_name": "Mitch Patin", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CEO at TableFlow. 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Instead of spending time on manual data entry and validation, teams use TableFlow to automate these tasks with AI.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73464&key=user_uploads/405594/c161bc5a-7c2f-45d1-8e93-39ea826fc6a6)\n\nHi everyone, we’re Eric and Mitch from [TableFlow](http://tableflow.com)! 👋\n\n### Problem\n\nMany companies rely on spreadsheets, PDFs, and other file types to import partner or customer data, which exists in a variety of formats. This difficult and time-consuming process often leads to companies relying on a combination of in-house tooling and manual work to migrate the data. This becomes even more problematic when ingesting hundreds or thousands of files a week.\n\n### Solution\n\nTableFlow handles the file import process with automated pipelines that use AI to map, extract, transform, and validate data.\n\n**How it works:**\n\n1. Define your destination schema in our app. These are the columns and data types that you want to transform data to.\n2. Import a file via our API.\n3. Receive a webhook when the file finishes processing (takes \\~10 seconds, even with 100k+ records). This will include any errors, such as a required field being missing.\n4. Optional: Review the imported data in our application before continuing.\n5. Import the cleaned, transformed data into your system.\n\n[Demo Video](https://www.loom.com/share/a07bfd2c55454127afa44df31a973c81?sid=42c402db-1ee5-4886-a009-484bcdc1df3a)\n\n### TEAM\n\nWe met while working at Heymarket, a Series-A startup in SF. Mitch was the first product hire, and Eric was the first full-stack engineer. During our two years there, we co-owned many projects and defined many of the engineering & product processes to help the company scale. We became friends outside of the office by talking about startups, tennis, pickleball, and mountain biking.\n\n[Mitch](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchpatin/) started his career as an engineer before moving to the dark side (product 😛). He previously worked at GE Digital and Bolt and founded a company focused on B2B payments.\n\n[Eric](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericciminelli/) is a software engineer who previously worked at Facebook and myMatrixx and co-founded a company that created a search engine for car shopping online.\n\n### Asks\n\n💌 If your team handles recurring imports of data in different schemas and formats, we’d love to hear about the problems you’ve encountered. Just leave your info [here,](https://tableflow.com/join-waitlist) and we’ll reach out!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J6u-tableflow-ai-document-processing", "votes": 122, "created_at": "2023-07-26T20:36:20.772Z" } ] }, { "id": 27901, "name": "Orchid", "slug": "orchid", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c45a8c4b15289c3172e10baab22e5b061b400e76.png", "website": "https://orchid.health", "all_locations": "Philadelphia, PA, USA; New York, NY, USA", "long_description": "Orchid is an AI-powered Electronic Health Record (EHR) for independent mental health professionals that saves them time, money, and frustration by integrating core administrative workflows, streamlining clinical processes, and automating manual flows.", "one_liner": "AI-powered EHR for independent mental health professionals", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Healthcare", "subindustry": "Healthcare", "launched_at": 1677113728, "tags": [ "Mental Health Tech", "SaaS", "Health Tech", "Healthcare", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Healthcare" ], "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/orchid", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/orchid.json", "year_founded": null, "city": "Philadelphia", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/hey-orchid", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c45a8c4b15289c3172e10baab22e5b061b400e76.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": 1179470, "full_name": "Joseph Pomianowski", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-pomianowski-338a39160/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/66b586b72cc9c904eafd2fb90f9356f5af7d8813.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 57486, "title": "Senior Frontend Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/orchid/jobs/pBF8nao-senior-frontend-engineer", "location": "IN / PK / BD / BR / AR / CL / MX / PL / Remote (IN; PK; BD; BR; AR; CL; MX; PL)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Frontend", "salary_range": "$5K - $75K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "6+ years", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [ "Python", "React", "TypeScript" ] }, { "id": 61534, "title": "Senior Backend Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/orchid/jobs/No4g3BG-senior-backend-engineer", "location": "Remote (PL; DE; NL; US; GB; FR; IT; CH; BE; HU; AT; RO; SK; SI; SE; CA; EE; CZ; ES; PT; LT; LV; DK; HR)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Backend", "salary_range": "$100K - $200K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "6+ years", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [ "Python", "SQL" ] } ], "news": [ { "title": "EHR Startup Targets Mental Health Clinicians With AI Scribe Technology | Healthcare Innovation", "url": "https://www.hcinnovationgroup.com/analytics-ai/generative-ai/article/55248056/ehr-startup-targets-mental-health-clinicians-with-ai-scribe-technology", "date": "Dec 06, 2024" }, { "title": "Orchid announces new HIPAA-compliant AI scribe for mental health | Healthcare IT News", "url": "https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/orchid-announces-new-hipaa-compliant-ai-scribe-mental-health", "date": "Jul 29, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 69725, "title": "Orchid – The most efficient EHR for independent mental health professionals", "tagline": "We help mental health professionals automate and streamline their admin workflows.", "body": "### **Tl;dr:** _[_Orchid_](https://orchid.health) is an Electronic Health Record (EHR) for independent mental health professionals that saves clinicians’ time, money, and frustration. We do this by integrating core administrative workflows, streamlining clinical processes, and automating manual flows. Altogether, Orchid practitioners reclaim \\~500+ hours of their time spent on administrative work, with the potential to save $11B in healthcare costs annually._\n\n### _Would you or anyone in your network be interested in learning more or helping out? [**Connect with us**](mailto:founders@orchid.health)_\n\n \n\n### **The Problem** \n\nDid you know that **mental health professionals** spend more time on their EHR than they do with their patients? In fact, they **lose 500 hours a year** by clicking around terrible infrastructure and as a result the **healthcare industry loses $11 billion annually**.\n\nMental health clinicians face the following set of challenges:\n\n1. Subpar EHR solutions cost mental health clinicians \\~1,500 hours/year\n2. This admin time detracts from time spent with patients, translating into $10,000+ of lost revenue per clinician\n3. Lost revenue and less time with patients leads to stress and ultimately to clinician burnout \n\nNo wonder it’s so hard to find a therapist these days, and it all starts with clunky software! \n\nAt Orchid we believe the path to helping those seeking mental health care runs through helping mental health clinicians. We need to figure out an affordable way to buy back the time of these mental health professionals because every hour wasted is an hour not spent addressing the mountain of unmet demand in this market and results in billions wasted for our healthcare industry. \n\n### **The Solution**\n\nEnter Orchid. **We are an affordable EHR that seamlessly integrates the core functions of running a mental healthcare practice.** \n\nImagine an all-in-one platform that automates scheduling, billing, insurance credentialing, analytics, telehealth, and note-taking. By doing this **we reclaim 500 hours of each provider annually, and we potentially save the healthcare industry 11 billion dollars**. \n\nOrchid not only helps clinicians improve the mental health outcomes of their patients but also alleviates the supply-demand imbalance in the mental healthcare market by enabling clinicians to spend more time both onboarding new patients and focusing on their current patient roster.\n\n**Read what Orchid subscribers are saying about how Orchid reduces their admin work**:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69725&key=user_uploads/1179470/fddba9d9-d1b1-42f8-859c-c0ec794570c7)\n\n\n### **Make the world a better place**\n\n**If you or anyone in your network might be interested in learning more or helping out, we would love to chat.**  We're especially interested in talking with:\n\n* **Health insurance companies (payors)**, especially those interested in expanding their mental health offerings, in increasing their members’ access to mental healthcare, in decreasing their costs through efficient operations, and in improving their quality of care. **We have hundreds of vetted clinicians implementing measurement-based care.**\n* **Independent mental health professionals**: therapists, social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists, even if they’re currently not in the market for a new EHR. You can also ask them to [sign up for a quick 15-minute demo](https://orchid.health). \n* **Nonprofits** with an interest in supporting mental health\n\nWe can be **reached at** [**founders@orchid.health**](mailto:founders@orchid.health)\n\nPlease **follow us on** [**LinkedIn**](https://linkedin.com/company/hey-orchid) and spread the love.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I8b-orchid-the-most-efficient-ehr-for-independent-mental-health-professionals", "votes": 157, "created_at": "2023-02-27T21:50:35.839Z" } ] }, { "id": 27911, "name": "IcePanel", "slug": "icepanel", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/dbd813cd554f2fcf891554ea0c9a4e0eceff792e.png", "website": "https://icepanel.io", "all_locations": "North Vancouver, BC, Canada", "long_description": "IcePanel is a collaborative diagramming tool that helps software engineering and product teams align on technical decisions. 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Before IcePanel, I was a UX Designer at Mastercard, working on greenfield real-time payment products, including monitoring and mobile payments. I prefer solving \"boring\" problems over jumping on hype trains. 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This brings consistency to visual & verbal communication about software architecture.\n\n**3️⃣ Linked to reality**\n\n* IcePanel objects can be linked to resources in reality, such as files in Git, that flag as out-of-date if they no longer exist.\n\n### **🫣 Sneak peek**\n\n_Levelled diagramming_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67487&key=user_uploads/690358/af8b9aee-00f4-48c5-9215-1c5a75cbb7b9)\n\n_Dynamic flows_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=67487&key=user_uploads/690358/ead5d78e-c923-41bb-b34a-74d8d03bb9b8)\n\nWant to see more? [Head over to IcePanel!](https://icepanel.io)\n\n### **🙌 Our ask**\n\n* [Try us out](http://icepanel.io) for free & let us know your feedback\n* Connect us with engineering teams who struggle to fully understand their systems\n* Share with your developer or product friends", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HYV-icepanel-collaborative-system-design-linked-with-reality", "votes": 26, "created_at": "2022-11-23T00:36:21.646Z" } ] }, { "id": 27941, "name": "Sage AI", "slug": "sage-ai", "former_names": [ "Omnistore", "Emblem", "Semantic", "Semantic Finance" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c9492b07bf996e987ccacc0cea4bd6811a5000d5.png", "website": "https://sage-ai.dev", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Sage is a self-generating, self-maintaining knowledge base for your code with in-built chat, accelerating expertise, and comprehension of any codebase.\r\n\r\nDocumentation is perpetually stale, codebases become increasingly old, large, and complex, and knowledge remains siloed within individuals and teams. 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Hadrius automates the entire ongoing SEC compliance process for investment managers, saving compliance teams hours daily on manual reviews, filings, and audit prep while giving full control over tasks and flagged items from an intuitive dashboard.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70075&key=user_uploads/441787/52bbfc17-b327-4223-99b1-4c221a692e23)\n\n### **The Problem ❌**\n\n30,000+ financial firms spend a combined total of $16b+ a year on ongoing SEC compliance, and with new regulations every year, these costs are continuing to rise. At the same time, the existing solutions can hardly keep up, with most firms paying for third-party consultants, law firms, and 2-decade-old software - while still relying on endless manual work to make up the gap.\n\nThe result: upwards of $10k/year per employee spent on regulatory compliance and thousands of hours of tedious tasks at each financial firm.\n\n### **The Solution ✨**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70075&key=user_uploads/441787/5a1b6f89-e106-431d-b8d0-500788a169be)\n\n \n\nHadrius scans emails, slack and SMS with GPT3, flagging non-compliant language to speed up correspondence review and does similar work for marketing review and regular filings. We’ve also automated billing reviews, allocation reviews, and rollovers by integrating into investment managers’ existing compliance stack (like client CRMs and trading systems).\n\nAll this is presented to the CCO and their compliance team as a dashboard where they can manage the automated tasks and review flagged items that require human input - overall savings hours daily.\n\n### **Why Us 🤝**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70075&key=user_uploads/441787/2991c0e1-d02d-43a0-a161-499a3b680426)\n\nWe ran an SEC-registered RIA ourselves, we've faced these challenges firsthand and developed Hadrius for our own fully-automated compliance program. 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Send us an email at [hello@hadrius.com](mailto:hello@hadrius.com) or [book a demo](https://0lxsd1t7maq.typeform.com/to/ac9F9JZV?typeform-source=www.hadrius.com)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IEF-hadrius-sec-regulatory-compliance-powered-by-ai", "votes": 22, "created_at": "2023-03-09T00:41:20.664Z" } ] }, { "id": 27950, "name": "Sherloq", "slug": "sherloq", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/303c40c74b1c65d00ba6f772b138135819922051.png", "website": "http://sherloqdata.io/", "all_locations": "Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel", "long_description": "Companies use Sherloq as their single source of truth for their SQL on top of their existing data stack.\r\n\r\nToday, data-driven organizations face the challenge of giving 2 of their data analysts the same task and getting 2 totally different results from their analysis. 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Collaborative SQL Repository for the GenAI Era", "tagline": "One place for all your queries, directly on your SQL editor.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85978&key=user_uploads/1123455/7c98d785-c103-402b-a746-f59818b533ce)\n\n# 🔍 **TL;DR**\n\n**Sherloq is the one place for all your queries, on top of your SQL editor.**\n\nUsing the SQL repository plugin, you can collaboratively organize, save, and share your SQL code, without leaving your editor and IDE.\n\nThat means you can actually focus on what matters most - analyzing the data and creating meaningful insights for your org.\n\n[Try it out yourself for free!](https://www.sherloqdata.io/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=post)\n\nWatch our quick [demo:](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Rddj6Cekg)\n\n# 🔍 **The Problem**\n\nIf you use SQL, you probably know that we **spend too much time on managing, sharing and finding our code**, and that SQL is scattered between different tools, docs, dashboards, people and even notepads.\n\nYou might relate to one of these:\n\n* Trying to remember when was the last time you ran a SQL on some ‘users_v2’ legacy table, and who might know where it is.\n* Clone, update, commit, merge, push just to change the field from “revenue” to “revenue_new.\n* Asking the company-wide Slack channel if someone can send the most updated CASE WHEN condition we talked about in yesterday’s daily.\n* Going over 252 queries in the ‘All Queries’ Docs file with cmd+f: ‘prospect_id’.\n* Getting asked from the product / marketing team, for the 6th time that week, how to filter out all ‘cohort week 7’ users from the company dashboard.\n* Waiting 45 minutes just to retrieve the custom SQL from your Tableau Dashboard for that CTE you use.\n\n**Common alternatives today aren’t built for this type of code, making each person independently manage their day-to-day SQL work.**\n\nIn the GenAI Era, SQL is becoming even more popular as everyone inside the org can easily access and use it.\n\nCompanies are actually generating more and more data and SQL, and are looking for ways to democratize it and make data as self-served as possible.\n\n_The result of all of this?_ Spending too much time on creating inconsistent SQL, that leads to inconsistent data.\n\n### \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85978&key=user_uploads/1123455/1d75b0a1-ddf6-4cd6-89d4-9e1f1c30b4cb)\n\n### 🔍 **Enter Sherloq**\n\nAs we ourselves were (and are still) heavy SQL users, we were looking to create a solution that gives us just the right amount of order we need.\n\n**Something that’s actually built for this type of code:**\n\n* **Hassle free:** More organized than a Notepad / Slack channel / Notion Page, but doesn’t require any process that’s an overkill like Github.\n* **Zero integration:** It sits on top of our SQL editor but doesn’t require any integrations or have access to the data itself.\n* **Collaborative**: It has a shared workspace but also has a place for our own personal work.\n* **Built for the entire org:** Can be used by people that love data and understand it, and by those that don’t.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85978&key=user_uploads/1123455/38198f2b-19af-4822-8189-3c2fbaee628c)\n\n# 🔍 **Using Sherloq you’ll be able to:**\n\n* 📁 Create a shared SQL repository for your org and team\n* 💻 Manage your code better with reusable SQL snippets and templates\n* 🕶️ Understand your code faster with AI SQL ERD diagrams, formatting, _(coming soon)_ SQL errors explained, and query optimization\n* 📝 AI auto-documentation including SQL version control, generated query names and descriptions\n\n# 🔍 **How it works**\n\n1. Download for free the [Chrome Extension](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sherloq-save-share-simpli/kjndilccgkemibeimjdefmjkhfddobfk?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=post) / [JetBrains Plugin](https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/22201-sherloq--save-share--simplify-your-queries?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=post) (VSCode _coming soon_!)\n2. Save your SQL, create folders, and share them with your team\n3. 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With Sherloq, different data analysts are asked the same question and they always give the same answer.\n\n—\n\nHey everyone 👋 We’re [Alon (CTO)](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alon-greenfield/), [Noy (CEO)](https://www.linkedin.com/in/noy-twerski/) and [Nadav (COO).](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadav-gutman-213637197/)\n\nWe’re happy to introduce Sherloq - the first collaborative SQL repository for data users.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69960&key=user_uploads/1123455/7976b4f2-b95d-4fbd-865a-c978601fe8cc)\n\n### 🔍 **Inconsistencies in data analysis destroy business value, and costs orgs more than $15M per year**\n\nWith the adoption of the modern data stack and while companies store endless amounts of data, data teams (analysts, scientists and engineers) spend 60% of their time trying to find, understand and manage their data. \n\n**Data analysis is still very subjective and dependent on the user creating it:**\n\n* Company business metrics are interpreted differently by each data user, and have various definitions \n* Structured data consist of hundreds of out-of-date fields with similar names, making it almost impossible to determine the most relevant fields for a particular analysis\n* Since SQL code is stored locally on each data user’s computer and isn’t reused, every data user writes code their own way regardless of company best practices\n\nThe rise of Gen AI changes the rules of the game, as now it enables us to take data explainability to a new level of clarity, a capability we only wish we had a few months back.\n\nAs we ourselves were data users in companies such as Microsoft, Walkme and 8200 the Cyber Intelligence Unit at the IDF, we’ve experienced this problem firsthand and waited for a proper solution for too long. \n\n### 🔍 **Enter Sherloq**\n\nSherloq is a collaborative SQL repository that creates one source of truth for all company queries. \n\nWe change the paradigm of how queries are stored and analyzed, with our new product capabilities and technology:\n\n1. **Zero integration and hassle free** - our add-on to any query editor, and our own SQL parser algorithm, extract the relevant queries automatically, so we know the data scheme, queries, users and usage in a click\n2. **Tailor-made data knowledge base per organization** - based on our fine tuned LLMs and by analyzing each company’s own data usage and costs, we automatically create a knowledge base within hours of download\n\nUsing Sherloq, organizations increase their data teams’ productivity by 2x and save 60% of their direct data management costs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69960&key=user_uploads/1123455/cb7564dc-3337-4063-9f88-b8b0788e04c1)\n\n### **🔍 **[**Try**](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sherloq-save-share-simpli/kjndilccgkemibeimjdefmjkhfddobfk)** our Google Chrome Extension**\n\nIf you’re tired of adding more and more tools to your data stack (like we were), our add-on sits on top of your **existing** query editor, so you don’t need to change anything in your current workflow. \n\n**After downloading, you’ll be able to:**\n\n* 🛫 Use auto-complete and co-pilot features on your own query editor\n* 🪄 Automatically generate descriptions and names for each query and table\n* 📁 Create SQL version control and shared folders\n* ⏱️ Based on our metadata analysis, you’ll get to know best practices for optimizing your queries and database\n\n### 🔍 **Don't waste another minute on unreliable data analysis**\n\n[Download](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sherloq-save-share-simpli/kjndilccgkemibeimjdefmjkhfddobfk) Sherloq! 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There is no single place that enables a shared workflow and truth.\n\nHave you ever seen a screw-up like:\n\n1. Presenting wrong numbers in an exec meeting 🤦‍♂️\n2. Not being able to understand how a KPI such as Daily Active Users, Churn or ARR was built 😡\n3. Spending all your time on preparing and transforming data instead of producing insights on top of it 😫\n4. Making a change to a KPI calculation and breaking the CEOs favorite dashboard 🙀\n\nWe fix this! [Honeydew](https://honeydew.ai/) helps the data team organize analytics into manageable blocks of knowledge supporting every data flow. Users can consume them in SQL, Tableau, Looker, Python, or dbt.\n\nOur product is being used by multiple early adopters - unicorn companies in cyber, insurance tech, and cloud ops.\n\nWe (Baruch, Liron and David) always want to talk, at [founders@honeydew.ai](mailto:founders@honeydew.ai); or just [grab a time](https://calendly.com/d/yjm-8jd-pwt/honeydew-20min-call) if you ever felt or feel the data mess pain.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70089&key=user_uploads/1136239/95e430f6-06cd-4df5-bc7c-46e840c95751)\n\n---\n\n# **Would you like to know more?**\n\n### 💡 How does it work?\n\nWe connect to Snowflake and act as a layer on top of it for different data tools.\n\n(_we don’t need to access your data, and yes - we are SOC2-compliant_)\n\nThen,\n\n1. Map the source data and relations (we can map it automatically for you 😎)\n2. Create reusable pieces of logic like what is a _User_, what is _Active_, what is _Daily_\n3. 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We fully manage the infrastructure, autoscale with your data, and charge based on usage with no fixed costs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69175&key=user_uploads/61370/f468f5b0-8088-4982-abd8-a45e143f02a8)\n\n## **💥 The problem: real-time data processing is too hard.**\n\nMany companies have adopted Kafka to collect and route their event data. But if they want to actually _do_ anything complex with that data, their options today are to use a complex solution like Flink or dump it in a data warehouse for batch processing.\n\n## **⚡️ The solution**\n\nAfter leading streaming teams at Lyft and Splunk, we’ve seen how critical real-time data can be. At Lyft this infrastructure was vital to the operation of the product, powering features like dynamic pricing, ETAs, safety, and fraud. We’re working to bring it to everyone by solving the hard infrastructure and UX problems of existing solutions.\n\nIt’s three steps to get started writing real-time queries:\n\n1. Tell us how to connect and authenticate against your Kafka cluster\n2. Configure the source and sink topics\n3. Write SQL\n\nFrom there, our system will compile your query into an efficient dataflow program that responds to events within milliseconds and pushes results to Kafka. We charge purely on usage (based on data in, query complexity, and window sizes) with no minimums. Our system automatically scales with your data volume, and there’s no need to manage clusters or provision fixed infrastructure.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69175&key=user_uploads/61370/8789103e-9032-4cf3-bc1e-3f9bcf03a026)\n\n## **What can you use this for?**\n\n* Compute real-time ML features\n* Detect fraud and abuse as it happens\n* Turn your daily analytics jobs into real-time queries\n* Filter/redact/aggregate your logs before indexing, or turn them into metrics\n* Reduce costs in your data warehouse by pre-aggregating before ingestion\n\n## **The backstory**\n\nMicah spent four years at Lyft and Splunk building streaming platforms on top of Apache Flink and Kubernetes. Teams shipped impactful features backed by that infrastructure, but it still wasn’t easy enough for non-experts to adopt. Users wanted the same UX they had for batch: just write SQL, don’t worry about operations, scale, or the nuances of the infra. 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We are Charly and Bryan, and we’re happy to present you [Defer](https://www.defer.run/):\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69350&key=user_uploads/1143800/14e200b6-6899-4313-9030-29ddc708dc4b)\n\nDefer allows developers to quickly create and run background jobs without infrastructure.\n\nBackground jobs are vital in building responsive and resilient web apps by moving slow code outside the users’ journey (ex: pulling and sending data to external APIs, sending emails).\n\n## Why are we building Defer?\n\nBryan and I have been working for 10 years in startups of many stages (pre-seed to Algolia or Dashlane stages).\n\nIn all those experiences, part of our work included crafting similar background jobs solutions and their internal dashboards, as Charly did at Algolia for the Shopify Integration Pipeline.\n\nWe identified a gap between current solutions and actual product needs that leads to **a repeated waste of engineering time** (initial cost, support, and maintenance) and **bad user experiences** across all companies.\n\nAs consultants, we also faced companies that **preferred to keep degraded user experiences** to not invest in R&D in background jobs.\n\nAll those combined experiences led us to create Defer to help companies match **modern product criteria** (great user-perceived performance and an increasing number of integration with external APIs) with **minimum effort** while keeping the **developer experience at heart**.\n\n## Our solution\n\nDefer enables developers to use a background jobs solution that matches their product needs without reinventing the wheel or building fragile layers.\n\nDefer brings a **unique developer experience** that makes it easy to create or transform existing functions into background functions (function version of a background job) **without the usual distracting boilerplate code** that current OSS solutions bring:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69350&key=user_uploads/1143800/8f9ece4b-ff95-4171-a3bc-e0cc82e73609)\n\nDefer’s infrastructure then **handles background function executions** with the configured parallelism and retries, **without infrastructure work or DevOps knowledge**.\n\nThe Defer Dashboard allows developers to manage applications with multiple environments and **get a sense of their product’s health** with **analytics and filters-rich executions list** view:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69350&key=user_uploads/1143800/0024a5c8-a2d6-4c80-a7fc-57f8f26fb4c4)\n\nFinally, developers get **notified on Slack upon failure** and can quickly access the execution’s logs and business metadata to **narrow down the issue and keep users in the loop**.\n\n## Focus on your product.\n\nGet started with Defer in a few minutes without refactoring or configuration, and start building delightful user experiences:\n\n* Defer comes with a [**free Hobby plan for developers** and small projects](https://app.defer.run/sign-up) 🚀\n* **As a YC company** (current batch and alumni) [benefit from a generous YC Deal](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/deals/1652) 💰\n* Defer is full-featured: you will find many examples [in our documentation](https://docs.defer.run/) 📖\n* Want to talk about your use case? 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From generating screen recordings of your product to voiceovers, motion graphics, and visuals that match your brand style.\n\nWith Clueso Agents, your content team can ship as fast as your engineering team does.\n\n[**https://youtu.be/2rio5VoUUV8**](https://youtu.be/2rio5VoUUV8)\n\n**🔴 The Problem**\n\nVideos are the best way to communicate your product’s value.\n\nBut they’re still created manually. For every new feature, your content team has to figure out what’s new, screen record the product, and edit the video with motion graphics and animations.\n\nThe result is a permanent backlog. By the time content is ready, the product has already moved on.\n\nTools like Loom and Screen Studio help you move faster, but only by compromising on quality.\n\n**🟢 The Solution**\n\nInstead of manually producing every video, let Clueso Agents ([**clueso.io/agents**](http://clueso.io/agents)) handle the entire production pipeline.\n\nHere's how it works:\n\n1. **Connect your product:** Give Clueso login credentials to your product or connect with GitHub, and provide one reference video that represents your brand style.\n2. **Every release becomes a trigger:** Clueso understands what changed and creates production plans for new features. It can also identify outdated videos in your existing library.\n3. **Our agent screen-records your product:** It logs into your product, navigates through the workflows, and captures polished screen recordings of the features you want to show. Fully autonomously.\n4. **AI handles the entire edit:** Along with the recordings, Clueso generates the voiceover, beautiful motion graphics, zooms and visual effects, captions, music, and applies your brand style.\n\nYou can also build workflows in Claude with the Clueso MCP, so video creation becomes just another step in your existing automations.\n\n**Why we're building this**\n\nOver the last two years, we built an AI video editor for product videos. Along the way, after working with 1,000+ SaaS companies, we realized editing wasn’t the only bottleneck.\n\nThe hard part was understanding what changed in the product, figuring out what to show in the demo, recording it cleanly, and keeping an entire video library up to date as the product evolved.\n\nWe’ve now replaced our recording extension with a browser agent that captures the recordings for you.\n\nOne customer recently rolled out a complete UI redesign that left nearly 700 videos out of date. With Clueso Agents, they refreshed the entire library in days instead of months.\n\nTo learn more and get started for free, book a demo with us at clueso.io/agents.\n\nWe can’t wait to show you agents in action!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RpD-clueso-agents-ship-product-videos-automatically-whenever-you-ship-features", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2026-07-22T17:57:25.874Z" }, { "id": 95851, "title": "Clueso: Product Videos in Minutes with AI", "tagline": "Your product ships fast. Your videos should too.", "body": "Hey all, we’re [Akash](https://www.linkedin.com/in/theakashanand/), [Prajwal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/prajwalprakash2000/), and [Neel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/neelbalar7/) from Clueso!\n\n**TL;DR:** Introducing Clueso – AI that turns any rough screen recording, document, or slide deck into a stunning video in minutes.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/OlOVMA06tpA\n\n## 🔴 The Problem\n\nOrganizations today need to produce more videos than ever, for a variety of use cases:\n\n* product demos\n* marketing and feature launches\n* customer onboarding\n* internal training\n* sales enablement\n* product, process, and workflow training\n\n… and so much more.\n\nBut creating these videos is time-consuming and requires specialized skills. And despite all the effort, engagement is usually low.\n\n## 🟢 The Solution\n\nClueso solves this. Our AI turns any rough screen recording, document, or slide deck into a stunning video in minutes.\n\nNo design skills required.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95851&key=user_uploads/1159730/9a6519b7-57f7-498c-ba0d-ab1ea1a07e1d)\n\nClueso can **write** your video’s script, add a studio-quality **voiceover**, and auto-generate visual **effects**, transitions, branding, and captions – all while giving you full editing control.\n\nIt can even **translate** your videos into 50+ languages with one click.\n\nWith this launch, we’re also introducing a suite of AI-first tools to **automate** the most time-consuming parts of the video editing process.\n\nWith a single prompt, Clueso can now:\n\n* **break down long recordings** like sales calls, webinars, or internal training calls, into bite-sized, polished videos\n* **generate** entire videos from documents and slide decks\n* **blur out** sensitive customer data from your screen recordings\n* create videos that match your brand or any design from our growing **template** library\n* generate **step-by-step docs** & SOPs from any screen recording\n\nMultiple teams at 1,000+ startups and enterprises already use Clueso for a variety of use cases.\n\nSign up today for free at [clueso.io](http://clueso.io)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ovz-clueso-product-videos-in-minutes-with-ai", "votes": 176, "created_at": "2025-12-01T08:07:54.511Z" }, { "id": 76665, "title": "Clueso: AI-powered product videos and documentation in minutes", "tagline": "Screen recording -> how-to articles crafted by AI and studio-quality videos with AI voiceovers ", "body": "### **TL;DR:**\n\n> Clueso helps teams create stunning product documentation in a fraction of the time.  Our tool converts simple screen recordings into comprehensive articles and kickass product videos. \n>\n> Clueso articles are crafted by AI and come with beautiful GIFs. \n>\n> To generate videos, Clueso lets you edit your script and swap your audio-track with a professional, natural-sounding AI voiceover. Videos also come with zoom- in effects, thumbnails, and custom branding – everything you need for a great video without any of the effort.\n\nHi everyone! We are Akash, Prajwal, and Neel, the team behind [Clueso](https://clueso.io/).\n\n## **🔴 The Problem**\n\nHigh quality educational content on products and processes isn’t a nice-to-have: it's a necessity. From knowledge base articles and feature launch videos to internal SOPs and employee training material, there's a constant need for videos and articles in any organization. \n\nBut creating this content is time-consuming and expensive:\n\n* Loom videos require several retakes to get the perfect output and, even so, don’t look professional or engaging enough.\n* If you’ve ever created documentation  for your product, you know how painful it is to capture screenshots and find the right words.\n\nAnd when a guide goes out-of-date, you need to put the same effort all over again!\n\n## **🟢 The Solution**\n\nClueso streamlines your entire workflow to create  product videos and documentation.\n\n**Creating User Guides**\n\nSimply capture a screen recording while talking through any feature or flow on your product. Clueso instantly gives you:\n\n* **Step-by-step articles:** Clueso snaps GIFs/screenshots, and AI drafts your guide automatically. No matter who captures the process, get a uniform tone across all articles. \\[[Check out a Clueso-generated article](https://www.clueso.io/features/help-articles)\\]\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76665&key=user_uploads/1156693/1bc55859-9389-4b24-a054-db1efba881ed)\n\n* **Engaging studio-quality videos:** Update transcripts on-the-fly, and regenerate your video instantly with natural-sounding AI voices. Incorporate zooming-in effects and branded intro, outro, and background elements at a single click. \\[[Watch a Clueso-generated video](https://www.clueso.io/features/video-tutorials)\\]\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76665&key=user_uploads/1156693/67d98602-2210-4f26-a668-13abd2ecd5cf)\n\n\n**Updating Content**\n\nWhen your product or process changes, simply re-record the updated flow and Clueso magically updates all related documentation. Don’t worry about swapping screenshots or explaining the same terms again. \n\n**Use Content Anywhere**\n\nContent created using Clueso can be exported anywhere or hosted on a Clueso powered help center or team workspaces.\n\n## **Our customers use us for creating…**\n\n1. how-to guides and videos for knowledge base\n2. SOPs for internal team training \n3. onboarding videos\n4. feature launch videos for landing pages and social media\n5. and sharing guides for ad-hoc customer queries\n\nBasically, anywhere you need videos or articles: Clueso has got your back.\n\n## **Our quick asks**\n\n* [Book a demo](https://calendly.com/clueso_intro/neel) with us if you want to learn more about Clueso and use it for creating product documentation, videos or a help center.\n* Refer us to anyone you know who’s on the lookout for a solution to improve their customer education or internal team training. Our inbox is always open [founders@clueso.io.](mailto:founders@clueso.io)\n* Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/clueso) or [Twitter](https://twitter.com/_Clueso) for new product updates and customer education best practices.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JwX-clueso-ai-powered-product-videos-and-documentation-in-minutes", "votes": 203, "created_at": "2023-12-05T06:46:46.430Z" }, { "id": 70052, "title": "🚀 Clueso : Create in-app tours that never go out-of-date", "tagline": "One screen recording → Help guides in three formats!", "body": "Hey there! We’re [Prajwal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/prajwalprakash2000), [Neel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/neelbalar7/), and [Akash](https://www.linkedin.com/in/theakashanand), and we are very excited to launch [Clueso](https://clueso.io) to all of you!\n\n**TL;DR:** Clueso helps customer success teams save time creating and maintaining help content for SaaS apps. Our product converts simple screen recordings of product features into interactive product tours and how-to guides that stay up-to-date with every product release. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70052&key=user_uploads/1159730/adc0642c-6d2c-44cd-b4e3-7e18691a78fe)\n\n### [**🔴**](https://emojipedia.org/large-red-circle/) **The Problem**\n\nUsers of SaaS apps have a hard time discovering new features and finding what they’re looking for, even on products with a well-designed UX.\n\nCreating help guides on tools like Intercom is time-consuming – you have to put together screenshots, write out instructions, and make everything look presentable. Making interactive tours is even more work.\n\nAnd what happens when you deploy new UI updates? All your hard work goes down the drain, and you have to start from scratch.\n\n### [**🟢**](https://emojipedia.org/large-green-circle/) **Our Solution**\n\nClueso lets you create help guides for product features in seconds rather than hours. Here’s how it works:\n\n**Step 1:** \n\nUse our chrome extension to capture a simple screen recording of some feature on your app. \n\n**Step 2:**\n\nThat’s it; you’re done! \n\nClueso automatically generates help guides in three formats: a document with screenshots, a video, and an interactive tour that points users to the exact buttons they need to click on your app.\n\n**Wanna see it in action?** Check out this 2-min demo: [Clueso Demo](https://www.loom.com/share/964797a5cf6c4582b5ffb5ccca662abf)\n\nTo serve all these guides to your users, **insert a single line of code** to add our help widget to your app. Your users’ experience looks something like this:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70052&key=user_uploads/1159730/182a84cf-6ce7-4f5b-aa2f-695a47b208a8)\n\n### 🤯 **But wait, there’s more!**\n\nNo more waiting for angry customers to come tell you your docs are out of date!\n\nWith every new update on your app, all guides are automatically tested. Outdated guides are flagged so that you know exactly which ones need to be reworked.\n\n### **Meet the team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70052&key=user_uploads/1159730/f606bc26-46b2-4218-af78-465829b49618)\n\nWe’re a team of recent grads from IIT Madras. Before Clueso, our team built and scaled [Desklamp](https://desklamp.io) – a note-taking tool for students and researchers – to 2k MAU from around the world. We experienced this problem first-hand with Desklamp, where our users would repeatedly email us similar questions about how to use the product. Prajwal (middle) has a bachelor’s in Computer Science, while Neel (left) and Akash (right) have a bachelor’s in Engineering Design and a master’s in Data Science. \n\n### **Our Ask**\n\n* If you’d like to give your users an interactive way to learn your app or discover new features, reach out to us at [founders@clueso.io](mailto:founders@clueso.io) or schedule a chat with us here: [calendly link](https://calendly.com/clueso/30min?month=2023-03).\n* If you know of someone else who may be interested, especially customer success managers at seed-stage+ start-ups, we’d love an intro!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IDs-clueso-create-in-app-tours-that-never-go-out-of-date", "votes": 191, "created_at": "2023-03-08T18:48:43.909Z" } ] }, { "id": 27983, "name": "Retape", "slug": "retape", "former_names": [ "Merse", "Baselit" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ae3ba43742d4dcd5a5ed43d8813d3cab2253bd1f.png", "website": "https://www.retape.ai/", "all_locations": "Bengaluru, KA, India; Remote", "long_description": "We're building an AI Operating System for DSCs. 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IIMK MBA '23.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rana-shubham/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/df097fa7152c36b0c538409433c601511db9fc98.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [] }, { "id": 27991, "name": "Coldreach", "slug": "coldreach", "former_names": [ "EasyJobs Inc.", "EasyJobs" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/01cfd7370853173c26a810e2aec87fd55f289393.png", "website": "https://coldreach.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Coldreach helps sales teams find ready-to-buy leads, by monitoring public signals *custom* to your product. \r\n\r\nFor example, it can find who's hiring their first accountant, so an accounting automation product can hit them with a targeted message at the right time. \r\n\r\nPublic data sources (job postings, news articles, 10-k reports, etc.) tell a lot about a company’s priorities and the problems it faces. 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Sales teams know who'd thank them for a cold email/call now, and can sound relevant without hrs of manual research. \r\n\r\nTypically, targeted outreach yields 2-8x higher booking rate compared to random outreach.\r\n\r\n\r\n**Example intent signals we track**:\r\n- Bookkeeping automation product: Monitor who starts to hire human to manually enter invoices\r\n- Compliance product: Monitor who recently onboarded a new Compliance Analyst\r\n- CRM integrations: Monitor who starts to hire engineers experienced in Salesforce API.", "one_liner": "Find the best leads with custom intent signals", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Sales", "launched_at": 1677033188, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "SaaS", "B2B", "Sales", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Sales" ], "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": [ { "question": "How did your company get started? 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Founder of Coldreach and EasyJobs. \n\nI built up a working outbound machine from scratch for 2 of my startups, and helped 50+ sales teams book meetings consistently from outbound. \n\nIf you want to chat about outbound, sales tactics, or startups, feel free to grab a time: https://calendly.com/shen-xiaohan/30min", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/xiaohan-shen1/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/853aa2385135d24da13f80d75953010c0b03c895.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1165112, "full_name": "Hankel Bao", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Hankel is the CTO of Coldreach and ex-CTO of EasyJobs. He has extensive experiences in NLP and abstractions.\n\nHankel is enthusiastic in beautiful solution to hard problems. He started coding at 9, and developed an operating system in middle school. With that passion, he led the dev team to create the most intelligent solution to job applications at EasyJobs.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/hankel-bao-0a0149208/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/96bae2cbf4893cfbd0b2dec171fba8684e4644c5.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 80525, "title": "Coldreach: Find ready-to-buy leads by monitoring custom signals", "tagline": "Helping B2B companies find who need their help, before the competition does", "body": "_TL;DR - _[_Coldreach_](https://coldreach.ai?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=yc-launch&utm_campaign=YC+launch)_ finds the best leads at the right time by watching public signals, customized to your product. For example, it can find companies hiring their first accountant, so an accounting automation solution can hit them with a targeted message at the right time._\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n[⭐ Get a FREE list of high-intent companies today ⭐](https://airtable.com/app6J50ppnP1E86QV/pagToOMvuy00fPqNt/form)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80525&key=user_uploads/89898/02130ffb-d417-489d-99be-c26a38fa520c)\n\nHey everyone! We’re Shen and Hankel. We’re 2x founders who closely helped 40+ outbound sales teams last year. The biggest problem we see SDRs face is they waste >80% of their time spamming people who don’t care. We’re on a mission to change this at Coldreach. \n\n### 🤯 The problem 🤯\n\nB2B outbound is broken: Mass emailing no longer works. Conversion rates are low even with personalization. \n\n**The real problem is you can’t sell to someone who doesn't need help, even with the perfect message in the world.** \n\nMost teams waste >85% of time reaching out to the wrong people and have no time to focus on getting the attention of those who need their product. \n\n### 🟩 Our solution 🟩\n\nPublic data sources (job postings, news articles, 10-k reports, etc.) tell a lot about a company’s priorities and the problems it faces. \n\nLuckily, AI is great at screening through them to find who faces a relevant problem you solve today and why. \n\n**How it works:** \n\n1. Identify relevant signals that indicate buying intent\n2. AI agent starts monitoring the signal in your ICP market, 24/7\n3. Get a list of leads ready to buy today, updated daily\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/D4Zk6kyFEf0Xoj3ROgBX_U-2zi-hV4HaSrOaX9Od_CPzsrHXX93-o3RVFwW7xSR5sPOL6PDUY5xMdgQnyVnzj9A6T7PDKtLcfn7k20_dhASZq65BSMHFBPiGg7iq74UeONH2ZVsiy2PbKlg8OpBDjDg)\n\nAllison, ex-Senior SDR at Instawork (1,500+ employees), said:\n\n_“Coldreach found me the best accounts with hiring signals! I had the most qualified demos completed for Q4 out of 80 reps, while making almost the least number of calls, because I went after the right accounts and knew exactly what to say.”_\n\n**Example signals our customers tracked:** \n\n* **AP automation product**: Find companies hiring roles to process accounts payables, currently using Quickbooks\n* **Compliance product**: Find companies that recently onboarded a new Compliance Analyst\n* **CRM integration**: Find companies hiring engineers with experience in Salesforce APIs\n\n### The ask:\n\n* Want to track a public intent signal? We’ll [find you a list of high-intent companies for free.](https://airtable.com/app6J50ppnP1E86QV/pagToOMvuy00fPqNt/form) (first come, first serve)\n* Doing outbound but not sure if there’s a good public intent signal to find your buyers? [Chat with Shen](https://calendly.com/shen-xiaohan/15-minute). It isn’t always obvious!\n* If you know someone who could really use this, we’d love an intro! Please message Shen on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/xiaohan-shen1/) or [shen@coldreach.ai](mailto:shen@coldreach.ai). Referral discount available.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Kwn-coldreach-find-ready-to-buy-leads-by-monitoring-custom-signals", "votes": 100, "created_at": "2024-04-30T17:28:47.566Z" }, { "id": 73239, "title": "🦾 Coldreach - Personalized prospecting at scale, tailored to your needs", "tagline": "Generate 2-5x more pipelines by researching your prospects and personalizing every cold email auto-magically, exactly in the way you need. ", "body": "### **Tl;dr**\n\nWe make it easy for sales reps to reach many more **qualified** **prospects**, without sacrificing **hyper-personalization**. A prospecting bot conducts prospect research on aspects sales reps care about and personalizes emails in the way they need. \n\nHey everyone! We are Shen and Hankel aka the team behind Coldreach.\n\n![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/MjyaZpGvltrsSs0ixus0dl1Yj4Kp6crAFBOh45wmdj941cuhaMYAck8PMAbQqtVXNhHIo-1JpJtSMmII4dvrqsCH8l4_tlLzye-qwKdrF1HhonZ1RNCvshyOtxmYuHMUrNxfu6sSDJ4XZHubmrL6kJg)\n\n### **👪 Who is it for**\n\nAre your sales reps:\n\n\\- spending a lot of time on **prospect research** and **personalizing emails** \n\nOR \n\n\\- not spending enough time on that? \n\nThen Coldreach is for your team. \n\n### **🧨 The Problem**\n\nSales reps face a dilemma today: **quality vs. quantity**. \n\nTake our friend Sam as an example. He is an SDR at a B2B company. He researches prospects thoroughly and personalizes every message. As a result, he gets a great reply rate, but he spends so much time on every prospect that he couldn’t reach out to a lot of people. To generate more pipelines, Sam tries to “spray and pray” a little bit - he created a sequence of templated emails and added 300 leads onto it, but got zero conversion. \n\nReps like Sam are forced to find a **balance between quantity and quality**, which often distinguishes the best-performing reps from the rest. \n\n### **💡 Our solution**\n\nWe automate prospect research and email personalization, allowing sales reps to have the best of both worlds and reach many more prospects with hyper-personalization. \n\nNo one knows better than your sales team how to prospect effectively, and certainly not an AI. So we allow you to **customize your own prospecting bot**:\n\nSpecify what you’re looking for in prospects or accounts.\n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/NkZhfTa8P0rYV-iogDy5FIJJQdIcMGp-wUusr1lL8QkXmmnG7gU6DW1j0g2u89px2USJMkZ6ZAhUhuU7oW9yZvWZ1YCI9mXTxZZscFRKyoTTurSLgxPawPC9BQ5MovBcahANSae9Xzd1I1z_t2gN3f0)\n\nOur AI answers your questions based on real-time data from different sources. \n\n![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/IT1A9FDcMDNJNqMaEI0JzyBr0RAm25mI6yMFjnRn2NBpbWKSDEOoLB_FViN3ZcwM0JuuFBjeTIeyzcCM9z3Izq6IL2wTrY6HuhdM1Qp_0u4kXpdrFeKZnZWmtxxy0v13er_GG0YvXjDF3Z_GvEt5TyM)\n\nImport your prospect list, research prospects and quickly qualify/disqualify. \n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/ORhMQ6kPxSM8DznlwDez-y1vHz4DzH1WrV-kuup7RusjHUDFlhtvFmzdS4-ND9W2QMmuOC3ZYQ9744ltrwDeBC8NkE5nbEPKQDMGNx7hVnvLdbe_FmvIUQvI2nyQ0Ct0fz8jgVID912S8IqA-qZ9tXk)\n\nEasily customize how you want your emails to be personalized. In one click, generate hundreds of personalized emails based on research and start your sequence. \n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/DRGM8Z19PxQZ7KqfBfsR3hTbl1MMb4YFMJMz2hYMl2v0AkYQ21iRDJyuXSjXkEEgzgkd3egUrkg8a3nIoZbYsvhscu-E3cB8dQO1LIcfZzmOjon0Cj64-VPujirI2MK8AXKId82vvbbztdskt2uEFm4)\n\n### **🙏🏻 Our Ask**\n\nWanna try it out? Fill out this [form](https://airtable.com/shrXtHfPE8dHfSIQG) (\\~1 min) and we will be in touch! \n\nConnect us to sales leaders in your network: Connect with [Shen on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/xiaohan-shen1/) or drop a line to [shen@coldreach.ai](mailto:shen@coldreach.ai) - We love intros!\n\nInvestors: please reach out to [shen@coldreach.ai](mailto:shen@coldreach.ai)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J3H-coldreach-personalized-prospecting-at-scale-tailored-to-your-needs", "votes": 52, "created_at": "2023-07-19T19:41:50.168Z" }, { "id": 70656, "title": "✍️ Coldreach: Automate sales email personalization for 10x conversions", "tagline": "We make every email to your prospects personalized auto-magically, so you get more meetings booked and deals closed. ", "body": "**Tl;dr**\n\nSales reps can teach AI how to personalize sales emails **the way they want** in 5 minutes, and our AI writes and sends personalized emails for every prospect on autopilot, resulting in both higher conversion and much more emails sent per day. \n\nHi! We are Shen and Hankel - the team behind Coldreach.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70656&key=user_uploads/984968/3a9fe46c-225e-4641-8432-0df8f1287d73)\n\n### **👪 Who is it for**\n\nIs your sales team:\n\n\\- spending a lot of time writing sales emails? \n\n\\- running templated email sequences that few people respond to? \n\n\\- struggling to train good SDRs?\n\n\\- finding it hard to write follow-up emails after meetings?\n\nThen Coldreach is for you. \n\n### **🧨 The Problem**\n\nTemplated emails get no attention and land in spam, because so many people are spamming. \n\nPersonalization pays off, but it takes a lot of training to do it well, and takes >5 mins to research and write every email. \n\n# 💡 Our solution\n\n**AI-powered templates** - instead of only replacing names on emails, Coldreach researches the prospect and fill in personalized information intelligently!\n\nFor example:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70656&key=user_uploads/984968/4e5912b7-35ae-4c1d-8c92-d262a0be07b3)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70656&key=user_uploads/984968/e06a982b-3c52-4707-ab0d-7466fa9edd20)\n\nFor every template, tweak the email for a few prospects manually, and the AI **learns from your tweaks to write the way you want**! \n\nImport lead list from your favorite engagement platform or CRM easily, and start **sending personalized emails to everyone automatically** using your AI-powered templates. \n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ZjsTytIbwS2ndQ5HDmd-AKq-784e-l0J4yTJaGfohtlppzdDWFRd6hhG8A6UWDnj_EargCGuYoHrK1gQtk7pkJHjHGuONnRFjpoIYIIYpCguSnPjuamUTzcvzRxsMGpFTnwInmR3C-IYpvBFGc7URT4)\n\nColdreach focuses on driving **scalable outbound sales**, but can also be applied on other forms of email interactions with prospects, regardless of inbound/outbound or cold/warm. \n\n# **💪 Why we built Coldreach!**\n\nWe built another startup also around LLMs, during which we wrote over 1,000 personalized sales emails for our outbound, so we know it converts, but hard to do at scale. \n\nThus, we decided to apply our expertise in writing sales emails and LLMs to solve this problem for other B2B companies struggling with it! \n\n# **🙏🏻 Our Ask**\n\nWant to use the product? Please fill out this [form](https://airtable.com/shrXtHfPE8dHfSIQG) (takes <1 min) and we will reach out! \n\nInvestor interested in investing? Please reach out to [shen@coldreach.ai](mailto:shen@coldreach.ai) to book a call!\n\nIf you know sales leaders or senior sales reps who may be interested, drop us a line at [founders@coldreach.ai](mailto:founders@coldreach.ai). We love intros!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/INc-coldreach-automate-sales-email-personalization-for-10x-conversions", "votes": 67, "created_at": "2023-03-30T21:18:18.123Z" } ] }, { "id": 28006, "name": "Mantys", "slug": "mantys", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ab148653f771ae83b42b2726259e7e2be8e1e60a.png", "website": "https://www.mantys.io/", "all_locations": "Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates", "long_description": "Mantys builds AI agents that automate healthcare and insurance operations. 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If you struggle to know what your contracted, live and realised ARR are at given point of time or need to go through a lot of manual effort to reach there, we can help you.\n\n**Problem:**\n\nAs companies grow, revenue is not just revenue, it is Contracted ARR, Live ARR, Realised ARR, Churn, expansion, etc. and it becomes increasingly difficult to keep a track of them due to:\n\n* **Data sitting in disparate locations:** Contracted ARR sits in CRM(Salesforce/Hubspot), Billed ARR sits in a billing software(Stripe, Chargebee), Churn sits in CS software(Gainsight) or Excel sheets, so on and so forth.\n* **Most of the tracking ends up happening in Google/Excel sheets** which leads to dependency on individuals, high chance of errors and inability to handle multi-dimensional data\n* **Difficult to forecast complex business models:** SaaS has matured and there are complex pricing models like usage based, hybrid emerging which makes customer level forecasting even more difficult.\n\nAs a result, founders/CFOs are not able to answer fundamental questions like what their ARR is, how much is actually realised, what is the onboarding cycle, how will it impact cash flow etc. at any given point of time leading to governance issues and lack of actionable insights. **It takes them 5-7 days every month to just compute revenue metrics.**\n\n![Twitter 上的Chetan Puttagunta：\"There's ARR and then there's ARR https://t.co/XMKKkooAsM\" / Twitter](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E34eGfvUUAADQ6C.jpg)\n\n**The solution**\n\nMantys helps SaaS companies calculate and forecast their ARR accurately in real time without using multiple spreadsheets. For example, NextBillion uses Mantys to pull data from HubSpot and Chargebee and create real-time views of their Contracted ARR, Billed ARR, Churn, and forecasted ARR.\n\nWe enable them to:\n\n* **Establish a single source of truth and automate processes:** Integrate with CRM, Accounting and Billing software to get real time visibility of your Contracted ARR, Billed ARR, Realised ARR, Unearned ARR, Expansion, Contraction, Churn, etc., broken down at customer & cohort level and use the data cleaning layer to reduce 80% of manual effort\n* **Get actionable insights and take corrective action faster:** Know the exact cycle between Contracted to Billed to Realised and reasons for discrepancies for different dimensions like time period, region, industry, etc,. and take actions preemptively to avoid accidents\n* **Simulate different what-if scenarios in minutes and forecast:** Build different scenarios to see how Bookings will translate into billing and cash flow and forecast at a customer/cohort level taking into consideration both revenue and usage data\n\n**We know every business is complex and has it nuances. We have however, solved this problem for multiple Series A+ SaaS companies like MoEngage, Locus, etc. and have identified patterns for data cleaning and transformation across businesses. And we know how to handle them.**\n\n* Recording Unbilled or unearned entries? Just enter on the system\n* Usage based revenue? Integrate your usage data\n* Don’t have a common identifier across systems? We can handle it.\n* Multiple entity or currency issues? Don’t worry, we will convert it.\n\nAnd we provide best-in-class templates which help SaaS startups get up and running in days with very minimal effort involved from their end.\n\n**Our ask:**\n\n* Have trouble figuring out your ARR lifecycle? Schedule time to chat here: \n* If you know any growth stage SaaS company who might be a fit, please introduce us.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IL2-mantys-arr-reporting-and-forecasting-tool-for-saas-companies", "votes": 71, "created_at": "2023-03-23T15:07:20.443Z" }, { "id": 68546, "title": "Mantys - Modern day business planning & analytics tool for SaaS startups! 🚀", "tagline": "Helps companies take real-time data-backed decisions and plan growth scenarios.", "body": "👋🏼 Hello! We are Mantys and we are a Business Planning & Analytics tool with a focus on helping SaaS startups get **real-time visibility of their ARR Cycle**. If you struggle to know what your contracted, live and realised ARR are at given point of time or need to go through a lot of manual effort to reach there, we can help you.\n\n**The Problem** \\\nAs companies grow, It becomes increasingly difficult to track and forecast their Contracted ARR, Live ARR, Realised ARR, Churn, expansion, etc. due to:\n\n* **Data sitting in disparate locations:** Contracted ARR sits in CRM(Salesforce/Hubspot), Billed ARR sits in a billing software(Stripe, Chargebee), Churn sits in CS software(Gainsight) or Excel sheets, so on and so forth.\n\n\n* **Most of the tracking ends up happening in Google/Excel sheets** which leads to dependency on individuals, high chance of errors and inability to handle multi-dimensional data\n\nAs a result, founders/CFOs are not able to answer fundamental questions like what their ARR is, how much is actually realised, what is the onboarding cycle, how will it impact cash flow etc. at any given point of time leading to governance issues and lack of actionable insights.\n\n\\\n**The Solution**\\\nThus, we are building Mantys, a SaaS platform that helps companies:\n\n* **Get and track all their real-time data** – including financial and business metrics – in one place, simulate different scenarios, get insights faster, and be empowered to plan for the future.\n* Integrate with varying sources of data (like CRM, Accounting tools, etc.) and **automate the manual processes**/grunt work (reduce the time taken to generate reports and metrics by atleast 60%):\n* **Get access to best-in-class planning and analysis templates** to reduce the onboarding time to hours than months\n\nWe know every business is complex and has it nuances. We have however, solved this problem for multiple Series A+ SaaS companies like MoEngage, Locus, etc. and have identified patterns for data cleaning and transformation across businesses. And we know how to handle them.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68546&key=user_uploads/770036/8670ac5e-9582-422d-a086-922d5d9b259e)\n\n**Who we are**\n\nKriti worked with a growth-stage VC fund in the past and helped a lot of portfolio companies build their MIS and plans and Mudit worked on creating data pipelines and parsers at DE Shaw.\\\nWe have the required domain expertise and skills to be able to solve this problem.\\\n\\\n**Ask:**\n\nIf you are interested or know any Series A+, $6-7Mn ARR+ SaaS companies who are facing a similar challenge, we would love to talk. You can email us at [kriti@mantys.io](mailto:kriti@mantys.io) and [mudit@mantys.io](mailto:mudit@mantys.io)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hpa-mantys-modern-day-business-planning-analytics-tool-for-saas-startups", "votes": 114, "created_at": "2023-01-19T10:23:27.549Z" } ] }, { "id": 28007, "name": "Milio", "slug": "milio", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b20ca0d6ea153d334a9f63f5b2c7e991839b0369.png", "website": "http://www.miliopay.com", "all_locations": "Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia", "long_description": "Milio is a fully interoperable and immediate payment system for Colombia through a single API connected to millions of accounts. Milio allows companies to perform payable and receivable in real time without ACH rails.\r\n\r\nWe provide our solution through two Plug and Play integrations:\r\n\r\nPID payment button:\r\nEnd-to-end, white label, native, non-redirection payment technology for your customers to pay you account-to-account more efficiently than PSE, without heavy and inefficient ACH cycles and fixed rates.\r\n\r\nTechnology: API, SDK, Checkout UI.\r\n\r\nImmediate disbursement:\r\nSingle API connection to all banks, allowing any company or person to disburse 24/7, in real-time, with immediate crediting of funds to third parties at any bank or digital wallet.\r\n\r\nTechnology: API, Dashboard UI.", "one_liner": "B2B-2C real-time account to account payments", "team_size": 16, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech", "launched_at": 1673542221, "tags": [ "Fintech", "SaaS", "Payments", "B2B" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech" ], "regions": [ "Colombia", "Latin America", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": true, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/milio", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/milio.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Bogotá", "country": "CO", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/miliopay/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/milio-393b", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b20ca0d6ea153d334a9f63f5b2c7e991839b0369.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/video_event/60/1680799135436-tyh0f5mrzt-de7511999ed7641c9bcd403305b64755/1b09459c9210f24c013b7a840e95a33b.mp4?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAQC4NIECABPQ2AHNW%2F20261020%2Fus-west-2%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20261020T022712Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=ffdec85869a688172eac56ae4eb9062fb4d24cfd158205fdd9b0f95d931e1fbe", "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/b20bb1ba0e9203f20c1a1bf33ed0550679acab62.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 627782, "full_name": "Toni Riera", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Operator and investor with 10+ years scaling fintechs and marketplaces across LatAm, Europe, and the US. Co-founder of Milio (YC W23, B2B payments and treasury SaaS). Previously at SumUp (Director Expansion LatAm), Uber (GM Delivery, Andean Region), and BCG (Consultant, Financial Services & GTM). ", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/triera/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/df194b0a0456f9b1a79a86d50b121b0e908fa7eb.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1159255, "full_name": "Daniel Gomez", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Product Manager and Strategist, UX freak, and Project Manager. Passionate about building digital projects from the ground up across different industries, including Fintech, Mobility and Healthcare. I'm currently building a comprehensive lending and payments infrastructure solution for the B2B commerce in Latin America. When I'm not designing prototypes and workflows, I love skateboarding and spending time at the beach with my daughter.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-gómez-86954a58/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d04cb164083c06fc0c9200671f69cbd5a4df379b.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1159270, "full_name": "Juan Luis Perez E", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CEO at Milio", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/juan-luis-perez-escobar-079869104", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ac98b7b340ad43371fb25e61b6cb2d2bf91af85b.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 69870, "title": "Milio - B2B payments infrastructure for emerging markets", "tagline": "Milio is building B2B payments infrastructure for emerging markets, domestic and cross-border, with an embedded B2B-commerce checkout. Real-time and saving up to 80% of transaction costs.", "body": "**TL;DR:** Milio is building **B2B payments infrastructure for emerging markets, domestic and cross-border**, and connecting it to legacy ERPs through one single API. Milio's platform allows faster money movements, real-time access to data, and treasury automations through efficient workflows and seamless account-to-account domestic and cross-border payments. Real-time and 80% cheaper.\n\n### **The problem**\n\nIn Latin America, **legacy B2B payments infrastructure** doesn’t allow automated transaction initiation and costs up to 3% through local ACH networks and credit card processing fees. Cross-border payments rails are expensive and inefficient, with up to 5% FX spreads. \n\nIn addition, **no single checkout is built for the B2B-commerce**; and legacy **ERPs are siloed from the payments infrastructure**, involving long treasury workflows and over 20h/week in manual work.\n\n### **Milio’s solution 💡**\n\nMilio enables real-time **B2B account-to-account payments, both domestic and cross-border**, that are **real-time** and save up to 80% of transactions cost and FX rates. Our API provides an **embedded checkout for B2B-commerce** and connects it to legacy ERPs, enabling automated treasury workflows that save our customers over 10h per week in manual work.\n\nOur customers can now access affordable money movements, real-time data, and a **unique B2B checkout experience** that increases conversion rate by 2x. \n\n### **How does Milio work? ✅**\n\nMilio is building an account-to-account payments infrastructure across all of Latin America, both domestic and cross-border, that enables real-time payments (T+0) and the best B2B checkout experience. Our customers can automate how they pay, get paid, and reconcile their ledger, saving up to 80% in transaction costs and over 10h per week in manual work.\n\nThey can also offer the best checkout experience to their business customers by enabling account-to-account one-click real-time payments at checkout, designed explicitly for B2B transactions, increasing conversion rates by 2x.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69870&key=user_uploads/627782/948bba8a-dbe6-4e7e-ac5e-6e4f51024772)\n\n### **Why are we working on this?**\n\nExchanging money and accessing premium financial services for local enterprises in LatAm is a nightmare. This is experienced every day by business owners across the region, including the co-founders who have spent time working for large payment fintechs and owning SMBs across the region. We firmly believe that helping those local enterprises and entrepreneurs ­means helping any economy to thrive and grow to its maximum potential. We are committed to solving this problem.  **💥** **Milio was the first Milio client! 💥**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69870&key=user_uploads/627782/5c6ed840-bc0b-4fa3-a0fe-b7986a0056fd)\n\n### **Our ask 🙏🏻**\n\n* **Please contact us at**: [founders@miliopay.com](mailto:founders@miliopay.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IAw-milio-b2b-payments-infrastructure-for-emerging-markets", "votes": 390, "created_at": "2023-03-02T15:10:58.102Z" } ] }, { "id": 28018, "name": "Sanvivo", "slug": "sanvivo", "former_names": [ "Sanvivo GmbH", "Sanvivo", "Sanvivo GmbH" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2ccaf529126f9d95946ed5ba74aa3dd498334a60.png", "website": "http://www.sanvivo.eu", "all_locations": "Munich, BY, Germany", "long_description": "Sanvivo builds a multisided platform to enable customers to order medications, get pharmaceutical advice, and book health services at local pharmacies in Europe. Just like Shopify for pharmacies.\r\n\r\nSanvivo gives pharmacies software to take, fill and schedule delivery for online orders. We also bring instant demand through integrations with 3rd party consumer delivery companies.\r\n\r\nAlmost all pharmacies in Europe are, by law, local 1-person businesses. And they are not ready for online orders. 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Local pharmacies receive these orders in their Point-of-Sale (POS) systems and communicate with the patient via chat.\n\nVivoly is beneficial, especially for patients with difficulty leaving their homes due to mobility issues or underlying health conditions that make them more vulnerable to infection. The risk of transmission is reduced by allowing patients to order medications online and deliver them directly to their doorstep.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68308&key=user_uploads/1159560/c176ffba-7dc7-42f1-a4f0-857fec190e86)\n\n\\\n**⚙ How it works**\\\nIn most European countries, franchising is not allowed for pharmacies. Just like individual restaurants, pharmacies in Europe are one-person businesses. Without any state-of-the-art e-commerce solutions, it is tough for local pharmacies to compete with mail-order-pharmacies. This is true even though local pharmacies offer a much faster patient supply.\n\nIn Germany alone, there are over 120M deliveries done per year by pharmacies. Those are done without any digital process and are managed mostly manually. Compared to most retailers, pharmacies typically have real-time inventory management.\n\nSanvivo builds a marketplace that unlocks this existing infrastructure and delivery capabilities to enable a fast “quick-commerce” user experience. With our App, [VIVOLY,](https://onelink.to/vivolylaunchyc) patients order medication and get pharmaceutical advice via chat. Pharmacies are enabled to process those orders through our web app. Then, ready-to-pick-up orders are delivered by riders of the pharmacy using our mobile rider app.\n\n\\\n**🙏 Asks**\n\n* Download our app (currently only in Germany) and share your feedback with us ([founders@sanvivo.eu](mailto:founders@sanvivo.eu))\n\n### [Download VIVOLY App](https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1634607276?pt=125264050&ct=bookfacee&mt=8)\n\n* If you know great **working students** with coding, online marketing, or sales skills, please let us know.\n* **We are open to connecting** and cooperating with health providers.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hlk-sanvivo-doordash-for-pharmacies", "votes": 23, "created_at": "2023-01-10T12:22:21.191Z" } ] }, { "id": 28070, "name": "Clad", "slug": "clad", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5ab0e3d7b0de12617818a986b541a5e524c146ae.png", "website": "https://withclad.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Clad is project management and billing software for infrastructure.\r\n\r\nThe world is rebuilding its internet and power networks. The utilities, internet companies, and contractors tasked with this work face immense pressure to deliver.\r\n\r\nBut their tools haven’t caught up. Contractors struggle to grow, constrained by cashflow. Operators fly blind, lacking real time visibility into issues. \r\n\r\nClad unifies project operations and finance to automate project tracking, payments, and permitting.\r\n\r\nWith Clad, contractors grow faster and improve their margins. Operators execute smoothly. 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This is to make sure the contractor digs safely - that they won’t hit a gas pipe, for example.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93588&key=user_uploads/448610/eb053624-67ff-4b07-8abf-d10ece228cb4)\n\nFor contractors, handling these tickets is critically important, but a pain:\n\n1. Submitting tickets takes a lot of time and distracts project managers from higher value work.\n2. Making sure tickets don’t expire is also necessary, so contractors avoid a ‘down day’ (a day where they can’t work, due to an expired 811 request). \n\nWith 43M tickets submitted last year by tens of thousands of contractors, this is not a small problem.\n\nSo we decided to fix it.\n\n### We’ve made handling locates a breeze for contractors\n\nhttps://youtu.be/Y04NyOXGt2o\n\nWe built Clad Locates to make it fast and easy to submit and track 811 tickets.\n\n1. **AI-driven narratives -** We use AI to eliminate the most time consuming part of submitting a ticket, writing a ‘narrative,’ (to describe the path that a contractor will excavate.\n2. **Bulk Submission -** Clad connects with the state 811 systems to submit tickets automatically, 1 ticket at a time or 15 all at once.\n3. **Automated Tracking -** We get data from the state 811 systems to build an automated automated tracker to monitor when areas are ready to dig, and when tickets will be expiring.\n4. **Expiration Notifications** - To prevent ‘down days,’ Clad notifies contractors when tickets are expiring and need to be renewed. Soon, contractors will be able to renew tickets directly from Clad. \n\n### Join our waitlist and reach out!\n\nReach out to us at jason@withclad.com, or sign up on our [website](https://www.withclad.com/locates/overview) to learn more.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OLU-clad-locates-ai-for-infrastructure-contractors", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2025-09-04T19:23:52.719Z" }, { "id": 69535, "title": "Clad - Software to manage telecom subcontractors", "tagline": "We help telecom companies lay fiber faster with software to bid, manage, and pay their construction subcontractors.", "body": "> _tl;dr:_ [_Clad_](https://www.withclad.com?utm_source=launch_yc&utm_medium=link_in_post&utm_campaign=022223_launchyc) _is a subcontractor management platform. We help telecom companies construct their networks faster, cheaper, and with fewer costly issues. Clad does this by streamlining everything from bidding through payments, all in one system._ \n\n> _Know anyone who works at a telco or data center?_ [_Reach out_](mailto:jason@withclad.com)_!_\n\n### The Problem\n\nDemand for high speed internet is accelerating, driven by the rise of remote work alongside new public and private investment. As a result, ISPs, data centers, and other operators are rapidly expanding their networks. \n\nTelcos rely on contractors to get this construction done. And with the rapid growth in deployments, there’s more need for them than ever before. As a result, telcos are struggling to find and retain enough high quality contractors, putting budgets and timelines at risk.\n\nIt’s no surprise telcos are having a tough time - the way they work with their subcontractors is broken at every step of construction:\n\n![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/T6CNj3VYdBdETF7lwV9IKA95DtBujw8pMwGmLEi3qpbrgmZidTyIJwn-NEh1WiEjORDd6hCEmT7L6cKdGhuDOjE7EcBcb_WOQciZj0f9Fwbc2j6Y-8Abh8TomWsj7ScYzKpt7qyqKi8BZbo_Va3cByQ)\n\n### Enter: Clad\n\nClad is a subcontractor management platform tailor-made for telecom construction. We streamline how telecom companies bid out and qualify subcontractors, track construction progress, and create, approve, and pay invoices too.\n\nOur entire goal is to eliminate the time consuming back-office functions that come from working with subcontractors. \n\nCurious how? Take a look 👇\n\nWith Clad, telcos get out of email and spreadsheets - speeding projects up, saving money, and getting the insights to improve construction over time:\n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ZFyNTkN1ZWfSZ60KsUFm_ibKme0xQLMg600PJ1dR0nF3_sjSrhFZQyCw6jHCP6QOJX85VotA6K2sbE0u-mN6-FlJt-XlcrXmYAiOGXnmP34rvHK8nIoThCUeV6UumCuj3Rh0iGlg-Y4xq-CgTz_Yj7U)\n\n_I’m_ [_Jason_](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonrudin/)_, and I started Clad because growing up, I saw first-hand how time consuming and painful it can be to work with subcontractors. When I was younger, my mom worked at a telco. I’d regularly hear stories about projects that were delayed or over budget because of miscommunications or errors with contractors. Last year I met two friends in telco who were complaining about the same problems as my mom. Hearing that, I dug in to learn more, and was shocked to learn that not much had changed in the decades since then. 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On average, engineering teams have more than five tools that generate alerts.\n* Using proprietary vendor alerting/monitoring products locks you into the vendor, making it extremely challenging and time-consuming to migrate at a later stage.\n* Vendors today require you to send/integrate all your data, which is a big overhead when all you want to do is simple alerting.\n\n**🚨 Why Keep?**\n\n1. Simple and intuitive (GitHub actions-like) syntax.\n2. Declarative alerting that easily be managed and versioned in your source control and service repository.\n3. Alerts from multiple data sources for added context and insights.\n4. Freedom from vendor lock-in, making it easier to switch to a different observability tool if and when needed.\n\n💻 **Demo**\n\nPlay with Keep using our [Platform](https://platform.keephq.dev/)\\\n\\\n**🙏 Asks**\n\nTry out Keep and share your feedback on how it can be improved. Here’s our GitHub repo - \n\nHave any questions? 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Drop us a line at [founders@swishjam.com](mailto:founders@swishjam.com) and we’ll get you up and running in a few clicks.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KF0-revenue-analytics-by-swishjam-connect-your-product-usage-data-to-revenue", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2024-01-24T15:34:14.849Z" }, { "id": 70623, "title": "Swishjam - Open-source suite of page speed optimization tools", "tagline": "We help companies measure, monitor, and optimize their page speed to deliver best in class experiences to their users.", "body": "Hey all - Collin here, co-founder of Swishjam.\n\n[Swishjam](https://www.swishjam.com) is a suite of [open-source](https://www.github.com/swishjam/swishjam) tools that enables companies to deliver the best experience to their users by providing them with the tools they need to measure, monitor, and optimize their page speed.\n\n**Page speed really, really matters**\n\nPage speed is one of the most important yet overlooked metrics to delivering the best experience to _all_ of your users. 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Our dashboards help you make sense of your overall page speed, and provides you with actionable insights and tooling to improve.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70623&key=user_uploads/622150/fba9b8fe-a743-4318-abdd-79efe6954328)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70623&key=user_uploads/622150/4bebf3e3-89f4-466d-95db-391c1359feae)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70623&key=user_uploads/622150/1319cc5c-129a-4663-b194-61fc999f5da4)\n\n**Want to learn more?**\n\nIf you or someone you know works in eCommerce, digital media, or a related industry where page speed is important KPI, we’d love any intros! 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Previously, he was co-founder of RJMetrics (acquired by Magento, then Adobe) and Stitch (acquired by Talend). \n\nBefore RJMetrics, Jake worked in venture capital, started a landscaping business in high school, and was the 44th ranked table tennis player under 21 in New Jersey; achievements of which he is equally proud.\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakestein/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/jakestein", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/fe4eced33a0dc54b656cc2b6bcf6ac89f87d8730.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Common Paper's founders are halfway through Y Combinator's winter cohort. 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[Gerri is built for everyone with a stake in getting a deal signed.](https://www.getgerri.ai/) \n\n2 minute intro:[ youtube.com/watch?v=QL4nIETkZnY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL4nIETkZnY) \n\n3 minute demo:[ loom.com/share/ac7906243ce340159797af888488cb6b](https://www.loom.com/share/ac7906243ce340159797af888488cb6b)\n\n**Background:**\n\nMore than 10,000 companies have used Common Paper to close deals over the past few years. While the standards have helped, we keep hearing how painful the redline process is. The root cause is that contract negotiation is a team sport, but most tools are built for one player.\n\nMost teams end up in one of two camps:\n\n* Every redline goes to the attorney, which is expensive and slows deals down\n* Redlines get triaged first, usually by someone in sales or ops, and contracts are one of 10 things they have on their plate\n\nWhat's missing is a system where AI does the first read, loops in the right people when needed, and pulls all of their feedback into a new draft that can be sent back to the other side. \n\nThat's Gerri.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99518&key=user_uploads/71220/c7e0519b-5c7b-46d2-8456-3ecbb0a4b5b4)\n\n\n**How it works:**\n\nContracts get into Gerri three ways: upload, forwarded email, or direct inbox scanning. From there:\n\n* Gerri reads every redline against your playbook and automatically accepts, rejects, or counterproposes anything it can handle\n* Anything outside the playbook gets routed to the right person. That might be legal for indemnity questions, finance for payment terms, VP of Sales for commercial terms, etc.\n* Every AI decision cites the specific playbook rule behind it; every human override is logged\n* Gerri edits the Word doc directly and can add comments in your name, explaining the reasoning to the other side\n\nGerri typically reviews contracts before you even know they've arrived. You'll open your inbox, see a contract, and find it's already been handled.\n\n**What's new in 2.0:**\n\n* 10X faster processing engine. 90% of contracts reviewed in under 3 minutes.\n* Any contract type: your paper, their paper, standard or custom agreements\n* Personality Settings: set custom instructions that guide Gerri's behavior across all contracts, without editing individual playbook rules\n* Template Improvement: Gerri analyzes your negotiation history and suggests changes to your outgoing templates that proactively reduce future redlines. The more you use it, the smarter your paper gets.\n* Optional attorney review add-on: flat fee, 4-hour turnaround guarantee, for when you need a human in the loop\n* Available as a standalone product at [getgerri.ai](http://getgerri.ai)  - No other Common Paper subscription required\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99518&key=user_uploads/71220/304536b5-ce30-400e-8036-e43eb4c63ce3)\n\nTry it free at [getgerri.ai](http://getgerri.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pt8-gerri-2-0-the-ai-agent-for-contracts-from-common-paper", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2026-04-07T16:48:35.875Z" }, { "id": 94771, "title": "Gerri - The AI Agent for Contract Redlines", "tagline": "Get your contracts reviewed before you even realize they’re in your inbox", "body": "We’re Jake and Ben, co-founders of Common Paper.  We just launched Gerri, the AI agent for redlines. [Try it out here and get three contracts reviewed for free](https://commonpaper.com/product/ai-agent).\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL4nIETkZnY\n\n## Problem\n\nCommon Paper started by creating [standard agreements](https://commonpaper.com/standards/) that have been signed by more than 10,000 companies and used to close more than $100 million dollars in deals. We also make contract management software for customizing, signing, and tracking agreements with customers and partners.\n\nAs companies scale, more and more of their sales teams’ time is spent dealing with contract redlines from their customers.  After talking seeing the problem close up at countless companies, we found that most folks fall into one of two camps:\n\n* Every contract redline gets sent to their attorney, which is expensive and adds delays\n* Nothing gets sent to the attorney, and the founder, sales, ops, or other non-lawyer handles all redlines. This creates a significant risk when they don’t know what they don’t know about risks in contracts\n\nA better approach is to have AI do a first read of each contract and then triage the redlines so that as much as possible is handled automatically, and then if anything remains, assign it to the right person. That’s what we built with Gerri.\n\n## Solution\n\nThere are three ways contracts get into Gerri:\n\n* Upload\n* Forward an email with attachment\n* Have Gerri scan your team’s inboxes for redlined contracts and automatically review them as they come in\n\nOnce Gerri gets a contract, it compares it to your playbook, which contains rules about what you will and won’t accept, how you respond to asks, comments to leave in the doc, etc. Gerri includes a demo playbook to help you get started, and you can chat or answer questions to have Gerri help you generate your own custom rules.\n\nGerri then either\n\n* Responds with a clean contract that’s ready to send back to the other side.  Gerri automatically accepts, rejects, counter-proposes, and leaves comments for the other side.  \n* Flags which redlines can’t be handled automatically, and notifies the right people for them to weigh in. For example, it might be your lawyer for indemnity issues, CS lead for renewal terms, and IT for special security procedures/certifications.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94771&key=user_uploads/71220/c61e5a05-75a4-4f95-a66d-cf4f618bb057)\n\nEach time a human weighs in, they can make a decision for just this one case or have Gerri generate a rule to handle this decision going forward. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94771&key=user_uploads/71220/a1877eb9-5798-4ba5-8b31-eac429cd02b1)\n\nThe end result is your contracts get reviewed before you even realize they’re in your inbox, and deals close faster.\n\n[Check out Gerri and get three contracts reviewed for free. ](https://commonpaper.com/product/ai-agent) \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94771&key=user_uploads/71220/8cd882ae-a79f-4280-8303-da34655ee66b)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OeZ-gerri-the-ai-agent-for-contract-redlines", "votes": 19, "created_at": "2025-10-20T16:10:06.039Z" }, { "id": 68207, "title": "📃 Common Paper - Faster sales with standard contracts & structured data 📃", "tagline": "Common Paper helps startups close deals with their customers faster and with less risk. ", "body": "TLDR: If you want to close deals faster/shorten your sales cycles with standardized contracts and a platform that helps eliminate back and forth, [we’d love for you to try us out](https://commonpaper.com/)!\n\n# Background\n\nWe (Jake and Ben) met while working together at a BI startup called RJMetrics. Jake was a co-founder, and Ben was an engineering leader. At that job and others, we were incredibly **frustrated by contract negotiation**. The process was filled with:\n\n* **⏳ Unpredictable delays**\n* **💰 Huge legal bills**\n* **🥽 Extremely limited visibility**\n\nWe realized that founders and go-to-market teams have many of the same problems with sales that were widespread in startup fundraising before the introduction of the SAFE. Each company has a unique sales or procurement contract (and NDA, DPA, etc).  People argue over whose template to use, and **no matter who wins that argument, one side of the deal has to review and negotiate a new contract for the first time**.\n\nThe same basic ideas show up in all contracts about a given type of transaction, but they are expressed totally differently.  As an example, take governing law, one of the simplest terms in most contracts.  These are real examples from four contracts, showing four different ways describe governing law:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68207&key=user_uploads/71220/b869c8db-5099-478e-855d-b34c5b28bf55)\n\n# Standard Contracts & Structured Data\n\nTo solve this, we looked to the SAFE and other widely used contracts for inspiration and created standard, open-source contracts for buying and selling software, including:\n\n* [Design Partner Agreement](https://commonpaper.com/standards/design-partner-agreement/)\n* [Mutual NDA](https://commonpaper.com/standards/mutual-nda/)\n* [Terms of Service](https://commonpaper.com/standards/terms-of-service/)\n* [Cloud Service Agreement](https://commonpaper.com/standards/cloud-service-agreement/) \n* [Data Processing Agreement](https://commonpaper.com/standards/data-processing-agreement/), [Service Level Agreement](https://commonpaper.com/standards/service-level-agreement/), and more\n\nThese contracts have been downloaded by thousands of companies, are created by a committee of attorneys, and are free to use under a Creative Commons license. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68207&key=user_uploads/71220/bc9fd4c5-56c8-48ed-8ab2-dd024fa5b974)\n\nUsing standard contracts reduces back and forth, accelerates sales cycles, and makes it easier for everyone involved to understand what the contracts actually mean.\n\nIn addition to the contracts themselves, we’ve built a new kind of [contract management platform](https://commonpaper.com/product/) for startups.  It makes automation, negotiation, and programmatic access to contract data all way faster and easier than ever before. These kinds of tools have traditionally been built for managing unstructured text, and we’ve built Common Paper on top of the **standards and structured data**. \n\n**⌚ 63% of the deals on our platform close within 24 hours ⏲️**\n\nWe also built the [SaaS Agreement Toolkit](https://commonpaper.com/resources/saas-agreement-toolkit), which combines the standard agreements with step by step guides to help founders:\n\n* Choose which contracts to use based on their stage and business model\n* Understand the meaning of different terms within the contracts\n\nThe toolkit also includes a benchmark report based on the real contracts of more than 150 companies, with data on what positions are most common and how different terms influence the odds of getting your contract signed.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68207&key=user_uploads/71220/b4ae10b3-d5bf-4439-b700-df82cb92e521)\n\nIf you want to shorten your sales cycle, save money, and reduce risk with standardized contracts and a platform that helps eliminate back and forth, [we’d love for you to try us out](https://commonpaper.com/)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hk7-common-paper-faster-sales-with-standard-contracts-structured-data", "votes": 63, "created_at": "2023-01-05T15:31:08.561Z" } ] }, { "id": 28096, "name": "OpenInt", "slug": "openint", "former_names": [ "Map3", "Ally", "Evefan" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/67a1ff68627d7db644256cf5b89e938213258bed.png", "website": "https://openint.dev", "all_locations": "Remote", "long_description": "OpenInt helps teams ship product integrations in hours, not weeks, using no or low code. 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We support Markdown or MDX, so you can use GitHub, VS Code, and all the workflows you’re already familiar with.\n* **Powered by OpenAPI**: upload your OpenAPI Specification (fka Swagger) and get your API Reference auto-generated.\n* **API Playground:** let users try your API without leaving your docs. They can even sign in to auto-populate their API credentials. Time to {200} has never been faster.\n* **SDK Snippets:** demonstrate how to call an API using an SDK. The code snippets are auto-updated as your SDKs evolve.\n* **Professional design:** your docs represent your engineering quality. Match your brand identity, including colors, logos, fonts, and (of course) light & dark modes.\n* **Component library:** UI components that make your docs polished. If you’d prefer, bring your own React components.\n\n# Get a Preview of Your Docs\n\nWant to see what your docs look like in Fern? 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They can be used externally for customers or internally for your frontend/microservices.\n* **API docs** that sync to your provider of choice.\n* **Postman Collection** complete with examples of successful and unsuccessful requests\n* **Server-side validation** to make sure that you serve the API you promised.\n\nFern also registers all versions of your API in a registry — no need to ping a coworker over Slack to understand how to consume an API.\n\nWith love [💌](https://emojipedia.org/love-letter/),\\\nTeam Fern 🌿 (Deep, and Danny)\n\n### **Our asks**\n\n* Star us on [GitHub!](https://github.com/fern-api/fern)\n* Read our [blog](https://buildwithfern.substack.com/p/how-candid-sped-up-api-development) about how Candid Health uses Fern\n* Book a demo at [www.buildwithfern.com](http://www.buildwithfern.com)\n\n### **What our users are saying**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69195&key=user_uploads/1214945/56c46bce-4a1b-4a2d-9ee2-3d6b09fdf6af)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69195&key=user_uploads/1214945/73910b0a-164f-47b9-9fb1-60bae68ec410)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69195&key=user_uploads/1214945/2bde4130-4d50-41b1-93dc-99d65387513b)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69195&key=user_uploads/1214945/2dafe8b2-bc05-4f37-9eaa-a207604186dc)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69195&key=user_uploads/1214945/f81f7cfa-ec25-4da5-bbcb-4fe1930b84e9)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69195&key=user_uploads/1214945/39bc2305-633a-414b-a800-57a959b4dbc0)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I03-fern-sdks-for-your-api", "votes": 58, "created_at": "2023-02-10T17:18:52.681Z" } ] }, { "id": 28110, "name": "Conduit", "slug": "conduit", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f9fd269cc7d10c65c452d836b7ba980b58a0c084.png", "website": "http://helloconduit.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Conduit is the operating system for shipping and receiving. 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For individual reps, we provide just-in-time feedback to reps to help drive urgency and win more deals._\n\nHey everyone, we’re [Neil](https://www.linkedin.com/in/neil-madsen-18a3755b/) and [Andy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewkday/) and we’re thrilled to announce the launch of [Fabius](https://www.fabius.io/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69385&key=user_uploads/630080/d80ac2d9-d0a3-4448-a5b0-656faa0d255b)\n\n**🫣 The Problem: B2B sales teams are often blind to how their sales process works in practice.**\n\nDespite having a well-defined process (like MEDDPICC), sales reps can often overlook key information, and view deals with rose-colored glasses.\n\nIdentifying pain, driving urgency, and gaining access to power are critical to successful B2B sales - especially in today’s market! Without visibility into their process, sales leaders struggle to make accurate forecasts, identify deals that are off-track, and onboard new reps effectively.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69385&key=user_uploads/630080/8ecee57b-d85c-4bb6-819d-d8b0ed4ee007)\n\n**🔎 The Solution:**\n\nFabius uses data from customer intelligence tools like Gong and Chorus to overlay your company's sales methodology with what's happening in the field, leveraging LLMs to extract the ground truth around your opportunities. We score every deal against your company’s tailored sales process so you can replicate what works again and again.\n\n**For sales leaders** - this gives unparalleled visibility into their sales processes, so they can improve their forecasts, help course correct deals which are missing key steps in their methodology, and ramp up sales reps faster.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69385&key=user_uploads/630080/5281e3e4-5b22-406b-9b01-ba28f58619c9)\n\n**For individual reps** - they get just-in-time feedback on their sales calls to help them drive urgency and win more deals.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69385&key=user_uploads/630080/188dcb5f-5446-4ee1-ae91-b4ef2e5f5f06)\n\nWe believe that Fabius is the best way to take the guesswork out of sales and help sales teams become more efficient and productive. We are excited to get started and look forward to helping B2B sales teams succeed!\n\n**Our Asks!**\n\n1. Sign up for our waitlist by emailing [founders@fabius.io](mailto:founders@fabius.io)!\n2. Share this post with anyone who might need this (think Sales Leaders, CROs, etc)\n3. Chat with us! If this problem / solution space is interesting to you, we’d love to chat. Book time on [our calendar](https://calendly.com/fabiustech/15-mins?month=2023-02)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I37-fabius-unlock-the-power-of-your-sales-process-and-drive-urgency-to-win-more-deals", "votes": 64, "created_at": "2023-02-17T01:49:58.651Z" } ] }, { "id": 28129, "name": "Luca", "slug": "luca", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c1a38009f747692e81bd13516e12a87a399aead1.png", "website": "https://www.askluca.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Pricing Strategy is one of the most powerful levers that retailers have at their disposal to create growth, yet it is underleveraged. 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[Get in touch](https://forms.reform.app/pqNBb1/early-access-1/kZx3w2) with us!\n\n**Our Story**\n\nWe are Yonah Mann and Tanvi Surti. We met while working at Uber, where we both worked on pricing technology. Our work cumulatively created over $1 billion in margin gains for Uber – and this experience made us realize that configurable revenue tools in the hands of operators could be incredibly powerful!\n\nSo, we are now on a mission to bring revenue optimization tools to retail, and build a fun company as we go along!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69842&key=user_uploads/814509/5422d569-a5ce-4f8a-bbc2-1cf3c2a98268)\n\n**The Problem**\n\nE-commerce teams have to react to large swathes of data from multiple channels to build a pricing and discount strategy, such as  –\n\n1. ⛅ Seasonal and Market trends, with changing customer price elasticities\n2. 👯 Competitor price changes or promotional campaigns\n3. 🚛 Inventory availability \n4. 🚢 Changing manufacturing and shipping costs\n\n_And_, they have to do this across 1000s of SKUs and across multiple stakeholder teams such as Merchandising, Marketing, Revenue, and Inventory. This level of complexity makes changing prices time-consuming and inefficient, while still leaving money on the table.\n\n**Our Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69842&key=user_uploads/814509/004e0bac-15fd-49c9-a3af-d7d20e6bc40d)\n\nWe replace fragmented decision making in e-commerce teams with our pricing system that organizes, recommends and measures outcomes, ensuring that every product is priced in a way that optimizes revenue and profits. Here’s how –\n\n1. **👀 Observe:** We connect with the customer’s sales and inventory data sources (Amazon and Shopify to start, more to come soon), and create a real-time view of customer elasticities and conversion rates. \n2. **👉 Recommend**: We feed historical sales, competitor and market data into our machine learning model, combine it with inventory availability and make recommendations for price and discount adjustments.\n3. **🖐 Act:** We bubble up the recommendations over email and Slack, allowing the business to quickly act upon the data and push the changes to production across all their channels.\n4. **⚙ Configure**: Lastly, we allow the business to configure custom rules, such as competitor-based pricing guardrails or wholesale-price-based constraints.\n\n**Asks**\n\n* If you work in retail and would like to try our product, please sign up [here](https://forms.reform.app/pqNBb1/early-access-1/kZx3w2) and we will get in touch with you.\n* If you know someone in your network who would be interested in this, please drop us a note at [founders@askluca.com](mailto:founders@askluca.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IAU-luca-meet-the-pricing-co-pilot-for-e-commerce-businesses", "votes": 52, "created_at": "2023-03-01T20:37:56.184Z" } ] }, { "id": 28141, "name": "highlight.io", "slug": "highlight-io", "former_names": [ "Highlight" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0d4301601e4f70936655aa2574a0bf0a798fe1bd.png", "website": "https://www.highlight.io/", "all_locations": "Seattle, WA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "highlight.io is the open source, full-stack monitoring platform. With just a few lines of code, Highlight makes it easy to understand what's slowing down your users and swiftly address errors and regressions on your web app. Imagine that you have a customer reporting an issue on your web app. With highlight.io, you can playback their exact interactions to reproduce the bug and get notified of any future errors that could happen.\r\n\r\nThat being said, we’re just getting started! We have plans to go way deeper into your observability stack to give you all of the visibility you need. Join us on this journey:\r\n- Star us on GitHub (https://github.com/highlight/highlight) to keep up with releases and news.\r\n- Join our Discord (https://highlight.io/community) to share product feedback and thoughts.\r\n", "one_liner": "The open source, fullstack monitoring platform: stop guessing why…", "team_size": 8, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1675367373, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "SaaS", "B2B", "Open Source", "Monitoring" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/highlight-io", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/highlight-io.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "Seattle", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/highlightrun", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/highlightio", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0d4301601e4f70936655aa2574a0bf0a798fe1bd.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 241768, "full_name": "Jay Khatri", "title": "Cofounder, CEO (acquired by LaunchDarkly)", "founder_bio": "I currently run the Observability business at LaunchDarkly. 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A native of the Bay Area, Vadim previously worked at Pure Storage and drive.ai.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/vkorolik/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/vkorolik", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/310d5870d701e4759b843740c85bf40bcf26f3e4.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Highlight launches full-stack application monitoring platform, raises $8M | VentureBeat", "url": "https://venturebeat.com/programming-development/highlight-launches-full-stack-application-monitoring-platform-raises-8m/", "date": "Aug 15, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 68975, "title": "highlight.io - Open-source session replay & error monitoring", "tagline": "highlight.io is the open source, fullstack monitoring platform. We help engineers reproduce hard-to-crack issues, and understand how their product is used.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68975&key=user_uploads/241768/1b79410b-8b41-4e1e-8869-c4ccfe7d2130)\n\n## **TL;DR:**\n\n[highlight.io](http://highlight.io) is an open-source **session replay and error monitoring** tool that helps teams reproduce hard-to-crack issues and understand product usage. We enable developers to understand WHY bugs are thrown on their web apps to eliminate the noisy alerts they get from more traditional monitoring tools.\n\n[highlight.io](http://highlight.io) is already being used in production by **2k+ developers and 80+ companies**. Get started for free at [app.highlight.io](http://app.highlight.io) and give us a ⭐️ at [github.com/highlight/highlight](http://github.com/highlight/highlight).\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nHow many times have you gotten an alert from Bugsnag or Sentry, and dismissed it because you weren’t sure about what caused it? And how many of you have an endless backlog of errors that your team _should_ triage, but haven’t gotten to yet?\n\nWe’ve found that when debugging an issue or customer request, **the toolset that you use is responsible for delivering one thing only: context**. And if there’s any gaps in this context, engineers are left in the dark.\n\nTo solve this, at our last companies, we found a lot of value in instrumenting a session replay-like tool, (similar to Logrocket or Fullstory), paired with an error monitoring tool (like Bugsnag). In fact, we’ve built these sorts of tools ourselves to hackily solve the problem. Enter [highlight.io](http://highlight.io).\n\n### **The Solution: Session Replay 🤝 Error Monitoring**\n\nWith a simple `yarn/npm` import in your frontend and an optional import in your backend, [highlight.io](http://highlight.io) gives you session replay and error monitoring out of the box. This means that you can:\n\n* Replay exactly what a user was seeing at the time of an issue/bug.\n* Reproduce the browser dev-tools for every user session, including the network requests, errors, and more.\n* Access all of the errors and exceptions (both frontend and backend) thrown in your app, paired with session replay.\n\nLastly, given the privacy-sensitive nature of the product, we have a very powerful privacy API that you can take a look at in our docs [here](https://www.highlight.io/docs/session-replay/privacy).\n\n## **💬 What’s Next?**\n\nWe’re just getting started! We have plans to go way deeper into your observability stack to give you ALL of the visibility you need; that means logs, traces and more! Join us on this journey:\n\n* ⭐️ us on [GitHub](https://github.com/highlight/highlight) to keep up with releases and news.\n* Join [our Discord](https://highlight.io/community)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HwV-highlight-io-open-source-session-replay-error-monitoring", "votes": 60, "created_at": "2023-02-02T19:04:50.853Z" } ] }, { "id": 28162, "name": "Verata", "slug": "verata", "former_names": [ "aiFlow", "AiFlow" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/04042feea68cfa6b3181b5712c149970e24f178f.png", "website": "https://www.veratainsight.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Source Proprietary Deals Through Your Network. Verata combines relationship intelligence with private company data to help PE firms find targets, identify warm paths, and get to companies before they hit the market. 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We map your firm's entire network, show you warm paths to any target company, and combine that with private company intelligence—so you can source proprietary deals through relationships instead of cold outreach.\n\n**3 of the top 10 mega funds** already use Verata. We drive proprietary deal flow, due diligence, and the sourcing of deal advisors and portfolio operators.\n\n**Ask:** Know someone at a PE firm frustrated with deal sourcing? Intro us at [josh@veratainsight.com](mailto:josh@veratainsight.com).Want to try it yourself? Book a demo [here.](https://meetings.hubspot.com/josh-gardner)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96939&key=user_uploads/1236126/39421e1c-e8f7-442e-a8ad-39a754cf72eb)\n\n---\n\n---\n\n### **The Problem**\n\n**Private equity runs on relationships—but firms can't see their own network.**\n\nEvery PE firm has thousands of professional connections across partners, principals, alumni, operating advisors, and portfolio executives. When a deal team wants to reach a specific CEO or find companies matching their thesis, all that relationship capital is invisible.\n\nThe result:\n\n* **\"Do we know anyone at this company?\"** - Asked dozens of times a week, answered by guessing\n* **\"Who's our best path to this founder?\"** - Hours of LinkedIn searching for each target\n* **\"What companies fit our thesis?\"** - Days of manual market mapping\n* **Cold outreach to warm targets** - Missing relationships that could have opened doors\n\nFirms pay millions for databases of company information, but the most valuable data—their own relationships—sits unused.\n\n### **Our Solution**\n\nVerata combines relationship intelligence with private company data in one platform built specifically for PE.\n\n**Relationship Path Mapping**\n\nSee how your firm connects to any target company or executive. We identify high-quality, verified professional relationships—not LinkedIn's low-quality connections—and show you the warm paths that turn cold outreach into warm introductions.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96939&key=user_uploads/1236126/a9bebdb0-e58e-4038-8fdd-3253f96961b3)\n\n**Private Company Intelligence**\n\nResearch any target in seconds. Revenue estimates with transparent methodology, headcount trends, funding history, leadership profiles, comparable company analysis. One source of truth for target research.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96939&key=user_uploads/1236126/e1054869-f81f-4131-a395-5c60121a78a4)\n\n**Targeted Search**\n\nFind every company matching your thesis. Filter by geography, revenue range, sector, ownership type. Save searches and and see which targets you have warm paths to.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96939&key=user_uploads/1236126/32502b83-ccf5-4c02-9c2a-6390cbb2f4a9)\n\n**The Numbers:**\n\n* 1.5M+ executive profiles\n* 30M+ relationships mapped\n* Used by 3 of the to 10 firms by AUM\n\n---\n\n### **The Team**\n\n**Nick Manske** - Serial entrepreneur who previously co-founded AiFlow and Alariss Global, a software platform for international executive search that grew to 37 employees. Harvard '09, INSEAD '17J, former U.S. diplomat.\n\n**Josh Gardner** - Princeton-educated computer scientist with research published in top journals and experience leading startup engineering teams at Alariss Global and AiFlow. Princeton BSE ‘20, MSE \\*22.\n\n### **How We Got Here**\n\nBefore [Verata](https://www.veratainsight.com/), we built and scaled AiFlow—a software platform for executive search. We learned that relationship data is incredibly powerful when it's properly mapped, verified, and made actionable.\n\nWe also saw the same problem plaguing PE that we solved in executive search: brilliant professionals spending hours trying to answer a simple question—\"Who do we know?\"\n\nWe knew we could bring the network intelligence techniques we'd perfected to private equity deal sourcing. Today the [Verata](https://www.veratainsight.com/) platform trusted by 3 of the top 10 mega funds in the world.\n\n---\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\n1. **Intros to PE deal teams** - Know principals, directors, VPs, or business development folks at PE firms? We'd love an intro. Email [josh@veratainsight.com](mailto:josh@veratainsight.com).\n2. **Try Verata** - If you're at a PE firm or work closely with one, book a demo [here](https://meetings.hubspot.com/josh-gardner).\n3. **Follow our journey** - Connect with us on LinkedIn: [Nick](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-manske/) | [Josh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-gardner-957903134/)\n\nThanks for reading! For more information please email [josh@veratainsight.com](mailto:josh@veratainsight.com) or visit .\n\n— Josh & Nick\n\n---", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PDX-verata-network-mapping-for-investors", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2026-01-19T22:46:33.127Z" }, { "id": 88557, "title": "Verata - AI-Powered PE Intelligence Platform", "tagline": "Verata unifies financial data and executive profiles to help PE firms make better investment and talent decisions", "body": "Hey everyone 👋\n\nWe're Josh and Nick – co-founders of [Verata](https://www.veratainsight.com/).\n\n**TL;DR** Verata is the first unified intelligence platform for private equity that combines financial data and detailed executive profiles in one place. PE professionals spend hours jumping between LinkedIn, Pitchbook, and ZoomInfo manually compiling data. Verata saves firms 4.7x research time while providing verified executive attribution data that reveals which leaders truly drive returns.\n\nAsk: Are you a PE firm currently evaluating your research and intelligence stack for 2025? Book a [demo here](https://meetings.hubspot.com/josh-gardner) or email [josh@veratainsight.com](mailto:josh@veratainsight.com).\n\n\n\n❌ **The Problem** \n\nPrivate equity professionals waste 20+ hours per week on fragmented research across data silos (PitchBook, LinkedIn, ZoomInfo).\n\nA look at the numbers:\n\n* 71% of PE professionals toggle between 3+ platforms daily\n* 62% of executive hires fail to meet performance expectations\n* $380B in value creation is missed annually due to poor talent decisions\n* No solutions: existing platforms show where executives worked but not what they actually delivered\n\n🛠️ **Our Solution: One Unified Platform for PE Intelligence**\n\n**All-in-One System** 📊\n\n* End the frustration of toggling between LinkedIn, Pitchbook, and ZoomInfo.\n* Financial and people data in one place.\n* Complete profiles with PE-specific metrics\n* Seamless workflow with no \"stitching\" required\n\n**Performance-Verified Talent Intelligence** 👥\n\n* Find executives with proven PE value creation records\n* Validated historical performance across multiple PE cycles\n* Quantify what executives actually delivered\n* Identify true drivers of portfolio success\n\n**Superior Data Quality** 📈\n\n* Auto-updating, never stale data with continuous verification\n* Verified sources with clear citations\n* Transparent revenue estimation methodology\n* High accuracy on projections vs. actual reported figures\n\n**Comprehensive Market Mapping** 🗺️\n\n* Map your entire PE ecosystem in minutes\n* Superior competitor identification and market research\n* Eliminate the need to stitch data across multiple tools\n* Get the freshest insights on companies, executives, and investors\n\n🌟 **Results & Metrics**\n\n* 330k+ PE operators with verified experience and quantified metrics\n* $1.2T+ exit value tracked across our PE operator database\n* 4.7x faster research compared to traditional methods\n\n🙏 **Our Ask**\n\n* Are you a PE firm currently evaluating your research tools? Book a demo here.\n* Know any PE Operating Partners or Talent Partners who might benefit from our platform? Please share this post or introduce us: [josh@veratainsight.com](mailto:alex@verata.com)\n* Follow us on LinkedIn for the latest PE intelligence insights\n\nLearn more at [VerataInsight.com](http://VerataInsight.com)\n\n👫 **The Team**\n\nNick - Serial entrepreneur and repeat HR tech founder. He has deep expertise in people data and has built multiple advanced search systems for executive search professionals. Self-taught coder who graduated from Harvard and then worked as a diplomat in the US State department. \n\nJosh - Repeat founder and published algorithmic game theory researcher. 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We're on a mission to revolutionize executive search by harnessing the power of AI to deliver exceptional C-suite and board candidates faster than ever before.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82693&key=user_uploads/1236126/62fc49eb-65f1-4768-ac74-baa149328cbe)\n\n**Nick Manske:**  Harvard and INSEAD alumnus, previous co-founder of a cross-border talent marketplace.\n\n**Josh Gardner:** Princeton-educated computer scientist specializing in AI and NLP, who trained under one of OpenAI's GPT creators.\n\n🎯 **The Problem: Executive search is slow, manual, and often biased**\n\nTraditional executive search methods are time-consuming and labor-intensive. Search firms spend countless hours manually researching candidates, often relying on limited networks and potentially biased decision-making processes. This leads to:\n\n\\- Extended search cycles, sometimes lasting months\n\n\\- Difficulty in identifying diverse, high-quality candidates\n\n\\- Inconsistent results and potential missed opportunities\n\n✨ **Our Solution: AI-powered executive search at unprecedented speeds**\n\nAiFlow combines advanced AI algorithms with vast datasets to streamline and enhance the executive search process:\n\n\\- Analyze millions of data points to instantly identify top candidates\n\n\\- Generate comprehensive candidate profiles and dossiers\n\n\\- Mitigate bias through transparent and explainable AI systems\n\n\\- Provide industry-specific insights and competitor analysis\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82693&key=user_uploads/1236126/87469b54-9be2-4ba1-be5c-685c5960b3a6)\n\n🚀 **Key Features:**\n\n1\\. Rapid Candidate Identification: Shorten search cycles by an average of 60%\n\n2\\. AI-Generated Insights: Gain deep understanding of candidates in minutes, not hours\n\n3\\. Diversity and Inclusion Focus: Proprietary AI systems designed to remove racial, gender, and age bias\n\n4\\. Automated Research: Leverage AI's understanding of industry semantics for precise matches\n\n5\\. Scorecard and Competency Matrix Search: Pinpoint candidates who precisely match client requirements\n\n💼 **Traction and Validation:**\n\n\\- Initially developed as a secret weapon for top private equity firms\n\n\\- SOC II certified, meeting strict security standards\n\n\\- Trusted by leading executive search professionals\n\n🙏 **Our Ask:**\n\n1\\. **Try AiFlow:** [Schedule a demo](https://meetings.hubspot.com/josh-gardner) to see how we can transform your executive search process\n\n2\\. **Connect us** with executive search firms, PE firms focused on executive hiring for portfolio company roles, or corporate talent acquisition teams\n\n3\\. **Share your thoughts:** We'd love your feedback on our approach to AI in executive search\n\n**Contact us** at [founders@aiflow.solutions](mailto:founders@aiflow.solutions) or [book a demo here.](https://meetings.hubspot.com/josh-gardner)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LVl-aiflow-ai-powered-executive-search-for-the-c-suite", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2024-08-02T19:05:00.134Z" } ] }, { "id": 28175, "name": "Pier", "slug": "pier", "former_names": [ "Pier Fin", "Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/eb10300785960d3b48dfff648ae5ee0f8ba40cfc.png", "website": "http://www.pier-finance.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We’re building an API for launching credit products. 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We enable any company to offer credit by handling origination, underwriting, compliance and servicing with just a few lines of code. Using Pier, our customers can offer credit to their borrowers/users without ever directing them outside their app, while Pier’s API powers the credit and compliance stack all under the hood.\n\n## **⛔️ The Problem ⛔️**\n\nLaunching a credit product in the US is extremely complex, expensive and time consuming — Companies have to build a lending function from scratch, pay millions of dollars for a bank charter, and spend months or years to implement. These combined factors often break the unit economics of a fast-growing company and are usually not part of a company’s core competency.\n\n## **✅ Our Solution ✅**\n\nPier enables companies to go live with their own credit product in weeks, not months!\n\n🔥 **Speed is our (and your) currency** - our platform and implementation process is designed to take you live in weeks, not months\n\n🚀 **Built for developers** - API driven, flexible modules to support innovative credit products\n\n📐 **Compliance partner** - leave the toughest compliance & licensing burdens to us, so you can focus on your customers. We help you understand your licensing and compliance needs, and provide you with compliance guardrails for long term sustainability. \n\n## **⚙️ How it works ⚙️**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68537&key=user_uploads/1218632/e12a53e0-8a14-4878-8362-da74840a0188)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=68537&key=user_uploads/1218632/0a66540d-b85b-4903-868d-cb9b313be48d)\n\n## **🙏🏻 Our Asks 🙏🏻**\n\n* Reach out via our [contact us form](https://www.pier-finance.com/contact) if you’d like to use our solutions\n* Share this with folks you know building credit products\n* Give us an Upvote & share!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HpR-pier-the-fastest-way-to-ship-your-own-loan-products", "votes": 255, "created_at": "2023-01-18T23:25:45.982Z" } ] }, { "id": 28178, "name": "Vector", "slug": "vector", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cbf1d46970daada2c04ef49b49592227799f0224.png", "website": "https://vector.co", "all_locations": "Boston, MA, USA", "long_description": "B2B advertising is broken: poor targeting, wasted ad spend, bot traffic, and 3rd party-cookies. Vector helps marketers drive pipeline with contact-level targeting and revealing who's seeing your ads (even if they never convert).", "one_liner": "Advertising for the new internet", "team_size": 20, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1675694302, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "SaaS", "B2B", "Marketing", "Enterprise" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "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/vector", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/vector.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Boston", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/getvector", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/GetVector_ai", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cbf1d46970daada2c04ef49b49592227799f0224.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 187296, "full_name": "Joshua Perk", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Hi 👋🏼 I'm Josh. Building, Vector to help founders find, prioritize, and track the accounts they're most likely to turn into their customers!\n\nPreviously:\n- Built the SC team @ Drift from Series B - Vista acquisition 🦄\n- Exited GrowthStack - A hybrid RevOps agency + SaaS company 🎉\n- Exited GoCable - A rapid prototyping SaaS for subsea cables 🐙\n- Served as an intel analyst in the USAF ✈️", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuaperk/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/Joshua_Perk", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/01ae9001b4bf60327a6d483ff6069964ce123d9c.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1125363, "full_name": "Nick Masters", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and COO of Vector, on a mission to revolutionize how marketing builds a contact based strategy. A US Air Force Veteran and former Instructor Pilot with over 15 years of leadership experience building and training sales teams. Previous to Vector, Co-founder and CEO Josh Perk and I served as executives in charge of Sales Engineering at Drift helping drive a $1.3B acquisition. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholasamasters/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/NickMasters83", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/54ad36463118c95a139ab093af42e779262427d4.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 99641, "title": "Account Executive", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vector/jobs/36g8Zd4-account-executive", "location": "Boston, MA, US / Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$180K - $215K", "equity_range": "0.02% - 0.10%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 115244, "title": "Senior Data Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vector/jobs/MZ9Oh9B-senior-data-engineer", "location": "Boston, MA", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Backend", "salary_range": "$180K - $230K", "equity_range": "0.08% - 0.15%", "experience": "6+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Node.js", "Python", "TypeScript", "SQL", "Vue.js", "dbt" ] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 77906, "title": "Vector: Turn your company's network into pipeline", "tagline": "Vector alerts sales teams when their executives, investors, and customers can intro them to their target accounts.", "body": "# **Problem: 74% of sales reps miss quota**\n\n👆This is why Pipeline Generation is today’s biggest problem CROs are facing!  \n\nB2B selling is hard. Buyers are inundated with noise. Modern “solutions” only automate the problem:\n\n* 2% cold call success = automated power dialers 🤮\n* 1% cold email success = mass sales engagement sequencers 👎🏼\n* Costly SDR team = AI prospecting + “virtual SDRs” that “personalize” at scale 🙅‍♂️\n\nPersonalization does not matter if no one opens your email or answers your call. There’s a monumental shift in the industry of B2B prospecting - and CROs are searching for a new playbook.\n\n# **Vector: Less Volume, More Quality**\n\nWe believe in an AI-enabled world where authentic relationships rule all.\n\nVector is the world’s only Relationship Intelligence platform — using AI to analyze 400M+ signals in real-time to identify meaningful relationships across your company’s entire network to win, retain, and expand deals.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/V8oj_wAPmeAT7ayqDcRBSOPMM66QEMPMd0Tlwd-kgcEBr9ijOnSmtE-OOxC-4TOZQno7GE118BQwF2qJsA-Z1Mv8F-Pa7KY6Ver8YvvT4n6PnP_5I8Q1P5ahY4k7EziCs79zTJVDcEwddDbLvquKWok)\n\n# **The Shared Experience Graph™**\n\nAt Vector’s core is the Shared Experience Graph™ — a powerful data engine analyzing hundreds of signals _per relationship_ and a proprietary AI model purpose-built to find the most authentic relationships for your sales team.\n\nStop relying on manual spreadsheets, meaningless mutual LinkedIn connections, or expensive, glorified champion tracking tools that only tap a fraction of your network.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/_WqZpni8euVAwRbQBinwgZW9xlhK3WKp3HX1mj8cppFi5ii6F_zgsONXutIpuwxqNgVbMzAe1s-F5SGaHh3aDvkKEhdMaCltw5a3Wki53OxLPpMn0-pALETUoDn1QqgZqEYqvenY8VySx8zrQ17qmOE)\n\nLet’s talk, because **84% of your B2B decision-makers start their buying process with a referral**, but finding the right trusted person to open the door for your team is extremely hard.\n\nFollow us, [Joshua](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuaperk/) and [Nick](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholasamasters/). We lived with this problem for years as GTM executives, and now we’re fixing it at [Vector.](https://vector.co/?utm_source=YC&utm_medium=Launch&utm_campaign=2024&utm_id=YC+Launch%2C+2024)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KGY-vector-turn-your-company-s-network-into-pipeline", "votes": 90, "created_at": "2024-01-29T00:12:47.168Z" } ] }, { "id": 28183, "name": "Metal", "slug": "metal", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0bdcc8475801e999a95ad750970c80614d23f5c4.png", "website": "https://metal.ai/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Firm proprietary data is only as sharp as the context around it. Metal is the context platform for private capital.\r\n\r\nIt structures everything a firm has touched, every deal, company, and figure, along with every decision the deal team has made, into one context graph. So the AI tools your deal teams already rely on, like Claude, ChatGPT, and Copilot, can reason with the firm's own knowledge. Every deal feeds back into the graph, so the firm's edge compounds: each decision sharpens the one that follows.\r\n\r\nMetal is purpose-built for private equity and private credit. We turn what a firm knows into how it wins.", "one_liner": "The AI context platform for private capital. Everything your firm…", "team_size": 17, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1674209670, "tags": [ "Fintech", "SaaS", "Finance", "Investing", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "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/metal", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/metal.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/getmetal/about/", "x_url": "https://x.com/metal__ai", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/metal-6dfc", "github_url": "https://github.com/getmetal/", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0bdcc8475801e999a95ad750970c80614d23f5c4.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1212950, "full_name": "Taylor Lowe", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CEO of Metal. Product manager who started in sales. DC native. Big fan of New York so now I live there.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylorlowe11/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/T__Lowe", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/fccb2375c2dc56e262189584fae495dfcca8f354.jpg" }, { "user_id": 506814, "full_name": "James O'Dwyer", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder of Metal", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesxodwyer", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/softboyjimbo", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5b49b1a7c0a4781597e822e509086005f86747ad.jpg" }, { "user_id": 412427, "full_name": "Sergio Prada", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co founder of Metal (metal.ai)", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergiopradamora/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/sergioprada666", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/45999f4d54ac6c1f6f59743235bf6af0659728ff.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 110016, "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer - Strategic Account", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/metal/jobs/7zlvBO4-forward-deployed-engineer-strategic-account", "location": "New York City", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$150K - $240K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.25%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Metal Raises $5M from Base10 Partners to Transform Private Market Investing with AI", "url": "https://www.metal.ai/blog/seed-fundraise-announcement", "date": "Sep 11, 2025" }, { "title": "In the AI arms race, Metal aims for enterprise dominance with $2.5 million war chest | VentureBeat", "url": "https://venturebeat.com/ai/in-the-ai-arms-race-metal-aims-for-enterprise-dominance-with-2-5-million-war-chest/", "date": "Jun 22, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 77440, "title": "Metal - Your deal team assistant 🤘", "tagline": "AI Accelerated Deal Flow and Portfolio Intelligence", "body": "⚡**TLDR**\n\n* [Metal](https://www.getmetal.io/) is relaunching as a SaaS application for financial services and funds, with a focus on buy-side deal teams and portfolio monitoring for fund managers 🤘\n* We make deal teams 10x faster by parsing data and assisting in diligence across relevant file types - transcripts, 10-Ks/Qs, financial statements, board decks, CIMs, and more\n* Portfolio data is structured and made queryable for fund managers to better understand their investments – from running instant comps to extracting quotes from a board meeting\n* We’re rolling out Metal on a fund by fund basis – if this sounds like you, please get in touch! [founders@getmetal.io](mailto:founders@getmetal.io) or [submit your contact info here](https://www.getmetal.io/contact) 🎸\n\n**👎The problem**\n\nDeal teams are overloaded with data, yet deals remain highly competitive and are lost with an inefficient diligence process. In early diligence alone, analysts spend days reading through expert call transcripts, 10-Ks, or financial statements just to get a basic understanding of a company. This is a highly manual process – and funds are paying analysts $200k/year and up to do it. \n\nOn top of this, fund managers lack insights into their portfolio company’s historic performance, areas of focus, and if they’re deviating from plan. Tracking this data down internally is often infeasible, so managers are left in the dark and their investments are put at risk.\n\n**👍Our solution**\n\nMetal accelerates fund workflows by integrating them with the advanced capabilities of LLMs. Here’s how:\n\n**1\\. Purpose built ingestion pipelines for financial documents.** Funds can upload documents and specify the values they want extracted from datasets. Metal does the heavy lifting from there.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77440&key=user_uploads/1212950/591aea10-3d61-4c10-be1f-4b47ea9f7930)\n\n**2\\. Diligence workflows rebuilt with generative AI.** Metal extracts relevant quotes, cites sources, browses the web and more when generating responses.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77440&key=user_uploads/1212950/71312968-12bc-4380-8b3e-4c37d8aadc8d)\n\n**3\\. Fully searchable portfolios.** We structure and make all fund data queryable – from memos to board decks to financials. Spot patterns across collections of data and query for deeper insights.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77440&key=user_uploads/1212950/29e0a3b7-250f-4071-9aad-30c7f54d7e83)\n\n**🙏 Asks**\n\nToday’s launch is an exciting first step, but we’ve got a lot planned for the next 6 months!\n\nWe are rolling out Metal on a per fund basis so we can dedicate more of our resources to each implementation – we’ll work side by side with your team to ensure success.\n\n**If you’re on a PE or VC deal team, or managing a fund** – here’s how you can reach us: [founders@getmetal.io](mailto:founders@getmetal.io) or [submit your info here](https://www.getmetal.io/contact)!\n\n🤘Taylor + James + Sergio🤘", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/K92-metal-your-deal-team-assistant", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2024-01-11T18:57:23.238Z" }, { "id": 71084, "title": "Motörhead - LLM memory server built in Rust", "tagline": "Motörhead is an open-source memory and information retrieval server for LLMs.", "body": "## Overview\n\n[Motörhead](https://github.com/getmetal/motorhead) is an open-source memory and information retrieval server for LLMs. Built and supported by [Metal](https://getmetal.io/).\n\nAs LLM usage becomes more widely adopted, modern software products must handle users' LLM interactions, chat sessions, and retrieval for relevant prompting context at scale. With much of the performance cost being on the prompting to APIs like OpenAI and other LLMs, contextual data retrieval is ideally as fast as possible.\n\n## Features\n\n* 🪄 Modern strategies to stay within the prompt window\n* 💬 Chat session management out of the box\n* 🦜 [Langchain integration](https://python.langchain.com/en/latest/modules/memory/examples/motorhead_memory.html)\n* 🧠 Automatic Embedding generation via OpenAI ADA\n* 🕸️ Redis Vector DB forto utilize RedisSearch (semantic)\n* 💽 Short-term & long-term storage\n* 🔥 Built in Rust for performance\n\n## Roadmap\n\n* User Authentication\n* Knowledge Graph Memory handling\n* Additional support for other Embedding Models\n* [Create an issue!](https://github.com/getmetal/motorhead/issues)\n\n## Resources\n\n* Check out [Motörhead on Github](https://github.com/getmetal/motorhead)\n* Join the [Motörhead Discord](https://discord.gg/sxbFX5dsQY)\n* Suggest a [feature for Motörhead](https://github.com/getmetal/motorhead/issues)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IUW-mot-rhead-llm-memory-server-built-in-rust", "votes": 19, "created_at": "2023-04-20T14:09:32.416Z" }, { "id": 69701, "title": "Metal: Helping developers easily implement machine learning embeddings", "tagline": "Embeddings as a service 🤘", "body": "tl;dr\n\n_Metal makes it easy for developers to implement machine learning embeddings. With embeddings, we help businesses create value from unstructured data like images, text documents, videos and more._\n\nHey everyone! We’re Taylor, James, and Sergio and we’re building [Metal.](https://www.getmetal.io/?utm_campaign=pre-launch&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=YC)\n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/BAmRW6DjuFBKZwKTqlBZ3usUOyMeRtO_c34yip0WO65CQX-VCS3IeNXKPOE57AdV-HApI_CC0QjqVgurwEDxHJSDo9BxV5Pve7VXz20yulLPBNYbSKHQXqSxhLowmbYOUlQ7c3sln6lJ4eRTuVMRmL0)\n\n**What’s the problem?**\n\nEmbeddings are super powerful but they’re too hard to use. We learned this the hard way while building machine learning products at companies like Spotify and Meta. Getting to production for simple features (or so we thought) was incredibly painful.\n\nThe team would put weeks into offline training only for the data to be stale in production. It was difficult to iterate on models without versioning. Fine-tuning was highly inefficient. When we finally did get a model deployed there were immediate scaling concerns. It once took us 6 frustrating months to ship a simple embedding classification feature 🤦\n\nCompanies shouldn’t need to reinvent the wheel to use embeddings.\n\n**What’s the solution?**\n\nMetal gives you all the tools you need to quickly and easily implement embeddings against your data in production. \n\n* We integrate with your data sources\n* We generate and store your embeddings\n* We provide real time indexing and search APIs\n* We provide versioning\n* And we make it easier to fine tune embeddings via Metal’s API or SDKs\n\nYou can get started in as little as five minutes.\n\n![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/izlgcDfSdm-FgMwj8Cns-nsnN2GmkAuUtdsSCQKuLawBY0fcv3KZjgkjiwxa7yiOpbPOnNZs_uN9ERNmCS8ZVVP3IC-NY-qHBe1cuipof9D7JKskIn6FvN-BSuYULjJGJPb6xYyi3e47OUDZ2qm9c4U)\n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/nOmwv8oD-qYgxa_m6enimIFMTirXP1olznsJv1UrojbT2lf69WdR0vxc2xLkX8TceIfAusPKPFopsM2vjXcGXIJMDMHQz9lgJhmxPr2qcOI3uS5_b7LI44k1HvaYeFSF2uGvHp1fpgMzuqVsU31sNaA)\n\n**Ok so it’s easy to use, but what about some real world use cases?**\n\n* Better personalization for your users through behavioral clustering\n* Search and compare similarities between data types, such as images or videos\n* Understand how your customers feel by classifying their free text reviews\n* Make the most of internal resources by supporting semantic search of text documents, PDFs, call notes and more\n\n**Our ask:**\n\n1. [**Sign up for early access**](https://www.getmetal.io/?utm_campaign=pre-launch&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=YC) and we will get in touch! [You can also book a time here to learn more](https://calendly.com/metal-taylor/metal-30-minutes-landing?utm_campaign=pre-launch&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=YC).\n2. **Introduce us to companies** who could use Metal. We mostly work with small to medium size companies (10-200 people) who have raised a series A. These companies have an embeddings use case but don’t want to spend the time/resources to build it from scratch.\n3. **Help us build the future** :) If you’re experienced with embeddings and want them to be simpler, then we’d love to hear from you. Please get in touch: [founders@getmetal.io](mailto:founders@getmetal.io)\n\nYou can also follow us on [Twitter](https://x.com/metal__ai) or [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/getmetal?utm_campaign=pre-launch&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=YC) :) 🤘\n\nThank you!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I8D-metal-helping-developers-easily-implement-machine-learning-embeddings", "votes": 179, "created_at": "2023-02-27T14:57:53.771Z" } ] }, { "id": 28192, "name": "Skyhook", "slug": "skyhook", "former_names": [ "Koala Ops" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c4df2dc3a8591521492f4797ca92971742623b68.png", "website": "https://skyhook.io", "all_locations": "Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel", "long_description": "We make running services on Kubernetes as easy as Heroku, but on your cloud and with all the flexibility and power of Kubernetes. Companies use Skyhook so that they don't have to hire dedicated infrastructure engineers.\r\n\r\nAlthough 50-70% of organizations have already adopted Kubernetes, most developers agree that it is too complex and difficult to manage. 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[Talk to us](https://calendly.com/oded-koalaops/meeting) to learn more!**\n\n**Also, if you need help with migrating/working with Kubernetes please [contact us ](https://mailto:founders@skyhook.io)for a free consultation. We’d love to learn and help.**\n\nHi everyone, we’re Oded Regev and Nadav Erell, the founders of [Skyhook](https://www.skyhook.io/?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=yclaunch).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69952&key=user_uploads/1233799/182a0cd6-8737-48d0-9543-543907a62b1b)\n\n[**Nadav, CTO**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadav-erell/) formerly a Staff Software Engineer and an experienced team leader and architect at Google. Deep technical experience building scalable, robust systems in cloud native environments.\n\n[**Oded, CEO**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/odedregev/) founded and led Cherrypick Consulting for 7 years with diverse customers including Gong.io, Mixtiles, Outbrain, OpenWeb and many more. \n\n# The Problem\n\nAlthough [50-70%](https://www.cncf.io/reports/cncf-annual-survey-2022/) of organizations have already adopted Kubernetes, most developers agree that it is too complex and difficult to manage. It is intended to be extremely flexible in order to solve pretty much everyone’s needs, however, it can take a ton of work and many auxiliary tools to get there.\n\nAs companies grow, they spend a lot on DevOps or Platform Engineers that try to reduce the burden on developers by gluing together all the 3rd party tools via custom internal tools.\n\n# Our Solution\n\nWe give you an “internal developer platform” out of the box, with best practices and golden paths for building and operating services on Kubernetes.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69952&key=user_uploads/1233799/9f8423a0-3f16-48f6-911c-d8e6234bfbc1)\n\nWe do the research on the latest and greatest tools in the extremely vibrant ecosystem, and automatically integrate for you the tools you want to use.\n\nWe operate on your code and in your Cloud environment, so you’re never locked in and never restricted, as is common with classic PaaS offerings.\n\nIf you prefer a fully hosted environment like Heroku, Fly or Vercel, we’ll host a cluster for you and offer you a one-click migration to your own cluster whenever you want.\n\n# **Our Ask 🙏**\n\n[Contact us](https://mailto:founders@skyhook.io) - We have a few last slots left in our beta - we’d love to see if we can help you step up your Kubernetes game or migrate, so that you can focus on building your own product instead of configuring YAML files and tools all day.\n\n### **We also offer free Kubernetes consultation!**\n\nPlease [contact us](https://mailto:founders@skyhook.io) or [book time](https://calendly.com/nadaverell) - we’d love to assist, even if you don’t end up using our product. Learning about real-life challenges that you are facing and trying to help you navigate them helps inform our roadmap and focus.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/ICG-skyhook-kubernetes-the-easy-way", "votes": 49, "created_at": "2023-03-05T21:35:40.921Z" } ] }, { "id": 28218, "name": "Kyber", "slug": "kyber", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3004c4a72b716a80763763b95bf3e212c448756e.png", "website": "https://askkyber.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "With Kyber, companies operating in regulated industries can quickly draft, review, and send complex regulatory notices. For example, when Branch Insurance's claims team has to settle a claim, instead of spending hours piecing together evidence to draft a complex notice, they can simply upload the details of the claim to Kyber, auto-generate multiple best in-class drafts, easily assign reviewers, collaborate on notices in real-time, and then send the letter to the individual the notice is for. Kyber not only saves these teams time, but significantly improves consistency, compliance, and personalization. ", "one_liner": "Instantly draft, review, and send complex regulatory notices.", "team_size": 5, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Operations", "launched_at": 1677372539, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "SaaS", "Insurance", "Enterprise", "Regtech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Operations" ], "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/kyber", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/kyber.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ask-kyber/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/AskKyber", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/kyber", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3004c4a72b716a80763763b95bf3e212c448756e.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/188ff6c81544db46c701a9e6adfa9be701ef4791.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 271067, "full_name": "Arvind Sontha", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Arvind Sontha is Founder & CEO of Kyber. He is a repeat founder with an entrepreneurial spirit that started in his childhood, when he started a local pet care business. Since then, his entrepreneurial endeavors have taken him across numerous industries, building in EdTech, Dating, Insurtech, and AI. During this time, Arvind also signed full-time with Google at 19, founded Subtle Curry Dating (~250k members on Facebook), and became a licensed insurance agent.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/arvind-sontha/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/ArvindSontha", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6db185fb8a67fa875d1775d6725f3f8cc2776327.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 110021, "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kyber/jobs/eturrAR-forward-deployed-engineer", "location": "New York, NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$110K - $150K", "equity_range": "0.05% - 0.15%", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "JavaScript", "Python", "SQL" ] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 79877, "title": "Kyber LetterGen 📝 Compose and send complex claim notices", "tagline": "We help claims teams instantly draft, review, and send complex notices.", "body": "**_tldr;_** _We make it simple for claims teams to instantly draft, review, and send complex notices to insureds, claimants, and third parties (like attorneys). With GenAI draft generation, real-time collaborative editing, integrated review workflows, and omnichannel delivery, Kyber’s LetterGen is able to supercharge the process of creating claim denial, partial denial, and settlement notices for even the most complex claims._ **Book a demo on our [website](https://askkyber.com?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=claims_launch_yc) to learn more!**\n\n**—**\n\n# **🧨 Problem: Regulated notices are tedious and high-risk.**\n\nFor claims teams, state departments of insurance typically have very clear guidelines around the specific types of notices an insurer is supposed to provide to the parties involved. These include notices like claim acknowledgment, status updates, proactive reservations of rights, and finally, either a claim denial, partial denial, or settlement letter detailing what finally is or isn’t covered.\n\nWhile that may seem straightforward, many organizations fail to meet these requirements as adjustors struggle to efficiently write notices up to the required quality bar. Numerous carriers we’ve talked to and currently work with have audited their claims organizations and found that their teams spend upwards of **30% of their working hours** just handling these notices.\n\nWhy? Many times, these notices end up in a court of law where an unhappy claimant will sue the insurer, arguing that the notice was ambiguous.\n\n# **🎉 Solution: One platform to consolidate, collaborate, and send notices.**\n\nKyber’s LetterGen helps companies streamline their notice creation process, removing tedious overhead and minimizing risk from claimants suing companies for acting in bad faith.\n\n![](https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=79877&key=user_uploads/271067/33ede188-d105-4957-a9e3-5f109a3b9320)\n\nOut of the box, Kyber’s LetterGen comes with:\n\n* Automatic policy language extraction 🔍\n* Personalized draft creation powered by GenAI 🤖\n* Integrated review workflow ⭐\n* Real-time collaborative editing and commenting 💬\n* Full history and version tracking support 🕗\n* Basic template creation and management 📄\n* Progress tracking across your notice funnel 📊\n* Pre-built integrations into claims systems and mailing systems ✉️\n\n### **Our ask 🙏**\n\n* Connect us with Operations or Claims leaders at TPAs, Carriers, MGAs, or Reinsurers ➡️ [sav@askkyber.com](https://mailto:sav@askkyber.com).\n* If you or your organization operate in a regulated industry (Healthcare, Loans, Banking, Utilities, etc.) and are required to generate similar notices for third parties, we’d love to learn more ➡️ [founders@askkyber.com](mailto:founders@askkyber.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KmL-kyber-lettergen-compose-and-send-complex-claim-notices", "votes": 21, "created_at": "2024-04-02T15:41:18.646Z" }, { "id": 69780, "title": "Kyber - ChatGPT for enterprise support", "tagline": "Kyber embeds AI intelligence into enterprise support workflows to accelerate customer success teams.", "body": "# TL;DR Instead of digging across resources to find the right answer, Kyber provides highly specific and accurate answers right at your fingertips.\n\n### Who Is It For?\n\nAny company/enterprise that gets repeat questions about the same thing over and over again that they’ve already documented or answered.\n\n### How It Works\n\n⚡ Install our **Slack/Discord/Front/Intercom** Apps each in **two clicks**\n\n**⚙️** We’ll ingest your knowledge base (typically public documentation) and configure them into your preferred access channels\n\n**❓** Go to town asking Kyber for help on questions about your knowledge base\n\n🔍 Gain important insights into user questions and team questions, which you can then use to further refine your knowledge base\n\n🚀 Accelerate support, onboarding, and more at speed of AI\n\nDirect Response Flow:\n\n![uploaded image](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=69780&key=user_uploads/271067/061a2882-761b-4b9d-83cf-edf2fc8ba501)\n\nHidden Response Flow:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69780&key=user_uploads/271067/98d2c6ea-889d-45a7-a4bc-33b6d11a4626)\n\n# Why We Built Kyber\n\n🤔 We started Kyber because we were frustrated with the tradeoffs that different resources and support channels provide today. At the end of the day, we realized that end users just want factually correct answers and they want them NOW.\n\nExisting resources each make tradeoffs between speed, relevance, and trust:\n\n* Documentation (Immediately available, but not easy to search or always up to date): \n * Speed ✅\n * Relevance ❌\n * Trust ✅\n* Community (Friendly, but not sure if answers are trustworthy):\n * Speed ✅\n * Relevance ✅\n * Trust ❌\n* Support Staff (Relevant and trustworthy answers, but usually very slow):\n * Speed ❌\n * Relevance ✅\n * Trust  ✅\n\nWe help bridge these gaps by either providing your users a direct interface for help or by enabling your CX teams to quickly search and generate answers using our flows.\n\n# How Can I Try It?\n\nEmail us at [founders@askkyber.com](mailto:founders@askkyber.com)\n\nWe’ll set up a custom demo where you’ll be able to try it out firsthand on top of your chosen knowledge base. Once you’re happy, we’ll give you and your team a white-glove onboarding experience.\n\nHave any additional flows, knowledge base sources, or integrations in mind? Let us know! We’re more than happy to support it and already have a few more exciting features planned for the future (stay tuned 😉).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I9U-kyber-chatgpt-for-enterprise-support", "votes": 32, "created_at": "2023-02-28T20:08:07.488Z" } ] }, { "id": 28221, "name": "Serial", "slug": "serial", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a8354b5bea40df992c6f00ba3131da07c65e1300.png", "website": "https://www.serial.io/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Serial is software to help manufacturers root cause problems in minutes not days and avoid millions in liabilities. Our solution integrates with data sources from any production line, enabling engineering & operations teams to ask questions about their manufacturing data and instantly get answers. Serial will become the single source of truth for manufacturing data.\r\n\r\nOur founding team has 10+ years of manufacturing and product design experience from Apple, Tesla, and more. 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I've spent my carreer in the manufacturing space at Apple and Google. Now I lead the product team at Lumafield, making the best CT equipment in the world. Always will to trade notes with founders in the hardware/manufacturing space. ", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/tak-alguire/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/tak_alguire", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7706faad70cc1b9507fe2a3181d9435c108126e4.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1208864, "full_name": "Devon Copeland", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CTO of Serial (W23). Devon has spent over 5 years working in hardware engineering at companies like Apple, Tesla, and Aeryon Labs. His obsession with timely, data-driven decision making has guided the engineering of several features on Apple Watch Ultra and the Model 3. Today, Devon is laser-focused on bringing his wealth of analytical engineering knowledge to Serial, thereby unlocking new cheat codes for any company making physical products.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkccopeland/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/devonkcopeland", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c510b7fa22096ecee2a33dfa2275d3148e7a4caa.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 69709, "title": "Serial - Unify your manufacturing data", "tagline": "Helping engineers root cause manufacturing issues in minutes ", "body": "### **TL;DR**\n\n[Serial](https://www.serial.io/) unifies data from your manufacturing process, enabling engineers to save time and root cause issues immediately.\n\n### **The Problem**\n\n* Root-causing manufacturing issues is a painful and time-consuming process that requires collecting and aligning all forms of data - log files, dimensional measurements, supplier reports, images, etc.\n* These costly problems result in millions of dollars in lost production capacity, scrapped parts or product recalls.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\n* A pipeline to collect, parse, clean and structure data from any source on a production line\n* Models to identify local trends or deviations in data to escalate quality risks in realtime\n* Single platform to ask any question about your data and immediately get an answer\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69709&key=user_uploads/1235892/1d0a0ce5-e134-43ed-839e-b2ee1da42986)\n\n### **The Team**\n\nWe are Waterloo grads with 10+ years of experience in product design and manufacturing quality from Apple, Tesla, and North. We have suffered this problem firsthand and are building the tool we wish we had.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69709&key=user_uploads/1235892/4ee36f70-60d5-4903-9a22-d325dbead0e3)\n\n### **The Ask - Intros to Manufacturers**\n\nIf you are manufacturing products and share this pain, then reach out to [founders@serial.io](mailto:founders@serial.io) or sign up directly at [serial.io](https://www.serial.io/contact-us)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I8L-serial-unify-your-manufacturing-data", "votes": 26, "created_at": "2023-02-27T17:43:34.649Z" } ] }, { "id": 28329, "name": "Type", "slug": "type", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7055cc5668e741c817315243c78d24ed1bcdd9fd.png", "website": "https://type.ai", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Type.ai is the AI-native storytelling studio for independent authors and creators. We help people craft books, novels, screenplays, and other types of long-form, creative fiction.", "one_liner": "AI-native storytelling studio.", "team_size": 5, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1675912711, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Consumer", "Productivity", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "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/type", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/type.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/type-ai", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/typedotai", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7055cc5668e741c817315243c78d24ed1bcdd9fd.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 211874, "full_name": "Stew Fortier", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder & CEO at Type.ai (W23). Previously co-founded Foster (W21). Before that, I served as the CTO of Banzai and an EIR at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/stew-fortier-7422b829/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/stewfortier", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d05e60f63691ac1c2a67ef4991b448a2ed3c7ab1.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 77152, "title": "Founding Product Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/type/jobs/1idOunL-founding-product-engineer", "location": "NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$140K - $230K", "equity_range": "0.50% - 5.00%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "MongoDB", "React", "TypeScript" ] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Type raises $2.8M to build a new kind of document editor", "url": "https://type.ai/blog/type-seed-round", "date": "Jun 14, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 69329, "title": "Type – an AI-first document editor", "tagline": "Type is an AI-first document editor that helps you write faster.", "body": "Hi there –\n\n[Stew](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stew-fortier/) and [Stefan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanli/) here. We're building Type.ai.\n\nType.ai is an [AI writing tool](https://type.ai). We help marketers and creators write high-quality content remarkably fast.\n\nType makes it effortless to access the most powerful capabilities of today’s large language models. Type’s AI can instantly generate and transform any text – it picks up on your intent and the context of your document as you write.\n\nWe’d love to give you early access [here](https://type.ai/).\n\n## The problem\n\nCompanies spend billions of dollars on content marketing each year, but creating great content is hard. Finding compelling ideas and articulating them in a way that will resonate with an audience requires constant experimentation and iteration.\n\nAI will radically reduce this friction by making it easier to generate and refine ideas, but it's still hard to get today’s large language models to give you what you need.\n\nYou must either become a “prompt engineer” or use AI writing tools with rigid, template-based interfaces that constrain creativity and produce mediocre content.\n\n### The solution\n\nWe've built a flexible, fast document editor that lets a user quickly surface powerful AI commands by hitting cmd + k as they write.\n\nType’s AI commands help with the slowest parts of writing, from generating drafts to rewriting content to suggesting what to create next.\n\nThe more you write, the better Type’s suggestions get. Type’s AI understands the context of a document – it can generate or transform text quickly and accurately. \n\nWe combine the flexibility of a product like ChatGPT with a powerful document editor. The result: Type is fun to write in!\n\n### The founders\n\nWe started building this because we were surprised nobody else had. Writing is not a “one-shot” activity! You need a flexible canvas for refining your ideas as you write.\n\n[Stew](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stew-fortier/) (CEO) is an entrepreneur with a lifelong passion for writing. [Stefan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanli/) (CTO) is a software engineer with previous experience building advanced document editors.\n\n### Start writing with Type\n\nIf you are planning to write a bunch this year, please drop your info below and we will send you an invite ASAP:\n\n👉 [Request an invite](https://type.ai/)\n\nThanks!\n\nStew & Stefan", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I2D-type-an-ai-first-document-editor", "votes": 32, "created_at": "2023-02-15T23:16:56.973Z" }, { "id": 64183, "title": "Foster – a better way to write.", "tagline": "Tap a button in Google Docs and watch your writing transform.", "body": "Hi, everyone!\n\nStew and Dan here from [Foster](https://foster.co/).\n\nFoster is a button that lives inside Google Docs. Writers can tap it to get collaborative support on their writing within 24 hours.\n\nBehind the scenes, we’ve built a collective of writers, editors, and experts who love jumping into first drafts and helping improve them.\n\nFoster contributors do much more than spot a missing comma; they can give you ideas on how to make a story funnier or how to make an argument air-tight.\n\n### **Quality writing wins**\n\n**Writing on the Internet follows a power law.** The _best_ piece of writing on a topic tends to have an exponentially larger impact than the average piece.\n\n**But writing great stuff is hard.** Most writers publish into the void, hoping for constructive feedback that never comes.\n\n### **We help writers and content teams produce better writing**\n\nFoster’s [Chrome extension](https://foster.co) lets anyone summon editors and experts to appear directly inside of their work and help them produce something great.\n\nAll drafts on Foster are privately routed to vetted contributors who we believe will be able to push them forward.\n\nMost automated writing and grammar tools can only catch relatively minor errors. We’re focused on what we consider to be the harder part of the process: how do you turn a rough draft into something timeless?\n\n### **Foster is easy to use**\n\nWriters never have to leave Google Docs to use Foster.\n\nHere’s what the process looks like:\n\n1. Write.\n2. Share the draft with Foster.\n3. Receive constructive suggestions.\n4. Rewrite and incorporate the best feedback.\n5. Publish.\n\n### **Writers love it**\n\nThe most common word we hear from our early users is “[Amazing](https://share.cleanshot.com/NNMuxM).”\n\nCoincidentally, many of our early users are YC founders or Hacker News regulars. Both of these drafts were sent through Foster prior to being submitted to HN: [We need a middle class for startups](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31327219),  [What's the Future of IDEs?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29304667)\n\nAnd while it’s exciting to see individual pieces improve, many writers tell us that using Foster has elevated their writing skills generally ([Tweet](https://twitter.com/tomcritchlow/status/1535404631123173376)) and motivated them to write more ([Tweet](https://twitter.com/liuxi/status/1511191555796729862)).\n\n### **We’re ready to support your writing**\n\nToday, we’re ready to help everyone produce better writing.\n\n**You can sign up for one of our new plans and get high-quality support on your next draft here:**\n\n\n\nYou can use the code “FIRSTDRAFT” for a free month of the Hobbyist or Basic plan.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/GhD-foster-a-better-way-to-write", "votes": 38, "created_at": "2022-06-29T16:10:15.154Z" } ] }, { "id": 28361, "name": "Lightski", "slug": "lightski", "former_names": [ "Codex", "Lightski", "Streamstraight" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4f913750d13336c120035ae29b41b164fc9638be.png", "website": "https://www.lightski.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Lightski implements AI agents to replace document-heavy enterprise workflows. One document-heavy customer now processes intake in 10 minutes instead of 2 days, with a > 5x decrease in cost. \r\n\r\nTo do so, we audit and rebuild the entire substrate your business runs on, native to AI. From document-heavy intake to back-office execution, automatically drive your top line with Lightski agents.", "one_liner": "Transform Document Workflows with AI Agents", "team_size": 1, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1678895856, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "Generative AI", "SaaS", "B2B" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "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/lightski", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/lightski.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/lightskis", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4f913750d13336c120035ae29b41b164fc9638be.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 68558, "full_name": "Hansen Qian", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Hansen is the the cofounder of Lightski. 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From document-heavy intake to back-office execution, automatically drive your top line with Lightski agents.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87552&key=user_uploads/68558/97044200-bcd0-4229-84c4-217b3e952f28)\n\nIf you’re a company looking to pilot a plan for your entire team, please email [founders@lightski.com](mailto:founders@lightski.com). ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mm8-lightski", "votes": 41, "created_at": "2025-02-10T17:57:02.574Z" }, { "id": 80683, "title": "Lightski - Embed an AI data scientist in your app", "tagline": "Embedded data analytics more powerful than Tableau and Looker by pairing AI with code execution", "body": "**tl;dr:** Lightski helps you build an analytics experience for your users that answers any arbitrary question about their data. We provide embedded data analytics more powerful than Tableau and Looker by pairing AI with code execution, which eliminates hallucinations.\n\n## Why?\n\nBefore YC, I was an engineering manager at Affinity CRM, where we spent six figures on an embedded analytics solution. Even then, our users were never happy; they either didn’t know how to navigate the complex UI or wanted even more advanced analytics. Most customers ended up exporting the data themselves and running their own analysis (not an ideal solution).\n\nRecent AI advancements remove this trade-off, enabling a natural language interface and powerful code-based analysis. We started Lightski to quickly give your users the full power of a data scientist, without needing to know a line of code.\n\n## User Experience\n\nWith Lightski, you’re able to embed an AI Data Scientist in your app, pre-loaded with your users’ data. Your users can then explore a dataset however they want; in response, we generate and execute code to perform analyses, such as:\n\n* Create custom graphs, charts, and dashboards\n* Perform arbitrary filters, group-bys, and aggregations\n* Transform or clean data for a custom CSV export\n\nAnything that a data scientist can accomplish in code can now be accomplished with Lightski. Best of all, your users won’t even know we’re powering the experience—you can quickly re-theme our UI with your design system.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80683&key=user_uploads/68558/dea1307b-ab28-464c-acf0-f89373cf1dfe)\n\n## Under the Hood\n\nWe rely heavily on state-of-the-art LLM models to guide the analysis, but there’s a lot of other capabilities built in-house that power the experience:\n\n* Secure and isolated per-user code execution environments\n* Native connectors for the most common databases\n* Code-based ETL, for flexible data pre-processing and transformation\n* Support for image generation and CSV export\n* Embeddable streaming UI that supports custom theming\n\nWe’re building fast and will also soon launch:\n\n* Interactive charts and even more customizable dashboards\n* Direct API access to our safe code execution environments and ETL pre-processing features\n* Guided assistants, for less technically-savvy users\n\nand much more! Let us know if you’re interested in any of these and we’ll prioritize it for you.\n\n## Get a Demo\n\nThe fastest way to get access to Lightski is by [signing up for our waitlist](https://forms.gle/Sj239WNvp5ZTLJGX6) or emailing [founders@lightski.com](mailto:founders@lightski.com)—we’ll help you format your data into a clean schema, and get Lightski embedded in your app within the day. Email us with any questions or feedback!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KzL-lightski-embed-an-ai-data-scientist-in-your-app", "votes": 32, "created_at": "2024-05-07T17:04:06.921Z" } ] }, { "id": 28404, "name": "Cercli", "slug": "cercli", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4c64a305e01ba20da74a99d93c7b92f8f9831ffb.png", "website": "https://www.cercli.com", "all_locations": "Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates", "long_description": "Cercli is the AI native platform for businesses to hire and manage their workforce.", "one_liner": "AI powered HR and Recruitment for people teams", "team_size": 28, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1690828371, "tags": [ "SaaS", "HR Tech", "Payroll" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United Arab Emirates", "Middle East and North Africa", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cercli", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/cercli.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "Dubai", "country": "AE", "linkedin_url": "http://www.linkedin.com/company/cercli", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/cercliHQ", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4c64a305e01ba20da74a99d93c7b92f8f9831ffb.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 670088, "full_name": "Akeed Azmi", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Founder at Cercli, formerly Head of Growth, Expansion & Operations at MENAs largest tech unicorns Kitopi & Careem (acquired by Uber).", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "http://linkedin.com/in/akeedazmi", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/akeed23", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/09826584e7b986cf3304a327d3298fc1a5b3d8c0.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1224831, "full_name": "David Reche", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Founder at Cercli, former VP Product & Engineering at Kingmakers (Draftkings for Middle East and Africa). 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We automate payroll, compliance, reimbursement, onboarding, and offboarding by seamlessly integrating with tools across the workplace.**\n\nHello, world! 👋 We are David and Akeed.\n\n### **🤕 Problem**\n\nEven today, companies across MENA manage payroll, employee information, documents, onboarding checklists, and a plethora of other tasks manually. They default to spreadsheets, legacy enterprise solutions, and dated basic HR solutions. This causes an array of issues and challenges, including:\n\n* **Human error and fraud**: Personal employee data is collected and managed manually on spreadsheets, email, and WhatsApp conversations with no tracking or logs.\n* **Weak compliance**: Mistakes due to manual work may result in fines due to incorrect reporting to authorities and extend to non-renewal of operating/trade licenses for the business.\n* **Costly and lengthy rollout timelines**: Legacy providers have steep set-up fees and take months (even years) to complete - and on top of that require consultants or 3rd party vendors to implement the system.\n* **Poor transparency and employee experience:** Employees have little to no visibility into people policies, time off and expenses, and payroll disbursement. This means following up manually with HR over email, slack, or Whatsapp for basic queries.\n\nAnd still, with NO single source of truth - “_a black box_”, for a company's greatest asset (and usually largest line item of spend) - its people. Isolated business tools and spreadsheets don't “_speak to each other_” which causes mismatches in data.\n\n### **🎯 Why Cercli?**\n\nWe flip this upside down. The platform has been built with design and engineering at its core - curated around our design partners and customers, with the goal of making Cercli a workplace system that feels human.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73789&key=user_uploads/670088/7153a0a8-7e25-434f-8e1e-a25b4441398e)\n\n**Fully automated payroll**\n\nEnd-to-end automated payroll from data ingestion, processing, and disbursement with audit trails and change logs at every step. Consolidate in-house and remote payrolls for a complete view of people spend.\n\n**All under one roof**\n\nConnect your HR, Finance, Accounting, IT, and Legal stack with key integrations, so your systems speak to each other to manage your back office with ease.\n\n**Smart data validations**\n\nA number of checks and balances to ensure 100% data integrity. No more pivot tables with misspelled country names, duplicate entries, or inaccurate FX conversion for multi-country people spend.\n\n**Workflow alerts, policies, and approvals**\n\nDitch the calendar reminder for that recurring expense every month, or the Slack notification to renew that employee's visa or insurance plan. Set up alerts and curated policies for your business across the employee lifecycle.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73789&key=user_uploads/670088/349ee9a5-3df1-4ed2-b5e8-5d9df3fc08f9)\n\n### 👥 About us\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73789&key=user_uploads/670088/6c6c5882-0afd-47d9-b802-d674b5fd1ef9)\n\n[Akeed](https://linkedin.com/in/akeedazmi) (_right_) left MENA unicorn [Kitopi](https://www.kitopi.com/), as the Head of Growth and Expansion to begin this journey after encountering the problem at work. Previously, he worked in operations and growth at [Careem](https://www.careem.com/) (acquired by Uber in 2020), where he met now co-founder, David (_left_).\n\n[David](https://linkedin.com/in/davidreche) was most recently VP of Product & Engineering at [Kingmakers](https://kingmakers.com/) (Draftkings for Middle East and Africa). Prior to this, David held product leadership roles at Careem.\n\n### 👋 **How can you help?**\n\n* Schedule a demo and join us in reimagining how employee data is managed. [Click here](https://www.cercli.com/join?utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=yc).\n* Connect us with MENA based HR, Finance and IT leaders in your network. [Click here.](mailto:akeed@cercli.com)\n* Share the love. 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all in one platform.\n\nFinta replaces expensive bookkeepers, Quickbooks, and Google Sheets.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73364&key=user_uploads/311901/9c32e2c7-32f6-420a-ba5d-8c1a020c2dc6)\n\n### **Problem**\n\n1\\. 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Transparent and fairly-priced\n\n* Flat price per year, does not increase until your next funding round\n* Includes monthly bookkeeping, taxes, and insights\n\n2\\. Accurate results on time, and proactive on your taxes\n\n* No repeated or common-sense questions, unless we’re not sure\n* You’ll never do anything manually. We value your time.\n* Monthly bookkeeping within the first few days\n* Taxes are always on file time and get proactive notices\n\n3\\. All-in-one platform\n\n* We built accounting from the core, not a wrapper on Quickbooks\n* Actual software, not a form or messaging portal\n\n4\\. Source of truth for your financials\n\n* Easily connect with tools you already use\n* Modernize your finance tech stack\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73364&key=user_uploads/311901/06a2b765-545e-4a30-b218-919c3650b315)\n\n### **Frequently Asked Questions**\n\n**How does Finta differ from bookkeepers like Pilot?**\n\nThey do your bookkeeping in Quickbooks. Finta replaces both bookkeeping and taxes, and gives you way more financial insights.\n\n**How does onboarding work for Finta?**\n\nSign up, integrate, and that’s it! It’s at most 10 minutes.\n\n**What if I already have a bookkeeper that manages Quickbooks?**\n\nIt’s the same process to onboard. Finta will actually enrich the data that Quickbooks can’t pull from your existing finance tools.\n\n**What’s the risk of not using Quickbooks?**\n\nNo VC or customer will ever require you to be on Quickbooks. In fact, no one likes Quickbooks.\n\nIf, for whatever reason, you need to go back to Quickbooks, we’ll provide white-glove service for free and help you migrate. However, you’ll lose transaction details because of Quickbooks’ limitations.\n\n**What taxes do you handle?**\n\nFinta handles everything from franchise and income taxes at the city, state, and federal levels. Finta also provides R&D tax credit services.\n\n**How frequently are my results?**\n\nWe’re aiming to give you a real-time dashboard. As of today, we deliver bookkeeping and financial reporting every month.\n\n### **Get Finta**\n\nVisit [www.finta.com](http://www.finta.com) or send me an email at andy at finta dot com", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J5I-finta-accounting-platform-for-startups", "votes": 63, "created_at": "2023-07-24T18:24:13.688Z" } ] }, { "id": 28413, "name": "SpecCheck", "slug": "speccheck", "former_names": [ "SpecCheck Inc.", "SpecCheck Inc" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e0a3c07cf6fd105816972e25920b72ed037437e2.png", "website": "https://www.speccheckrx.com/", "all_locations": "Los Angeles, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "SpecCheck is an all-in-one solution that provides accurate prescription eyewear ordering and tracking, seamless billing, and streamlined communication between patients, eye doctors, and their lab partners. 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SpecCheck’s users work more efficiently and make fewer costly errors, increasing productivity and improving their overall workflow._\n\nHello, World! We’re Joe DeMaria and Arnold Villatoro, the co-founders of [SpecCheck](http://www.speccheckrx.com). Together with our team of industry experts and seasoned software engineers, we’re on a mission to revolutionize the optical industry.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69528&key=user_uploads/1251063/d58a9c75-3474-4b78-a5af-978c0f8eea1c)\n\n_Co-founders Joe DeMaria and Arnold Villatoro_\n\n### **❌ The Problem: Current optical industry software sucks!**\n\nDid you know it takes a coordinated team of eye doctors, opticians, technicians, and an optical lab to successfully dispense a _single pair_ of prescription eyeglasses? Despite this complex balancing act, each of these groups are forced to use antiquated technology and systems built in the 1990s that are fragmented, outdated, and limited to specific use cases. This results in glasses taking longer than they should to reach the patient, and results in expensive remakes. Not-so-fun fact: one in ten pairs of glasses needs to be redone before they are ready for pick up.\n\n### 😎 **The Solution: SpecCheck**\n\nSpecCheck is a unified ordering, billing, and communications platform designed specifically for the optical industry. Our solution centralizes all processes involved in the purchasing and manufacturing of prescription eyewear, saving time and reducing costly errors. Some of our features include: \n\n* **✨ Modern Dashboard:** Our simple and intuitive dashboard appeals to both new and veteran eye doctors.\n* **👓 Order Entry:** The easiest way for eye doctors to electronically transmit eyewear orders to optical laboratories, with advanced data validations to reduce errors.\n* **💳 Payments Processing:** Doctors can conveniently pay lab invoices directly from our platform.\n* **💬 Customer Service Live Chat:** Communicate more efficiently with optical labs to check order statuses, make edits, and request additional information.\n* **🔔 Patient Notifications & Tracking:** Keep patients in the know with one-click order notifications and our self-service patient order tracker.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69528&key=user_uploads/1251063/7a550fda-8c41-49eb-8cf3-c4478ff946f1)\n\n_SpecCheck’s Dashboard_\n\n### **⭐ Why Us?**\n\n[Joe](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-demaria-15a15943/) began his career in the optical industry in 2012, working as an optician for several different offices. In 2016 he was recruited to work for a key industry player, Shamir Insight, and afterwards for Johnson & Johnson Vision as a sales executive. As he traversed the industry in various roles, Joe realized that thousands of other eye doctors and optical labs were suffering from the same problems and frustrations he had encountered during his career. \n\nWhen Joe approached his friend [Arnold](https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnold-villatoro-85629330/) about creating a new technology resource to unify the fragmented optical industry, Arnold was quick to see the vision (pun intended). Arnold’s career started at Workday building the infrastructure for an internal job scheduler. Most recently, Arnold was the lead staff engineer for the payments infrastructure and processing teams at Lyft. With his diverse experience designing scalable and easy-to-use technology solutions for millions of users, Joe and Arnold make the perfect co-founding team.\n\n### 🙏 **Our Asks**\n\n* **📣 Sharing:** Share this post with your network, and follow us on [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/speccheck)!\n* **➡️ Referrals:** Connect us with any family, friends, or colleagues who work in the optical industry. \n* **🖥️ Product Demos:** If you’re in the industry and would like to learn more about [SpecCheck](https://www.speccheckrx.com/), please [contact us today](https://www.speccheckrx.com/contact).\n* **🚀 Investors:** Please reach out to us at [investors@speccheckrx.com](mailto:investors@speccheckrx.com) to discuss investment opportunities.\n\n ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I5Q-speccheck-unifying-how-the-optical-industry-does-business", "votes": 58, "created_at": "2023-02-22T05:30:14.909Z" } ] }, { "id": 28415, "name": "moonrepo", "slug": "moonrepo", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3de25b12e8aab670255b22d53c12d30ccd142ae5.png", "website": "https://moonrepo.dev", "all_locations": "Portland, OR, USA; Remote", "long_description": "moonrepo is a developer tool that reduces build/test/deploy times, and maintenance costs for companies. 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Are you struggling with large codebases? Well, look no further! We built moonrepo to simplify repository management, project ownership, task running, and everyday developer and productivity workflows.\n\n### 🧑‍💻 Who is it for\n\nFor companies or individuals that maintain monorepos or large codebases (or any size really), and want to reduce build and CI times, and ensure their repository stays healthy.\n\n### 🚀 How we’re solving it\n\nAfter more than a decade in the industry, with many of those years working on infrastructure and developer tooling-related products, we weren’t happy with the status quo of tooling or ad-hoc solutions that companies are required to build. As such, we set out to build moon, a language-agnostic task runner that is smart enough to only run against affected code changes, and [moonbase](https://moonrepo.dev/moonbase), an upstream service for monitoring CI pipelines. We wanted our products to be enjoyable to use and easy to understand.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69492&key=user_uploads/1247217/8945b4a3-e49c-410b-ae5f-5c59794fbbea)\n\n### 🛰️ How it works\n\nAt a high level, we are putting an immense focus on the developer experience. For example, the configuration is in YAML, which everyone is familiar with, and is **_not_** a proprietary syntax. Tasks are defined and run as if you were running them in the terminal; there are no more abstractions. We automate common and everyday workflows. We manage a toolchain, ensuring the correct version of languages is used (no more “works on my machine”). And lastly, our foundation is built on Rust and Tokio, so performance is first-class, the runtime is reliable, and memory safety is guaranteed.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69492&key=user_uploads/1247217/c5d3c251-0768-493b-8bed-28c9fc60bc6a)\n\n### Try it today!\n\nOur moon task runner is free and open source, and will always be! Start adopting today and see the immediate benefits in your codebase. \n\nOur moonbase service is also available under our free tier (with reasonable limits). Join today in 1-click! \n\nIf you have any questions or would like a demo, feel free to join our Discord community and follow us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/tothemoonrepo)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/I4q-moonrepo-simplifying-codebase-management-and-organization", "votes": 21, "created_at": "2023-02-21T19:13:22.175Z" } ] }, { "id": 28418, "name": "Vaero", "slug": "vaero", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e8880a43b4d78bdcd9007972307a7188143b601c.png", "website": "https://vaero.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Vaero's AI produces the most human sounding writing in the world. User's input their own writing, and Vaero automatically trains custom models to write exactly like the user. 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Vaero bolts on to any existing foundation model, such as GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet 3.5, so you can always use the latest model in your writing style.", "one_liner": "AI for Human Writing", "team_size": 1, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1677696705, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Consumer", "B2B", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "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/vaero", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/vaero.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/vaerohq", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e8880a43b4d78bdcd9007972307a7188143b601c.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 185902, "full_name": "Bryant Lee", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder of Vaero (YC W23) and 2nd time YC founder. 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The software includes a complete platform for patent lawyers to use AI for reviewing patent applications, responding to office actions, and enhancing invention disclosures.**\n\n**🔬 The Problem:**\n\nPatent lawyers spend hours drafting patent applications, which can be dozens and even hundreds of pages long. Patent applications include lots of detailed technical description about inventions in a formalistic way that is slow and laborious to write. Many patent lawyers find writing these technical descriptions to be their least favorite part of the job given that it can be tedious.\n\nMoreover, the time-consuming nature of patent application drafting is also a major business problem for patent attorneys. Budgets per patent application have been on a flat or declining trend over the last two decades due to increased client demands. As a result, patent attorneys find themselves having to write patent applications with a smaller and smaller budget, which has led to increased time pressure. In some firms, patent application drafting has become an unprofitable loss leader that only serves to retain clients for more profitable legal services.\n\nIn addition to drafting patent applications, patent attorneys also deal with large volumes of documents in the other parts of their job. They often have to analyze long patent documents; they have to respond to patent application rejections from the patent office, which can be dozens of pages long; and they have to work with varying levels of invention information, which range from a few sentences to entire manuscripts.\n\n**🪄 The Solution:**\n\nVaero is AI software built specifically for patent lawyers to speed up their patent drafting and other daily tasks:\n\n* Vaero drafts an entire patent application using AI based on the same inputs that patent lawyers use\n* Patent applications are written to the highest legal standards, based on our CEO’s ten years as a patent lawyer including at one of the biggest U.S. law firms\n* Automatically review existing patent applications to assist with legal analysis\n* Enhance invention disclosures from inventors\n\n**⭐️ Why us?**\n\nWe are [Bryant](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryant-lee/) and [Earl](https://www.linkedin.com/in/earlhathaway/), 2nd time founders whose prior startups have collectively raised $80M+.\n\n* Bryant has been a patent lawyer for ten years and previously co-founded Cognition IP, a legal tech startup in the patent field which achieved 7 figures of annual revenue and was backed by Khosla Ventures, Mayfield Fund, and Y Combinator. He was a patent lawyer at Covington & Burling, one of the biggest law firms in the U.S., and graduated from Harvard Law School where he was on the law review. Prior to that he was a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon.\n* Earl previously co-founded a successful legal compliance startup called DataGrail (Series C, raised $84M), which sells privacy software to the legal departments of large enterprises. Prior to DataGrail, he has been a technical and product leader at many startups.\n\n![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/WX1askFb1Wr4isgeEJJNjiF-3ksFsLa67Kwt93RZ6TiiDP1b7VxjVq-CCnnk0uIKtCO3_7WucjnKx0xtXdPaiRKu1F7BSyqtTgmAH0CBVdcu6X6NRZEH932WhuTkR4ki404crxQuF0WdWQJMOyRPDLg)\n\n**🎉 Interested?**\n\nIf you’re thinking about how to draft patent applications more efficiently, book a [call](https://calendly.com/bryant-lee-sf/15min) with us or reach out to [founders@vaero.co](mailto:founders@vaero.co)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IHO-vaero-ai-for-patent-lawyers", "votes": 32, "created_at": "2023-03-14T15:46:27.642Z" } ] }, { "id": 28589, "name": "HockeyStack", "slug": "hockeystack", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/90725285723955c6a718c11c6de42fac109093c5.png", "website": "https://hockeystack.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "HockeyStack improves sales outcomes for B2B companies by helping them record and understand every interaction their customers have with their marketing, sales reps, CSMs, and products. \r\n\r\nWe map every customer touchpoint from ad impression to closed won and to upsell using our own tracking script and native integrations to the B2B GTM tech stack. \r\n\r\nBuilding this source of truth allow us to give companies previously hidden insights that generate incremental revenue, such as:\r\n\r\n- Deploy marketing budget: \"Launch this ad campaign to this audience to generate $XM in pipeline\"\r\n- Target the right accounts with the right messaging: \"These accounts have the highest likelihood to convert, put them on this email sequence\"\r\n- Convert more of the pipeline: “Pied Piper hasn't visited the site for 8 days; give Jim a phone call”\r\n", "one_liner": "The operating system for inbound B2B revenue", "team_size": 32, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Sales", "launched_at": 1680648195, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Analytics", "Sales", "Marketing" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Sales" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hockeystack", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/hockeystack.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/hockeystack", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/90725285723955c6a718c11c6de42fac109093c5.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Diana Hu", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/diana-hu" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 307556, "full_name": "Buğra Gündüz", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder & CEO @ HockeyStack. I started learning to code as a child, started selling digital products online in my freshman year of high school in Turkey, went to the US for college & dropped out during my first quarter to build HockeyStack.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/bgrgndzz", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/506413169722e10ebea15acaf30cc5a40730f0a7.jpg" }, { "user_id": 703243, "full_name": "Arda Bulut", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "co-founder and cto", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ardabulut-627211/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c269aabd8c3f15b21d379d87cd354b0c90d225df.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "HockeyStack raises $20 million for marketing analytics and attribution", "url": "https://www.axios.com/2025/01/28/hockeystack-revenue-analytics-software", "date": "Jan 28, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 73647, "title": "🏒 HockeyStack — Revenue intelligence & attribution for B2B", "tagline": "How Whatfix, Cognism, and 35+ others analyze marketing and sales performance & generate more pipeline", "body": "### _TL; DR,_\n\n1. _Customers connect all data sources (CRM, ads, web, and product analytics…) to HockeyStack to create a source of truth for customer engagements. No engineering work required._\n2. _HockeyStack shows which channels, campaigns, content, segments, etc. drive the most revenue and active customers._\n3. _HockeyStack creates lists of high-intent accounts that customers can use to launch the most efficient sales & marketing campaigns._\n\nWe’re Arda, Buğra, and Emir. We came from Turkey & dropped out of our first semester of college in the US to build [HockeyStack](https://www.hockeystack.com/?utm_source=launchyc), because we realized that every single B2B enterprise has the same exact #1 problem.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73647&key=user_uploads/307556/5a0ce469-00e7-416a-8af0-ba3a7b9f0718)\n\n### Problem\n\nRevenue-facing teams in B2B companies run all their operations on customer data, whether it is managing an advertising budget, launching integrated campaigns, closing deals, or retaining customers. But there is no central system of record for customer data that they can use to run their operations, so instead, they rely on tens of different data tools and spreadsheets.\n\nThe CRM was built for this purpose, but over 20 years it got outdated, and companies found themselves either having to find hacks to format their data to fit the CRM, or build a data warehouse from scratch.\n\n### Solution\n\nHockeyStack collects all data about customer interactions through a web analytics script, a set of integrations to revenue-related business systems (CRM, ads, marketing automation, email, etc.), and data partners.\n\nAny non-technical person in a B2B company can use HockeyStack’s reporting interface to answer complex questions like:\n\n* What marketing channel had the best unit economics this quarter?\n* Which segment of companies do we have the highest account penetration in?\n* What makes a customer buy our software faster?\n* Who are the highest intent companies who have not yet booked a demo with us?\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73647&key=user_uploads/307556/d86c6313-72ee-42ce-9500-4875f29a8a3b)\n\nThey click into the numbers, and can see a list of accounts behind the report, all of which have their entire history of engagement with the company displayed alongside important firmographics.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73647&key=user_uploads/307556/25f109b6-83e0-44d3-bb45-3a5ae267d2de)\n\nThis information can be used to create and export lists of high-intent accounts based on different segmentations out to various marketing and sales platforms to start or accelerate the sales conversation.\n\n### **🙏 Ask**\n\nWe’d love to be introduced to marketing and sales leaders at B2B enterprises or scale-ups!\n\n### 🤲 **Give**\n\nWe’d be happy to help any B2B founder with advice in generating inbound pipeline.\n\nYou can reach me at [bugra@hockeystack.com](mailto:bugra@hockeystack.com) or [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bgrgndzz/).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J9r-hockeystack-revenue-intelligence-attribution-for-b2b", "votes": 124, "created_at": "2023-08-01T15:53:50.382Z" } ] }, { "id": 28650, "name": "Artie", "slug": "artie", "former_names": [ "Artie Technologies" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/973d2f0c6c4d07505113e974a08d18864eb95d54.png", "website": "https://www.artie.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Artie is software that streams data from databases to data warehouses in real-time. Today, most companies run their ETL process every few hours or overnight, so their data warehouse is always out of date; with Artie, the warehouse always has live production data.", "one_liner": "Software that streams data from databases to warehouses in real-time", "team_size": 20, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Infrastructure", "launched_at": 1684375922, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "SaaS", "Data Engineering", "Enterprise Software" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Infrastructure" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/artie", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/artie.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/artie-technologies/", "x_url": "https://x.com/artie_labs", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/artie-a438", "github_url": "https://github.com/artie-labs/transfer", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/973d2f0c6c4d07505113e974a08d18864eb95d54.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1276059, "full_name": "Jacqueline Cheong", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CEO at Artie. Building the real-time data streaming platform for AI. \n\nWe give companies the kind of streaming pipelines and deep observability that Netflix, DoorDash, and Instacart built in-house - without hiring 10+ engineers and spending 1-2 years on platform work. Artie automates the entire data ingestion lifecycle, from capturing changes to merges, backfills, and observability, and scales to billions of change events per day. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacqueline-cheong/", "x_url": "https://x.com/JacquelineSYC19", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9ffed376cfde87489929309878adbde531752727.jpg" }, { "user_id": 674147, "full_name": "Robin Tang", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CTO @ Artie. Software engineer with a background in distributed systems.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/tang8330/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7cdcac4bb146b8aabcbb1bc6751fee1c6c37d9b5.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 85441, "title": "Enterprise Account Executive", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/artie/jobs/HyaHWUs-enterprise-account-executive", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$240K - $320K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "6+ years", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [] }, { "id": 94613, "title": "Solutions Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/artie/jobs/APdtYeH-solutions-engineer", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$175K - $200K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [ "SQL Server", "Oracle", "Data Warehousing", "Kafka" ] }, { "id": 99179, "title": "Product Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/artie/jobs/A5udo6A-product-engineer", "location": "San Francisco", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$150K - $250K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "6+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 99181, "title": "Senior Software Engineer ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/artie/jobs/7KTFRRy-senior-software-engineer", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Backend", "salary_range": "$150K - $250K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "6+ years", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [] }, { "id": 100518, "title": "Senior Business Development Representative - Enterprise ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/artie/jobs/vv6SEu9-senior-business-development-representative-enterprise", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$115K - $150K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Artie: Real Time Data Streaming For The AI Age", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M57MeOY-n3g", "date": "Jan 26, 2026" }, { "title": "Artie helps companies put data to work faster with real time syncing | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/14/artie-helps-companies-put-data-to-work-faster-with-real-time-syncing/", "date": "Feb 14, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 111491, "title": "Artie Free Plan: real-time data replication for $0/mo", "tagline": "Stream data to your warehouse or another database, free forever – up to 1M rows a month.", "body": "### TL;DR\n\nArtie streams production data into your warehouse or another database in real time, so your downstream systems and workflows never run on stale data.\n\nWe launched Artie’s Free plan so startups and solo builders can get real-time database replication without a card, sales call, or CDC infrastructure project.\n\n[Check out our launch video:](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXPNzOyPVH0)\n\n### The problem\n\nA solo developer wiring Supabase or Postgres into a warehouse doesn’t want to take on a CDC project. A startup’s first data hire needs fresher data for a product workflow, payments, or support, but doesn’t have a data platform team to build it. A larger company wants to test a narrow use case before pulling in procurement and security.\n\nAll three have the same initial question: will this work with our database, our destination, and our data? Answering that should take less than an afternoon, without needing to put down a credit card or join a sales call.\n\nFor Keep, a fintech startup, setting up a connector on Artie took around 10 minutes. Their team wanted Postgres and MongoDB data in Snowflake, but didn’t want to spend months building and maintaining pipelines. Their CTO’s reason for that was straightforward: he wanted the team differentiating on product, not babysitting data infrastructure. [Read Keep’s story](https://www.artie.com/customer-stories/keep-enables-real-time-data-stack-and-audit-logs?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=free_plan).\n\n### Why now\n\nStartups are building products and operating workflows around production data with smaller teams than ever. They want that data in their warehouse (or another database) in real time, but need a way to test a real workload without building and running Kafka, Debezium, connectors, and monitoring.\n\n### What's included\n\nArtie Free includes:\n\n* Two active pipelines\n* 1 million billable rows per month\n* Backfills, not counted toward the monthly row limit\n* Sources: Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, CockroachDB, DocumentDB, Amazon Keyspaces, and PlanetScale\n* Destinations: Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, MotherDuck, Postgres, S3, GCS, and ClickHouse\n\n[See the full plan details](https://www.artie.com/pricing?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=free_plan).\n\n### Artie’s MCP Server\n\nArtie also has [an MCP server,](http://mcp.artie.com/?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=free_plan) so you can manage pipelines from Claude or Codex instead of switching to the dashboard. You can list and create pipelines, inspect schema changes, manage backfills and connectors, and search the Artie data catalog, all from a conversation.\n\nThe MCP server is now a [ChatGPT Plugin](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6a62a153d4088191a5e551ec94e025da?q=artie) and listed in [Claude's connector directory](https://claude.ai/directory/artie). You can also use another MCP-compatible client, such as Cursor, by pointing it at `https://mcp.artie.com/mcp` with an API key from your Artie dashboard. [Full setup docs here](https://www.artie.com/docs/api/mcp?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=free_plan).\n\n### Our ask\n\nIf you are a founder, solo developer, or first data hire, [try Artie’s Free plan](https://app.artie.com/signup?utm_source=ycombinator&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=free_plan) with one real workload. Tell us what gets in the way: permissions, configuration, schemas, or getting the first row through.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/T0F-artie-free-plan-real-time-data-replication-for-0-mo", "votes": 33, "created_at": "2026-08-20T16:50:12.222Z" }, { "id": 102815, "title": "Artie - Real-time data replication to your data warehouse", "tagline": "Give your AI agents fresh data they can actually act on", "body": "**TL;DR:** Artie is a fully managed, real-time data replication tool that streams every row-level change from your production database to your warehouse in under 60 seconds. You can now sign up and start replicating today, no call required. Most teams run their first sync in under an hour.\n\n\n\n**The Problem**\n\nGetting data from your production database to your warehouse in real time has always meant picking your poison.\n\nYou build it yourself: Kafka, Debezium, custom merge logic, months of engineering, and years of maintenance as schemas evolve and the engineers who built it move on.\n\nYou use an existing CDC tool: usually something inherited, unreliable at scale, and not built for the warehouse destinations you're actually running.\n\nOr you accept stale data: dashboards refreshing every 3-24 hours, AI pipelines reasoning over yesterday's snapshot, analytics teams filing 9 am tickets asking why the numbers don't add up.\n\nMost teams are somewhere on this spectrum – either maintaining a pipeline they didn't want to build, or working around data they can't trust. That was a manageable problem when stale dashboards just annoyed your analytics team, but it becomes a bigger beast when AI agents are making pricing decisions, routing support tickets, and scoring risk off the same lagged data.\n\nA warehouse that's 12 hours behind isn't a minor inconvenience anymore – it's a liability.\n\n**The Solution**\n\nSee it work: \n\nArtie handles the entire replication layer so you don't have to. No self-built Kafka stack to maintain, no unreliable CDC tool to babysit, no stale data to apologize for. Connect your source, choose your destination, and your warehouse stays in sync with production continuously.\n\nAI agents are only as good as the data they act on. If your warehouse is hours behind, your agents are too. Artie gives your AI layer what it actually needs: a warehouse that reflects production in real time, without engineering overhead.\n\n**How It Works**\n\nArtie uses change data capture (CDC) to read directly from your database's replication logs – capturing every insert, update, and delete as it happens. Those changes stream continuously to your warehouse, landing in under 60 seconds. There's no bulk export, no scheduled job, no polling. Just a live, accurate reflection of your production data.\n\nUnder the hood, Artie handles the operational complexity: schema changes propagate automatically, delivery is exactly-once even through failures, and your destination tables stay in sync without any pipeline code on your end. The things that take most teams a year or two to get right are already solved.\n\n**Sources:** PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora/RDS, GCP CloudSQL, Supabase, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, Oracle, CockroachDB, Amazon Keyspaces (Cassandra), and an Events API\n\n**Destinations:** Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MotherDuck, S3, GCS, Iceberg REST Catalog, and Amazon S3 Tables\n\n**The Team**\n\nRobin (co-founder and CTO) has been building large-scale data pipelines his entire career – from processing 14 billion daily events at [Outbound.io](http://Outbound.io), to filing patents on event streaming at Zendesk, to running data infrastructure at Opendoor. He started Artie because he kept hitting the same ceiling: pipelines that worked until they didn't, and teams spending years maintaining infrastructure that should have been solved.\n\nBefore co-founding Artie, I covered enterprise software at Bank of America and Balyasny Asset Management and kept running into the same gap: companies burning engineering cycles on data pipelines that shouldn't require a team to maintain. We've been building Artie together for three years, went through YC S23, and closed a $12M Series A led by Dalton Caldwell at Standard Capital.\n\n**Our Ask**\n\nIf you're a data engineer or engineering manager tired of stale warehouse data, [try it yourself](https://go.artie.com/launch) today. See real-time replication running in your own environment – not a demo, not a sandbox, but against your actual data.\n\nIf you need private networking, dedicated infrastructure, or compliance support, [book a demo](https://go.artie.com/2822ee) and we'll walk you through what an enterprise setup looks like.\n\n[Try Artie today](https://go.artie.com/launch)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QkJ-artie-real-time-data-replication-to-your-data-warehouse", "votes": 43, "created_at": "2026-06-09T17:12:18.002Z" }, { "id": 88730, "title": "🐘 Artie for Enterprise - Data Replication at Petabyte Scale", "tagline": "High-volume, low-latency data replication that scales effortlessly", "body": "# TL;DR\n\n[Artie](https://www.artie.com/?utm_campaign=launch-week-q125&utm_source=yc-launch) streams data from databases to data warehouses in real-time and more reliably than traditional ETL solutions. Many companies are still running their ETL process every few hours, so their data warehouse is constantly out of date; with Artie, the data warehouse always has live production data.\n\nArtie was founded to solve an enterprise data movement problem. Today, we’re launching Artie for Enterprise, for teams requiring high-volume, low-latency data replication that scales effortlessly. Whether dealing with massive volumes, strict security requirements, or mission-critical workloads, Artie ensures data is always live, accurate, and easy to manage. 🚀\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88730&key=user_uploads/89898/675b1398-6b54-40a0-888f-a3f4f487ffc3)\n\n# Problem\n\nEnterprises need real-time, reliable, and secure data replication—but existing solutions make this far more painful than it should be.\n\nTraditional ETL pipelines often run on fixed schedules, updating data warehouses hours behind reality and leaving teams with outdated insights. Many replication tools try to brute-force data movement by running expensive, inefficient queries that **increase load on production databases**, slowing down applications and, in extreme cases, even **bringing them down entirely**. Scaling these systems across thousands of tables typically requires **manual, error-prone configurations**, forcing teams to spend countless hours debugging pipelines just to keep data flowing.\n\nOn top of that, many enterprises operate in highly regulated environments where data can’t be fully offloaded to the cloud. Traditional replication solutions struggle to support hybrid deployments, forcing teams to choose between security and ease-of-use.\n\n# Artie for Enterprise provides reliable, secure, and high-volume data replication\n\n### Terraform support\n\n_“Um, we have thousands of tables to configure. Do I really need to click thousands of times on your dashboard to get connectors set up?”_ We hear this question a lot and our answer is “**Absolutely not”**, which is where our Terraform provider comes in. \n\nJust because your data volume is high does not mean management needs to be equally complex. No more endless clicks—just code it, deploy it, and go.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88730&key=user_uploads/1276059/ed2daad8-2763-4dfc-aaad-ea336ba4daf0)\n\n### Multi-step merge\n\nMerging large, frequently updated tables can be expensive and slow. We wanted to solve this problem without forcing customers to increase compute costs or scale up their virtual data warehouses.\n\nWith multi-step merge, Artie now loads data into a staging table in multiple bursts, allowing updates to accumulate before merging into the target table. This reduces latency and improves efficiency. Customers can now control how often data lands in the staging table before triggering a final merge—giving them real-time syncs with more flexibility and cost savings.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88730&key=user_uploads/1276059/0dcc6696-60c9-4ab8-a301-9764abbb5756)\n\n### Hybrid deployment\n\nEnterprise-grade replication means deployment flexibility is non-negotiable. There are many organizations out there that handle data containing sensitive information and are required to operate under strict regulations.\n\nOur hybrid deployment model ensures the security of on-premise data processing with the ease of use of cloud services. What’s more? Artie’s fully-managed service allows for zero-maintenance, and removes the need to install and manage client-side agents.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88730&key=user_uploads/1276059/5464e25f-5c07-4bbc-8926-ea10fc6c48e1)\n\n### MySQL Connector upgrade\n\nWe’ve made major improvements to our MySQL connector, making it enterprise-grade with improved performance, efficiency, and automation. These updates streamline database operations, reduce disk usage and I/O load, and automates data synchronization without complex configuration requirements and management overhead. \n\nKey improvements include full DDL and gh-ost migration support for seamless, non-disruptive schema changes, automatic fan-in for partitioned tables, and GTID support for reliable transaction replication.\n\n### PostgreSQL CTID scanning\n\nBackfills can be disruptive and resource-intensive. That’s why Artie is built to seamlessly recover from errors and avoid backfills unless absolutely necessary. \n\nHowever, in the event that backfills are required, how do we minimize disruption? Enter PostgreSQL CTID; an alternative backfill method that is **10-20x faster** than traditional methods.\n\n### Datadog integration\n\nAt Artie, we’ve always been big on observability. What good are your data pipelines if nobody has visibility into them? We prioritize accurately monitoring your pipeline performance and making sure you know what’s up. \n\nWith our Datadog integration, you can now track all Artie-exposed metrics directly from your Datadog dashboard. This allows you to **proactively monitor pipeline performance, set up custom alerts**, and build dashboards for deeper insights.\n\nStay on top of your data pipeline health—effortlessly.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88730&key=user_uploads/1276059/38889e0e-30ca-495f-b777-4af640e9aa3b)\n\n# Curious to learn more?\n\nFollow our journey on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/artie-technologies), [X](https://x.com/artie_tech) and reach out to us [here](https://www.artie.com/contact?utm_campaign=launch-week-q125&utm_source=yc-launch) to see how you can benefit from enterprise-grade replication!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/N58-artie-for-enterprise-data-replication-at-petabyte-scale", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2025-03-18T14:06:08.364Z" }, { "id": 76461, "title": "Artie’s Analytics Portal - Real-time data pipeline observability", "tagline": "Real-time observability into database pipelines and peripheral infrastructure", "body": "# TL;DR\n\n[Artie](http://www.artie.so) is a real-time database replication solution. We leverage change data capture (CDC) and stream processing to perform data syncs in a more efficient way, which enables sub-minute latency and helps optimize compute costs. Today, we’re launching our Analytics Portal to provide visibility into our streaming pipelines and offer production-level monitoring for related system infrastructure out-of-the-box.\n\nWith the Analytics Portal, we hope to help alleviate some of the challenges that data teams face when running their data stack. By offering real-time observability into database pipelines and peripheral infrastructure, we hope companies can increase their understanding of how systems impact one another, reduce downtime/debug issues faster, and generate proactive alerts to maintain robust infrastructure. \n\n# **Visibility related to database replication is lacking**\n\nThe core of database replication is transferring data in a timely, accurate, and reliable manner. This is table stakes. In addition, there is a lot more happening in the peripheral, such as database monitoring, data pipeline visibility, data latency monitoring, and others. Data engineers need visibility to answer questions like: \n\n* How many rows have been synced in the past hour? How does that compare to the average/median/last month? \n* What is the data latency for our organization’s three most important tables? What are the factors that impact data latency and how are those metrics trending? \n* How are my systems performing?\n * Are there any database permission errors that may cause my data pipeline to go down? \n * Are my databases sized correctly? How is CPU, memory, and storage utilization? \n * Is my replication slot growing? By how much?\n\n \n\nSetting up these metrics and monitors is important to help with debugging and maintaining a robust database replication solution. However, this requires expertise and domain knowledge that may not be accessible at every company. There is also no standardization of which metrics to track and what benchmarks to follow. To make matters worse, when it comes to adopting cloud solutions, database/pipeline visibility is severely limited. When pipelines break down, customers are often left in the dark, not knowing what broke, why it broke, and how to fix it. \n\n# **Artie’s Analytics Portal unlocks visibility & reduces MTTD**\n\nWe are extremely excited to announce our Analytics Portal to increase the visibility and observability of our streaming pipelines. This will provide insights into system-level infrastructure and help with monitoring database and pipeline health. When identifying and resolving issues, one of the most important metrics is to reduce MTTD (mean time to detection). With Artie’s streaming pipelines and periodic jobs like [Postgres Watcher](https://docs.artie.so/real-time-sources/postgresql#postgresql-watcher), metrics are being sent to our Analytics Portal in flight, as the underlying data is still being processed. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76461&key=user_uploads/1276059/f4fe85ba-5ced-4892-9653-ed030638826d)\n\nWith the first iteration of our Analytics Portal, we are providing industry-standard telemetry to streaming pipelines and related infrastructure. Data teams will be able to observe the following: \n\n* Data ingestion latency by table and database/deployment\n* Operation distribution by table and database/deployment\n* Rows synced by table and database/deployment\n* Database monitors that are related to and can impact pipeline performance: \n * Permission errors that may interfere with data replication\n * Replication slot size\n * Free disk space\\*\n * CPU utilization\\*\n * Memory and Disk I/O (input/output)\\*\n * Average transaction time\\*\n * Existence of long-running queries\\*\n\n\\*coming soon\n\n# Production level monitoring out-of-the-box\n\nThe Analytics Portal initially comes with a set of pre-built charts and monitors. Customers are able to drill down to get deployment, database, and table-level statistics.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76461&key=user_uploads/1276059/bcbbd68a-9808-48c5-92e5-1f61b53f9d86)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76461&key=user_uploads/1276059/b5ec3d58-4f94-4af0-89d3-14ab920b2003)\n\nThe pre-built monitors that we are launching with include alerts for database permission errors and replication slot growth (for Postgres users). Over time, we will add alerting for the other monitors we mentioned above and more. This enables customers to have production-level monitoring set up out-of-the-box for their business-critical data. \n\nFor example, an e-commerce company might be watching its `online transactions` table closely during the holidays. Let’s say they observe data ingestion latency going up for `online transactions`. They zoom out and realize it’s not just the `online transactions` table that is experiencing higher latency, but all tables under their Postgres connector are impacted and very few rows have been synced in the past 5 minutes. To troubleshoot this, they look over to the database monitors and realize their database’s replication slot has been growing and the culprit is a long-running query that has locked the table and is preventing Postgres from advancing the replication slot. After a quick Slack message to their internal DevOps team, the query is killed and the issue is resolved. \n\n# Making the Analytics Portal more actionable & customizable over time\n\nOver time, we will make the data more actionable and customizable. In the near future, we plan to enable row-based monitoring such that customers can monitor custom business logic. In addition to the pre-built charts and monitors that we provide out-of-the-box, we want to allow customers to create custom charts and configure views based on metrics that matter to their business. \n\nFor example, say you are working at a Fintech company that wants to monitor live transactions to detect fraud and abuse on your platform. You have a `transactions` table and this table is being synced to your Snowflake instance. You should be able to generate a chart to plot the average, median, p95, and max transaction sizes across various lookback periods (30 minutes, 1 hour, 24 hours, 7 days, etc). Then you can set up business logic monitors such as:\n\n* Flag transactions that are 1.5 standard deviations above average coming from a merchant who signed up on the platform less than one week ago\n* Flag key accounts where transaction volume has increased above or fallen below a certain threshold in the past hour\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76461&key=user_uploads/1276059/1a22097c-f925-43c4-9fac-c5bf5035b55d)\n\nDepending on how you’d like to be notified, Artie plans to support the following escalation channels:\n\n* Email\n* Slack\n* Webhooks\n\nIn this example, the escalation channel is a webhook to your API server so you can then run a more rigorous machine-learning fraud model against a particular merchant account or transaction.\n\n# **Contact us at **[**hi@artie.so**](http://www.artie.so)** to learn more!**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JtF-artie-s-analytics-portal-real-time-data-pipeline-observability", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2023-11-27T17:42:21.200Z" }, { "id": 72536, "title": "Artie - real-time data streaming for databases ⚡", "tagline": "We transfer data from databases to data warehouses in real-time with CDC streaming", "body": "# _TL;DR_\n\n_Artie is an open-source, streaming version of Fivetran - we transfer data from databases to data warehouses in real-time. Setting up a connector takes minutes and Artie leverages change data capture (CDC) to help companies reduce their data warehouse costs by 50%! We enable organizations to unlock real-time insights for better decision making. _[_Star us on GitHub_](https://github.com/artie-labs/transfer)_!_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72536&key=user_uploads/1276059/60958f68-f519-4d78-bb98-c2c33974cb39)\n\nHi everyone, we are Jacqueline and Robin and we’re the team behind [Artie](https://www.artie.so/?utm_source=YC&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=launchYC&utm_id=launchYC). We’re on a mission to eliminate data latency and make it easy for every company to enable real-time data streaming!\n\nData is typically synced from production databases to the data warehouse once every X hour(s)/day(s) - this is a constraint that companies have lived with for decades. Robin personally felt the pain of not having access to production data in real-time and there were no easy to use out-of-the-box solutions, so we decided to build one! \n\n# **❌ The Problem**\n\nDoes your company sync data to the data warehouse every 6 hours, or worse, once a day? Are your analytics always lagged and filled with stale insights? **Why settle for a data platform that’s barely good enough when you can have real time data AND reduce your data warehouse costs?!** Not to mention you can have Artie set up in minutes!\n\nTraditional ETLs are based on **batched processes** that operate on a cron schedule (DAGs, Airflow) and **cannot achieve real-time data syncs**.\n\nBuilding and managing streaming data pipelines is hard. Most companies have a small team of data engineers and they often spend all day maintaining their data pipelines, which is not productive.\n\nFactors companies should consider if they want to self-manage pipelines:\n\n* Can the solution scale to multiple different data sources?\n * How easy is it to add new data sources?\n * How easy is it to manage across all the data sources?\n* Can the solution scale to handle 1m+ queries per second?\n * Is the solution horizontally scalable?\n * Do workers require coordination? Or are they stateless and distributed?\n* How do you ensure there are no out of order or missing events (even when the system crashes)?\n* Can the solution handle schema evolution without creating breaking changes downstream?\n\n# **🎉 Solution**\n\nArtie leverages change data capture (CDC) and stream processing to achieve **sub-minute data latency (\\~typically 10-20 seconds)**. Since we **only transfer changed data**, Artie is more efficient than traditional ETLs and can help you **cut down on your data warehouse cost by 50%!**\n\nSetting up a connector requires no programming. Just follow the setup guide and deploy in minutes! After the initial snapshot, any changes in your database will be reflected in your data warehouse in real-time.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72536&key=user_uploads/1276059/879c552d-7c8a-402e-9378-56f55380308a)\n\n# **🎯 Who Needs Artie?**\n\n**Engineers** that are exhausted stitching together Airflow + AWS Glue + Apache Spark + AWS Kinesis/Kafka + Apache Flink 😵‍💫\n\n**Companies that are using traditional ETLs or batched processes**. Once you enable real-time, there is no going back (your data engineers/BI analysts won’t let you)! Think of all the previously unattainable use cases that you can now implement without data latency.\n\n**Companies that have a cost cutting initiative.** Adopt Artie’s CDC streaming capabilities to reduce your data warehouse costs!\n\n# **🙏 Ask**\n\nEmail [hi@artie.so](mailto:hi@artie.so) or sign up [here](https://artie.so/contact?utm_source=YC&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=launchYC&utm_id=launchYC) to try Artie today! \n\nWant to use open source? Install Artie at (give us a ⭐!) and ping us on [Slack](http://artie.so/slack?utm_source=YC&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=launchYC&utm_id=launchYC), we’re happy to help you get started.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Irw-artie-real-time-data-streaming-for-databases", "votes": 108, "created_at": "2023-06-26T15:13:53.399Z" } ] }, { "id": 28759, "name": "Branch AI", "slug": "branch-ai", "former_names": [ "Branch AI", "Apiflow" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a6abe17a364c1113dea922a968293da0024ff5af.png", "website": "https://www.branch-ai.com", "all_locations": "Singapore, Singapore", "long_description": "Boost conversions & organic SEO traffic by adding AI to your search box, unlocking personalized answers, suggestions, comparisons & more\r\n\r\nSolutions\r\n- Add AI Overviews to Search (Boost Conversions) \r\n- Save Answers as Landing Pages (Boost Organic SEO)", "one_liner": "AI Overview Search, as a Service", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Retail", "launched_at": 1708944337, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Retail", "Search", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Retail" ], "regions": [ "Singapore", "Southeast Asia" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/branch-ai", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/branch-ai.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "Singapore", "country": "SG", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/govindchandrasekhar/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a6abe17a364c1113dea922a968293da0024ff5af.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 31801, "full_name": "Govind Chandrasekhar", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder @ Branch AI (YC S23) | Previously co-founder @ Semantics3 (YC W13, acquired by Hearst Magazines) | ex Machine Learning lead @ Twitter (recommendations)", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/govindchandrasekhar", "x_url": "https://www.twitter.com/govind201", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/bb54033e2d29b77652f6c478eedc476808bf1918.jpg" }, { "user_id": 3501, "full_name": "Ishan Agrawal", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder @ Branch AI (YC S23). \nPreviously Group CTO @ Funding Societies (350M raised, scaled the company from Seed to Series D)", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/ishanagrawal", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/ishanagr", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c2b27b14924455009bb079d1a560d26ce1a81ac5.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Former Funding Societies CTO Ishan Agrawal Launches YC-Backed Branch AI - Fintech Singapore", "url": "https://fintechnews.sg/89305/ai/former-funding-societies-cto-ishan-agrawal-launches-yc-backed-branch-ai/", "date": "Feb 26, 2024" }, { "title": "Ex-Funding Societies CTO launches YC-backed ecommerce AI startup", "url": "https://www.techinasia.com/exfunding-societies-cto-launches-ycbacked-ecommerce-ai-startup", "date": "Feb 26, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 78740, "title": "Branch AI - State-of-the-art Ecommerce search, instantly", "tagline": "Powered by AI that learns your catalog and tunes itself to drive conversions", "body": "### **The Problem**\n\n* [**Search queries are becoming more conversational**](https://blog.branch-ai.com/second-order-effects-of-ai-search-from-keywords-to-intent-63b3b9fa20e8) (ChatGPT effect). However, most Ecommerce retailers & brands still use keyword search tools resulting in lost revenue for tail queries.\n* Search providers give you tools to build search engines, **but leave relevance engineering up to you** (i.e. tuning of the search).\n* Tuning search to maximize conversions is [**complicated & expensive**](https://blog.branch-ai.com/what-it-takes-to-build-effective-search-8a2901a9a943) (involves stitching together embeddings, rankers, NLP models, heuristics & annotated feedback).\n* DIY embeddings and models are easy to experiment with. But building **production-grade deployments requires catalog-specific tuning**, which can unlock 20-30% better accuracy & conversions.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78740&key=user_uploads/31801/a4c105e8-a6a6-41f0-977c-e09de9b09233)\n\n**Step 1 - Upload/Connect Catalog:** Upload a list of products or connect to an existing search database or platform (e.g. Elastic or Shopify).\n\n**Step 2 - LLM-powered Tuning**: This happens under the hood automatically. We use LLMs to train catalog-specific embeddings, rankers & query rewriters, bootstrapped from our proprietary Ecommerce-specific models.\n\n**Step 3 - AI APIs**: With zero effort, businesses get:\n\n1. _Search API_: Query → Ranked Products (for end-to-end query rewriting, hybrid retrieval & reranking)\n2. _Query Understanding API_: User Query → Catalog-Aware Query (for DIY query expansion/relaxation)\n3. _Embeddings API_: Query or Product → Catalog-specific Embedding (for DIY retrieval)\n4. _Reranking API_: Candidate Products → Re-ordered Products (for DIY precision improvements)\n\n**Step 4 - Preferences**: Users can control search behavior using:\n\n* _Merchandising Strategies:_ Execute smart strategies using simple instruction templates (e.g. “boost Apple Vision Pros to visitors looking for gifts”)\n* _Feedback:_ Demonstrate examples of preferred search results (models learn from these “few-shot”)\n* _Maintenance Jobs:_ LLMs periodically evaluate search results (e.g. for queries with zero results) and produce training data to fix gaps\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\n* If you want a better search with lower effort for your Ecommerce store, contact us via [email](mailto:govind@branch-ai.com) or [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/govindchandrasekhar/).\n* If you’d like a free evaluation of your site search, submit a request [on our website](https://www.branch-ai.com).\n\n### **About Us**\n\n* [Govind](https://www.linkedin.com/in/govindchandrasekhar/) was previously co-founder of [Semantics3](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/semantics3) (YC W13), an Ecommerce catalog AI company, from 2011 to 2020.\n* Govind & [Praveen](https://www.linkedin.com/in/praveens07/) (founding engineer) built embeddings, rankers, and transformer-based sequence models at Twitter that directly drove 1MM+ DAUs.\n* [Ishan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ishanagrawal/) was CTO at Funding Societies, the largest digital financing Fintech in Southeast Asia, where he built and scaled the technology and business from Seed to Series D.\n\n### **Our Vision**\n\nTo serve as an Ecommerce AI platform for brands and retailers. 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You buy one product for forecasting, one for pipeline management, another for lead routing, etc.\n\nAdditionally, even though all these point solutions pull customer data from a common spot (Salesforce), none of them \"talk to each other.\"\n\nWe are building a company that gives you each of those SKUs while also giving you the tools to manage your SFDC environment. We want you to spend less time worrying about your tools and systems and more time worrying about your leads and prospects.\n\nIn our previous roles, it became increasingly clear that more time was spent on non-revenue generating activities than selling. Sales leadership spends an inordinate amount of time managing their tech stack, evaluating new vendors, and training their team on using tools - all at the expense of closing deals. \n\n# **Our Solution**\n\n**For your Sales team**, we offer many different SKUs with a shared analytics suite so leaders can spend less time evaluating multiple vendors. Today, we offer forecasting, deal review, pipeline management, alerts, lead assignment, and other features that require zero implementation time. We share data between these products so information from our dashboarding tool (AE demo conversion rates) can automatically adjust your round-robin setup in your lead routing tool — \"Turn my round robin into a 55-45 in favor of Tommy because he has a better close rate over the last two weeks\", as an example.\n\n**On the SalesOps side**, we provide you with tools to manage and maintain your SFDC instance. You can turn plain-text inputs into built-out Apex Code or flows, get robust dashboards with only a few clicks, and manage your Salesforce schema without ever needing to go into Salesforce.\n\n**All of this works out of the box with SFDC. Just SSO & Go.**\n\n**Ask**\n\n[Feel free to grab time directly on my calendar here](https://calendly.com/danielsynch) if you want to learn more, or check out our blog post: [https://www.withsynch.com/blog/announcing-synch.](https://www.withsynch.com/blog/announcing-synch)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KdF-synch-unified-sales-stack", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2024-03-12T16:09:27.955Z" }, { "id": 73639, "title": "Magik: Your AI-powered Salesforce admin", "tagline": "Spend less time managing your CRM, and more time running your business", "body": "Hey everyone! We’re Asad Dar and Daniel Ruiz from [Magik](https://www.usemagik.com/)!\n\nMagik automates Salesforce workflows and data reports using AI, allowing you to get insights from and build your CRM in a fraction of the time.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73639&key=user_uploads/1124702/5bcc28c8-1998-4ebe-bcec-6a22a31ab085)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73639&key=user_uploads/1124702/846cf470-60c1-47cf-b404-a5d6e28988b2)\n\n# **Why we built Magik**\n\nSalesforce is complicated!\\\nCRMs and the customer data inside are essential for companies, yet most people don’t have experience with them. \n\nJunction objects, validation rules, and record-triggered flows sound confusing, and founders are intimidated. As a result, they turn to individuals with Salesforce certifications and address the problem in two main ways:\n\n1. Hire a consultancy firm for $100-$200/hr. \n 1.  Your company hires an expensive consultant with misaligned incentives on how quickly the work should get done.\n2. Hire an FTE\n\n**Both of these solutions are slow to implement and expensive to maintain.**\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\nWe leverage GPT models to streamline, simplify, and automate Salesforce workflows so that anyone can do the work of an expert-level RevOps employee. Our product allows users to build in Salesforce 15-25X quicker than before and receive recommendations they can automatically enable.\n\n# **How does it work?**\n\n* 🔗 **Connect** - Use Salesforce SSO to connect your environment to Magik.\n* 📩 **Get Recommendations** - Once connected, Magik will make suggestions based on the event data in your environment.\n* ✅ **Take action** -  Use natural language to describe your desired actions, and let Magik build them for you. Whether pulling data queries, automating workflows, or creating data visualizations, Magik helps you get it done in a fraction of the time.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73639&key=user_uploads/1124702/9b6beba2-25ff-4593-9ee2-71c73dd49de4)\n\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73639&key=user_uploads/1124702/1b3907da-61f7-4969-b675-f9a0ab32292f)\n\n# **Ask**\n\nWe’d love to hear from you! \n\nIf you currently use Salesforce or are considering it in the future, we could save you a significant amount of time and money 🙂, and ensure your CRM setup is perfect for your business.\n\n\\\nYou can email [founders@usemagik.com](mailto:founders@usemagik.com) for more information, grab time for a demo [here](https://calendly.com/danielmagik), and check out our [website](https://www.usemagik.com/).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J9j-magik-your-ai-powered-salesforce-admin", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2023-08-01T14:52:06.353Z" } ] }, { "id": 28836, "name": "CORE", "slug": "heysol", "former_names": [ "Poozle", "Mira", "Tegon", "Sigma", "SOL" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9d0fae4f448de789e718cb96878197c7ecc29e2f.png", "website": "https://getcore.me", "all_locations": "Bengaluru, KA, India", "long_description": "CORE is your AI personal assistant that learns who you are, connects to your apps, and does the work before you ask. \r\n\r\nOpen source. 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It's free and runs on the subscriptions and API access you already have.\n\n\n\n## **❌ The Problem**\n\nCoding agents got good at bounded tasks. Once a job outgrows one session, you become the harness. You break the work into prompts, move context between agents, review outputs, and decide what happens next. There's no shared definition of done, so \"finished\" just means \"looks finished.\"\n\n## **🛠 Our Solution**\n\n/mission takes on that orchestration. Three things sit between your outcome and the models:\n\n* **A contract.** Before any work starts, Medley sets the objective, the acceptance criteria, the constraints and budget, and the conditions that should make it hold or stop. That's what \"done\" gets measured against later.\n* **A live graph.** Medley doesn't write one giant plan upfront or spawn a swarm by default. It plans the next useful set of steps, runs them, reviews what came back, and updates what should happen next. Each node carries a brief, its dependencies, and a verification target. Sometimes one worker should carry a tightly coupled job end to end; when work is genuinely independent, Medley runs it in parallel. Work is routed across Claude Code and Codex workers - and with your own OpenRouter key, Codex workers can run models like Kimi and GLM.\n* **An acceptance stage.** When a batch lands, a separate reviewer role inspects the outputs and changed files, runs the contract's verify commands, and decides whether the evidence satisfies the contract - not whether the work merely looks finished. If it doesn't, the mission replans.\n\nYou can watch and steer the mission in your browser. Anything that needs your judgment or approval - publishing, sending outbound, spending, contacting people - lands in the attention queue. Everything else keeps moving. \n\n## **📊 Why This Works**\n\nThe model is only the local capability. The harness decides where to apply it - the contract fixes the target, the graph splits the work, routing matches each task to a worker, and an independent acceptance stage runs the real verify commands and replans when the contract isn't met.\n\nBefore launch, we pressure-tested a benchmark-specialized version of the same architecture on four complete public benchmarks: 93.25% on Terminal-Bench 2.1, 71.37 on HealthBench Professional, 93.24% on ViBench, and 60.98% on DrugDiscoveryBench. Those are the highest reported results on each, and they span coding, healthcare, and drug discovery.\n\nNo new foundation model. The gains came from how the work was decomposed, routed, carried across contexts, and reviewed.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=108332&key=user_uploads/1362282/3af52f57-057a-475d-8bc4-ec0b1531a504)\n\nFull methodology and results are[ on our blog](https://www.medley.sh/blog/the-harness-is-the-capability-multiplier).\n\n## **🙏 Our Ask**\n\n**Try it.** Medley is free on Mac. Install it from Claude Code:\n\n```\n/plugin marketplace add Spine-AI/medley\n/plugin install medley\n/reload-plugins\n```\n\nThen run /mission.[ ](http://medley.sh/)[medley.sh](http://medley.sh)\n\n**Tell us what you think.** We're shaping the product around how people actually use it. Email [support@getspine.ai](mailto:support@getspine.ai) with what you tried, where it worked, and where it broke - and where you'd want Medley to keep going versus stop and ask.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SBI-medley-give-claude-code-missions-not-just-tasks", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2026-07-29T17:35:57.374Z" }, { "id": 98705, "title": "Spine Swarm: Your AI Team for Everything Beyond Code", "tagline": "Spine gives you a team of AI agents that work together on a visual canvas to complete complex projects: research, analysis, financial models, prototypes, decks, and more.", "body": "\nHey YC! 👋 We're Akshay and Ashwin, and we're building Spine Swarm.\n\n**TL;DR**\n\nYou describe a project. A team of AI agents spins up, works in parallel on a visual canvas, and delivers finished outputs: market reports, financial models, slide decks, interactive prototypes. Free to get started, no setup needed.\n\n**Ask:** Sign up and try it at[ ](https://www.getspine.ai/)[www.getspine.ai](http://www.getspine.ai). We'd love to hear what you build — drop us a note at [founders@getspine.ai](mailto:founders@getspine.ai).\n\n\n\n## **❌ The Problem**\n\nAI agents for coding have crossed a threshold. Tools like Cursor and Claude Code let engineers describe a project and come back to finished, working code. That experience doesn't exist yet for the rest of the work that drives a company forward.\n\nAs coding gets increasingly automated, the bottleneck is moving upstream: strategy documents, competitive analysis, financial modeling, sales collateral, market research, SEO audits, rapid prototyping. These are multi-hour, multi-step projects that require pulling information from many sources, structuring it, and producing polished output.\n\nToday's AI tools treat this kind of work as a conversation. You get a chat thread, local file management, and one model doing everything sequentially. For simple tasks that works fine. But for complex projects, the single-chat paradigm breaks down. You end up managing the AI instead of letting it manage the work.\n\nWe've been building at this intersection for 3 years. Last year we launched Spine Canvas, a visual workspace for orchestrating AI models. Swarm is the next step: the canvas now has autonomous agents that can take on entire projects from start to finish.\n\n## **🛠 Our Solution**\n\nSpine Swarm gives you a team of AI agents that work together on a visual canvas. You describe the project, and Spine spins up specialized agents in parallel, each handling a different part of the work. You can watch them execute in real time, inspect each artifact as it's created, and edit anything in place.\n\n* **Multi-agent execution:** Spine orchestrates a team of agents across your project. For a competitive analysis, one agent researches market data, another structures the findings, another builds the slide deck. They work simultaneously, not sequentially, and can run autonomously for 80+ minutes on large projects.\n* **Intelligent model selection:** We route between 300+ models, picking the best one for each step and ensembling multiple models to override any single model's biases. You don't configure any of this.\n* **Visual canvas:** Every artifact your agents produce appears on a shared canvas where you can inspect, compare, edit, and branch. No chat windows, no file systems.\n\nEverything Spine builds is downloadable and hosted at a shareable link. Just send your team the URL.\n\n## **📊 Why This Works**\n\nA common question we hear: \"You're using the same models everyone else has access to. Why would the output be better?\"\n\nWe recently scored **87.6% on Google DeepMind's DeepSearchQA**, a benchmark that measures how well AI answers complex research questions requiring multi-step reasoning across sources:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98705&key=user_uploads/1362282/fb8a5039-8780-455d-abc4-7f3da613aa7b)\n\nThree things drive this:\n\n* **Model routing and ensembling:** Spine selects the best model from 300+ options for each step and ensembles multiple models to override any single model's biases or blind spots.\n* **Orchestration:** How you decompose a complex task, coordinate agents across steps, and manage handoffs between them matters as much as the models themselves.\n* **Intelligent canvas:** Agents work on a shared canvas where they can read each other's outputs, build on previous steps, and assemble coherent deliverables. This also means every step is fully auditable, so you can trace how agents arrived at their conclusions and verify their reasoning.\n\nRead more about our approach and the full benchmark results[ on our blog](https://blog.getspine.ai/spine-swarm-hits-1-on-gaia-level-3-and-google-deepmind-deepsearchqa/).\n\n## **🚀 Tasks Worth Trying**\n\n* \"_Audit \\[your website URL\\] and produce a full SEO analysis, competitive landscape, and a prioritized growth roadmap with a slide deck._\" You'll see agents browsing your site, researching competitors, and assembling deliverables simultaneously.\n* \"_I'm preparing to fundraise. Here are my company details: \\[paste\\]. Build me a pitch deck, competitive landscape with market sizing, a financial model, and personalized outreach emails for target investors._\"\n* \"_Here's a product idea: \\[describe it\\]. Generate three different interactive prototypes and landing pages exploring different design directions, alongside a PRD and go-to-market strategy._\"\n\n## **🙏 Our Ask**\n\n* **Try it:** Sign up at[ ](https://www.getspine.ai/)[www.getspine.ai](http://www.getspine.ai) and run one of the tasks above. It's free to get started, no credit card required.\n* **Tell us what you build:** We're actively shaping the product around how people actually use it. Email us at [founders@getspine.ai](mailto:founders@getspine.ai) with what you tried and how it went.\n\n**Share this post** if you know founders, operators, or team leads drowning in the strategic and analytical work that's piling up as code writes itself.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pg1-spine-swarm-your-ai-team-for-everything-beyond-code", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2026-03-12T15:09:28.483Z" }, { "id": 94642, "title": "Spine Canvas: Unlimited Visual Workspace for AI Thinking", "tagline": "Think beyond chat. Collaborate visually across 300+ AI models with branching, parallel, and contextual workflows.", "body": "tl;dr: Chat is great for Q&A, but real work isn’t linear.\n\n**Spine Canvas** is an unlimited, visual AI workspace that lets you orchestrate 300+ models with a single subscription, think in blocks (Chat, Deep Research, Memo, Image, Slides), branch safely, run in parallel, and keep explicit context across everything.\n\nGet started for free:[ ](https://www.getspine.ai/)https://www.getspine.ai\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBq6dDQlO5w \n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\nMost AI tools force thinking into a chat thread. That breaks down for real work:\n\n* **Superficial and linear:** useful for one-off answers, weak for exploration and synthesis\n* **Context evaporates:** sources get buried; you can’t see what informed which step\n* **No safe branching:** testing alternatives means losing your original path (or forking tabs)\n* **No parallelism:** ideas wait in line; you can’t spin up multiple streams at once\n* **Tool sprawl:** one app for research, another for writing, another for images — context gets lost between multiple AI subscriptions\n\nIf you’re doing market/competitive research, strategy, content systems, or product planning, you need an environment that reflects how thinking actually happens: exploratory, non-linear, and iterative.\n\n---\n\n### **💡 Our Solution: Canvas, Not Chat**\n\nSpine Canvas is a visual workspace where your ideas are blocks connected by explicit context. You can see, direct, branch, and re-run your thinking — across hundreds of models — without losing your train of thought.\n\n#### What you can do today:\n\n**Orchestrate 300+ models with a single subscription**\n\nGPT‑5, Claude, Gemini, Qwen, Flux, Nano Banana, and more — pick the right model per step and switch mid‑flow without losing context.\n\n**Think in blocks, not threads**\n\nChat, Prompt, Deep Research, Memo, Image, Slides — each block has an explicit role and visual inputs/outputs, so chains stay modular and interpretable.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94642&key=user_uploads/1222057/d6578fed-e2e5-4e9d-a749-a58b8ab47ccd)\n\n**Organize and (explicitly) utilize all your content in a single workspace**\n\nPaste or drop in PDFs, YouTube links, webpages, and even past LLM chats. Wire them into any block and control exactly what each step uses.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94642&key=user_uploads/1222057/1e4420c0-d1a2-46fa-82db-cdf54eb15827)\n\n**Branch safely and compare**\n\nExplore alternatives without corrupting your original path. Keep versions side‑by‑side and merge insights when you’re ready.\n\n**Run in parallel**\n\nTake a list (competitors, themes, tasks) and spin out multiple research streams, drafts, or visuals at once.\n\n**Re‑run and evolve**\n\nUpdate one block and cascade improvements through an entire branch. Iteration becomes automatic and reproducible.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94642&key=user_uploads/1222057/47204045-5cb7-477e-afc9-55a447f0e165)\n\nOur public roadmap:[ app.getspine.ai/roadmap](https://app.getspine.ai/roadmap)\n\n### **💼 Real Canvases Teams Are Building**\n\n* Market deep‑dives that flow into competitor profiles, battlecards, and executive memos — in minutes, not days\n* Content engines that turn one source into outlines, drafts, and platform‑ready assets (with visuals)\n* Founder/product strategy rooms mapping interviews (YouTube + PDFs) → insights → counterpoints → product bets → launch plans\n* Creative labs exploring concepts, visual directions, and brand systems\n* Learning hubs with curated sources, summaries, and living notes\n\nExplore our gallery:[ https://app.getspine.ai/gallery](https://app.getspine.ai/gallery)\n\n### **⚙️ Why This Matters**\n\n* **Transparency:** See what each block knows — no black-box memory.\n* **Control:** Direct sources by domain, date, or type; include your own docs and past chats.\n* **Speed:** Complex, multi-step work finishes in minutes and stays repeatable.\n* **Flexibility:** Model-agnostic orchestration keeps your workflow stable as models evolve.\n* **Complete**: Do everything from research to generating presentation slides, images, copy drafts, all without switching tools.\n\nChat works for Q&A. **Canvas is for thinking.**\n\n### **🤝 Ask**\n\n* Try using a canvas for thinking instead of linear chat threads – build one real workflow (research → memo, content engine, or strategy room) and tell us what clicked.\n* Share with teams who live in research, strategy, content, product or learnOps – we’re eager to add more templates based on your feedback.\n* YC community: we’re always happy to chat about getting the best thinking out of your AI models — visually for individual workflows, and structurally through company-wide templates.\n\n**Get started for free:**[ ](https://www.getspine.ai)[getspine.ai](http://getspine.ai)\n\n**Join the community:**[ discord.gg/KuHzF6zBPs](https://discord.gg/KuHzF6zBPs)\n\n**Book a chat:**[ calendly.com/intro-getspine/intro](https://calendly.com/intro-getspine/intro)\n\n\\\nThe future of human–AI collaboration is visual, adaptive, and unlimited.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OcU-spine-canvas-unlimited-visual-workspace-for-ai-thinking", "votes": 29, "created_at": "2025-10-14T19:07:02.223Z" }, { "id": 90394, "title": "Spine Research: Deep research done better", "tagline": "Iterative deep research reports you can actually use.", "body": "**tl;dr** Spine Research searches through **_over 3x more sources 5x faster than ChatGPT Deep Research while keeping you in control_**. With a built-in full-text editor, you can iteratively guide the research, dive deeper into topics, and build and share reports that are actually useful.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cabKW-B9Ung\n\n# ❌ **The Problem**\n\n“Deep research” with AI often isn’t comprehensive, collaborative or controlled. If you’re relying on research for critical decisions, you’ve probably run up against the limitations of current tools:\n\n* **Superficial Overviews:** Most AI tools deliver surface-level summaries. While a starting point, they rarely deliver the nuanced, comprehensive understanding needed for a true competitive edge or complex problem-solving.\n* **Static Reports, Not Evolving Understanding:** Real insight comes from asking new questions based on what you're learning, and using that to inform where you need to go next. What if the initial research misses the mark, or you want to explore a specific avenue further? You're often stuck waiting 10-15+ minutes for a complete do-over, losing valuable context and any useful initial findings. Current UX isn't built for the way human understanding evolves – through continuous _refinement_ and building upon prior knowledge.\n* **Lack of Meaningful Control:** Struggling to direct AI to your trusted websites, specific authors, or crucial internal documents? Or to exclude irrelevant noise? You end up sifting through low-quality information, wasting time and effort, because you can't effectively steer the research. It's hard to restrict research to just research papers, recent news or local government websites.\n\n For critical decision-making and professional analysis, today's AI \"deep research\" often feels frustratingly superficial, rigid, and disconnected from your own expertise.\n\n# 💡 **Our Solution**\n\nSpine AI rapidly generates comprehensive research reports by synthesizing insights from hundreds of websites, academic papers, news articles, and private documents—delivering deeper, more accurate understanding in a fraction of the time taken by ChatGPT's Deep Research. \n\nYou're in full control to iteratively define the scope, depth, and breadth of analysis to perfectly suit your needs.\n\n1. **Guide your process from the start:**\\\n Start with your prompt and guide the research process immediately. Spine AI generates an initial outline you can quickly edit. Refine its scope, focus, or sources in minutes, ensuring precise alignment _before_ full report generation, so you don’t have to wait 15 minutes to realize you forgot to include a key detail about scope.\n\n ![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXcL5A3u_PiTNIcT2zA_EuBzfnd1KkxzSX96-X_IXZip1X55JeOpSlewO6VSh2UnshndNmMQ0CIQLX2AJXZnl63DSKevcmLfEEZbmYFx4kNp4hSAMh6O8fSbOreW-syDJtskuGvYWg?key=Y1LxsXqmD3SyMDO0vvbfTw)\n\n2. **Control the process and build your understanding iteratively:**\n * **Breadth of sources:** When searching the open web, Spine AI accesses over 3x more sources than ChatGPT’s deep research, giving you a more comprehensive view with detailed citations out of the box. You can also exclude irrelevant domains, keeping unreliable sources out of your reports.\n * **Focused discovery:** Direct Spine AI to focus on particular types of sources (like news, financial reports, or research papers), specific websites, and set publication timeframes, to ensure the most relevant information.\n * **Leverage your own sources:** Upload and research your own private documents—proprietary reports, project files, spreadsheets, slide decks—integrating your internal knowledge with external discovery.\n * **Model Agnostic:** Maintain flexibility by choosing the LLM (including OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini models) that best suits your current needs or preferences. Your core research workflow remains stable, even as individual model capabilities evolve.\n\n ![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXcT9SBLuKPWhEOCBukznBQTa76nsdbme7j2Tid7-TYTDxW-fxfMF37AHn7GwxQBR-b5E1rxcu9GWpjbdKWLgcoJV7q9SMyH0-ToypIKq63YfCWSBg1BTjXOle7IUb4h_GZ-DaGjJw?key=Y1LxsXqmD3SyMDO0vvbfTw)\n\n3. **Directly add your expertise:**\\\n Spine AI isn't just about AI-generated content; it's a dynamic working document. You can type directly into your research, add your own notes, edit the generated text, and incorporate your unique context and analysis alongside the AI's findings. Close the gap between just another research doc to organize, and actually creating a usable report, or project doc.\n\n# 🤝 **The Ask**\n\n**Put us to the test.**\n\nNeed to build quick expertise on a new topic or simplify your research process?. Find out about how the [recent executive order on drug pricing could shift the market](https://research.getspine.ai/reports/62ab8a56-e0d5-4380-a991-18bf4fc2ffd0?utm_campaign=bookface), [what US-China trade negotiations could mean for startups and VC](https://research.getspine.ai/reports/0ee2928d-e0c9-4aea-b277-45f347d2b07d?utm_campaign=bookface), or [where Stripe is sitting in the market](https://research.getspine.ai/reports/105e8d40-36fc-4092-8555-853cf5865b40?utm_campaign=bookface). Also great for getting a handle on the latest research ([how much do we really know about ozempic?](https://research.getspine.ai/reports/ff4177f6-105f-4954-9fdd-a50261beae32?utm_campaign=bookface)), or whatever else you have questions about.\n\n**Try us out for free!**\n\nAnd with the YC promo code (YCLAUNCH), you can get $25 off our pro plans.\n\nKnow a founder, investor, analyst, or tech enthusiast who needs better research tools? Let them know about Spine AI. **Share with deep research power users**, and see if they don’t want to make the switch.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NVy-spine-research-deep-research-done-better", "votes": 56, "created_at": "2025-05-14T16:35:06.718Z" }, { "id": 86064, "title": "Spine AI – The Multi-Modal AI Analyst Platform for Reliable Insights", "tagline": "Simplifying data exploration at scale with AI analysts tailored to your business context", "body": "# Tl;dr\n\nAccessing and synthesizing data is a challenge, with existing tools requiring too much effort and expertise.\n\n**Enter Spine**: An AI-powered data platform built for decision-makers that handles your data in any format. Teach it your business context, to get reliable answers from databases, documents, and websearch. Gather your insights in customizable reports that automate multi-modal analysis and keep insights traceable.\n\nTo celebrate F24 Demo Day, **we’re offering free access** to a YC dataset in Spine, giving investors and observers a deep dive into batch F24’s companies, founders, and opportunities.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86064&key=user_uploads/1222057/425f4b5e-1eb5-48a6-bf02-25e69412564d)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86064&key=user_uploads/1222057/365e8fa7-e9c5-4489-adb3-281393120488)\n\n# The problem\n\nThere is no shortage of data and information, or reasons to access it. Improving operations, identifying the most successful initiatives, or clarifying key drivers of revenue. But accessing and synthesizing this information from various sources can be an uphill battle.\n\nMany tools available for working with data make it difficult to get to the right information without significant time and effort. Technical experts often have to unlock access for decision makers, and even then, critical details locked in documents, slide decks, or PDFs are hard to uncover and integrate effectively. \n\nWhile platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini offer “chat with your data” functionality—such as answering questions about uploaded spreadsheets or generating text-to-SQL queries—they don’t go far enough. None of these solutions offer an end to end solution that’s suitable for scalable use.\n\n**You need to already have the right data, in a clean format, and not too much.** The big LLM providers can find some new information for you, but it can’t give you structured data at scale, and it’s not up to date.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86064&key=user_uploads/1222057/243f0c39-bd31-4246-9230-a330465ccdd1)\n\n**It’s not enough to just do text to SQL.** It can speed up querying, but there’s a lot of business context that needs to be applied to make answers accurate and useful, and Custom GPTs don’t cut it. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86064&key=user_uploads/1222057/7f42be7d-d2d5-434c-8854-37792f39dc9d)\n\n**There’s no good way to update information, add more data, or deal with multiple formats and sources at the same time.** People often don’t know the best place to find the information they are looking for, and most LLMs can’t help with that at scale.\n\n**You can’t easily collect the insights you’ve generated from LLMs, share them, or re-trace your steps if there are questions about the source.** If you want to replicate a similar process for your analysis there’s no straightforward way, especially if it involves multi-modal data.\n\nThe major BI and analytics tools solve some of these problems, but they don’t really deliver on conversational functionality, and definitely don’t support multi-modality.\n\nWhich is why we’ve built a better way.\n\n# The solution\n\nSpine is a multi-modal AI analyst platform designed for decision-makers, delivering an end to end solution which includes:\n\n**Explore and enrich data**\n\n* Either start from scratch or add on to your existing data. Combine structured data, documents, and websearch for a unified view.\n* Pull in data for competitive analysis, market research, benchmarking and more.\n\n**Domain knowledge management customized for your use case, and ongoing evaluations for reliable updates**\n\n* Our platform makes it possible to adjust, and test the integration of domain knowledge at scale, so you know updates work and are an improvement over what came before. \n* We generate 1000s of samples for each of our analysts, capturing issues so we can solve them, and know objectively that our changes improve performance.\n\n**Integrations for your existing data sources**\n\n* We work with data of all types, integrating with platforms like Google Drive, BigQuery and Snowflake, and industry specific tools like iLevel. Any tool that has an API can be set up.\n\n**Transparent answers for users**\n\n* Our AI analysts always show their work, so users can verify where answers are coming from and how they were created.\n* If the analyst finds a question it’s not confident in answering, it notifies the user and gives them the option to submit to a human to verify its work.\n\n**Customizable reporting and repeatable analysis**\n\n* Full control and flexibility in reports and dashboards. Insights can be added directly from the chat, gathering information from structured datasets and documents.\n* Create templates to automate multi-modal analysis, enabling you to apply the same framework seamlessly across multiple entities, such as different companies or similar data sets.\n\n**In honour of Demo Day**, we’ve put together a [free preview of Spine](https://yc.getspine.ai/sign-up) with a dataset for batch F24’s companies and founders (plus as a bonus, data on all YC companies). \n\nIf you’re an investor:\n\n* Don’t miss out on discovering the best of the best. You can get a comprehensive overview of who’s in this batch, what they’re doing, and which companies are most similar, and figure out which are best suited for your investment thesis.\n* Track the companies you’re interested in, and create a more focused view to compare them.\n* Upload pitch decks and documents from founders to enrich the dataset we’ve given you, and pull key insights from them, such as traction, TAM estimates and GTM strategy.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86064&key=user_uploads/1222057/517013a9-2a07-4c8b-abef-0ea809e7ad5c)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86064&key=user_uploads/1222057/47430f02-c20c-42d8-9376-8591fc3d9058)\n\n# The ask\n\n**Try this free preview of Spine for YC F24 Demo Day!**\n\n[Sign up](https://yc.getspine.ai/sign-up) and learn about the companies launching with this batch (or explore all companies in the YC directory!)\n\n**Reach out if you’re interested in the full version of Spine**\n\nWe’ve worked with a number of investors in the VC space, but we’ve also created AI analysts for market research, sales data, and user facing experiences for B2B SaaS products.\n\nIf you think you could be doing more with your data, [reach out.](https://www.getspine.ai/talk-to-us)\n\n**Spread the word**\n\nIf you like what you see, share it with someone you think would find it useful. \\\nShare this post, and follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/95072305/admin/feed/posts/) and [Twitter](https://twitter.com/Spine_AI).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MO8-spine-ai-the-multi-modal-ai-analyst-platform-for-reliable-insights", "votes": 32, "created_at": "2024-12-05T15:20:32.109Z" }, { "id": 82328, "title": "Spine AI - Reliable AI data analysts that know your business", "tagline": "Custom AI analysts, trained on your business context, so you can ask truly plain language data questions and make informed decisions frictionlessly", "body": "## tl;dr\n\nSpine creates reliable AI analysts that make it easy to get the right data to drive decisions. We capture and embed your business context, to enable real plain language data questions. Instead of spending time struggling with inflexible dashboards, or translating questions to queries, just ask questions and get answers. Empower internal decision makers, or your customers, with interface options that integrate with existing workflows.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdtqKjuSuQpHE3TjAm_itXPgRLQtQgySxCTM0ReLQsAw3Gp_7wvbUIcGzUlUdy_WnNHsxizF0yn7oyA3Eb6ompQWp1RItXp80w1zaZWFZoAZgUQ4-Yk36b65S3_8LSTE5QTYAdgjqKrhkkzSBg6ZF45FUg?key=nI0vqYTeqq8Yopi3is-LAg)\n\n# The problem\n\nFrom having built over 200 copilots for companies and having processed more than 100k user queries here are some of our key learnings:\n\n* Analytics and business intelligence are critical to running any organization. They allow leaders to understand what’s working, what’s not, and where they can find new opportunities.\n* Most existing BI tools are inflexible and technical. To find answers to novel questions requires knowledge of the data model, or a BI specific query language.\n* In practice, it's not always obvious what you'll need to know to respond to an evolving situation, or what new questions your data will raise. Static reports and dashboards create dead ends. You can get stuck waiting for someone from the data team to be available, or having to act on best guesses.\n* And it's not just internal decision makers who face these challenges. Your customers can only interact with their application data through:\n * static dashboards that require engineering teams to build,\n * custom reports your support teams and analysts put together, and/or\n * data exports that require expertise to dissect\n* While the extraction of information from unstructured sources has evolved, handling structured data remains a challenge:\n * Beyond accurately deciphering user intent, structured data often comes with messy table schemas and unwritten business context, for which there are no established methods of embedding in the models.\n * Simply having models generate complex SQL and/or code to process the data makes the execution less transparent, flexible and reliable.\n * Isolating data across multiple tenants and user access controls remains a barrier in making this a customer facing feature.\n\n## The solution\n\nWe build custom AI analysts that allow any user to ask plain language questions about their data, and get reliable answers.\n\n**Plain language questions and natural exploration**\n\nWith the chat interface, users can easily explore their data, asking questions in their own words, instead of \"translating them\" to a formal query. When the results raise new questions, just ask them. No searching for the right report, or getting stuck at a deadend in your dashboard.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXezHViIBc3TQimN4FoYsmGAuqFJ_lFgAQU8rTAGqPTGqoQmaN1l_FIxEwl8RvNWwRNJDQrVqL3w1ur0ziFjU069dzbYTwvorccXTDYPsPjD4CSqnRUMWnu4s89MT5Lgy-XfA3dqZJ5XunVddCXzeh97aw?key=nI0vqYTeqq8Yopi3is-LAg)\n\n**Revisit crucial insights**\n\nOnce you’ve found insights in your data, it’s easy to come back to. Get regular notifications for key questions, collect insights into shareable reports, or add them to flexible dashboards.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXefxA1bWXpTkzW8hQBEekKMhZ4W3KPKIdetddq-1FWALX804CujEpigd2dQJjFVsEYVqE8MTsMRRzJ9mB6ahQkKQ7Rpxatwyp8AUgaVdLWKz0B8neUCiXXWM6uQbQWQXeFOwBBVHNETGCQGvQa5U1TJUrc?key=nI0vqYTeqq8Yopi3is-LAg)\n\n**Transparent and reliable answers**\n\nEven on a single table dataset Spine’s AI analyst performs 15x better than GPT-4o out of the box.\n\nRather than leveraging models to generate complex SQL or code (or find answers from the data directly), our solution leverages a proprietary Data Processing Unit (DPU) that comprises a collection of refined modules.\n\nThe DPU enables us to:\n\n* have individually tested and schema/domain fine-tuned modules that work at scale\n* react to the data and modify the operations we take to get the answer\n* explain the steps taken by the AI in a simple human readable manner\n\nDuring the customer onboarding process, we capture and embed the business context and the schema understanding into the DPU modules. Additionally we build and maintain data and schema-specific semantic layers, across tables, which makes it possible for us to accurately interpret and handle natural language questions across multiple tables with over millions of rows each.\n\nFinally, a combination of automated and human evaluations give us an objective way of measuring performance — both before and after we deploy the analyst.\n\n**Diverse use cases**\n\nWe are able to support use cases across diverse industries and user bases by systematically gathering domain specific knowledge from our customers, and automatically inferring relevant data characteristics. Whether you’re in finance, retail, healthcare, telecoms, manufacturing, or any other industry, we can create an AI analyst for your business.\n\n**_Sales analyst_**\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdfoY8qAC_h6o37VqJhc9laUNLLsm2WoauY11Wzkq5Xn30kUo3sOqSGh5QQh8Z0In23MiAu5rTmss7DsZEFkpNUqwbVjH8-7lkmjcQTWE03g1U_Ce7bU_J5Tnaa34Om9RUW7onhyfiMfZBYYDhIg2bv82s?key=nI0vqYTeqq8Yopi3is-LAg)\n\nUnderstand what outreach activities are getting attention, with who. Dig into team member performance, email deliverability and more, to better understand what’s effective and what’s not performing.\n\n**_eCommerce platform analyst_**\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdmVxwj3U-ohPX90hds_V_0qkRzBioVUgAOa7mZn0dJb3Bds-NSWsJAI2bfrQSnwVkAlwQ9n_KxmSXWXouOgqy4Tof9-GabGM6CC36-DMWTw53EJt8TuP5AYKCIJhxhWsXsU_aO9V0ZimmY5AW4FzW6Gg?key=nI0vqYTeqq8Yopi3is-LAg)\n\nGain insights into which products are selling the most and why. Analyze customer behavior, optimize inventory management, and uncover trends in purchase patterns to maximize your sales potential.\n\n**_ERP system analyst_**\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXd_waVQSpbeRpOB3ZZjq_YGuu4scesyVCwj7txYLLoy6oyIzVUoSxEKyDuvkkjnXfG3JekB8U5Oq_I_wsbfAQSxLtdNw2QHrm6Yu9HQfmNQ5lMv7fLm1Sduavs0PyO3Fie2eqHih2I4amlPDb8exr_dy3I?key=nI0vqYTeqq8Yopi3is-LAg)\n\nKeep projects on track by monitoring task progress, timelines, and budget adherence. Evaluate project performance, identify risks, and ensure timely delivery of project milestones.\n\n**The power and flexibility of AI without needing a technical team**\n\nYou don’t need your own AI team. Have your custom analyst up and running in the next 30 days, and leave the upkeep to us. Monitor and tune the analyst’s behavior over time with our admin panel.\n\n# About us\n\nWe are Akshay and Ashwin – the co-founders of Spine AI 👋. We've been friends for over a decade, with our shared journey beginning at the University of Waterloo. Our interest in machine learning took root in an unlikely place – a building called _Spine_ at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore during an exchange term.\n\nAnd in our first year we’ve grown! Across our team, we collectively collaborated with more than 45 enterprises, guiding them toward the next levels of AI maturity. We have more than 100+ citations in GenAI and patents in AI and data processing. Our team also has experience working at companies like Nvidia, Shopify, Instacart, Amazon, Epic Games as well as founding multiple YC companies.\n\n## The ask\n\n* If you need better access to insights within your organization, or want to empower your customers with their data, we'd love to [hear from you](https://www.getspine.ai/talk-to-us)!\n* First 10 companies that contact us after launch get to trial a free, fully functioning AI analyst for your data! (Just let us know you heard about us from YC)\n* Help us spread the word! Please share this post and join our journey by following us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/95072305/admin/feed/posts/) and [Twitter](https://twitter.com/Spine_AI).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LPs-spine-ai-reliable-ai-data-analysts-that-know-your-business", "votes": 32, "created_at": "2024-07-22T20:55:24.459Z" }, { "id": 73256, "title": "🚀 Spine AI – Propel your products forward with AI copilots", "tagline": "Spine AI’s platform helps you build a copilot for your product.", "body": "**_Tl;dr_**_: Spine AI simplifies the process of integrating AI copilots into your products. Now, complex tasks within products like JIRA, such as custom reporting or bulk updates, can be effortlessly managed. Simply have your users instruct our AI copilot and watch as it seamlessly executes your commands. Interested in the power of AI copilots for your products? We're just a message away!_\n\n![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/WbKO1Pu6llFXV2BkVDpIZq_OxQHZqlQkGdXmWfSfgo9d-OsXV5GsUxwJZCRRzuZnxKhkAAibbms9Hi-zyfyklPV7OTkwhabjFUWi7es3qMRaHL1VekA9vtQgboExpAf_oZXHyPt3RkAO7V-3_wq1ijE)\n\nHello everyone, we are Akshay and Ashwin – the co-founders of Spine AI 👋. We've been friends for over a decade, with our shared journey beginning at the University of Waterloo. Our interest in machine learning took root in an unlikely place – a building called _Spine_ at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore during an exchange term.\n\nIn the past five years, we've collaborated with more than 45 enterprises, guiding them toward the next levels of AI maturity. This year, we've successfully integrated LLM-related technologies into over six companies, leading to a clear projected ROI. This journey has brought some key insights to light:\n\n* The gap between creating a text generation prototype with tools like OpenAI and deploying a value-adding product is significant.\n* Customer expectations are evolving, with [hybrid UI paradigms (command + intent)](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ai-paradigm/) becoming increasingly prevalent.\n* To maximize their benefits, AI copilots must perform actions on users' behalf, saving time and creating new workflow possibilities. This is the core functionality of our Spine-powered copilots.\n\n### 💪 The Power of AI Copilots\n\n* AI copilots streamline complex UI workflows, morphing them into an intuitive, natural language-based interface.\n* Adding an AI copilot to B2B products is becoming table-stakes (as seen with [Shopify](https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1679114154756669441?s=20), [Microsoft](https://www.barrons.com/articles/microsoft-stock-ai-software-ad2baf04), [Notion](https://www.notion.so/product/ai), etc.) for companies that have the capacity to build them. At Spine AI, we're on a mission to democratize this.\n* When added to enterprise SaaS products, AI copilots have helped companies increase ARR by $1M. 💰\n* AI copilots enhance your product by adding an intelligence layer that directly connects users to backend APIs, documents, and databases, making previously challenging workflows easily implementable.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73256&key=user_uploads/1362282/06ca9a30-c100-4c04-87e3-64e7438b361d)\n\n### 💢 The Problem\n\n* Developing reliable AI copilots, which offer a wide range of functionalities, demands a significant investment of time and resources, requiring extensive AI and engineering expertise throughout the entire lifecycle.\n* Embedding diverse actions into the copilots, such as API calls, documentation updates, multi-modality, and authentication handling, can extend the development timeline beyond six months.\n* The addition of complex features, like custom reporting and integrations, can further prolong the development cycle, putting additional strain on already-packed roadmaps.\n\n### 🎯 The Solution\n\n* Enter Spine AI – the easiest way to build reliable AI copilots for your products. Our platform converts API docs, DB schemas, and multi-modal documents into fully operational AI copilots that integrate effortlessly with just a few lines of code.\n* During the setup process, each copilot is equipped with a custom orchestrator, trained to effectively transform user intents into concrete actions.\n* Maintain complete control over the product interface with the ability to customize the permitted actions, enabled workflows, and the copilot's response style to users.\n* Once integrated, the AI copilot becomes a superuser of your product – an indispensable assistant always at your users' disposal, enabling them to harness your product's full potential.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73256&key=user_uploads/1362282/43dd32fe-2473-482c-9da0-ab5577b8c551)\n\n### 🤝 Ask: How you can help\n\n* If you're a B2B company exploring ways to integrate AI copilots into your products effectively, we'd love to [hear from you](https://www.getspine.ai/)!\n* If you're unsure how Spine can streamline your complex workflows, drop us a note at [founders@getspine.ai](mailto:founders@getspine.ai)\n\nHelp us spread the word! Please share this post and join our journey by following us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/95072305/admin/feed/posts/) and [Twitter](https://twitter.com/Spine_AI).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J3Y-spine-ai-propel-your-products-forward-with-ai-copilots", "votes": 63, "created_at": "2023-07-20T14:21:01.092Z" } ] }, { "id": 28844, "name": "Alguna", "slug": "alguna", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2e2a3ced5969028060bbaaf152193b5b6a2b3982.png", "website": "https://alguna.com", "all_locations": "London, England, United Kingdom; Remote", "long_description": "We are Alguna, building a modern platform that helps B2B companies price deals, send quotes, bill customers, and collect payments - all in one place.\r\n\r\nOur mission is to create the most efficient revenue engine for B2B SaaS.\r\n\r\nToday, many companies run these processes with spreadsheets and a patchwork of separate tools. That leads to slow approvals, manual work, mistakes, and missed revenue—especially as pricing gets more complex.\r\n\r\nAlguna replaces that mess by connecting the entire flow from **quote to cash**: what sales sells becomes what finance bills, automatically. We help teams automate invoicing, handle usage-based or custom pricing, and reduce back-and-forth between sales, finance, and engineering.\r\n\r\nThe result: growth-stage startups and enterprises can close deals faster, bill accurately, and scale revenue operations without adding headcount or building internal systems.\r\n", "one_liner": "AI-Native CPQ & Billing for Modern Pricing Models", "team_size": 10, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1691026781, "tags": [ "Fintech", "SaaS", "B2B", "Enterprise", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "regions": [ "United Kingdom", "Europe", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": true, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": [ { "question": "What is the core problem you are solving? 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As soon as a company introduces custom terms (discounts, ramps, multi-year deals, usage-based pricing, credits, multi-entity billing), the process breaks down: quotes don’t match invoices, billing becomes manual, and finance is stuck cleaning up exceptions every month.\r\n\r\nAlguna solves this by providing a single platform that unifies **pricing, CPQ, billing, invoicing, payments, usage metering, and collections automation** into one **quote-to-revenue** system.\r\n\r\n**Why is this a big problem?**\r\n\r\nBecause revenue operations scale poorly when the infrastructure is fragmented.\r\n\r\nThe impact is measurable:\r\n\r\n\\- **Revenue leakage:** missed invoices, incorrect pricing, unbilled usage, and manual errors compound over time.\r\n\r\n\\- **Slower deal cycles:** approvals and “can we even bill this?” questions delay closing.\r\n\r\n\\- **High operational cost:** finance and revops teams spend their time reconciling systems instead of controlling revenue.\r\n\r\n\\- **Engineering dependency:** product teams get pulled into custom billing logic, integrations, and edge cases.\r\n\r\n\\- **Harder forecasting and reporting:** when the source of truth is scattered, finance cannot trust the numbers.\r\n\r\nAs more companies adopt **usage-based**, **hybrid**, and **AI-driven** pricing models, the gap between modern monetization and legacy revenue stacks keeps widening.\r\n\r\n**What made you decide to work on it?**\r\n\r\nWe saw the same pattern across fast-growing B2B teams: the product and go-to-market motion moves quickly, but the revenue stack stays stuck in old systems built for simpler subscriptions.\r\n\r\nTeams end up running “mission-critical revenue” on spreadsheets and disconnected tools—because replacing them is painful, and building in-house is expensive and distracting. Yet the cost of doing nothing is continuous: every custom deal creates more manual work, more risk, and more leakage.\r\n\r\nAlguna exists to modernize that foundation. We’re building the revenue management engine B2B companies need to sell flexibly, bill accurately, and scale without chaos—by unifying the quote-to-revenue lifecycle and automating the back office." }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "We will know Alguna succeeded when **B2B monetization stops being a patchwork of spreadsheets, PDFs, and disconnected tools**—and becomes a single, programmable revenue engine that companies can run with speed, precision, and confidence.\r\n\r\nThe world today is stuck with legacy revenue stacks that were built for simpler subscription businesses. Meanwhile, selling is changing fast: companies sell across **PLG (self-serve), SLG (custom quotes), and enterprise procurement**, pricing models are shifting toward **usage, hybrid, credits, and outcome-based**, and deep integrations + two-way sync across systems are becoming table stakes. In that environment, “good enough” billing and CPQ breaks down.\r\n\r\nAlguna’s vision is to become the **one source of truth for revenue**—the system that orchestrates pricing, quoting, contracting, usage, billing, invoicing, payments, and collections end-to-end.\\\r\n\\\r\nWhat will be different about the world\r\n\r\n**1) Revenue operations becomes “real-time” and automated**\r\n\r\n* Quotes turn into clean billing schedules automatically.\r\n* Usage becomes billable without manual reconciliation.\r\n* Invoices and collections run with far fewer human interventions.\r\n* Finance teams stop doing back-office cleanup as a permanent job.\r\n\r\n**2) Pricing evolves as quickly as the market**\r\n\r\n* Teams can run pricing experiments safely across channels.\r\n* Guardrails and approvals are built-in, not enforced by spreadsheets.\r\n* Companies avoid pricing drift, one-off logic, and costly exceptions.\r\n\r\n**3) Selling becomes faster, with less internal friction**\r\n\r\n* Sales can confidently sell complex deals without engineering dependency.\r\n* Deal desks can scale without becoming a bottleneck.\r\n* Enterprise flexibility is supported without creating operational chaos.\r\n\r\n**4) Businesses scale with smaller teams and higher reliability**\r\n\r\n* A 10-person team can grow rapidly without inheriting a brittle revenue stack.\r\n* Forecasting becomes more trustworthy because the underlying system is consistent.\r\n* Revenue leakage becomes the exception, not the norm." } ], "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/alguna", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/alguna.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "London", "country": "GB", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/algunahq/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/AlgunaHQ", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/alguna", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2e2a3ced5969028060bbaaf152193b5b6a2b3982.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/video_event/62/1694195946018-qz3wkvl5t4-8d89e3293da5a4ef13c2c5e6b0b45914/4631d1271da0148a6826e54bf7e3dfea.mp4?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAQC4NIECABPQ2AHNW%2F20261020%2Fus-west-2%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20261020T022713Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=7a76a7cb370f71bac2472008842548d055627307cb53e1ada01868ae81bca652", "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1225753, "full_name": "Aleks Đekić", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder and CEO of Alguna (S23) – Spent most of his career building payment products and apps in Fintech. 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", "body": "# **📝 TL;DR:**\n\n> [Alguna](https://alguna.io) is a modern pricing, quoting, and billing platform for B2B SaaS. Companies use it to unify the quote-to-revenue process by automating complex and manual back-office operations. [Book a demo](https://alguna.io) to learn more.\n\n# **❌ Problem**\n\nAs companies grow, they want to offer more customized deals to their larger customers, capture data around product usage, forecast revenue, and experiment with pricing. As they scale, instead of graduating to better tools, they default to using spreadsheets and manual processes to connect single-point solutions.\n\nAfter interviewing over 100 company leaders, we’ve seen what consequences information siloes and fragmented solutions can have on the companies’ growth trajectories. \\\nFrom light issues like hiring people to copy/paste data between systems to fundamental ones like not trusting your revenue data or asking your customers to tell you how much they used your product.\n\n> _In times of growth at all costs, companies could’ve turned a blind eye to these imperfect workflows; however, as 2023 loomed over the whole SaaS world, these revenue-impacting inefficiencies represent the line between company survival and the slow death of running out of money without even realizing it._\n\n# ✅ **How Alguna works**\n\nOur core premise is to enable our customers (growth-stage startups and enterprises) to flexibly close more deals faster without worrying about internal limitations and relying on finance and engineering teams.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76099&key=user_uploads/1225753/9b1a2f85-6a49-4420-8839-23d7193526fa)\n\n> We’ve built **an end-to-end solution** covering the whole customer lifecycle while **complementing** existing **sales** (CRMs), **finance** (ERPs/Accounting), and **engineering** tools.\n\n**Configure pricing & create custom quotes**\n\n* Set up pricing and packaging across all sales channels while supporting any pricing model (including subscriptions, usage-based, platform fees, etc.)\n* Create the most customizable plan options with custom product billing options, one-off integration fees, special discounts, and complex renewal terms.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76099&key=user_uploads/1225753/d5c62cfa-bb64-45bd-b544-4ff878cbc363)\n\n**Streamline the contract signature flow**\\\nAlguna provides an embedded signature experience directly from the proposal you send customers. This is then automatically connected to tools upstream (CRMs) and downstream (ERPs), enabling the cohesive external (prospects/customers) and internal experience.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76099&key=user_uploads/1225753/f722da69-f9ef-4655-be51-676d57731dbb)\n\n**Seamless and reliable invoicing experience**\\\nSince the pricing models and quotes are natively integrated, everything is automatically connected with the billing engine, enabling the accurate and reliable customer billing experience directly via Alguna or ERP tools of your choice (Stripe Invoicing, Netsuite, Xero, Quickbooks, Bill)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76099&key=user_uploads/1225753/8802ecb0-928d-4ff8-9bf2-d6593fae75a3)\n\n**Source of truth for revenue metrics** \\\nEmpower sales and customer success teams with usage data to drive more revenue and unlock new upsell opportunities with real-time revenue data.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76099&key=user_uploads/1225753/f34387fc-134a-471f-bba3-0d38d1e992f8)\n\n# **🏟️ Why us**\n\nWe ([@Jamie MacLeod](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-macleod/) & [@Aleks Đekić](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksdjekic/)) met at a fintech startup where we helped scale the payments and automation teams and products. While trying to launch new products, we experienced this problem firsthand and decided to solve it once and for all. Previously, [@Aleks](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksdjekic/) led the product development of internal tools _just like_ Alguna for a 600-person commercial team at one of Europe's fastest-growing payment processing companies.\n\n# **🚀 What’s next?**\n\n> **_We’re on a mission to build the most efficient revenue management engine covering the whole customer lifecycle._**\n\n* [Book a demo](https://alguna.io) if you want to learn more about Alguna.\n * Refer us to anyone you know who could benefit from our solution via [founders@alguna.io](mailto:founders@alguna.io)\n * If you’d like to share insights and feedback, our inbox is always open.\n* Follow us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/AlgunaHQ) or [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/algunahq) for new product updates and revenue management best practices.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JnP-alguna-modern-pricing-quoting-billing-platform", "votes": 120, "created_at": "2023-11-09T10:18:48.254Z" } ] }, { "id": 28845, "name": "Campfire", "slug": "campfire-2", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b964d406b730adef7e1ad9fcd6fdf8775ca296fc.png", "website": "https://campfire.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Campfire is the modern accounting platform for startups and mid-size tech companies. The fastest growing YC companies such as Replit, Posthog, SpeakAI run on Campfire. Our product includes an accounting general ledger that has multi-entity support and advanced financial reporting such as P&L by department and contribution margin by customer. 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It’s a modern general ledger with advanced features such as multi-entity support and advanced revenue reporting in a modern, consumer-grade interface.\n\n**Revenue dashboard**\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/vNK1saTKs-pUioJMvekmx0HD-W31n_MBiUdMPRGN1IPkDQ9GZYCsPvvRagD9KX4AVxPp0vVYFXz0G9h_-WUhqujPCLefCUb7ZZIQ34KUOdWsv0NgGJk3Be6AWqlxmyyg30WsrJZfGhPK9nlGVjXn44s)\n\n---\n\nWe’ve been building our accounting platform to compete with Netsuite since day one at Campfire, but it’s a massive undertaking, so our initial product launch was one of our features - [Revenue Automation](https://meetcampfire.com/revenue-automation/) for unified invoicing/payments, revenue accounting, and reporting. And today, I’m thrilled to share more about our flagship product - [Core Accounting](https://meetcampfire.com/core-accounting/). It’s a modern accounting platform with companies such as Carbon Direct, Populi, and Delphia using the product. We’ve been beta testing our general ledger since July with customers that range in size from 10 employees to 150-employee global companies and are now ready to onboard more customers. Our typical customer migrates to Campfire from QuickBooks and Xero, but we’ve also migrated customers from mid-market ERPs like Sage Intacct and NetSuite.\n\n**Multi-entity income statement:**\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/TEOi8cfTZbfz5jIat7AQ9jyKDZAACh6xRhu6LnB4USU1zwe4bBfwA6_D8HFwHqXX1gYfcRPLSSibjFI9oJ_QTi9qc8au9Zh_TybxyGGb8tkRhI68BBDwd8QO7QFiaLuTP2Rj6tidNHI7vxmfbumeC-0)\n\nMy co-founder, [Fernando](https://linkedin.com/in/fsanmartinjorquera), and I ([John](https://linkedin.com/in/johnglasgow)) have scaled multiple accounting software companies including Invoice2go (acquired by Bill.com for $600M+) and Trovata (powering the treasury accounting for companies like Block and Etsy).\n\n**Campfire benefits**\n\n* **Turn the lights on for your financial data** - Unlock actionable and timely KPIs and financial insights with advanced financial reporting for increased visibility such as contribution margin by customer and P&L by department. Empowering executives to make informed, timely decisions.\n* **Scale from startup to global operations** - The first modern general ledger that effortlessly scales globally with your company via support for muti-entity and multi-currency financial consolidation, advanced revenue automation, and multi-dimensional reporting.\n* **Accelerate the accounting close process** - In the current environment, we’re all looking to grow faster while cutting burn. Streamline accounting and financial reporting workflows to free up resources so your team can focus on strategic, high-value work.\n* **API-first approach** - Our [**modern APIs**](https://api.meetcampfire.com/api/docs/) power custom integrations for customers that have automated custom accounting workflows in a matter of days.\n\n**Quotes from a few customers:**\n\n> “We migrated from Sage Intacct to Campfire to accelerate our close process. It’s the only solution in the market that is modern, yet has the power to support our global operations across multiple legal entities and currencies.”\n>\n> Andrea Burton, CPA | VP of Finance Delphia (YC W18)\n\n> “When we were on QuickBooks, it was obvious the product was not built for tech companies like ours. The migration to Campfire was painless and now we are able to make informed decisions and track KPIs as we scale.”\n>\n> Jon Yoo, CEO @ Suger (YC W23)\n\n## **Get started with Campfire**\n\nSend me an email ([**john@meetcampfire.com**](mailto:john@meetcampfire.com)) or check out our website at [**www.meetcampfire.com**](http://www.meetcampfire.com/) to learn more and schedule a demo.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KVm-campfire-the-modern-version-of-netsuite", "votes": 44, "created_at": "2024-02-28T16:13:45.104Z" }, { "id": 73767, "title": "Campfire ⛺ 🔥 : Revenue management for Series A+ tech companies", "tagline": "Your investor updates just got a lot better", "body": "**TL;DR**\n\nMost Series A+ tech companies still manage revenue recognition, attribution (expansion, churn, etc.), and KPIs in spreadsheets. Campfire simplifies the entire process by ingesting your revenue data (customer contracts, Stripe data, etc.) through AI to automate your revenue recognition, invoice management and KPI reporting for any business model (subscription, usage, marketplace, etc.). We’re currently performing the data migration (at no cost!) for new customers through the end of August. Check us out at [meetcampfire.com](http://meetcampfire.com)!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73767&key=user_uploads/815940/5446f7b9-e256-4832-9844-aeca965da002)\n\n_Quick tour of our dashboard page_\n\n**How we know this is a problem**\\\nAs an exec at Invoice2go (90 employees, Series C), one of the largest pain points [John](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/815940) encountered was that the company had outgrown QuickBooks, but the migration to NetSuite didn’t make sense due to pricing, resourcing and the required migration effort. After selling the company to and leading partnerships at [Bill.com](http://Bill.com), John noticed significant innovation happening around core accounting (Brex, Zip, Rippling, etc), but accounting software itself like NetSuite hadn’t been refreshed in 20+ years.\n\nAt the same time, [Fernando](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/847698) led back-end engineering at Trovata, which is treasury software for customers like Square and Etsy. He realized there was an opportunity to bring enterprise-grade automation to mid-size companies.\n\nBringing our experiences together, we know that we can make a difference in an area that hasn’t seen improvements in decades. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73767&key=user_uploads/815940/eab61627-c57c-4806-a75c-2dbc58c577db)\n\n_This was the moment when it sunk in that we’re really in Y Combinator!_\n\n**Our Solution**\\\nTo fix this inefficiency, we’ve launched _Revenue Management_ as our first product. We’re migrating accounting and finance teams out of spreadsheets and into automated, AI-powered software that ingests customer contracts and computes revenue recognition and KPIs (ARR, churn, etc.) to improve accuracy, saving both time and money. Early customers are saving 90% of the time it takes to manage revenue, allowing their accounting/finance teams to focus on high-value, impactful work instead of performing manual tasks in spreadsheets. Your investor/Board updates just got a lot better, and your accounting teams just got a lot more efficient. Our product is fully operational for any business model and referenceable with happy campers (pun intended!) like Jenny Jao, Head of Finance at Sprig (Series B) who said:\n\n> Our time-to-value with Campfire was really fast. We're moving our revenue and invoice management out of spreadsheets and into Campfire to automate everything. It's a big win for us.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73767&key=user_uploads/815940/ea2da31f-8ee9-4c14-8ac5-41c21ac29be9)\n\n_View of a customer contract_\n\nCampfire works well for any business model from marketplaces managing hundreds of thousands of monthly transactions in a database to enterprise subscription software managing contracts in spreadsheets. Irrespective of business model, Campfire automates your revenue KPI’s for investor/exec updates and monthly journal entry for any accounting software such as QuickBooks and NetSuite. \n\n**Our ask:** We’re looking to connect with finance and accounting leaders at Series A+ tech companies to explore how Campfire can save them between one day and one week every month, while turning the lights on their revenue KPIs to improve exec reporting and investor updates.\n\n**Launch YC Promo:** \\\nWe’re currently performing the entire data migration out of spreadsheets (at no cost!) for new customers through the end of August. 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Built semantic search systems and automatic code generation software at Jina AI.\n\nhttps://joschkabraun.com", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/joschkabraun", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/joschkabraun", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9a835cbd9621cf7321af15246517e2417f3c0063.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Y Combinator Demo Day 2023: Our favorites Day 2 | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/07/ycombinator-demo-day-two-summer-2023/", "date": "Sep 07, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 82145, "title": "Parea AI - Aligned & reliable LLM evaluations", "tagline": "Automatically create LLM-based evals aligned with human judgement", "body": "**tl;dr:** [Parea AI](https://www.parea.ai/) automates the creation of evals for your AI products. We achieve this by bootstrapping an evaluation function with human annotations. Allowing you to automagically turn “vibe checks” into scalable and reliable evaluations aligned with human judgment.\n\n# **😩 The Problem**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82145&key=user_uploads/501039/78024ed1-9aa2-4be8-a022-359d82b9ac59)\n\nEvaluating free-form text is often only possible by humans reviewing outputs or using LLMs to evaluate them. The former is laborious, slow, and expensive, while the latter often fails to evaluate the outputs correctly. For LLM evaluations to work properly, one needs to prompt engineer them; i.e., they require their own optimization process.\n\n# **🚀 The Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82145&key=user_uploads/501039/b7c1f4c7-b654-40e6-9e1d-84ab93f4ad5f)\n\nThe best [LLM evals](https://joschkabraun.com) are adapted to your particular business use case & data. We've developed a method for uploading human annotations (via CSV or using our [Annotation Queue](https://docs.parea.ai/manual-review/queue)) and bootstrapping an evaluation to mimic the annotations. To create a human-aligned eval, you need as few as 20 sample annotations. Using your new LLM eval is as easy as copying the code into your codebase or using it directly via Parea's API. Check out [our docs](https://docs.parea.ai/manual-review/bootstrapped-eval) to see the complete workflow.\n\n# **🙏 Our Ask**\n\n* **Get started** on [**our free tier,**](https://app.parea.ai/sign-up) or [**book a chat**](https://calendly.com/parea-ai/chat) to discuss how we can help you evaluate your AI app!\n* **Support our** [**launch** **tweet**](https://x.com/JoschkaBraun/status/1812884216444510233) and follow us on [**LinkedIn**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/parea-ai/) and [**Twitter**](https://x.com/PareaAI)\n* **Share Parea** **AI** with anyone you know who is facing challenges [evaluating AI & LLM systems](https://joschkabraun.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LMv-parea-ai-aligned-reliable-llm-evaluations", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2024-07-15T16:47:45.697Z" }, { "id": 73431, "title": "Parea AI – DataDog for LLM apps", "tagline": "Parea AI helps developers ideate, evaluate, and manage LLM-powered applications to consistently deliver quality user experiences.", "body": "**TL;DR:** [**Parea AI**](https://www.parea.ai/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=launch_yc&utm_content=tldr) is the essential developer platform for debugging and monitoring every stage of LLM application development. We provide debugging, testing, evaluation, and monitoring in one unified platform. These capabilities help developers get visibility into LLM responses, quickly test and optimize prompts, and ensure customers get the best user experience.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73431&key=user_uploads/699950/7cd2fa60-436e-46c0-b266-b88f3fd66b8c)\n\n### 🤔 **The Problem**\n\nLLMs hold infinite promise, but translating this potential into practical applications can be complex. Crafting precise prompts or building effective chains, tracking their performance, and optimizing them currently involves a disparate array of tools and a steep learning curve, leading to decreased productivity and increased time to market. This trial-and-error process can become taxing; in the words of one of our customers, **\"reading 1000s of words from ChatGPT outputs a day takes the fun out of building**.**\"**\n\n### 💡 **The Solution**\n\nParea was conceived to streamline this journey by simplifying the entire process of creating and managing LLM-powered systems. Our intuitive UI enables developers to **debug and test** their **prompts/chains**, offering deep visibility into the best-performing changes that dramatically improve LLM responses. The built-in Lab module lets you **compare various prompts, models, and parameter configurations side by side**, transforming rigorous testing into an insightful and fun task. Post-deployment, our robust **API ensures you have comprehensive analytics**, performance insights, and a complete tracking system for optimizing your application to excel in delivering user experiences.\n\n### 🚀 **Who is it for:**\n\nParea is for developers, AI enthusiasts, and organizations with a vision to leverage the power of LLMs. Whether you're a small team working on an LLM-driven product or a large company developing complex LLM-powered applications, **Parea simplifies the process and accelerates your time-to-productivity**.\n\n### 🎉 **Meet the Parea team**\n\nJoel and Joschka met in New York City and bonded over philosophy, learning, and of course, start-ups!\n\nJoel is a true Renaissance man. His quest has led him from a published microbiology researcher to International Politics at the Council of Foreign Relations, to learning Russian in Moscow, working on >$100B of M&A deals at J.P Morgan, and most recently honing his self-taught coding skills as a SWE at Lyft. With Parea AI, he's committed to enhancing the productivity of every AI builder.\n\n[Joschka](https://joschkabraun.com) is our Wunderkind. He published a paper in the highest-ranked Journal for Number Theory at age 17, graduated college at 19, took a gap year to do Kung Fu in China, then completed his Master's at NYU as a Fulbright scholar. Joschka spent the last 3 years on the AI/ML frontline doing computer vision at Covera Health, and semantic search & LLMs at Jina. Parea was born to tackle the issues he'd faced in debugging and building LLM applications like DevGPT.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73431&key=user_uploads/699950/4bdf0da2-6bfd-4139-8f0c-ea7e826fd062)\n\n### ❤️ **Our Ask**\n\nWe invite you to explore [Parea’s](https://www.parea.ai?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=launch_yc2&utm_content=cta) capabilities for your LLM solution and join our welcoming community. Follow us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/PareaAI) and on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/parea-ai/).\n\nIf you have any questions or would like a personalized onboarding session for your team, write us at [founders@parea.ai](mailto:founders@parea.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J6N-parea-ai-datadog-for-llm-apps", "votes": 128, "created_at": "2023-07-26T03:34:53.972Z" } ] }, { "id": 28849, "name": "Punchcard", "slug": "punchcard", "former_names": [ "Audit AI", "Substantive AI", "Agentive" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/35234c07d053e0ad46079e11465b9c97a2ee8f2d.png", "website": "https://www.punchcard.com", "all_locations": "Provo, UT, USA", "long_description": "Punchcard is a system designed for assurance engagements like financial statement audits and SOX control programs. Purpose-built for selecting, requesting, and testing audit evidence. Punchcard leverages assertion-driven AI agents that perform testing procedures from natural language instructions—just like an audit associate.\r\n\r\nBy combining critical workflows such as audit planning, client document requests, evidence testing, and workpaper documentation into one seamless platform, Agentive streamlines audit processes, reduces inefficiencies, and frees teams to focus on high-impact areas.", "one_liner": "Agentive assurance system for auditors, risk consultants, and clients.", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Finance and Accounting", "launched_at": 1687833550, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Finance and Accounting" ], "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/punchcard", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/punchcard.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "Provo", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/goagentive", "x_url": "https://www.twitter.com/goagentive", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/35234c07d053e0ad46079e11465b9c97a2ee8f2d.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/2f459ac3b39d8f681881c2f702317a166902814b.png" ], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1097859, "full_name": "Daniel Alberson", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Daniel Alberson is the co-founder and CEO of Punchcard. Daniel started his career as an auditor and product manager at Ernst & Young after graduating with a Bachelor in Accounting from BYU. He then dropped out of Northwestern's Master in Product Design to join Facebook as a product manager for augmented reality glasses.\n\nHe's leveraging his unique experience as an auditor and product manager to transform the auditing profession.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/alberson", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/DannyAlberson", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/669dd1f0b3a3611031866549f92f26db63c308c4.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 88440, "title": "Agentive—Audit Requests Clients Love", "tagline": "Meet Agentive, the AI Workspace for Auditing and Client Collaboration.", "body": "**TL;DR** Agentive completely redesigned document requests to eliminate confusion and unnecessary busy work—reducing client rework by 25% and streamlining audits. Uploaded documents become AI-drafted workpapers aligned with your firm’s templates, cutting review time by 90%.\\\n\n\n# **Improving the client-auditor relationship, one request at a time**\n\nThe toughest part of an audit isn’t issuing the opinion—it’s getting the right documents on time. Existing solutions still confuse clients, require significant training, and lead to re-work that strains relationships. Agentive set out to change this by making document requests seamless and user-friendly.\n\n# **The current frustration**\n\nRequesting documents (often called a PBC list – “Provided By Client” list) can be a nightmare:\n\n1. **Confusing User Interface:**\n * Clients often need training just to see what’s outstanding and upload a document.\n2. **Unorganized Sample Requests:**\n * For example, a client might receive a request with an Excel file listing 25 expenses, each expense needing multiple pieces of evidence (like invoices and bank statements).\n * They must gather and upload all evidence into an unorganized folder. This disorganization leads to many mistakes and re-work that can be prevented.\n * Auditors often take days—or even weeks—to review documents provided by the client; they must match each file to its correct item in the sample. Any missing or incorrect evidence requires re-work from the client.\n3. **Constant Follow-Ups & Strained Relationships:**\n * Every missing document adds friction, but the longer it takes for clients to learn about mistakes, the more pain it causes.\n * Hours are lost chasing missing documents, leaving clients feeling nagged and auditors drained.\n\nThis **painful status quo** has been accepted as “just part of auditing” for far too long. Clients dread it, and firms worry that each request for info might annoy their client. The result? A process that should be straightforward often drags on with frustration on both sides.\n\n# **The purpose-built solution**\n\nWhat if providing audit evidence required zero training—and even felt satisfying? Enter Agentive’s new request flow, purpose-built to eliminate friction in auditing.\n\n1. **Request with Samples**\n * **Native Itemized Requests:** Instead of downloading an Excel file to view the items in the sample, Agentive natively integrates the sample table into the request.\n * **Precise Uploads:** Clients attach specific evidence at the intersection of each sample row and document request column—eliminating guesswork and simplifying review.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88440&key=user_uploads/1097859/c3416ec7-7d91-4d2f-a49e-bd39a4474dbe)\n\n2. **Engagement Board View**\n * **Instant Visibility:** Both auditors and clients see requests by status and category at a glance with drag and drop updates.\n * **Satisfaction:** Clients enjoy checking off completed items, ensuring everyone knows what’s done and what’s outstanding.\n3. **Auditor Review Improvements**\n * **Flexible Upload**: Whether clients upload files one-by-one or in bulk, AI matches each document to the correct sample item—even in multi-page scans.\n * **Instant Citations**: Every value is automatically located within uploaded documents, with one-click navigation to its exact location.\n * **90% Faster Review**: AI-powered matching, detail testing, and analysis, let auditors quickly spot missing or insufficient documentation, slashing follow-up time with client.\n\nImagine your next audit kickoff: your client opens Agentive and says, **“Oh, this is nice!”** Instead of groans and procrastination, they begin right away—confident about what you need. Each step is transparent and even rewarding as they see their progress. What once felt like pulling teeth becomes a smooth collaboration.\n\n# **Available Now: AI-Drafted Audit Procedures**\n\n**In this post, our focus is on you and your clients**, and making sure the foundation of every audit – collaborating with the client – is as smooth and organized as possible. As former auditors, we’re equally dedicated to improving auditor job satisfaction. We do this by listening to you, our users, and solving your problems with **human-centered design** and **artificial intelligence.** Every document uploaded in a client request can easily be transformed into your firm’s audit workpaper template through our **AI-powered** document matching and AI prompts. We’re incredibly proud these workflows are set up in a few clicks and workpapers are ready for review in less than a minute after every client upload.\n\n# **Ready to Delight Your Clients?**\n\n[**Schedule a demo**](https://goagentive.com/) or email [founders@goagentive.com](mailto:founders@goagentive.com) to see how Agentive can elevate your firm for both clients and auditors.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88440&key=user_uploads/1097859/5d75969b-9c44-479e-a96f-00db77d0df43)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/N0S-agentive-audit-requests-clients-love", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2025-03-10T21:00:24.202Z" }, { "id": 72821, "title": "Agentive: AI-powered copilot for auditors", "tagline": "We help accountants analyze financial records, perform audit procedures, and draft documentation in seconds.", "body": "Hi everyone, we’re Agentive.\n\n**TL;DR** Agentive helps auditors unlock growth by shortening the time to perform audits. Auditors use our AI-powered copilot to analyze financial records, perform audit procedures, and draft documentation with 10x efficiency. If you’re an auditor, get in touch at [goagentive.com](http://goagentive.com)!\n\n**Problem**\n\nAudit staff spend 40% of their time searching, extracting, and manipulating data during audit procedures. And another 20% is spent preparing audit documentation. While it’s gotten easier to work with evidence provided by clients over the years thanks to OCR and other semi-automation solutions, it’s still painful. These audit procedures are rather standardized across clients and documentation is often identical year over year at the same client with only the current year data changing. The desire of audit staff to be involved in audit strategy is often in conflict with the amount of manual work that needs to be done at firms. This contributes to the high turnover in audit staff and the shortage of accountants entering the profession.\n\n**Team**\n\nWhile working as an auditor at EY, Danny Alberson felt underutilized due to the repetitive work involved in auditing. Nathan Turnbow, co-founder and CTO, built the first AI-powered education platform at Imagine Learning and honed his risk expertise as a cyber security engineer at Dell. Jason Draper, technical co-founder, led teams as an officer in the US Air Force and is a second time founder. Together, they're building Agentive to help auditors automate procedures and spend more time on audit strategy.\n\n**Solution**\n\nAgentive addresses this challenge by training large language models that cater to accounting and audit use cases. Agentive provides an in-browser spreadsheet editor and document viewer where auditors use natural language to have Agentive’s copilot analyze evidence, perform procedures, and draft documentation with 10x efficiency. It’s like working with ChatGPT during your audit. To review AI generated data we make it really easy to trace results back to their source. This not only speeds up preparing documents by audit staff but increases the efficiency of management and partner reviews as well.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72821&key=user_uploads/1097859/d436827f-1dd3-4314-a1d3-af9f37364114)\n\n**What can you use Copilot for?**\n\n1. **Extracting Text/Tables**: Extract text and data from documents like PDFs which can then be analyzed or moved to spreadsheets or workpapers for further processing.\n2. **Compliance Checking**: Analyze the content of documents to check compliance with various regulations, standards, or policies, and provide reports detailing any areas of non-compliance.\n3. **Content Search and Retrieval**: Enables auditors to conduct advanced content searches within documents, including searching for specific phrases, keywords, or patterns and retrieving relevant sections.\n4. **Natural Language Querying**: Simplify data retrieval by extracting information from spreadsheets using natural language queries without complex formulas.\n5. **Reconciliations**: Validate data within documents by cross-referencing it with other sources, such as spreadsheets, and highlight any discrepancies that require further investigation.\n6. **Natural Language Summarization:** Automatically generate concise written summaries of financial data in spreadsheets, helping auditors quickly comprehend key insights without digging through raw data.\n\n**Ask**\n\nWe’d love to connect with auditors! Please sign up for a demo at [goagentive.com](http://goagentive.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IwX-agentive-ai-powered-copilot-for-auditors", "votes": 57, "created_at": "2023-07-06T17:56:16.055Z" } ] }, { "id": 28858, "name": "CraftOS", "slug": "craftos", "former_names": [ "Martola", "CraftOS", "CraftOS (formerly Martola)" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/332551f4aad00a2a5a48d255883119d06a884afc.png", "website": "http://craftos.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "CraftOS is how wineries track and sell their wine. 83% of wine production in the US comes from small batch wineries, we provide inventory tracking and POS tools for them.", "one_liner": "Inventory Management and POS for the Wine industry", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Retail", "launched_at": 1689794207, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Retail" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Retail" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/craftos", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/craftos.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/craft-os/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/332551f4aad00a2a5a48d255883119d06a884afc.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1348199, "full_name": "Wael Al Sallami", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Founder at CraftOS. Formerly @Square, Weebly. Led the development of Square Online from inception to $100m in annual profits and over $1b in transaction volume.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/walsallami", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/wa3l", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6a7c0bf235ed888e74294ed7dd8ed37640a91527.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 73245, "title": "Martola – Save time and money on procurement", "tagline": "We match Purchase Orders to Invoices to make sure retailers are not overpaying their vendors", "body": "Hi everyone! We - [Wael](https://www.linkedin.com/in/walsallami/) and [Kenan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenan-kaymakcan/) - are building a platform for retailers to match their invoices with their purchasing orders.\n\n**The Problem: Retailers are overpaying their vendors**\n\nRetailers are juggling a lot of internal and market pressures­–inflation, low margins, high turnover, etc. They don’t have the time and resources to stay on top of their entire operations. As a result, we discovered that they can’t keep track of the discrepancies between purchase orders and vendor payments, leading them to routinely overpay their vendors.\n\n**Solution: Martola, automatic matching between your invoices and purchase orders**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73245&key=user_uploads/417236/af5a9cbe-91a6-4c5c-ade3-5e3d8861bf47)\n\nMartola requires minimal intervention on the retailer’s side, matching the necessary lines on their purchase orders to their invoices and alerting them to discrepancies such as price and quantity mismatch.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73245&key=user_uploads/417236/7ac16502-3481-446b-a1fd-234b738acc5f)\n\nRetailers can follow up with the vendor or update the purchase order on their end.\n\nWe decided to focus on solving this critical pain point as our initial scope. Our long-term vision is to capture retailers by solving for this problem with a clear business case and expand our product suite to address retailers’ other challenges.\n\n**Our ask**\n\n* If you are a retailer and interested in our solution or know any retailer that can be interested, please reach out to us at [founders@martola.com](mailto:founders@martola.com)\n* Investors, please reach out to [founders@martola.com](mailto:founders@martola.com)\n\nThank you from Wael and Kenan\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73245&key=user_uploads/417236/8c35052c-c3bd-4a80-8683-a52f0af12752)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J3N-martola-save-time-and-money-on-procurement", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2023-07-20T02:29:46.577Z" } ] }, { "id": 28862, "name": "Corgea", "slug": "corgea", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4f659e1a5051b790e28f097f1c858880dc797b7f.png", "website": "https://www.corgea.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Corgea is an autonomous application security platform that finds and validates vulnerabilities, then generates safe code fixes developers can apply in their existing workflow. In production customers like Zapier and Yageo, see ~20% more true positives and ~90% fewer false positives (vs their prior tooling), reducing triage and speeding remediation without adding headcount.\r\n", "one_liner": "Corgea finds, and fixes insecure code and packages autonomously. 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It doesn’t run a checklist. It reasons about your application.\n\n\n\n## The numbers\n\nIn a recent pentest:\n\n* **Corgea found 25 findings.** The human pentester found 6.\n* **Delivery time: 4-8 hours.** The human pentest took 2 weeks.\n\n![Corgea AI Pentesting findings overview](https://corgea.com/cms/blog/introducing-ai-pentesting/image-3.png)\n\n## How it works\n\nMost autonomous pentesting tools are black-box scanners with better marketing. They probe endpoints against a generic vulnerability checklist and produce a PDF full of theoretical findings that security teams have to triage manually.\n\nCorgea takes a fundamentally different approach. The engine operates like a real pentesting team.\n\n**Multi-agent architecture.** Not a single scanner. Corgea spawns a coordinator agent that assigns specialized sub-agents (an authentication discovery agent, an API exploration agent, a SQL injection expert agent) based on what it discovers. These agents collaborate, share findings, and build on each other’s discoveries. For complex targets, Corgea can spawn hundreds of agents.\n\n![Corgea AI Pentesting multi-agent execution view](https://corgea.com/cms/blog/introducing-ai-pentesting/image-1.png)\n\n**Code-aware, not black-box.** The engine ingests code context, dependency data, infrastructure configuration, and business logic. It uses your existing [AI SAST](https://corgea.com/products/ai-sast) findings for white-box pentesting, exploiting vulnerabilities at runtime that static analysis already identified. This combination of static insight and dynamic testing dramatically amplifies what the engine can find.\n\n**Dynamic adaptation.** Corgea’s agentic architecture is not fixed. The system continuously adapts its strategy based on what it learns about the target, dynamically scaling the number of agents, their responsibilities, and their specialization. It doesn’t follow a one-size-fits-all workflow.\n\n**Exploitability validation built in.** Corgea doesn’t report theoretical vulnerabilities. Agents validate exploitability during the test itself, confirming a finding can be triggered, capturing evidence, and explaining business impact. This eliminates the triage burden that makes traditional pentest reports a firehose of unverified findings.\n\n![Corgea AI Pentesting exploit reproduction script](https://corgea.com/cms/blog/introducing-ai-pentesting/image-2.png)\n\n## The pipeline\n\n1. **Environment setup.** Corgea provisions a Linux-based sandbox with a full suite of security tools for crawling, discovery, reconnaissance, and exploit validation.\n2. **Scope and context ingestion.** Target scope, endpoints, API documentation, auth flows, user roles, business logic context, and optional code/repo context. Both authenticated and unauthenticated.\n3. **Attack surface discovery.** Maps reachable routes, APIs, parameters, forms, auth boundaries, authorization-sensitive workflows, and exposed services.\n4. **Autonomous test planning.** AI agents reason about application structure and generate test plans for broken access control, IDOR, authentication bypass, injection, SSRF, insecure file handling, sensitive data exposure, and business logic abuse.\n5. **Safe execution and validation.** Hundreds of sub-agents execute probes, observe responses, adapt based on application behavior, and validate exploitability.\n6. **Evidence generation.** For confirmed issues: affected endpoint, payload or request sequence, response evidence, exploitability reasoning, severity, business impact, and remediation recommendation.\n7. **Developer-native remediation.** Findings go directly into developer workflows (PR comments, Jira tickets, Slack notifications, CI/CD pipelines) with reproduction steps, code context, and suggested fixes.\n8. **Reporting.** Findings converted into reports for management, auditors, and customers.\n\n## Supervised autonomy\n\nAutonomous doesn’t mean uncontrolled. Humans remain in control of:\n\n* Defining and approving test scope\n* Setting rules of engagement\n* Approving aggressive or potentially disruptive testing\n* Reviewing sensitive findings\n* Accepting final pentest reports\n* Making risk decisions for production environments\n\nCorgea automates the repetitive and technically complex parts. Humans own the risk decisions.\n\n## Continuous, not point-in-time\n\nTraditional pentesting delivers a PDF report weeks after testing begins. By the time you read it, your application has changed.\n\nCorgea supports both one-time and continuous autonomous pentesting. Retesting is automatic after remediation. Findings close the loop between discovery, fix, and verification in hours, not waiting for the next quarterly cycle.\n\n## Ready to Ditch Security Theater?\n\nIf you're tired of checkbox pentests:\n\nBook a call: \n\nEmail us: sales@corgea.com", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/R1n-corgea-agentic-pentesting", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2026-06-24T15:40:00.793Z" }, { "id": 77558, "title": "🐕 Corgea - Easily and quickly fix vulnerable code using AI", "tagline": "We make it easy for companies fix vulnerable code by automating away 80% of the engineering work needed. ", "body": "**TL;DR**: Corgea helps companies fix vulnerable source code. It is an AI-powered security platform that writes security patches for engineer approval, saving 80% of the engineering effort needing and $$$. Having Corgea is like having a security engineer on staff constantly focused on making your code more secure. \n\nHi YC! This is Ahmad, and along with Adam, Pratik and Tamara we’re building [Corgea](https://corgea.com/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77558&key=user_uploads/65616/fd08a653-a912-4b81-8d59-cfb4c56e0d95)\n\n### 🕳️ Unresolved holes in software\n\nCompanies scan their code for security vulnerabilities, and are often met with a big pile of findings. On average, companies take 3 months to fix a vulnerability, and 60% of breach victims were aware of the unpatched vulnerability that was exploited.\n\nWhy? This is because engineers prioritize revenue-generating work, often leaving security fixes lower in priority. It is also really expensive for companies to fix vulnerabilities, costing them between $400 - $4,000 per fix. Unacceptable in today’s environment of more frequent security breaches and increasingly sophisticated attacks.\n\nSecurity teams kept complaining to us that all of their hundreds (yes hundreds) of security tools alert them about issues without giving them a way to actually resolve the issues automatically. This leaves security teams hanging high and dry.\n\n### 🐕 What does Corgea do?\n\nWe’re approaching one of the hardest problems in security with an entirely new approach. Unlike other tools that have been vehemently obsessed with just reporting on vulnerabilities, Corgea fixes them.\n\nCorgea connects to your existing SAST (Static application security testing) tools, like Snyk and Semgrep, and automatically writes code fixes for the reported vulnerabilities. Security teams can issue a pull request for the fix with a single click without disrupting any workflows. Engineers get the code fix for review, and well written descriptions helping them understand the changes.\n\nFor example, Corgea can rewrite code and issue PRs to fix SQL injection, path traversal, SSRF, or hundreds of other vulnerabilities. Here’s a brief demo to show Corgea’s capabilities.\n\n[Fixing Issues using Corgea - Watch Video](https://www.loom.com/share/318f06b97dac48628971bb52db372fb8)\n\n![](https://cdn.loom.com/sessions/thumbnails/318f06b97dac48628971bb52db372fb8-1702061376925-with-play.gif)\n\n### ✅ Empowering Security and Freeing up Engineering\n\nSecurity is often perceived as a blocker to engineering, and vice versa. With Corgea, we’re empowering security teams to be able to take action while also accelerating engineering velocity. This fundamentally changes the dynamic between teams.\n\n* **💪 Stronger code:** companies can now secure their products and reduce their fix times to hours without taxing engineering. Many prospects we spoke to have tens of thousands of vulnerabilities that now has a fighting chance in reducing them.\n* **🚀 Increase engineering velocity:** since Corgea is issuing the code fix, we see up to an 80% savings in time engineers spend fixing security issues. Security can now be an enabler to engineering rather than a blocker.\n* **💰 Slash Costs:** Research shows that a single vulnerability takes about $400 - $4,000 to fix. Corgea reduces these costs by up to 80%. Many enterprises can expect to save at least $10m in direct development costs. This doesn’t account for breach cost savings.\n\nOften, security software lacks a clear return on investment or value proposition. They are frequently bought due to fear, uncertainty, and doubt. At Corgea, our belief is that security software needs to lead first with real value and a clear ROI.\n\n### 🌟 How is Corgea different than existing solutions?\n\nThe current market is flooded with tools that overwhelm security teams with alerts and are not effective at fixing what they’re reporting.\n\n* General code-gen tools do not specialize in security and we’ve seen them inadvertently introduce security issues unbeknownst to the engineer. Additionally, they often do not integrate into a wider ecosystem of tools, preferring to focus solely on their own findings.\n* Most SAST & SCA vulnerability scanners do not remediate issues. Many tout this but it’s mostly limited to upgrading packages from one version to another to reduce a CVSS. This often introduces downstream challenges. If they do offer CWE remediation capabilities their success rates are very low because they’re often based on traditional AI methodologies. Finally, they do not integrate into a wider ecosystem of tools because they want to only serve their own findings.\n\nEnterprises often use multiple scanners like Snyk, Semgrep, Checkmarx, and may have multiple repository tools like Github, Gitlab and Bitbucket for their code. They need a solution that consolidates across their existing tools.\n\n### 👩🏽‍💻 Who is building Corgea?\n\nEach member of the Corgea team has experienced the challenges of addressing vulnerabilities in both security and engineering. We first hand witnessed the frustration of teams in wanting to deliver on high quality feature-rich secure software. Our goal is to shatter the silos between the teams and empower both of them rather than empower one at the expense of the other.\n\nIn our prior roles, we designed, secured and built mission-critical software products at companies like of Coupa, Autodesk, and PlanGrid.\n\n### 🎉 Want to try it?\n\nWe’re really excited to help companies in automating the security of their source code. [Use Corgea today](https://www.corgea.app/registration/) for free and without a credit card. Setup takes less than a few minutes. Feel free to [reach out to us](https://calendly.com/asadeddin/30min?month=2024-01) to chat and get a more in-depth demo.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KAw-corgea-easily-and-quickly-fix-vulnerable-code-using-ai", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2024-01-16T16:32:31.262Z" }, { "id": 73406, "title": "🐕 Corgea - Enterprise data security and privacy", "tagline": "Empowering enterprises to secure sensitive data", "body": "Hi everyone!\n\nWe’re building [Corgea](https://corgea.com?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=yc_launch&utm_id=yc_launch) - a data security and privacy platform that automates sensitive data protection and compliance in the products companies make.\n\n### [**🚩**](https://emojipedia.org/triangular-flag/) **The Problem**\n\nCompanies process sensitive data, but don't know what it is, and who they share it with. They can’t protect and make private what they don’t know they have and what it is. Additionally data protection requires a lot of different stakeholders to come together, and they lack the proper tools to collaborate around it.\n\n### [**⚡**](https://emojipedia.org/high-voltage/) **How does it work?**\n\nCorgea monitors data traffic, classifies sensitive data (e.g., PII, PHI, payment data), and maps where it came from and who it's being shared with. It then tells you which data protection and privacy policies you need to comply with.\n\nCorgea is unique because you can set it up using 300+ out-of-the-box connectors in hours with no IT integration work.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73406&key=user_uploads/65616/f206fe9c-e12f-4749-9946-5567453cecb7)\n\n### [**🧰**](https://emojipedia.org/toolbox/) **What can you do with Corgea?**\n\nHaving this information at your fingertips gives you super powers to be able to:\n\n* Unlock revenue by making data protection your competitive advantage\n* Reduce your attack surface vector of your infrastructure\n* Accelerate breach response\n* Know which 3rd parties receive sensitive data\n* Understand your data compliance requirements\n* Receive alerts for out-of-policy data events\n* Perform data minimization\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73406&key=user_uploads/65616/dad1dd93-4e77-4560-95b3-cda61b090fc6)\n\n### [**📖**](https://emojipedia.org/open-book/) **The Story**\n\nOne day, Ahmad received a massive excel sheet to fill out for a data privacy initiative. By the end of it, he had curated hundreds of data fields manually, and identified where they came from and where they were sent to. Feeling how inefficient this was for the company, he decided to automate it by building Corgea.\n\nAhmad previously led the payments product at Coupa and founded 2 other companies before Corgea. His last company was acquired by Coupa.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73406&key=user_uploads/65616/437a87ab-4bc7-47d8-b8a8-9c81c8f0d034)\n\n### **🚀 Team**\n\nAhmad is joined by an amazing team all with experience in working and building software in regulated data environments such as HIPAA, FedRamp, PCI, ITAR, and data privacy.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73406&key=user_uploads/65616/c345a149-ae43-472e-a09c-ff7895239bf9)\n\n### [**❤️**](https://emojipedia.org/red-heart/)**Interested?**\n\nIf you are a company processing sensitive data, and want to unlock revenue while being compliant then [**schedule a call with us**](https://l.linklyhq.com/l/1rIbH)!\n\nCompanies that sign up before Aug 30th are eligible for **50% off**!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J5y-corgea-enterprise-data-security-and-privacy", "votes": 43, "created_at": "2023-07-25T14:47:43.101Z" } ] }, { "id": 28864, "name": "Outset", "slug": "outset", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b9884cde2f06e46373b20cec776477bb5ff0f4c1.png", "website": "https://outset.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Outset offers AI-powered user interviews to conduct qualitative research. Traditional surveys are fast but lack depth while live interviews produce high quality data but are slow and expensive. Outset uses LLMs to lead interviews and synthesize results so researchers get high quality data 100 times faster. 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Aaron was previously the head of product at Untapped and Triplebyte and played senior product roles at Tesla, Pebble, and Monitor Deloitte before that. He started his career as a tour manager for a band called Timeflies. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/a-a-ron-cannon/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/AaronLCannon", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/47ab295ac1ee892b63713f73b9e454b706d119f7.jpg" }, { "user_id": 925701, "full_name": "Michael Hess", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Engineer-turned-firefighter-turned-founder", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/mchl-hess", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/021aab0d7cce35290c351b9553227b59e4b41f59.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 75468, "title": "Enterprise Account Executive", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/outset/jobs/I4rpa3J-enterprise-account-executive", "location": "San Francisco", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Operations", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$150K - $250K", "equity_range": "0.02% - 0.15%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 84174, "title": "Backend Software Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/outset/jobs/1sK7UAT-backend-software-engineer", "location": "San Francisco", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$175K - $250K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "How Outset Turned AI Interviews Into a New Category", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3XOeDckUX0", "date": "Aug 27, 2026" }, { "title": "Customer research startup Outset raises $30M led by M12", "url": "https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/12/10/customer-research-chatbot-outset-radical", "date": "Dec 10, 2025" }, { "title": "Outset raises $17M to replace human interviewers with AI agents for enterprise research | VentureBeat", "url": "https://venturebeat.com/ai/outset-raises-17m-to-replace-human-interviewers-with-ai-agents-for-enterprise-research/", "date": "Jun 11, 2025" }, { "title": "Outset is using GPT-4 to make user surveys better | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/26/outset-is-using-gpt-4-to-make-user-surveys-better/", "date": "Oct 26, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 78263, "title": "🎥 Outset: AI video interviews", "tagline": "Accelerate your research with AI-powered user interviews", "body": "**TL;DR** - [Outset](https://outset.ai/) is launching its biggest upgrade since our initial launch in June. AI-powered video interviews. Now you can get the depth of an interview at the speed and scale of a survey, all with the story-telling power of video.\n\n**Problem:** Researchers are stuck between two bad options today. Surveys are fast and scalable but don’t get the depth you need. Interviews go deep — particularly over video — but are stuck with a small sample size and are incredibly time-consuming.\n\n**Solution:** AI-powered interviews give you the best of both so you don’t have to choose. LLMs are incredibly powerful question-askers — with the input of a discussion guide, Outset’s AI interviewer leads deep, probing conversations with hundreds of participants at once, and synthesizes your results. You can test concepts or designs, ask about behaviors, or learn about underlying motivations…all while you sleep.\n\n**The addition of video:** While the words in an interview can give you answers, they rarely tell the whole story. Video is by far the best way to capture, internalize, and tell the stories of your users or the market you’re going after.\n\nIf you’re interested in learning more, hit us up! Check out more at .\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78263&key=user_uploads/1327240/a8d547b4-84c2-4c0e-9c09-d401d143d6b3)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KMJ-outset-ai-video-interviews", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2024-02-08T00:43:13.041Z" }, { "id": 72213, "title": "Outset - AI-powered user interviews", "tagline": "Turn weeks of work into (almost) instant insights", "body": "**TL;DR** - Getting answers to tough, qualitative questions from your users is extremely costly (in time _and_ money). Outset provides an AI-interviewer that conducts and synthesizes research interviews autonomously. Researchers get large-scale, in-depth data (almost) instantly.\n\n### **Our asks**\n\n* **Early startups: Give us feedback!** [Sign up here](https://outset.ai/login?utm_campaign=launch_yc), and get 50 AI interviews for free.\n* **Larger teams: Book a demo!** Researchers or product/design leaders at mid-market or enterprise companies are our sweet spot. Whether you have researchers on your team or have research-oriented friends, we’d love to meet them! [Book a demo here](https://calendly.com/a-a-ron1/outset-demo).\n\n### **Problem**\n\nWe’re Aaron and Michael, co-founders of Outset (YC S23).\n\nToday, user and market researchers face an unfortunate tradeoff: do you want FAST insights (surveys) or do you want DEEP insights (interviews)?\n\nWe’ve felt this struggle. As a strategy consultant at Deloitte, Aaron facilitated dozens of research projects for Fortune 500 companies. He and his team would spend hundreds of hours on each project just to schedule and moderate a few dozen interviews. And both of us have seen first-hand the need for even faster, deeper user insights at growing software companies.\n\n### **Solution**\n\nOutset gets you both — fast **and** deep insights — with AI-moderated research.\n\nImagine if you could ask hundreds of people a complex, qualitative question (like ‘What motivates you in your career?’) and get back an actionable synthesis of the answers? Now imagine if you could do that in less than a day…\n\nOur AI-moderated research platform uses GPT-4 to autonomously lead in-depth interviews with participants and analyze results. Designed for high-impact research teams at larger companies, Outset gathers valuable, large-scale qualitative data (almost) instantly, turning weeks of work into hours.\n\nOutset users load up an interview guide, share a link with their participants, and watch AI conduct hundreds of interviews at once. AI follows up with participants to clarify, probes on answers, and creates a conversational rapport where responses get deep.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72213&key=user_uploads/1327240/bab1ab87-3b42-462f-a046-8fbead045dff)\n\nFor every question, AI generates themes, tallies up counts, and highlights powerful quotes to uncover the story. What used to be days of dedicated transcript analysis work is now almost instant.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72213&key=user_uploads/1327240/52d11205-52b7-48e9-9c32-a91f35695242)\n\n### **Customer case study**\n\n**With Outset, WeightWatchers put together an interview guide, shared it out, and conducted and synthesized over 100 in-depth interviews in under 24 hours, saving them over a week of work.** The results are now being used to propose a new internal framework for user segmentation.\n\n_“The speed and quality of the responses were both outstanding. I expect Outset will afford my team the opportunity to significantly increase the speed of delivery and the volume of data they are able to collect.” - Wilson Readinger, Head of UX Research @ WeightWatchers_", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Imj-outset-ai-powered-user-interviews", "votes": 32, "created_at": "2023-06-12T19:57:44.481Z" } ] }, { "id": 28869, "name": "Health Harbor", "slug": "health-harbor", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/707952491ce6520207a9fc042912ea6190fc34a5.png", "website": "https://healthharbor.co/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We use generative AI to call insurance on behalf of healthcare clinics. We save clinics up to 40 hours of calls every week over existing outsourced human solutions. \r\n\r\nCompared to the existing solutions for benefits verifications: \r\n- We're faster -- by default, we have a turnaround of 24 hours compared to typically a 3 day turnaround for competitors\r\n- We can reach more payors -- as long as they have a phone line, we can support calling them for benefits. There's quite a few payors in both medical and dental (e.g. Seledent) that have yet to offer a digital retrieval of benefits\r\n- We're reliable and consistent -- there is no person-to-person variation or question skipping when it comes to working with software\r\n", "one_liner": "Using generative AI to call insurance for healthcare clinics", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Healthcare", "subindustry": "Healthcare -> Healthcare IT", "launched_at": 1689790147, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Healthcare IT", "Billing", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Healthcare", "Healthcare IT" ], "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/health-harbor", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/health-harbor.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/health-harbor", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/healthharbor_us", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100095138463726", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/health-harbor", "github_url": "https://github.com/Health-Harbor", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/707952491ce6520207a9fc042912ea6190fc34a5.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/40a121bafc0e5a167f94bf0b024b94c3c290bf7b.png" ], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 437540, "full_name": "Alan Liu", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Alan is the CEO and co-founder of Health Harbor. 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", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/health-harbor/jobs/n3sggls-founding-engineer", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Backend", "salary_range": "$100K - $170K", "equity_range": "0.25% - 1.00%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Google Cloud", "Python" ] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 73410, "title": "Health Harbor - Automated billing for private medical practices", "tagline": "Never call insurance again.", "body": "### **Hey everyone! We are Nathan, Alan, and Gloria from Health Harbor.**\n\n**TL;DR:** Private practices spend hours every week talking with insurance trying to determine fee coverage so patients don't end up with a surprise bill. Health Harbor uses AI to automate billing for private practices by having an AI call insurance on their behalf. Check us out: [https://healthharbor.co](https://healthharbor.co/)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73410&key=user_uploads/1322783/392081ad-49f0-4086-a585-4d1df7292820)\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nImagine spending almost 100 million hours on the phone with medical insurance. Trust us, medical providers can. Over 230,000 private practices in the US spend more than 8 hours every week sitting on the line with insurance trying to determine the amount insurance will cover.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\nHealth Harbor relieves doctors’ offices from needing to call insurance. Instead they can simply submit requests through Health Harbor’s HIPAA certified portal.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73410&key=user_uploads/1322783/81fa57fd-de79-4030-9fe3-8e8d20fa99ee)\n\nFurthermore, by enabling admin to quickly request coverage on specific procedure codes, Health Harbor allows physicians to perform more procedures in fewer visits thus compressing revenue cycles from 4 weeks to 1 week.\n\n### **The Team**\n\nWe are Nathan, Alan and Gloria. Nathan comes from an early stage startup, Liminal Sciences, that went public with Hyperfine four years after its inception where he aligned the team on product strategy and built the product as a designer and software engineer. In Alan’s past life, he wrote software for AI systems like speaker identification at Meta’s Portal and prediction of occluded objects at Nuro. As for Gloria, she planned multi-year growth trajectories while at Bain and the Gates Foundation. \n\n### **The Ask**\n\n1. Customer Intros: Please reach out to us at [founders@healthharbor.co](mailto:founders@healthharbor.co)\n * If you currently call health insurance,\n * If you personally know anyone who complains about calling insurance (including dentists and any other private practice physicians),\n * If you know anyone in private equity firms that manage private practices.\n2. Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/health-harbor/)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J62-health-harbor-automated-billing-for-private-medical-practices", "votes": 29, "created_at": "2023-07-26T15:36:05.000Z" } ] }, { "id": 28882, "name": "Repaint", "slug": "repaint", "former_names": [ "AutoEmber", "Repaint", "Vigilant" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a40c666dc622907d8af3f29f4b78c554dba156c9.png", "website": "https://repaint.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Repaint lets you build professional websites by chatting with AI. It interviews you, researches you online, and generates a custom websites. Then you can edit anything by asking the AI. Our vision is to merge traditional website builders with AI coding tools, creating a new way for anyone to make more advanced software.", "one_liner": "Build a website by chatting with AI", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1690825892, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Chatbot", "Design", "Web Development", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "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/repaint", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/repaint.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/repaint-ai", "x_url": "https://x.com/RepaintHQ", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/autoember", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a40c666dc622907d8af3f29f4b78c554dba156c9.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1045360, "full_name": "Ben Shumaker", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Cofounder of Repaint. I used to be the Lead Game Designer for https://playthebazaar.com/ \nAnd before that, I was a competitive strategy gamer.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-shumaker-9b2620238/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/BenShumaker_", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0c44197f46f2dc63bf54ec0b9ab698a60fca9254.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1315306, "full_name": "Izak Fritz", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "founder of Repaint", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/izak-fritz-3b8579120", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3bc98a4b2d6b965d3a9fce343742ba33c6405b24.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 98979, "title": "Repaint: The AI Website Builder", "tagline": "Build a website by chatting with AI", "body": "We’re [Ben](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-shumaker-9b2620238/) and [Izak](https://www.linkedin.com/in/izak-fritz-3b8579120/), and we’re proud to introduce the new Repaint (S23).\n\nRepaint is the best AI tool for creating professional marketing websites. You chat with Repaint, plan the style and pages, and import your content. Then Repaint generates a custom website in minutes.\n\n**Demo:** \n\n**The Problem**\\\nAI coding tools are incredibly powerful now, but most people still make websites with Wix and Squarespace. Vibe coding tools like Lovable, Bolt, and Replit can generate a webpage from a prompt in a few minutes, but beyond that they’ve focused more on app building than marketing sites:\n\n* They generate single pages with generic content, leaving you to build the rest.\n* The visual style is hard to control, with few resources for inspiration.\n* They surface technical details like code, hosting providers, and github integrations.\n* They charge per edit, so finishing a large marketing site is expensive.\n\nThere’s no major AI tool focused on making polished websites for small businesses, entrepreneurs, and marketers. That’s what we’re building.\n\n**The Solution**\\\nRepaint is an AI website builder designed to get you to a finished site, not just a starting point.\n\n* **It starts by learning about you.** Repaint interviews you about your business, what pages you need, and what style you're going for. It can research your company online and import existing content.\n* **You control the style.** You can pick a theme, provide reference links, and upload inspiration images. Or, you can let Repaint design it for you.\n* **It generates a complete site.** Repaint makes full websites with your real information. And it can recreate the same pages from an existing website.\n* **You edit with chat.** Restyle the whole site, add pages, update info across every page, redesign sections.\n* **It writes real code.** So it can build things template-based builders can't like custom animations, interactive components, calculators, and complex forms.\n* **Flat monthly pricing.** No per-edit credits.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98979&key=user_uploads/1045360/65931443-8184-450c-876c-89dcaf327f5f)\n\nWe opened Repaint about a month ago, and we’ve had hundreds of people make sites for tons of different businesses including YC startups, bakeries, cycling coaches, and more.\n\n**Our Background**\\\nRepaint is actually our second website builder. During YC S23, we built a different website builder with a drag-and-drop interface inspired by Figma. Despite our best efforts, we never got it off the ground. The existing website builders were already heavily optimized, and the AI wave was rapidly making manual no-code tools obsolete.\n\nBut those years gave us deep expertise in web layout, editor UX, and what actually makes people give up on building a site. We think that's exactly what AI website building needs — not just better models, but a team that understands the challenges well enough to make it reliable.\n\n**Our Ask**\\\nIf you or someone you know needs a website, you can try it at [repaint.com](https://repaint.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98979&key=user_uploads/1045360/3fb2e2fb-d58e-41a9-89a1-c8afe08c8e21)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PkR-repaint-the-ai-website-builder", "votes": 3, "created_at": "2026-03-21T14:06:43.659Z" }, { "id": 89065, "title": "Vigilant - Observability for modern software teams", "tagline": "Helping startups with application monitoring through logs, metrics, errors, and more.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89065&key=user_uploads/1045360/2eaee34c-2e65-45e6-a296-d923eb287b1c)\n\n# **What is Vigilant?**\n\n[Vigilant](https://www.vigilant.run/) helps developers monitor their applications and fix issues without overwhelming complexity.\n\nWe provide a unified platform for log management, error tracking, metrics visualization, and smart alerting - everything needed for complete application visibility.\n\nWe obsess over the user experience end-to-end, from integration to alerting. It makes Vigilant a strong choice for startups looking to monitor their product without a massive investment in learning and integration.\n\n[You can try it yourself here](https://vigilant.run)\n\nㅤ\n\n# **Why Vigilant?**\n\nHowdy, I’m Ben Shumaker, the cofounder of Vigilant. I cofounded Vigilant with my best friend, Izak Fritz. Our goal is to make observability easier.\n\nAfter experiencing the frustrations of juggling multiple observability tools at Robinhood and using painfully clunky default options in our cloud providers, we grew tired of tools that seemed designed for experts. Most dedicated platforms assume you already have tons of specialized knowledge about what to monitor and how—but most developers don’t know.\n\nWe built Vigilant to be the first observability tool prioritizing simplicity, not just comprehensive features.\n\nㅤ\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nObservability platforms feel overwhelming, end-to-end:\n\n* Complex agent installation and configuration requirements\n* Huge variety of integration methods without clear guidance\n* Cluttered interfaces full of random information and endless configurations\n* Tedious manual queries for simple searches and graphs\n* Multi-variable pricing that's unpredictable and expensive\n\nㅤ\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89065&key=user_uploads/1045360/86936056-dc52-4c4e-8178-7f518ea9c0ad)\n\nVigilant is the opposite of a traditional observability tool:\n\n* SDK-based integration that only requires a few lines of application code\n* Auto-capture so you can send logs and errors without changing every file\n* Smart defaults that minimize setup time\n* Focused interface that surfaces relevant info, and nests complexity\n* Genuinely predictable pricing with a simple equation\n\nㅤ\n\n# **How It Works**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89065&key=user_uploads/1045360/fbb74c68-1c6a-4611-9ec7-5fa85719d2ce)\n\n1. **Installation** – Download our SDK for your tech stack\n2. **Integration** – Add a few lines to start sending logs, errors, or metrics\n3. **Manage in Vigilant** – After you've sent data, you view it and search it in Vigilant\n4. **Build Dashboards** – Create graphs and counters to visualize your data\n5. **Get Notifications** – Use integrations to get alerts when issues occur\n\nㅤ\n\n## **Ready to Simplify Your Observability?**\n\nYou can try Vigilant entirely on our free tier. If you're tired of complex monitoring tools and want something you'll enjoy:\n\n* Get started: \n* Book a call: \n* Email us: [founders@vigilant.run](mailto:founders@vigilant.run)\n\nAlready using a platform? We'll manually help you migrate and setup your observability in Vigilant. [Book a call to explore your options.](https://calendly.com/ben-rep/vigilant-intro)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NAX-vigilant-observability-for-modern-software-teams", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2025-03-28T14:15:06.574Z" }, { "id": 73608, "title": "AutoEmber - A visual design tool for making real websites", "tagline": "Instead of making mockups, just make the real thing!", "body": "Hi everyone. We’re Ben and Izak, cofounders of [AutoEmber](https://autoember.com/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73608&key=user_uploads/1045360/88bf4baa-cd9a-451d-8fe7-8af58389c929)\n\n_(Left to Right)_\n\nBen: Former competitive gamer. Was on the MTG Pro Tour at 14. Rank 1 Hearthstone Battlegrounds. Lived with Reynad (CEO and Twitch streamer) and spent 2 years as lead game designer at TempoStorm. \n\nIzak: Built a crypto trading platform at Cove Markets, acquired by Robinhood in 2021. Previously, JP Morgan software engineer. Computer science at the University of Michigan.\n\nWe met over a decade ago playing Magic the Gathering in Holland, Michigan.\n\n### **😓 The Problem:**\n\nMaking websites is hard. To make a website today, you either:\n\n1. Learn html, css, and javascript –> Months of learning, hours of coding to make minor changes\n2. Use a template website builder –> Can’t customize, get a generic website\n\nMeanwhile, there’s thousands of designers who can make pixel-perfect mockups, but then they have to pass it off to a coder who can actually build it.\n\n### **💫The Solution:**\n\n[AutoEmber](https://autoember.com) - a visual design tool that makes real websites\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73608&key=user_uploads/1045360/6d4a6b5f-aab5-4949-ac45-737d003cb4c7)\n\nWe spent the last couple months building a web app that lets anyone make a custom website, end to end, without coding. The user experience:\n\n1. Make an account\n2. Design your website in the editor\n3. Push “Publish”\n\nToday, you could make a good looking website with a few pages in a couple hours. We’re constantly adding features to make it more 🥧 easy, 💪 powerful, and 💅 pretty\n\n### **Who its for:**\n\nYou’ll find it especially useful if you’re: \n\n* A designer who uses tools like Figma\n* A backend dev who doesn’t like frontend\n* A business owner who wants a custom website without coding\n\nBut anyone making a website should check it out.\n\n### **How you can help**\n\nGive it a try! It’s free. We love feedback. [AutoEmber.com](http://AutoEmber.com)\n\nIf you’re in the market for a website, please reach out! We’d be happy to help you design your website. Contact: [ben@autoember.com](mailto:ben@autoember.com) 👋\n\nThanks, Ben and Izak", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J9E-autoember-a-visual-design-tool-for-making-real-websites", "votes": 36, "created_at": "2023-07-31T18:05:29.431Z" } ] }, { "id": 28890, "name": "Decoda Health", "slug": "decoda-health", "former_names": [ "Heal Financial" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7f3b1efd47e85f38279cafba940ec0988913d113.png", "website": "https://decodahealth.com/", "all_locations": "Toronto, ON, Canada", "long_description": "Med spas, wellness clinics, and aesthetics practices run on 5-10 disconnected tools — separate systems for scheduling, charting, payments, patient communication, and more. It's expensive, error-prone, and holds teams back.\r\n\r\nDecoda is the all-in-one EMR and practice management platform purpose-built for elective care. AI is woven into every workflow — from an AI front desk that answers calls and books patients 24/7, to an ambient scribe that generates clinical notes in real time, to automated patient follow-ups that keep calendars full. 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We have grown more than ten-fold in the last 6 months.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/Ala-OpQMy4M\n\n### Problem\n\nEvery clinic has knowledge - how patients move through the workflow, which tasks matter most, what providers need, what's already been done, what's still pending.\n\nBut that knowledge lives in **ten different tools** and the minds of staff who come and go.\n\nSo every day feels like starting from scratch:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96026&key=user_uploads/1279796/be2f277d-ce92-4e4d-91f7-bcca78422717)\n\nThis isn't a workflow issue. **It's a missing foundation.**\n\n### **Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96026&key=user_uploads/1279796/65d5dc7a-69ef-430c-a89f-5d4376294f1a)\n\nFirst, we built the **full suite of modules every clinic needs**: scheduling, intake & consent forms, unified communications, charting & documentation, inventory & checkout, patient messaging, and reporting & analytics.\n\nThen we layered on intelligent agents that carry deep context and perform tasks like **answering calls, taking notes, and keeping calendars full.**\n\nBecause these agents and modules live inside the same platform, every workflow becomes connected and actionable.\n\nThe more a clinic uses Decoda, the **smarter** and **more streamlined** it becomes. This creates a **compounding advantage:** each clinic builds more longitudinal data, each agent becomes smarter with greater context, and each workflow grows increasingly deterministic.\n\nOver time, the system becomes not just a tool, but a **trusted co-pilot for running the clinic**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96026&key=user_uploads/1279796/ee1b49ba-10ab-4e46-9e86-f9d152c5c10f)\n\n### Why Now\n\n**AI gives tiny teams massive leverage.** As a team of <10 people, we’ve already out-shipped incumbents with 500-person orgs. This moment, and our focus on clinic workflows, creates a rare window to build a category-defining platform.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96026&key=user_uploads/1279796/f3e45a34-b6a8-4599-89bc-0606823b3237)\n\n### Starting with elective care\n\nMore people want to live longer, happier, and healthier and are willing to spend on caring for themselves.\n\nWe are starting with a focus on **wellness, longevity, anti-aging, medical aesthetics, dermatology,** and **cosmetic surgery practices.**\n\nThis segment of care is growing fast and remains underserved by incumbent solutions.\n\n### Ask\n\nIf you know someone operating an elective care clinic or any talented folks that want to join us on our mission in any capacity (engineering, sales, ops, etc.), we’d love to hear from you.\n\n✉️ email us at [founders@decodahealth.com](mailto:founders@decodahealth.com)!\n\n💼 share our careers page with your talented friends: [link here.](https://app.dover.com/jobs/decodahealth)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Oyo-decoda-health-the-operating-system-for-elective-care", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2025-12-08T21:56:43.573Z" } ] }, { "id": 28900, "name": "Epsilla", "slug": "epsilla", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a2a1e40bf12e61df1ea8d4d6a4f8b7691ac3982f.png", "website": "https://www.epsilla.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Epsilla is an all-in-one platform for building AI agents powered by your private data and knowledge. 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Ricki has 5 years experience in the database industry, helped to build a suite of tools designed to empower developers, data scientists, and DevOps teams.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/jing-qin-48a4baa4", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/bf236ad8ca1ac9aefa6cdfd915d5f8b586d59301.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1378751, "full_name": "Eric Yang", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Eric is the Co-Founder of Epsilla. Before Epsilla, Eric was the Architect of Tigergraph Cloud. Eric has 10+ years experience in Cloud Infrastructure with deep insight of System Relability and Scalability.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/eric-yang-a4a743271", "x_url": "https://x.com/eric_epsilla", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/2cb278dd724352b939feb5cb82048fdaa03927e6.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 122233, "title": "UHP: Unified Harness Protocol by HarnessRouter", "tagline": "An open standard for running complete agent harnesses as your product's backend, now officially adopted by Qoder by Alibaba", "body": "**TL;DR:** We're launching the Unified Harness Protocol (UHP), an open standard (Apache 2.0) for running complete agent harnesses as your agent product's backend. Qoder by Alibaba now officially supports UHP. Integrate once, and Qoder, Codex, Claude Code, Hermes and 20+ agent harnesses become your product's backend through one contract. No harness engineering required.\n\n\\*\\*Stop building the agent backend. Focus on your product.\\*\\*\\\nYou don't need LangChain, an agent SDK, or a managed agent platform to build your agent's backend. Instead of building your own agent loop, tool execution, sandbox, orchestration, and tracing, plug in a pre-built, configurable harness like Qoder, Codex or Claude Code as your backend. Every task runs in an isolated sandbox, is orchestrated across harnesses, and is fully traced. Tailor your tools, plugins and skills, and focus on your product.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=122233&key=user_uploads/14642/185decdc-9d10-47be-965c-5f24336a39bf)\n\n**The problem:** A harness is a complete agent runtime that plans, calls tools, edits files and reports back. Every harness already knows how to do the work. What none of them agree on is how a product should drive one: how to start a task, follow its progress, continue it, cancel it, get the files it produced, and understand why it failed.\n\nThat's an N×M problem: N products times M harnesses, each pair wired up by hand. So most teams end up building their own harness instead, and spend months on harness engineering before shipping a single feature.\n\n**What UHP is**\n\n* An HTTP contract. You send a task and get back a running agent, results and files. The unit is a job, not a completion.\n* Shaped like the OpenAI Responses API, so existing SDKs, streaming parsers and UI code work with no changes.\n* Versioned spec, OpenAPI schema, and a conformance suite with 95 runnable checks that defines what \"conformant\" means.\n* No hosted service required: a conformant server can run entirely on your own machine with your own keys.\n\n**Qoder by Alibaba adopts UHP:** Qoder now officially supports UHP, so you can use it as a pre-built, configurable agent harness for your product. Instead of building your own agent loop, tool execution, sandbox, orchestration, and tracing, you get a complete backend: Qoder reads files, runs commands, and delivers finished work, from generated files to completed actions. Every task runs in an isolated sandbox, is orchestrated through HarnessRouter, and is fully traced. Build your frontend and let Qoder handle your users' tasks.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=122233&key=user_uploads/14642/7be585c9-451d-4618-bd89-1bbf42951eb2)\n\n\n**Run it:** HarnessRouter is the open-source UHP server, and HarnessRouter Cloud runs it for you. You build the frontend; the harness is your backend.\n\n**Links**\n\n* Spec: [unifiedharnessprotocol.org](http://unifiedharnessprotocol.org)\n* Repo: [github.com/HarnessRouter/harnessrouter](http://github.com/HarnessRouter/harnessrouter)\n* Cloud: [harnessrouter.ai](http://harnessrouter.ai)\n\n**Our ask:** If you build agent harnesses, implement UHP and run the conformance suite. If you're building an agent product, skip the harness engineering: use Qoder as your backend through HarnessRouter and tell us which harness you want next.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/VnV-uhp-unified-harness-protocol-by-harnessrouter", "votes": 4, "created_at": "2026-10-14T22:11:14.980Z" }, { "id": 111172, "title": "HarnessRouter: Open-Sourcing the World’s First Unified Interface for Agent Harnesses and the Unified Harness Protocol", "tagline": "Plug Codex, Claude Code, and Hermes into your backend on your own infrastructure. Introducing the Unified Harness Protocol (UHP), an open standard for connecting applications to different agent harnesses.", "body": "Hey everyone 👋 Three weeks ago, we[ launched HarnessRouter here on YC](https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RpL-harnessrouter-bring-the-world-s-best-ai-agents-into-your-app-with-one-api) with one promise:\n\nBring the world’s best AI agents into your app, with one API.\n\nToday, we’re opening the layer underneath that promise.\n\nWe’re releasing HarnessRouter Community Edition and the Unified Harness Protocol (UHP). You can now run Codex, Claude Code, and Hermes as your product’s backend on infrastructure you control, using the same API contract as HarnessRouter Cloud.\n\n**TL;DR：**\n\nHarnessRouter is the world’s first unified interface for agent harnesses.\n\nYour product sends a task through one agent API. HarnessRouter runs the supported harness you choose and returns completed work, including files, artifacts, progress, and results.\n\nSessions, streaming, cancellation, and failure handling follow the same contract across Codex, Claude Code, and Hermes. You can add or switch a supported harness without rebuilding your product integration.\n\n🎥[ Watch the launch video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqrfCBrb6zY)\n\n### **Why agent harnesses aren't infrastructure yet**\n\nAn agent harness is the runtime layer around a model. It executes tasks, uses tools, manages sessions and files, streams progress, and returns completed work.\n\nHistorically, product teams built this layer themselves: task execution, session management, streaming, file and artifact handling, and error recovery, then maintained everything as models and tools evolved.\n\nNow frontier labs and open-source communities are building increasingly capable harnesses. Codex, Claude Code, Hermes, and DeepSeek Harness are examples. But they're still seen as coding tools rather than reusable infrastructure, so teams keep rebuilding this layer in-house. Just as product teams don't build their own databases, they shouldn't have to build their own harness layer either.\n\nEven teams that do adopt an existing harness hit the next obstacle: every harness works differently, so each new product-harness pair needs its own integration. We call this the N×M harness problem. In practice, it becomes harness lock-in: teams stick with the first harness they integrated, even when better or cheaper options exist.\n\nWe asked a simple question: what if agent harnesses became plug-and-play infrastructure that any product can build on?\n\nPlug-and-play means you integrate once, run any supported harness, and switch anytime a better or cheaper one ships.\n\nThat is what HarnessRouter makes possible.\n\n### **What we’re open-sourcing**\n\nWe’re releasing two core components under the Apache License 2.0:\n\n* **Unified Harness Protocol (UHP):** UHP is an open standard that gives different agent harnesses a shared execution contract. This release includes a versioned specification, schemas, and a conformance suite covering harness configuration, task execution, progress, sessions, files, cancellation, errors, and results.\n* **HarnessRouter Community Edition:** The self-hosted implementation of UHP. Gateway, Runner, and Console ship in a single Docker container. It runs Codex, Claude Code, Hermes, and more through one API and passes the full UHP conformance suite.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=111172&key=user_uploads/14642/2bea0a11-8aba-49c5-9a85-112001854d96)\n\nYour model-provider credentials, application state, and files remain under your control. Model calls still go to the providers you configure.\n\nMCP connects agents to tools. UHP covers a different boundary: how an application drives a complete agent harness and receives its full execution lifecycle.\n\n### **Start self-hosted. Scale with Cloud when you’re ready.**\n\nHarnessRouter Community Edition and HarnessRouter Cloud implement the same UHP contract, so one integration works for both. Start self-hosted on infrastructure you control, or scale into Cloud when you're ready.\n\nHarnessRouter Cloud provides agent harness as a service (HaaS): fully managed harnesses with serverless execution in isolated sandboxes, so teams can scale concurrent runs without operating sandbox capacity themselves.\n\n### **Agent harnesses can do more than write code: runnable examples**\n\nWe also released a **Starter Kit** with runnable applications that show an end-to-end Community Edition integration.\n\nOne example puts a harness behind an Excel column so each row can trigger agent work. Other examples cover presentations, dashboards, and video generation.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=111172&key=user_uploads/14642/914297fb-2588-4d8a-9a3b-37d39d82bae7)\n\nAgent harnesses can do much more than write code. We want the Starter Kit to show what becomes possible when you put them inside products.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=111172&key=user_uploads/14642/f4cff64a-7539-41b3-804e-fa5ee53d77bd)\n\nStarter Kit components are available under their applicable licenses.\n\n### **Choose harnesses in production with evidence**\n\nWe benchmarked eight Harness × Model configurations on the same task and input. Cost varied by 475× and latency by 3.2×. Even with the model fixed, changing the harness moved cost by 1.5–2.1× and latency by up to 1.95×.\n\nHarness selection is a task-level production decision, not a one-time choice. HarnessRouter helps teams compare configurations on their own workloads. This was one controlled test, not a universal ranking; we published the methodology, results, and limitations.\n\n### **What teams are already building**\n\nTeams are using HarnessRouter in very different settings:\n\n* 🏥 Stanford Medicine is connecting its operational data through a shared agent layer, an “academic brain” for the organization.\n* ✅ Readily.ai encodes domain expertise into agent skills and can move a new agent from problem and plan to production within 24 hours.\n* 🎬 Spira.ai drives its generation pipeline through HarnessRouter.\n* 🪄 hibo.ai uses HarnessRouter to execute and evaluate agent skills.\n\n### **Why we built it**\n\nWe’re Kuanze Ma and Richard Song, the co-founders of HarnessRouter.\n\nKuanze is a four-time founder focused on human-AI systems. Richard has spent more than a decade building large-scale systems, including at TigerGraph and Meta.\n\nWe both worked on agent systems before HarnessRouter. We kept seeing product teams rebuild the same application-to-harness layer, so we decided to turn that layer into shared infrastructure.\n\n### **What we want from you**\n\n* If you build an agent harness or already maintain your own runtime, read UHP and tell us where it is wrong. Which parts should be standardized, and which should remain harness-specific? That comparison is worth more to us than a signup.\n* Try the Community Edition Quickstart on a clean machine. Tell us where it breaks or where the execution lifecycle is incomplete.\n* If your compliance requirements prevent you from using a hosted agent runtime, try Community Edition on infrastructure you control.\n* If you want to contribute, we use a proposal-before-code process. Describe the problem, your proposed change, and its expected impact. You do not need to arrive with a finished implementation.\n* Intros are welcome to teams shipping agent-powered features that do not want to own another backend.\n\n### **Run it yourself**\n\n* [Open-source repository](https://github.com/HarnessRouter/harnessrouter)\n* [Unified Harness Protocol](https://unifiedharnessprotocol.org)\n* [Starter Kit](https://github.com/HarnessRouter/starter-kit)\n* [Benchmark and methodology](https://harnessrouter.ai/benchmarks)\n* [Docs and HarnessRouter Cloud](https://harnessrouter.ai)\n\nReach us at [contact@harnessrouter.ai](mailto:contact@harnessrouter.ai).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Sv6-harnessrouter-open-sourcing-the-world-s-first-unified-interface-for-agent-harnesses-and-the-unified-harness-protocol", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2026-08-17T22:23:24.250Z" }, { "id": 106971, "title": "HarnessRouter: Bring the World's Best AI Agents Into Your App, With One API", "tagline": "One API that puts Codex, Claude Code, Hermes, and more behind your product, so your users get real output: videos, games, code, documents.", "body": "Hey everyone 👋 Today we're introducing HarnessRouter.\n\n**TL;DR:** HarnessRouter lets builders bring Codex, Claude Code, Hermes, and other agents into your products through one API. Each task runs in an isolated sandbox with step-by-step tracing and configurable cost caps. It's designed to scale from consumer apps to large-scale model evaluations, orchestrating thousands of isolated sandbox runs in parallel. Start with our [AGENTS.md](https://harnessrouter.ai/agents.md), drop it into your coding agent, describe want you want to build, add an API key, and ship without rebuilding agent runtime infrastructure.\n\n**Try it now:** [harnessrouter.ai](http://harnessrouter.ai?utm=yc)\n\n\n\n## **The Problem**\n\nThere's a gap between what AI agents can do and what your product can offer.\n\nAgents like Codex and Claude Code can genuinely finish work now, but they're built for developers, not for your users. Bringing that capability to your users inside your own product means building the infrastructure yourself: isolated execution environments, agent runtime, tool orchestration, file handling, streaming, retries, permissions, cost controls. Every team building an AI feature rebuilds this same stack from scratch, and it takes months. After launch, the upgrades and maintenance never stop.\n\nAs a result, most teams ship a chat interface instead, when what users actually need is finished output.\n\n## **The Solution**\n\nHarnessRouter runs the entire agent stack as a service. Your product sends a task through one API; We run it on the agent you choose and return the result in structured, renderable form: reviewable diffs, generated files, images, video, confirmed tool actions.\n\nTeams are already running production workloads on it:\n\n* 🏥 A top medical research institution is connecting its operational data into a unified agent layer, an \"academic brain\" for the organization.\n* ✅ A leading healthcare compliance company encodes domain expertise into agent skills, saving their clients hundreds of hours of manual work per audit.\n* 🎬 An AI video marketing startup drives its content generation pipeline through HarnessRouter, producing viral-grade video at human quality.\n\nIntegration takes three steps: drop our [AGENTS.md](https://harnessrouter.ai/agent.md) into your coding agent, describe the feature you want and add your API key. Switching agents is a one-line configuration change, and the same setup scales from a single task to thousands of concurrent runs.\n\n## **Who We Are**\n\n**Kuanze Ma, Co-founder**\\\nKuanze is a four-time founder focused on human–AI systems, with experience in systems design, product management, algorithms, recruiting, marketing, and engineering. He holds a BSc in Mathematics, a diploma in Software Engineering, and an MSL from Northwestern University.\n\n**Richard Song, Co-founder**\\\nRichard has over a decade of experience building large-scale systems, including vertical AI agents powered by private data and domain knowledge. Previously, he was a Senior Director at TigerGraph and a Senior Software Engineer at Meta. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Cornell University and a BS in Computer Science.\n\n## **Our Ask**\n\n* **If you're building an AI feature**, start with the free 7-day trial. We'll help you integrate.\n* **If you need to run thousands of agents in parallel**, for model evaluations, batch generation, or large-scale pipelines, that's what the sandbox orchestration layer was built for. Talk to us.\n* **If you've built your own agent infrastructure**, we'd value the comparison. Tell us what we're missing.\n* **Intros welcome** to any team that wants to ship agent-powered features without building the backend.\n\nReach us at [contact@harnessrouter.ai](mailto:contact@harnessrouter.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RpL-harnessrouter-bring-the-world-s-best-ai-agents-into-your-app-with-one-api", "votes": 29, "created_at": "2026-07-23T13:44:28.619Z" }, { "id": 99723, "title": "ClawTrace — Make Your OpenClaw Agent Better, Cheaper, and Faster", "tagline": "The observability platform for OpenClaw agents: execution traces, cost analysis, and Tracy, your OpenClaw's doctor agent.", "body": "## 🚀 TL;DR\n\n[ClawTrace](https://clawtrace.ai?utm=yc) is the observability platform for OpenClaw agents. It captures every trajectory your OpenClaw agent runs — every LLM call, tool use, and sub-agent delegation — and gives you three views to understand it: an execution path, a call graph, and a timeline. When you need answers fast, ask Tracy, your built-in AI analyst, in plain English. Watch our demo [here](https://youtu.be/-moG7vCkawQ?si=ivl7Utv3h7ynv5rb):\n\n—\n\nHello, world! I'm Richard, and today I'm excited to introduce **ClawTrace** — the observability platform for OpenClaw agents.\n\nAI agents are going to production. But right now, when something goes wrong, you're flying blind.\n\n## ❌ The Problem\n\nDeploying an OpenClaw agent is easy. Understanding what it actually did is not.\n\nWhen a run costs $104.70 instead of the usual $1.5, you have no idea why. When an agent fails silently, you don't know which step broke or what input caused it. When a trajectory takes 3 minutes instead of 30 seconds, you can't tell where the time went. You end up reading raw JSON logs, manually counting token estimates, and guessing at execution paths. This doesn't scale.\n\nExisting options make this worse, not better:\n\n* **General distributed tracing tools** (Jaeger, Zipkin, Datadog) weren't built for LLM concepts — they have no understanding of token counts, model costs, prompt/completion pairs, or sub-agent hierarchies.\n* **Framework-specific tools** like LangSmith only work within their own ecosystem. If you're on OpenClaw, you're on your own.\n* **Point solutions** cover one slice of the problem — just logs, just cost tracking, just evals — and leave you to stitch everything together yourself.\n* **Every tool** dumps data into a dashboard and expects you to interpret it. There's no analyst. You still have to do all the thinking.\n\n## ⭐️ Our Solution\n\nWe built ClawTrace to give you complete visibility into every OpenClaw agent run — automatically, with zero code changes to your agent.\n\nOne plugin. Three commands. Every trajectory captured.\n\n```bash\nopenclaw plugins install @epsilla/clawtrace\nopenclaw clawtrace setup\nopenclaw gateway restart\n```\n\nThat's it. From that point on, every agent run streams to ClawTrace automatically.\n\n**With ClawTrace, you get:**\n\n* **Execution Path** — a collapsible tree of every step your agent took: LLM calls, tool executions, sub-agent delegations, with full input and output payloads at every node. Metadata badges show model name, duration, token counts, and estimated cost inline.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99723&key=user_uploads/14642/d592e3b7-c8d3-4f7c-b71d-a27037551bba)\n\n* **Call Graph** — an interactive force-directed diagram showing the relationships between every agent, model, and tool in a run. Understand the shape of a complex multi-agent workflow at a glance.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99723&key=user_uploads/14642/e81258a7-05d0-4c5d-be9a-0ef944b72329)\n\n* **Timeline** — a Gantt chart of every span in the trajectory, positioned by start time and sized by duration. Bottlenecks, parallelism, and idle gaps become immediately visible.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99723&key=user_uploads/14642/bf94f46d-90e6-4ea4-8b1e-2971ad79af85)\n\n* **Tracy, your OpenClaw’s Doctor** — every other observability tool gives you data and expects you to figure it out yourself. Tracy is different. Ask her a question in plain English — _\"where is the bottleneck in this trace?\"_ — and she queries your trajectory graph live, generates a visualization, and delivers specific recommendations: which step to fix, why, and how. Tracy is powered by a Claude managed agent and has real-time Cypher access to your full trajectory graph via PuppyGraph graph lake-house architecture.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99723&key=user_uploads/14642/7cb3bad9-86b3-4795-b761-75b7a390ce62)\n\n* **Cost Estimation** — per-span cost calculation covering 80+ models across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, Mistral, Alibaba Qwen, Zhipu GLM, Moonshot, and more. Cache-aware pricing (fresh input vs. cached input vs. output tokens) for accurate estimates.\n* **Consumption-based billing** — pay for what you use with credits. No seat fees, no per-user pricing. Start with 100 free credits.\n\n## 🔦 The Ask\n\nAI agents are moving from demos to production. ClawTrace is the observability layer that makes that transition safe, debuggable, and cost-efficient.\n\n* 🚀 **Sign up for free** at [clawtrace.ai](http://clawtrace.ai) — 100 credits included, your first trajectory shows up in minutes.\n* ⭐ **Star us on GitHub** — ClawTrace is fully open source under Apache 2.0: [github.com/epsilla-cloud/clawtrace](https://github.com/epsilla-cloud/clawtrace)\n* 💬 **Tell us what you're building** — we'd love to hear about your OpenClaw setup and what observability problems matter most to you. [Schedule a call with me](https://epsilla-ai.sg.larksuite.com/scheduler/dc6a62e558c3a1cc).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PwR-clawtrace-make-your-openclaw-agent-better-cheaper-and-faster", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2026-04-14T15:34:37.032Z" }, { "id": 84075, "title": "Epsilla — Ship production-ready AI agents on day 1", "tagline": "All-in-one platform to create AI agents with your private data and knowledge.", "body": "### **🚀 TL;DR**\n\n[Epsilla](https://www.epsilla.com/) is an all-in-one platform for building AI agents powered by your private data and knowledge. Easy to use for domain professionals, deeply customizable for AI experts, and fully equipped for enterprise customers with security, scalability, and integration. Watch our demo [here:](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhBPsxr2AL0)\n\n---\n\n—\n\nHello, world! We are Richard, Eric, and Ricki. Today, we are super excited to introduce Epsilla, the all-in-one platform for creating AI agents with your private data and knowledge.\n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\nBuilding a prototype AI agent is easy, but creating production-level AI agents with private knowledge can be overwhelming. It involves managing LLMs, prompt engineering, tool usage, memory management, vector databases, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), evaluation, and more.\n\nExisting AI agent-building products in the market are:\n\n* Either developer-facing tools that require a significant amount of engineering work;\n* Or lacking depth in customization and flexibility, limiting the final agent's performance and quality;\n* Or just focus on only one small aspect of the problem—such as prompt engineering, workflow, retrieval, evaluation, or hosting—leaving builders to handle the heavy lifting of integrating these components into a cohesive system.\n\n### **⭐️ Our Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84075&key=user_uploads/14642/83e9fd99-cf4a-473a-b1ac-57f4935ff4dc)\n\nWe have reimagined the AI agent platform from the ground up and developed an all-in-one solution for creating, iterating, and operating AI agents—without writing a single line of code.\n\nWith Epsilla, you can:\n\n* Build high-quality knowledge bases from diverse data sources, including uploaded files, websites, Google Drive, Notion, cloud storage, and more.\n* Deeply customize AI agents with options for appearance, prompt tuning, workflow customization, and advanced, modular, agentic, and graph-based RAG.\n* Evaluate agent performance, monitor user engagement, and manage user feedback.\n* In addition to providing an out-of-the-box ChatGPT or Perplexity-like UI, we also allow developers to use the agents as their application backend via REST API.\n* Epsilla seamlessly integrates with a growing set of Large Language Model providers, allowing you to choose the best model at any stage of the knowledge base and agent workflow to balance quality, latency, and cost.\n\n### **🔦 The Ask**\n\nThousands of GenAI builders, along with dozens of enterprises and SMBs across various industries, are already building their AI agents on Epsilla. We hope to see you join them soon!\n\n* Sign up for FREE at to build your first AI agent within 10 minutes!\n* Let’s talk about your use case! Schedule a meeting with us [here](https://epsilla-ai.larksuite.com/scheduler/4aca8159d1224454).\n* Join our community with us on [Discord](https://discord.gg/cDaY2CxZc5) and share what you built on Epsilla!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ls3-epsilla-ship-production-ready-ai-agents-on-day-1", "votes": 35, "created_at": "2024-09-17T16:47:45.508Z" }, { "id": 73587, "title": "Epsilla - A 10x faster open source vector database", "tagline": "The information retrieval foundation for the next generation of AI applications", "body": "### **🚀 TL;DR**\n\nEpsilla is an open-source vector database. Epsilla offers low-latency searches across billions of vectors, consumption-based database-as-a-service, comprehensive APIs, and multi-language bindings. Our team has 7 years of experience building the high-performance graph database, and our advanced ANN index leverages parallel graph traversal technology, making the vector search 10x faster.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73587&key=user_uploads/14642/801e5229-0b56-4eb5-a3fb-e5ff7d2686ec)\n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\nWith the surge of LLMs and the evolution of AI agents for task planning and decomposition for complex tasks, a **high-performance vector database** for information retrieval and enhancing context in prompts is a **MUST**! Most vector databases utilize HNSW, and its performance significantly degrades when aiming for high search precision.\n\n### **⭐️ Our Solution**\n\nWe’ve reimagined vector search from the ground up for scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness. We implemented the state-of-art ANN index algorithm from the academia that leverages intra-query parallel graph traversal, which outperforms HNSW by **5x** on high precision query latency on medium size (1M) vector space and outperforms HNSW by **50 times** on large-scale vector search.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73587&key=user_uploads/14642/7f276b64-0500-4286-b589-e23d339abe6d)\n\n### **🔦 The Ask**\n\n* Try us at \n* Follow our repo at \n* Connect with us on [Discord](https://discord.gg/cDaY2CxZc5)\n* Let’s talk at !", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J8t-epsilla-a-10x-faster-open-source-vector-database", "votes": 41, "created_at": "2023-07-31T01:45:04.471Z" } ] }, { "id": 28920, "name": "Unhaze", "slug": "unhaze", "former_names": [ "Uncover" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7f3b295b0f1bf37f84fab8ca0eb4083a223649ba.png", "website": "https://unhaze.ai", "all_locations": "Copenhagen, Denmark", "long_description": "Unhaze is a revenue optimization tool for mid-market B2B teams.\r\n\r\nUnhaze finds the leads that sales teams are most likely to close right now. We do this by analyzing previous deals and continuously monitoring for similar traits among all our collected company data.\r\n\r\nBy focusing on the right leads (at the right time!), we can almost double win rates.", "one_liner": "The right leads at the right time for B2B sales", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Sales", "launched_at": 1689002292, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Sales", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Sales" ], "regions": [ "Denmark", "Europe", "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/unhaze", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/unhaze.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "Copenhagen", "country": "DK", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/unhaze/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/organizations/unhazeai/", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7f3b295b0f1bf37f84fab8ca0eb4083a223649ba.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": 530674, "full_name": "Jacob Lauritzen", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "hello", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/jacob-lauritzen", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/42dd368327eb146151212534a9b7f5136ba1cbee.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 72922, "title": "Unhaze 😶‍🌫️ Find the deals you are most likely to close", "tagline": "Double your win rate by targeting the accounts you are most likely to convert", "body": "# TL;DR\n\nUnhaze mines data across sources like intent, hiring, technologies used, company descriptions, websites etc. and analyzes your historical deals to discover impactful buying signals. It then monitors your market and target accounts to constantly find and prioritize the best opportunities at the right time.\n\n# **The problem**\n\nProspecting and lead qualification is manual, inefficient, and error-prone. Prospect-to-closed conversion rates are as low as 5%-10%.\n\nThe coarse filtering capabilities of current lead databases cause sales teams to sift through long irrelevant leads lists instead of spending their time closing high-opportunity deals. This is money, time, and energy out the window.\n\n### **The solution**\n\nUnhaze integrates directly into Salesforce/Hubspot and tells you which leads to prioritize working on. Gone are the days of manual work and “gut based” decision making. Instead, teams can rely on predictive AI to identify the prospects they are most likely to win.\n\nThe initial focus is on win likelihood optimization, but Unhaze can also make predictions such a recommended products, segmentation, upsell potential or even completely custom models.\n\n# **How it works**\n\n_1\\. Data foundation_\n\nUnhaze continuously mines both structured and unstructured data across a large palette of data points such as firmographics, geo, technographics, funding, news, intent, website content, job posts, organizational changes & new hires and more.\n\n_2\\. Analysis of past deals_\n\nWith guidance from you, Unhaze analyzes all previous deals to discover impactful signals that can predict high-conversion opportunities. Some signals are obvious while others are more subtle or only appear in certain combinations.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72922&key=user_uploads/530674/4b6c7252-b344-4bb1-845a-dea75a1810fe)\n\n_3\\. Predictive monitoring of market_\n\nUnhaze uses machine learning to continuously monitor your market and predict which accounts are most likely to convert - so you can target the right accounts at the right time.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72922&key=user_uploads/530674/16e1646b-f44d-46bc-9d26-5699587da1af)\n\n# **Does it work?**\n\nBy focusing on the right accounts and not wasting time on unlikely leads, our pilot customers can more than double win rates while markedly decreasing time spent on prospecting.\n\n# **The ask**\n\n* Follow [Unhaze on Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/unhaze/)\n* Reach out [here](https://unhaze.ai/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=launch_yc) if you’re doing sales or revops in a B2B company with +50 employees\n* Connect me with RevOps, SalesOps, or sales leaders in your network", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IyA-unhaze-find-the-deals-you-are-most-likely-to-close", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2023-07-11T16:24:34.585Z" } ] }, { "id": 28967, "name": "MantleBio", "slug": "mantlebio", "former_names": [ "DryBox Bio" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/15716b62f7c6d475631f039d985c650683ee0837.png", "website": "https://www.mantlebio.com", "all_locations": "", "long_description": "Mantle brings modern data engineering to the lab to help scientists turn insights into world-changing breakthroughs.", "one_liner": "Transform scientific data into discoveries", "team_size": 7, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1689053097, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Biotech", "Data Science" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "Unspecified" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mantlebio", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/mantlebio.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": null, "country": null, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/mantlebio/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/mantlebio", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/15716b62f7c6d475631f039d985c650683ee0837.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 876391, "full_name": "Emily Damato", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CEO and Co-Founder of MantleBio, modern data engineering for biotech. Previously developed software at GRAIL, Arsenal Bio, and The Broad Institute. MIT Computer Science and Biology. 10+ years at the intersection of computer science and life science.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/emily-damato-36932523", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/damato_emily", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/78b9808f1e62aa083dd6d0e1a05e6d7d56f2169d.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1435929, "full_name": "Madeline Schade", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CTO and Co-Founder of MantleBio. Previously worked as a software engineer at Google, Arsenal Bio and GRAIL.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/madeline-schade", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/SchadeMadeline", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e8c503fd7daf298aa41440bb472880783bf8898c.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 82415, "title": "MantleBio - Helping scientists transform data into discoveries", "tagline": "Modern data engineering, now available free for the scientific community", "body": "TL;DR: [Mantle](https://mantlebio.com/) makes data engineering easy (and sometimes fun) for scientists.\n\n**Today, we are excited to announce the launch of Mantle’s free plan, now available to the scientific community. Get started **[**here**](https://mantlebio.com/get-started/)**!**\n\n# 💻  Why does biology need better data engineering?\n\nBiotech generates very big, very complex data. A single DNA sequencing experiment can create 7 TB of data, and generating high-throughput multi-modal data is becoming the norm. Recent breakthroughs in computer science and ML have incredible potential to accelerate life science research. \n\nElectronic lab notebooks (ELNs), like Benchling, help organize research in the wet lab. However, biotech lacks tools to organize and analyze data from instruments, CROs, and public databases.\n\n**Does this sound familiar?**\n\n* Storing experimental metadata in file paths\n * Writing regex scripts to parse metadata out of those file paths\n * Regex scripts break when the file path format changes\n* Running bioinformatics scripts locally on a laptop\n * Not being able to process data when the computational scientist is on vacation\n * Losing analyses when the computational scientist loses their laptop on vacation\n* Analyzing datasets one by one in a desktop application\n * Not being able to compare data between teams because each person made the graph slightly differently\n * Spending a weekend regenerating all of the graphs consistently, and finding several copy-and-paste errors made on the data that was submitted to the grant application last week\n\nAt Mantle, we think science deserves better.\n\n# 🔬 What can you do with Mantle?\n\n**Instant Insights**\n\nMake decisions quickly and confidently. See everything in one place, in real time.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82415&key=user_uploads/876391/0e8966ed-9477-45c2-ba61-408feb3884e8)\n\n**Modern Data Management**\n\nDon’t let unscalable spreadsheets and inflexible databases slow down your research. Scientific research requires rapid iteration and experimentation, and Mantle’s data lake can keep up.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82415&key=user_uploads/876391/7aeaa967-f989-4112-9a74-e6b343c4f57a)\n\n**Bring Your Code**\n\nEffectively leveraging computation, data science, and ML separates the next generation of biotech companies from the last. Mantle hosts the infrastructure to help connect no-code users and great-code writers.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82415&key=user_uploads/876391/6f1860f2-4570-4fa1-8a14-b4fea6961f0c)\n\n# 🌎 How does it work?\n\nMantle is a data infrastructure layer (the “mantle” 🙂 🌎) for biological data analysis.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82415&key=user_uploads/876391/45cbb641-63e7-4475-8f46-35af154abca9)\n\n* **Import** data from ELNs (e.g. Benchling), instruments (e.g. Illumina), CROs, and more\n* **Process** data reproducibly with bioinformatics pipelines and Jupyter Notebooks\n* In a private **data lake**, find, organize, and analyze data of any type and scale\n* **Insights** are accessible to no-code users through real-time visualizations\n* **Data Science & ML** results can be easily shared and traced back to raw data\n\n**Why doesn’t biology use “normal” data engineering tools?**\n\n* **The data is different.** General-purpose tools are designed for consistently structured tabular data. Biology generates data with frequently changing metadata in biology-specific formats. _Mantle’s data lake stores data of any scale, format, or type in a single place._\n* **The ecosystem is different.** Tools that are not designed for biology don’t prioritize integrations with other tools in the science ecosystem. _Mantle has off-the-shelf integrations with standard life science tools._\n* **The processing is different.** Tabular data can typically be processed with simple transformations. Preprocessing genomics data can take dozens of hours and careful parameter tuning. _Custom and off-the-shelf bioinformatics pipelines can be run reproducibly through Mantle, with or without code._\n\n# 👋 Help us close the gap between data and discovery\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82415&key=user_uploads/876391/e731a73f-ecf6-4bc2-b601-ed42ee8fb6a9)\n\nWe love data engineering, and we love helping scientists. If you’d like to, here are some ways you can help us:\n\n* **Give Mantle a try!**\n * Get started [here](https://mantlebio.com/get-started/) for free.\n* **Let us know what you think!**\n * If you want to chat or see a demo, please reach out to me here: [emily@mantlebio.com](mailto:emily@mantlebio.com)\n * If you would like help debugging a weird AWS error, please reach out to my co-founder here: [madeline@mantlebio.com](mailto:madeline@mantlebio.com) \n * We are celebrating this launch with a Computation & Biology happy hour at our SF office on August 13. Space is limited; please RSVP [here](https://lu.ma/jraavbdm).\n* **Learn with us!**\n * Check out our blogs on [bioinformatics engineering](https://blog.mantlebio.com/p/intro-to-bioinformatics-engineering), [ELNs](https://blog.mantlebio.com/p/eln-breakdown-scale-scope-and-science), and [more](https://blog.mantlebio.com/).\n * Check out our upcoming [workshops and events](https://lu.ma/mantlebio).\n* **Share this post!**\n * If you enjoyed reading this, your friends might too 😀\n\nThank you!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LRH-mantlebio-helping-scientists-transform-data-into-discoveries", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2024-07-25T14:07:49.934Z" }, { "id": 72941, "title": "🔬 MantleBio: Scaling data driven discovery for biotech", "tagline": "Our data platform helps scientists and computational biologists manage and analyze high-throughput experiments", "body": "Hi everyone, we’re [Emily](https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-damato-36932523/) and [Madeline](https://www.linkedin.com/in/madeline-schade/) from [MantleBio](http://mantlebio.com)!\n\nMantleBio is a modern data engineering platform for life science research and computational biology. While software like Benchling helps organize research in the wet lab, MantleBio powers research in the dry lab. Our platform helps biotech companies leverage advances in computational science and machine learning with tools built for biotech.\n\nIf you’re a computational biologist or work with biological data we would love to chat. Contact us at [mantlebio.com](http://mantlebio.com) or [info@mantlebio.com](mailto:info@mantlebio.com).\n\n### The Problem\n\nBiotech generates a tremendous amount of data. High-throughput sequencing and screening have become the norm, R&D groups can generate terabytes of data per day, and biotech is estimated to have the largest volume of data of any industry by [2025](https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002195).\n\nRecent breakthroughs in computer science and machine learning have the opportunity to profoundly impact scientific research. However, the majority of biotech companies lack the tools or software team necessary to fully utilize these advances and the data they have.\n\nWithout implementing the best data practices, biotech companies are often unable to find past results, reproduce analyses, or integrate multiomic datasets. This can be a bottleneck for future experiments and jeopardize regulatory filings. Meanwhile, generic data management software fails to address the complexities specific to life science. MantleBio bridges this gap, accelerating data driven discovery with tools built for biotech.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72941&key=user_uploads/1435929/28c97902-c13b-461a-917e-17858a41d971)\n\n### Our Solution\n\n* Simplify multiomics with centralized data management.\n * Other systems require scientists to design their own schemas. We collaborate with experts to create domain-aware data models available off the shelf.\n * Our API, CLI, and UI make datasets easily accessible to no-code users and computational scientists.\n* Automate the analysis of routine workflows. Start a DNA sequencing run, grab coffee, and receive the results in your inbox.\n * We connect to Benchling, Notion, BaseSpace and other systems to read experimental data from the source. Our API and data transformation pipelines allow custom integrations with even the most difficult laboratory instruments.\n* Create bioinformatics pipelines in minutes, not days.\n * Computational biologists can create production pipelines directly in MantleBio without managing cloud infrastructure or writing Docker files.\n* Prepare for the next IND filing or FDA audit with reproducible datasets and analyses.\n * MantleBio automatically records a version history for all datasets. The platform captures inputs, processing, and outputs of all analyses, creating a connected and auditable graph of everything in the computational lab.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72941&key=user_uploads/1435929/c5949154-a9ed-49a9-9fa5-37c572dc06ad)\n\n## About Us\n\nMadeline is a software engineer with experience as a full-stack engineer at multiple biotech companies and at Google working on large data pipelines. At GRAIL she developed an EDC that supported one of the largest clinical trials ever performed (over 200k patients), and at Google worked on a system supporting 10 billion queries per day. She studied computer science and computer engineering at UC Santa Cruz, where she did research in large distributed systems.\n\nEmily is a “full-stack computational biologist”. Her software experience includes back-end, full-stack, and machine learning. 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When we heard Neptune was shutting down, our customers started panicking about losing years of experiment history and having to rewrite their logging code on a tight deadline.\n\nSo we built Pluto.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97424&key=user_uploads/509361/6cbcdb3e-6f5f-4f7f-8855-58001d921c66)\n\n### **🔥 The problem**\n\nNeptune's March 5th shutdown is forcing research teams into one of the worst kinds of migrations: rushed, high-stakes, and hard to verify.\n\nMost alternatives require you to:\n\n* Rewrite your logging code\n* Lose your historical runs (or spend days exporting and reformatting)\n* Hope the new tool handles your multi-GPU workloads the same way\n\nAnd you have to do all of this before March 5th or your data gets deleted.\n\n### **🛠 How Pluto solves it**\n\n**1. Dual-log to both platforms simultaneously**\n\n[Add one import](https://docs.trainy.ai/pluto/neptune-migration), keep your existing Neptune code running, and Pluto logs side-by-side. Validate that everything matches on your real training workloads before you cut over.\n\n**2. Export your Neptune history**\n\nPluto includes [a Neptune exporter](https://docs.neptune.ai/transition_hub/migration/to_pluto) that brings your old runs into Pluto. Years of experiment data, preserved.\n\n**3. Built for the workloads Neptune users actually run**\n\nWe're optimizing for what Neptune users loved: UI responsiveness at scale, reliable logging throughput under multi-node/multi-GPU workloads, and the ability to track thousands of per-layer metrics without lag.\n\n**Deployment options:**\n\n* **Self-hosted** – for sensitive data or air-gapped environments, instructions in [server readme](https://github.com/Trainy-ai/pluto-server)\n* **Hosted** – $250/seat/month (free for existing Trainy customers)\n\n---\n\n### **🙏 Our ask**\n\n**If you're a Neptune user, please try Pluto with dual-logging before the March shutdown.**\n\nWe're specifically looking for feedback on:\n\n* Anything that would block your cutover\n* Features you rely on that we're missing\n* UI/performance differences at scale\n\n**Early Bird offer:** Start dual-logging in the next 2 weeks → **3 months hosted free**.\n\n👉 Once you’ve made an account on [pluto.trainy.ai](http://pluto.trainy.ai), email [roanak@trainy.ai](mailto:roanak@trainy.ai) or [grab a time to chat](https://calendly.com/roanak/trainy-demo) and we’ll add seats/storage.\n\n---\n\n### **🔗 Links**\n\n* [**Playground**](https://demo.pluto.trainy.ai/o/dev-org/projects/my-ml-project) – try it now\n* [**Quickstart**](https://docs.trainy.ai/pluto/quickstart) – get running in 5 minutes\n* [**GitHub**](https://github.com/Trainy-ai/pluto) – Apache-2.0 (client), AGPL-3.0 ([server](https://github.com/Trainy-ai/pluto-server)) ⭐\n\nWe're listed on[ **Neptune's official transition hub**](https://docs.neptune.ai/transition_hub/migration/to_pluto).\n\nThank you!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PLM-pluto-oss-experiment-tracker-for-neptune-users", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2026-02-04T22:26:06.748Z" }, { "id": 72587, "title": "🚅 Trainy - Identify bottlenecks, boost training", "tagline": "Dashboards to help ML engineers training large models isolate performance bottlenecks and boost training speed.", "body": "**tl;dr** We help ML engineers training large models isolate performance bottlenecks during training. Trainy summarizes profiling information during large distributed training so that you know exactly what is limiting the speed of your model training.\n\nHello everyone, we are Andrew and Roanak, ML engineers from the bay. We’ve experienced firsthand the challenges of distributed training and getting the most out of your compute resources. That’s why we are building tools to help ML engineers training large models optimize training speed and take the guesswork out of estimating the time and cost of training.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72587&key=user_uploads/1404133/cde44cc9-7436-422f-b0fd-c7c3f2a94ff2)\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nDistributed training has enabled the training of ever-growing generative AI models. However, gains in speed are not simply proportional to the number of GPUs recruited and can quickly have diminishing returns depending on infrastructure and the model being trained. Tools now mainly focus on profiling a few GPUs, but become unwieldy the moment you scale beyond the 10 GPU mark.\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\nWe created a dashboard to display timing information across many GPUs. It’s a graph interface built on top of Tensorboard and PyTorch Profiler, existing tools familiar to ML engineers.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72587&key=user_uploads/1404133/729377af-3ca9-499b-acf7-1e2f1f569940)\n\n# **How it works**\n\nWe summarize profiling information over many GPUs in a few key views that help ML developers identify where in the ensemble of GPUs there are inefficiencies. Statistics about computation, communication, and memory operations across many GPUs isolate straggling GPUs. Distributed training can only proceed as fast as the slowest GPU participating. 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No technical expertise required.\n\nBecause conversions are being tracked on the store backend rather than the browser, Converge can track 100% of conversions and forward these to relevant ad platforms and analytics tools.\n\nUnlike Segment or other CDPs, Converge allows non-technical ecommerce operators to set this tracking up in minutes.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72382&key=user_uploads/772323/7f38e933-f6ce-489f-abf6-cd11149e83d1)\n\nOnce tracking is set up, Converge aggregates data from all sources and provides a single overview of ecommerce KPIs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72382&key=user_uploads/772323/5eb15873-3ea8-4e32-8e96-2efa057df4d7)\n\nUsers can also break down attribution metrics across channels, campaigns, adsets, and even ads, showing what is driving growth on a granular level.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72382&key=user_uploads/772323/eb78601f-2d1a-4a75-a35b-f5e7db168d3f)\n\n## **Our ask**\n\n* Sign up for [**Converge**](https://www.runconverge.com?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=launch-yc) today and test it for free!\n* If you know any **ecommerce brands or agencies**, we would love to chat!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IpS-converge-segment-for-ecommerce", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2023-06-20T14:03:45.650Z" } ] }, { "id": 28992, "name": "Rankai", "slug": "rankai", "former_names": [ "LineUp" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/32ccd0a8e163e6c0cf404e4f9c6202d57317315c.png", "website": "https://rankai.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Websites used to be static billboards, passive and waiting to be found.

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But responding to RFPs is daunting and challenging\n\n1. **RFPs are daunting:** Responding to RFP responses can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months\n2. **Dependency on SMEs:** Often require time and commitment from multiple teams within the organization:\n3. **Knowledge Management is a huge pain:** Keeping content fresh and up-to-date is a huge challenge.\n\n# **😃 MEET INVENTIVE 😃**\n\nInventive provides a series of agents and automation that enable sales teams to respond to RFPs and sales questionnaires 70% faster.\n\n1. **10X Faster Drafts With Highly Accurate Responses:** Inventive's proprietary AI models provide a first draft of RFP responses 10X faster. These responses are accurate, reliable, and rooted in the organization’s sources.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84005&key=user_uploads/674339/1ca07bf9-9d8b-4032-afec-20416771da84)\n\n2. **Single Hub for All Your Knowledge Sources:** Inventive integrates with many of your enterprise platforms, curating a single source of truth for all your proposal and pre-sales assets and reducing the dependency on SMEs.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84005&key=user_uploads/674339/832eef88-dca5-46e3-bfa6-cbfede9d6b26)\n\n3. **Fight Conflicting Content With AI Content Manager:** Inventive’s AI Content Manager proactively flags stale and conflicting content at scale, saving proposal teams a lot of time and manual effort.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84005&key=user_uploads/674339/97898914-534e-43b0-bb97-a4f6f3b7e5bd)\n\n4. **AI Agents for Productivity & Competitive Advantage:** The Inventive platform has a number of AI Agents focused on strategic tasks and can help users with researching competitors, brainstorming creative ideas, and managing compliance.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84005&key=user_uploads/674339/5064df2e-50a0-463c-ba5e-1583309f1f2a)\n\n\n# **🎉 OUR CUSTOMERS LOVE US 🎉**\n\n> _“Inventive has been a game changer for us. We have been 3X more productive.”_\n\n> _“Our Solutions Engineering team has experienced remarkable improvements in speed and accuracy with Inventive.”_\n\n> _“We are being down selected and winning more RFPs than ever before!”_\n\n# **🗓️ REACH OUT 🗓️**\n\nBook a free demo at [http://www.inventive.ai/demo](https://www.inventive.ai/demo?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=launch-yc)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lqv-inventive-ai-ai-first-rfp-and-questionnaire-response-platform", "votes": 52, "created_at": "2024-09-13T15:02:15.238Z" }, { "id": 73748, "title": "Inventive AI: Automate responses to sales information requests with AI", "tagline": "Generate reliable and accurate responses to security reviews, RFPs, DDQs, and RFIs and lower your time-to-revenue.", "body": "**TL;DR:** _Sales information requests are an important part of most sales deals. But they are long and tedious to complete accurately and need repeated involvement from senior team members. Inventive AI automates this process using AI. Our platform natively manages the fidelity of each response by providing sources, a confidence rating and automatically flagging stale content._\n\n### **Problem ⚠️**\n\nA sales information request like a security questionnaire, RFI, DDQ and RFP is an important step to complete in every sales deal. Each one’s a grind though! A typical sales questionnaire has an average of 77 questions and the average time to complete one is 32 human hours.\n\n* Coordinating the completion of a sales information request usually takes days to weeks depending on the complexity. Dhiren faced this challenge with his sales team at Viewics where they had momentum in the sales motion but they knew that this step would slow down time to revenue. No one person has the answers to all the questions which makes it challenging to search for answers in a knowledge base or chase down answers from the SMEs who are senior team members → and busy with their day job!\n* If an answer is found in a knowledge base, it’s difficult for the coordinator to ascertain if the content is current or obsolete. Inevitably, this uncertainty leads to a senior team member having to validate the answer. Result → Slows down the sales motion!\n\n### **Our Solution 👋**\n\nThe Inventive AI platform automates drafting responses that can be trusted and does so in a fraction of the time compared to the current process. We do this by:\n\n* **Generating responses grounded in facts:** We use your previous responses and connect to company knowledge bases to generate a response. For each answer, we include easily accessible citations to the sources used to generate the answer.\n* **Creating a Confidence Rating:** We generate a confidence rating for each answer and automatically flag answers that need review.\n* **Detecting Stale Content:** We automatically flag content that could be obsolete and thereby inaccurate.\n* **Creating compelling answers:** You have control over the tone of the answers while keeping the facts intact.\n\nOur goal is that you only have to **_verify responses,_** not create them from scratch for every sales information request. Most existing SaaS tools cater to streamlining the process of response creation. With our AI native solution, our customers only verify flagged answers while we do the heavy lifting of generating an accurate response to each question.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73748&key=user_uploads/150549/7482b2fd-7d43-4036-a5ce-50016d40c592)\n\n### **Team** 🍻\n\nWe are an SF Bay Area native team who met through our friend’s circle and hit it off on our love and passion for AI & building businesses.\n\n[**Dhiren**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhiren9/) previously founded and led Viewics (series-B, acquired by Roche), a SaaS company in healthcare analytics that managed data for **100Mn+ patients** across customers like Mayo Clinic, University Hospitals, and Children’s Hospitals.\n\n[**Gaurav**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gauravnemade/) was a product manager at **Google AI and Google Brain** and led go-to-market for the LLM platform - LaMDA - which eventually ended up powering Google Bard v1.\n\n[**Vishakh**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishakhhegde/) led mission-critical Machine Learning efforts at **Ambient AI** (YC17, A16z) and has authored a book on Deep Learning. He has a Masters's in ML from Stanford.\n\n[**Waffle**](https://photos.app.goo.gl/wbrecuk6xnHjBim68) is a world leader in sniffing for treats and cheering us up on hard days. She is our (non-AI) Happiness Agent.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73748&key=user_uploads/1359485/ef976aa8-0d12-410f-a569-6b44fc5a2247)\n\n### **Requests** 👋🏻\n\n* If you have ever dealt with requests like security questionnaires or RFP, we would love to get in touch! 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We also provide verified emails, verified phones, email data, and phone data for 4x cheaper than Clay, Apollo, ZoomInfo, Hunter, Hunter.io, Lusha, ContactOut, Wiza, LeadMagic, Prospeo, FindyMail, Icypeas, FullEnrich, Datagma, Dropcontact, and LeadIQ.\r\n\r\n- Bulk API search for companies, people, and jobs data (uncapped API searches, search API, company search API, people search API, person API, jobs search API, contact search)\r\n- Email API and emails API (email finder, email lookup, bulk email finder, email address finder, email addresses, work email, work emails, business email, business emails, email list, email database)\r\n- Phone API (phone finder, phone lookup, phone number finder, phone numbers, mobile number, mobile numbers, mobile phone, direct dial, direct dials)\r\n- Reverse email lookup API (email to person, reverse lookup, email enrichment, contact enrichment, lead enrichment, CRM enrichment, enrich)\r\n- Email verification API (email validation, email verification, email deliverability, bounce detection, email bounce)\r\n- Phone verification API (phone validation, phone verification, verified phone, verified phones)\r\n- Contact API and contacts API (contact data, contact lookup, contact finder, contact information, B2B contacts, B2B contact, verified contact, verified contacts)\r\n- Real-time LinkedIn data API (LinkedIn company data, LinkedIn profile data, LinkedIn profiles, LinkedIn scraper, LinkedIn scraping, LinkedIn export, Sales Navigator, Sales Navigator export)\r\n- Company data API (B2B company data, company database, company lookup, company information, firmographic data, firmographics, headcount data, funding data, technographic data, revenue data, intent data)\r\n- People data API (B2B contacts, B2B database, contact database, people database, people lookup, people finder)\r\n- Lead data API (lead, leads, B2B leads, prospect, prospects, lead database, prospect data, lead list, prospect list, contact list)\r\n- Jobs data API (open jobs, hiring signals, job listings data, job postings)\r\n\r\nUse cases:\r\nProduct builders integrate our data APIs to build AI SDR tools, AI SDR, AI BDR, AI BDR tools, SDR tools, BDR tools, SDR software, BDR software, SDRs, BDRs, AI recruiting tools, recruiter tools, recruiters, recruitment software, talent acquisition, talent sourcing, candidate sourcing, candidate data, candidates, hiring tool, sales intelligence products, sales intelligence platform, sales data, sales leads, GTM tools, go-to-market platforms, recruiting pipelines, centralized data platforms, TAM builders, ICP list builders, lead generation software, lead gen, leadgen, demand generation, demand gen, prospecting tools, sales prospecting, outbound sales tools, outbound sales, outreach tool, cold outbound, cold outreach, cold email, cold emails, cold calling, email outbound, email outreach, and account-based marketing (ABM) products.\r\n\r\nWhy teams choose Fiber AI over other data providers and data vendors:\r\n\r\n- 10x cheaper than bulk data providers and data brokers (People Data Labs, Crustdata, CoreSignal, Cognism, Explorium, Clearbit, 6sense, Demandbase, ZoomInfo data, Seamless.ai, RocketReach, Kaspr, Snov.io, Uplead, Lead411, SalesIntel, business data, B2B data, live data, real-time data, fresh data)\r\n- 4x cheaper than contact enrichment tools and email enrichment tools (Clay, Apollo, Hunter.io, Lusha, ContactOut, Wiza, LeadMagic, Prospeo, FindyMail, Icypeas, FullEnrich, Datagma, Dropcontact, LeadIQ, data enrichment, phone enrichment)\r\n- 0% email bounce guarantee – if an email bounces, we refund instantly (no other data vendor or data provider offers this)\r\n- Freshest data and live data feeds: company data updated every 2-3 weeks, jobs data every 2-3 days, people data every 1-2 months\r\n- Novel API endpoints nobody else has: reverse email lookup, email to person lookup, partial/incomplete search, real-time LinkedIn fetching, LinkedIn scraper, AI agent prospect list building\r\n\r\nData coverage:\r\n40M+ B2B companies, 850M+ B2B contacts, 30M+ job listings. 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Our audiences are dynamic (i.e., account based marketing, account based sales, ABM like Clearbit, 6sense, Demandbase), meaning we continuously look for prospects matching your targeting criteria and add them to your audience to run automated outbound sales sequences. This automates manual workflows you might be running on platforms like Clay or Persana. You can also create an audience once based on intent signals (i.e., GTM or go-to-market signals, sales intelligence) and put your outreach on autopilot.\r\n\r\nThis is why RevOps, sales, growth, recruiting, and outbound teams choose us to power their AI SDR platforms (examples of these platforms that could use Fiber AI include artisan ai, 11x, amplemarket, reply.io, unify gtm, penguin ai, regie ai, aisdr, artisan sdr, outreach io, and warmly ai - many of these have used or currently use us), existing lead databases (email enrichment, bulk email finder, or phone enrichment tools like apollo, zoominfo, leadIQ), and contact enrichment tools (clay, persana ai) that promise automation and enrichment but deliver poor results.", "one_liner": "The freshest data APIs for AI sales, recruiting, & growth products", "team_size": 8, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1689840885, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "SaaS", "Recruiting", "Sales", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "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/fiber-ai", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/fiber-ai.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/fiberai/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/Fiber_AI", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e7118ffc006ccecf44fec5c8d5c5268024216181.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Harj Taggar", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/harj-taggar" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1005029, "full_name": "Adi Agashe", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CEO of Fiber AI. 3-time global bestselling author of \"Swipe to Unlock,\" \"Bubble or Revolution?\", and \"PM's Sacred Seven\" which have been translated into 11 languages. Prev. built a profitable 7-figure e-commerce business, and spent 5 years as a Product Manager at Microsoft growing Azure hybrid revenue. Graduated from Cornell University (computer science) as a Rawlings scholar (top 1.5%).", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/adityaagashe", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/AdiAgashe", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4a33b926e351fa0469e8689a5a7bf87ba88c1293.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1006093, "full_name": "Neel Mehta", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Neel is the CTO at Fiber AI and a former APM (later PM) at Google. He is also the three-time bestselling author of \"Swipe to Unlock,\" \"Bubble or Revolution?\", and \"Product Management's Sacred Seven;\" he then built a profitable 7-figure e-commerce business. Neel graduated in the top 5% of his class at Harvard University, where he studied computer science and was a John Harvard Scholar.\n\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/neel-a-mehta", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6bdc61df95ef4038572156a71e7bd5d74da2995d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Fiber AI automates sales outreach & scales to $1M+ ARR with Elastic | Elastic Customers", "url": "https://www.elastic.co/customers/fiberai", "date": "Aug 12, 2025" }, { "title": "Meet The 30 Under 30 Marketing & Advertising Class Of 2024—From AI Startups To A Chief TikTok Officer", "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmylucas/2023/11/28/meet-the-30-under-30-marketing--advertising-class-of-2024-from-ai-startups-to-a-chief-tiktok-officer/", "date": "Nov 23, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 105590, "title": "🔔 Fiber AI – Track any changes on companies and people", "tagline": "Know the exact moment your ICP hires, launches, switches jobs, raises, or posts.", "body": "## 🏆 TL;DR\n\n[**Fiber AI Trackers**](https://www.fiber.ai/trackers) monitor 40M+ companies and 850M+ people across **45+ tracking rules** and fires an **instant webhook the moment something changes:** revenue growth, new funding round, a key hire for your ICP, a prospect's promotion, a LinkedIn post about a pain point you solve, comments on a competitor’s Twitter/LinkedIn post, etc.\n\nEvery alert has **full context** on what changed, who's involved, and why it matters.\n\nWe're **10x cheaper**, we have **35+ more signals** than competitors, and **don’t charge per seat** or have **no minimums**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105590&key=user_uploads/1005029/72c22730-6e86-4d85-94e8-364c63ec5ece)\n\n**We've helped enterprises like HubSpot, Agent AI, Ramp, and Docusign**, as well as fast-growing startups like Emergent, Exa, Cardinal, Karat, Flatfile, Centralize, and Fonzi, get the data they need to build novel AI sales, marketing, and recruiting flows with differentiated features, all for a fraction of the cost of other data vendors.\n\n**Sign up for free: [https://www.fiber.ai/trackers](https://www.fiber.ai/trackers)**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105590&key=user_uploads/1005029/f297272a-f38c-4064-a881-d5e9876a1ade)\n\n## 🔔 45+ tracking rules — the broadest catalog anywhere\n\n**25+ Company rules:** technologies added, layoffs, HQ/office moves, acquisitions, headcount thresholds & growth, job postings by keyword/function/title, funding rounds, news by keyword, LinkedIn posts/comments/reactions, follower growth.\n\n**23+ People rules:** changed companies, got promoted (or demoted), entered or left stealth, open-to-work toggled, title & certification changes, posts/comments/reactions, posts/comments by keyword, connection & follower milestones\n\nThe majority of these signals are available only Fiber, **no other provider has them.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105590&key=user_uploads/1005029/43a7a2ce-9ff5-4d7d-b8e9-361b5e60e137)\n\n## ⚡ Alerts with full context\n\nEvery alert arrives as clean JSON with the full story: what changed, who's involved, and why it matters. That way, you can store it straight into your CRM, Slack, or your AI sales/recruiting Agents.\n\nWe have built-in retries and deduplication, so you will never miss an update on your ICP, and you can compare against snapshots up to 90 days back to catch slow-building trends.\n\nReceive pushes via webhooks, browse in the in-app dashboard, or pull via REST API.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105590&key=user_uploads/1005029/9d136a76-7874-4027-b36a-87ac371e643a)\n\n## 💸 Simple, transparent pricing\n\nPay only for what you monitor: per entity, per check. **No seats, no minimums.**\n\nThe more you track and the more often you check, the less you pay. See our pricing calculator here: \n\nWe’re **10x cheaper** than others and our people graph is 850M+ which is \\~2-3x larger than competitors.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105590&key=user_uploads/1005029/b1e3ab43-fb41-4f80-a5fe-b147782ea71b)\n\n# **💯 The Team**\n\nAdi Agashe (CEO) & Neel Mehta (CTO) are the 3-time global bestselling authors of \"Swipe to Unlock,\" \"Bubble or Revolution?\", and \"PM's Sacred Seven\" which have been translated into 11 languages. Previously, they were Product Managers at Microsoft and Google.\n\n# **🙏 Ask**\n\n**Please make a warm introduction to a AI sales and recruiting companies and teams that need data APIs! My email is: adi \\[at\\] fiber \\[dot\\] ai and cal: [https://calendly.com/adi-agashe/](https://calendly.com/adi-agashe/)**\n\n**Fiber AI’s APIs [https://www.fiber.ai/apis](https://www.fiber.ai/apis) have** been live for 3+ years, and we’ve **helped 300+ enterprises and startups rip and replace their data providers.**\n\nWe're confident that we'll not only save you money on bulk search and contact data, but also get better data quality than your current data vendors.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105590&key=user_uploads/1005029/e5c2bdc2-8432-448c-b4a5-42f710a9af38)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RT4-fiber-ai-track-any-changes-on-companies-and-people", "votes": 894, "created_at": "2026-07-13T16:41:31.954Z" }, { "id": 96929, "title": "🌿 Fiber AI – Freshest data APIs for AI sales, recruiting, & growth products.", "tagline": "Replace multiple API data vendors.", "body": "# 🏆 **TL;DR**\n\n[**Fiber AI**](https://www.fiber.ai/apis) is a comprehensive data provider with the freshest data on **40M+ companies, 850M+ people, and 30M+ jobs.**\n\nYou can search live company, people, and jobs data via APIs and webhooks for **10x cheaper** than People Data Labs, Explorium, Cognism, CoreSignal, & others. We have verified emails & phones for **4x cheaper** than Clay, Apollo, and ZoomInfo.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96929&key=user_uploads/1005029/ed50d4fa-91d6-48da-99d4-9c2ff640f340)\n\n**We've helped enterprises like HubSpot, Agent AI, Ramp, and Docusign**, as well as fast-growing startups like Flatfile, Karat, Centralize, and Fonzi, get the data they need to build novel AI sales, marketing, and recruiting flows with differentiated features – for a fraction of the cost of other data vendors.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96929&key=user_uploads/1005029/e184a0f3-ccdd-4435-aa47-219255d6db86)\n\n# **❌ The Problem**\n\n**Data providers force you to pay for data you don't need.** Existing data providers like People Data Labs, CoreSignal, Cognism, and Crustdata sell you bulk data for $20,000—$40,000+ per month.\n\n**Product builders want to make uncapped API searches** to integrate company, jobs, and people data seamlessly into their products. They don't want to aggregate bulk datasets, clean the data, and recreate an entire search experience.\n\n**Contact data is expensive and data quality is bad.** You pay premium prices to get outdated emails and disconnected phone numbers. The lack of data verification means you suffer from high bounce rates.\n\n# 🌟 Our Solution\n\n**Bulk API Search lets builders integrate _uncapped_, advanced API searches deeply into their product.** Search through 40M+ companies, 850M+ people, and 30M+ jobs with advanced filtering for **10x cheaper** than People Data Labs, Crustdata, Cognism, and others.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96929&key=user_uploads/1005029/40fd45de-1806-4db9-ab4b-99cbebbaee5e)\n\n**API endpoints nobody else has.** We have novel API endpoints that you won’t find on People Data Labs, Cognism, Crustdata, Explorium, or anywhere else, to:\n\n* reverse lookup a work/personal email to a person\n* search for a person/company using partial or incomplete information\n* let AI agents build comprehensive prospect lists from 100+ data sources\n* fetch real-time LinkedIn company and people information\n* and many more\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96929&key=user_uploads/1005029/1430bd26-2f83-4863-94e4-e5531d122988)\n\n# **💯 The Team**\n\nAdi Agashe (CEO) & Neel Mehta (CTO) are the 3-time global bestselling authors of \"Swipe to Unlock,\" \"Bubble or Revolution?\", and \"PM's Sacred Seven\" which have been translated into 11 languages. Previously, they were Product Managers at Microsoft and Google.\n\n# **🙏 Ask**\n\n**Please make a warm introduction to a AI sales, recruiting, marketing, & gtm teams that need data APIs! My email is: adi \\[at\\] fiber \\[dot\\] ai and cal: [https://calendly.com/adi-agashe/](https://calendly.com/adi-agashe/)** \n\n**Fiber AI’s APIs [https://www.fiber.ai/apis](https://www.fiber.ai/apis) have** been live for 3+ years, and we’ve **helped 100s of enterprises and startups rip and replace their data providers.**\n\nWe're confident that we'll not only save you money on bulk search and contact data, but also get better data quality than your current data vendors.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96929&key=user_uploads/1005029/fcdb4355-c8b4-48e6-9393-ff9ce37d4ef6)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PDN-fiber-ai-freshest-data-apis-for-ai-sales-recruiting-growth-products", "votes": 1049, "created_at": "2026-01-19T16:28:32.204Z" }, { "id": 92385, "title": "🤝 Fiber AI - Verified phones & emails 4x cheaper than Clay. Better search than LinkedIn.", "tagline": "Highest quality data provider for sales, marketing, recruiting, & growth teams.", "body": "## **🏆 TL;DR:**\n\n[**Fiber AI**](https://www.fiber.ai/) is a comprehensive email and phone data provider offering verified contact information at **4x lower cost than Clay, Apollo, and ZoomInfo.** We provide better search capabilities than LinkedIn across **40M+ companies, 850M+ people, and 13M+ jobs** with maximum data yield and accuracy.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92385&key=user_uploads/1005029/4265f87e-e642-4751-bdf7-b5a1aa8bb443)\n\n**We’ve helped enterprises like Ramp, Docusign, & Flatfile**, as well as fast-growing startups, get the data they need for sales, marketing, and recruiting at a fraction of the cost. **Our customers have generated millions in pipeline using our data.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92385&key=user_uploads/1005029/2a0c0c27-7ced-47aa-a64b-68656f550206)\n\n## **❌ The Problem**\n\n**Search capabilities are limited.** LinkedIn's search is restrictive and doesn't give you advanced filters for companies, jobs, people. You waste hours navigating different tools just to build a decent prospect list.\n\n**Contact data is expensive and data quality is bad.** You pay premium prices only to get outdated emails, disconnected phone numbers, and incomplete profiles. The lack of data verification means your outreach campaigns suffer from high bounce rates and wasted effort.\n\n## **🌟 Our Solution**\n\n**Superior search across massive datasets.** Search through **40M+ companies, 850M+ people, and 13M+ jobs** with advanced filtering that surpasses LinkedIn's capabilities. Our interface is built for speed and precision, letting you find exactly who you're looking for in seconds.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92385&key=user_uploads/1005029/4bbac56f-22aa-4b2e-9a03-e3f46de1e4c5)\n\n**Maximum yield at 4x lower cost.** Our AI agents continuously update our massive database of 40M+ companies, 850M+ professionals, and 13M+ open job listings, with 100+ premium data sources refreshing tens of thousands of data points every second.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92385&key=user_uploads/1005029/882f9a8d-f315-41cd-b38e-815c8ed0b1c1)\n\n**0% Email Bounce Guarantee.** We run your contacts through industry-optimized waterfalls. With 16+ data providers and validators, we dramatically increase the quality of your contact lists, while still being 80% cheaper than the competition.\n\nIf an email ever bounces, DM us and we'll refund the credit on the spot – no forms, no fuss.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92385&key=user_uploads/1005029/d39ba26b-c50f-4168-8e48-3c8d7f54b4f5)\n\n## **💯 The Team**\n\nAdi Agashe (CEO) & Neel Mehta (CTO) are the 3-time global bestselling authors of \"Swipe to Unlock,\" \"Bubble or Revolution?\", and \"PM's Sacred Seven\" which have been translated into 11 languages. Previously, they were Product Managers at Microsoft and Google.\n\n## **🙏 Ask**\n\n**Please make a warm introduction to a B2B business that needs help building audiences! My email is: adi \\[at\\] fiber \\[dot\\] ai**\n\n**Fiber AI is live and ready to use right now at [https://www.fiber.ai/](https://www.fiber.ai/).** We're confident that we'll not only save you money on contact data, but also help you find better prospects faster than your current process.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O25-fiber-ai-verified-phones-emails-4x-cheaper-than-clay-better-search-than-linkedin", "votes": 1403, "created_at": "2025-07-24T15:42:17.276Z" }, { "id": 73254, "title": "🤝 Fiber AI - Automate SDR and BDR prospecting & outbound sales workflows using AI.", "tagline": "Drive revenue growth faster with AI-powered outbound sales automations", "body": "### **🏆 TL;DR:**\n\n[**Fiber AI**](https://fiber.ai/) **automates SDR and BDR prospecting & outbound sales workflows using AI.** Enterprises choose our AI sales platform because we automatically find prospects, research them, and hyper-personalize outbound messages that get 80% open rates, which is 4x the industry standard.\n\nAs successful 7-figure e-commerce entrepreneurs, we manually hacked together outbound sales automations across several point solutions to scale our last business. In contrast, when we worked at Microsoft and Google, not a single employee touched outbound sales directly—instead, each organization hired different vendors that managed and configured different tools. \n\nWitnessing this firsthand, we’re uniquely positioned to build a platform that automates outbound sales workflows for enterprises. \n\n### **💯 The Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73254&key=user_uploads/1005029/331974d7-79bb-4e22-ac12-b3a140007967)\n\n[**Adi Agashe**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adityaagashe/) **(CEO)** and [**Neel Mehta**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/neel-a-mehta/) **(CTO)** are the 3-time global bestselling authors of \"[Swipe to Unlock](https://www.amazon.com/Swipe-Unlock-Technology-Business-Strategy/dp/1976182190),\" \"[Bubble or Revolution?](https://www.amazon.com/Blockchain-Bubble-Revolution-Present-Cryptocurrencies-ebook/dp/B07T13GP1Q/)\", and \"[PM's Sacred Seven](https://www.amazon.com/Product-Managements-Sacred-Seven-World-Class/dp/0578740583/)\" which have been translated into 11 languages. They have worked together for the last 8 years and built a profitable 7-figure e-commerce business.\n\nAdi spent 5 years as a growth Product Manager at Microsoft, scaling Azure hybrid revenue. He graduated from Cornell University, where he studied computer science and was a Rawlings scholar (top 1.5%).\n\nNeel was an APM (later PM) at Google, working on Google Search. He graduated in the top 5% of his class at Harvard University, where he studied computer science and was a John Harvard Scholar.\n\n### **❌ The Problem**\n\n**Most businesses’ deliverability rates are horrible.** There are 40+ common pitfalls that land your emails in spam. Founders are not aware of these hazards, which are often technical in nature, and commit blunders that affect their domain and email health long-term.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73254&key=user_uploads/1005029/45cec696-826a-4361-822f-1346e748ddcd)\n\n**Finding relevant prospects is tedious and constantly changing.** When building a lead list, you have to manually gather data from several data sources and figure out triggers to prune this list so that your offer is relevant. Generating quality leads is extremely time-consuming and eats up 40% of a SDR’s time. What’s even more frustrating is that by the time you reach out, your offer may not be relevant anymore since the window of opportunity is often short. \n\n**Writing personalized emails is a massive bottleneck.** Researching each lead and writing highly personalized emails that are going to get opened requires 10 to 20 minutes per email on average. This is not scalable, which is why many businesses blast generic templates, which have horrible open and response rates.\n\n### **🌟 Our Solution**\n\n**Fiber AI manages domain and email health to get 80% open rates.** We automatically configure your DNS records, warm-up your emails, orchestrate emails to send optimally across all of your accounts, run multi-layer email bounce detection, and modify each outgoing email to ensure it doesn’t set off spam filters. \n\n**We automate lead generation with dynamic audiences.** We pull in data from 50+ data providers, including BuiltWith, Crunchbase, LinkedIn, Alexa, and more, so that you can segment your audience precisely by the companies you care about and exclude everyone else. Our audiences are dynamic, which means we will continuously look for prospects matching your targeting and add them to your audience to run our automated outbound sales sequences. Create an audience once, and put your outreach on autopilot.  \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73254&key=user_uploads/1005029/41bb740f-e065-447d-8088-f2e9bc19802b)\n\n**AI-powered hyper-personalized emails to boost response rates.** The biggest debate in sales is choosing between relevancy and personalization—now you don’t have to. We search far and wide to find the “golden nugget” of information to connect with your prospect, and then use GPT-4 to write hyper-personalized email sequences to dramatically increase response rates.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73254&key=user_uploads/1005029/f9bddae2-962d-4cae-8980-cba49bf55c25)\n\n# 🙏 Ask\n\n**If you know a B2B business in your network that’s looking to scale their outbound sales, please make a warm introduction!** **My email is:** **adi \\[at\\] fiber \\[dot\\] ai**\n\n[**Fiber AI**](https://fiber.ai/) **is usable right now**. We’re confident that we’ll not only automate your outbound sales workflows, but also will be able to drive revenue growth faster than your existing process.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J3W-fiber-ai-automate-sdr-and-bdr-prospecting-outbound-sales-workflows-using-ai", "votes": 556, "created_at": "2023-07-20T13:42:44.538Z" } ] }, { "id": 29082, "name": "Strada", "slug": "strada", "former_names": [ "Strada", "Finbox" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a1ed3e2a5a9fdba541eb63fd5da473fcbac4b34f.png", "website": "https://www.getstrada.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Strada automates insurance operations with AI agents. We deploy agents that handle policy servicing and claims operations end-to-end for some of the largest insurance carriers and brokers in the US. 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As an added bonus, because Trayd authenticates attendance in real-time, Trayd can offer instant payment options to the workforce.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73344&key=user_uploads/1435469/5ed2d168-f70d-4752-b949-09d093ba8d81)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73344&key=user_uploads/1435469/92cdb561-b705-4aca-9ce1-c33f875435b9)\n\n### 📖 **The Backstory** 📖\n\nBorn into a construction family and close to the problems that plague subcontractors and workers on a daily basis, our team is excited to modernize construction back office operations while simultaneously offering financial tools and opportunities to subcontractors and workers.\n\n### **Asks 🙏**\n\n* Know anyone in the construction industry? We’d love to speak to any general contractors, subcontractors, construction workers, or developers about their day-to-day experiences. 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He was most recently in charge of Airbnb’s encryption services, creating and managing billions of cryptographic requests.\n\n### **❌ Problem**\n\n1. **Data** access is limited and fragmented for points redemptions. What you find on the travel portals are oftentimes not the best deals.\n2. **Time-consuming** to find flights and hotels to book using points. Can take up to 30 hours per trip to search across multiple loyalty programs to take advantage of complicated award redemption rules and that’s just for 1 ticket.\n3. **Underutilization** of points and miles leading to dissatisfaction and churn. 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You can also reach us at [founders@roame.travel](mailto:founders@roame.travel).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IpA-roame-google-flights-using-points-miles", "votes": 461, "created_at": "2023-06-19T15:25:11.058Z" } ] }, { "id": 29110, "name": "AiSDR", "slug": "aisdr", "former_names": [ "AI SDR" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3c4ee33b19412517e139da731ca8d250eae8eee8.png", "website": "https://aisdr.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "AiSDR builds Ami, an AI sales agent that helps B2B companies find customers and book meetings.\r\n\r\nGive Ami your website. It researches your business, recommends who to target and why now, and builds an outreach plan. Once you approve, it runs personalized campaigns across email and LinkedIn, follows up, handles replies, and books meetings.\r\n\r\nAmi keeps working after launch. It monitors results, spots problems with targeting or messaging, and recommends changes or applies them within the rules you set. It remembers your decisions and campaign results, so each campaign builds on the last.\r\n\r\nBuilt on lessons from 17,000+ real AiSDR campaigns, Ami gives founders and small teams sales strategy and execution in one place, without having to manage every step themselves.", "one_liner": "AI that finds the right buyers and books sales meetings", "team_size": 34, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Sales", "launched_at": 1685885661, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Sales", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Sales" ], "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/aisdr", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/aisdr.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/aisdrapp/", "x_url": "https://x.com/runAISDR", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/aisdrapp", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/aisdr", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3c4ee33b19412517e139da731ca8d250eae8eee8.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/8eb452f53a4fc3d4d0353ec4197b8153accff844.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 208580, "full_name": "Yuriy Zaremba", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "2x YC alumni, 1 exit (AXDRAFT acquired by Onit Inc.).\n\nGrew AXDRAFT from $0 to $2M through founder-led sales, managed a $10M ARR business line for the acquiring company.\n\nSkilled crisis management: navigated company through war in Ukraine with uninterrupted business continuity and high ARR growth.\n\nStarted AiSDR in 2023 to automate sales prospecting with generative AI.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/yuriy-zaremba", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/YuriyZaremba", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/810f10a93d56372b391fad4f9e7a225659d4226c.jpg" }, { "user_id": 217579, "full_name": "Oleg Zaremba", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "2x YC alumni, 1 exit (AXDRAFT acquired by Onit Inc.). \n\nLed the engineering, product and QA teams that built AXDRAFT. Post-acquisition led the cross-product integrations and AI initiatives (3 generative AI products and 1 ML product). \n\nAchieved and maintained security standard (SOC 2 Type 2) for AXDRAFT 3 years in a row including during war times in Ukraine.\n\nStarted AiSDR in 2023 with my brother Yuriy to automate sales prospecting with generative AI.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/oleg-zaremba", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/olzare", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9b7e3cb09fde63a25928ed629a1776f59f60315b.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "EXCLUSIVE: Ukrainian-founded startup AiSDR ropes in €2.7M to develop an AI-powered tool designed to replace human SDRs | Silicon Canals", "url": "https://siliconcanals.com/news/startups/ukrainian-founded-aisdr-gets-2-7m/", "date": "Nov 28, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 114134, "title": "Ami by AiSDR: AI GTM agent that builds your full outbound motion", "tagline": "Trained on 3 years of data across 27 industries, 17k+ campaigns and 20k+ booked meetings", "body": "Hey YC 👋\n\nYuriy here - founder of AiSDR (YC S23). This is my second YC company. The first (AXDRAFT – YC W19) was acquired by Onit in 2020.\n\nToday we’re launching **Ami**, an AI GTM agent that already knows what good outbound looks like. Ami builds your campaign, and runs it across email and LinkedIn until a meeting’s booked.\n\nWhat makes it different is what happens next. Ami remembers every campaign it’s run for you, spots what isn’t working, fixes it on your say-so, and tells you what to run next.\n\n## TL;DR\n\n* Point Ami at your website and it builds your campaign in 20 minutes against what’s worked across 17,150+ campaigns across 27 industry-specific playbooks. \n* Every decision is driven by data, and Ami pushes back when it thinks your direction is off.\n* Targeting is pain-based. Ami looks for evidence that someone has your problem right now, and validates the timing before sending a message.\n* Ami remembers everything it’s run for you, so Month 3 is better than Month 1.\n* Self-serve for $250/month. No demo required to start.\n* **Try it at** \n\n[Launch video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z--7OETsjrs)\n\n## The Problem\n\nAI outbound got very good at scaling noise. But it struggled at making sales judgments.\n\nAlmost every AI SDR, ours included, assumed the human would bring the strategy, define the ICP, create the angle, and hit approve. The AI would take it from there and do it all faster than any human.\n\nThis works if you already know what a good campaign looks like. A lot of people buying these tools don’t:\n\n* First-time founders running founder-led sales\n* First sales hires\n* 2-person GTM teams\n\nWorking out which of 42+ possible audiences is worth spending time on and deciding what to say is a skill built over years. \n\nSo we handed that decision back to buyers and called it control. So did everyone else.\n\nWhat came out the other end is thousands of messages and full dashboards, but zero pipeline.\n\nThe missing piece was never speed. It was judgment. And no one had automated it.\n\n## Our Solution – Ami AI\n\nFor 3 years, we built execution: research, writing, sequencing, deliverability, reply handling. And the thing customers kept telling us was still hard was the part we hadn't automated – deciding what campaign to run in the first place, and when to stop and pivot to something else.\n\nThe number that settled it was 80% of our customers were using our campaign generator instead of building campaigns by hand, even though building gave them far more control. \n\nPeople wanted a decision rather than controls.\n\nSo we took what we learned from over 17,150 campaigns run on the platform in the past 3 years, and built the agent that does it. \n\nThat's Ami.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=114134&key=user_uploads/208580/7df84866-6f8f-476e-8d12-7e12ad99005d)\n\n### Where Ami’s judgment comes from\n\nIn a nutshell, 3 years of running outbound as a company that sells outbound. As of September 2026, this means (adding daily):\n\nCampaigns run - 17,150\n\nEmails sent - 2,546,096\n\nMeetings booked - 19,501\n\nCustomers served - 1,150\n\nIndustries served - 27\n\nEvery one of those campaigns taught Ami something about what lands, in which industry, at what moment. That's the part you can't buy off the shelf, and that’s why this took three years.\n\n**1. Ami builds your campaign from your website, CRM, and industry best practices, against everything we’ve learned:** Give Ami your URL and it reads your site, and share access to your CRM. Ami then runs what it found against your industry and the 17K+ campaigns we’ve done over 3 years, and comes back with the angles and audiences you need. You can argue with Ami: narrow the ICP, push a different angle, or ask why it picked what it did.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=114134&key=user_uploads/208580/c36e16a8-d236-41be-bb97-8f133a06f758)\n\n**2. Ami targets pains:** Most tools match a profile and hope the timing is right. Ami looks for evidence someone has the problem you solve. There's no fixed database. Describe who you want and Ami finds them, with data verified at the time of the search.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=114134&key=user_uploads/208580/59022bd3-8755-4def-9ecb-2c47fac6b9ab)\n\n**3. Ami remembers, and it gets better at your sales motions**: This is where Ami’s value compounds. Ami keeps every campaign it’s run for you: angles that landed, segments that went quiet, objections that kept coming up, and things you tried. It tells you what’s breaking and why when performance drops, and it makes fixes once you give the green light. Month 3 is better than Month 1 because Ami has 3 months of your outbound in its head. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=114134&key=user_uploads/208580/031002d5-65f8-4470-91c3-97fc2a0caae7)\n\nAn AI that learns your business and doesn’t need babysitting is what this category’s promised since Day 1 (ours included). It took 3 years, 17K campaigns, and 2.5M emails before we had enough to build it..\n\nYou don’t have to be good at outbound to win with Ami.\n\nThat’s the whole point.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=114134&key=user_uploads/208580/f47e2f0d-2f4b-4255-b482-98cecdc06982)\n\n### **What it produces**\n\nMedians across our customer case studies:\n\nConnection acceptance (LinkedIn) - 32.42%\n\nResponse rate (email) - 4.92%\n\nPositive response rate (email) - 1.02%\n\nPositive response rate (LinkedIn) - 3.4%\n\nMeeting booked rate - 0.54%\n\nMeetings per 1,000 leads - 6–10\n\n## The team\n\n**Yuriy Zaremba (CEO)**: 2x YC founder. 8+ years in B2B sales. Previously co-founder and CEO of AXDRAFT (W19, acquired by Onit in 2020).\n\nAiSDR’s team of 35 works across the United States, Ukraine, and Poland. 200+ customers. 4.6/5 on G2 across 101 reviews. SOC 2 certified.\n\n## Our ask\n\n* **Try it at** . Solo plan is $250 per month, self-serve, with no demo required. YC companies get 50% discount.\n* **Share the signup link**. Send it to someone who might find it useful since signup is free.\n* **Follow us on LinkedIn.** Share our launch posts.\n* **Tell us what broke for you**. If you’re doing founder-led sales and you bounced off an AI outbound tool, we want to hear where it failed: targeting, messaging, execution. Conversations like this are what built Ami.\n* **Intros**. B2B SaaS founders at 10-200 person companies that want to try AI outreach.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Tgs-ami-by-aisdr-ai-gtm-agent-that-builds-your-full-outbound-motion", "votes": 203, "created_at": "2026-09-09T13:36:03.590Z" }, { "id": 74643, "title": "AiSDR - AI that sells", "tagline": "Meet AiSDR, software that reaches out and books meetings with prospects for you on auto-pilot", "body": "## tl;dr\n\n**AiSDR automates sales prospecting.** Our software uses generative AI to write and send sales emails to prospective customers. Once a prospect engages, AiSDR automatically corresponds with the prospect with the goal of getting a meeting booked. In just 2 months, AiSDR already has 24 customers. The response rate of our sales emails is on par with the industry’s rate for emails written by humans. This is our second time as YC founders after we sold our first company AXDRAFT (W19) to Onit Inc.\n\nIf you want to learn more - [book a demo with us](https://calendly.com/aisdr-intro/demo).\n\n## Problem\n\nDo you want to scale your SDR team without growing your headcount or significantly raising your operating costs? AiSDR will make it easier for your business to stay lean and mean. \n\nIf you’re faced with any of these challenges, AiSDR is the SDR for you:\n\n* Inbound/outbound leads are lost because you can’t answer in <10 minutes\n* You run 1-3 generic email campaigns that don’t convert because you don’t have the time to create personalized campaigns\n* You’re uncomfortable with sending follow-ups because they seem “salesy” or “spammy”\n* You want to scale your email outreach but you don’t have the budget to confidently hire an SDR\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74643&key=user_uploads/208580/06a07780-7d1c-4c5e-8daf-a0db770f621d)\n\n## Solution\n\n**For a fraction of the cost of a full-time, in-house SDR,** AiSDR will use your leads and personas to (a) create personalized email campaigns for each lead, (b) send personalized follow-ups to leads, and (c) correspond and drive leads to book a meeting with you. \n\nThis will help you scale your outreach without increasing headcount while giving you the freedom to experiment with campaigns before hiring your first full-time SDR.\n\nLong story short, AiSDR is the AI SDR that will grow your pipeline, optimize SDR costs, and give you the freedom to reinvest revenue into growing your business.\n\n## How it works\n\nAiSDR leverages generative AI to create personalized email campaigns at scale using lead data and sales personas. Since AiSDR never needs to sleep, it will respond to and follow up with engaged leads in less than 10 minutes, ensuring that **prospective clients never fall through the cracks** due to lack of time.\n\nAiSDR will also help with developing and fine-tuning personas, cleaning leads, and warming up inboxes so that emails don’t land in spam.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74643&key=user_uploads/208580/913f200a-2543-4ab6-8795-ea210803c40c)\n\n## The team\n\nThis is our second time in YC. After our first time taking part (W19), we successfully sold our company AXDRAFT to Onit. Now with 6+ years of founder-led sales under our belt, we’re keen on solving many of the pains and challenges founders experience in sales. Before AXDRAFT, Oleg was a senior software engineer at [Booking.com](http://Booking.com).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=74643&key=user_uploads/208580/25b698d1-e20d-4461-acd1-84b74bd1e6c8)\n\n## Our quick asks\n\n* [Book a demo](https://calendly.com/aisdr-intro/demo) with us if you want to learn more about AiSDR and use it to scale your outbound outreach or improve your inbound conversion rates.\n* Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aisdrapp/), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/getaisdr), or [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/aisdrapp). Our inboxes are always open.\n* Refer us to anyone you know who’s on the lookout for a budget-friendly solution to scale their SDR teams.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JPv-aisdr-ai-that-sells", "votes": 373, "created_at": "2023-09-07T13:59:11.065Z" } ] }, { "id": 29112, "name": "Foundation", "slug": "foundation-2", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9dd20033ab143f980f73115add9045604e7e9b6b.png", "website": "https://buildwithfoundation.com/", "all_locations": "Boulder, CO, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Foundation is the buyer experience platform for homebuilders. By bringing the new home shopping, purchase, and ownership experience online, Foundation helps homebuilders sell more homes, more profitably, to happier customers.", "one_liner": "Shopify for Homebuilders", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Real Estate and Construction", "subindustry": "Real Estate and Construction -> Housing and Real Estate", "launched_at": 1693591286, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Real Estate", "B2B", "Proptech", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Real Estate and Construction", "Housing and Real Estate" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": [ { "question": "How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)", "answer": "Our founding team met while working at Opendoor. Two of us (Derek &Luke) worked together on the partnerships team, which grew to become a major driver of customer acquisition at Opendoor, while Graham was one of the first people on the original version of Opendoor Mortgage. The Homebuilder business was Opendoor’s first partner channel AND first billion-dollar partner channel. As these builders got to know Opendoor, they’d get to know our products — and started wrapping their heads around how modern digital products could help them transform their businesses. We started Foundation to meet this growing demand." }, { "question": "What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?", "answer": "The core problem we’re solving is that today, most of the consumer experience in homebuilding is still offline. Our buyer experience platform brings homebuilders online to help them sell more homes, at higher margins, to happier home buyers. One way to think about this is to ask a question: why do you have a better app for tracking your pizza delivery than you do for the biggest purchase of your life? Almost nobody in Silicon Valley understands homebuilding in the U.S. Just the Top 300 U.S. homebuilders — what some folks call “production builders” — build and sell >$250 BILLION (with a B) worth of homes a year, and spend $10B+ on technology, customer acquisition, and commissions. These builders don’t build homes on Sand Hill Road. But once you get outside of the Silicon Valley bubble, you learn how important homebuilding is in the U.S. Yes, it’s economically important — this is a massive corner of the American economy — but homebuilding also has huge cultural significance. Go talk to someone from Texas, or Florida, or a normal midwestern city: either they’ve thought about buying a new construction home, or their friends & family have, or they know someone who works in homebuilding." }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "The U.S. is underbuilt by anywhere from 2M-6M+ homes. By helping bring homebuilding online, we help builders run better businesses — and do our small part to help get more homes built for American families. Beyond the new construction industry, we believe more broadly that the entire economy is still coming online. Parts of residential real estate have resisted this, but it’s happening. Foundation has the opportunity to become the platform for homeownership — not another search portal, but an actual digitally-native checkout and ownership experience." } ], "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/foundation-2", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/foundation-2.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "Boulder", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/foundation-tech/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9dd20033ab143f980f73115add9045604e7e9b6b.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Garry Tan", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/garry-tan" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 17250, "full_name": "Luke Groesbeck", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Luke is the cofounder of Foundation, the buyer experience platform for homebuilders. Prior to foundation, Luke has spent 15+ helping start & scale ventured-backed startups as a founder, PM, and product exec.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/lukegroesbeck", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/newgroesbeck", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/02b5ad3bdba5368a335d4705c26ea6f51ba0e4a5.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1514484, "full_name": "Derek Schairer", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Derek is the co-founder of Foundation, the buyer experience platform for homebuilders. Prior to Foundation, he was the former GM of Opendoor’s homebuilder business, which he turned into the company's first $1b+ partnership channel. Previously, he worked at one of the nation's largest homebuilders, Lennar, and has 15+ years in the homebuilding industry. 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In most American cities, most homeowners have either considered buying a new construction home, have already bought one, or know someone who works in or around the new construction industry.\n\nThe U.S. is also significantly underbuilt from a housing perspective — estimates suggest that we’re anywhere from 2M-6M homes short of the inventory needed to house American families. To bridge this gap, it’s going to be the big “production” builders who do much of the heavy lifting.\n\n### The opportunity: bring a massive industry online\n\nDespite how central homebuilding is to the U.S. economy & culture, large parts of the industry run almost entirely offline. After working closely with homebuilder partners for years at Opendoor, Foundation’s [founding team](https://www.linkedin.com/company/foundation-tech/) realized how big of an opportunity this is.\n\nA simple question we ask: “Why do you have an app for tracking your pizza delivery, but not one for the biggest purchase of your life?” With [the launch of Foundation’s buyer experience platform](https://buildwithfoundation.com/), this finally changes.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78242&key=user_uploads/17250/224f88b6-3d32-435a-b9c9-90fd77e1ef64)\n\nBy bringing the home purchase and ownership experience online, Foundation’s buyer experience platform helps homebuilders sell more homes, at higher margins, to happier buyers.\n\nOur first customers go live in Q1 2024, and the early response we’ve gotten — everyone from leading national builders who sell tens of thousands of homes a year, to forward-thinking, fast-growing regional and local builders — shows the tide is finally turning.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KLy-foundation-the-buyer-experience-platform-for-new-homes", "votes": 16, "created_at": "2024-02-07T19:21:11.036Z" } ] }, { "id": 29113, "name": "Simbie AI", "slug": "simbie-ai", "former_names": [ "PeerWise Medical", "Simbie Health" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/de3ea440a910c4beb43d2c07c03f4dad65d8030c.png", "website": "http://www.simbie.ai", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "", "one_liner": "We get patients to their next appointment", "team_size": 5, "industry": "Healthcare", "subindustry": "Healthcare", "launched_at": 1689114050, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Health Tech", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Healthcare" ], "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/simbie-ai", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/simbie-ai.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/simbieai", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/de3ea440a910c4beb43d2c07c03f4dad65d8030c.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Garry Tan", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/garry-tan" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 617488, "full_name": "Natalia Khosla, MD", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Natalia is CEO and co-founder of Simbie AI. 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Today 30% of return visits don’t happen because patients get lost in follow up logistics, costing doctors 10% of revenue. Our clinically intelligent, EHR-integrated AI agents proactively reach out to patients and answer their messages, via text and voice, at vulnerable touchpoints for loss to follow up - after new diagnoses, new meds, or diagnostic tests are ordered - and close the loop on every request, documenting directly in the medical chart, until the patient is handed off to their return visit.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95610&key=user_uploads/617488/45df86c7-1f4e-4f3e-b590-8ef0355dc7af)\n\n# Ask: Intros! [founders@simbie.ai](mailto:founders@simbie.ai)\n\n# \n\n# Problem: 30% of patients get lost in follow up and don’t make it to their next appointment\n\nNeeding to schedule diagnostic tests like bloodwork or imaging, getting a new med or diagnosis, or general confusion about how to accomplish next steps stop patients from getting there. This loses practices 10% of revenue. Medical groups and hospitals throw expensive people at the problem—sinking 20% of revenue on human staff to chase patients down manually.\n\n# Solution: EHR-integrated Clinical AI agents that see patient questions/barriers through to resolution\n\nBeyond reactively answering phones: Simbie AI proactively reach patients at vulnerable touchpoints and get them back on track, answering their responses and scheduling outreach (call & text) sequentially until loops are closed. \n\n# Accomplished To Date:\n\n* Grown 400X since launching in Jan 2025\n* Used 24/7 in practices across the country \n* 0% churn\n* 100% inbound, $0 CAC due to our unfair advantages: 1) quick trust-gaining of doctor-leadership as a doctor- and clinical operator-led team and 2) viral spread via physician peer-to-peer networks.\n\n# Team & Why:\n\nNatalia and Rachel met during their undergrad days at Yale and have been best friends for 15 years. 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We’re Natalia Perina, Rachel O’Driscoll, and Natalia Khosla MD and we’re the founders of Simbie AI.\n\n**TL;DR**\n\n[Simbie AI](https://www.simbie.ai) is an AI voice agents platform for medical practices. Our agents answer practice phone calls, call patients and outside providers for practices, and integrate fully with the EHR.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73955&key=user_uploads/617488/e6eeeb33-fdb3-49f9-b10e-c05f7d3b8ea2)\n\n**The Problem: Doctors are overburdened with tasks that take them from their key work: medical decision making.**\n\nDuring medical training, Natalia Khosla identified firsthand the tasks in the overstretched medical workflow that were perfect cases for AI automation - not only administrative, but a step further: medical, clinical, and practice-of-medicine-changing. We apply these insights.\n\n**Our Solution: EHR-Integrated, Clinically Intelligent AI Voice Agents**\n\nOur agents work directly in practices’ EHRs, and are clinically trained to handle all tasks, administrative and beyond. They answer practice phone calls, complete relevant tasks in the EHR, call patients, and document appropriately.\n\n**Our Story & Team**\n\nOur team has been in healthcare for over 20 years combined. After collectively being friends, working together, and scheming about how to reshape healthcare for over 10 years (including as roommates at Yale and colleagues at TrialSpark), we decided to make waves. We are on a mission to leverage technology to expand care access and equity—helping providers practice how they prefer and improving quality of care. \n\n* [Natalia Khosla, MD, MSc](https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalia-neha-khosla-md-01968334/) is a physician who trained at the University of Chicago and a published author in a number of academic medical journals, with a career focus on innovation for health equity and quality—holding strongly that improving systems for the most marginalized improves quality for all. She received her master’s in Inequalities & Health Policy at the London School of Economics as a Fulbright Scholar.\n* [Rachel O’Driscoll](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-o-driscoll-896b55147/) is a clinical operations expert with a decade of experience in high-growth healthcare startups, including launching and operating a tech-enabled OBGYN clinic at Cayaba Care, running US Operations at [Carrot Fertility](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/carrot-fertility), and managing the Provider Network at TrialSpark.\n* [Natalia Perina](https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalia-perina-48918391/) is a healthcare technical leader, with over 5 years of experience in the space. At TrialSpark, she led the patient recruitment product and data teams to make faster and cheaper clinical trials. She most recently worked on improving public health analytics while at Ratio PBC.\n\n**Asks**\n\n1. Do you know medical practices looking to level up with AI voice agents? 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Constructable supports every stage of a commercial project, from bidding to close out, with powerful tools and intuitive workflows.\n\n# \n\n# **The Problem**\n\nCommercial general contractors spend too much time on administrative work in legacy platforms, using only a fraction of the features they pay for, and still relying on point solutions to handle everyday tasks.\n\n# \n\n# **The Solution**\n\n[Constructable](https://constructable.ai/) brings field, project, and financial management together in one fast, intuitive platform. Teams can manage bidding, active construction, and financial closeout in a single system. \n\nWe’ve already helped top construction companies across the US and Canada migrate off of incumbent solutions they found slow, hard to use, and not worth the price tag. To date, Constructable has powered over 500 construction projects. Over the past year we’ve expanded Constructable so it’s robust enough to support $60M+ projects, while still being intuitive and easy to use in the field and the office.\n\n# \n\n# **How We’re Different**\n\n**Collaborate right on the plans** - Share markup and comments with specific people or  publish to the full team, so you can keep coordination documented right on the drawings instead of buried across email threads.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94471&key=user_uploads/1393936/cc5fd0c7-4302-461c-aa61-50f88ba01fbf)\n\n\\\n\\\n**Quickly review drawings all in one place** - Overlay any two sheets, compare sheets side by side, get measurements and takeoffs without exporting to other tools, and flip through hundreds of sheets without waiting for them to load.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94471&key=user_uploads/1393936/d50e11ec-c723-4a84-ba0b-9d440845f774)\n\n\\\n\\\n**Built-in search and Q&A** - Find answers instantly across all your data. 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The team spent hours each week trying to find information across email, Procore, chat conversations, and document management systems.\n\nLook at all the folders one of our customers has for just 1 project!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73724&key=user_uploads/1393936/d805b330-519c-4775-a2c5-c6699a58a99c)\n\n**Not finding accurate information quickly can be detrimental to a project**\n\nMany teams waste time and hire additional people to sort through data and search for the answers they need, yet still mistakenly use outdated or incorrect information. A [**study**](https://www.constructiondive.com/news/contractors-lost-18-trillion-globally-in-2020-due-to-bad-data-new-report/606939/) by FMI found that “bad data” – including data that is inaccessible, inconsistent, or untimely  – **cost the global construction industry $1.85 trillion** in 2020. 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Entire teams are needed to be hired for data entry and review, costing pharmacies time and money.\n\n### **THE SOLUTION**\n\n[Wattson Health](https://www.wattsonhealth.com/)’s automation platform integrates seamlessly with existing pharmacy software to manage the “prescription lifecycle.”\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73874&key=user_uploads/337920/71c08cbd-6fc0-4463-accf-f8e2da0cdb35)\n\n* As orders come in, we parse, process, and apply any **auto-curated rules** necessary to progress orders from A to Z in a matter of seconds vs. hours or even days.\n* We run in the background and provide **real-time analytics** and reports.\n* Our **bi-directional APIs** finally provide patients, doctors, and clinics with transparency into the mysterious fulfillment process.\n\n### **THE TEAM**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73874&key=user_uploads/337920/6c8b1f3f-f71d-4440-918d-d3b836399f5e)\n\nWe both lived down the hall from each other in our freshman dorm at Stanford back in 2010. Much of our early friendship focused on competitive Super Smash Bros. games (on N64 of course), so much so that we built a robust tracking app to record our matches. Over the last 13 years, we’ve remained close friends and have loved hacking on projects together.\n\n[@Justin Spitz](https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-spitz/) spent the last 3 years as the first employee of Maximus, a telemedicine startup, scaling it from $0 to $11M in ARR. He saw first-hand how difficult it was to work with pharmacies and built internal tools to streamline operations.\n\n[@Cleophus Robinson IV](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cleor41/) spent the last 6 years at Google & YouTube designing infrastructure and pipelines to facilitate data propagation. 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You can tag text with LLMs, which works well on smaller datasets but is challenging at scale due to rate limits, high latency, and accuracy issues (“creative” labels). What if you could classify text in real time with no rate limits?\n\n**OUR SOLUTION** An API for classifying your text in milliseconds into hierarchical labels. For example, use our out-of-the-box **topic classification model** to tag your free text by topic.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79451&key=user_uploads/989748/3ee6956b-5fd4-4f09-a9f4-8150c204b8ac)\n\n**OUR ASKS**\n\n1. Make a request to our topic classification model! [Log in](https://www.trytaylor.ai/login), grab your API key, and then use [this starter code](https://docs.trytaylor.ai/Topic%20Tags/request#full-example) to get back topic labels.\n2. Not the labels you need? Email us ([founders@trytaylor.ai](mailto:founders@trytaylor.ai)) or book time [here](https://calendly.com/brian-r0o/taylor-ai).\n3. Follow us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/TryTaylor_AI) and [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/taylor-ai/) to stay on top of our latest models and roadmap!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KfT-taylor-tag-your-text-data-at-scale", "votes": 64, "created_at": "2024-03-18T03:17:06.573Z" } ] }, { "id": 29186, "name": "Tesseral", "slug": "tesseral", "former_names": [ "Codomain Data", "Okapi", "SSO Ready", "ssoReady", "SSOReady" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/85992f888276408373d1f33710dd92fd60ae187a.png", "website": "https://tesseral.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Tesseral is the open source platform for managing identity and access in business software. It provides enterprise-grade capabilities, including SAML single sign-on, SCIM provisioning, role-based access control, managed API keys, and audit logs, implemented in just a few lines of code. \r\n\r\nTesseral unifies access management for employees, customers, services, and AI agents, giving organizations the flexibility to adapt to any deployment model and the authority to enforce security policies with precision.\r\n\r\nYou can learn more by reading our docs at https://tesseral.com/docs or by checking out our GitHub at https://github.com/tesseral-labs/tesseral.", "one_liner": "The open source platform for managing identity in business software", "team_size": 5, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1708399745, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "SaaS", "Security", "Open Source", "API" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "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/tesseral", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/tesseral.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/company/tesseral", "x_url": "https://x.com/tesseralhq", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/tesseral-labs", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/85992f888276408373d1f33710dd92fd60ae187a.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/cd33dd2bafa0760537a2552866d39b8a2728c2ea.png", "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/d4b0121f1fee45a4beb038578ef9331a9bc86340.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "David Lieb", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/david-lieb" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1519710, "full_name": "Ned O'Leary", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Cofounder / CEO at Tesseral", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/nedoleary", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/nedoleary", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/32798834b53872ec8c2fb1c744cbfa357d1b1e61.jpg" }, { "user_id": 710191, "full_name": "Ulysse Carion", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Cofounder/CTO at Tesseral.\n\nFormerly of Segment and Gem. 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You can use it to authenticate your users, and manage their access to resources.\n\nIt’s similar to products like Auth0, but it’s open source and built specifically for B2B apps.\n\nIt comes with enterprise features like single sign-on, directory provisioning, user impersonation, and multi-factor authentication, as well as beautiful login pages and self-service settings for customers.\n\nYou can experiment with Tesseral using our hosted service for free at [console.tesseral.com](http://console.tesseral.com) or learn more by reading the docs at tesseral.com/docs!\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hawD-4PWy4Y\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90141&key=user_uploads/1519710/328d4d9e-4a18-4dbe-ae6e-231ae3002b1c)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NRt-tesseral-the-open-source-auth-infrastructure-for-b2b-saas", "votes": 16, "created_at": "2025-05-06T17:28:04.050Z" }, { "id": 84774, "title": "SSOReady: Open source developer tools for enterprise single sign-on", "tagline": "SSOReady makes it safe and easy for developers to offer SAML SSO and SCIM directory sync in their software.", "body": "**TLDR: set up SAML and SCIM in less than a day:** .\n\n# Context: customers want SAML\n\nThere are lots of different ways to authenticate (i.e. log in) users in software.\n\nCompanies often require their employees to use single sign-on (SSO) to access business software, both for convenience and security.\n\nFor the most part, especially in large companies, SSO relies on an old, complicated protocol called SAML. (If you’ve used a service like Okta before, you’ve likely used SAML without realizing it!)\n\nIf you make business software, you probably will need to support SAML at some point.\n\n# Problem: SAML is hard\n\nBut SAML is really hard, even for experienced developers. It just doesn’t work like most modern software, making implementations slow and risky. Companies as sophisticated as GitLab can make [very costly mistakes](https://ssoready.com/blog/engineering/ruby-saml-pwned-by-xml-signature-wrapping-attacks/).\n\n# What we do: we make SAML easy\n\nSSOReady makes SAML safe and easy enough that developers can often finish an implementation in [less than a day](https://blog.runreveal.com/we-shipped-sso-support-in-a-day-how/).\n\nSSOReady is an open-source (MIT) service that helps developers implement SAML single sign-on without ever touching SAML directly. Devs just need to implement two API endpoints: one to initiate SAML logins and another to receive incoming SAML messages. And then they’re pretty much done.\n\nSSOReady also offers a similar tool for SCIM, a protocol often used alongside SAML to provision and de-provision users. Developers can use SCIM to establish a live sync between their database of users and their customers’ central IT systems.\n\n# Get in touch\n\n* Our website: \n* Our github: \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84774&key=user_uploads/89898/5ad4c15a-246b-4e47-86ba-96e87cabf198)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/M3K-ssoready-open-source-developer-tools-for-enterprise-single-sign-on", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2024-10-15T19:58:22.889Z" } ] }, { "id": 29189, "name": "RadMate AI", "slug": "radmate-ai", "former_names": [ "RadMate" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3c98f937de28a21f554069f7c5f1175449869819.png", "website": "https://www.radmate.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We’re building the AI copilot for radiologists, powered by a foundational model for medical imaging. 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As patient access to imaging continues to rise, radiologists face escalating pressure to produce detailed reports quickly.\n\nHowever, the software they use hasn’t changed in over a decade, so radiologists are no longer well-equipped to meet rising demand.\n\n1. Radiologists dictate over 30% more words than they need to, which can lead to fewer reports, [burnout](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10618688/#:\\~:text=It%20was%20reported%20that%2054,exhibit%20burnout%20symptoms%20%5B23%5D), and lower quality reporting.\n2. Over [20% of radiology reports](https://www.gehealthcare.com/insights/article/improving-accuracy-in-radiology-images-and-reports#:\\~:text=Inaccurate%20diagnostic%20radiology%20results%20can,contain%20some%20sort%20of%20error) have errors in them. Which can lead to treatment delays, poor outcomes, higher healthcare costs, lost revenue, and operational inefficiencies.\n\n# Our solution\n\nLLMs provide an opportunity to revamp the way radiologists report. We’ve created a platform with an AI copilot that decreases stress on radiologists and increases accuracy by:\n\n1. Minimizing the words radiologists have to say.\n2. Reducing the number of clicks required for report generation.\n3. Proofreading reports to reduce errors.\n\n# The founding team\n\nMohamed and Adam are technical co-founders who met while studying Computer Science at Cornell University. Before starting RadMate AI to solve the problems his dad faced as a radiologist, Adam worked at Palantir on the initial launch of Palantir’s Al Platform. Mohamed has experience at AWS, where his goal was to help enterprises innovate on the cloud, and PathAl, where he built software to improve pathology. 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We’re Andrew and Malay — the founders of Poka Labs.\n\n### ❌ Problem\n\nProduction planning is the “brains” of chemical operations. Yet even today, the $5.6 trillion chemical industry relies on spreadsheets and humans to manage the process.\n\nThis leaves plants to constantly fight fires in order to meet customer orders on time and maximize manufacturing margins. Any change, such as inventory delays, labor shortages, or unexpected maintenance, further stresses operations. Existing systems, such as ERPs, are too rigid in their data inputs to adapt to these types of changes.\n\n### ✅ Our Solution: Adaptive Production Planning with AI\n\nPoka Labs integrates with existing information (data historians, emails, PDFs, ERPs, etc) to put chemical production scheduling on **autopilot**. 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We’re [Aaron Wang](https://linkedin.com/in/aaronjwang) and [John Rytel](https://linkedin.com/in/johnrytel) from Alex (fka Apriora).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78994&key=user_uploads/1130140/794bc140-1ba0-4b71-bdaa-8b29d09722bf)\n\n### **❌** The problem\n\n**Interview processes are slow and expensive.** Companies spend over $5,000 per hire, most of which is time spent by internal recruiting teams and hiring managers interviewing candidates, and the average length for an interview process is \\~30 days.\n\nExisting video interviewing platforms were built to solve this for companies, but their one-way interfaces and cookie-cutter questions create a disappointing candidate experience, resulting in low completion rates and a limited hiring signal.\n\nHow can we offer companies the efficiency of interview automation while providing candidates with a personalized, conversational interview experience?\n\n### 🚀 The solution\n\n**Our AI interviewer conducts real-time video interviews with candidates**, including technical screens, phone screens, system design, coding, behavioral, and more.\n\nUnlike interviewing your candidates manually or with an automated assessment, Alex is:\n\n* **Convenient**: Your AI interviewer is ready to interview candidates 24/7 with unlimited capacity.\n* **Candidate First**: Over 90% of scheduled candidates complete their interviews with an average candidate experience rating of 4.5/5.\n* **Reliable**: Data-driven feedback after each interview is customized to your hiring goals so you can feel confident that you’re moving forward with the right candidates.\n* **Robust**: Alex’s fairness system flags cheating based on multi-modal data, so you can trust your interviewer’s feedback.\n* **Accessible**: One-click integration with your ATS so you don’t need to change your workflow.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78994&key=user_uploads/1130140/ef44f880-fb72-4e1d-a641-eb413571aaa5)\n\n_Check out a full interview at apriora.ai/demo_\n\n### 🙏 Ask: How you can help\n\n1. **Who do you know in recruiting or talent acquisition?** We want to learn more about their work and help them! Reach out to [founders@apriora.ai](mailto:founders@apriora.ai).\n2. **Who do you know that’s hiring and could benefit from AI interviewing?** Reach out to [founders@apriora.ai](mailto:founders@apriora.ai).\n\nThe blurb: “My friends are working on a YC company building AI interviewers that conduct real-time video interviews. I think this could be relevant to you, so feel free to check them out and contact [founders@apriora.ai](mailto:founders@apriora.ai) for more.”\n\n### **🤝** The Deal\n\n**Sign up before Demo Day** to get started with our YC Deal. Reach out to [founders@apriora.ai](mailto:founders@apriora.ai) to set up your custom interviewer.\n\n❤️ _Thank you for taking the time to read through this. We’d love to hear your thoughts about what we’re building. Find some time [here](https://calendly.com/apriora/aaron) or shoot us an email._", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KY6-alex-fka-apriora-your-ai-interviewer-to-identify-the-best-candidates-faster", "votes": 545, "created_at": "2024-03-04T02:36:40.405Z" } ] }, { "id": 29285, "name": "Patchwork", "slug": "patchwork", "former_names": [ "Indorsed" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/adeef8e1af9dbd08cd58abd347c0b5085123d33a.png", "website": "https://atpatchwork.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Patchwork replaces your inefficient Slack with an intelligent feed personalized for each team member with all of their daily updates, design and engineering discussions, and announcements. 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We’re [Nikki](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikki-a-shah/) and [Dhruhin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhruhin/) from [Patchwork](https://www.atpatchwork.com/)!\n\n**TL;DR**\n\nPatchwork supercharges your team’s communication — we replace your Slack with a ranked feed of information, AI assisted post creation, and chat for urgent needs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78819&key=user_uploads/1642539/fb3c9788-fb77-4ea7-a5b0-766d51a58935)\n\n### **The Problem**\n\n**Do it all.**\n\nThose are the words etched in our brains during YC, and we know that it only gets worse. We spend our time figuring out how to talk to users, sell to customers, pitch to investors, and meet other founders, all at the same time. Oh, and don’t forget, while doing all of this, you also need to continue building the product.\n\nWe found that the most inefficient part of a company is poor communication. A ping on Slack can take us out of flow and leave us context-switching. While one team member is wrestling with RAG pipelines, another is messaging them about feedback from a user interview. If you choose to respect heads-down time, you’ll end up writing notes in docs that are lost to the ether, never to be looked at again. With more team members, it gets exponentially worse.\n\nIn the end, we’re either left with incomplete information or left sifting through a swamp of chat messages, doc links, and notifications to get the information we need.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\n**LLMs, Posts, and a Ranked Feed.**\n\nPatchwork, with the help of LLMs, allows you to quickly post meeting notes, updates, thoughts, and information into relevant groups.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78819&key=user_uploads/1642539/2d37f318-48cd-4dc1-953b-5fd4728377c9)\n\nHere’s the best part — **every team member has a smart feed, specifically curated for them**, that ensures they get the most important information first. Say goodbye to the distraction of random messages to get to what you really need. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78819&key=user_uploads/1642539/97cafc6a-a77f-467d-bbd8-c9ba596d6985)\n\nChat is also available for urgent needs. On Patchwork, your urgent chat messages don’t get drowned out with non-urgent matters.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78819&key=user_uploads/1642539/92a29007-2c94-49c4-8e7a-569106e3c283)\n\n### **Meet Nikki and Dhruhin**\n\n[Nikki](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikki-a-shah/) and [Dhruhin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhruhin/) worked at Meta, Stripe, and Amazon—three companies known for their incredible writing cultures. They were able to witness firsthand the power of organized, effective communication. At these companies, they worked on 0 to 1 products, which grew from a small founding team to massive organizations. 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Cost-savings and streamlined experience are often what drive customers to sign - but the real magic of Greenboard happens when we aggregate our customers’ relevant data onto a single platform that uses AI to detect risk faster and more reliably than previously possible.\n\nIf you’re a fintech or compliance leader get in touch at [founders@greenboard.io](https://mailto:founders@greenboard.io).\n\n### **The problem:** financial compliance software is fragmented and bad. Maintaining compliance is hard.\n\nIn addition to paying for software, financial firms currently hire expensive consultants and large compliance teams to help maintain compliance, but this isn’t really working. Some recent examples:\n\n* [\\~$300M in fines handed out to big banks for not archiving communications](https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-149)\n* [$100M lawsuit between a regulated firm and their consultants over an egregious compliance violation](https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-01-25/sure-blame-the-compliance-consultant)\n\n### **Our solution:** consolidated, human-centric software to drive a culture of compliance. AI to detect risk faster and more reliably than ever before.\n\nFinancial compliance teams today often pay for 2+ different software solutions for things like communications archiving, compliance program management, screening trades for conflicts of interest, tracking and approving marketing content, etc.\n\nGreenboard changes this by bringing all core compliance functionality onto a single platform (starting with the compliance needs of RIAs). See [greenboard.io](https://www.greenboard.io/features) for more info.\n\n![](https://greenboard-uploads.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/site/flows.svg)\n\n![](https://greenboard-uploads.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/site/transaction_data.svg)\n\nThe dynamics of the space remind us of HR/IT software pre-Rippling in a few ways:\n\n* A lot of fragmented functionality is needed on top of a core system of record. A lot of the needed functionality ultimately comes down to CRUD operations + collaborative tooling.\n* Clear sets of power users exist (compliance teams for us, HR people at Rippling) but everyone in an organization needs a login\n* Spend on software matters in non-revenue generating areas, and many organizations would love to consolidate vendors.\n\n### **Humans, machines, and the future of financial compliance**\n\nA super reductive checklist on how to maintain financial compliance looks something like this:\n\n1. Keep detailed records of dozens of things having to do with your business, employees, and customers\n2. Examine these records and look for bad (non-compliant) things that might be happening\n3. Address the bad things that you found and put processes in place to prevent these things from happening in the future\n\nCurrently, the technology adoption rate is high for 1) and low for 2) and 3).\n\nIt wasn’t always the case that financial firms could count on cheap hard drives and cloud computing to keep records. Not long ago when filing cabinets (and file rooms) were the norm recordkeeping required substantial resources. It turns out that computers are cheaper and better than humans at storing files by such a wide margin that there are no longer roles for file clerks in the economy.\n\nOur thesis is that GPU-powered computational statistics will similarly transform step 2) above. 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The agent is trained to handle all outbound tasks automatically: finding the best leads in the industry-specific channels and then automatically contacting prospects with a personalized approach.\n\n### **The problem 🤯**\n\nB2B lead generation is broken.\n\nIt's difficult to generate outbound pipeline as we did in the past years: mass mailing over the TAM based on demographics criteria.\n\nIt's especially very human-intensive for a founder, a full cycle sales team, or even an SDR dedicated to the task.\n\nFinally, the cost of implementing a high-quality outbound strategy has completely exploded.\n\n### **Our Solution 🥳**\n\nAI allows us to automate these tasks by doing like a top performer.\n\n**What makes a top performer?**\n\n* They know the product, the industry, the pain points, and the company's value proposition perfectly.\n* They will find the right leads, ready to buy, based on buying signals in the industry-specific channels or on the company's website visitors.\n\n_For example, the buying signals for a dev tool will likely happen more on GitHub, whereas for an HRIS, it will happen on LinkedIn or job boards._\n\nThat's what we do: **Create the smartest AI sales agent on the market - custom-trained for each company!**\n\n### **How it works? ✨**\n\n1. Train your agent to become an expert on your business thanks to various knowledge sources of your company (Knowledge base, CRM, Call transcripts…).\n2. The agent will then scan the lead sources specific to your industry and start to suggest enriched leads with a personalized approach.\n3. In co-pilot mode, you will be able to validate the leads and approaches to train the agent and then switch to autopilot once satisfied with the lead quality.\n4. The agent will book meetings in your calendar.\n\n### **Meet our team 🤝**\n\n[Dan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/danelkaim/) and [Robin](https://linkedin.com/in/robin-philibert) were together as Sales and Head of Outbound at Aircall from $10M to $120M ARR - they perfectly know the sales and SDR profession to reproduce best practices.\n\n[Léonard](https://linkedin.com/in/leonard-henriquez) is a Data Science and AI expert and managed an engineering team of 10 people in his previous startup.\n\nWe are the right team to launch a smart AI sales agent :)\n\n### **Our ask 🙏**\n\nIf you're looking to create pipeline via outbound and you tick one of these boxes:\n\n* You are afraid of automating because the outreach or the leads would not be qualitative enough\n* You don't want to recruit a first sales before your PMF\n* You have full cycle salespeople who struggle to consistently create pipe\n* You want to test a new market\n* You think it’s too expensive to hire an SDR\n\nPlease contact us at [**dan@topo.io**](mailto:dan@topo.io) or check out [**topo.io.**](http://topo.io/)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79683&key=user_uploads/1148042/e56db1eb-b913-4428-b677-b19b32160d13)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KjD-topo-ai-sales-agent-custom-trained-for-each-company-to-reach-the-best-leads", "votes": 153, "created_at": "2024-03-25T20:02:54.385Z" }, { "id": 76388, "title": "Topo.io - Create centralized deal hubs to accelerate your closing", "tagline": "Engage buyers, drive momentum, close deals. Fast!", "body": "**TL;DR** [Topo.io](http://Topo.io) is a Buyer Engagement Platform that helps B2B sellers better engage their buyers to accelerate closing through new ways of collaboration. It pushes the most relevant content to buyers to animate sales cycles, encouraging buy-in while alleviating the sales rep from endless admin and follow-ups.\n\n---\n\n—\n\nHello YC 👋\n\nWe are thrilled to share [Topo.io](http://Topo.io) with you - a Buyer Engagement Platform that helps B2B sellers better engage buyers to accelerate closing.\n\n🤯 **The Problem**\n\n**The B2B selling process is broken.**\n\n85% of B2B buying decisions happen outside of conversations with the sales rep.\n\nThis leaves Sales teams facing:\n\n* longer sales cycles\n* lack of momentum\n* increasing number of stakeholders\n* and difficulty in scaling a proven sales process.\n\nHaving a background in B2B sales, we experienced these problems first-hand. 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It includes the following key features:\n\n* **Digital Sales Room** - Establish a deal hub that sellers can use to engage buyers, pushing them the most relevant content to animate down times during a deal.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76388&key=user_uploads/1148042/94b18c3c-3319-4ce1-812f-bbf8f8aa0fed)\n\n* **Automations** - Set up workflows to automate the rhythm of your follow-ups: content sharing, follow-up on low-engagement stakeholders, receive action suggestions in Slack…\n* **Engagement & Collaboration** - Make the sales cycle more self-service with our mutual action plan, engage all internal and external stakeholders, and enable sales to anticipate what’s coming next in their deal.\n* **Analytics** - Observe when, how, and how long your customers/prospects are interacting with your content to better prioritize opportunities via deal scoring.\n* **Integrations** - Create a workspace from your CRM (Salesforce & HubSpot), keep your data up-to-date with two-way sync, be informed about the latest buyer activity via Slack, and enrich your workspace with content from your existing tools (Gong, Loom, Google Slide, Youtube, etc.).\n\n🔥**Our customers shortened their sales cycles by 30% just two quarters after implementing Topo**🔥\n\n**👫 Who are we?**\n\nWe’re a team of 9 people, French and American - from Paris, France. 🇫🇷\n\nWe’re all from B2B SaaS companies (ex Hubspot, Algolia, Aircall, Hivebrite...) with a strong background in GTM. 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It has every feature needed to build, deploy, and scale LLM applications:\n\n**Infrastructure and Deployment**\n\n* OpenAI-compatible integration with 2 lines of code\n* Supports 100+ LLMs with built-in load balancing, error handling, and dynamic routing\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79874&key=user_uploads/927016/60b64a75-0987-4bbb-93e2-f946760abbee)\n\n\n**Model Playground**\n\n* Interactive playground for comparing prompts and A/B testing different models\n* Find the best LLM for your use case through experimentation and evaluation\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79874&key=user_uploads/927016/bc21dd8f-740b-4600-8930-f887a86c81fa)\n\n\n**Prompt Management**\n\n* Intuitive prompt management system for versioning and deploying prompts\n* Collaborative workspace for teams to share and iterate on prompts\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79874&key=user_uploads/927016/d943ff84-f908-4744-80b9-4b5dcafc4ac7)\n\n\n**Request Logging**\n\n* Request logs for tracing and debugging user-model interactions\n* Automated output evaluation for detecting hallucination and other quality issues\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79874&key=user_uploads/927016/9761abd2-48c2-4dfd-92df-5f6b054f02ec)\n\n\n**Performance Evaluations**\n\n* Comprehensive evaluations to compare model performance with customized metrics\n* Monitor response quality over time to build product confidence\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79874&key=user_uploads/927016/59f074ba-0d90-4eae-93f8-3fa2328d5750)\n\n\n**Usage Dashboard**\n\n* Real-time monitoring of model performance and user analytics\n* Comprehensive overview of product usage trends and user behavior\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79874&key=user_uploads/927016/cc4903db-9d46-4c98-a44a-babe133fc848)\n\n\n**User Analytics**\n\n* Track growth, retention, and unit economics with detailed usage analytics\n* Sentiment analysis and topic/intent classification for user insights\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79874&key=user_uploads/927016/eec04dbb-d665-4bee-8333-285de818a6bc)\n\n\n**Data Curation and Fine-Tuning**\n\n* ​Easily collect and curate production golden dataset for model optimization\n* One-click model fine-tuning for improved performance and cost savings​\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79874&key=user_uploads/927016/d44261ea-e426-4e84-9f5f-5e5c9e217417)\n\n\n### **🤠 The Team**\n\n[Andy](https://linkedin.com/in/hanheli) and [Raymond](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/www.pareon.com) both studied mechanical engineering at UIUC and have been best friends since college. \n\nAndy took a gap year to work as a product design engineer at Apple after freshman year, where he designed parts for the next-gen & next-next-next-gen AirPods. He dropped out after realizing his dream job wasn’t that fun.\n\nRaymond is so good at learning things. He graduated with the highest honor in just three years and self-mastered software engineering within a year. He dropped his robotics PhD offers from top schools.\n\nWe’ve worked on a bunch of very bad ideas together in the past year. Now we think we've stumbled upon a good one :)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79874&key=user_uploads/927016/b3ead780-3541-4b92-9e26-df04c3e891cc)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79874&key=user_uploads/927016/d44261ea-e426-4e84-9f5f-5e5c9e217417)\n\n### **🔥 Keywords AI is available today!**\n\n* [Get started free](https://keywordsai.co) with $15 in credits\n* [Chat with us](https://cal.com/keywordsai/demo) if you’re building with LLMs - we’d love to be helpful\n* Join our [Discord community](https://discord.com/invite/KEanfAafQQ) of AI builders\n* Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/keywordsai/) and [X](https://twitter.com/keywordsai)\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79874&key=user_uploads/927016/d44261ea-e426-4e84-9f5f-5e5c9e217417)\n\n\n[team@keywordsai.co](mailto:team@keywordsai.co)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KmI-keywords-ai-unified-devops-platform-to-build-ai-applications", "votes": 20, "created_at": "2024-04-02T14:24:37.708Z" } ] }, { "id": 29332, "name": "Polished", "slug": "polished", "former_names": [ "Double", "Pillar" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b6b130da6813f93f556cf04be9132b6ba506b4fc.png", "website": "https://polished.ad", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "With Polished, you create finished ads (video or static) in minutes.\r\nThen you refine it in plain English, until it's exactly what you had in mind.", "one_liner": "Generate ads. Iterate till perfect.", "team_size": null, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1701750687, "tags": [ "Developer Tools", "SaaS", "B2B", "Advertising", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "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/polished", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/polished.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "https://x.com/polishedads", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b6b130da6813f93f556cf04be9132b6ba506b4fc.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/a39acd1ac711d9cf14686bc12badc6db5739ba99.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Garry Tan", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/garry-tan" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1289064, "full_name": "JJ Maxwell", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Building Polished. \n\nFormer CEO @ Double Finance, CTO of Liftoff Influence, co-founder of Jetfuel (acquired by Liftoff 2021), Facebook Messenger", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/jj-maxwell-753b5026", "x_url": "https://x.com/jjmaxwell4", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b9d48456a5e2f3dd1d30067874a3fc409beeee5e.jpg" }, { "user_id": 376672, "full_name": "Mark Wai", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Building Polished\n\nPreviously Growth @ Tesla, Facebook", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/markwai", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e7835121f75384f2b6a95aa37523c3607b9931ae.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Direct indexing platform Double Finance raises $3.9M seed", "url": "https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2024/12/10/direct-indexing-platform-double-finance-raises-seed", "date": "Dec 10, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 97986, "title": "Pillar - Your app's copilot", "tagline": "An open source copilot that turns user requests into completed actions, right inside your app.", "body": "Hey everyone! We’re JJ and Mark, cofounders of [Pillar](https://trypillar.com) 👋\n\n**TL;DR: Pillar is an embedded AI copilot that executes tasks inside your product for users and agents.**\n\nUsers or agents can type what they want. The copilot carries it out **client-side in the browser**, using the user’s existing session, permissions, and security checks. You install the SDK via npm and register your existing frontend code as tools.\n\nExample: in a banking app, a user types _“send $200 to my cleaners.”_ Pillar finds the right recipient, navigates to the transfer flow, and pre-fills the form. The user still reviews and confirms. If your app requires 2FA for that acion, so does the copilot.\n\nDemo: \n\n# The Problem\n\nTeams ship faster than ever. But when your changelog is 10x longer than it used to be, users can’t keep up.\n\n* **Discoverability breaks down:** the UI changes, features move, and people forget where things live.\n* **Friction turns into “support”:** users open tickets that aren’t really support tickets. The user wanted to do something your product already supported but couldn’t get there.\n* **Most products don’t have an “action layer”:** AI agents are starting to use web apps the same way users do: navigate, click, fill forms. Products need to prepare for this\n\n**Bottom line:** products need a reliable, permissioned way to execute actions end-to-end - not just document them.\n\n# How Pillar Works\n\nPillar turns a user request into action by combining planning with **in-browser execution**.\n\n1. **Plan:** Pillar determines which steps/tools to run\n2. **Execute:** your app runs those tools in the browser (navigation, API calls, state updates, form fills)\n3. **Confirm:** the user stays in control for sensitive actions.\n\nYou register tools inside your existing React components:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97986&key=user_uploads/376672/a918639c-e2a9-405b-9e4d-2f54acac8af0)\n\nWhat happens at runtime when a user types _“send $200 to my cleaners”_:\n\n* Pillar calls **search_recipients** with “cleaners”\n* Selects the right match\n* Calls **prefill_transfer** with the recipient + amount\n* User reviews and confirms in the existing flow\n\nBecause execution happens in the browser, tools run with the current user’s permissions and session. **Pillar can’t do anything the user can’t do.**\n\nPillar syncs with your help content (Zendesk, Intercom, Notion, Confluence, internal docs) so requests map to the right tools/flows. When it picks the wrong path, you flag it and the correction is captured so the same issue is less likely to repeat.\n\nSDKs are available for React and vanilla JavaScript. Registered tools can also be reused by other copilots/agents via WebMCP (navigator.modelContext).\n\n# Try It\n\nInstall: [trypillar.com](http://trypillar.com)\n\nWe also have live demos you can try right now - Pillar installed on open-source products:\n\n* Grafana ([trypillar.com/demos/grafana](https://trypillar.com/demos/grafana)): you can have Pillar build you a monitoring dashboard and set up alerts\n* Apache Superset ([trypillar.com/demos/superset](https://trypillar.com/demos/superset)): you can explore the names dataset and build a dashboard\n\n👉 Want help getting live? Reach out at [founders@trypillar.com](https://mailto:founders@trypillar.com)\n\n# Our Ask\n\n* If you lead product/engineering and users open tickets for things your product already does, we’d love to talk: [founders@trypillar.com](mailto:founders@trypillar.com)\n* If you know someone who fits that (founders, VP Product, Head of Support), intros are appreciated\n* Share this post. Follow us on LinkedIn and X.\n\n# Backstory\n\nWe built Pillar to solve our own problem. At our last company (Double Finance), we saw a pattern: users asked for outcomes we already supported, but still opened support tickets. We wanted a way to reuse the frontend code we’d already shipped, without rebuilding flows or adding new “automation” surfaces.\n\n_Pillar is what we wish we had._\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=97986&key=user_uploads/376672/597895ee-5fab-49bb-b55e-cabb1f3f6ff2)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PUQ-pillar-your-app-s-copilot", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2026-02-19T20:32:35.986Z" }, { "id": 82801, "title": "Double - Design your own stock index", "tagline": "Double automates your investments with zero AUM fees.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82801&key=user_uploads/1289064/c2a6166e-82a3-419a-9800-0648a58901ea)\n\n**TL; DR** — Design and invest in your own stock index that’s advised, managed, and tax-optimized by [Double](https://double.finance/).\n\nHistorically, access to sophisticated finance tools like direct indexing and tax loss harvesting has come at a steep cost and only through exclusive financial advisors. We are on a mission to revolutionize investing by providing world-class portfolio tools to everyday investors without any AUM fees. \n\n# Key Features\n\n* **Direct Index into 20+ ETFs:** Build an elite portfolio with the ability to tilt towards specific sectors, industries, themes, or even custom groupings like all YC publicly listed companies.\n* **Daily Tax Optimization, Rebalancing & Potential Tax Loss Harvesting**: Our optimization engine keeps your portfolio on track by factoring in drift, taxes and transaction costs. If your account qualifies, our tax-loss harvesting service aims to help you minimize your tax liability and maximize your after-tax returns.\n* **Dollar-cost averaging:** We allow users to move between positions at a set cadence, regardless of the market's performance, helping you reduce timing risks associated with active trading.\n\n# Example Use Cases\n\nWork for AAPL and want to diversify away from tech?\n\n* Buy a direct-indexed [S&P 500 Portfolio](https://app.double.finance/public/explore/3), remove AAPL entirely, and cut the rest of your tech exposure in half.\n\nDid you know AI was going to be a big deal before everyone else?\n\n* Double makes it easy to tilt your portfolio towards your hunches. Pick a handful of stocks set to benefit from the Inflation Reduction Act, or some that target the booming AI and semiconductor industry, or shift your portfolio towards the explosive meme growth of Zyn.\n\nFeeling confident in the overall market and ready to pile on the risk?\n\n* Follow [Hedgefundie’s Adventure](https://app.double.finance/explore/110), which uses 3x leverage in a Stock and Bond ETF to try and increase returns. Or pick from our smart screens that target top growing companies or even a basket of the [YC Public Companies](https://app.double.finance/public/explore/140).\n\nThink we’re headed for a recession and want to take some chips off the table? \n\n* You can invest in a version of [Ray Dalio’s All Weather Portfolio](https://app.double.finance/public/explore/108) comprising 5 ETFs or [John Bogles Majesty of Simplicity](https://app.double.finance/public/explore/105) and migrate between these Strategies and Bonds over time.\n\nBuild and backtest your own stock index!\n\n* Use our Stock and ETF Screeners to build your very own personalized portfolio.\n\n#### Fees\n\nDouble doesn’t charge AUM fees. Financial Advisors often charge around 1% a year for tools like Direct Indexing and Dollar Cost Averaging. In a sample $1M portfolio, these fees lead to a dollar cost of $1,800,000 or a 24.5% overall reduction in performance over 30 years, assuming 6% growth vs. 7% growth. We aim to eventually make money like the commission-free trading pioneers. Our custodian Apex Clearing charges some fees which we pass on to users which you can see [here](https://help.double.finance/en/articles/9450171-service-provider-fees). \n\n#### Additional Features\n\n* Backtest a custom stock grouping to see its historic performance.\n* Cash sweep available: Earn 4.5% interest on your uninvested cash (as of August 5th, 2024, not a guarantee of future rates)\n* Fractional investing: Invest in over 3,000 US stocks and 1,400 ETFs for as little as $5 per share.\n* Support for Personal, Joint, and Trust Accounts\n* Daily portfolio optimization and trade execution\n* Recurring or one-time deposits via ACH or Wire\n* ACAT Transfer in an existing brokerage account\n\n#### Get Started Today\n\nWe’re live at . Sign up for a Double account today and start building your own stock index. Please reach out to [founders@double.finance](mailto:founders@double.finance) with any feedback or questions!\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXctLsEGUWaE1ScP7EqAuz0sPPYQDg7Vt1Zlpn5Cx-sfubv0nJvIZertGsNS0zPWoWzzJSw-orkpmSTzIFepxiDziCKdJN6sMXMAS1GSYwcTfiyY3ZqlIA_db-gZX4rHTji2-dZPfMWgdz-qmvb7whdOackQ?key=nGDLEdHNSqYCi809_9DeNQ)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LXV-double-design-your-own-stock-index", "votes": 58, "created_at": "2024-08-07T00:27:48.572Z" } ] }, { "id": 29340, "name": "Tamarind Bio", "slug": "tamarind-bio", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/201884765e11baf051338d72f6f2e7ead2bb1fa1.png", "website": "https://www.tamarind.bio", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Tamarind Bio is a website and API which allows scientists to use computational biology tools at scale using a simple interface. On Tamarind, scientists can use ML models like AlphaFold to design and simulate molecules by simply selecting inputs instead of or setting up a high performance computing environment or dealing with DevOps.\r\n\r\n\r\nTamarind is used by tens of thousands researchers in large pharma companies, top biotechs, and academic institutions.", "one_liner": "AI Inference Platform for Drug Discovery", "team_size": 20, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1702859345, "tags": [ "AI-powered Drug Discovery", "SaaS", "B2B", "Biotech", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tamarind-bio", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/tamarind-bio.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/tamarind-bio/", "x_url": "https://x.com/tamarindbio", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/201884765e11baf051338d72f6f2e7ead2bb1fa1.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1224836, "full_name": "Deniz Kavi", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Building great software for life scientists.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/deniz-kavi", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/kavi_deniz", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/293367f6785cbc75138799bd2af8626d1d94a319.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1451351, "full_name": "Sherry Liu", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I'm currently building Tamarind Bio: easy to use computational biology tools for scientists. I studied Computer Science at Stanford. Previously, I've worked at AWS and as a machine learning researcher at Stanford. 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We provide protein structure prediction (e.g. AlphaFold), protein design(RFdiffusion), and molecular docking tools at large scale and easily integrated into your workflow. Additionally, we deploy your custom models for internal use, provide virtual screening services, and provide pipelines to feed the results of models as input to the next downstream tool. \n\n**The Problem**\n\nComputational biology thrives on doing in silico experiments at large scales. However, it’s tedious to allocate tens/hundreds of GPUs for compute-heavy machine learning tools, make sure they are running as intended, and analyze disparate results. Whether it’s AlphaFold for protein structure prediction, RFdiffusion for binder design or DiffDock for small molecule docking, deploying these tools scalably and connecting them to downstream pipelines steals time away from developing models and doing better science.\n\n**The Solution**\n\nTamarind is launching an API for state-of-the-art computational tools in protein design, structure prediction, and docking. Simply submit your job and check back to receive your result. Download these results, keep them in S3, or generate an analysis. \n\nTamarind now integrates seamlessly with existing computational workflows: we’ll work with you to deploy your custom models and pipelines or run on your existing cloud computing infrastructure. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78606&key=user_uploads/1224836/df4f5292-e7ca-44a4-af61-b051397dbb46)\n\nWe are [Deniz](https://linkedin.com/in/deniz-kavi) and [Sherry](https://linkedin.com/in/sherryliu987)! We met as undergrads at Stanford, where we studied Computer Science and conducted comp bio research, experiencing the inefficiencies of using bioinformatics tools firsthand. Today, 1000+ scientists from institutions including Stanford, Harvard, and Oxford regularly use Tamarind to accelerate their work, as well as many YC companies. \n\nLet us handle the DevOps, while you focus on your science!\n\n**Asks**\n\nTry Tamarind out! Use our web platform now or email us to learn more about using the API. Documentation: \n\n* Computational Scientists at small/medium biotech companies in Drug Discovery, Protein/Enzyme Engineering, and Virtual Screening | + adjacent fields like Antibody Discovery\n* Software engineers deploying bioinformatics models\n* Anyone who might benefit from easy-to-use bioinformatics or cheminformatics\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78606&key=user_uploads/89898/2bf93fd2-1a56-4d34-ab0c-85c5680f6212)\n\nFollow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tamarind-bio/) to stay updated! Get in touch: [founders@tamarind.bio](mailto:founders@tamarind.bio)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KRq-tamarind-bio-api-for-scalable-bioinformatics", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2024-02-21T18:24:43.210Z" }, { "id": 77001, "title": "Tamarind Bio: No-code bioinformatics for scientists", "tagline": "The simplest way for life scientists to use computational tools!", "body": "### **TL;DR**\n\nWe allow scientists to use cutting edge computational tools for drug discovery without writing any code. We currently provide protein structure prediction (AlphaFold/ColabFold), molecular docking and protein design resources. And would be excited to learn more what computational tools might be useful for scientists.\n\nWe also provide the infrastructure to use these open-source tools at large scales, including efficiently producing large numbers of protein structures along with protein design pipelines.\n\nCheck out our tools here: [tamarind.bio/app](https://www.tamarind.bio/app)\n\n### The Problem\n\nWhether [AlphaFold](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03819-2) for protein structure prediction, [RFdiffusion](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06415-8) for binder design or [DiffDock](https://www.mlsb.io/papers_2022/DiffDock_Diffusion_Steps_Twists_and_Turns_for_Molecular_Docking.pdf) for small molecule docking; open source machine tools are massively useful for the life sciences. However, these tools remain inaccessible to the scientists who would benefit most from them, due to lack of technical expertise or in-house computational resources.\n\n### The Solution\n\nInstead of implementing tools yourself:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77001&key=user_uploads/1224836/2986e780-9df4-4581-bf7a-3f33686e2668)\n\nUse Tamarind:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77001&key=user_uploads/1224836/fe2a2ae7-93c9-47dd-9db9-6c800878a0f1)\n\n[Tamarind](https://www.tamarind.bio) is a website to use the state of the art computational tools in protein design, structure prediction and docking.\n\nWe met as undergrads at Stanford, where we studied Computer Science and conducted research, experiencing the inefficiencies of using bioinformatics tools firsthand. Today, hundreds of scientists from institutions including Stanford, Harvard and Oxford regularly use Tamarind to accelerate their work.\n\nNo more Linux terminals or outsourcing computational work, just focus on your science!\n\n### Asks\n\nTry [Tamarind](https://www.tamarind.bio) out!\n\nIf you have or know anyone with the following backgrounds, please get in touch at [founders@tamarind.bio](mailto:founders@tamarind.bio). We’re very excited to learn about your work.\n\n* Scientists in Drug Discovery - industry and academic\n* Computational biologists in Structural Biology\n* Anyone who might benefit from easy to use bioinformatics\n\nFollow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tamarind-bio/) to stay updated!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/K1x-tamarind-bio-no-code-bioinformatics-for-scientists", "votes": 16, "created_at": "2023-12-19T23:01:57.000Z" } ] }, { "id": 29353, "name": "Resonance", "slug": "resonance", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f32584f82882e696b3984dfcf4bd700cce69fd5f.png", "website": "https://www.useresonance.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Resonance hyper-personalizes MarTech campaign content and automatically refreshes and stores high performing content for re-use.", "one_liner": "Self-improving content bank for marketing", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1709332105, "tags": [ "Reinforcement Learning", "SaaS", "Subscriptions", "Marketing", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "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/resonance", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/resonance.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/99332802/admin/feed/posts/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f32584f82882e696b3984dfcf4bd700cce69fd5f.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Harj Taggar", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/harj-taggar" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 570574, "full_name": "Jonathan Ou", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Jonathan is the CEO of Resonance. 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Companies use Resonance as a one-stop shop for campaign creation, intelligent experimentation/prioritization, analytics, and impression management to boost net revenue retention following user onboarding._ [_Schedule a demo_](https://calendly.com/jonathantou/quick-chat) or [_get in contact_](https://www.useresonance.com/contact).\n\n> **The Team:**\n\nI used to work as a SWE at Dropbox, DoorDash, and Microsoft. In particular, I helped build a similar platform to Resonance at Dropbox that generated $100 million ARR. I wanted to start Resonance because 1) I felt there were many ways to improve that particular tool and 2) I wanted to bring that tool to other companies that need it but don’t have the bandwidth to build it themselves.\n\n> **The Problem:**\n\nFor companies that depend on product-led growth (primarily consumer/SMB/startup-centric companies), their website remains their most valuable marketing channel. Post-user onboarding, these companies rely on in-product messaging to drive feature adoption so they can retain users.\n\nUnfortunately, this sort of strategy only works at scale, and there are many challenges in doing so. Below are some non-trivial functionalities that modern companies require to launch effective campaigns with velocity:\n\n1. Code-based and no-code workflows for launching campaigns\n2. Campaign performance analytics\n3. Intelligent campaign targeting and experimentation\n4. Sophisticated campaign impression management\n5. UX flexibility (i.e. messaging should not be limited just to overlays)\n\nSolving this problem is crucial, as millions in ARR is left on the table if companies cannot properly scale their in-product feature discovery/awareness/education. Companies like Dropbox that have built tooling to address the above challenges have generated up to $100 million ARR from the increased user retention.\n\n> **The Solution:**\n\nSolving this problem requires building a centralized system where any stakeholder (technical or non-technical) can effortlessly launch campaigns to drive in-product feature adoption.\n\nHolistic assessment of campaign performance, global impression management, and optimized campaign targeting can only work at scale if there is a single system that serves as a repository for all campaigns and governs campaign creation.\n\nResonance addresses this by providing a central platform where developers and non-developers can both easily launch in-product feature adoption campaigns within minutes, with the above functionalities provided out of the box.\n\nBelow are screenshots of some important features in our UI (and there are many more).\n\n* No code builder with live preview on your website and experimentation\n * (**NOTE**: The preview will obviously be with your website and UI components - disregard my modal and website)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79089&key=user_uploads/570574/7339d733-3683-43bd-9fac-f23d881bfdf4)\n\n* Complex User Targeting\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79089&key=user_uploads/570574/cc3cd9e1-809f-499e-b871-934e27807a38)\n\n* Sophisticated Frequency Management\n * (**NOTE**: We also have similar rules that apply globally for all campaigns)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79089&key=user_uploads/570574/f1b8a942-dc12-440f-8680-6c4dee517be4)\n\n* Global Analytics\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79089&key=user_uploads/570574/62457d65-c845-48ff-8877-569dfa707544)\n\n* Intelligent Experimentation (experiment up to 7x faster with 4-8x more variants)\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79089&key=user_uploads/570574/53430985-a9d3-4c17-97eb-52bc56285c86)\n\n\n> Our Ask\n\n1. If you are a product-led company, shipping a lot of features, or are using something like Intercom or Pendo, I’d love to set up some time here to chat about improving your user retention. I’m familiar with existing tools and I believe I can do a much better job.\n2. If not, I’d appreciate an intro to anyone in your network who works in a senior role within growth or product if possible.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KZd-resonance-optimally-upsell-users-within-your-product", "votes": 48, "created_at": "2024-03-06T01:22:47.987Z" } ] }, { "id": 29356, "name": "Centralize", "slug": "centralize", "former_names": [ "Sage", "Collate" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8bc7c40a368d66db588fec716bdb4cfc3dba48d1.png", "website": "https://www.usecentralize.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Centralize is the relationship intelligence platform for enterprise revenue. We show reps who they know inside every deal, who they're missing, and the fastest path to the decision-makers who close it. 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Prior to Centralize, he was the product tech lead at AtoB (YC S20) and built the foundations of their partner-funded discounts and telematics fraud suite. Before that, he was a founding engineer on Facebook Shops and helped scale the product to hundreds of millions of MAUs. He's originally from the Bay Area and received a BS / MS in CS from the University of Southern California.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/rachitkataria", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c1c340b6d874c94b9d18724e3fe331753bf740d4.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1322708, "full_name": "Will Wang", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Will is the co-founder and CTO of Centralize, the all-in-one deal workspace for high ACV revenue teams. Prior to Centralize, Will started the prototyping team at Slack & led the initial launch of Huddles, the fastest growing product in Slack history. He also led engineering & product for Clips, Save For Later, Lists & other experimental verticals. Will was also the 1st engineer at Capture, where he built much of the product from the ground up.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/williamwang77", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f5ea5ee24e4a3bc9617120a0dfdbf996a89d69d7.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 94472, "title": "Software Engineer (Product)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/centralize/jobs/4dgWq6o-software-engineer-product", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / New York, NY, US / Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$190K - $260K", "equity_range": "0.20% - 0.40%", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Centralize is the GPS for Enterprise Deals", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZLVDPzPITg", "date": "Sep 08, 2026" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 82598, "title": "🤝 Centralize - AI-powered org charts for enterprise sales", "tagline": "The relationship intelligence platform for B2B revenue teams", "body": "Hey everyone! We’re Rachit and Will, the founders of [Centralize](https://usecentralize.com/).\n\n**tl;dr**: Centralize is the relationship intelligence platform for enterprise sales. We help enterprise sellers 2x their deal velocity and boost win rates by up to 56% with automatic account mapping and contact insights.\n\n---\n\n—\n\n## Problem\n\nUnderstanding customer relationships is crucial to the entire enterprise sales lifecycle, from closed won to renewal and upsell. The best teams use **account mapping,** but it’s an entirely manual and tedious exercise today. Reps are stuck making instantly outdated org charts in Powerpoint or juggling extensive CRM lists in their minds. That doesn’t even factor in ongoing conversations across stakeholders — **all of that revenue-influencing data** is buried in jumbled CRM fields, call transcripts, notes, and emails.\n\nThe result?\n\nDeals fall through due to champion blind spots. Reps don’t have enough time to prep well for calls. Pipeline reviews end in ambiguity and concerns around “happy ears”.\n\n**❌ Stalled pipeline, hours of admin overhead, and poor win rates ❌**\n\nWhat if the entire account mapping process could be automated with contact-level conversation insights?\n\n## Solution\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82598&key=user_uploads/1541841/e4e3e4a0-383f-405e-a273-f6a4fa325524)\n\n**Centralize is the relationship intelligence platform for enterprise sales, helping revenue teams say the right thing, to the right person, at the right time.**\n\nOur enriched dynamic org charts make cross-department multithreading a breeze. Contact priorities update in real-time using AI-generated conversation insights from emails and calls. In-depth account planning becomes scalable and pipeline reviews now take minutes, giving leaders an objective, birds-eye view of each deal.\n\nDesigned for the entire revenue team, our platform offers unlimited seats for sales reps, leaders, CSMs, and AMs. Best of all, we meet you where your team works, right within your CRM.\n\nThe result?\n\n**✅ 2x deal velocity and increased win rates by up to 56% ✅**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82598&key=user_uploads/1541841/05dc40bf-33d5-48b6-92b8-cd6775d10254)\n\n## Team\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82598&key=user_uploads/1541841/3c552384-328c-43de-a128-7b122c31979f)\n\n[Rachit Kataria](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachitkataria/) and [Will Wang](https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamwang77/) met their first week of Freshman year at USC (fight on ✌🏽) and have been friends for almost a decade.\n\nRachit was a founding engineer on Facebook Shops and helped scale it to 250M MAUs. He left to tech lead product engineering at AtoB (S20) where he built the foundations of fuel card fraud detection. Will prototyped and led the launch of Huddles, the fastest growing product in Slack history. He left to build the future of personal productivity at Capture (W19).\n\nThroughout these experiences, both have seen first-hand how important relationships are to the initial close and continued success of an account.\n\nTogether, they’re on a mission to bring relationship intelligence to every B2B company.\n\n## 🙏🏽 Our Ask\n\nIf you run a mid-market / enterprise / strategic sales motion, let’s chat! We work with fast-growing businesses ranging from Series A to pre-IPO, so you’re in great company.\n\n[Book a demo](https://cal.com/rachit-kataria/centralize-demo) or reach out to us at [founders@usecentralize.com](mailto:founders@usecentralize.com) 😊", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LUE-centralize-ai-powered-org-charts-for-enterprise-sales", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2024-07-31T15:15:07.833Z" }, { "id": 78889, "title": "🧠 Centralize - Demystify customer conversations and unlock revenue", "tagline": "The missing customer intelligence platform for B2B revenue teams", "body": "👋🏼 Hey everyone! We’re [Rachit](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachitkataria/) and [Will](https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamwang77/), the founders of [Centralize](https://www.usecentralize.com/).\n\n**tl;dr:** Centralize is the new way for pre and post-sales teams to fully understand their customers, in one place. We’re the missing revenue tool that B2B companies use to win more deals, upsell customers, and eliminate churn.\n\n—\n\n## **Problem**\n\nEvery SaaS company has a revenue problem. Budgets are tightening, which means new deals are harder to close and existing customers are quicker to churn. Now, more than ever, Sales and Success teams need to deeply understand customer conversations across time, tools, and stakeholders.\n\nUnfortunately, this is impossible at scale. **All of that revenue-influencing data is** **hidden** in a sea of CRM fields, call transcripts, notes, emails, and tickets. For even the best teams, getting visibility across data silos, sifting through text for hours, and connecting the dots is **a herculean task**.\n\nThe result?\n\nSales reps can’t reference relevant customer stories during prospect calls to seal the deal. They get bottlenecked internally, hoping Success has the answers. CSMs don’t have the full picture of the customer journey either and can’t maximize upsell and renewal outcomes.\n\n**❌ Slower qualification, stalled pipeline, dropped deals, and more churn ❌**\n\n## **Solution**\n\nCentralize is the first customer intelligence platform that helps B2B revenue teams tell the right story, every time. We automatically centralize (😉) and analyze touch points across high-touch accounts, creating the perfect “customer brain”.\n\n**Sales** gets a ranked list of reference customers ahead of any prospect call. They get _in-context_ insights about use cases and solutions that can be used to craft a personalized narrative. Reps, new or experienced, always come across as empathetic experts and win more deals.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78889&key=user_uploads/1541841/8273fb60-4936-448b-85b0-5ccab0a104a8)\n\n**Success** gets a real-time customer dashboard to understand accounts at a glance. Leadership and ICs can go deeper with instant, self-serve answers to _any customer question_. Renewals, reporting, and QBRs become a breeze when you know exactly what’s happening on the ground.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78889&key=user_uploads/1541841/7cd7e0cb-0041-4afe-ab28-520f18c0fe3b)\n\nThe result?\n\n**✅ Qualify 10x faster, boost lead to opportunity conversion rates, win more deals, drive upsells, and eliminate churn ✅**\n\n## **Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78889&key=user_uploads/1541841/34599b9e-7c0a-4f1b-8d4b-bb42ee45f884)\n\nRachit Kataria and Will Wang met their first week of freshman year at USC (fight on ✌🏽) and have been friends for almost a decade.\n\nRachit was a founding engineer on Facebook Shops and helped scale it to 250M MAUs. He left to tech lead product engineering at AtoB (S20) where he built the foundations of fuel card fraud detection. Will prototyped and led the launch of Huddles, the fastest growing product in Slack history. He left to build the future of personal productivity at Capture (W19).\n\nThey know that it pays to be customer-obsessed and they’re on a mission to make that incredibly easy for every B2B company.\n\n## **Ask**\n\nYour revenue teams need to understand customer context to move the needle, and we’re here to help!\n\nIf you know any sales or success leaders who could benefit from Centralize, please send them our way.\n\nIf you are one, we’d love to chat! [Book a demo](https://cal.com/rachit-kataria/centralize-yc-launch) or reach out to us at [founders@usecentralize.com](mailto:founders@usecentralize.com) 😊\n\n---", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KWP-centralize-demystify-customer-conversations-and-unlock-revenue", "votes": 106, "created_at": "2024-02-29T07:47:49.126Z" } ] }, { "id": 29357, "name": "Salvy", "slug": "salvy", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7b71e1e8adce18f87e8ef73ee6a188e9e025e033.png", "website": "https://www.salvy.com.br", "all_locations": "Curitiba, PR, Brazil", "long_description": "Salvy is a mobile carrier for businesses in Brazil. Over 1800 companies use Salvy to manage over 20,000 mobile lines, cutting costs by over 50%.\r\nThe founders have worked many years together in Brazil's largest fintechs (Nubank and EBANX).\r\n\r\nToday, every carrier in Brazil has roughly the same network quality - it isn't a differentiator. If you're an IT manager who needs to deploy 2k lines, you want an integrated and seamless solution. You need to deploy this resource, fast. Salvy provides a software layer that makes deploying and managing mobile lines a fast and efficient process, integrated with HRIS, ERPs, and others.\r\n\r\nThis is a massive market: there are 55 million b2b mobile lines in Brazil, which adds up to 5 billion dollars in ARR in just one country. 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Our mission is to cut through the chaos of telecom and IT services in Brazil.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78582&key=user_uploads/928768/83c1a053-91c7-452f-98f5-394c85819498)\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nCompanies in Brazil are tangled in complex telecom contracts and lost in inefficiencies. It's a universal headache, especially for businesses scaling up. That's where we step in.\n\n### Customer Pains\n\n1. **Cost inefficiency.** Companies use only 30% of what they purchase and around 20% of mobile lines are unused.\n2. **No transparency.** Companies don't know who is using it, how much they are using and for what.\n3. **Companies have no autonomy to manage their lines.** The mobile operators offer a very limited platform, increasing the need for customer service.\n4. **Awful customer service.** Incumbents provide low autonomy customer service that leaves customers with no effective help.\n5. **Confusing payments.** Invoices are long and confusing. Big companies have to hire consultants to understand how much they are paying. Some customers have over 120 telecom invoices a month.\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\nSalvy simplifies how companies **purchase and manage mobile telecom, turning it into SaaS**. Our platform provides a transparent, efficient way to handle mobile lines and IT demands (such as inventory management), minus the traditional hurdles.\n\nWe use AI to read telecom invoices and help companies migrate to Salvy. In just over a year, we've acquired +250 companies and have a 322% NDR with a 0,2% churn.\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io7iavc7qc0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io7iavc7qc0&t=2s)\n\n### **Our Vision**\n\nOur goal is to be the **one-stop-shop solution for all things IT**, much like Rippling IT Cloud. We're using telco as a gateway to provide other solutions such as inventory and SaaS management, using AI to empower these solutions with speed and efficiency. We believe in three strategies:\n\n1. 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He has developed tools to make these analyses simple, and these tools are now Metofico.\n\n**The Problem: Data analysis complexity hampers life scientists, slowing down research.**\n\nThe volume and complexity of data generated by modern life science research are overwhelming. Traditional tools like Excel, once the go-to for researchers, now fall short when faced with gigabytes or terabytes of data. Moreover, most life scientists cannot program or do advanced data science, so they are stuck.\n\n**Our Solution: A no-code, intuitive SaaS platform designed specifically for life science research**\n\nOur platform transforms the way life scientists handle and analyse data, making processes that used to take weeks or months achievable in just minutes. Whether it's video tracking of rodents, fiber photometry, or any other data-intensive research, Metofico makes it simple and fast, with no programming knowledge required.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79483&key=user_uploads/1579715/b1b25a9c-9115-4d58-96fc-b2945d58647c)\n\nExample of automated segmentation of rodents using our AI\n\n**Demo:**\n\n\n\nExample of brain activity analysis using our fiber photometry analyzer\n\n**Our Ask:**\n\nWe're seeking forward-thinking life science researchers and institutions interested in streamlining their data analysis processes. If you're ready to cut down months of work to just minutes, we'd love to get in touch. Whether it's for feedback, potential partnerships, or just to say hello, your insights are invaluable to us as we strive to make Metofico even better.\n\nContact us at [info@metofico.com](https://mailto:info@metofico.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Kfz-metofico-no-code-data-analysis-for-life-science-research", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2024-03-18T22:34:05.805Z" } ] }, { "id": 29383, "name": "Aftercare", "slug": "aftercare", "former_names": [ "Kontractify" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/24db1f3b2c957bd0e1551d1e58afec1ea05426a4.png", "website": "https://getaftercare.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Aftercare helps you run surveys with AI-powered follow-up questions to dig into responses for deeper insights—it’s like having a skilled interviewer for every survey. 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We’re [Anand](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anand-nanduri/), [Justin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinseanmay/), and [Aidan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aidan-cj-lee/), co-founders of [Aftercare](https://www.getaftercare.com/).\n\n**TL;DR:** We’re building a generalizable survey tool that uses intelligent AI follow-up questions to gather better insights.\n\n## **🔭 How we got here**\n\nWhile we were building an eCommerce post-purchase survey platform, one of the most valuable features for our customers was using AI to ask follow-up questions to dig into survey responses and uncover deeper insights—almost like having an interviewer ask good questions live for every survey. We realized this powerful feature could be applied to all surveys, so expanded the survey platform so anyone could use it.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85495&key=user_uploads/1355492/f34a1950-734e-4956-b96d-4232807f1ff0)\n\n## **🧐 Problem**\n\n* Traditional surveys can’t react to respondent answers and ask follow-up questions, leaving behind incredibly valuable insights. Often, the first response to an open-ended question does not tell the whole story.\n* Good open-ended feedback is incredibly useful, but difficult to view in a structured format, especially when you have many responses. If you’ve ever used Google Forms, open-ended responses are presented as a data dump.\n\n## **🚀 Our Solution**\n\n* Easily create surveys, and turn on AI follow-up questions for any topic you want to dig into - Aftercare will ask intelligent follow-up questions automatically.\n* AI summaries surface key information from your responses automatically, and open-ended responses are categorized into data visualizations of your choice.\n\n## **Team**\n\nWe’ve been friends for 18 years and have deep engineering and ops experience at companies like Palantir, Datadog, Affirm, and Nextdoor.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85495&key=user_uploads/1355492/8ec74a7b-6c3e-4840-88fa-480c4d9af138)\n\n## **Our ask**\n\n* Try it out, we’d love to hear your honest feedback!\n* If you have a generalized survey use case (surveying customers, your employees, etc) I’d love to learn more about it over a quick chat: \n* If you know anyone running a survey, tell them to try [www.getaftercare.com](http://www.getaftercare.com) 🙂", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MEx-aftercare-conversational-ai-surveys-with-intelligent-follow-up-questions", "votes": 21, "created_at": "2024-11-12T18:49:41.643Z" }, { "id": 82218, "title": "Aftercare - Conversational post-purchase surveys using AI", "tagline": "Conversational post-purchase surveys using AI. Open-ended text, voice, and SMS surveys for eCommerce.", "body": "Hey everyone! We’re [Anand](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anand-nanduri/), [Justin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinseanmay/), and [Aidan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aidan-cj-lee/), previously co-founders of Kontractify, coming back as [Aftercare](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aftercarecompany/).\n\n**TL;DR:** We help eCommerce stores run conversational post-purchase surveys using AI to capture open-ended customer feedback and marketing attribution data.\n\n# **🍪 Problem**\n\nWith the “death of the cookie” rapidly approaching, eCommerce stores must rely more on 1st- and zero-party data to inform marketing decisions like where best to spend money on ads (Meta vs. TikTok vs. Google, etc.).\n\nBecause of this, eCommerce stores are more widely adopting tools like post-purchase surveys. However, the current post-purchase survey landscape is lacking in several ways:\n\n* Limited: mainly offers multiple-choice questions that don’t provide enough context to be useful for marketing teams.\n* Static: asks the same questions regardless of the user’s segment (e.g., new vs. returning user) or the user’s previous responses within a single survey.\n* Disjointed: integrates poorly with the rest of the marketing stack.\n\n# **✨ Solution**\n\nAftercare is a modern post-purchase survey tool that uses AI to go beyond the traditional multiple-choice survey. It:\n\n* Asks open-ended questions to capture more detailed and candid feedback.\n* Changes what it asks based on the user’s previous responses so you can ask smart follow-up questions in real time.\n* Summarizes all insights in a single dashboard to inform product and marketing teams at a glance.\n\nOur MVP is a Shopify App, but we want to meet merchants and customers where they’re at, so we’re building out other channels, including a generalized web Iframe, SMS, and voice.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82218&key=user_uploads/1355492/b067a353-1293-4bcd-84b9-d42f441c6447)\n\n## **Team**\n\nPreviously known as Kontractify, we’re coming back as [Aftercare](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aftercarecompany/). We’ve been friends for 18 years and have deep engineering and ops experience at companies like Palantir, Datadog, Affirm, and Nextdoor.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82218&key=user_uploads/1355492/bc67ac78-45af-4926-a10d-978fa60fcdff)\n\n# **🙏 Our ask:**\n\nPlease reach out if you know anyone who does marketing at or runs an eCommerce store - we’d love a warm intro! Email us at [aidan@getaftercare.com](mailto:aidan@getaftercare.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LO6-aftercare-conversational-post-purchase-surveys-using-ai", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2024-07-17T17:52:36.986Z" }, { "id": 79017, "title": "Kontractify - Painless RFPs, powered by LLMs 📢", "tagline": "We use LLMs to help enterprises run Request for Proposals (RFPs)", "body": "Hey everyone! We’re [Justin](https://linkedin.com/in/justinseanmay), [Anand](https://linkedin.com/in/anand-nanduri), and [Aidan](https://linkedin.com/in/aidan-cj-lee) – childhood friends and co-founders of Kontractify.\n\n**TL;DR** [Kontractify](https://www.kontractify.com/) uses LLMs to help enterprises run RFPs. We generate questions, manage workflows, evaluate proposals, and facilitate reverse auctions.\n\n## 🧨 **The Problem**\n\nEnterprises buy large amounts of goods and services through RFPs—competitive bid processes where they invite multiple sellers/service providers to participate. These buyers launch RFPs on extremely outdated platforms, often costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, and have UI/UX stuck in the ‘90s.\n\nBuyers get so frustrated with these tools that they ignore using them altogether and revert to Excel spreadsheets and emails. Wasted time, frustration, information loss, and lack of user participation are common.\n\nOn the other side, sellers who receive RFP notifications hate filling out responses on these platforms, leading many to not participate.\n\n## 🎉 **Our Solution**\n\nKontractify provides a painless experience for enterprise buying teams to run and collaborate on RFPs, using LLMs to speed up particularly tedious processes. Buyers can build, launch, and manage all seller communications through the platform.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79017&key=user_uploads/1355492/bed9d3f3-1454-460b-957d-a46f3630192a)\n\n**For Buyers:**\n\n* ⚙️ Simple workflow and question builders help buyers painlessly curate events\n* ✍️ Tedious activities like writing question lists are automated away with the help of LLMs\n* 📣 Advanced eBidding events such as Reverse Auctions can be easily launched, allowing for greater savings\n\n**For Sellers:**\n\n* 📫 RFP questions can be responded to directly by email and LLMs assist in converting the unstructured text into a templated response\n\n⭐️ Consumer-grade UI and LLMs greatly improve velocity for both buyers and sellers. Buyers can develop new supplier relationships, run more events, and save more money. Sellers can quickly respond to RFPs and focus on their next sale.\n\n## **Team**\n\nWe’ve been friends for 18 years and have deep engineering and ops experience at companies like Palantir, Datadog, Affirm, and Nextdoor.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79017&key=user_uploads/1355492/4b7de3a9-c552-4543-a8f3-2599bfd849c8)\n\n## **Ask**\n\n* Intro us to sourcing or procurement professionals! 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Firms use Clarum to speed up deal evaluation, reduce errors, and improve risk visibility across their pipeline.\n\n### ❌ **The Problem**\n\nPrivate equity diligence is still manual—making it hard to assess risk quickly across large data rooms and short timelines.\n\nDespite growing deal volume and increasing data complexity, teams still rely on fragmented workflows across _Excel, Word, and PowerPoint_. It’s slow, repetitive, and difficult to scale—especially when consistency, speed, and accuracy are critical.\n\n### 🛠️ **Our Solution**\n\nClarum connects to your data and analyzes deal materials with _Excel, Word, and PowerPoint_, using AI to automate key parts of the diligence workflow. We tailor Clarum to your specific processes, so results appear in your familiar environment and formats — _no new tool to learn_.\n\nFirms use Clarum to:\n\n* 📄 **Generate screening memos**\n* 📊 **Build returns analyses and models**\n* 📈 **Create deep-dive slide decks**\n* 📉 **Reconcile income statements and chart financials**\n* 📚 **Summarize CIMs and legal documents**\n* 🚨 **Flag inconsistencies across files**\n* 📎 **Compare and benchmark deals**\n* 🗂️ **Categorize and summarize data room contents**\n\n_The result: faster deal cycles, cleaner outputs, and stronger confidence heading into IC—without changing how teams work today._\n\n---\n\n### **The Ask**\n\nIf you are or know:\n\n1. **Managing Partner / Head of Family Office** who believes AI and automation are critical for building long-term operational leverage.\n2. **Principal / Investment Director at a LMM PE firm or Family Office** looking to scale analytical output and automate diligence—without changing the tools the team already uses.\n3. **CIO / Head of Investments** exploring how AI can enhance risk assessment and portfolio insights without adding technical overhead.\n4. **VP / Senior Associate** aiming to reduce manual data work and focus more time on high-impact analysis.\n\nWe’d love to help.\n\n👉 [**Book a demo at clarum.ai**](https://clarum.ai/contact?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=launch-2)\n\n📬 You can also reach us directly at [contact@clarum.ai](mailto:contact@clarum.ai).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89583&key=user_uploads/1524877/8eb3444c-3a7b-4ef8-ac0d-421df1bb95d5)\n\nThanks for reading. 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[Book a demo](https://clarum.ai/demo?utm_source=yc&utm_campaign=launch) with us!\n\n### **Problem**\n\nDuring deal flow, due diligence is a significant challenge for investors due to the need to **quickly process large volumes of disorganized data within tight deadlines**. The mental and emotional toll is significant, especially when dealing with high-stakes transactions worth millions, where mistakes can cost jobs. Private equity firms risk losing deals or being outbid if they don't conduct due diligence efficiently enough. Finding information and answering questions should be quick, easy, and reliable.\n\n### **Clarum is here**\n\nClarum provides AI-powered due diligence solutions that enable fast, transparent, and reliable insights from your entire data repository, for more data-driven processes.\n\nUsing Clarum takes minutes to set up.\n\n1. Import your data from your VDR, shared drive, or local computer.\n2. Upload an existing due diligence questionnaire.\n3. 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Brainbase is the only platform that lets your business create its own enterprise-grade AI workers. Everyone from government agencies to SMBs is choosing us to create workers that do everything from outbound sales calls to customer support.\n\nIf your company already has workflows that you want to automate or just want to explore our 100+ templates, [**schedule a demo**](https://calendly.com/usebrainbase/demo) or [**get on our waitlist**](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdOpDWM6faDDH8vkDhBYVFij6kGqeK5NQZmRkOiXU8q-s149w/viewform)!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80202&key=user_uploads/89898/eab30f63-2964-4b23-a44a-9b4d731b2629)\n\n### Intro\n\nHey, [Gokhan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gokhan-egri/) here! I dropped out of my Machine Learning PhD at Harvard to build Brainbase. **So far, it’s been the best choice ever!** Previously I started another AI company and built over 15 apps that got more than 50K downloads.\n\n### Problem\n\nMost business workflows are very repetitive with easily automatable tasks, yet they cost the average business **70% of their workforce** every year. That’s **every 2 out of 3 hires** doing repetitive work day in and day out 🤯\n\nWhen businesses try to automate these workflows using one of the hundreds of AI automation tools out there, they quickly see that these tools are either **unreliable, difficult to set up** or **simply not powerful enough for business tasks.**\n\n### Solution\n\nAt [Brainbase](https://www.loom.com/share/d6b05fe8d5a4455f983e92c919998cdd?sid=7b2f0f3f-e38c-4cff-9970-b932b9d787af) we let you build industry-grade AI workers that are _designed_ to handle complex enterprise workflows unique to your business.\n\nUnlike our competitors, Brainbase’s workers are:\n\n* **Unique to your business:** No two employees at two different companies are the exact same. We let you build unique workers for your business’s unique requirements\n* **24/7:** Our workers work non-stop so they can delight your customers continuously\n* **10x cheaper:** Our AI workers are 1/10th the cost of hiring another employee, with the same performance\n* **Easy to set up:** Start in less than a day with one of our 100+ templates for the most common Sales, HR, and customer support workers\n* **Easier to customize:** We built the best tools — code and no code — to build your workers to your business’s exact needs\n\nSo far, our customers have built:\n\n* **Government call centers** responding to 100s of calls a day\n* **Resume reviewers** that review 1000s of documents in minutes\n* **Automated support reps** that respond to customer requests in seconds\n* and more…\n\nStart with one of our [100+ templates](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdOpDWM6faDDH8vkDhBYVFij6kGqeK5NQZmRkOiXU8q-s149w/viewform) for end-to-end Sales, HR, or Customer Support workers, invite your team, customize to perfection, and start seeing results in less than a week.\n\n### ASK\n\n1. **Is your business currently hiring for a non-technical position? Let’s see if you can get away with an AI worker instead!** [Schedule a demo](https://calendly.com/usebrainbase/demo) to see what’s possible with Brainbase.\n2. **Do you have ideas for business workflows you want automated?** Reach out to [gokhan@usebrainbase.xyz](mailto:gokhan@usebrainbase.xyz), I’d love to have a chat!\n3. **Like, share, and tell your friends!:** It would mean a lot!\n\n❤️ _Thank you for taking the time to read through this. We’d love to hear your thoughts about what we’re building._\n\nBonus: [Check out](https://www.loom.com/share/b1fed8a9666647faa6128989a1e263a0?sid=093045e2-f598-449b-938a-4ce7bf130a1a) how we spun up a worker to handle OpenAI’s entire Slack support system from scratch in **less than 5 minutes**.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Kra-brainbase-build-your-own-ai-workforce", "votes": 31, "created_at": "2024-04-15T23:52:39.137Z" } ] }, { "id": 29421, "name": "Thorntale", "slug": "thorntale", "former_names": [ "DataFlock (formerly EventFlock)", "DataFlock", "thorntale" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a98fa4032269294b4a2694ca5ae7b46bf5c449c2.png", "website": "https://thorntale.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Thorntale is the easiest (and prettiest) way to create your next presentation. 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I've analyzed and presented data at the SF Fed, Uber, CircleCi, Mux and Pave. At Mux and Pave I was hired to build out their product analytics functions. I know what established data science organizations look like at large institutions and enjoyed building toward that at smaller companies.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/doris-lee-wilson", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/88911f2f461dfe0cdbf68a18ce5b3a0c7e5d70fa.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1606343, "full_name": "Ellen Hui", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Previously big data at Microsoft, SRE at Cruise, distributed systems and real-time video at Mux; now backend and infrastructure at Thorntale (W24).", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/ellenfkh", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6b70957ec0ce63242fb2e829e28371beb42369a4.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1606345, "full_name": "John Stimac", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Frontend, backend, and data engineer. Previously worked on big data at Yelp, and built the entire data platform at Clockwise.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/john-h-stimac", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/11789051b4960c35484034b852008ce70cdd1239.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 78798, "title": "📈 thorntale - Presentation software built for data storytelling", "tagline": "Empowering our users to be better data storytellers and make more informed decisions.", "body": "**_TL;DR:_** We’re building software that makes it fast and easy to create persuasive decks with your data. Thorntale connects live to any data source, so you always have pretty, interactive, and up-to-date charts. Our opinionated templates are made explicitly for product, data, and engineering teams, so you don’t have to start from scratch. [**_Try the beta here!_**](https://www.thorntale.com/?utm_source=yc_launch_page&utm_medium=yc_launch_post&utm_campaign=launch_day&utm_id=01&utm_content=top_link)\\\n\\\nHey y’all, we’re Dori, Ellen, and John, the team behind [thorntale.](https://www.thorntale.com/?utm_source=yc_launch_page&utm_medium=yc_launch_post&utm_campaign=launch_day&utm_id=01&utm_content=top_link) We’re building the software we wish we had in our pre-founder days.\n\n# \n\n# **❌ The Problem: Communicating data is hard. Current tools make it harder.**\n\nCompanies invest heavily in data teams and advanced tooling but still struggle to incorporate their work into decision-making. We believe this is due to where these findings get communicated: the presentation. Existing presentation tools do not integrate with the rest of the data stack, so instead people screenshot charts and copy-paste tables into their decks. This creates situations where data is miscommunicated, missing, or inaccurate. \n\n# 🌟 **Our Solution: Presentation software that integrates with your data stack.**\n\nBy connecting live data to your presentations and starting from professionally curated templates, presentations in thorntale aren’t just pretty, they’re functional. We create charts in-app that match your presentation’s theme, so you can focus on telling a persuasive story instead of formatting. Using thorntale, you’ll save time and make better business decisions. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78798&key=user_uploads/1490574/f3af5be2-75bf-46ff-9ba4-056c065197cb)\n\n# 🧩 **Who We Are**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78798&key=user_uploads/1490574/528f12a3-8f5e-40b0-acfc-1ce5f838135a)\n\nfrom left to right:\n\n[**Ellen**](https://linkedin.com/in/ellenfkh)**:** Backend & Infrastructure. Previously big data at Microsoft, SRE at Cruise, distributed systems, and real-time video at Mux.\n\n[**John**](https://linkedin.com/in/john-h-stimac)**:** Frontend, backend, & data engineer. Worked on big data at Yelp, and most recently did data engineering at Clockwise.\n\n[**Dori**](https://linkedin.com/in/doris-lee-wilson)**:**  Data Scientist turned CEO. Crafted data stories at Uber, CircleCi, Mux, Pave, and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.\n\n# **🙏 Our Ask: Try us!**\n\n* Try us out! We’re improving the product every day, and want to know what you think! [Get Started.](https://bit.ly/3uClStS)\n* If you’re a business, we’re more than happy to build custom templates and make documents using your branding. [Book time with us.](https://calendly.com/d/3xd-4y9-km2/chat-with-thorntale)\n* Connect us with the people in your life who regularly make presentations using data by sharing this post or emailing [founders@thorntale.com.](mailto:founders@thorntale.com)\n\nSend any questions, inquiries, or pretty charts our way at [founders@thorntale.com.](mailto:founders@thorntale.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KUw-thorntale-presentation-software-built-for-data-storytelling", "votes": 56, "created_at": "2024-02-27T07:26:35.110Z" } ] }, { "id": 29423, "name": "Triply", "slug": "triply", "former_names": [ "TRIPITACA" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a50be8732ac92931d91e10a75379eb7b6b844ab1.png", "website": "https://business.triply.co/", "all_locations": "Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya", "long_description": "Triply (Formerly Tripitaca) is the operating system for travel businesses in Africa. 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Started my first company at 18, focusing on providing essential goods and services to low-income households through a BNPL model, exited. I pivoted to the travel sector, founding a leading vacation rental management company. Recognizing the challenges faced by travel businesses, I am now building Tripitaca, the operating system for travel businesses in Africa.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/peter-wachira-tripitaca", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d3833e926062378faaeadee9d84309129878fd5c.jpg" }, { "user_id": 866843, "full_name": "Collins Muthinja", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "With over a decade of coding expertise, I'm a seasoned software engineer who cut my teeth at a leading insuretech firm, where I played a key role in building payment rails. Co-founder of a successful BNPL startup later acquired, I now drive innovation as I build the operating system for travel businesses in Africa, seamlessly embedding finance solutions. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/collins-muthinja-trippi", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/eb6d823bfa2fa0808355f3ba0fd5434c9526b093.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 79844, "title": "Triply✈️ The operating system for travel businesses in Africa", "tagline": "Helping businesses increase their earnings, collect payments, run their operations online, save, and borrow.", "body": "**tl;dr:** 90% of travel businesses in Africa are SMBs. However, they are unable to collect payments, continue to operate manually, lack access to financial services, and booking systems are 60% less efficient due to weak payment infrastructures.\\\n\\\n[Triply](https://business.triply.co/) assists these businesses in collecting payments, automating their operations, and then uses this data to provide them with financial services. We also assist them in increasing their revenue by selling their services on our marketplace, which is designed to match the needs of the local travel market.\n\n—\n\nHi people, we’re [Peter](https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-wachira-trippi/) and [Collins!](https://www.linkedin.com/in/collins-muthinja-trippi/)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79844&key=user_uploads/600569/c376d924-cae2-4556-9972-ed512170dd78)\n\nPeter - 2x founder, ran one of the leading vacation rental management companies in East Africa.\n\nCollins - Led teams and built products in leading Fintech and insuretech startups in Africa.\n\n### the opportunity\n\nAfrica is a $300 billion dollar travel market and one of the fastest-growing travel markets globally.\n\nToday 66% of travel spend on the continent comes from domestic travelers.\n\n**Our Position;** Triply not only helps businesses automate their operations & collect payments, we also help them get bookings through our marketplace, allowing us to uniquely tap into the $198 billion dollar domestic market. Our ability to generate revenue for the businesses we serve has also seen our product become more sticky.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79844&key=user_uploads/600569/d42e0dfa-984b-4c3b-b7d7-d45e2d39d123)\n\nB2B Tools; [**Triply Business**](https://business.triply.co/)\n\n* Accounting\n* Payroll\n* Unified inbox (all your messages under one platform)\n* Payments processing\n* Wallet (Muti currency coming soon)\n* Analytics\n* Channel management system\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79844&key=user_uploads/600569/673e77f7-43d0-4750-b2b5-be6a21ac2ae9)\n\n[**Triply Travel ;**](https://triply.co/)\n\n**OUR ASK ;**\n\n* If you know anyone within your network who has built travel tech businesses before, please introduce us through [founders@triply.co](mailto:founders@triply.co).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Klo-triply-the-operating-system-for-travel-businesses-in-africa", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2024-04-01T15:41:40.850Z" } ] }, { "id": 29424, "name": "Openmart", "slug": "openmart", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a841b2f12203d0678ecd110ec8aa1eb131f2681f.png", "website": "https://www.openmart.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "", "one_liner": "Local business data intelligence platform", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1704760449, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Sales", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "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/openmart", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/openmart.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/company/openmartai", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/openmartai", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/openmart-da89", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a841b2f12203d0678ecd110ec8aa1eb131f2681f.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/6c239c5919a3134f918b651811da8ecdd7396f6d.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1629625, "full_name": "Richard He", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Richard was a senior software engineer at Cruise and founding engineer at Graft, an LLM infra startup backed by GV and NEA. 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We are [Richard](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuchenghe/) and [Kathryn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathrynwoohoo/), and we're here to present [Openmart](http://www.openmart.ai), **a platform that helps startups who sell to local businesses discover leads easily based on their specific needs.**\\\n\\\nOver the past several years, we have worked as brand operators, the first product manager, and the first engineer at high-growth SaaS startups. We crossed paths at Pinterest and have been good friends ever since.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78559&key=user_uploads/1629158/eb4bdb54-7f60-4a76-a2d3-a543e2f9c886)\n\n**Problem**\\\nBased on our conversations with sales teams from various startups, we identified the following challenges:\n\n1. Finding SMB leads is difficult because there's no easy way to locate them. People often have to search randomly through platforms like Google Maps, Yelp, and Yellow Pages. **Companies like ZoomInfo charge upwards of $50,000 a year for an account.**\n2. Filtering out these SMB leads isn't easy. We observe different leads filtering requirements from our clients, and each of them, after receiving a list from ZoomInfo or others, still needs to spend days on manual research to determine if the business is a fit.\n\n**Our Solution**\\\nPicture Austin, a sales director at an aesthetic device startup, using Openmart. Openmart helps him conduct sales research and find places that sell older versions of these aesthetic devices. This makes it easier for their sales team to convince them to upgrade. In short, what can we help you with?\\\n\\\n1\\. Search our database of 1M+ SMBs and retailers to find where your competitors are selling. Review 1000+ store locators.\n\n![](https://slabstatic.com/prod/uploads/ufjq8g2k/posts/images/Q3Isz9DM3IAS26qVyaI7Pre1.gif)\n\n2\\. 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Shoot us an email at: [founders@camelai.com](mailto:founders@camelai.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OXz-camelai-api-ship-chat-with-your-data-in-5-minutes", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2025-10-07T14:05:09.594Z" }, { "id": 76776, "title": "camelAI — The First Deep Research Agent for Your Structured Data", "tagline": "Ask questions, get insights from your data.", "body": "Hi YC! We're [Illiana](https://www.linkedin.com/in/illiana-reed/), [Miguel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/miguel-salinas-b2781426/), and [Isabella](https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabellareed/), the team behind camelAI.\n\n# What We're Building\n\ncamelAI is the last BI tool you'll ever need. What AI has done for coding, camelAI is doing for analytics. We connect an LLM directly to your database, turning natural language questions into in depth reports complete with beautiful visualizations in seconds. No modeling, no drag-and-drop limitations, no tickets to the data team.\n\n\n\n# The Problem: Text-to-SQL Has Failed\n\nLet's be honest: Text-to-SQL has been around for years. It's been done to death and it still leaves users frustrated. Instead of giving clear answers, Text-to-SQL makes users fight for insights:\n\n* Setup takes forever\n* Queries only work well for narrow, predictable questions\n* Results come as raw data tables, not analysis\n* Business users struggle to get actionable insights\n\nBusiness users don't want raw tables of data—they need clear insights. But text-to-SQL forces them to piece together answers manually, leaving them frustrated and no closer to a decision.\n\nThe real problem: Getting valuable insights out of your own data is still too hard and too time consuming.\n\nFor executives, founders, and product managers, this means:\n\n* Waiting days for simple data requests\n* Making decisions without complete information\n* Spending hours building and maintaining dashboards\n* Wasting precious engineering time for a \"quick data pull\"\n\nFor technical teams, it means:\n\n* Constant context-switching to answer basic data questions\n* Building one-off dashboards that are rarely used\n* Explaining the same metrics repeatedly\n\n## Our Solution: camelAI\n\nAsk camelAI anything - from basic KPIs to complex business metrics your team hasn't even thought to track:\n\n**Deep Research Agent:** Watch as our Agent writes SQL queries in real time, explores your data, and generates interactive visualizations that deliver immediate insights. Complete transparency at every step.\n\n**Learns Your Company:** camelAI learns your company's language through use. It remembers past queries and improves through your feedback, creating consistent company-specific analysis.\n\n**Instant Visualizations:** camelAI doesn't just dump query results; it automatically creates interactive Plotly visualizations with written analysis of what the data actually means.\n\n**One-Click Dashboards:** Any visualization can be saved to a dashboard that refreshes automatically. Create comprehensive dashboards in minutes, not hours.\n\n**Enterprise-Ready:** We support on-prem and VPC deployments across multiple databases.\n\n# The New Reality\n\nWithout camelAI:\n\n1. Adding tickets to sprints for basic data questions\n2. Waiting days for simple insights\n3. Engineers constantly pulled away from building products\n\nWith camelAI:\n\n1. Business teams get answers immediately\n2. Engineers focus on building products\n3. Founders make better decisions faster\n\n## Who Needs This Yesterday\n\n* **Founders** who can't afford to wait for data\n* **Product Teams** tracking metrics without a dedicated analyst\n* **CTOs** tired of being the bottleneck for data requests\n* **Junior Analysts** who want to focus on insights, not queries\n\n# Setup Takes 60 Seconds\n\n1. Connect your data source — pick from 10+ connections or upload a CSV\n2. Ask your first question\n3. Start making better decisions\n\n# 🐪 How We Got Here\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=76776&key=user_uploads/1925221/b319f130-c38f-4080-8e5c-8edf8d77e91d)\n\nWe've been shipping products together for three years. We're not data analysts, and that was the problem.\n\nOur organized data was right there, but we couldn't get to it without SQL expertise or wrestling with clunky BI tools that never quite answered our actual questions. So we built the tool we needed.\n\nOur insight was simple: stop writing SQL queries by hand. Let AI do what it's good at. Let humans ask natural questions and get answers they can use right away.\n\n## Try camelAI Today\n\nOur free tier gives you 10 messages per week: \n\nQuestions? We read every email: [illiana@camelai.com](mailto:illiana@camelai.com)\n\nLooking for: Teams tired of SQL bottlenecks who want to transform how they use data.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JyK-camelai-the-first-deep-research-agent-for-your-structured-data", "votes": 92, "created_at": "2025-04-21T20:16:07.000Z" } ] }, { "id": 29452, "name": "Fluently", "slug": "fluently", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ac751ae51071034b75af18536b15a7ec51b6c117.png", "website": "https://getfluently.app/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Imagine a human-like English tutor, but 20x cheaper and available 24/7 - that's Fluently!\r\n\r\nFluently made for people who already know the basics of English but want to feel truly confident in real conversations: whether that’s in an interview, a business meeting, or chatting with friends.\r\n\r\nMost English learning apps are built for beginners and don’t help you improve speaking skills.\r\n\r\nWith Fluently, you get:\r\n- Unlimited real-world speaking practice\r\n- Personalized learning plan\r\n- Free English level assessment and progress tracking\r\n- Real progress in English speaking skills\r\n\r\nWe’re non-native founders who know the stress of speaking English in important moments. 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The startup developed state-of-the-art face and voice swap technologies that work on mobile devices in real-time.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/stasbel", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/stanbeliaev", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/1f7b39f4c1364132a330214c23798b73cab59542.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "YC alum Fluently’s AI-powered English coach attracts $2M seed round", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/28/yc-alum-fluentlys-ai-powered-english-coach-attracts-2m-seed-round/", "date": "Jun 28, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 78858, "title": "💁‍♀️ Fluently: Your Personal AI English Tutor", "tagline": "Imagine a human-like English tutor, available 24/7 and 20x cheaper", "body": "**TL;DR:** [Fluently](https://getfluently.app/) is your personal AI English tutor — 20x cheaper than a human tutor and available 24/7. Built for people who already know the basics but want to speak fluently.\n\n### **Problem — Getting fluent in English is hard**\n\n* **Fluency only comes from regular speaking practice:** The only way to truly improve is to speak consistently and iterate on your mistakes. There's no shortcut.\n* **Most language apps aren't built for speaking:** They're essentially games for beginners - they won't give you the real-time speaking practice you'd get from actually talking to someone.\n* **Nobody gives you the honest feedback you need:** Most non-natives feel anxious about their mistakes but never actually hear about them - colleagues stay polite, and even tutors rarely provide the detailed, personalized feedback that would help you truly improve.\n\n### **Solution — Get actionable feedback on every call**\n\n* **Learn on the go:** Fluently is always available for a real-time conversation - just open the app and start speaking. No scheduling, no waiting.\n* **Personalized insights:** Fluently analyzes your real speech and pinpoints exactly where you need to improve — whether it's pronunciation, fluency, or vocabulary.\n* **Actionable feedback:** Practice pronunciation, improve fluency, and grow your active vocabulary to boost your English skills.\n\n### **Who is this for?**\n\n* **Non-native speakers** who want to finally speak English fluently and confidently - not just \"know\" the language, but actually use it in real conversations without hesitation or anxiety.\n* **International companies** who understand that communication efficiency directly impacts business results. Companies already invest in language training for their employees - Fluently makes that investment practical and measurable, helping teams communicate more clearly with clients, partners, and each other.\n\n### **Our ask**\n\n* 🎓 **Intros to multinational companies** that invest resources in their employees' growth, **especially in English learning**. Please, email [yrebryk@getfluently.app](mailto:yrebryk@getfluently.app).\n* **👉 Sign up [here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdhnAZ-BAuzcKhaB5QFvtLgYHCt6v1Q-r1hKuBMwMkzs8ykjQ/viewform) to get access.** We’re onboarding our users one by one. DM me on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yrebryk/) to get moved to the front of the waitlist.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KVu-fluently-your-personal-ai-english-tutor", "votes": 152, "created_at": "2024-02-28T18:27:10.285Z" } ] }, { "id": 29466, "name": "Overheard", "slug": "overheard", "former_names": [ "FlowState", "Unidata", "OpenFoundry" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c8cc29d94168b1ca418d0d8737e0185bb99095a7.png", "website": "https://withoverheard.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Tell Overheard what you're deciding, like how to fix churn or which feature to build next. It writes the interview, talks to your customers by voice, and comes back with answers.\r\n\r\nMost teams make these calls without hearing from customers because setting up interviews takes weeks and nobody owns it. 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We’re [Tyler Lehman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-lehman/) and [Arthur Chi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthur-chi-000/) from OpenFoundry. **We’re building the fastest developer experience for building on open source AI.** Imagine Hugging Face if it were built from the ground up for startups instead of ML researchers.\n\n**Our first product ([live on GitHub](https://github.com/openfoundry-ai/model_manager)) is a command-line tool to deploy open source models onto your own cloud with a single line of code.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79580&key=user_uploads/1579075/6f0eccb2-7717-484c-8b4e-070258698d0c)\n\n[Here’s a demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49ay9Gqbc1U) where we ship Microsoft’s Phi-2 model to our cloud. A couple of lines of code to deploy, and in just minutes the server is ready for inference.\n\n# **🔮 Open source AI is the future**\n\nAI is the new layer in the tech stack. 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[Talk to the founders](https://calendly.com/atharva-getcrux/30min).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O5K-getcrux-ai-creative-strategist-to-launch-winning-ads", "votes": 220, "created_at": "2025-07-30T22:43:03.859Z" }, { "id": 86823, "title": "GetCrux: AI Creative Strategist to Launch Winning Ads", "tagline": "Stop guessing which ad creatives work and find winning patterns that reduce CAC", "body": "# **TL:DR;**\n\nCreatives have become the biggest lever on ad platforms. Yet, there is no clear way to figure out WHY something works. You end up guessing and replicating the best performing ad, only to see it fail - high CAC & wasted budget. \n\nOur AI Creative Strategist:\n\n1. **Finds patterns that you miss**: by analysing 1000s of creatives (down to the last pixel) and their performance data\n2. **Builds a winning playbook**: which hooks, messaging, format, music, CTAs, storylines, influencers etc. really work for you\n3. **Recommends what to launch next:** with a detailed creative brief that you can execute instantly\n\n[Talk to us](https://calendly.com/atharva-getcrux/30min) if you want to bring structure & intelligence to creative testing.\n\n\n\n# **Some ads work. Most don’t. Why?**\n\nPicture this. \n\nYou finally find a winning creative and you replicate it - make 5 variations. But almost all of them fail - high CAC and wasted $ on production.\n\nWhy? _Because you didn’t really know WHAT made the ad work!_\n\nCreatives have 100s of moving parts and it’s impossible to find patterns manually. So most marketers make an educated guess, which often leads to unpredictability & low hit rate.\n\n**Guess what works —> Low hit rate —> Poor CAC + wasted $ on prod**\n\n# **Launch winning ads with our AI Creative Strategist**\n\nThe best marketing teams approach creative testing like an assembly line. We make this process simpler:\n\n1. **Find patterns that you miss**: \n\n We go into the depths of every creative - be it an image or a video and break it down into 100s of elements. This is combined with the performance data from your ad account to find what works\n2. **Build a winning playbook**: \n\n Every brand needs a playbook, a checklist that becomes the guiding principle of creative testing. We help you create this in terms of which hooks, messaging, format, music, CTAs, storylines, influencers etc. really work for you\n3. **Get recommendations on what to launch next:** \n\n Based on the patterns found + your brand’s playbook, we come up with a detailed creative brief every week that helps the creative team ship out ads faster than ever\n\nHere are a few examples of questions & hypotheses we answer:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86823&key=user_uploads/852875/b96d8dc6-556b-465a-8f09-bd4b049b78de)\n\n# **Who does this work for?**\n\n* Combined ad spend across platforms > $500,000 per year\n* Mid-high creative testing volume i.e. more than 20-25 per month\n* Good enough historical data i.e. more than 6 months running ads\n\n# **How to work with us?**\n\n[Have an intro chat](https://calendly.com/atharva-getcrux/30min) and figure out if you think it could be a good fit for you.\n\nWe are trusted by several Y Combinator startups, large ad agencies in the US with $3B+ spend and brands from a variety of sectors including health and wellness, financial services, jewellery, among others.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MaN-getcrux-ai-creative-strategist-to-launch-winning-ads", "votes": 128, "created_at": "2025-01-14T16:46:04.071Z" }, { "id": 84654, "title": "getcrux: AI Copilot for Performance Marketing", "tagline": "Optimize Google & Meta Ads with insights & recommendations from our AI Ads Specialist.", "body": "# **TL;DR**\n\ngetcrux helps performance marketers running ads on Google & Meta to optimize for better performance with instant answers & actionable insights. Marketers are overburdened with manual, repetitive tasks like debugging technical issues and tracking campaigns, which leaves no time for planning and executing experiments. With getcrux, they can take the right action at the right time and exceed their performance targets. Watch our demo [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shohyPZB3sk).\n\n# Why is this a problem?\n\n1. Google & Meta’s combined ad revenues have crossed $350B in 2023, and over 90% of this ad spend is wasted (i.e., shown to audiences that are irrelevant/non-intent )\n2. Performance marketers are struggling to meet performance targets consistently because of changes in platform algorithms, rising competition, and, most importantly, inefficient operations\n3. On average, a performance marketer spends 70-80% of their time doing operational, repetitive tasks like debugging technical issues, creating 10s of reports, and following up with design and compliance teams. They are hardly left with any time to think of the next strategy and execute experiments\n\n# Our Solution\n\nAn AI Ads Specialist that helps performance marketers find the right answers, uncover hidden opportunities, and take the right action at the right time.\n\nHere’s how getcrux can help:\n\n* Get answers to all your questions instantly\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84654&key=user_uploads/852875/8ccaeb39-21b8-43e3-a59f-59dca6689054)\n\n* Proactive insights that tell you what’s wrong before it’s too late\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84654&key=user_uploads/852875/2cd7ee25-06e5-47e8-b689-6016093b7a6a)\n\n* Surfacing hidden opportunities & recommending actions\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84654&key=user_uploads/852875/ae875ea3-8396-4d06-b789-ffea36cecb1a)\n\n# How effective is this?\n\nWe have been working with performance marketing teams of brands & ad agencies that manage more than $3B+ of ad spend.\n\n[Here’s](https://www.getcrux.ai/blog/getcrux-helped-in-saving-18k-month) how we recently helped an ad agency achieve a 2% uplift in performance and saved $18,000 last month for one of their accounts.\n\n# How did we land here?\n\n* The 3 of us started getcrux right after college nearly 2.5 years ago and have known each other for more than 7 years now. We’ve been through more than 15 pivots before shaping getcrux to its current form.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84654&key=user_uploads/852875/93a8e554-4195-40d9-b318-354f462e39a1)\n\n_Our team at our newly inaugurated office in Bangalore, India._\n\n* Our history with performance marketing dates back to 2022, when we were building ‘Google Ads for Web3’ to help games built on decentralized networks acquire users. Since traditional channels don’t work for web3 projects, there was a need for a predictable and trackable way of marketing.\n* ⁠When we got into YC in W24, we were trying to build a general-purpose AI Copilot for analytics but soon realized that most of our customer demand was coming from performance marketers. So, we decided to focus our attention ONLY on performance marketers.\n* Our vision is to make data analysis faster, accessible, and explainable for every non-technical user. Imagine Glean AI but for structured data.\n\n# Our Ask\n\nWe’re looking to get our product into the hands of as many performance marketers as possible. If you know someone who fits this criteria, please help us get in touch with them. Drop a DM or email at [atharva@getcrux.ai](mailto:atharva@getcrux.ai).\n\nCriteria: Anyone who runs ads on Google & Meta\n\n* Performance marketers running ads for their brand\n* Founder/CMOs running ads on their own\n* Ad agency founders and freelancers running ads for clients", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/M1O-getcrux-ai-copilot-for-performance-marketing", "votes": 210, "created_at": "2024-10-10T13:51:00.229Z" } ] }, { "id": 29524, "name": "Coval", "slug": "coval", "former_names": [ "Datawave" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/adc31ffe74137f2876c08ce7153b3a5cfd5001ca.png", "website": "https://coval.dev", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Coval is a simulation & evaluation platform for autonomous AI agents, helping engineers launch dependable assistants across chat, voice, and other modalities. \r\nWe simulate thousands of scenarios engineers don't have to manually test their agents. 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Simulation & Evaluation for AI Agents", "tagline": "Ship AI agents faster with a simulation and evaluation platform for chat and voice assistants.", "body": "Teams are racing to market with AI agents, but slow manual testing processes are holding them back. Engineers currently spend hours manually evaluating and playing whack-a-mole just to discover that fixing one issue introduces another.\n\nAt Coval, we build automated simulation and evaluation for AI agents inspired by the autonomous vehicle industry to boost test coverage, speed up development, and validate consistent performance.\n\nWe have a waitlist, but YC companies go first! Grab some time here: \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83700&key=user_uploads/1019731/e39b0b4e-22ea-4e62-85a4-d5421cafb7d5)\n\n# **Our Story**\n\nHey! I’m [Brooke](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bnhop/), the founder of [Coval](https://www.coval.dev/). 👋\n\nBefore starting Coval, I led the evaluation job infrastructure team at [Waymo](https://waymo.com/). I coded the first versions of our dataset storage and other foundational simulation systems, and my team built all of the dev tools for launching and running evals.\n\nThrough my conversations with hundreds of engineering teams at startups and enterprises, I've seen that AI agents—models that operate independently and handle complex tasks—are facing similar challenges to those in self-driving. \n\nIn the early days, autonomous vehicle companies relied heavily on manual evaluation, testing the self-driving cars on racetracks and city streets (remember when autonomous cars still had safety drivers?). However, as startups scaled, a significant shift happened: we moved towards simulating every code change in a “virtual” environment, using the vast amounts of data we collected. The new approach dramatically improved vehicle behavior, leading to hundreds of autonomous cars zipping around the San Francisco streets today!\n\nThis story mirrors what's happening today with AI agents across various industries. Teams are coming up with promising prototypes but often hit a wall when it comes to their reliability. \n\nAs we build for the future, where AI agents execute much of our work, ranging from sending emails to prescribing medication, the risks posed by untested systems could severely throttle the progress.\n\nAt Waymo, I developed tools that tested each code modification made by engineers, ensuring that every change improved the Waymo Driver's performance. I believe this methodical approach was key in helping our team address edge cases and maintain peak performance, and it ultimately cemented Waymo's status as a leader in the autonomous vehicle space.\n\nNow, at Coval, we’re taking these proven strategies and adapting them in a completely new way to speed up the development of AI agents. Our goal is to help engineers build agent experiences that genuinely work for users in the real world.\n\nAutomated simulation and evaluation are critical to trusting agents with impactful tasks across industries.\n\n# **Working With Us**\n\nBuilding agents or know someone? Let’s talk! 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Our platform handles handles phone calls, emails, faxes, and compliance end-to-end.\n\n**❌ Employment verifications are soul-crushing, but necessary**\n\nEvery time someone gets hired, applies for a mortgage, or needs a background check, someone has to verify they actually worked where they said they did.\n\nThis means millions of phone calls per year to HR/payroll/admin departments. Leaving voicemails. Sending emails. Sending faxes (yes, in 2026). Waiting days for callbacks. Calling back. Getting transferred. Leaving more voicemails.\n\nBackground screeners and banks hire armies of people to do this. It's tedious, expensive, and the turnover is bad because the job is mind-numbing.\n\n**💡 What we built**\n\nSuperunit handles employment verifications end-to-end. We do contact research, call HR/payroll/admin departments, navigate phone trees, handle documents, send emails and faxes, and and publish the results back to your ERP.\n\n**🎬 See it in action**\n\n— Watch Ava Do an Employment Verification — \\\n\n\n— Check Out the Platform —\\\n[https://youtu.be/Z-s7F7sqbmE](https://youtu.be/iYKBcB-Y1Vo)\n\n**📊 Traction**\n\n* **65% results obtained**\n* **1 business day** average turnaround\n* **40+ customers** - Banks and background screening companies\n* **70,000 verifications processed**\n* **98% conversion rate** from pilot to full time\n* Two **top-10 background screeners signed**; all top 4 background screeners by revenue in active pipeline.\n\n**🔥 What customers say**\n\nOne customer: _\"If I have this technology, we will dominate the field.\"_\n\nA mortgage lender scaled their loan volume **20x** while keeping their verification team at just **2 people** - they avoided hiring 12 additional heads.\n\nAnother said: _\"You were a game-changer when we were in a really tight spot. We were growing quickly and losing customers because we couldn’t meet their expectations.\"_\n\n**🎯 But Why**\n\nWe pivoted a few months after demo day. We had been told by a product leader at Checkr that employment verifications were “soul crushing.”\n\nWe got curious.\n\nWe started building in January 2025, signed our first customer in March, signed a series C customer in April, signed a top-5 screener in September, signed our first mortgage lender shortly after, crossed 10k, then 50k, then 70k verifications processed, with many more to go!\n\n👥 **Team**\n\n[Zach Yellin-Flaherty](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachary-yellin-flaherty/) - CTO - ex-Stripe, ex-Index, Stanford BS/MS in CS\n\n[Peter Marler](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marler/) - CEO - 2x founder, ex-Facebook, ex-Quantifind, Stanford GSB\n\n**🙏 Our ask**\n\n* Are you doing employment verifications when hiring? Text me\n* Are you bored of people calling your team to get employment verifications? Text me\n* Play golf with people who work at mortgage lenders? Text me!\n\n**Phone:** (518) 207-5511\n\n**Email:** [peter@superunit.ai](mailto:peter@superunit.ai)\n\n👉 [superunit.ai](https://superunit.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PLS-superunit-we-automate-the-most-soul-crushing-job-in-background-checks", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2026-02-03T17:47:01.687Z" }, { "id": 82712, "title": "Superunit 💆🏼‍♂️ AI accounting agents for companies selling physical products", "tagline": "Effortlessly automate accounting, integrate inventory data, and eliminate financial statement errors", "body": "**🙈 TL:DR:** Companies selling physical products spend a fortune on accounting and are still left with incorrect financials because of inventory related complications. We fix that.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82712&key=user_uploads/505183/a2949d25-3407-403c-88d4-f6f9beff9ce7)\n\n🥵 **PROBLEM**: Companies selling physical products struggle with accounting and inventory operations. Current bookkeeping methods rely heavily on manual input and are often disconnected from accurate inventory data. This leads to mistakes in important financial figures like cost of goods sold (COGS), inventory value, margins, and cash flow. As a result, businesses spend a lot of time and money only to gain an inaccurate picture of their financial health. These inaccuracies lead to poor budgeting decisions, loan rejections, failed fundraising, non-compliance, and frequent cash flow crises.\n\n😍 **OUR SOLUTION:** A powerful AI accounting agent built specifically for companies selling physical products.\n\nOur platform automates bookkeeping and completes a variety of crucial product operations tasks such as calculating COGS, optimizing POs, and conducting contribution margin analysis with only a few clicks.\n\nAll financial and inventory data is connected and written back to QBO or your ERP, eliminating financial statement errors, saving dozens of hours per month, and thousands on accounting costs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82712&key=user_uploads/505183/56544b6d-0310-4c0e-a398-09bdb3945f94)\n\n💡 **THE INSPIRATION:** As the founder of Robin Golf, [Peter](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marler/) encountered this problem frequently. Doing the financials required an expensive team and the books were always inexplicably wrong. As as a result, the company was underwritten for debt and equity incorrectly, wasn’t able to make proper budgeting decisions, couldn’t forecast inventory needs, couldn’t optimize channel mix, and was blindsided by cash shortfalls.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82712&key=user_uploads/505183/46551b06-df3e-4d8c-bc8e-46a92a333bf8)\n\n👬 **THE TEAM**: [**Peter Marler**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marler/) (CEO) was the co-founder/CEO of Robin Golf, a venture backed, multichannel golf equipment company. Prior to that he held roles at Facebook, Quantifind, and NBCUniversal. He is a graduate of Stanford GSB.\n\n[**Zach Yellin-Flaherty**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachary-yellin-flaherty/) (CTO) previously built payments infrastructure at Stripe and Index. He holds two Computer Science degrees from Stanford.\n\n🙏🏼 **ASK:** We’re onboarding customers and looking to grow! We’d love intros to CEOs/CFOs/COO of companies selling physical products - ecomm brands, wholesalers, retailers, dropshippers.\n\n🔗 **LINKS:** Connect with us on these platforms in the meantime!\n\n[**Company Linkedin**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/unit-iq/)\n\n[**Peter Linkedin**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marler/)\n\n[**Zach Linkedin**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachary-yellin-flaherty/)\n\n[**Peter Twitter**](https://x.com/peter_marler)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LW4-superunit-ai-accounting-agents-for-companies-selling-physical-products", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2024-08-05T01:44:25.456Z" } ] }, { "id": 29607, "name": "ProhostAI", "slug": "prohostai", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/069321145273b85ba7d87787840c61562c041b8f.png", "website": "https://www.prohost.ai/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "ProhostAI is building an AI Property Manager for short-term rental hosts on Airbnb and other platforms. 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Previously Software Engineer at Dropbox, JWPlayer, and others.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/aeriklawson/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/878fe6c85fddbb90bc9ac6505c46283c5aaca110.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 68411, "title": "Founding Engineer, Full Stack", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/prohostai/jobs/E50Yl4C-founding-engineer-full-stack", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$100K - $180K", "equity_range": "0.20% - 2.00%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 101922, "title": "ProhostAI 🏨 AI Employees for Property Management and Hospitality", "tagline": "Meet ProhostAI — AI employees that answer guests, take calls, coordinate cleanings, create tasks, build guidebooks, and run hospitality operations from one AI-native OS.", "body": "Hi YC! I’m Bill from the ProhostAI team.\n\n**TL;DR:** We're launching AI employees for property management and hospitality. They answer guests, take calls, coordinate cleanings, create tasks, build guidebooks, drive bookings, and help run operations — from one AI-native OS. 8,000+ properties on the platform today. Founded by a team from Airbnb, Dropbox, and Guesty (Harvard + Yale) — and we're property managers ourselves, running a $12M AUM portfolio. Backed by Y Combinator, Pear VC, and other investors. [Try it →](https://prohost.ai/ai-employees)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=101922&key=user_uploads/1847372/9e218d0a-16c5-4285-8de3-e6374d1ad16b)\n\n## The problem\n\nProperty management and hospitality teams still run operations through a tangled stack: inboxes, PMS tools, spreadsheets, phone calls, manual coordination, and a dozen point solutions that don't talk to each other.\n\nThe \"AI\" in this space today is mostly chatbots that answer guest messages. That's a feature, not a workforce.\n\n## What we built\n\nProhostAI's AI employees do real operational work — alongside the humans running the business. They can:\n\n* **Answer guests** across Airbnb, Vrbo, [Booking.com](http://Booking.com), SMS, WhatsApp, email — omnichannel and context-aware\n* **Take and place phone calls**\n* **Create and assign tasks** to teammates\n* **Coordinate cleaners** and schedule turnovers\n* **Power guidebooks** for properties and businesses\n* **Drive bookings and upsells**\n* **Keep human teammates aligned** across operations\n* **Run AI workflows** across the operational lifecycle\n\nOne AI-native OS — built so human teams and AI employees can work side by side.\n\n## The AI employees available for hire:\n\nOur AI employees are available across different professions:\n\n* **Gabby** — Guest Experience Manager\n* **Claudia** — Cleaning Manager\n* **Miles** — Maintenance Manager\n* **Rex** — Revenue Optimizer and PriceLabs auditor\n* **Owen** — Owner Relations Manager\n* **Regina** — Reputation Manager\n* **Grace** — Guidebook Manager\n* **Finn** — Finance Manager\n* **Quinn** — Quality Inspector\n* **Gina** — General Manager\n* **Vera** — Virtual Assistant\n\nHire the ones you need; add more as you scale.\n\n## MCP — bring your own agents\n\nWe ship an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, so other AI agents — Claude, ChatGPT, custom in-house agents — can collaborate directly with the ProhostAI AI employees. If you've already built AI workflows, plug them in instead of starting over.\n\n## Why now\n\nThe next generation of hospitality companies will be run by human teams working side by side with AI employees. We're starting with short-term rentals because the work is high-volume, repetitive, and deeply operational — exactly where AI teammates make an immediate difference.\n\nFrom there: vacation rental managers, boutique hotels, broader hospitality and property operations.\n\n## Traction\n\nProhostAI now supports **8,000+ properties on the platform**, including paid customers and operators using our feature-rich free plan. Founded by a team from **Airbnb, Dropbox, and Guesty** (Harvard + Yale alumni) — and we're property managers ourselves, running a **$12M AUM short-term rental portfolio**. We use ProhostAI every day. Backed by **Y Combinator, Pear VC, and other investors**.\n\n## Our backstory\n\nWe've been deep in this space and have watched operators copy-paste the same messages thousands of times, miss calls overnight, lose cleanings to chaos, and string together five tools to do what one OS should handle. We built ProhostAI to make AI employees the new labor layer for hospitality — not another dashboard, not another inbox.\n\n## Our ask\n\n* **If you run STR, vacation rentals, or hospitality ops** — connect Airbnb or your PMS and your first AI employee can start helping in minutes: [prohost.ai/ai-employees](https://prohost.ai/ai-employees)\n* **If you know property managers, hosts, or hospitality teams** who'd benefit — please share or intro\n* **If you want to chat** — DM me on Bookface or email [bill@prohost.ai](mailto:bill@prohost.ai)\n* **For press/media:** [press kit (logos, screenshots, GIFs)](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kQEauMZYT4H-fXADYS9bNvgHQ1AjBN7q?usp=sharing)\n\nThanks YC 🚀\n\n— Bill & the ProhostAI team", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QVu-prohostai-ai-employees-for-property-management-and-hospitality", "votes": 3, "created_at": "2026-05-25T14:48:51.997Z" }, { "id": 83739, "title": "ProhostAI - AI property manager for Airbnb hosts", "tagline": "AI property manager assistant for hosts on Airbnb and other booking platforms.", "body": "[**ProhostAI**](https://www.prohost.ai/) **is an AI property manager assistant for hosts on Airbnb and other booking platforms.**  We run 9 Airbnb properties as Superhosts (4.99+ rating) worth $15M, and our AI automations have already cut our own costs by 30% and automated 70% of guest communications.\n\n**Our key features:**\n\n* **AI for Guest Communications:** AI agent drafts responses to every guest message\n* **AI for Maintenance Ticketing & Cleaning Management**\n* **AI for Revenue Generation** with automated guest upsells\n\nAll of this with a first class mobile app, because most hosts manage their properties from their phones!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83739&key=user_uploads/1847372/efb9d4f7-c541-47e8-9c1f-505cdfff39c1)\n\n### Our Founding Team\n\n[**Bill**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bulam/)\n\n* **Bill was a Staff Data Scientist, Algorithms at Airbnb for 6+ years, building AI & ML products** \n * 3 AI patents for products implemented at Airbnb that drove hundreds of millions in revenue\n* 9+ years total in data science (Etsy, Wayfair, Thumbtack)\n* Undergrad from Harvard\n\n[**Andrew**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aeriklawson/)\n\n* **Andrew was a Sr Software Engineer at Dropbox for 6+ years,** working on their API Platform handling millions of requests per second \n* 9+ years as a software engineer\n\nWe are Airbnb hosts with 9 properties, 4.99+ ratings across 1000+ guest reviews, and $1.5M/yr revenue. We've been hosts for 5+ years.\n\n### Why we are building ProhostAI\n\n* **70% of things a host has to do can be automated with no intervention today**\n * Guest communications, cleaning coordination & communication, and maintenance ticket management are repetitive and simple tasks ripe for automation with LLMs and AI agents with a high-quality mobile-first experience.\n* **80%+ of hosts use no SaaS tools yet** but are ready to professionalize their operations with better tools.\n* **Airbnb hosts are digitally native, working from their mobile phones all the time**, and highly likely to adopt new technologies to improve their operations.\n* **SaaS for hosts is a $5B market** with 10 million short-term rental listings globally!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83739&key=user_uploads/1847372/219c2d72-5762-4e81-981e-1316c2390e94)\n\n## **🚀Asks**\n\n1. **If you are a host, join our waitlist at** [**prohost.ai**](https://www.prohost.ai) or shoot me an email at [bill@prohost.ai](mailto:bill@prohost.ai)!\n2. **Share our website with others hosts** and have them join our waitlist!\n3. **Follow us on **[**LinkedIn**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/prohostai/)** and **[**X**](https://x.com/prohostAI)**.**\n4. **If you are using Hostaway or Guesty for Pros to manage your properties,** we can get you set up right away! Sign up for a free trial [**here**](https://app.prohost.ai/register) or [**book a demo**](https://calendly.com/bill-prohost/prohostai-demo) ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lmd-prohostai-ai-property-manager-for-airbnb-hosts", "votes": 35, "created_at": "2024-09-04T15:36:31.502Z" } ] }, { "id": 29608, "name": "Pre", "slug": "pre", "former_names": [ "Genie Online, Inc.", "Genie", "Rides" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/98cb4af6e9ab45b4431ca1d8d69632b83194f214.png", "website": "https://buildwithpre.com", "all_locations": "Lake Oswego, OR, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Pre is an AI-powered execution system for startup founders who are serious about building real companies.\r\nSet a 10-week goal, connect your tools, and get pushed to do your highest-impact work every week.\r\nPre doesn’t track effort… it tracks outcomes, and it holds you to a higher standard.", "one_liner": "The AI accountability agent for startup founders", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Operations", "launched_at": 1722007649, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Investing", "Feedback", "Operations" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B", "Operations" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pre", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/pre.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "Lake Oswego", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/buildwithpre", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/98cb4af6e9ab45b4431ca1d8d69632b83194f214.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/079e363410b2854116325aa7ee50d9d77260ae36.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Garry Tan", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/garry-tan" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 32175, "full_name": "Darius \"Bubs\" Monsef", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Full-stack operator: bubs.co\nPast: Founder/CEO BraveCare.com (S19), CreativeMarket.com (W10) & COLOURlovers.com", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dariusmonsef", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/bubs", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/be84bc992d318115861ecca0d7b7bee6b4e7810f.jpg" }, { "user_id": 40436, "full_name": "Asa Miller", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "2× YC founder of a kid-safe AI companion and a pediatric care company. 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Genie is a conversational AI that encourages creative play and guides kids through the Genieverse, the future of games, media, and social for kids.\n\n**Download our app at:** [**http://genie.gg/app**](http://genie.gg/app)\\\nVisit us at: [www.Genie.gg](http://www.Genie.gg)\n\n**The Genie Team**\n\n[Asa](https://www.linkedin.com/in/asamiller/) and [Darius](http://linkedin.com/in/dariusmonsef) previously cofounded [BraveCare.com](http://BraveCare.com) (YC S19), which raised $40M in funding and enabled more than 50k urgent care visits for kids who were sick or injured— during the pandemic and the recovery years— all while delivering a care experience that maintained a nearly 5-Star score across thousands of reviews.\n\nDarius’ first time through YC was in W10 with [CreativeMarket.com,](http://CreativeMarket.com) which led to an acquisition by Autodesk in ’14. He also cofounded Sightbox, a DTC contact lens service that was acquired by Johnson & Johnson in ’17.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82522&key=user_uploads/32175/b55dcc84-b2d8-4620-a77f-620f8f66d3ff)\n\n**Our vision for a better internet for kids**\n\nAs a father, I want to protect my kids at all times and everywhere they go in the world, and in reality, I can’t. But I can build an AI that keeps them safe everywhere they go online and create a “digital Disneyland” for them to play, explore, and connect in.\n\nLike Jarvis to Ironman, Sox to Buzz Lightyear, or Baymax to Hiro, a child is the hero of their own story, and we’re building them the ultimate sidekick. An AI buddy that has their back in the online world, encourages creative play and helps them learn about anything, at any time, in an age-appropriate way.\n\nSoon, hundreds of millions of kids across the globe will connect on the next platform that’s foundationally powered by AI. We’ve seen it coming for a while, and we’re already building that new space… the Genieverse!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82522&key=user_uploads/32175/366ff304-4c16-476d-b7ae-cb271a5249c9)\n\n**Do something fun with Genie today**\n\n**Create**\\\nGenie is an always-kind, supportive & friendly AI agent that can co-create free-form generative art with kids, and they can create thru other art modes like the “Crazy Food Lab” or “Muppet Monsters.”\n\n**Play**\\\nGenie can also build incredibly imaginative story worlds where kids decide what happens next or play logic puzzles or word games designed to spark kids’ creative and critical thinking. Genie also knows that kids should have time off of their screens and be active out in the world. 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Sometimes a trusted adult isn’t available to ask, or kids feel weird about asking, so Genie makes sure that tricky questions are answered in kind and age-appropriate ways.\n\n**Find “**[**Genie.gg**](http://Genie.gg)**” on the App Store** or click here: [**http://genie.gg/app**](http://genie.gg/app)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LT0-genie-the-best-ai-sidekick-for-kids", "votes": 34, "created_at": "2024-07-29T16:57:48.187Z" } ] }, { "id": 29651, "name": "FirstWork", "slug": "firstwork", "former_names": [ "Migrant.ai", "firstwork.ai" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d263d80a559ff3f8f00a1086c466c45905a09911.png", "website": "https://firstwork.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Firstwork is a next-generation HR platform designed specifically for companies with dynamic workforce needs. 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We are Vardhan and Shubham, and we’re on a mission to build an all-in-one HR and compliance platform for frontline workers.\n\n🧨 **The Problem:** Managing workforces in sectors like transport, delivery, and logistics is complex and inefficient. Many sectors have seasonal onboarding/offboarding and onerous credential validation that bottleneck HR Ops teams. Traditional HRIS solutions are scattered across multiple systems, which leads to delays, compliance issues, and high operational costs.\n\nWorking at Deliveroo and Remitly, where we spent a lot of time partnering with frontline workers across the gig economy, trucking, and logistics industries. Managing HR and compliance was a constant struggle.\n\n🎉 **The Solution:** At **Firstwork**, we realize that worker onboarding, compliance, and management are not standalone problems but interconnected opportunities that require a unified approach. It’s with these insights that we’re building a compound product, with an initial focus on:\n\n* **Smart Onboarding 📋:** Automates credential verification with Intelligent Process Automation and OCR, reducing admin burdens and speeding up time-to-productivity.\n* **AI-Assisted Communication 🤖:** Enhances new hire activation for better engagement and faster integration.\n* **Perpetual Compliance ✅:** Uses AI and OCR to ensure continuous compliance, tracking document expirations and updating records.\n\n**Using Firstwork, Employees:**\n\n✔️ Get onboarded faster and with less hassle\\\n✔️ Receive timely and relevant communication for better engagement\\\n✔️ Stay compliant with regulations effortlessly\n\n**and Companies:**\\\n✔️ Avoid compliance issues and potential penalties\\\n✔️ Improve overall worker efficiency per hour \\\n✔️ Save time, costs, and reduce administrative burdens\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXe2_g1HVyT3kqDGZDJeclhjnPtvP8Z1UOnnNkp8LIbHqbmJVEdMbMOpXn3ZHSTqrHlBsnv_dZS1wtr9c5ZBWffOOseNQAXRKDnLd8dpKGny22Mq7QRMSK5F4VpGQMilE8hgMMSs7cX86oRJSorWvDexFrze?key=BnWjbm21DhEvXen5Fbi5aQ)\n\n\\\n💲 **Opportunity:** The scope and impact of our market are significant. Companies in logistics, warehousing, delivery, hospitality, and BPO centers can benefit from our platform, improving their workforce management processes and saving costs.\n\n**Our Team:**\n\n[Vardhan Kapoor](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vardhan-kapoor/), our CEO, has firsthand experience with blue-collar worker engagement challenges at Deliveroo and Remitly, where he scaled various business units to high eight-figure USD ARR. 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The thumbnail design process is orchestrated by AI with layout, composition, copy and imagery all optimised for brand consistency.", "body": "### **Tl;dr:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83411&key=user_uploads/620002/b47c6ed6-17ba-44cf-b061-5a5c4b94ed08)\n\n**ideate.xyz is an AI design co-pilot for content teams to create engaging thumbnail designs for their social media channels. We are starting with thumbnails, the most critical window to connect with audiences - ideate is here to help content teams stand out.**\n\n**Looking ahead, ideate will become THE AI design partner for the next generation of content creators, crafting unique and tailored designs for their bespoke brands.**\n\n### **The team:**\n\nHi, [Jasper](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasperjia/) and [Elliott](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellt92/) here. We are building [ideate.xyz](http://ideate.xyz) - the first AI design co-pilot for content teams to create thumbnail designs for social media channels. \n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXcyUiwrYeoWSM9XI-PrkXrpcLxSQZLYZHYRrgKdya2BZpu7VgxyNGx8KcSPqkbuzo0IEUy1_-6sCn3Zsc6cBw0OVQmAUdEJhMmbByvBhOPLvLa4rWe1RTA4lXgk6r_9i2WnQX03jbegL_seQRPUthnvM50C?key=dBDHpbeLdBMcMx4JQU8ppQ)\n\n**Jasper Jia (Left)**\n\nCofounder & CEO at ideate.xyz. Designer specialising in creative tools and no-code. He believes designers should embrace learning and getting their hands dirty in the technical end of the software building process to craft the best software experience and cultivate fast iteration cycles with the engineering team. He was an ex-Snap designer and MSc Design Engineering graduate from Imperial College London.\n\n**Elliott Thompson (Right)**\n\nCofounder & CTO at ideate.xyz. A software engineer with a penchant for visual computing. He studied computer graphics at University College London before taking on a role as a graphics generalist at Snap Inc. He has previously worked on 3D engines, game developer tooling, graphics editors, and e-commerce platforms.\n\n### **The problem:**\n\nDesign tools are stuck at two extremes: powerful but complex, or simple yet limiting. This seemingly inevitable tradeoff affects millions of content creators trying to stand out with their thumbnail designs, the critical window to connect with their audience.\n\nIf you’ve had to design thumbnails for social channels, you've likely been here:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83411&key=user_uploads/620002/b533f0cd-3816-4699-b93b-a445528a046f)\n\nYou have a great idea, so you install the latest Adobe product. Suddenly, you're faced with a blank canvas and a dizzying array of options. Hours of YouTube tutorials later, you're ready to throw in the towel.\n\nTime for Plan B. You load up Canva, pick a template that's \"close enough,\" and tweak some colors. It doesn't really feel like yours, and it is so hard to stand out with a “Canva look” when there are over 3.7 million videos uploaded to YouTube alone every day!\n\n### **Our solution:**\n\n[ideate.xyz](http://ideate.xyz) - the first AI design co-pilot orchestrating the entire thumbnail design process from initial ideas to final designs that stand out!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83411&key=user_uploads/620002/56aa1f67-549b-44ae-a3ee-66e0b32c5a17)\n\n\\* Design with plain English: No prior experience with design or creative software needed. Produce designs via simple and engaging discussions with AI design co-pilot.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83411&key=user_uploads/620002/406874a3-9435-4c80-9472-f1982d4bb1f7)\n\n\\* Think of our copilot as your team’s AI design partner - guiding the design process with proactive questions to understand design requirements and implementing expert design decisions after your sign off.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83411&key=user_uploads/620002/887c967e-b165-4ceb-b4d1-8d5beb9a5bb3)\n\n\\* Collaborative environment: Teams can work with a co-pilot on the same project for a quick feedback cycle and sign-off before exporting the final designs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83411&key=user_uploads/620002/3333d422-a852-4af4-8de4-adb7e832c3f8)\n\n\\* Maintain brand consistency as our AI learns your preferences over time and always generates content with this in mind.\n\n\\* We fine-tune our prompts for each generation, considering layout composition, image assets, and copywriting in lockstep with each other to produce creative but also consistent results. \n\nA typical workflow with ideate.xyz:\n\n1\\. Describe your content ideas\n\n2\\. First drafts designed by AI co-pilot\n\n3\\. Iterate and create more variations by chatting with AI copilot\n\n4\\. Export designs in channel-specific dimensions \n\n[Quick demo here](https://youtu.be/Zf_i1cUejbk)\n\n### **Our story:**\n\nAs a design and engineer duo, we have spent years crafting creative tools in the WebGL and AR space. We've also built and mentored in the no-code space to help non-techies build out their online presence. Regardless of the domain, one challenge persists for creators — finding a design tool that’s both simple and powerful enough to bring a brand's vision to life. The reason why this problem persists in the market is simple - the inevitable tradeoff that every design software needs to make between power and ease of use. Typically, the more powerful a tool gets, the more complex it becomes. On the flip side, easy-to-use tools often limit creativity with rigid templates. \n\nBut with AI, we have found the conviction to break this tradeoff. We are on a mission to create a design tool that actually puts your ideas in the driving seat, making the design process less about esoteric design language and more about the content team’s own creative impulses. Our goal is to empower the next generation of creators to build stunning brands and assets. \n\n### **Our ask**\n\nAre you currently on a team that regularly has to come up with thumbnail designs for your social media content?  Either wrestling with complex design tools or unhappy with generic templates? Talk to us, and we would love to learn more about your requirements!\n\nIf you know any professional content creators, we’d really appreciate the connection!\n\nOur email is [founders@ideate.xyz](mailto:founders@ideate.xyz)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LhL-ideate-xyz-ai-design-co-pilot-for-content-teams", "votes": 51, "created_at": "2024-08-26T18:12:14.426Z" } ] }, { "id": 29668, "name": "Proxis", "slug": "proxis", "former_names": [ "CureAI", "Tailwind Health" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/451285ce2b3407f2b83c947851ea72847724516e.png", "website": "https://www.proxis.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Proxis is the AI automation platform built for enterprises.\r\n\r\nProxis is creating AI email agents that empower brands and enterprise teams to close deals automatically. Think: your inbox, on autopilot.\r\n\r\nWe initially fine tuned and distilled LLMs for enterprise use—and quickly realized that companies need more than just smarter models. They need full-stack automation. So Proxis built AI agents that handle the tedious, time-consuming work—everything from autonomous sales closers to customer service agents.\r\n\r\nThe mission is bold: to build the world’s most capable team of AI agents for every enterprise. Proxis imagines a future where a single founder can run a billion-dollar company—backed by a custom-built army of agents. 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Launches and outbound campaigns create reply storms. Important conversations get buried while esoteric answers live in just a few people’s heads.\n\nWho feels this the most?\n\n* Founders and sales leaders running high‑velocity outreach\n* CX and ops teams fielding repetitive questions\n* Anyone whose inbox is their workflow\n\n**Enter Proxis**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95307&key=user_uploads/1592615/12b0183b-6b08-4352-a3f5-ff4628c080e3)\n\nProxis connects to your knowledge and your inbox to draft and even auto‑send replies that sound like you — only when it’s confident.\n\n1. Context-first drafting. Plug in CRMs, Notion, Drive, Slack, help docs, and past email history so answers are accurate and on‑brand.\n2. Sends only when confident. High‑confidence replies auto‑send. Everything else stays in draft for review.\n3. Learns your voice over time. The more you send, the better it gets.\n\n**Configure any Rule**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95307&key=user_uploads/1592615/9a28b46c-218a-41cc-bbb1-c6c4e5bb250b)\n\n**Add Your Context**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95307&key=user_uploads/1592615/cbc29a0a-1a3a-40ab-bffc-fd08f58fe2d2)\n\n**Who Proxis is for**\n\nWe’ve built this for founders, operators, sales teams and email power users who constantly context-switch between tools and spend their days in email. If that sounds like you, we would love to have you on board.\n\nGet started for free: [proxis.ai](http://proxis.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OnD-proxis-ai-email-agents-with-your-context", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2025-11-07T19:59:06.302Z" }, { "id": 83633, "title": "Proxis - the first dedicated platform for LLM distillation and serving", "tagline": "Model serving optimizations to reduce compute costs.", "body": "**Tl;dr:** [Proxis](https://www.proxis.ai/) is the first dedicated platform for LLM distillation and serving, unlocking production ready models at 1/10th of the cost.\n\n### The Problem\n\n* Fine-tuning frontier models like GPT-4 on proprietary data is expensive, and locks customers into one external closed source model provider. \n* These large models are 100x the price per-token of smaller Llama 3.1 models, and run nearly 10x slower. This makes them impractical to deploy at scale.\n* Closed source model lock-in means customers can’t tweak or tune their own model, or deploy on-prem for sensitive data solutions. \n\n### The Solution\n\nModel Distillation:\n\n* In model distillation, a large **teacher model** effectively fine tunes a smaller **student model** without the need for _labeled_ or _structured_ datasets. This ‘condenses’ large models down to the compute cost of small models.\n* Distillation results in near-frontier model quality, with efficient performance. This means we can achieve 5x the speed at 1/10th the cost.\n* With the release of Llama 405b in late July, open source frontier distillation became available to the public for the first time. \n\n### Growth & Market\n\n* Llama model downloads have grown 10x in the last year and are approaching 350 million downloads to date. There were 20 million downloads in the last month alone, making Llama the leading open source model family.\n* Llama usage by token volume across major cloud service providers has more than doubled in just three months from May through July 2024 when Llama 3.1 was released.\n* Monthly usage (token volume) of Llama grew 10x from January to July 2024 for some of the largest cloud service providers.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdQSaqElsFW5E2grv46IezSDDiWOQKb8xcXqzf9FzWYnY8s0DywELRQaJpXNRWRxIqFsJwL_Nt_eJawi2BaNk-QasNFOv0tm8efkn3DwhfxHqH-8jizsSQMZnZiGW3yfBZNHdWz9lVME9vuxqcbBp_kETp4?key=EmGuREnt2lr1tUSBSUm-SQ)\n\nSource: [Meta](https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-usage-doubled-may-through-july-2024/)\n\n### The Team\n\n[Jackson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacksonstokes/) (CTO, on the left) **optimized the Gemini model at Google** for efficient deployment at massive scale. [Liam](https://www.linkedin.com/in/liam-collins-/) (CEO, on the right) built zero-to-one systems as a software engineer.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83633&key=user_uploads/1592615/ea47fdba-f119-4680-8d1e-e394d6e85273)\n\n### The Ask\n\nGive it a go! 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We’re Julia and Mihail, the team behind [Storia](https://storia.ai/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=launch-yc). We have 20+ years of software engineering and AI research experience. [Julia](https://www.linkedin.com/in/iulia-raluca-turc/) worked on precursors of Gemini using contextual neural techniques before they were called “RAG” (and applied it to products like Google Keyboard and Pixel phones). [Mihail](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mihaileric/) built the earliest LLMs at Amazon Alexa and launched the first contextual deep-learning conversational AI system in production at Alexa.\n\n**👎 The Problem: <5% of software teams use AI code understanding and generation systems**\n\nDespite all the hype around AI coding following the release of GitHub Copilot, a disappointingly small percentage of engineering teams have actually adopted AI assistants into their developer workflows. Why?\n\nWhat developers don’t like about systems today:\n\n1. **Code search is not accurate enough**, slowing dev velocity.\n2. **Code assistants are not grounded in their team’s codebase**, so they lack the necessary context to produce useful and high-quality answers.\n3. **Code outputs can be incorrect** due to hallucination which strains dev patience and trust.\n\n**🚀 The Solution: A contextual AI pair programmer built for any team’s codebase**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83405&key=user_uploads/812126/0e093af4-4352-4550-a123-be44cf3dc747)\n\nWe’re building [Sage](https://sage.storia.ai/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=launch-yc), a Perplexity-like agent for helping developers understand, analyze, and generate software. Given an existing codebase, developers can ask Sage questions such as:\n\n* _For my project’s SLA and latency constraints, what is the appropriate underlying vector database to use? How would I incorporate it into my existing codebase?_\n* _Why should I pick Redis over Milvus as my underlying vector store?_\n* _Does this codebase in our organization still work, and what steps are required for an integration with another library?_\n\nA few of the features Sage supports:\n\n* **We index repos daily**, providing users with the most up-to-date info about how to use a library (no stale, deprecated API definitions),\n* We have a Perplexity-like focus on **citing the source of every generated line of code**, enhancing developer trust.\n* We've developed algorithms grounded in research for **syntactic and semantic understanding of a codebase** so that we can provide more relevant context and use it effectively given a user query.\n\n We are now actively working with seed to series C partner companies to help them integrate Sage into their developer workflows. \n\n**🌅 The Opportunity: Making every engineer on a software team a 10x developer**\n\nThere are \\~28M developers worldwide. Github Copilot is the frontrunner in AI assistant tooling and reached $100M ARR in 2 years, which is only a small percentage of the $913B spent on software development in 2023.\n\n**🙏 Our Ask**\\\nWe’re still onboarding a closed group of beta partners to integrate with Sage. We would appreciate connecting with engineering leaders (VP of engineering, Head of Engineering, CTO)  at Seed-Series C companies. \n\nAdditionally, if you want your open-source repository indexed reach out to us at [mihail@storia.ai.](mailto:founders@storia.ai)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83405&key=user_uploads/812126/dd520900-8415-4ee5-8707-554b7197037b)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LhF-storia-a-contextual-ai-pair-programmer-for-developer-teams", "votes": 38, "created_at": "2024-08-26T16:32:20.077Z" } ] }, { "id": 29689, "name": "Tivara", "slug": "tivara", "former_names": [ "Happy Auth" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c195f1e4be073ff23e0e95a7e8dd2dbdc94e086e.png", "website": "https://tivara.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "", "one_liner": "The AI workforce for medical groups", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Healthcare", "subindustry": "Healthcare", "launched_at": 1722295529, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Healthcare", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "Healthcare" ], "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/tivara", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/tivara.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/tivara/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c195f1e4be073ff23e0e95a7e8dd2dbdc94e086e.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/39e85498becdd14746a1a84d8679152caf7cb6d0.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 758190, "full_name": "Tej Seelamsetty", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Founder and CEO of Tivara.\n\nI started my entrepreneurship journey at 18 years old: As soon as I could sign a personal guarantee, I started flipping houses to (successfully) pay for college. Building software to automate the tedious aspects of my own due diligence opened my eyes to the magic of code. Since then, I led growth (10x-ed revenue) at Fair Square (W20) and worked as a consultant at Bain. I studied computer science and financial engineering at WashU.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/tej-seelamsetty", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6bf284088f50b36c63533cd44212255b1793bf24.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2027178, "full_name": "Aumesh Misra", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CTO of Tivara. I've spent 4 years building software at Microsoft and Compound (YC S19). I was the 8th engineer at Compound and helped grow the company to over $2B AUM. Prior to this, I researched and developed software for novel medical imaging devices at Stanford.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "www.linkedin.com/in/aumesh-misra", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6af929bd338d249d9212265ba8dbe6d8bee68d31.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 82570, "title": "Tivara 🏥💰 — Automating insurance approval workflows for doctors", "tagline": "See patients faster by automating your prior authorization requests.", "body": "[Tivara](https://tivara.com/)’s mission is to help doctors deliver care to patients faster. We’re starting by using LLMs to automate submitting prior authorization requests (and getting their approval) on behalf of providers.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82570&key=user_uploads/758190/5152c520-617b-4e43-82e4-5cac7c301950)\n\n## What is Prior Authorization, and Why Should I Care?\n\nPrior authorization is a process by which physicians must justify their treatment plan of a patient to that patient’s health insurance carrier as “medically necessary.” \n\nRight now, medical groups employ a team (1 employee focused on prior authorizations per 1-5 physicians) to handle this process with insurance carriers manually. These teams are frequently operating over capacity; some of the practices we’ve talked to are so backlogged that a request isn’t even submitted until up to a week after a doctor’s order is placed.\n\n**Figure 1: 94% of Physicians Report Delayed Patient Care due to Prior Authorization (Source: American Medical Association Survey of 1,000 Doctors)**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82570&key=user_uploads/758190/7ccd172e-a4be-4e61-962d-916b4de1491d)\n\nAs you can imagine, insurance carriers are incentivized to delay and/or deny approval as much as they can. Some carriers are so egregious that they’re incurring fines in the tens of millions for morbidly delaying the care of sick patients. A patient who is exhibiting signs of colon cancer definitely shouldn’t have to wait months (or even days) for a colonoscopy.\n\nAt the end of the day, we do two things:\n\n1. Help doctors deliver care faster\n2. 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Please shoot [tej@tivara.com](mailto:tej@tivara.com) a note.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82570&key=user_uploads/758190/ad4f67d3-ca0b-4049-9600-a4ba595b6036)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LTm-tivara-automating-insurance-approval-workflows-for-doctors", "votes": 139, "created_at": "2024-07-30T18:38:31.215Z" } ] }, { "id": 29693, "name": "Gauge", "slug": "gauge", "former_names": [ "Bridge" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8a1b74adcd6bfd4193d3eb1b786fb19988505e78.png", "website": "https://withgauge.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Agents are leading the next wave of growth for companies like Supabase, Openrouter, Resend, PostHog, Braintrust, and more.\r\n\r\nUnlike chat experiences, Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor are now implementing products autonomously. 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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. 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Research commercialized for companies like Domino’s and Getir. Oxford, ex-Rothschild.\n\n[Joe](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joes20/) – Previously led product at a workforce management platform. Repeat founder, ex-McLaren Engineer.\n\n### **Our ask**\n\nWe’d love to connect with any healthcare companies that offer telehealth. 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We build AI Employees that do these manual repetitive tasks for the 700k wholesalers in the US.\r\n\r\nWe’re a team of three Computer Science majors, and Fernando launched and grew AT&T in Mexico to $120M ARR. Previously, we all worked together at our last YC-backed startup, building it to over $6M in revenue. It was there that we placed thousands of purchase orders with wholesalers.\r\n\r\nWe realized that almost every physical product comes from B2B sales in the supply chain. However, it turns out that most of these operations are still done manually through phone and email, involving tasks like quoting, taking orders, collecting payments, entering data into ERPs, and providing support. 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Deliver 300K grocery orders to 30k customers at Orchata a YC-backed (W20) startup.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/fernando-huerta-zuniga/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/89a2ee1e362195256c890a18545cd75913202917.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 83965, "title": "Seals AI - AI Employees for Wholesalers & Distributors.", "tagline": "We build AI Employees that do manual repetitive tasks for the 700k wholesalers in the US. ", "body": "**Summary**\n\n* Instead of relying on humans to quote, take orders, collect payments, and enter data into ERPs, we build AI Employees that handle these manual repetitive tasks for the 700k wholesalers in the US. \n* Team of second-time YC founders, three Computer Science majors. \n* Massive opportunity to convert $100 billion of payroll expenses into software spending.\n\n**Team**\n\nWe’re [Luis Mario](https://www.linkedin.com/in/luismariogarcia/), [Javier](https://www.linkedin.com/in/javiergzz/), [Heber](https://www.linkedin.com/in/huriegas/), and [Fernando,](https://www.linkedin.com/in/fernando-huerta-zuniga/) a team of second-time YC founders, three CS majors, and Fer launched and grew AT&T in Mexico to $120M ARR. We all worked together at our last YC-backed startup, building it to over $6M in revenue. It was there that we placed thousands of purchase orders with wholesalers.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83965&key=user_uploads/371540/8ff71efc-5a31-4f0d-b051-c9fec86759f6)\n\n**Problem** \n\nWholesalers and distributors operate manually with human reps who use phone calls and emails to quote, place purchase orders, collect payments, enter data into ERPs, and provide support. We experienced this problem every day at our last company and realized that almost every physical product comes from B2B sales in the supply chain.\n\n**Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83965&key=user_uploads/371540/8aef507d-4518-4424-b34f-3c6c6f22a6ee)\n\nAI Agents that help wholesalers make more money by communicating in a human-like manner via phone, email, text, and WhatsApp 24/7. They handle tasks such as quoting, order taking, support, data entry into ERP systems, payment collections, and document processing.\n\n\n\n**By automating these tasks, we are creating a massive opportunity to convert $100 billion of payroll expenses into software spending.**\n\n**The Ask**\n\n* We would appreciate intros to wholesalers or distributors to [founders@hireseals.ai](mailto:founders@hireseals.ai) or [demo requests here](https://www.hireseals.ai/contact)! \n* Follow us on [X](https://x.com/luismariogm)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LqH-seals-ai-ai-employees-for-wholesalers-distributors", "votes": 578, "created_at": "2024-09-11T22:40:33.501Z" } ] }, { "id": 29750, "name": "winfunc", "slug": "winfunc", "former_names": [ "Stition", "Asterisk" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/758cce64094ba9a7250a8b613b368074620a74f5.png", "website": "https://winfunc.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Winfunc (winfunc.com) is an AI Hacker that autonomously finds, verifies, and patches security vulnerabilities in codebases, just like a human security engineer would. \r\n\r\nWinfunc can find business logic errors with context-aware scanning and automate the full auditing cycle to generate reports with zero false positives.\r\n\r\nWinfunc's agent has found vulnerabilities in Google, Supabase, Sentry, Cal, Gumroad, Bun, Hoppscotch, etc.", "one_liner": "ai-native security engineering for mission critical codebases", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Security", "launched_at": 1723094847, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Security", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Security" ], "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/winfunc", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/winfunc.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/winfunc", "x_url": "https://x.com/winfunc", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/winfunc", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/758cce64094ba9a7250a8b613b368074620a74f5.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/6ff376ba6239359fd82e52f00898c3d24ba45dc8.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Diana Hu", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/diana-hu" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1378207, "full_name": "Mufeed VH", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "founder/hacker at winfunc.\n\nwebsite: mufeedvh.com\ngithub: github.com/mufeedvh", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mufeed-vh/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/mufeedvh", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/26370ebfa125cc4425cfac841e698261a9937b41.jpg" }, { "user_id": 629782, "full_name": "Vivek R", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "CTO @ Asterisk. 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It does all of this with no user intervention and generates a report with zero false positives. ([example](https://demo.asterisk.so/?report_id=776e01e4-22a2-44bd-afc5-229ec115e1b1))\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82844&key=user_uploads/629782/0cd6877d-6d46-4428-ae29-236edb91393e)\n\n# **The Problem**\n\n* Almost 95% of potential vulnerabilities raised by static security tools (SAST) are **false positives**, and security engineers spend a lot of time filtering them out.\n* Current security tech **cannot detect business logic bugs** - think of vulnerabilities like unauthorized access, privilege escalation, and bugs that would rack up your AWS/API bills.\n\n# **Solution**\n\n* **Verification:** Asterisk verifies a vulnerability by spinning up a sandbox, running the software being scanned, and attempts to exploit the bug. If Asterisk flags a vulnerability, you can be sure it's real.\n* **Context-aware Threat Modeling:** Asterisk understands your codebase and can thus emulate a malicious hacker by coming up with attack scenarios, like the recent CrowdStrike incident.\n\n# **Our Team**\n\nWe are [Mufeed](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mufeed-vh/), [Asjid](https://www.linkedin.com/in/asjidkalam/) and [Vivek](https://www.linkedin.com/in/123vivekr/). All of us have a background in security research and systems engineering.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82844&key=user_uploads/629782/4120e7a5-43bf-4fa1-9352-699f902b32c9)\n\n**Mufeed**: represented 🇮🇳 at WorldSkills CTF, 🥇 medalist - IndiaSkills CTF, 🥉 medalist - BRICS Skills CTF\n\n**Asjid**: 🥈 medalist - IndiaSkills, ex-security research engineer at Emirates National Bank (UAE)\n\n**Vivek**: ex-distributed systems/platforms engineer at Chorus One (one of the biggest POS validators)\n\nOur team has helped secure Google, Mastercard, Okta, Nvidia, Microsoft, etc. We are also the team behind [Devika,](https://github.com/stitionai/devika) the open-source alternative to Devin with over 18K stars on GitHub.\n\n# **Our Ask**\n\nIf you're looking for a **complete security audit** of your digital assets or want to talk about anything security, email us ([hello@asterisk.so](mailto:hello@asterisk.so)) or book a demo ([asterisk.so/demo](http://asterisk.so/demo)).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LYC-asterisk-ai-automated-security-team", "votes": 205, "created_at": "2024-08-08T07:20:52.225Z" } ] }, { "id": 29753, "name": "Autumn Labs", "slug": "autumn-labs", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5df469af020f91ac0b4d19796abb3d31c3518288.png", "website": "https://www.autumnlabs.io/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Autumn Labs delivers a developer-friendly platform for monitoring and managing modern manufacturing lines. Seamlessly integrating with robotic stations—automated test stations, robotic assembly cells, and industrial arms—it ensures full traceability, live data monitoring, and secure data transport. 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Our SDK seamlessly integrates with manufacturing systems (test stations, assembly robots, industrial arms, and manual stations) to provide real-time monitoring, control, and production data management. The result? Lower operation costs, higher product quality, and a smoother production line.\n\n🍁 = 🤖 + 🏭 + 📊\n\n### **Problem - Advanced Machines, Outdated Infrastructure**\n\nThe adoption of robots in manufacturing is exploding, especially to keep up with producing increasingly more complex products and shortages in skilled labor. However, the infrastructure in which these robots would be deployed is still years behind.\n\nWithout effective systems, manufacturing physical products might seem like an insurmountable black box, especially when they are made in factories on another continent where critical information is only reported via spreadsheets every other week.\n\nThe past: [_src_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=xqPfY8S5HJ4)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83709&key=user_uploads/991674/84c0d0be-c84c-4872-84f8-20aa591d28a6)\n\nToday: [_src_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=luFGI13Mv8o)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83709&key=user_uploads/991674/2da6a941-47af-48e3-aaf4-4ddee5351437)\n\nBut the manufacturing data is always lagging and still looks like this:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83709&key=user_uploads/991674/5472966f-362b-483b-9117-37b4730a3676)\n\n### **Solution - Seamless Integration, Real-time insights**\n\nAutumn Labs provides an SDK that’s easy to integrate into any robotic architecture, enabling seamless monitoring and management of machines and, ultimately, the factory in which they reside. This way, robotic integrators and developers have a standard platform where they pull and push critical data that’s specific to their machine’s tasks. Both factory operations and engineering teams are able to get actionable data they need to improve production utilizations and process quality.\n\n_A Unified Platform for Hybrid Factories:_\n\nOur platform is built for hybrid factory lines, too, allowing for seamless integration of manual human assembly stations. Factory personnel can now get a holistic view of your factory's performance—robotic or not.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83709&key=user_uploads/991674/8d55d085-5141-4c8e-a11f-d4751a050099)\n\nWith Autumn Labs, you can track, triage, and push fixes for:\n\n1. Robotic assembly stations/cells\n2. Automated test stations\n3. Palletizing robots\n4. Manual assembly stations\n\n### **Traction - Real Results, Real Impact:**\n\nAutumn Labs is already monitoring and managing 50+ automated factory stations in 4 different consumer electronics factory lines across multiple companies and contract manufacturers. There’s a good chance that a product you use today has gone through our platform.\n\nWhy our customers love us:\n\n1. Clear insights into Manufacturing Value Added (MVA) costs\n2. Increased machine utilization\n3. Rapid improvements in production quality\n4. Enhanced product development cycles\n\n### **Meet the Founders**\n\nWe’re [Sam](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sammonga/), [Harsh](https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshmbhatt/), and [Pra](https://www.linkedin.com/in/prathikmuppidi/)[thik](https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshmbhatt/) — Mechatronics engineers from the University of Waterloo with decades of combined experience at Apple (iPhone), Google (Nest), and Meta (Oculus). After countless sleepless nights fixing robotic assembly lines and test stations, we decided it was time to create the ultimate tool for manufacturing. We’re building the solution we wish we had back then.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83709&key=user_uploads/991674/4ecd6fa2-6352-46ae-a602-f69219f0fe93)\n\n### **Our Ask - Let's Transform Manufacturing Together**\n\nKnow someone struggling to get real-time data from robots, test stations, or factories? Let’s talk. Reach us at [founders@autumnlabs.io](mailto:founders@autumnlabs.io)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lm9-autumn-labs-monitoring-platform-for-industrial-robots-and-manufacturing", "votes": 35, "created_at": "2024-09-03T16:30:31.314Z" } ] }, { "id": 29761, "name": "Distro", "slug": "distro", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/499bf69da05f9cd925def17274cd2ef5f91c8a22.png", "website": "https://distro.app", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Distro is the all-in-one AI-powered sales platform for counter staff and inside sales at industrial wholesale distributors (HVAC/R, plumbing, electrical, and more).", "one_liner": "The AI co-pilot for sales reps at industrial wholesale distributors.", "team_size": 11, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Supply Chain and Logistics", "launched_at": 1715554333, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Manufacturing", "Supply Chain", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Supply Chain and Logistics" ], "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/distro", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/distro.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/distro-ai-app", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/499bf69da05f9cd925def17274cd2ef5f91c8a22.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Nicolas Dessaigne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 742025, "full_name": "Jason Sullivan", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Jason is the founder and CEO of Distro, the all-in-one AI co-pilot for counter staff and inside sales at industrial wholesale distributors. He is a repeat founder, having previously co-founded Vested. Before Vested, he was CTO at Elementus, Tech Lead at Coatue, and Senior Software Engineer at PeerIQ. In a prior life, Jason was a credit derivatives trader.\n\nJason holds an MS in Computer Science from Stanford and a BA in Cognitive Science from Yale.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/jasoncsullivan", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/35952c32a6a1d405afe2380cfdf7314cc969603d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 80953, "title": "🏭🤖 Distro - Bringing point-of-sale AI to industrial distribution", "tagline": "The AI co-pilot for sales reps at industrial wholesale distributors.", "body": "[Distro](https://distro.app/) is the AI sales co-pilot designed for industrial wholesale distributors. We created Distro out of a passion for developing software for the “real economy,” and in particular for the trades. The Distro team is based in, and loves, NYC! 🗽\n\n### 😅 **The Problem**\n\nDistributors, particularly those mid-size and smaller, face a long list of point-of-sale challenges these days.\n\n_🧠 Brain drain_: the most experienced reps are at or near retirement and are taking a great deal of tribal knowledge with them.\n\n_🔧 Complex sales_: quoting entire systems, load calculations, replacing legacy parts and equipment.\n\n_📦 Inventory challenges_: growing SKU counts, supply chain disruptions, decreased inventorying by contractors.\n\n_🎓 Training and retention_: counter reps, in particular, are difficult to hire, train and retain.\n\nThese issues are amplified by the increasing importance of counter and inside sales relative to the rest of the sales organization–there has been a whopping 13 percentage point shift\\* towards counter staff and inside sales influencing purchasing decisions, moving away from territory managers/outside sales.\n\nTo top it all off, there is the ever-present and growing threat of larger players that have the resources to throw money and bodies at the aforementioned problems.\n\n_\\*_ 2023-2024 State of the Channel, HARDI (Heating, Air-conditioning & Refrigeration Distributors International)\n\n### 🔍 **Our Approach**\n\nWhat began as an academic curiosity about how to apply AI to distribution evolved into our team spending countless hours with distributor reps across the country over the course of a year, going deep on their day-to-day challenges, and building a distributor-centric solution from the ground up in partnership with several leading distributors. \n\nThis experience–fully immersing ourselves in a distribution vertical in order to go far beyond a superficial understanding of that vertical’s product universe and sales workflows–has shaped our product philosophy and overall approach. Some of our learnings:\n\n📍 _Meet reps where they are_: don’t try to push reps to adapt to a totally new paradigm. Adapt our workflows to how things really work at the counter.\n\n🚀 _Effortless onboarding_: distributor IT teams don’t need another tech project to distract them. Build solutions that avoid the need for long implementations.\n\n🔒 _Data sanctity_: distributors can spend a lot of time, energy, and money curating their data. Complete data security and privacy are necessary to protect that advantage.\n\n🛠️ _Enhance, don’t replace_: the human element is the key to a distributor’s value-add to its contractor customers. We’re building Iron Man’s suit, not the Terminator.\n\n### 💡 **Our Solution**\n\nOur platform helps counter and inside sales reps work more efficiently by transforming complex customer requests into real-time product information and quotes. With Distro, reps can quote faster, boost conversion rates, and increase customer retention. We support distributors in sectors like HVAC/R, plumbing, electrical, and more.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80953&key=user_uploads/742025/a65bf5e8-d75d-422d-961c-0e3f049162f4)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80953&key=user_uploads/742025/7ff364d0-e77c-4dc4-82d2-16db7e4cd9cf)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80953&key=user_uploads/742025/e80a0ede-809d-4ac0-b6c3-72b64f1c0e3e)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=80953&key=user_uploads/742025/170c793c-6a8a-466a-8ea5-bb3623e8a427)\n\n### 🙏 **Asks**\n\n🤝 Connect with us: If you are a founder in the distribution, manufacturing, or contractor spaces, we’d love to share learnings.\n\n📣 Customer intros: distributors, contractors, and OEMs, particularly in HVAC/R, plumbing, and electrical.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/L3h-distro-bringing-point-of-sale-ai-to-industrial-distribution", "votes": 26, "created_at": "2024-05-20T15:06:08.115Z" } ] }, { "id": 29762, "name": "Remade", "slug": "remade", "former_names": [ "Pheat AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/54349afe229386963a0d97273557dd9db8219ab7.png", "website": "https://www.remade.ai/?utm_source=YC&utm_medium=YC&utm_campaign=YC_profile&utm_content=YC_profile", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Remade is building an AI-native canvas for creative workflows. \r\nTry it now at: app.remade.ai", "one_liner": "AI-native canvas for creative workflows.", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer -> Content", "launched_at": 1721201298, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "SaaS", "Consumer", "Social Media", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "Consumer", "Content" ], "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/remade", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/remade.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/104217651", "x_url": "https://x.com/Remade_AI", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61561070223360", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/remade", "github_url": "https://github.com/Pheat-AI", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/54349afe229386963a0d97273557dd9db8219ab7.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/2c980220f3649574a4878b6ee1748f655fff36cf.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tom Blomfield", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tom-blomfield" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1226451, "full_name": "Christos Antonopoulos", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Christos Antonopoulos is the Co-founder & CEO of Remade. 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We're Alex, Rehan, Chris, and Blendi — the founders of [Remade](https://www.remade.ai/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84186&key=user_uploads/1763456/34c8021f-473b-429c-a686-1d0dbbccd54c)\n\nWe are excited to announce our product image-to-video workflow, enabling the transformation of low-quality product images into video hooks that sell.\n\n# How it works:\n\n1. **Upload an image of your product**\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84186&key=user_uploads/1763456/3212644d-c5d4-434d-94ae-c0009f3348dc)\n\n2. **Use “AI Backgrounds” to create a scene for your product video.**\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84186&key=user_uploads/1763456/57fa19f5-3b50-4ad6-b8d9-b047fdae34f7)\n\n3. **Generate your TikTok hook**\n\n [TikTok Hook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkrZIN7KDD8)\n\n# Use Cases\n\n**Marketing Teams**\n\nMarketing teams use Remade to generate short-form product reels in minutes. We replace a process that corporations outsource to marketing agencies for thousands of dollars in 3-clicks. \n\n**Marketplaces**\n\nMarketplaces use Remade’s Enterprise API to quickly generate product videos for their catalogs. 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These images are then used in marketplaces, social media & ads. Get your first photoshoot for free at [app.remade.ai.](http://app.remade.ai)\n\nHi everyone! We're Alex, Rehan, Chris, and Blendi — the founders of [Remade](https://www.remade.ai/).\n\n![](https://t9014441523.p.clickup-attachments.com/t9014441523/f9304638-6681-457f-ad40-a35807205621/image.png)\n\n### **🧨 The Problem**\n\nTraditional photography is labor-intensive, slow, and expensive. Enterprises spend thousands on photography, while smaller businesses can't afford it. Existing AI platforms struggle to capture the user's vision and maintain the consistency of input images.\n\n### 🎉 **The Solution**\n\nRemade replaces the entire photography pipeline with 3 steps.\n\n1. Upload 10 photos of your item from different angles.\n2. Direct the photoshoots through text prompts, or let Remade suggest prompts for you.\n3. Receive studio-quality images in minutes.\n\n![](https://t9014441523.p.clickup-attachments.com/t9014441523/1385a61e-b4fb-4535-af01-7dc92efa1706/image.png)\n\nRemade reduces the costs of professional images by 100x and cuts delivery time from weeks to minutes. Work with us to amplify your marketing content across major social media platforms, including Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, and more.\n\n## **Use Cases**\n\n**Fashion**\n\nHiring photographers, models, studio setups, lighting experts, and stylists can be replaced with three clicks, saving you thousands of dollars.\n\n![](https://t9014441523.p.clickup-attachments.com/t9014441523/3c3d6bae-29cc-45ae-bcda-52a88e8dd30c/image.png)\n\n**Food**\n\nIncrease your coverage of images across multiple sales channels, including food delivery platforms and social media.\n\n![](https://t9014441523.p.clickup-attachments.com/t9014441523/9b7fe9c1-e830-4f59-bbbb-721156c7b7ea/image.png)\n\n**Products**\n\nShowcase your products in scenes, build your brand, and boost advertisement engagement on social media and marketplaces.\n\n![](https://t9014441523.p.clickup-attachments.com/t9014441523/d7f870e3-fa32-419f-934d-b157e16696c0/image.png)\n\n**Cars**\n\nDriving to the desert to get a cool shot of your car isn't a viable option for most car retailers. 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Before that I studied CS at Oxford, published research on process mining and cryptography, and quit an MBA at Yale. I started my first business, weview, at 18, ran it for three years and sold it to DemoUp Cliplister.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/v-waldthausen/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/73e79aa8777653820b332f6a370b2b9e220a0024.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1960524, "full_name": "Marvin Christopher Bornstein", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Before Zeit AI, I spent five years at Palantir, where I owned and deployed the first instances of what became AIP, across chemicals, railway infrastructure, media, utilities, insurance and medical equipment. Grew up around Berlin, spent the last five years in London. Writing software for 18 years, professionally for ten, mostly full stack and data engineering. 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You can sync tables from your data bases, ERP systems, CRMs, CSVs and more. Atop of these tables, simple questions in natural language can be used to locate data, combine it, generate analyses, or even charts. All results are repeatable and explainable. They can be exported at the click of a button. [Watch our demo!](https://youtu.be/u3NcYh4zCz4)\n\n# 🧑‍💻🌟 **The Team**\n\nTogether, [Marvin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcbornstein/) and [Leopold](https://www.linkedin.com/in/v-waldthausen/) have over 15 years of combined experience in data engineering and analytics. During our four years side-by-side at Palantir, we led high-impact projects, building an AI rule-engine and generating over €50 million in novel project revenue. We saw first-hand how corporates heavily relied on Excel files, leading to manual work to analyse and combine data. A solution like Zeit AI would have been a game-changer in accessing this data at scale.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83344&key=user_uploads/1927760/4024d05f-c883-4ea7-8053-a6e3eb0fdf7b)\n\n# ⚠️ **Problem**\n\nNon-technical users find it challenging to access and analyse enterprise data. Yet, making data-driven decisions is crucial in today’s fast-paced world.\n\n1. Data is stored in files rather than structured databases.\n2. Databases cannot be accessed by non-technical users.\n3. Data often needs to be exported and manually combined in Excel.\n\n# 💡 **Solution**\n\nZeit AI allows non-technical users to derive ad-hoc insights from tables using natural language. This is possible in just three steps.\n\n1. Sync data files directly from your source systems (We support data bases, ERP, CRM and even CSV uploads).\n2. A structured cloud database is instantly generated and ready to be explored.\n3. Use natural language to seamlessly derive insights from the data.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83344&key=user_uploads/1927760/e6ce9c09-e77a-419e-8fae-adda888b1612)\n\n# 🛠️ **How Zeit AI is Used Today**\n\n**Procurement** 🛒 Gaining the upper hand during negotiations by having ad-hoc access to all historical procurement data.\n\n**Consulting** 🗂️ Rapidly explore and analyse data rooms and client files using natural language to confidently deliver value to clients.\n\n**Controlling** 📊 Access extracts from accounting systems and seamlessly combine them with files across departments for comprehensive financial control.\n\n# ✅ **Ask**\n\n[Book a slot](https://calendly.com/leopoldwaldthausen/deploy-zeit-ai) with us to explore using Zeit AI. Refer us to procurement managers and senior consultants. ([founders@zeit-ai.com](mailto:founders@zeit-ai.com))\n\nGet on a [30-minute call](https://calendly.com/leopoldwaldthausen/zeit-ai-demo-booking) with us for a live demo or free office hours for anyone struggling to easily access tabular data at scale.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LgG-zeit-ai-insights-from-your-tabular-data-with-just-a-few-words", "votes": 87, "created_at": "2024-08-23T17:41:00.051Z" } ] }, { "id": 29772, "name": "Parley", "slug": "parley", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/49aadd86a1a43580b7c9079ab398a509ebe10568.png", "website": "https://parley.so", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Parley is the Legal Agent built for the AI era. Legal teams know that getting the work done isn't just drafting or researching. It's also managing your cases, loose threads, and team. Parley is the all-in-one workspace that structures all of that information so that AI can actually deliver finished work.", "one_liner": "Legal Agent that delivers finished work", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Legal", "launched_at": 1719517061, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Legal", "LegalTech", "Immigration", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Legal" ], "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/parley", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/parley.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/parley-legal-ai/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/49aadd86a1a43580b7c9079ab398a509ebe10568.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": 410497, "full_name": "Philip Smart", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Automating flat-fee legal work, starting with work visas and green cards for immigration lawyers (Parley S24). \n\nUsed to work on Growth and GenAI @ Linkedin. Drove increases to \"Core Four\" metrics that we reported to MSFT, was PM on the first consumer, massive-scale launch of GPT-4 integrated into a product outside of OpenAI.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/phildsmart", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e891fe8b36771c80b9c8513390b07440f5b5612c.jpg" }, { "user_id": 587096, "full_name": "Ian Edwards", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder of Parley. We help automate legal drafting for immigration attorneys and other flat-fee lawyers. Previously an engineer at several startups including Porter (YC S20) and Govdash (YC W22).", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/ian-edwards", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4b933094f9793c2eccbac37184cd632d30d28f58.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1753065, "full_name": "Jackson Perry", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder of Parley. We want to automate flat-fee legal work, starting with immigration!\n\nIn a former life, invested at a clean energy PE fund and consulted for Oil & Gas majors and U.S. utilities.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/jackson-perry", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/106e09163fa463e7150bcc6756bac9ca271f248e.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 81798, "title": "Parley - Making immigration simple", "tagline": "We help immigration firms write visa applications with AI, starting with the O-1A Writer.", "body": "**Tl;dr:** Parley helps immigration lawyers write visa applications using AI. We integrate directly into a lawyer’s typical workflow so they can start writing with Parley from day 1 and deliver results to their clients faster.\\\n—\n\nHi everyone, we’re Jackson, Philip, and Ian, and we’re the co-founders of [Parley](http://www.parley.so).\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdt6N9Q8vNdjiG9xxDpkQcK7DC6o2oJ1pXc5CeFeNpU2jR8qqIb_HbbsvKCgbOuoHmlHJKSF1Y3cnlKz0SCU2BWfICIW3sVsxtv2MV5POsxXUBkkqgYH2Rzq1YRLdcm9rTZf4rLxt6pCFzt6-DOYN-A2yKY?key=bRVaeO2Jsn5Nds8A8Ue9KA)\n\n**📚 The Problem**\n\nIt’s no secret that the immigration system in the U.S. is broken. Anyone pursuing a work or immigrant visa will tell you about the difficulties of lottery systems, exorbitant fees, and endless paperwork. \n\nAt Parley, we believe an important piece to fixing this process is **automating work for immigration firms.** For some visa types, a lawyer or legal writer spends several days writing a single application, learning about the most complex and technical professions, collating hundreds of pages of evidence, and synthesizing it all into a cohesive petition. Meanwhile, an applicant eagerly waits for their opportunity. By helping lawyers work better on a daily basis, we hope to accelerate Parley’s speed to impact — reducing the complexity of immigration.\n\n**✍️ The Solution** \n\nParley makes immigration processes easier. Our first product, the O-1A Writer, helps **immigration attorneys speed write a petition** while keeping them in the loop. As a lawyer does the critical thinking in specifying what argument they want to make, our writer dynamically pulls content from an applicant's evidence, fits that material to the context of the application, and automatically drafts a petition for review. We do this all directly in Microsoft Word — where most attorneys spend their time writing. We’re quickly expanding support for more visa types like the H-1B, TN, EB-1, EB-2 NIW, L-1, and more.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=81798&key=user_uploads/410497/9ed0f8d6-b11f-48a8-acc1-3a6d50fb74df)\n\n**Asks:** \n\n* Want to use the product? **Book a demo **[**here**](https://calendly.com/philip-parley/15min)**.**\n* **Been through a visa process?** Reach out to us and tell us about your journey at [founders@parley.so](mailto:founders@parley.so) - we’d love to talk!\n* **Like what we’re building?** Share this post! Spread the word to help us build toward the vision of making immigration simple.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LHK-parley-making-immigration-simple", "votes": 96, "created_at": "2024-06-27T19:39:16.686Z" } ] }, { "id": 29782, "name": "Laminar", "slug": "laminar", "former_names": [ "Laminar AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f68c82dc13524e235198c783318ae1b1aa5d7432.png", "website": "https://laminar.sh", "all_locations": "London, England, United Kingdom", "long_description": "Laminar is open-source observability for AI agents. Trace complex workflows, replay and debug agent runs, and detect anomalies across trajectories at scale.", "one_liner": "Understand why your AI agent breaks. Iterate fast to fix it.", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1721337823, "tags": [ "AIOps", "Developer Tools", "SaaS", "B2B", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "regions": [ "United Kingdom", "Europe" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/laminar", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/laminar.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "London", "country": "GB", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/lmnr-ai/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/lmnr-ai/lmnr", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f68c82dc13524e235198c783318ae1b1aa5d7432.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1771812, "full_name": "Robert Kim", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CEO @ Laminar (lmnr.ai). Previously, I interned at Palantir where I built semantic search package which now powers many internal AI teams and worked on resource allocation engine at core infrastructure team. I also interned at Bloomberg where I scaled market tick processing pipeline by 10x to 10M ticks/s.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/skull8888888/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/skull8888888888", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b1164aa2d27587dbe70dd830f8ae356064e709d5.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1980084, "full_name": "Din Mailibay", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CTO at Laminar (laminar.sh). Previously, I have worked at Amazon for 2 years building and scaling critical payments infrastructure. Before that, I've spent a year creating ML infrastructure for a drug discovery biotech startup in Korea.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dinmukhamedm", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/din_mlb", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c56af6f86306ce69d00244d2229612165fb00abc.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 98606, "title": "Laminar – Understand why your agent failed. Iterate fast to fix it.", "tagline": "Open-source observability platform for long-running agents — trace in one line, replay-debug from any step, detect patterns at scale.", "body": "Hey everyone, Robert from Laminar (YC S24) here. The entire observability space was built for request-response LLM apps. Nobody was building for Agents that run for 40 minutes and fail in ways you can't reproduce. So we did.\n\n## Tracing that actually helps you understand what happened\n\nMost observability platforms just collect data and wait until you go look at it. And when you do, you get a tree of spans. You click into one, read it, go back, click the next one, try to hold the context in your head. For a simple LLM call, that's fine. For an agent that ran for 30 minutes and made 200 decisions, it's practically useless.\n\nWe built Laminar's tracing to give you as much information as quickly as possible.\n\nOur trace timeline and **reader mode** lay out the agent's reasoning and actions as a clean, readable feed.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98606&key=user_uploads/1771812/73741d82-1719-4062-8cc2-9bd8de880010)\n\nYou open a trace and immediately see what the agent did, what it was thinking, and where things went wrong (we also capture and show application level exceptions). For browser agents, we record **full browser sessions synced with traces**. You literally see what the agent saw at every step → .\n\nIf a trace is too complex to parse visually, you can **chat with it**: ask questions about what happened in natural language, instead of manually digging through hundreds of steps. We take into account the whole context of the trace, not just a single span.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98606&key=user_uploads/1771812/87cc29b4-f5c3-4924-ab96-5c52af1fae76)\n\nWe can confidently say that we have the best tracing DX on the market. It’s one line of code to integrate. Laminar SDK auto-patches vast majority of AI frameworks and SDKs, including **Claude Agent SDK, AI SDK, LiteLLM, Browser Use, Stagehand, OpenHands SDK**, and much [more](https://docs.laminar.sh/tracing/integrations/openai). We are the only platform that traces **Claude Agent SDK sub-agents**. When Claude delegates work to sub-agents, you get full visibility into that entire chain, not just the top-level call. Here’s an example of a trace .\n\n## The debugger\n\nThis is the feature we wished existed when we were building agents ourselves. When your agent fails 15 minutes into a run, the normal workflow is: restart from scratch, wait for it to reach the same state, hope it reproduces the failure. That's insane.\n\nLaminar starts a local dev server that connects to our platform. You can run your agent directly from our UI, and when a run fails, you go to the exact step where it went wrong. You tweak your prompt or tool definitions right in the UI. And you rerun from that step — with full context preserved.\n\nHere's how it works under the hood: our tracing SDK sits right before the LLM call boundary. When you rerun from a step, we mock all the LLM calls that happened before that point, replaying their original responses. This means the agent walks through its prior steps instantly without actually calling any LLMs and spending any tokens — and crucially, it properly restores external state along the way. If your agent was controlling a browser, the browser gets back to the exact page and DOM state. If it was working in a sandbox, the sandbox is restored. By the time execution reaches your breakpoint, everything — conversation history, tool state, external environment — is exactly as it was. You tweak your prompt, hit rerun, and the agent picks up from there with the real world intact.\n\nHere’s a demo of Laminar debugger.\n\n\n\n## Signals\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98606&key=user_uploads/1771812/19af455c-7dfa-46e7-aa40-fbac2b4696a6)\n\nIn development, you care about individual runs. In production, you have thousands of runs and the question changes — it's no longer \"why did this run fail,\" it's \"what's going wrong across all my runs and how often.\"\n\nThat's what Signals solve. You write a short natural language description of what you want to detect — something like \"agent gets stuck in a retry loop\" or \"user gets frustrated and rephrases their request.\" Laminar runs this against every trace, extracts matching events, and then clusters them into patterns. So instead of manually sampling traces hoping to spot trends, you get a structured view of what's actually happening. We use this ourselves to monitor our own agents, and it catches things we'd never find by skimming through traces.\n\n## SQL editor, evals, and more\n\nAll of your data lives is accessible with built-in SQL editor (both in UI and API). You can run arbitrary queries against your traces, spans, and events — build custom dashboards, do ad-hoc analysis, or bulk-create datasets from production traces. Those datasets plug directly into our evals pipeline, so you can run evaluations on real production data instead of synthetic test cases.\n\n## Laminar\n\nLeading agent companies like Browser Use, OpenHands, Rye.com, Alai and many more use Laminar in production. Laminar is fully open source and extremely fast (written in Rust). Self-host it anywhere or use our managed platform ().\n\n**Our ask:**\n\n* If you're shipping agents and debugging is painful, we'd love to help — [founders@lmnr.ai](mailto:founders@lmnr.ai)\n* Intros to teams running long running agents would be huge\n* Star us on GitHub: \n\n🔗 ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PeQ-laminar-understand-why-your-agent-failed-iterate-fast-to-fix-it", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2026-03-09T00:35:53.684Z" }, { "id": 89930, "title": "Laminar: The Missing Developer Tool for Browser Agents", "tagline": "Laminar captures browser session recordings and syncs them with agent traces.", "body": "Robert and Din from Laminar here. We created a new type of observability, which enabled us to build the SOTA open-source browser agent.\n\n# The Problem\n\nBrowser agents are powerful but notoriously difficult to develop and debug. When your agent fails, traditional traces just show a wall of text logs without context. You can't see what the agent was looking at when it made decisions, why it chose certain actions, or what exactly went wrong. It's like trying to debug a self-driving car without any camera footage – practically impossible.\n\nThis lack of proper observability tools has been the biggest barrier to building reliable browser agents.\n\n# The Solution\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89930&key=user_uploads/1771812/0da20a73-6dc1-4d3d-8561-dc38dd8cb624)\n\nLaminar created the missing piece in browser agent development: complete visual context for every agent action and decision. Our platform records high-quality browser sessions and perfectly synchronizes them with agent traces. Now developers can:\n\n1. **See what the agent sees** - Watch the complete visual journey of your agent as it navigates websites\n2. **Pinpoint exact failure points** - Identify precisely where and why agents make mistakes\n3. **Debug with context** - Understand agent decisions with full visual and trace context\n\n# Results\n\nUsing our own tools, we built Index - open-source browser agent that achieves 92% on WebVoyager benchmark, setting a new state of the art. Index can handle everything from research tasks to complex automations in apps like Google Sheets. In other words, we created a reliable **API layer to any website** that you can simply prompt with natural language.\n\n# Integrations\n\nLaminar seamlessly integrates with AI browser frameworks like **Stagehand** and **Browser Use** - integration takes just 2 lines of code.\n\n# Ask\n\n* **Build better agents:** Try Laminar today for your browser and AI agent development => \n* **Explore our open source agent:** Check out Index at [github.com/lmnr-ai/index](https://github.com/lmnr-ai/index)\n* **Dive into docs:** Comprehensive guides at \n\nWe're looking for early adopters and feedback! Reach out to us at [founders@lmnr.ai](mailto:founders@laminar.ai) and join our [discord](https://discord.com/invite/nNFUUDAKub).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NOU-laminar-the-missing-developer-tool-for-browser-agents", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2025-04-28T22:25:16.716Z" }, { "id": 83572, "title": "Laminar - Open-source observability and analytics for complex LLM apps", "tagline": "Observability and analytics which helps you track LLM apps in production.", "body": "**tldr: Laminar is an open-source developer platform that provides full instrumentation of LLM applications and combines trace data with event-based analytics.**\n\n**—**\n\nHey everyone, we’re Robert, Din, and Temirlan. Previously, we built infrastructure at Palantir, Amazon, and Bloomberg — now, we’re building an open-source platform to help developers understand how their LLM apps perform in production.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83572&key=user_uploads/1771812/e4140bd4-1ae9-453d-8457-2564c3820cbc)\n\n# Why do LLM apps need observability from day 0?\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83572&key=user_uploads/1771812/81e46417-9b77-4368-ab0f-c04b8b84556e)\n\nLLMs are stochastic, and designing robust software around them (e.g., RAG, Agents) is an iterative process. A great observability platform not only facilitates this process, but actually makes it more productive. Hence, many AI developers adopt observability tools early on.\n\nLaminar goes beyond single LLM call tracing and provides tools for entire app instrumentation and powerful UI for full trace visualization, trace search, and session grouping.\n\n## What is different about analytics for LLM apps?\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83572&key=user_uploads/1771812/29d881c9-de4c-416a-be18-d17638d67135)\n\nLLM apps produce traces, which are essentially very rich text. Traditional event-based analytics tools are not built for extracting metrics from this kind of data.\n\nCurrently, AI devs spend a good chunk of their time manually inspecting traces to understand usage patterns of their LLM apps. As they scale, manual inspection is not feasible anymore.\n\nLaminar tackles this problem by using other LLMs to process rich text outputs in the background. With Laminar, developers can define custom events, such as “USER SENTIMENT,” to collect user sentiments and track this metric at scale as they deploy their LLM apps into production.\n\nEach event is linked to the trace that produced it, and developers can understand when and why certain semantic events have happened. It gives developers deeper understanding of the performance and usage of their LLM apps.\n\n## Our ask\n\n* Star our repo → \n* Start tracing and tracking events with a managed version of our open-source platform here → \n* [Join our Discord](https://discord.com/invite/nNFUUDAKub)\n* Connect us with anyone who builds software around LLMs and would greatly benefit from a tool like this!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ljw-laminar-open-source-observability-and-analytics-for-complex-llm-apps", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2024-08-29T15:16:33.971Z" }, { "id": 82294, "title": "Laminar - Developer platform to ship reliable LLM agents 10x faster", "tagline": "Combining orchestration, evals, data, and observability into a single platform.", "body": "# tl;dr: Laminar is a developer platform that combines orchestration, evaluations, data, and observability to empower AI developers to ship reliable LLM applications 10x faster. Get started for free → [lmnr.ai.](https://www.lmnr.ai)\n\nHey everyone, we’re Robert, Din and Temirlan. Previously, we built infrastructure at Palantir, Amazon, and Bloomberg— now our goal is to help AI developers ship reliable LLM applications faster.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82294&key=user_uploads/1771812/1a4a4a99-7e50-4bcd-86ff-8d2a5474a091)\n\n# ❌ The Problem\n\nLLMs are stochastic, and designing robust software around them (e.g. LLM agents) demands rapid iteration on core logic and prompts, constant monitoring and a structured way of testing new changes. Existing solutions are vertical and the burden of maintaining “glue” between them is still on the developers, which inevitably slows them down.\n\n# ✅ Our Solution\n\nLaminar is a dev platform that combines orchestration, evaluations, data, and observability to help AI devs to ship reliable LLM applications 10x faster. We provide:\n\n* a GUI to build LLM applications as dynamic graphs with seamless local code interfacing.\n* an [open-source package](https://github.com/lmnr-ai/lmnr-python) to generate abstraction-free code from these graphs directly into developers' codebases.\n* a state-of-the art evaluation platform that lets devs build fast and custom evaluators without managing evaluation infrastructure themselves.\n* a data infrastructure with built-in support for vector search over datasets and files. Data can be easily ingested into LLMs and LLMs can write to the datasets, creating a self-improving data flywheel.\n* a low latency logging and observability infrastructure.\n\n# Orchestration\n\nAs devs, we love to code everything ourselves, but we’ve realized the fastest way of iterating on LLM application logic is via graph UI. So, we’ve built the ultimate LLM “IDE”, where you build your LLM applications as dynamic graphs. You can build cyclical flows, route to different tools, and collaborate with your teammates in real-time!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82294&key=user_uploads/1771812/be5a68c2-4440-4fd3-92e7-71c7436e13c8)\n\nGraphs can seamlessly interface with local code. “Function node” can call local functions on your server, right from our UI or our SDK. It’s a huge game changer for testing of LLM agents which call different tools and then circle the response back to LLMs. In the gif below, local function “save_result_to_db“, which runs on a server on my computer, is directly called from our UI.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82294&key=user_uploads/1771812/17ade57e-5551-4db3-a036-0bed9956a79e)\n\nUsing our [open-source package](https://github.com/lmnr-ai/lmnr-python), you can generate zero-abstraction code from graph definition, which exactly replicates the graph functionality. Code is generated as pure functions right inside your repo, and you have total freedom to modify it however you want. It is extremely valuable for the devs who are tired of frameworks with myriads of layers of abstraction.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82294&key=user_uploads/1771812/6955178c-ef6a-4b26-bac9-39fdebe6f1ac)\n\nYou can also deploy LLM pipelines as API endpoints on our infrastructure and easily call them via our Python/TS sdks.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82294&key=user_uploads/1771812/d071c79f-9b3c-4376-9de1-c9cccd401e6b)\n\n# Evaluations\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82294&key=user_uploads/1771812/799c93b7-c273-4b65-ac0c-50a3e360952c)\n\nLaminar pipeline builder can be used to build custom and flexible evaluation pipelines that seamlessly interface with local code. You can start from something simple like exact matching and then build a custom LLM-as-a-judge pipeline tailored to your specific use case. You can upload large datasets and run evaluations on thousands of data points at the same time, and get all statistics about the run in real time. All of this without the pain of managing evaluation infrastructure yourself.\n\n# Observability\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82294&key=user_uploads/1771812/f6d0e26d-60d7-4371-a558-a36006d8cd43)\n\nWhether you decide to host LLM pipelines on our platform or generate code from graphs, all pipeline runs are logged and you can easily inspect the traces in the convenient UI.\n\n# Conclusion\n\nLaminar aims to deliver the best developer experience for AI developers. We remove unnecessary friction and burden of managing infrastructure. We let you focus on building the best AI products and ship them 10x faster!\n\n# Our ask\n\n* Start building reliable LLM agents right now for free → \n* Check out [open-source code gen package](https://github.com/lmnr-ai/lmnr-python)\n* Connect us with anyone who builds software around LLMs and would greatly benefit from a tool like this!\n* [Join our Discord](https://discord.com/invite/nNFUUDAKub)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LPK-laminar-developer-platform-to-ship-reliable-llm-agents-10x-faster", "votes": 97, "created_at": "2024-07-20T04:14:28.826Z" } ] }, { "id": 29786, "name": "Palmier", "slug": "palmier", "former_names": [ "ProteusAI", "Palmier", "Sado" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0186f2775062552b28ed6bdc42f5d5e89590738e.png", "website": "https://www.palmier.io", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Palmier Pro is a video editor built for AI, where Claude and Codex can edit your timeline directly: trimming, reordering, and generating footage. 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Now co-founder and CEO of Palmier, building something people want! 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We used it to make 15+ cinematic AI launch videos for YC companies and it's now open-source and free to download at [palmier.io](http://palmier.io).\\\n\\\n**The Problem**\\\nMaking AI videos today means bouncing between tools constantly.\\\nGeneration.\n\n* You generate a clip in Runway or Higgsfield, import it into Premiere, realize one section doesn't work, go back to the generation tool, regenerate, reimport. That loop repeats dozens of times per video.\n\nIteration.\n\n* Because generation and editing live in separate apps, your workspace is a mess and it becomes extremely hard to keep track of good takes, bad takes, reference images, and reference videos.\n\nRepetition.\n\n* You still spend hours sorting through footage, finding the right takes, and manually adding keyframes, effects, and captions. It eats into your productivity and leaves you with less time for the actual creative work.\n\n\\\n**Our Solution**\\\nWe built a full-fledged professional video editor with two things in mind.\n\nWe made AI video a primitive, not an add-on. For each clip, we track the prompt, model, and references so you can iterate directly inside the timeline instead of bouncing between apps.\n\nWe made everything operable by AI. By using our built-in agent, or connecting to yours via MCP, AI agents can help:\n\n* Save hours of work by automating the grunt work in editing: finding key moments in long videos, captions, file organization, and more.\n* Create first draft edits from your footage. The tools let AI understand your videos and draft a first cut directly in the timeline.\n* Use AI generation models to create footage, b-roll, sound effects, voiceovers, and music and drop it directly into your project.\n\n\\\n\n\n\\\n**Asks**\n\nDownload Palmier Pro at [palmier.io](http://palmier.io) — it's free and open source.\n\nFollow us on [X](https://x.com/) and [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/).\n\nIf you work a lot with AI video or are looking to explore it, we would love to chat. You can reach us at [founders@palmier.io](mailto:founders@palmier.io).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103383&key=user_uploads/1645879/a49f9c7d-0c0f-4dbf-a1ee-4b35b425f612)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QtT-palmier-pro-an-open-source-video-editor-your-agents-can-operate", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2026-06-16T19:59:43.822Z" }, { "id": 83365, "title": "Palmier - AI that understands any codebase", "tagline": "Be a 10x developer with Palmier", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83365&key=user_uploads/1645879/276b05df-577c-4821-b64d-a8a5e6ca80ef)\n\n**☕ tl;dr**: [Palmier](https://www.palmier.io/) is an **AI** tool that **understands any codebase**.\n\n* **Automates code reviews**, **bug detection**, and **code optimization** and implements them for you.\n* Context-aware **code explanations** **and** **natural language** code **search**.\n\nBy the time you finish reading this launch, you could’ve setup **Palmier** already! Reach out to [founders@palmier.io](mailto:founders@palmier.io) and/or sign up to the waitlist [here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFMLX009lTuWnseUHcwFWLq04-BQP-sW9Ytl3I5UBz-iQC5w/viewform) to get started.\n\n# **🔒 Problem**\n\nDevelopers spend only about 30% of their time actually building new features, with the rest of their day taken up by tedious but necessary tasks like understanding code, fixing bugs, and reviewing other people's code. And this only gets worse as the codebases and teams get larger. Furthermore, context switches get more frequent, and general productivity starts to decline.\n\n# **🔑 Solution**\n\nPalmier tackles this by having an individually trained AI model for each unique codebase. This ensures the most accurate and precise understanding of the code.\n\nPalmier lives in your GitHub repository, and thoroughly checks every PR request:\n\n* Palmier automatically creates a concise yet precise description of the changes being made, trains on every past PR made, and opens issues for the most accurate context. No more guessing games trying to find why a change was implemented.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83365&key=user_uploads/1645879/576e5722-9289-4f48-b894-a8e20662c982)\n\n* Palmier scans your changes and suggests improvements: this can be as simple as variable name changes to more complex changes, such as performance optimizations. With a couple of clicks, you can implement these suggestions and commit them without leaving GitHub.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83365&key=user_uploads/1645879/4f35aa2d-445f-4ce4-9e79-e2c260aa64db)\n\n* Palmier will scan CI/CD issues and suggest fixes to failed tests that are related to the code changes (coming soon).\n\nWith Palmier chat, you can onboard any codebase 10x quicker. Whether it’s understanding what certain code does, how it interacts with other components, or where in your code a certain feature is implemented, Palmier gives you the most accurate answers and avoids hallucinating by always citing its sources.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83365&key=user_uploads/1645879/6536e3cb-8477-47b8-85aa-0bd178dd01f4)\n\n# \n\n# **🚀 The Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83365&key=user_uploads/1645879/5ce7d590-a9d3-464c-81a3-53f7e30fb4a8)\n\n[Marcos](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcosrico) CEO (left), [Harrison](https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrison-tin-a260321b3/) CTO (right)\n\nThe Palmier team consists of Marcos and Harrison, both graduates of UC Berkeley with degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. With experience working at big tech like LinkedIn and Microsoft, we started Palmier to tackle the productivity problems we personally faced while working there: large code review cycles, many review iterations, and onboarding never-ending codebases. We are both extremely passionate about improving software developers’ lives and are on a mission to make every developer do what we love doing most - building! Feel free to reach out to any of us at any time! We'd love to chat.\n\n# **🙏 Asks**\n\n* Try out Palmier! You can [schedule a call](https://calendar.app.google/u5pUgv7nkqBLHMMw9) with the founders, reach out to us at [founders@palmier.io](mailto:founders@palmier.io) or sign up for the waitlist [here.](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFMLX009lTuWnseUHcwFWLq04-BQP-sW9Ytl3I5UBz-iQC5w/viewform) We’d love to talk to you and how we can make this customized for your use case!\n* If you know any engineers in large development teams who work with large codebases and push and review PRs often, please connect us with them!\n * Copy & paste blurb: A YC company named Palmier has developed an AI code expert that will automatically review your PRs. It’ll save tons of time for you. You can grab a time [here](https://calendar.app.google/u5pUgv7nkqBLHMMw9) for a demo from the founders.\n\nApproved open-source repositories can install for free! Just reach out to us [founders@palmier.io](mailto:founders@palmier.io)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83365&key=user_uploads/1645879/7e357e4c-4b82-498d-b6d5-b046a8693a37)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lgb-palmier-ai-that-understands-any-codebase", "votes": 471, "created_at": "2024-08-24T17:29:02.951Z" } ] }, { "id": 29793, "name": "RiskAngle", "slug": "riskangle", "former_names": [ "Flyte.ai", "Zephr", "Zephr (Flyte AI, Inc)", "Zephr", "Risk", "Zephr" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/54a02285653f46a282f6b715527aa06ce8d9cd0d.png", "website": "https://www.riskangle.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "RiskAngle delivers fast, accurate summaries of unstructured medical records for insurance companies and law firms. 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We use AI to automate the process of creating everything from the protocol, saving not only spend on headcount but also months of time which can translate to up to $27M in direct costs + lost revenue saved for a single phase 3 trial. 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At large companies, floors of people use the protocol to create the study data collection forms, clinical database design, error checks, analysis code, and data transformation mappings. This makes the process both expensive and time-consuming, with **a single day lost** in a clinical trial **costing** [**50k-300k** (depending on phase)](https://baselineai.notion.site/Cost-of-1-Day-By-Stage-af2f3e4008444ed8a819d288d45fd31d?pvs=74). \n\n### **🚀 Solution**\n\nWe offer a three-part solution:\n\n* **Baseline Build**\n * Processes the study protocol to create the study data collection forms, clinical database design, and error checks\n* **Baseline Harmonize**\n * Transforms data from external sources into the desired format based on the database model\n* **Baseline Analyze**\n * Uses the study protocol and database model to create the analysis tables and figures\n\nImplementing our AI workflows can **save a single phase 3 clinical trial up to $18M** in direct costs and lost revenue.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83484&key=user_uploads/718972/f7dbfa5f-f8d8-436f-9ee5-29139b3f9de7)\n\n**📘 Backstory**\n\nWe’re [Nabil](https://linkedin.com/in/nabil-baugher-93822a18a) and [Zoe](https://linkedin.com/in/zoesheill) — two recent MIT grads who want to help bring new treatments to patients in need faster. We noticed that despite drug discovery being faster than ever, new treatments for things our friends and family needed seemed to rarely make it to market. Zoe also participated in a clinical trial herself and wanted to see the system improve. \n\n### **🙏 Ask**\n\nIf you or anyone you know are in pharma/biotech or running clinical trials, we’d love to chat! Please reach out to us at [founders@baselinetrials.com](mailto:founders@baselinetrials.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LiW-baseline-ai-ai-document-creation-data-management-for-clinical-trials", "votes": 98, "created_at": "2024-08-27T21:22:07.159Z" } ] }, { "id": 29795, "name": "Odo", "slug": "odo", "former_names": [ "Odo", "Odo Labs" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1708fa08344b75fc38d36f9effcf823a2fb93846.png", "website": "https://useodo.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Odo is your email assistant because you deserve a better morning. 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He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton, where he studied Computer Science and earned minors in History & Public Policy.\n\n[Alex](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-pesendorfer/) previously worked in software engineering at a leading derivatives marketplace. 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We’re John and Brendan, the team creating [Quetzal](https://getquetzal.com/).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82510&key=user_uploads/1755404/113a9847-7718-45ff-9f1e-ac6df1d8d02f)\n\n**John** (on the left) worked for three years at Slack on the Slack Connect team, handling new features and requests from customers around the world. He saw firsthand the pain that bad and challenging translations and internationalization had for everyone at the company, from engineers, to CSMs, to PMs, to users.\n\n**Brendan** (on the right) worked for two years at Mercatalyst, a retail startup founded by the creator of Woot.com, which sold to Amazon in 2010. He worked extensively on the project bringing in in-house Spanish translation, and experienced the headache that this effort caused.\n\nTogether, they decided to bring outdated and broken internationalization software and approaches into the year 2024 with Quetzal.\n\n# **Why is the current approach to internationalization and translation broken? 🤕**\n\nIf you're just starting out going international with your product, it can be daunting to see exactly what you need to do. Translating your whole product takes time and perhaps maybe weeks or months of engineering effort, depending on what solution you go with. How do you deliver consistent and accurate translations with context about how your application works? Software translation mostly relies on engineers haphazardly providing text to an internationalization service, which then needs to translate on a string by string basis. This strategy loses important context and leads to poor quality, inconsistent translations, all while putting unnecessary work on engineers.\n\nIf your company already has a robust localization system, there's a whole host of other problems. You need to juggle the constant barrage of customer confusion, growth and change to your product and messaging, and external demands to adjust wording and phrasing, sometimes at the last second. Keeping up with all of that and making your language and messaging consistent with how your product works and what your intents are is super tough and puts unnecessary stress on your localization team.\n\nQuetzal aims to tackles these problems with a new modern internationalization solution that understands your specific goals with each localization problem you're trying to solve.\n\n# **Our ask to you, kind reader:**\n\n* If you’re trying to internationalize or have already done it but are experiencing pain in the process (or if you know someone that is!) please reach out to us at [john@getquetzal.com](mailto:john@getquetzal.com) or [brendan@getquetzal.com.](mailto:brendan@getquetzal.com)\n* Connect us with people on Internationalization and Localization teams within your network so we can see what their pain is.\n* **Share this post!** If you think what we’re doing is cool, share this post out to your network!\n* Or if you just want to practice a second language (we speak English, Spanish, Mandarin, and German between us), play chess, or just chat about internationalization, let us know!\n\n(Yes, we know that we used a parrot emoji in the title, please let us know when they add a real quetzal).\n\nThank you very much for reading,\n\nJohn Thompson & Brendan Agliardo", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LSo-quetzal-a-modern-internationalization-platform", "votes": 26, "created_at": "2024-07-29T02:06:55.041Z" } ] }, { "id": 29836, "name": "TradeFlow", "slug": "tradeflow", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4f562e2265bcd5600f4ba364e50019b9ca9ba417.png", "website": "https://www.tradeflowai.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "TradeFlow is AI-powered settlement for financial securities. During her time in financial services, Taryn saw firsthand how inefficient and costly it is to settle trades. Historically, it’s been difficult to improve this process because it’s heavily reliant on manual emails, disparate systems, and inconsistently structured data. However, the advent of powerful AI technology allows us to unlock greater automation than ever before. TradeFlow empowers back offices to do more with less by offloading these time-intensive tasks to AI.", "one_liner": "AI-powered settlement for financial securities", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech", "launched_at": 1721925578, "tags": [ "FinOps", "Fintech", "SaaS", "B2B", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech" ], "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/tradeflow", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/tradeflow.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/tradeflowai/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4f562e2265bcd5600f4ba364e50019b9ca9ba417.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/96e821fc2d37e820b5761cfec0da3598a8c3c280.png" ], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 726397, "full_name": "Taryn Reardon", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Taryn is the Co-Founder and CEO of TradeFlow. She has expertise in financial services, with experience in electronic trading, middle office, and digital transformation roles. Prior to TradeFlow, Taryn worked at Goldman Sachs, where she managed institutional client relationships to drive bottom-line results. Taryn graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Policy Analysis & Management.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/taryn-reardon/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c2e3344506bc7f798e9aec2bc656deb12cce764e.jpg" }, { "user_id": 735974, "full_name": "Liam Breen", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Liam is the Co-Founder and CTO of TradeFlow. Previously, he was a software engineer at Meta, where he drove critical privacy initiatives for Facebook and built a data mining tool to identify malicious entities on the platform. Liam graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Computer Science. He is also a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/liam-b-456081124/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/0e412fa925255590308d66f10f8725f1b49e2783.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 82527, "title": "TradeFlow: AI software to automate stock trade settlement", "tagline": "Automating post-trade operations with the power of AI", "body": "[**TradeFlow**](https://www.tradeflowai.com/) uses AI to automate stock trade settlement for financial firms.\n\n# **About Us**\n\n[Taryn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/taryn-reardon/) and [Liam](https://www.linkedin.com/in/liam-b-456081124/) met at Cornell University 7 years ago. After graduating, Taryn worked at Goldman Sachs in global markets, and Liam worked at Meta as a software engineer.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82527&key=user_uploads/89898/6a9ccc58-dbae-4d3e-b6ca-0b2a59210019)\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nDuring her time in financial services, Taryn saw firsthand how inefficient and costly it is to settle trades. Trade settlement requires extensive coordination across firms, yet the current financial infrastructure is extremely fragmented. The industry acknowledges the inefficiency, but it’s been difficult to improve because workflows are heavily reliant on manual emails, disparate systems, and inconsistently structured data.\n\nTo make matters worse, the US just shortened the settlement timeline from 2 days to only 1, forcing operations professionals to perform the same workload in half the time.\n\n# **The Solution**\n\nThe advent of powerful AI technology can unlock greater efficiencies than ever before. Leveraging LLMs, TradeFlow digests and centralizes data from all key sources and automates action items, like booking trades and writing emails. Instead of completing time-intensive tasks by hand, operations professionals can offload them to TradeFlow and simply review the work at the end.\n\nWe empower back offices to do more with less, so trades can settle faster with a fraction of the human effort.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82527&key=user_uploads/726397/a05be150-dcab-46d1-b424-ea41f5c37152)\n\n# **Our Ask**\n\n* Let us know at [sales@tradeflowai.com](mailto:sales@tradeflowai.com) if you have any financial services leaders in your network (brokers, banks, institutional investment firms)! Here is a blurb that you can share with others:\n\n _“An ex-Goldman sales trader and an ex-Meta engineer created _[**_TradeFlow_**](https://www.tradeflowai.com/)_, an AI-powered software to automate post-trade operations. Reach out to the team at _[_sales@tradeflowai.com_](mailto:sales@tradeflowai.com)_ to learn more & schedule a demo.”_\n* Follow us on [**LinkedIn**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tradeflowai/)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LT5-tradeflow-ai-software-to-automate-stock-trade-settlement", "votes": 77, "created_at": "2024-07-29T18:09:40.177Z" } ] }, { "id": 29837, "name": "RentFlow", "slug": "rentflow", "former_names": [ "Pastelle.", "Mindley", "Mindely" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/83db64301a123c8f20195581b448254e59c1a24f.png", "website": "https://www.therentflow.com", "all_locations": "Miami, FL, USA", "long_description": "RentFlow is tackling a hair-on-fire problem for small and medium businesses across the U.S.: the way their rent is paid each month is fundamentally misaligned with how cash actually comes in.\r\n\r\nWe’re building the infrastructure layer to fix that.\r\n\r\nToday, ~50% of U.S. businesses are late on rent in any given month. The rest face invisible struggles to pay on time, undermining their stability month after month.\r\n\r\nRentFlow is the first platform to turn fixed business rent into an AI-driven, cash-flow-synced product, underwritten in real time from transaction-level data to prevent financial issues before they even surface.", "one_liner": "The AI infrastructure for cash-flow-aligned business rent", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1722719636, "tags": [ "Fintech", "Generative AI", "SaaS", "Payments", "Proptech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rentflow", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/rentflow.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "Miami", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/therentflow/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/83db64301a123c8f20195581b448254e59c1a24f.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Nicolas Dessaigne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1984308, "full_name": "Joseph Thalinjan", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Joseph is the Co-Founder & CEO of RentFlow.\nBefore, he was a consultant at McKinsey & Company for 3 years, focusing on real estate and financial services.\nHe holds a Master of Science from CentraleSupelec Engineering School and a Master in Management from ESCP Europe Business School.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-thalinjan", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6e88b160c552f925895368d51700754cd0174b65.jpg" }, { "user_id": 177813, "full_name": "Alix Maurin", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Alix is the Founder & CEO of RentFlow. She was a consultant at McKinsey & Company for three years, specializing in fintech strategy and business banking. Earlier in her career, she worked at Uber EMEA and Amazon. She holds a Master’s in Management from ESSEC Business School.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alix-maurin-850610148/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/14f8880fc4247586a088e08381780f27882b896c.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [] }, { "id": 29954, "name": "Henry", "slug": "henry-2", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0d265b62e9a71a10a393d1dd6dc5f7e7aee9d789.png", "website": "http://www.henry.ai", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Henry is an AI copilot for commercial real estate (CRE) brokers that seamlessly integrates a brokerage’s internal data set with external sources to generate custom presentations and financial modeling for deals. Our mission is to help CRE brokers close more deals faster, earning more while doing less repetitive work. We’re initially focusing on enabling brokers to generate deal decks in seconds—a task that typically consumes 20+ hours a week across multiple departments within a brokerage.", "one_liner": "Automating Deal Decks for Commercial Real Estate Brokers", "team_size": 20, "industry": "Real Estate and Construction", "subindustry": "Real Estate and Construction", "launched_at": 1718775199, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "SaaS", "Real Estate", "AI", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Real Estate and Construction" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Growth", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/henry-2", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/henry-2.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/henry-ai/?viewAsMember=true", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0d265b62e9a71a10a393d1dd6dc5f7e7aee9d789.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "David Lieb", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/david-lieb" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 2060886, "full_name": "Sammy Greenwall", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Sammy is the Co-Founder and CEO of Henry, Co-Founder and former CRO of Lev (which he scaled 0 to Series B / $10M+ run rate), and a retired real estate finance professional. Sammy was born and raised in the Bay Area and played college basketball at Swarthmore College. Sammy is passionate about building great products in large and stubborn markets.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sammy-greenwall-387b3256/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e8fab49274033e91149a7641fd4fb21bc7ab6334.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2061735, "full_name": "Adam Pratt", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "2x Founder, Currently CTO and Co-Founder @ Henry.\n\nPreviously, Firefighter (Hamilton, NY - Station 19) and Co-Founder @ Halligan (Fire Department Saas Platform). Aquired by Vector Solutions in 2019\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-pratt-73a4aa103/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/88f1cab6c681e21db76f6723379efa6e94c288a4.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Henry AI Raises $4.3M in Seed Round – Commercial Observer", "url": "https://commercialobserver.com/2025/02/henry-ai-seed-round/", "date": "Feb 20, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 83131, "title": "Henry - AI copilot for commercial real estate brokers", "tagline": "Automating tedious presentations & financial modeling to let brokers get back to what they do best: selling.", "body": "Hi everyone! We are Sourav, Sammy and Adam, and we’re creating an AI copilot that automates the deal deck creation and financial analysis process for CRE (commercial real estate) brokers. For example, [Henry](http://www.henry.ai/) can create a full deal package for a broker selling an office building in Dogpatch in minutes instead of weeks. This will ensure that brokers maximize their time in the most value-added part of their business: relationships and sales.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83131&key=user_uploads/89898/dd4cce39-5b6f-426f-9245-f5e9b1b0e7fa)\n\n(Sourav is remote!)\n\nTraditional brokers often spend as much as 50% of their time on tasks that do not contribute to their bottom line. From basic financial analysis to marketing presentations to win future business to basic operational support, brokers often struggle with the manual and time-consuming realities of their business. These tasks are an incredibly painful bottleneck for brokers, which interferes with their primary goal of _building relationships to buy and sell property_.\n\nWe are creating [Henry](http://www.henry.ai/) to solve this problem. Henry is an AI copilot that takes all of the messy, unstructured data that defines CRE transactions and consolidates it into clean marketing deliverables & financial analyses in minutes rather than weeks. Long term, we plan on automating the entire deal flow process for brokers to make their cycle time for a deal an order of magnitude faster. You can find an example of what we do below:\n\n\n\nI ([Sammy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sammy-greenwall-387b3256/)) led Lev for the last five years, a 200+ person series B real estate financing marketplace that I co-founded. During this time, I realized that brokers were often bottlenecked by manual processes & antiquated technology, a problem optimally solved with advances in AI-driven technology. This led me to my partnership with [Adam](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-pratt-73a4aa103/), and Sourav who has deep experience in creating AI-enabled solutions for thorny problems that plague traditional businesses.\n\n# **How you can help:**\n\n* Know any CRE brokers? We’d love to talk to them about how we can make their lives easier & their paychecks larger. Contact us at [sammy@henry.ai](mailto:sammy@henry.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lcp-henry-ai-copilot-for-commercial-real-estate-brokers", "votes": 107, "created_at": "2024-08-16T19:31:07.619Z" } ] }, { "id": 29957, "name": "Anglera", "slug": "anglera", "former_names": [ "Angler" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a2dfb2adf611e11737fa14a1b9b4be581858cfc3.png", "website": "https://www.anglera.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "At Anglera, we're developing a suite of AI agents to help e-commerce companies run their operations more efficiently. Our flagship agent helps our customers onboard, enrich, and manage their product data, reducing time per product from 15 mins down to 5 seconds.\r\n\r\nWe previously developed ML to automatically enrich millions of products at Uber Eats, and we're now on a mission to automate the most common manual workflows for every e-commerce business.", "one_liner": "AI-Powered Product Data Enrichment", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Retail", "launched_at": 1719875304, "tags": [ "Machine Learning", "SaaS", "B2B", "E-commerce", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Retail" ], "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/anglera", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/anglera.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/anglera/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/anglera", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a2dfb2adf611e11737fa14a1b9b4be581858cfc3.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1164027, "full_name": "Amay Aggarwal", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Amay is the Co-Founder of Anglera. \nHe graduated from Stanford with Bachelor's & Master's degrees, specializing in AI/ML.\nPreviously, he led Catalog AI efforts to onboard, enrich, & standardize millions of products sold on Uber Eats.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/amayaggarwal/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3b3efa8fd2d4d81bb68515971d014bc0e51d048d.jpg" }, { "user_id": 497318, "full_name": "Ray Iyer", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Ray is the Co-Founder of Anglera. 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We empower brands, retailers, and marketplaces to effortlessly onboard, enrich, and list hundreds of product SKUs. This saves time and improves sales. Contact us to learn more: [amay@anglera.com](mailto:amay@anglera.com)\n\n### **👋 Who we are**\n\nHello! We’re [Amay](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amayaggarwal/) & [Ray](https://www.linkedin.com/in/\\~iyer), and we’re on a mission to redefine how e-commerce companies manage their product data.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82584&key=user_uploads/1164027/42a17226-77c0-4c1d-8fb9-cab72b34aaf6)\n\nWhether you’re a brand, retailer, or marketplace, we know that dealing with e-commerce products can be challenging. We faced this problem first-hand at Uber Eats, where we built tech to enhance millions of listings uploaded by our restaurant and retail partners.\n\n### **🔍 Problem**\n\nMost rapidly growing e-commerce companies spend several hours each week managing their products across sales channels. Teams drown in spreadsheets, manually adding descriptions, images, and attributes for hundreds of items. This time-consuming process diverts focus away from actually growing their core business.\n\n### **💡 Solution**\n\nWe’re tackling the $20B Product Information Management (PIM) industry by building the smartest platform for managing e-commerce product data.\n\n\n\nAnglera empowers every e-commerce business with their own AI catalog ‘expert’ trained on thousands of top-converting product listings. We not only help our customers onboard new products faster, but also improve all of their listings to drive better sales.\n\n**Key Features:**\n\n* **✅ Faster Time-To-Market**: Instantly onboard products from any source (Website URL, Spreadsheet, PDF, etc.)\n* **​✅ Better Sales**: Automatically enrich descriptions, images, & attributes to drive conversion\n* **✅ Wider Reach**: Start selling on new channels with just one click (Shopify, Amazon, etc.)\n\nWe measure success for our customers with two simple metrics: 1) $ increase in sales, and 2) # of hours saved.\n\n### **🙏 Asks**\n\n1. **Let’s chat** if you're a brand/retailer/marketplace looking to improve how you manage your product listings. Happy to share data-driven learnings from years of experience working on this at Uber Eats.\n2. **Introduce us** to any e-commerce companies in your network. Whether it's a friend running their own brand or someone who works at a larger retailer or marketplace, we’d love to connect.\n\nContact: [amay@anglera.com](mailto:amay@anglera.com) | Website: [www.anglera.com](http://www.anglera.com) | Calendar: [Book Time](https://calendly.com/amay-anglera/15-min)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LU0-anglera-the-smartest-way-to-manage-e-commerce-products", "votes": 45, "created_at": "2024-07-30T21:50:52.321Z" } ] }, { "id": 29965, "name": "Formula Insight", "slug": "formula-insight", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/0d24f87db5131a298b5fd35aba59870c07522d6f.png", "website": "https://www.formulainsight.io/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Formula Insight offers Institutional Investors previously inaccessible data. 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However, key insights are lost when connecting the dots between complex Excel financial models with millions of cells and across hundreds of SEC filings, management transcripts, and research papers. \n\nFormula Insight expedites the research process by analyzing these critical documents in minutes to help investors gain an edge in the public markets.\n\n\n\n**The Problem**\n\nFinancial models in Excel are the backbone of every investment thesis. Still, the workflow between financial model analysis and other key research documents has been separate. Critical details are missed when drawing inferences between Excel data and paper documents, and the work to build the fact pattern for investment decisions is inefficient.\n\n**The Solution**\n\nUsers can accurately search through millions of cells and build the fact pattern within internal financial Excel models, all down to granular KPIs for custom benchmarking. They can also plot financial projections against consensus estimates and draw inferences across hundreds of documents, including transcripts and filings. All answers have source document references and are housed within a secure environment, ensuring that sensitive information remains protected.\n\nSign up [here](https://fwotrcm808u.typeform.com/to/cYqIrmWn) to get access.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MKe-formula-insight-an-equity-research-platform-that-analyzes-complex-excel-models", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2024-11-28T16:30:35.284Z" } ] }, { "id": 29972, "name": "Affil.ai", "slug": "affil-ai", "former_names": [ "Awardington", "Affil" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/afaac0ba9fea3d823a798e81e6b89e28c34dbd0e.png", "website": "https://affil.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We build AI compliance for external marketing. 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[Affil](https://affil.ai/) monitors affiliate content, enabling companies to expand marketing efforts and maximize revenue.\n\n_What is financial affiliate marketing?_ When you see content by The Points Guy or Forbes that talks about credit cards, checking accounts, etc, they get a kickback from the financial brand for anyone who successfully applies for the product.\n\n### ⚠️ The Problem\n\nFinancial institutions (e.g., Capital One) or consumer fintech companies (e.g., Acorns) want to grow their affiliate programs but are completely blocked by compliance barriers. However, it’s expensive and time-intensive to do manual affiliate compliance & management.\n\nOn the flip side, affiliates are also dissatisfied with these financial affiliate programs. The majority have to work with disorganized & outdated middlemen hired by financial brands who take a significant cut of payouts.\n\n### 🛠️ The Solution\n\nOur AI compliance software monitors affiliate content so that financial companies know exactly what’s being said about them so that they can expand their marketing efforts:\n\n* Track thousands of affiliate pages \n* Quickly identify compliance violations without needing human intervention\n* Create support tickets for every issue, so affiliates & brands can keep track of errors\n\nWe’re also improving the affiliate experience:\n\n* Offer higher payouts for conversions (since we have a lower cost structure)\n* Provide a beautiful user experience & working APIs\n* Proactively identify compliance risks & offer automated suggestions to minimize risk\n\nFor example (see below), the AMEX Gold Card underwent significant changes on July 27, 2024, but outdated affiliate content still exists on the internet (that’s not good). We caught this issue that both AMEX and Bankrate missed.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83537&key=user_uploads/723194/ba92939d-54dd-48e3-96e2-92f6fd687240)\n\nThe big vision is to become the affiliate network that powers all financial institutions out there.\n\n### 🧍‍♂️Our Team\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83537&key=user_uploads/723194/876b50d9-2679-48a5-a7ae-e4623f56d47a)\n\n[Vivek](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivek-olumbe/) & [John](https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnta2000/) first met at Penn and cofounded the first personal finance nonprofit at 8 different colleges, accumulating 2.5k+ users and $25k+ in funding. Vivek is a full stack developer who worked for several startups shipping new products; John was previously in banking, strategy, and growth roles.\n\nAfter managing affiliate relationships in a prior role & being involved with credit cards for years (fun fact: he has 30 cards), John realized the financial affiliate marketing space was broken. \n\n### 🤝 Our Ask\n\n* **Leads:** Know anyone at a consumer finance company or publishers/content creators that write about credit cards/use affiliate links? 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We’re [John](https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnta2000/) & [Vivek](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivek-olumbe/)— we cofounded a nonprofit together at Penn (2.5k+ members). 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From sales, estimating, project management, and materials management to finance, estimating, and CRM, our platform unifies these essential functions—traditionally spread across multiple systems—into one cohesive solution.\n\n---\n\n—\n\n👷‍♂️👷‍♀️🔧🚧👷‍♂️ Hi everyone, This is Sneha, KS, and Ayantika from Team MerlinAI!\n\n[KS](https://linkedin.com/in/kumar-siddhartha-44847516), a BITS Pilani grad and successful startup co-founder, and [Ayantika](https://linkedin.com/in/ayantika-dey-b8155b76), an IIT alumna and tech expert, bring extensive coding and product development expertise together, bringing about over a decade of technical expertise. [Sneha](https://linkedin.com/in/snehakumari), with over a decade of experience in supply chain management and lean manufacturing within the construction industry, has lived the pain of using ERPs in this industry.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83343&key=user_uploads/658785/154e02ac-146c-468f-926b-3c1d759cdb6f)\n\n🚧 **Problem**: Construction companies today juggle 8-17 different software tools—Merlin AI eliminates that complexity. For the first time, firms can automate and manage every aspect of their projects within a single, intuitive system.\n\n🛠️ **Solution**: Merlin AI empowers modular and manufactured home builders with an advanced, AI-driven platform that integrates estimating, materials management, finance, project management, and CRM. Say goodbye to fragmented systems and hello to streamlined efficiency.\n\n\n\n📌🔨Merlin helps companies reduce\n\n* Manual work by 60%\n* Cut software costs by $10,000 monthly\n* Complete construction projects 3x faster.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83343&key=user_uploads/658785/f6c4ffb8-3a32-4862-a52d-cd835ecfbcec)\n\n💰💰 **Opportunity**: \n\nWe're witnessing a perfect storm of factors: decades of stagnation in traditional ERP systems, a multi-billion-dollar industry built on misaligned incentives, and the transformative potential of AI. This confluence creates a rare cyclical opportunity for market upheaval. The last major shift in this space occurred in the 1990s with the advent of digital systems, and now, 30 years later, we're on the cusp of another seismic change. Customers are crying out for innovation, and as AI reshapes the landscape, early customer signals indicate an eagerness for smarter, more efficient systems. 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We make it easy for companies to create, evaluate, deploy and monitor guardrails.\n\nWith Galini, product and engineering leaders enjoy peace of mind knowing their AI apps are compliant at run-time, and save $1-10M from avoiding an in-house build.\n\n**Ask:** If you are building or using AI applications, let us take run-time compliance off your plate. Email [founders@galini.ai](mailto:founders@galini.ai) or please refer us to others who may need this.\n\nWatch our demo [here](https://youtu.be/2luqEuXK-34)\n\n# ❌ The Problem:\n\nCompliance and trust are major barriers to scaling AI, with [one in two executives fearing reputational damage.](https://www.complianceweek.com/surveys-and-benchmarking/deloitte-survey-ai-adoption-raising-concerns-about-trust-reputational-damage-ethics/35411.article)\n\n**Ignoring the problem does not make it go away:** A staggering [44% of organizations](https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/the-state-of-ai) have reported negative consequences from using AI chatbots and assistants.\n\n**The cost of non-compliance is rising:** Fines of [7% annual revenues (or 35M EUR)](https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/99/#:~:text=Non%2Dcompliance%20with%20the%20prohibition,financial%20year%2C%20whichever%20is%20higher.) for non-compliance with EU AI Act; [similar regulations are fast approaching in the US.](https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/biden-administration-wants-ai-guardrails-heres-its-call-to-action/)\n\n**Companies are not ready:** Only 6% feel ready to accommodate these changes, while [80% are committing](https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insights/artificial-intelligence/ai-compliance-competitive-advantage) 10%+ of their AI budgets to compliance.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85206&key=user_uploads/2208234/45bf4fb3-686e-4532-baf9-c53860dcc7dd)\n\n# ✅ Use cases:\n\nMost customer- or employee-facing AI applications require guardrails:\n\n* **Search:** Block non-compliant queries and prevent exposing sensitive or proprietary information to users.\n* **Chatbots:** Ensure responses are accurate and compliant with company policies.\n* **Assistants:** Stop misleading advice in violation with company policies that could cause negative PR or legal risks.\n* **Agents**: Control scope and prevent unauthorized actions or transactions.\n* **Recommendation engines**: Filter outputs to avoid biased, irrelevant or offensive suggestions that damage brand trust.\n* **Decisioning systems**: Ensure automated decisions (e.g., loan approvals, hiring) meet regulatory standards and prevent discriminatory outcomes.\n\nNo enterprise-grade guardrail solutions exist today. Companies **incur $1-10M+ in costs annually** **and 6-12 months in delays** building guardrails in-house.\n\n# 🎯 The Solution: Galini to the rescue\n\n**Galini’s guardrail as-a-service** enforces runtime compliance with four core modules:\n\n1. **Build** custom guardrails based on your company’ policies\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85206&key=user_uploads/2208234/f5e3d2be-886f-4484-88e5-77111e897e12)\n\n2. **Evaluate** your guardrails using Galini’s synthetic test generator and evaluation engine\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85206&key=user_uploads/2208234/d28cc55e-38e2-404b-a4bb-5bd58c55eba8)\n\n3. **Deploy** into your app in seconds with our API\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85206&key=user_uploads/2208234/11fdf98c-af88-4e65-a58a-329b974a0634)\n\n4. **Monitor** and improve performance by providing feedback to Galini’s agent\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85206&key=user_uploads/2208234/449d0e40-e5f7-4475-aa95-11b9c48bc04f)\n\n\n# 🙏 Our ask:\n\n* Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/galini-ai/), and [book a demo](https://www.galini.ai/get-started) with our team\n* **Share this post!** Do you know product and engineering leaders in regulated industries like finance, healthcare, education and public safety? Please share this post; we’ll save them 1000+ hours in dev costs and many sleepless nights!\n* Learn more at [Galini.ai](http://Galini.ai) Please reach out to [founders@galini.ai](mailto:founders@galini.ai)\n\n# 🤝 The team:\n\n[Shaun Ayrton](http://www.linkedin.com/in/shaun-ayrton) (CEO) – A former McKinsey leader, Shaun drove $500M+ in revenue acceleration at leading global software and telecom clients. He witnessed firsthand how companies struggle to manage the risks of AI deployment.\n\n[Raul Zablah](https://www.linkedin.com/in/raulzablah/) (CTO) - As a former senior staff engineer, Raul has built and scaled industry-leading enterprise platforms at Bridgewater, Morgan Stanley and Ridgeline and has published papers in the field. 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We free up 80% of recruiters' time and see time-to-fill drop to as low as 2 days, which avoids costly downtime.\n\n\n\n### **Problem**\n\n# **Recruiters are drowning. Candidates aren’t happy.**\n\nRecruiters / Talent acquisition managers have a mountain of admin/screening work to find the right talent quickly. They often get 100s or 1,000s of (mostly irrelevant) applications for each job opening.\n\nWhen recruiters are drowning, quality, experience, and speed suffer. Lack of quality talent can cause downtime and lost revenue. Candidates suffer because they lack transparency & speed, leading to a poor candidate experience.\n\n### \n\n### **Opportunity**\n\n# **Customer-facing roles are the most underserved**\n\nOur focus is on customer-facing roles (anyone that interacts with customers). This covers roles ranging from CSRs, customer success managers, and sales associates to healthcare professionals and maintenance & repair staff. They need a mix of technical knowledge, communication skills, and EQ to be effective in their roles, which today is assessed purely by humans in an HR pre-screen. This is the most underserved sector in the recruiting space, bogged down by antiquated tools and manual admin work. They’re also the largest population of workers, making up 60% of jobs or \\~100M people.\n\n### \n\n### **Solution**\n\n# **Automate the recruiting process and free up valuable time**\n\nWe evaluate all inbound applications against the custom criteria for the role to surface the best matches. Our AI interviewer, Eve, then conducts live voice screening calls with top candidates - saving recruiters from spending their time on initial screens while removing human bias from the process. These 15-20 minute conversations bring resumes to life, highlighting important traits like communication skills and EQ (both of which are critical for customer-facing roles).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85204&key=user_uploads/1834517/ccfdae7e-945d-4512-b9f7-fad2301f073f)\n\nCandidates tell us they feel more comfortable talking with our voice AI interviewer than humans. They are less nervous and can more openly share their experiences.\n\nSymphony then handles all needed admin work, coordinating with hiring managers and candidates to schedule the next interview.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85204&key=user_uploads/1834517/a2856a65-43b8-4d1c-9092-d99864160261)\n\nWe integrate with all major ATS systems to make it easy for our customers to get started with us.\n\n### \n\n### **About the founders**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85204&key=user_uploads/1834517/8f98c53a-2cbd-4f49-8802-d6b53c3132cd)\n\nWe first met when Murtaza was Shobhit’s RA freshman year at Georgia Tech (go Jackets!). We’ve been friends for over 10 years and grew up just a few miles away from each other in Georgia.\n\nWe left our startup jobs about a year ago. Murtaza was VP of growth at Tractable (high-growth Series E computer vision startup) and EM at McKinsey. Shobhit was a tech lead at Valon (Series B mortgage fintech).\n\nWe both felt firsthand how recruiting was broken. After we researched the space more, we learned about the massive problems roles recruiting teams, especially for customer-facing roles.\n\n### **Reach out!**\n\nIf you’re interested in driving a better candidate experience, hiring better talent faster, all with fewer resources - let us know! We’d love to chat :).\n\n**Murtaza** - [murtaza@getsymphony.co](mailto:murtaza@getsymphony.co)\n\n**Shobhit** - [shobhit@getsymphony.co](mailto:shobhit@getsymphony.co)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MAG-symphony-a-conversational-ai-recruiter", "votes": 57, "created_at": "2024-10-31T23:23:58.367Z" } ] }, { "id": 30027, "name": "Durate", "slug": "durate", "former_names": [ "Docflow" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/65de336868d0c75622bc0c22ef04be57da179d1d.png", "website": "https://www.durate.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Durate helps physician groups, clinics, and hospitals eliminate coverage gaps and create personalized schedules. 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This allows them to concentrate on what matters most: delivering exceptional patient care.\n\n# **The Problem:** _\"Wait, I thought I'd be saving lives—not excel files?!\"_\n\nDoctors spend almost 20% of their working hours (and plenty more in additional hours) doing administrative work. We saw this first-hand with our parents and siblings who are doctors that devoted their lives to help people only to spend a large percentage of their time in Excel.\n\nThis inefficiency stems from a gap in healthcare software. While modern solutions heavily focus on hospital-patient interactions, they often neglect a connection just as important: the relation between the hospital to provider. Because of the dozens of rules and regulations, in addition to the lack of effective tools, providers are forced into doing complex back-office tasks that consume valuable time and energy.\n\n# **The Solution:**\n\n\n\n(Note: our previous name was Docflow)\n\nAfter initially starting at Harvard’s Psychiatry Residency program, Durate has been able to handle dozens complex rules, regulations, and program-specific information to safely create the most efficient program schedules. This centralized source of truth is vital for providing critical information to administrative tasks such as managing graduation requirements, processing payroll, ensuring compliance, and much more. By streamlining these processes, Durate empowers programs to operate more efficiently and focus on what truly matters—delivering incredible patient care.\n\nHere’s some more ⬇️\n\n**Customizable, Simple, and Intelligent Software:**\n\nWith AI, we’re able to add a layer of customizability in administrative software not previously seen before. Now, when you want to factor in John, who loves working Friday shifts, or Mary who is on Maternity leave — or any of the various things your previous software just could not understand (by anything, we truly mean anything) — Durate can do that with ease in just plain English.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85374&key=user_uploads/1617168/cd2cee17-4516-4135-8a20-3d04705db4aa)\n\nDurate is a simple solution for hospital’s most complex problems.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85374&key=user_uploads/1617168/69656061-f787-45c1-9db9-40f64b948efd)\n\n# **Moving Forward:**\n\nAlthough we initially focused on scheduling for residency programs, our main goal is to tackle as much complexity as possible in administrative work. We believe we can fundamentally transform extremely complex administrative tasks, allowing software to handle the work for you with ease.\n\n# **Our Team**\n\nMichael and Ben met during their first few weeks at Rice University where they lived, built software, and studied applied mathematics and computer science together before deciding to drop out.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85374&key=user_uploads/1617168/2d31980c-009e-44a5-8b0e-1b4a147b5084)\n\n[**Michael**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-mounajjed/) - Michael grew up in Madison, WI—the headquarters of the largest medical software company in the US—born to two physician parents and grew up hearing about its shortcomings. His mom works in the internal medicine residency program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Michael founded his first company, Calceus Mining, in high school, building and optimizing Ethereum rigs which went on to process tens of millions of dollars in transactions. He was inducted into Wisconsin’s Business Hall of Fame at 16 years old.\n\n[**Ben**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-franklin-liu/) - Ben’s sister is a chief resident at Cambridge Health Alliance, dedicating extensive time to scheduling residents. As the former president of Rice’s largest software engineering group, Ben has years of experience building automation products seen and used by hundreds of thousands of people.\n\n# **Our ask (and offer):**\n\nScheduling and administrative work aren’t relevant to just one kind of provider. We’re looking to connect with anyone in medicine who handles administrative tasks such as physician scheduling, payroll, or accreditation. This typically includes professionals working in institutions like:\n\n1. **Hospitals**\n2. **Nursing Homes & Agencies**\n3. **Private Clinics**\n4. **Residency Programs**\n5. **Outpatient Facilities**\n6. **Locum Tenens Agencies**\n\nIf that sounds like you, feel free to reach us at [founders@durate.com](https://mailto:founders@durate.com)!\n\n* **Sign up here:** [**Link here**](https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZJ98PJR)\n* **Share this post! -** Know anyone in healthcare who’s overwhelmed with administrative work (nurses, doctors, residents, etc.)? Let them know about us!\n* **Book a demo:** [**Link here**](http://cal.com/michael-mounajjed-dmt5wn/)\n* **Follow us on** [**LinkedIn**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/docflowsoftware/)\n* **Learn more at** [**durate.com**](https://www.durate.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MD0-durate-automated-hospital-scheduling-and-management", "votes": 44, "created_at": "2024-11-08T04:28:26.847Z" } ] }, { "id": 30031, "name": "Getcho", "slug": "getcho", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b0bca661527cf93aad335c4ac4c75dfec9d20d7d.png", "website": "https://getcho.app/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Getcho is a local delivery platform for high-value goods. \r\n\r\nWe are building a high-reliability delivery network on top of high-volume, unreliable fleets, just like how TCP builds reliable end-to-end networking on top of an unreliable base network (IP).", "one_liner": "The reliability platform for last-mile delivery", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Supply Chain and Logistics", "launched_at": 1725840551, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Delivery", "Logistics", "E-commerce", "Retail Tech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Supply Chain and Logistics" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/getcho", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2024/getcho.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/getcho", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/getcho-org", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b0bca661527cf93aad335c4ac4c75dfec9d20d7d.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/de2fd97393605d15227304c4b0ecb0625cdaa108.png", "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/f96e4f8a899d351de26e5f3839ea180d6ba763ad.png" ], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 429494, "full_name": "Jack Considine", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "I'm building last-mile delivery technology at Getcho.\n\nBefore Getcho, I built and ran a software development firm for seven years, scaling to 8 full-time engineers. 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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": 30033, "name": "Openbenchmarks", "slug": "openbenchmarks", "former_names": [ "OpenFunnel" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fba2fe192898aad8d25d7bcb8cef6e121485b633.png", "website": "https://openbenchmarks.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Openbenchmarks runs open, independent benchmarks across APIs, vendors and tools. \r\nHelping teams fairly evaluate vendors.\r\n\r\nWe offer private benchmarking & analytics tools to help you measure your product against competitors, see exactly where you fall short, and fix it.", "one_liner": "We help humans & agents pick tools via Independent Benchmarks", "team_size": 4, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1728361776, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "SEO", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "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/openbenchmarks", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2024/openbenchmarks.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/openbenchmarks", "x_url": "https://x.com/openbenchmarks", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/openbenchmarks-labs", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fba2fe192898aad8d25d7bcb8cef6e121485b633.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/a9298d52b6b229a08b076901ebabad1e045ac611.png", "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/41126eaa87edec592e55dbaffc6095cc7243ca40.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "David Lieb", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/david-lieb" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 858828, "full_name": "Fenil Suchak", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder at Openbenchmarks - 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No buying signals. No understanding of pain. Plus, data for growing markets aren't even present in these databases.\n\nOne-time snapshots. No timing. No triggers when pain surfaces. Your competitors have the same database. Everyone's spamming the same channels.\n\nYou need 24×7 searches capturing insights as they happen - not after they're stale.\n\nTraditional Intent data is a blackbox and unreliable.\n\nOnly Inbound dependence is a reactive approach and prospects are already evaluating competitors by that time.\n\nOpenFunnel automates finding unique, timely insights that get you \"ins.\"\n\nWe unlock net new pipeline across GTM functions in Marketing, RevOps, SDRs, and BDRs that were unreachable before.\n\n### **ENTER OPENFUNNEL:**\n\nOpenFunnel is your search engine for inferred pain: you describe the activities that reveal potential pain-points, we find the companies with those pain points, identify the right people, and produce outreach-ready messaging.\n\n**Find companies WHERE Activity happening = \\[abc\\] AND TimeRange = \\[m..n months\\]**\n\nSome examples that you can search for:\n\n* Companies implementing usage-based billing in the past 3-6 months - then monitor daily for new ones\n* Companies moving from OpenAI to self-hosted Llama in the last 2 months - then track all ongoing migrations\n* Companies that are looking to build out their government facing sales motions - then surface all such build outs.\n* B2C fintechs attending RSAC Conference in Las Vegas\n\nLive search agents continuously monitor time-based activities and changes across your ICP that matter to your GTM.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94200&key=user_uploads/858828/07397e96-6b5e-4d21-a265-2961783af3bf)\n\n### **LIFE OF CUSTOMERS after Openfunnel:**\n\nGTM teams setup custom insights they want to search and monitor for, in natural language.\n\nOpenFunnel auto-surfaces new and existing accounts with deep actionable insights and sync to CRM, autonomously.\n\nWe work with the fastest-moving companies who understand the value of acting quick on insights - including Central, Mintlify, Everest Systems, Fini, and Numi.\n\nOur self-serve platform has 1000+ users.\n\n### **Why We're Building ThiS:**\n\nDuring F24 batch, we built GTM tools for developer-focused companies with zero knowledge of the GTM toolkit and stack.\n\nCustomers loved our first-principles approach - we built what we'd actually want: relevant outreach with real context at the right time.\n\nThen we discovered existing that GTM tools are built on flawed, pre-LLM assumptions and this generalizes across industries.\n\nGTM is timing, insights, and reasoning - exactly what LLMs excel at. As software shifts to agent-first, it becomes a search and discovery problem.\n\nTraditional indexing lacks the temporal + contextual depth for GTM.\n\nSo, we're building a time-aware search engine for GTM.\n\n### **🦄 COME Say hi:**\n\nAditya & Fenil were dorm mates at BITS Pilani & friends for 8 years.\n\nAditya built AI Agents at scale at Appfolio and Fenil built cloud-scale vector databases at Oracle.\n\nWe've talked to 200+ GTM teams across sizes, industries, and AI adoption levels.\n\nWe’ve embedded these insights deep into OpenFunnel.\n\nWe are in SF at 128 Kings St. next to Oracle Park. Need help with anything GTM? 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Previously, we built 23ai Cloud DB at Oracle and Leasing AI Agents in PropTech. Before that, we were dorm mates during our undergrad.\n\n**The Problem**\n\nRunning GTM at a Developer Tooling company is challenging. It involves engaging the developer community, driving adoption, finding qualified leads that match your ideal customer profile (ICP), and researching company initiatives to determine where your dev tool fits in. These tasks require the skills of a salesperson, a developer, and a marketing expert.\n\n**Our Solution**\n\nOur Team of GTM Agents helps with this. We use our AI Agents that are fine-tuned to your industry, ICP, and products to support your entire GTM strategy.\n\nOur Enterprise Sales Research Agent provides Team Graphs & Developer Champions, including project details, company initiatives, and developer journeys. Weaviate is using this to close deals with Fortune 50 Enterprise Accounts.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85119&key=user_uploads/1631833/f50196df-9c57-4a8e-8be8-65c46da2d41d)\n\nFor fast-moving startups, our Sales Research Agent helps high-growth YC dev tool companies like Greptile find qualified leads that match their ICP and need their products.\n\nOur Marketing Agent monitors developer channels, helping our YC batchmates like Alex (Cursor for Xcode) understand their developer community and effectively engage with it.\n\n[A Demo](https://youtu.be/n8QMtShty88)\n\n**Let’s Get Started - Join Us!**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85119&key=user_uploads/1631833/f25f0761-7832-4aed-8e48-ac507bdcaab0)\n\nAccelerate your GTM - [Set up a call with us.](https://cal.com/team/openfunnel/demo) Our Agents are ready to get to work for you!\n\n**Bonus**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85119&key=user_uploads/1631833/9bf1d2f3-cda7-4ac6-a926-981d6ea8b2ab)\n\nInterested in why we find GTM in Dev Tools exciting? [Read more here](https://openfunnel.dev/blog/how-why)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/M8t-openfunnel-gtm-agents-for-developer-tools", "votes": 34, "created_at": "2024-10-29T19:45:23.390Z" } ] }, { "id": 30037, "name": "Afternoon.co", "slug": "afternoon-co", "former_names": [ "Hedron", "Afternoon" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e399be3a936103a9070aa01ba006948e8bc844c7.png", "website": "https://afternoon.co", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Afternoon.co empowers founders to make better business decisions with real time financial metrics. 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We provide real-time access to core financial metrics like runway, burn, and ARR, while handling your bookkeeping, sales and year-end taxes. \n\nOur platform connects with your other financial systems, like billing and payroll, and uses a blend of AI and expert accountants to keep your finances up to date.\n\n**Ask:** If you need help with bookkeeping or year-end corporate taxes, [book a demo](https://cal.com/team/afternoon.co/demo)! We serve startups including YC companies and e-commerce brands, and would love to take bookkeeping off your plate.\n\n\n\n**Problem**\n\nGood bookkeeping is the financial foundation for startups. Legacy accounting products make the process unnecessarily complex and confusing, failing to provide the metrics and reporting that founders and investors need.\n\n**Solution**\n\nAfternoon.co is new accounting software purpose-built for founders, with two key differentiators:\n\n1. **Built-in Intelligence:** Afternoon.co leverages AI to handle tasks traditionally done by humans. For example, it finds receipts in your Gmail inbox and automatically matches them to expenses, sparing you from constantly uploading receipts. Our AI assistant also helps answer questions instantly, so you’re never blocked.\n2. **Collaborative from Day 1:** Bookkeeping is a team effort, often involving lengthy email chains. 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We’ve spent the last 10 years working at Square, Gusto, Brex, and Notion, leading teams as engineers and PMs that built accounting integrations, enterprise FP&A software, and personal banking products. We believe that having a good grasp on company finances for founders is crucial for startup success, and excited to make it effortless.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85503&key=user_uploads/10264/8f77af6d-b766-4a82-81aa-26139dd82ab0)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MF5-afternoon-co-bookkeeping-and-tax-platform-for-ecommerce-startup-founders", "votes": 76, "created_at": "2024-11-12T20:31:14.479Z" } ] }, { "id": 30046, "name": "Cekura", "slug": "cekura-ai", "former_names": [ "Lex", "Vocera", "Cekura", "Cekura (formerly Vocera)", "Cekura", "Cekura (formerly Vocera)" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e614d24f652dc1e194f172153c3b7036c9c30b2f.png", "website": "https://www.cekura.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Cekura helps Conversational AI companies with automated QA. 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We are Sidhant, Shashij, and Tarush, co-founders of Cekura👋\n\n**_TL;DR:_** We have launched Cekura Red Teaming for enterprises and startups building Conversational AI in compliance-heavy sectors like BFSI, Healthcare, Legal, etc\n\nWatch our launch video [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShCiyZQ7pyw) or book a call [here](https://cal.com/kabrasidhant/30min)\n\n**Problem:**. Enterprise security teams are blocking deployments because manual, vibe-based testing doesn’t provide enough assurance against adversarial users. Whether it’s a user bypassing a paywall, tricking a bot into giving legal advice, or social-engineering it into leaking company secrets - the attack surface of conversational AI is massive.\n\n**Solution:**\n\n**Scalable, Automated Red Teaming:** Cekura allows you to run thousands of adversarial simulations in minutes. We act as the \"bad actor,\" pushing your agent's logic to its limits across every major vulnerability category:\n\n* 🔓 **Jailbreaking:** We simulate sophisticated \"prompt injection\" attacks to see if your agent will ignore its instructions or reveal its system prompt.\n* ⚖️ **Bias & Fairness:** We test for hidden biases in financial, medical, or recruitment advice to ensure your agent stays compliant and fair.\n* 🤬 **Toxicity:** We try to provoke your agent into unprofessional or offensive behaviour.\n* 🛡️ **PII & Data Leakage:** We attempt to extract sensitive data like credit card numbers, internal keys, or user data that your agent shouldn't have the authority to share\n\n**Red Teaming as a Service (RTaaS):** Beyond our standard library of thousands of scenarios, we also deploy our Forward Deployed Engineers to build **personalised adversarial test cases** tailored to your specific industry and use case (HIPAA compliance for healthcare, PCI DSS for fintech, etc)\n\n**Ready to Security Test your Voice & Chat AI Agents?**\n\n* Book a call: \n* Email us: [founders@cekura.ai](mailto:founders@cekura.ai)\n\n# **The Team:**\n\nWe met over eight years ago during our undergraduate studies at IIT Bombay.\n\n[Tarush](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarush-agarwal-b14851160/) comes from quantitative finance, where he worked on simulations for ultra-low latency trading strategies (think nanoseconds!).\n\n[Shashij](https://linkedin.com/in/shashij-gupta-671aa614a) has previously researched NLP at Google Research and is the first author of a paper on testing AI systems reliably, which has 50+ citations from his work at ETH Zurich.\n\n[Sidhant](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidhantkabra) comes from a consulting background advising CXOs at Fortune 500 companies in FMCG and medical devices. He managed P&L in a leading contact centre.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PCO-cekura-red-teaming-stress-test-your-ai-agents-for-jailbreaks-bias-toxicity-and-more", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2026-01-16T17:27:00.616Z" }, { "id": 89476, "title": "Cekura: Automated Testing & Monitoring for Voice and Chat AI Agents", "tagline": "Ship reliable voice and chat agents faster with automated simulation, evaluation, observability and analytics ", "body": "Hi Everyone! We’re [Sidhant](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidhantkabra/), [Shashij](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shashij-gupta-671aa614a/), and [Tarush](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarush-agarwal-b14851160/), co-founders of Cekura👋\n\n**_TL;DR_** Cekura helps companies ship and scale reliable voice & chat AI agents by providing end-to-end testing and observability\n\nWatch our demo video [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsEJJ32JQuM)\n\n**Problem:** Making Conversational AI agents reliable is hard. Manually calling your agents or listening through thousands of calls is slow, error-prone and does not provide the required coverage.\n\n**Our Solution:** At Cekura, we work closely with you at each step of the agent-building journey and help you improve and scale your agents 10 times faster\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89476&key=user_uploads/1605191/a2827ed8-e974-4369-a5bf-a2407e52431b)\n\n**Key Features:**\n\n**Testing:**\n\n* **Scenario Generation**: Create varied test cases from agent descriptions automatically for comprehensive coverage.\n* **Evaluation Metrics:** Track custom and AI-generated metrics. Check for instruction following, tool calls, and conversational metrics (Interruptions, Latency, etc).\n* **Prompt Recommendation:** Get actionable insights to improve each of the metrics.\n* **Custom Personas:** Emulate diverse user types with varied accents, background noise, and conversational styles.\n* **Production Call Simulation:** Simulate production calls to ensure all the fixes have been incorporated.\n\n**Observability:**\n\n* **Conversational Analytics:** Provides customer sentiment, interruptions, latency and call analytics: ringing duration, success rate, call volume trends, etc\n* **Instruction Following:** Identify instances where agents fail to follow instructions.\n* **Drop-off Tracking:** Analyzes when and why users abandon calls, highlighting areas of improvement.\n* **Custom Metrics**: Define unique metrics for personalized call analysis.\n* **Alerting:** Proactively notifies users of critical issues like latency spikes or missed functions.\n\n**Ready to make your Voice & Chat Agents Reliable?**\n\n* Book a call: \n* Email us: [founders@cekura.ai](mailto:founders@oneleet.com)\n\n# **The Team:**\n\nWe met over eight years ago during our undergraduate at IIT Bombay.\n\n[Tarush](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarush-agarwal-b14851160/) comes from quantitative finance, where he worked on simulations for ultra-low latency trading strategies (think nanoseconds!).\n\n[Shashij](https://linkedin.com/in/shashij-gupta-671aa614a) has previously researched NLP at Google Research and is the first author of a paper on testing AI systems reliably, which has 50+ citations from his work at ETH Zurich.\n\n[Sidhant](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidhantkabra) comes from a consulting background advising CXOs at Fortune 500 companies in FMCG and medical devices. He managed P&L in a leading contact centre.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NHA-cekura-automated-testing-monitoring-for-voice-and-chat-ai-agents", "votes": 36, "created_at": "2025-04-13T19:05:17.460Z" }, { "id": 84885, "title": "Cekura (formerly Vocera) - Testing & Monitoring for AI Voice Agents", "tagline": "Launch reliable voice agents in minutes not weeks.", "body": "**_TL;DR_** Cekura helps companies ship and scale reliable voice & chat AI agents by providing end-to-end testing and observability\n\nWatch our demo video [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsEJJ32JQuM)\n\n**Problem:** Making Conversational AI agents reliable is hard. Manually calling your agents or listening through thousands of calls is slow, error-prone and does not provide the required coverage.\n\n**Our Solution:** At Cekura, we work closely with you at each step of the agent-building journey and help you improve and scale your agents 10 times faster\n\n# **Key Features:**\n\n**Testing:**\n\n* **Scenario Generation**: Create varied test cases from agent descriptions automatically for comprehensive coverage.\n* **Evaluation Metrics:** Track custom and AI-generated metrics. 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Our mission is to provide factories with a single, cohesive platform to track and manage the full lifecycle of a manufactured item across every department in their organization.\n\n\n\nWe’re already working with several factories in Indonesia, Vietnam, and India, focusing on suppliers in the automotive and electronics industries.\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nMany factories are trapped in a web of disjointed spreadsheets and partially integrated tools, requiring costly manual data re-entry at nearly every stage—unless they can afford to spend over $1M on an ERP solution like SAP. This fragmentation leads to poor visibility into true costs and inventory, resulting in over-ordering of materials and dead stock of manufactured goods.\n\n# **The Solution**\n\nTiny is a ground-up reimagination of cumbersome traditional ERP software. Factories now have an intuitive user experience that leverages live collaborative editing to get everyone working together seamlessly, with a workflow engine that assigns tasks to the right person at the right time. Furthermore, as we expand our platform, we plan to automate repetitive tasks, thereby reducing costs and unlocking valuable insights by unifying sales, procurement, and production processes—all within a single system.\n\nCurrently, we’ve started at the very beginning of the order lifecycle: the quotation process. Our first module empowers sales and engineering teams to respond to customer inquiries faster and more accurately. The foundation of this module—the workflow engine, the lightweight CRM, and the item library—are shared in the upcoming procurement and production modules, resulting in deep integration and a seamless experience for our customers.\n\nThe foundation we’ve built is a fully collaborative object graph with real-time computations, plus a truly novel form input framework including automatic object syncing and interactive audit logs, on top of durable workflow execution that enables us to customize workflows extremely efficiently. Thanks to this foundation, we are uniquely positioned to unlock never-before-seen, truly interactive collaboration with AI agents.\n\n# **About Us**\n\nWe’re [Louis](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ldevalliere) and [Ed](https://www.linkedin.com/in/edward-zhang-14685828/), co-founders who have known each other for over a decade. We were roommates in San Francisco and previously collaborated at Addepar, developing wealth management software, and at Zenefits, building benefits and payroll solutions. Before founding Tiny, Louis served as VP of Design at BitGo, and Ed led the scaling of Apple’s Services API gateway from the ground up.\n\n# **How You Can Help**\n\nWe’d love introductions to anyone connected with factories who might benefit from a more streamlined, cost-effective solution.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85625&key=user_uploads/89898/57d5d166-e0c1-4aa8-b796-927ab003ce9d)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MH3-tiny-rippling-for-factories", "votes": 46, "created_at": "2024-11-17T19:31:27.657Z" } ] }, { "id": 30080, "name": "Dexter", "slug": "dexter", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fc1d327c6dd1df139ea6177767194e0a1289d32b.png", "website": "https://www.getdexter.co/", "all_locations": "Berlin, Berlin, Germany", "long_description": "Dexter helps procurement teams understand exactly where money is being spent and where it can be saved. 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We use LLMs to find the complex business logic flaws that traditional scanners can't detect.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92703&key=user_uploads/1969797/42239d23-2918-4c49-bc6d-38a1955fc1c7)\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nCompanies scan their code for security vulnerabilities and are often met with a big pile of findings. 80% of these findings are false positives and not exploitable vulnerabilities. Even among the true positives, these scanners still miss issues like privilege escalation and authentication bypasses. These are the most important issues that only surface later during manual code review or penetration testing.\n\nSecurity teams have to deal with this by spending hours tuning scanners and rules or hiring headcount to triage through the false positives. This translates into delayed releases, overtime costs, and compliance risks when critical flaws slip through undetected.\n\n# **The Solution**\n\nTraditional SAST (Static Application Security Testing) tools have two fundamental limitations. First, they parse code into simplistic models like ASTs or call graphs, which lose context and can't resolve complex call chains. Second, they rely on pattern matching against predefined rules, which works for basic vulnerabilities like XSS and SQLi but fails completely for custom business logic flaws.\n\nGecko solves both problems. We built a custom, compiler-accurate indexer that preserves semantic information and allows us to precisely navigate code like an IDE. This gives us the ground truth of how your code actually works.\n\nWith that foundation, we use LLMs to perform threat modeling. The LLM analyzes your code's business logic, data flows, and trust boundaries to generate targeted attack scenarios. We then systematically validate each potential attack path, using the indexer to reconstruct full call chains from source to sink and determine real-world exploitability before flagging it as a vulnerability.\n\nThis approach finds the complex, multi-step business logic vulnerabilities that have been invisible to traditional tools.\n\n# **Ask**\n\nWe've got a handful of Fortune 500 companies and startups alike excited about this, because it addresses key pain points they couldn’t address with traditional scanners. Customers are seeing 50% fewer false positives on the same codebases, and are finding issues using the scanner that would only appear in pentests and manual code reviews.\n\nWe’ve used it to find 30+ CVEs in projects like Ollama, Gradio, and Ragflow (). You can [try it on any OSS repo](https://app.gecko.security) at or [get a demo](https://cal.com/geckosec/30min).\n\n# **Team**\n\nJJ and Artemiy met four years ago while studying in London. Since then, they have traveled the world competing in CTFs and hackathons, earning over $100,000 in prizes.\n\nJJ, CEO and Co-founder, previously worked for the UK Intelligence Service, as a teenager building automated tooling to defend critical infrastructure. He also worked at Binance in China leading security tool development for the Red Team. \n\nArtemiy, CTO and Co-founder, served in the Austrian Cyberforces and built threat intelligence platforms used by Interpol and national governments. A scholar of Imperial College London, he’s spent his career developing systems that detect and respond to complex cyber threats", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O7D-gecko-security-ai-sast-for-finding-vulnerabilities-in-code", "votes": 22, "created_at": "2025-08-04T18:13:52.289Z" }, { "id": 84816, "title": "Gecko Security: Your AI Security Engineer", "tagline": "Gecko is an AI SAST for finding and fixes security vulnerabilities in your codebase. It's just like having a security engineer making your code secure.", "body": "**TL;DR:** We built [Gecko](https://gecko.security/) for teams that want to build secure code quickly without wasting time on tools that don’t deliver results, or relying on one-time human pentests that quickly become outdated.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84816&key=user_uploads/1969797/81233561-38af-49a4-b7ed-03f61aa03ae0)\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nMost developers tell us they think of security as an afterthought, added out of fear rather than part of the development process at the start. This is because current security tools **can’t find critical business logic vulnerabilities**, which are the ones attackers actually exploit, and instead flag low-priority issues with many **false positives**. This makes fixing these issues slow and costly, **pulling engineers away from building** features that grow revenue.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\nGecko uses AI to understand how your application should work, simulates relevant attacks to find critical vulnerabilities, and then verifies these vulnerabilities by exploiting them. It also helps you understand the risk of these vulnerabilities and applies a working fix to **continuously** **keep your code secure**. [Watch our demo here!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObuItEP3rZk)\n\n### **Technical Details**\n\nAt a high level, Gecko mimics the approach of skilled security experts by using LLM agents combined with program analysis tools like static analyzers, fuzzers, and symbolic executors, which were previously **only used in intelligence agencies**. For fixing vulnerabilities, Gecko uses multiple agents to iteratively refine the patches - ensuring the vulnerability is remediated, and your code isn’t broken. All testing is done in parallel with certified human pentesters, as we continue to benchmark Gecko’s performance to ensure no vulnerabilities are overlooked.\n\n### **Ask**\n\n**Do you have code that needs to be secured?** Email us at [**gecko@gecko.security**](mailto:gecko@gecko.security) or book a demo at [**https://cal.com/geckosec/15min**](https://cal.com/geckosec/15min).\n\n### **Team**\n\n[JJ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeevan-jutla/) and [Artemiy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/artemiy-malyshau/) met four years ago while studying in London. Since then, they have traveled the world competing in CTFs and hackathons, earning over $100,000 in prizes. \n\nJJ previously worked for the UK Intelligence Service (GCHQ), as a teenager building automated tooling to defend critical infrastructure. He also worked at Binance in China leading security tool development for the Red Team.\n\nArtemiy holds an MSc from Imperial College London, where he was a scholar. 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We’re Brian and William from ArchiLabs and we’re building an AI BIM tool for production/semi-custom homebuilders and MEP engineers!\n\n### **⏩** TL;DR\n\nArchiLabs is building an AI BIM tool for production homebuilders and MEP engineers. Traditional BIM tools like Revit or AutoCAD aren’t built for AI-first workflows and often lack customizability that MEP and production homebuilders need to accomplish their workflows.\n\nWe can handle complex nested design options, complex calculations and layouts, and do auto documentation.\n\nFor MEP engineers:\\\n\n\nFor production homebuilders:\\\n\n\n### **😩** The Problem\n\nArchitects & engineers are talented, but the tools they use (like Revit) to draft homes and buildings are from the early 90s. The tools are clunky and slow to iterate in. This means that the iteration process is slowed down and leaves less time for filling in important construction details at the end.\n\n### **👌** The Solution\n\nArchiLabs is building a BIM tool from the ground up built for humans and agents to collaborate. We are starting with large homebuilders and MEP engineers because existing tools underserve these markets.\n\n### **🤠** The Team + Backstory\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXd4XjIwSrSBtz4Vr7WA4JTko_Rwwz7JtCAeAJ3s4_EMUhcO1NIk790MSpsk54XJ39sF4NblVBJ9YRyqPlOjXleWeA04SewMCO9Q_RZLZ6XZXfv1t_eXhn4yqhnoVFbZlQfniBLBwg?key=sjQEh1jkB355E5fZmtO42GBG)\n\nWilliam graduated with a degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon, then went on to work at Facebook. He realized his passion was the built world and set out to build homes from scratch in Texas where he experienced this frustration first hand. He then set out to build his own CAD tool.\n\nBrian graduated with a degree in ECE from Carnegie Mellon and went on to run a YC-backed tech-enabled homebuilding factory. He had a lot of frustrations with the architectural back-and-forth, primarily stemming from the limitations of existing tools. He then went on to build and sell an AI transcription startup.\n\nBrian and William met back up, sharing the same vision for reimaging the construction design experience and eventually taking on Autodesk, the $60B industry-leader.\n\n### 🙏 The Ask\n\nMore beta testers! We are always looking to fine-tune our workflow engine to fit common homebuilding and MEP workflows, so if you know any large homebuilders or MEP engineers or are one yourself, we would love to chat! 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I was very focused on providing five nines of uptime and sub-millisecond response times.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/brett-t-beatty", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/brett_beatty", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/1b00399d92ce6592796cbb14df7658c9dbe4b954.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 85595, "title": "Surge ⚡ The easiest SMS API for developers", "tagline": "Get registered and sending text messages faster than ever before.", "body": "[Surge is the easiest way for developers to send and receive text messages.](https://youtu.be/3cTyfiw5jtE)\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nIt used to be easy to start texting with Twilio and other APIs, but after recent carrier compliance changes, you have to jump through hoops and piece together fragmented documentation to get registered. Then you still have to wait 2-3 weeks for approval before you can actually send messages.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85595&key=user_uploads/97400/2bd7755f-cbb7-4d0d-ad1f-bfd7f8804db9)\n\nThe big SMS APIs are all now focused on big companies paying them millions of dollars per year. Startups are left with a terrible user experience, unresponsive email support, and a feeling of helplessness when trying to add SMS functionality to our applications.\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85595&key=user_uploads/97400/17af9950-2bdc-46d5-b7ae-83f4194fbd42)\n\nBy incorporating the new compliance standards into our product from the beginning, Surge lets developers send texts without having to become experts on the registration process first. We provide white glove onboarding to get you through carrier registration or toll-free verification, and we can do it in 1-2 business days (sometimes even same day) instead of the typical 2-3 weeks. And we can get you up and running with a trial in minutes.\n\nOur intuitive REST API and webhooks are designed at a higher level of abstraction than other providers, which helps you simplify your application logic. And if you’d rather write as little code as possible, we even have embeddable low-code UI components that make two-way texting a breeze to set up. On top of that, we offer responsive support to help you figure out any issues you have, no matter your size.\n\n# **Our Team**\n\n[Dennis](https://linkedin.com/in/dnsbty) and [Brett](https://www.linkedin.com/in/brett-t-beatty) are brothers who spent a combined 11 years at Podium (W16) where they worked on communications infrastructure for small businesses. Brett was a senior engineer on the Phones product, and Dennis was a tech lead and senior engineer on the Messenger platform. 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Even if you have no interest in switching providers, we would love to hear about your experience. [Book time on my calendar](https://cal.com/team/surge/sms-chat-from-yc-launch), or reach out to [ycdirectory@surgemsg.com.](mailto:ycdirectory@surgemsg.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MGZ-surge-the-easiest-sms-api-for-developers", "votes": 42, "created_at": "2024-11-15T18:20:36.034Z" } ] }, { "id": 30114, "name": "Ryvn", "slug": "ryvn", "former_names": [ "Armada" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/38a4a570871fba4b9702b51fa8da50142159b1a8.png", "website": "https://ryvn.ai", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Ryvn provides the devtools and infrastructure to easily deploy any workload, on any cloud, and on-prem. 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We streamline on-prem delivery with integrated logging, monitoring, and simplified updates and rollbacks across all customer installations._ [_Watch our demo_](https://youtu.be/1wTY1a0KKPU)\n\n   \n \n# **🔥 The Team**\n\n[Albert](https://www.linkedin.com/in/simplyalam/) and [Shardool](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sp97/) collectively bring over a decade of expertise in infrastructure and DevOps.\n\nAt Palantir, Shardool led engineering teams building deployment infrastructure for managing **hundreds of environments**, including cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped systems—facilitating over 10,000 deploys per day.\n\nAlbert led engineering teams at Palantir, developing disaster prevention products that secured $xxM in contracts. At Capital One, he architected modular deployment pipelines and resource management tools.\n\n   \n \n# **❌ The Problem**\n\n**Building infra is not building product**\\\nSetting up infrastructure for each customer—learning tools like Terraform and Kubernetes, creating configurations, and making Docker images—is time-consuming. Instead of building new features, your team is tied up with these tasks just to get deployments working.\n\n**Customer DevOps slows you down**\\\nIf you're sending code, docker images, or Helm charts to customers, you're relying on their DevOps team to prioritize your updates and correctly follow installation instructions. This can lead to **delays of 4-6 weeks** before updates are applied, hurting your delivery cycle.\n\n**Support sucks without monitoring and logging**\\\nHearing about outages or bugs over email or Slack leaves you scrambling to react, putting customer trust at risk. Secure access to logs and metrics is critical to providing reliable service.\n\n   \n \n# **🔮 Our Solution**\n\n**🚢 Easily Install and Ship Updates**\\\nRyvn handles on-prem and VPC deployments automatically from your GitHub code, like Vercel, allowing you to push updates **multiple times a day** with little to no customer involvement.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85379&key=user_uploads/1690248/a32c6ee9-98c9-4289-b62f-83ec48cda238)\n \\\n**🎮 Controlled Updates & Instant Rollbacks**\\\nRoll out updates with ease across release stages, including **instant rollbacks** to previous stable versions, ensuring uptime and customer confidence.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85379&key=user_uploads/1690248/a6862582-b463-415b-9239-39ff5d161cf0)\n \\\n**👁️ Integrated Logging & Monitoring**\\\nSecure, **centralized access to logs** and health metrics across customer environments. Logs are streamed to your cloud or accessible on-demand from your customer’s cloud.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85379&key=user_uploads/1690248/1bffb4e3-5a28-44d0-a75c-8e92ebf639d6)\n\n   \n \n# **💭 Why Deploy to Customer Clouds?**\n\n**💸 Charge more, bigger markets**\n\n* Charge **3–10x** more for customer cloud / on-prem deployments\n* Sell to regulated industries — health, finance, enterprise, etc.\n\n**🥷 Skip the security review & SOC 2**\n\n* Land **PoCs** _faster_ by deploying on-prem to bypass lengthy security reviews\n* You don’t need SOC 2 or HIPAA to deploy on-prem\n\n**❤️ Make your bank and lawyers happy**\n\n* Customers pay directly for infrastructure cost\n* Not hosting customer data reduces your liability\n\n   \n \n# **📣 Our Ask**\n\n**Follow** - we’re on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/105480942/)\\\n**Share** - If you know any startups looking to deploy to customer clouds, we’d appreciate a warm intro using our email [founders@ryvn.ai](mailto:founders@ryvn.ai)\\\n**Demo** - [book here](https://cal.com/albertlam/ryvn-demo)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85379&key=user_uploads/1690248/7b4e5b4d-30d0-4b34-8762-1f8664c960b6)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MD5-ryvn-deploy-applications-to-customer-clouds-on-prem", "votes": 84, "created_at": "2024-11-08T14:33:26.181Z" } ] }, { "id": 30117, "name": "Relvy AI", "slug": "relvy-ai", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2aa06b2c04632ad68c2151cc3aac66c942a0119b.png", "website": "https://www.relvy.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Relvy provides AI-powered debugging notebooks that help software engineers investigate and resolve incidents faster. 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We are building Relvy AI.\n\n### ❗ The problem\n\n* Companies spend $35B annually paying engineers to be on-call, and yet continue to suffer from $$$$ outages.\n* Monitoring production software is hard.\n* Engineering teams are always playing catch up - either flying blind with no alerts, or drowning in alert noise.\n\n \n\n### ⭐ Introducing Relvy\n\nWith Relvy, you can just say “**Hey Relvy, monitor my logs for me**”. Relvy connects to your observability stack to detect and debug any issues that show up. It takes less than 5 minutes to set up Relvy to monitor your logs and get actionable alerts WITH a root cause analysis.\n\n[Demo Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_8wLDFMGNM)\n\n### ⚙️ How it works\n\n* You connect Relvy to your observability tools and provide a set of log queries that you’d want to monitor\n* Relvy queries and process logs 24x7 to detect issues. No need to define log based metrics and create alerts manually.\n* Relvy then debugs these issues to provide an actionable root cause analysis. This includes querying and analyzing other metrics to provide context, and finding responsible code changes from your recent commits.\n* Already have alerts on your on-call slack channel? Relvy can debug these as well, and respond to follow-up queries.\n\n### 🚀 Our tech\n\n* We ship with a small language model that’s optimized for debugging. It is as good as gpt-4o on our eval benchmarks while being 1/100th the cost. The core unlock that enables us to offer continuous monitoring.\n* We lean on your previous incident response history to help optimize our agent. Helps us denoise alerts, figure out useful queries to run while debugging, and pattern match logs faster.\n\n### 📝 Our story\n\nSimranjit and I are both ML engineers. We met a few years ago when we were building computer vision models for satellite imagery at a startup called Orbital Insight. Together, we have built and supported ML products at Google, Uber, Microsoft and Amazon. \n\nRelvy came out of our efforts to automate the not-so-fun parts of our jobs as software engineers. Believe it or not, our first product was something that recorded your screen as you were coding, and tried to come up with bug fix suggestions for any error messages that popped up on screen. Thankfully, Relvy is less intrusive, more accurate, and fits into your existing on-call workflows.\n\n### ➡️ Ask\n\nI bet you’d like AI to take monitoring off your plate. Try us out at or book time with us at \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85574&key=user_uploads/1381863/8a25e559-845a-4b23-90dd-6fadde0fbdb8)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MGE-relvy-ai-that-discovers-and-debugs-production-issues", "votes": 80, "created_at": "2024-11-15T04:27:49.553Z" } ] }, { "id": 30165, "name": "Edexia", "slug": "edexia", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6c47809acef827e8266fe22b15646d39f5911391.png", "website": "https://www.edexia.com/", "all_locations": "Brisbane, QLD, Australia", "long_description": "Edexia is an AI Teacher Assistant for grading essays. It can be trained and controlled by the teacher and can grade assignments from any curriculum, year level, subject, or format. \r\n\r\nLearning like a teacher, Edexia visually breaks down its understanding of the rubric, and updates this as a teacher corrects it.\r\n\r\nOur vision is to transform education by facilitating AI’s safe and effective integration across all institutions and applications. 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It learns the style of each individual teacher, so it can grade just like they do, saving up to 100% of grading time.\n\nEdexia can grade assignments from any curriculum, year level, subject, or format. Learning like a teacher, it visually breaks down its understanding of the rubric, and then updates this, as a teacher corrects its grading on the fly.\n\n[Watch the demo video here!](https://youtu.be/43dOCAkHDO8)\n\n# **👥** Founding Story\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86220&key=user_uploads/1485291/dd7010a0-0ce6-4ea9-9f96-274ded8cbce0)\n\nWe’re Daniel and Nathan. We met at university after both graduating among the state's top students (top 30 and 200). Our shared goal of making a meaningful impact through our careers, combined with our passion for education and technology, led us to launch our first EdTech company. After growing it to $200K ARR in just over a year, we pivoted to Edexia to pursue an opportunity with even greater potential for positive impact.\n\n# **🌍** Our Vision\n\nWe want to transform education by facilitating the safe and effective integration of AI across all institutions and applications. Not using AI to replace teachers but rather to empower them—providing them with all the time and resources they need to develop their students.\n\n# 🚀 Progress\n\nSince launching on August 1st, we have already collaborated with 11 of Australia's best schools in Q4 2024 and are arranging an additional 30 partnerships for Q1 2025. We aim to positively impact every institution in every country in the near future.\n\n# 🙏 Our Ask\n\n1. **Work in education?** We'd love to talk and see if your institution could benefit from this technology. [Book a call here.](https://tidycal.com/danielbcgibbon/edexia-online-demo-and-discussion)\n2. **Know any educators?** Please forward them our demo video and cc [daniel@edexia.com.au](mailto:daniel@edexia.com.au)\n3. **Passionate about EdTech?** Let's connect! Just email me at [daniel@edexia.com.au](mailto:daniel@edexia.com.au).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MQe-edexia-ai-teaching-assistant-for-grading-papers", "votes": 29, "created_at": "2024-12-11T19:08:12.734Z" } ] }, { "id": 30179, "name": "Vetnio", "slug": "vetnio", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a5005981ef0d73a35ad3b8810eead978401e6e5e.png", "website": "https://vetnio.com/", "all_locations": "Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden", "long_description": "Veterinarians spend 40% of their time on admin work, >20% on note taking alone. We're here to change that so they can focus on what really matters - providing the best care possible for animals.", "one_liner": "AI Copilot that automates admin work for veterinary professionals", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1738187804, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "regions": [ "Sweden", "Europe" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/vetnio", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2025/vetnio.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "Stockholm", "country": "SE", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/vetnio", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a5005981ef0d73a35ad3b8810eead978401e6e5e.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/3ec413ec5f445aa581b1c6ca331f645f8fdb24b9.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1054865, "full_name": "Arman Karégar", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Founded three companies and served as the youngest board member ever for two firms with a combined turnover of 100 million euros. Elected politician during university and have 20 years of expertise in audio processing; from optimizing voice recordings to designing custom instruments by shaping waveforms using oscillators, envelopes, and LFOs. Master's in Industrial Engineering and Management from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, with additional studies at Nanyang Technological Institute. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/armankaregar", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c8028b5de1d64bd9f911957bd026fd946cb3f1e1.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1055457, "full_name": "Max Henry Xie", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Second time founder. Self-taught developer with many chess and hackathon wins. Built machine learning models to combat fraud at big banks. Studied industrial engineering and management at KTH (Stockholm). Dropped out of school to work at Accenture (deployed engineer), then Paypal (AI / data scientist) before founding first his start-up, now working on his second. Accidental tiktok-influencer.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/max-henry-xie", "x_url": "https://x.com/maxhxie", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d6ec5784d1133cd410634f02e2a305fd292ce1d4.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 87809, "title": "Vetnio - Automating admin work for veterinarians with AI 🐾", "tagline": "Vetnio records patient consultations, automating note-taking and other administrative work, so veterinarians can focus more on patient care.", "body": "**TL;DR:**\n\n* ⏰ Veterinarians spend \\~40% of their time on admin work, with note-taking alone making up \\~20% of their time.\n* 🎤 By recording patient meetings, Vetnio automatically generates clinical notes and emails in seconds.\n* ✨ Additionally, Vetnio helps out with diagnostics, follow-ups, invoice generation, and more, reducing the risk of missed revenue for clinics while ensuring optimal care for animals.\n\n[Introducing Vetnio](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6KIg5SJUUk)\n\n# **Who are we and why are we doing this?**\n\nWe are [Arman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/armankaregar/) and [Max](https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-henry-xie/) from [Vetnio](https://vetnio.com). Being close friends for +10 years, Vetnio is the second startup we have co-founded together. We both have exceptional backgrounds within engineering, with Arman having 20 years of audio processing experience and Max being a self-taught developer since childhood.\n\nIt all started when Arman brought his 🐶, Knut  (picture below), to a stressful veterinary visit. He noticed how much time was spent by the veterinarian typing on a keyboard and immediately went on to think how this can be made better. After a quick discussion with Max, the idea for Vetnio was born.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXcJzgeyF-gX-baUP0NVgep-EMa_iTLVKHwA9rQoA-Z6QiaTH4EpLeBazL_R_eKkrjHpWEyoNOZB-jKapY7RZ8S4hJesNc3OloZI59SRuyT8aI3ffpGw4lX3YGGRBEbn5k9hIoqThw?key=3XWI3B5KbKFPqOSqe7jrNCyD)\n\n**Problem**\\\nWith a rising patient load, veterinarians are overworked and stressed, leading to mistakes, burnout, and lost revenue. Admin work takes up \\~40% of their time, and that's where Vetnio comes in.\n\n**Solution**\\\nVetnio has built an AI Copilot that records meetings and writes clinical notes, thereby saving veterinarians and clinics time, money, and headaches. Additionally, Vetnio helps out with diagnostics, follow-ups, invoice generation, and more, reducing the risk of missed revenue for clinics while ensuring optimal care for animals.\n\n[Demo video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PeoKr2yXSw)\n\n**Case studies and traction**\\\nAmong others, we work closely with the global leader in veterinary care, IVC Evidensia, and are currently conducting pilots with several prominent veterinary chains. Recently, the largest veterinary magazine in the Nordics published an independent interview with Evidensia, highlighting how our solution was saving them up to [15 minutes per 45-minute consultation](https://www.svenskveterinartidning.se/effektivare-journalforing-med-ai/), significantly reducing their administrative workload.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfl83aqSvXXbGlasaxpV0KXvgWps3LVxtVBnZiqCJviBcFmdyDyYwQbF6sug1O5t5dOBdLIJZ4jQvmLabMYOKqHTe00w-7iq77XJK00_KgfygNsDw5RCTP0Z6IwtdUB4wTfGfZX?key=3XWI3B5KbKFPqOSqe7jrNCyD)\n\n📸: A veterinarian at Evidensia is reading through the text on Vetnio after a consultation.\n\nRest of the engineers:\n\n* Emil Franzell\n* Arvid Norström\n* Rakin Ali\n* Marcel Laska\n\nOther notable team members include:\n\n* Dr. Jana Böndel, Country Manager Germany: Jana has 10 years of experience as a veterinarian and spent the last 4 years in an Executive Management position at one of the world’s largest veterinary chains. She built up their Telemedicine department. Her expertise bridges veterinary care with innovative digital solutions.\n* Knut, CCO: Chief Canine Officer who has spent his whole life in the pet space.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfvV6K2MqUVSNB2bVib11foOMVFvirQ8QB30POScCAmPVN4_2LroLO3krfFyZjNckQooyW37WXfKnw6KEWpUSCyStgxiPf1sA06FQOSJWcDwUMZX7jHbEbViw6NLQ_enJntrczWYA?key=3XWI3B5KbKFPqOSqe7jrNCyD)\n\n### **Our ask**\n\nWe’re on a mission to make manual admin work a thing of the past.\n\n👉 If you’d like to chat or know any veterinarians or practice owners who might find this helpful, don’t hesitate to reach out to us here: [founders@vetnio.com](mailto:founders@vetnio.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MqH-vetnio-automating-admin-work-for-veterinarians-with-ai", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2025-02-19T15:09:28.249Z" } ] }, { "id": 30185, "name": "Excellence Learning", "slug": "excellence-learning", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1e153fb91aba9399d441f6364476829f360fb0a5.png", "website": "https://excellence-ai.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Excellence an after-school maths and science program. 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He studied Math/CS/Philosophy at Yale.\n\nHe was a USA Math Olympian and won the American Invitational Math Examination with a perfect score. The AIME is now one of the most commonly used math benchmarks for AI models.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/richiehsiung/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7341d65d0715ab1a74119686556933478b7b9a77.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1276682, "full_name": "Frank Li", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Frank is the Co-Founder of Praxim. He studied pure mathematics and computer science at Yale.\n\nHe was a USA Math Olympian and an ML/AI researcher at the Yale NLP Lab and the Fields Institute in Toronto.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-li-6866411b0/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/2cba819b2c0e0553ef646f2aff372e31bae1b65f.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 94226, "title": "Praxim - The Agentic AI Word Editor", "tagline": "Transform Microsoft Word into an AI-native Word Editor", "body": "https://youtu.be/ffplqbuzfT4\n\nHey Everyone! We’re Praxim.\n\n**The Problem:**\n\nMicrosoft Word serves over a billion users, but Copilot is still stuck in the Stone Age, requiring manual selection just to generate crude, format-ignoring block replacement edits completely devoid of context from your preferences, files, or the web.\n\n**The Solution:**\n\nWith a single prompt, Praxim makes edits across your entire document:\n\n* No required manual selection to edit\n* No more copy-pasting and context switching between different apps\n* No formatting worries\n* Takes into account your preferences\n\nPraxim knows exactly what to change and what to keep and edits with word-level granularity—precisely editing only what needs editing, not making brute block replacements.\n\nMost importantly, Praxim creates real Word formatting:\n\n* Actual lists, tables, and styles—not fake imitation structures that are actually just paragraphs\n* Maintain formatting, or even change it\n\nPull data, research, and edit all without leaving Word, with features that 10x your productivity:\n\n* File and Web context\n* Voice dictation at the speed of thought\n* Intuitive edit previews and clickable references that jump to the location in the document\n\nPraxim is already used for use cases from form filling with data from multiple sources to contract redlining with precise legal edits.\n\n**Why only now?** Programmers left the era crude AI assistance years ago with agentic code editors. Formatted document editing is a far harder technical problem—a single word is encoded by formatting and structural markup several orders of magnitude more complex than plaintext code, with countless ways to render correct text incorrectly. Semantic meaning and formatting both matter.\n\nPraxim for Word solves this, delivering a quantum leap over any other Word editing tool today. Start using Praxim today at [praxim.ai](http://praxim.ai)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OVm-praxim-the-agentic-ai-word-editor", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2025-09-30T14:00:52.553Z" } ] }, { "id": 30197, "name": "Alice.tech", "slug": "alice-tech", "former_names": [ "Alice.tech", "Alice" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d58e9c6646fcf2c8783dc4e02f6ae0189039d29d.png", "website": "https://www.alice.tech/", "all_locations": "Copenhagen, Denmark", "long_description": "Alice turns generic course materials into personalized learning and exam prep using AI. We’re Duolingo for exams, and more than 10k college students have already used Alice. \r\n\r\nKim, the CEO, is a domain expert in education with more than 10+ years of university teaching experience. He is also technical by background.\r\n\r\nMRR is $20k, growing +10% week-over-week the last 8 weeks\r\n\r\nAlice's core market opportunity is +$10b, with the global education market being almost $10trillion. As AI starts to disrupt education, Alice will use in-built network effects and virality in its product to create a global winner. \r\n\r\nGo Alice. Thank you!", "one_liner": "AI-driven exam prep", "team_size": 5, "industry": "Education", "subindustry": "Education", "launched_at": 1736959747, "tags": [ "AI-Enhanced Learning", "Education", "Generative AI", "SaaS", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Education" ], "regions": [ "Denmark", "Europe" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": [ { "question": "How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)", "answer": "Kim has over 10 years of experience teaching university students and a deep expertise in AI. In December 2023, he conceived the idea for Alice.tech to tackle one of the most pressing challenges in education today: the lack of affordable personalized learning solutions. Kim and Patrick have been friends for eight years and frequently discussed startup ideas, though they hadn’t pursued one together until now. After just a few weeks of prototyping, they became convinced of Alice.tech’s potential—not only as a viable product but as something they both wished they’d had during their own student years. This shared vision led them to co-found Alice.tech in February of 2024." }, { "question": "What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?", "answer": "Education is one of the largest and most influential industries in the world, with +20% of the global population being students.Yet, today’s education system still follows the assembly-line approach from the industrial revolution—leaving students stuck with standardized, one-size-fits-all learning methods that create three major pains:1. Compromised learning2. Emotional stress3. Wasted timeThese intensify towards the exam, leaving a glaring problem to be solved. Until now, solutions like private tutors have been expensive, inaccessible to most, and inconsistent in quality. But with advancements in AI, this is finally changing…" }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? 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He was the fastest in Europe to make Engagement Manager. He also worked in LEGO as Head of Global Business Development. \n\nKim has taught university students for 11+ years. \n\nMSc in Computer Science from Imperial College London & MSc in Finance from LSE.\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimrants/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b105ea0b0986c4fb4304873ce412b1f267ff0afb.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Pitch Deck: Alice.Tech Raises $4.8 Million for AI Edtech Platform - Business Insider", "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/pitch-deck-alice-tech-funding-ai-edtech-2025-5", "date": "May 07, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 87253, "title": "Alice 👩‍🎓 AI-Powered Exam Prep", "tagline": "Alice turns generic course materials into personalized learning and exam prep using AI", "body": "Hey everyone [👋](https://emojipedia.org/waving-hand)\n\nWe’re [Kim](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimrants/) and [Patrick](https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-gadd/ ) – co-founders of [Alice](https://www.alice.tech/). \n\n# **TL;DR**\n\n**Alice turns generic course materials into personalized learning and exam prep using AI**. Over 2,000 students have already used Alice to improve their grades. \n\n**_Ask_:** Can you introduce us to student organizations, educators, high-schools, or universities that could benefit from rolling out responsible and advanced AI? Contact us at [kim@alice.tech](mailto:kim@alice.tech)  \n\n[**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OcZOUE44nM**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OcZOUE44nM)\n\n# **❌ The Problem**\n\nEducation is one of the largest and most influential industries in the world, with +20% of the global population being students.\n\nYet, today’s education system still follows the assembly-line approach from the industrial revolution—leaving students stuck with standardized, one-size-fits-all learning methods that create three major pains:\n\n1. Compromised learning\n2. Emotional stress\n3. Wasted time\n\nThese intensify towards the exam, leaving a glaring problem to be solved. \n\n![Education: One size no longer has to fit all - Technology and Operations Management](https://d3.harvard.edu/platform-rctom/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2016/11/animals.jpg)\n\nUntil now, solutions like private tutors have been expensive, inaccessible to most, and inconsistent in quality. But with advancements in AI, this is finally changing…\n\n# [👷](https://emojipedia.org/construction-worker) Our Solution\n\nAt Alice, we’re a team of former teachers and AI experts using the latest technology to make personalized learning more accessible. \n\nAlice turns generic course materials into personalized learning and exam prep using AI. Students simply upload what they want to study and instantly get access to:\n\n* **Better understanding** 📚: Key topic overviews with support from an AI chat that knows their context. \n* **Effective practicing** 📝: Tailored exercises (level, format, curriculum, etc.), including flashcards, multiple-choice questions, and full exam simulations and grading. \n* **Targeted improvement** 🎯: Identification of weaknesses for more targeted and complete learning.\n\nPlus, Alice makes learning fun by allowing students to study with or against their friends.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdDw2pjseLEjX6Ww72ZtmrbUuDeBLrs_fv3teZlN1MUP_mkmlXcOOCe7ASwp23xZnw1VX4RX0g_XMuNjVUnpY0cMp3f60VijccTva3dKPX4kmX_Vsvl54w3HZ3IYXrcOE5qSNY5wg?key=Jl8x5eY4hkisaV-3Hb514LsF)\n\n# 🙏 Our Ask\n\nIf you answer “yes” to any of these, we’d love your help:\n\n* Do you know any college students that might be up for trying an innovative AI study platform? Or are you one yourself? You can sign up here: [www.alice.tech](http://www.alice.tech) and use the promo code 40PERCENT for an exclusive YC launch offer providing free trial and 40% off [🚀](https://emojipedia.org/rocket)\n* Can you introduce us to any student organizations that might look for AI solutions to their members?\n* Can you introduce us to educators, high-schools or universities that might be looking for responsible and advanced AI solutions to help their students and teachers?\n\n👉 Contact us at [Kim@alice.tech](mailto:Kim@alice.tech)\n\nYour help can make a huge difference. **Thank you!**\n\n# [👬](https://emojipedia.org/men-holding-hands) The Team\n\nKim and Patrick have known each other for almost 10 years and co-founded Alice in 2024. \n\nKim (CEO) has worked as an Associate Partner at McKinsey, where he specialized in AI, and has taught university students for 10+ years. He holds two MSc. degrees: one in Finance and one in Computer Science, with specialization in AI.\n\nPatrick (CTO) has worked as Senior Data Scientist at LiveIntent (US AdTech firm), leading the internal MLOps framework, and invented a patented machine learning solution for audiences driving significant incremental revenue. He has worked with ML and software engineering his entire career. He holds an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Oxford.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdDsx0iNiJ4dnGgVrOIymgqtsqtLpdFFiaLJgh-29bAwK-O9yGLZUVqZB2qKW8LCF5HfDTTrWrAZJQHwXtvoruPCFt64S93WIbu2rL51Lod_jLemsN6LsgvWptpjmHAwY2YtAAQ?key=Jl8x5eY4hkisaV-3Hb514LsF)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MhJ-alice-ai-powered-exam-prep", "votes": 671, "created_at": "2025-01-29T15:57:36.018Z" } ] }, { "id": 30199, "name": "awen", "slug": "awen", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c1f3190ee23bef18e805a06ab238214a0db50d11.png", "website": "https://www.awen.ai/", "all_locations": "Paris, Île-de-France, France; Remote", "long_description": "AI creative tools became powerful quickly. But they also got complicated. Most of them require creatives to do the engineering.\r\n\r\nPrompts.\r\nParameters.\r\nNode graphs.\r\n\r\nCreative work doesn’t start there. 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Most of them require creatives to do the engineering: prompts, parameters, node graphs.\n\nIn many cases, creatives are now expected to think like engineers but creative work doesn’t start there. It starts with thinking, exploring directions, and iterating until something feels right. That’s what we wanted to build around.\n\nWith **Awen**, we’re trying a different approach:\n\nA creative partner that turns intent into exceptional visuals through conversation.\n\nWatch with sound on and join now on \n\n* If you'd like to connect with us directly, please reach out to [thibault@awen.ai](mailto:thibault@awen.ai).\n\n\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99315&key=user_uploads/1031855/a714a829-87bf-4ddd-9d41-68132f6a201f)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ppr-awen", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2026-04-01T14:46:53.694Z" }, { "id": 88151, "title": "Awen: Imagine Photoshop, but simple?", "tagline": "awen makes creation as natural as having a conversation.", "body": "🎥 **Rather than tell you, we’d rather show you:**\n\n\n\n**TL;DR**\n\nTraditional creative tools are powerful but complex. Awen changes that. Instead of navigating complex menus, creatives can simply describe their vision—_“Draw me a Swiss mountain lake. Now make it sunset. Add a boat. Now animate it.”_\n\nAwen leverages AI reasoning to understand creative intent through voice. Our goal is to redefine how creatives engage with AI technology, balancing power and ease of use for both professionals and newcomers.\n\nWe are rebuilding Photoshop, with an AI-voice interface.\n\n**The Team**\n\nAwen is built by Thibault, Pablo, and Antoine—a unique blend of experts in machine learning, software engineering, and creative production in advertising, fashion, media, publishing, and entertainment.\n\n**Shall we speak?**\n\nOur community is growing with talented minds:\n\n* If you'd like to connect with us directly, please reach out to [thibault@awen.ai](mailto:thibault@awen.ai).\n* Want to join the visionaries on our waitlist? [Sign-up here.](https://www.awen.ai/)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88151&key=user_uploads/1031855/fa2e6ae2-1d36-4b99-9ae5-4a12408fd535)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mvn-awen-imagine-photoshop-but-simple", "votes": 42, "created_at": "2025-02-28T17:41:28.908Z" } ] }, { "id": 30207, "name": "Promptless", "slug": "promptless", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3b841846a6a116e07034a08b5b57b9bfb7b3d183.png", "website": "https://promptless.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Docs are integral to a great customer experience, but managing them is a challenging, multi-team effort. The most successful companies recognize that fantastic docs drive adoption and bad ones cause customers to churn. 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There he saw firsthand the effort required to maintain hundreds of tutorials and guides and the outsized business impact of world-class documentation.\n\nPrithvi graduated from Stanford in 2015 (B.S. CS, AI track). He was also a 4-time International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) participant, including as the youngest participant in 2008.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/prithvi-r", "x_url": "https://x.com/prithviramak", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ef6c25924a3161ded0b11ea43e92f9c28d8ff842.jpg" }, { "user_id": 609516, "full_name": "Frances Liu", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Frances is building Promptless, helping companies keep customer-facing content up-to-date. Prior to Promptless, Frances led product, ML/AI engineering, and LLM ops on petabyte scale at Cloudflare, OneSignal, and Graft. Yale undergrad. Stanford PhD drop-out. Has published LLM research.\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/frances-liu-1a426057", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9db137d9786ef251cc147edf1476c4d310d567f3.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 85109, "title": "Founding Engineer (All Levels)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/promptless/jobs/FdJSR55-founding-engineer-all-levels", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$140K - $200K", "equity_range": "0.40% - 2.00%", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 87446, "title": "Promptless: An AI teammate that automatically updates your customer-facing docs", "tagline": "Promptless proactively drafts updates to your docs while you ship software and support customers", "body": "Hello! We’re Frances and Prithvi, founders of Promptless. \n\n# tl;dr\n\nDocs are integral to a great customer experience, but managing them is a challenging, multi-team effort. The most successful companies recognize that fantastic docs drive adoption and bad ones cause customers to churn. Promptless is already used by fast-growing startups and Fortune 500 enterprises alike to automatically update docs based on feature releases, support tickets, internal Slack conversations, and more. [Get started today](http://gopromptless.ai)! \n\n\n\n# The Promptless Approach\n\n**Promptless drafts updates proactively for easy review**\n\n* Our AI agents monitor your software changes for when a documentation update might be needed, and can be triggered from a Slack conversation in one click. No prompt engineering required—hence the name _“Promptless”_.\n\n**Promptless lives where you work and can be triggered anywhere**\n\n* Instead of forcing you into yet another platform, Promptless integrates into your Slack channels, Github repos, Notion databases, Jira/Linear issues, Zendesk/Intercom tickets, and CMS platform.\n\n**Promptless-written docs are designed to maximize value to your customers**\n\n* Promptless is designed to prioritize accuracy, simplicity, and discoverability—ensuring that your customers can be onboarded quickly and can self-support without reaching out to your team.\n\n **Promptless is built for all kinds of customer docs**\n\n* Whether your docs are product tutorials, help-center articles, or developer guides, Promptless can handle it, and infers the style and structure of your documentation by reading your entire docs site.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87446&key=user_uploads/729272/8196d287-25b1-4175-877b-92f03d41cf74)\n\n# How Customers Use Promptless Today\n\nPromptless is designed to be flexible—it can integrate with any docs platform, be triggered automatically from many workflows, and can pull in context from any internal knowledge source. Just a few examples: \n\n[Vellum](http://vellum.ai) (YC W23) has tons of Slack Connect channels with their key customers—they use Promptless to automatically trigger doc updates whenever their team answers a customer question that should be covered in their public guides. \n\n[Clay](https://clay.com/) (breakout prospecting super tool) has a product team that publishes biweekly changelogs and a content team that manages their guides—they use Promptless to automatically bridge that gap and draft new and updated guides whenever there’s a product update.\n\nA Fortune 500 company has full-time technical writers, but the context surrounding every change is spread across Linear, Confluence, and Slack–Promptless automatically assembles the relevant context and drafts doc updates for every PR, making every technical writer twice as productive. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87446&key=user_uploads/729272/0a2388b3-a021-423b-80ba-3dc4d94a23f5)\n\n# Our Team and Expertise\n\nFrances and Prithvi have both run teams where great docs were a critical part of the customer experience. At OneSignal (YC S11) where Frances was Head of Data Science, she saw that docs engagement within the first 24 hours was directly tied to the biggest predictors of customers' lifetime value. 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Over 2,500+ engineers and 15+ companies are using Contrario to get jobs and fill roles.\n\n**_Ask:_** Can you refer talented startup recruiters in your network to join Contrario’s platform? Also, if you’re looking for exceptional talent to hire across GTM or engineering, you can reach out to me at [arya@contrario.ai](mailto:arya@contrario.ai).\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGu7fBLud48 \n\n**❌ The Problem**\n\nRecruiting is one of the largest and most influential industries in the world, worth over $2T and employing 60M+ workers per year.\n\nYet, today’s recruiting market still follows outdated, manual processes from 20+ years ago – leaving candidates stuck with a poor job search experience. There are three major pain points: \n\n1. Endless job applications with zero transparency\n2. Low recruiter response rates leaving applicants in the dark\n3. Failing behavioral screens with recruiters\n\nThese challenges compound over time, widening a critical gap in the recruiting market.\n\nUntil now, people relied on referrals and network connections to have a better chance at getting more interviews. But with advancements in AI, this is finally changing … \n\n**✅ Our Solution**\n\nAt Contrario, we’re a team of former candidates, recruiters, and AI experts using the latest technology to build the best candidate experience possible.\n\nCompanies can import their job from an ATS or upload their info, and our system immediately:\n\n* Defines **top recruiters** to work on your role based on past expertise and placement history\n* Uses **proprietary AI models** to dynamically generate **talent scorecards** that capture their top skills.\n* Leverages inbuilt integrations with **ATS systems** like Ashby/Lever and Slack/Calendly for seamless management.\n\nWith Contrario, companies conduct an intake call + upload their most important info for a job, and we handle the rest.\n\n**🙏 Our Ask**\n\nIf you answer “yes” to any of these, we’d love your help:\n\n✅ Hiring GTM talent or engineering talent for your startup?\n\n✅ Know top startup recruiters or agencies looking for additional revenue extension opportunities?\n\n👉 Contact us at [arya@contrario.ai](mailto:arya@contrario.ai) \n\n👬 **The Team**\n\nContrario was founded by Stanford dropouts Arya Marwaha (CEO, ex-BCG, led product at 5+ startups) and Aditya Sood (CTO, ex-NASA NLP, published at Stanford AI Lab x Anthropic). \n\n\\\nThey met in their first-year dorm at Stanford and have been building together ever since. Their firsthand experience on both sides of the hiring industry—Aditya as a candidate, and Arya as a recruiter—drove them to build an automated solution that bridges the gap.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88187&key=user_uploads/2304578/6fd2cf72-0768-46e7-9633-8ed9fd682aba)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88187&key=user_uploads/2304578/63b480fd-ad1b-4f05-9120-9afb42cdb7ef)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MwN-contrario-the-1st-ai-powered-recruiting-network", "votes": 764, "created_at": "2025-03-02T00:35:18.358Z" } ] }, { "id": 30220, "name": "Verbiflow", "slug": "verbiflow", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/61dac6c9c5fd565ee458bdaddc5acb67c824ccd3.png", "website": "https://verbiflow.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We help startups reach prospective customers through email, LinkedIn, and cold calls, while keeping your team aligned on every conversation and response.", "one_liner": "Outbound Sequencing Infrastructure for Startups", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1740147387, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Analytics", "Sales", "Sales Enablement", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "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/verbiflow", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2025/verbiflow.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/verbiflow/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/61dac6c9c5fd565ee458bdaddc5acb67c824ccd3.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/7c4910266fafcc9e3d5a213d97b4e692cd039e0a.png", "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/183e193081f5d9799db03310e8572094bb873326.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Harj Taggar", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/harj-taggar" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 2368054, "full_name": "Kashyab Ambarani", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder of Verbiflow", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kashyab-ambarani/", "x_url": "https://x.com/kashyabja", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/eb44144cc628aaeefe741ee463192c7dd2ac9bb2.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2087146, "full_name": "Rishi Mahadevan", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder Verbiflow", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishi-mahadevan-625844109/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/43f5f920115b063b424f305991a2e7d051a0a268.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 87898, "title": "Verbiflow - The Swiss Army Knife For Your Sales Team", "tagline": "The all-in-one platform for sales teams to capture, manage, and automate their entire process. ", "body": "Hey everyone! We're Kashyab and Rishi, co-founders of Verbiflow 😁\n\n# tl;dr\n\nVerbiflow is the all-in-one platform for sales teams to capture, manage, and automate their entire process. Capture leads with intelligent prospecting that identifies high-potential prospects based on real-time events and smart scheduling & routing that instantly assigns those leads to the best-suited sales rep. Manage your pipeline with complete flexibility, defining and tracking custom KPIs across all your sales interactions. Automate reminders and workflows to keep deals moving forward, all within a single, unified platform.\n\n**Ask:** warm intros to sales leaders 😇 (CRO, VP of Sales, & Director of Sales)\n\n\n\n# The Problem 👎\n\nSales teams are grappling with inefficiencies that plague every step of the sales process, from chasing down leads to sealing the deal. For sales reps, the clock is their enemy: they spend just 35% of their time actually selling, leaving about 6.5 hours a day tangled up in manual chores like data entry, prospect hunting, call logging, and scheduling follow-ups. This time sink costs companies roughly $68,000 per rep each year in lost productivity—like paying for a chef who spends most of their shift washing dishes instead of cooking. It’s not just money down the drain; it’s missed chances, too. Leads are 9x more likely to turn into customers if contacted within 5 minutes, but reps buried under admin work can’t keep up, letting golden opportunities slip away.\n\nAccount Executives (AEs) are under pressure to close complex deals, but they’re stuck piecing together past interactions from scattered emails, linkedin messages, notes, and tools to get full context on a deal. This chaos makes it nearly impossible to remember key discussions or spot issues threatening the deal like price objections or competitor mentions early enough to act. AEs lack the real-time insights to tackle blockers as such head-on. Meanwhile, they’re bogged down tracking multiple deals across clunky, disconnected systems, while needing to manually update them too. To top it off, deals often land with the wrong AE—like asking a barber to fix your car; they’re skilled with scissors, not engines, and your car’s not going anywhere fast. Win rates tank, and growth goals slip out of reach.\n\n**The outcome?** A frustrated sales team that’s overworked, stretched thin, and underdelivering on the company’s revenue goals.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfsJ9u8AMu5T7GayrI8W-Tj0Tcjadt4A_-xcLxSh-k5kba2Es3uSw9_DWUEHGX4U8X7shcpXwSdLexdlKMBRZl9IYAZLtts1nNR52_7WCMkBvsAT2uVP8vSz3uW34dz6QA6wxTwnw?key=9M7pNCNH6ZN22VTOIZDfTMsS)\n\n# Our Solution 🤩\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87898&key=user_uploads/2368054/5e2c41a3-b5c3-4a66-9342-21d027cba0b0)\n\n**Time Wasted on Manual Tasks** \\\nVerbiflow automates lead identification, data enrichment, scheduling, and pulls in all your sales interactions. This eliminates the repetitive manual work that eats up 6.5 hours of a rep’s day, letting them focus purely on selling.\n\n**Missed Opportunities and Poor Deal Assignment**\\\nVerbiflow ensures leads are contacted instantly with automated follow-ups—hitting the 5-minute window when conversions are 9x more likely—while smart routing matches those deals to the best-suited AE based on expertise and performance history. This keeps opportunities alive and optimally assigned without manual effort or guesswork.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87898&key=user_uploads/2368054/e5ba9f9e-6e63-423c-b61a-3414151bf03a)\n\n**Lack of Centralized Context** \\\nA unified pipeline consolidates all deal-related emails, messages, calls, & notes, into one view. AEs get a full picture instantly, without digging through scattered sources.\n\n**Sales Blockers**\\\nAI-powered KPIs flag specific hurdles—like pricing objections, competitor mentions, or price consciousness—giving AEs precise insights to resolve issues quickly.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXeog_b3ymaSnvHZeJ97Ybp1ql3WqyZwPQBkRwiZyOl5IajGnwuEgU3HTSxbQIH64diOOKnwFsiCQGa5-39n0lKEfs-GEdFzu8tKR-ycfu_tJTVEqnm1J-mxcqIn5Pywph6_ZS-WqQ?key=9M7pNCNH6ZN22VTOIZDfTMsS)\n\n# The Team 🚀\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87898&key=user_uploads/2368054/2fb432c3-988f-4297-b4aa-984792d8837d)\n\nWe’ve been spending 10+ hours every day with each other since 2024 & have shared a love for building, movies, & music since we met.\n\nKashyab has seen sales teams struggle with disorganization and inefficiencies across the board—from billion-dollar giants to seed-stage startups. Rishi has witnessed the fallout: sales teams buckling under high turnover and missed revenue goals, often due to fragmented data and poor handoffs. Together, we bring 7 years of experience building integrations and shaping B2B SaaS products, blending technical expertise with real-world sales insights. Our hands-on understanding of these problems, paired with our ability to ship fast, makes us the perfect team to fix what’s broken in sales.\n\n# Ask 🙌\n\nWe’re pouring our all into Verbiflow and could use your help:\n\n* Warm intros to sales leaders (CRO, VP of Sales, & Director of Sales)\n* Learn more [here](https://verbiflow.com/) & [book a demo if you’re interested!](https://app.verbiflow.com/calendar)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mri-verbiflow-the-swiss-army-knife-for-your-sales-team", "votes": 44, "created_at": "2025-02-21T16:58:54.965Z" } ] }, { "id": 30230, "name": "SalesPatriot", "slug": "salespatriot", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c55eb595eb8712daeb02c69afcc09007bcb63c4f.png", "website": "https://www.salespatriot.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "SalesPatriot deploys supply chain superintelligence into distribution, original equipment manufacturing, and procurement. By embedding AI in the teams that run quote to cash workflows, we turn email chains, ERPs, websites, spreadsheets, and portals into a unified transactional layer, so critical parts reach the production line faster.\r\n\r\nThe West’s advantage depends on supply chains that work. 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Amby Health automates the entire process, ensuring 100% of patient reports (PCRs) are reviewed in real-time, helping agencies increase revenue, reduce workload, and improve patient care.\n\nKnow any **EMS Directors/CEOs or Fire Department Captains**? Please introduce us! \n\nEmail: [contact@amby.health](mailto:contact@amby.health)\n\n# **The Team**\n\n**Yos (CEO):**  MIT dropout, ex-Meta engineer, ML researcher at MIT CSAIL, and former engineer at Allm, a company providing pre-hospital emergency care. He saw firsthand how outdated, manual EMS documentation and billing slow down providers and reduce revenue.\n\n**Timmy (CTO):** – MIT dropout, ex-Amazon/Bloomberg engineer, AI researcher at MIT Media Lab, and healthcare data scientist at OM1. He saw how valuable insights are buried in unstructured medical records, making it hard for providers to act on critical data.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87974&key=user_uploads/541108/0d47eceb-120d-4b66-acd1-d3f1a67db38a)\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nEMS quality reviews and billing are still manual and inefficient, leading to:\n\n* **Missed Errors & Compliance Risks** – Incomplete patient reports (PCRs) slip through, leading to under-documented care, protocol violations, and legal exposure.\n* **Lost Revenue & Billing Delays** – EMS teams spend hours fixing reports, chasing down medics, and resubmitting claims. Agencies miss out on millions due to denials, coding errors, and charge capture gaps.\n* **Slow, Labor-Intensive Process** – Quality review and billing teams are bogged down by manual chart reviews and corrections, delaying reimbursements and patient care improvements.\n\n \n\n# **Our Solution: AI-Powered EMS Quality Review & Billing**\n\n✅ **Automated Quality Audits** – Identifies errors, missing documentation, and compliance risks instantly.\\\n✅ **Real-Time Medic Feedback** – Helps providers improve documentation and protocol adherence with instant insights.\\\n✅ **Billing Optimization** – Ensures complete PCRs, flags missed charges and reduces denials to speed up payments.\n\nThe result? EMS agencies recover lost revenue, cut review times, and improve patient care—while reducing manual work. \n\nOne fire department **increased EMS revenue by 33%** (from $350K to $500K) simply by improving its review process.\n\n# **Demo**\n\n\n\n---\n\n**Our Ask**\n\n* Know any EMS Directors/CEOs or Fire Department Captains? 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Riviera solves this with AI voice agents that provide 24/7 phone agents that speak any major language: answering guest questions, ordering room service, making reservations, and redirecting calls as needed.\n\n---\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nHotels spend over 100 billion dollars per year on staffing. Front-desk staff spend valuable time on phones instead of handling high-touch guest services. Meanwhile, guests frustrated by long waits or old IVR menus often hang up, leading to lost revenue and poor reviews.\n\n### **Our Solution**\n\nRiviera’s AI voice agents manage unlimited calls instantly. We integrate with property management systems, reservations, and ticketing software so guests can:\n\n* **Get quick answers** **about hotel services and policies**\n* **Order in-room dining and other amenities**\n* **Check availability and make reservations**\n\nRiviera has a human-sounding voice model trained on each hotel’s unique data to understand it better than any staff member ever could.\\\n\\\n\\\n\\*\\*Want to see a live demo or talk pilots?\\*\\*\\\n\\\nYou can schedule a demo by visiting [**withriviera.com**](http://withriviera.com). Feel free to email me directly at [**shaun@withriviera.com**](mailto:shaun@withriviera.com).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87705&key=user_uploads/683820/c11e9839-f110-4546-902f-907840b8d6f4)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87705&key=user_uploads/683820/7e4c67a5-facf-41b1-9595-1605bcffdf14)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mob-riviera-multilingual-ai-voice-agents-for-hotels", "votes": 29, "created_at": "2025-02-14T23:57:29.263Z" } ] }, { "id": 30287, "name": "Calltree", "slug": "calltree", "former_names": [ "Scotty AI", "Calltree AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e2ad0fe64b625227762a6c6a44c1872475df287d.png", "website": "https://calltree.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Calltree makes enterprise-grade AI support reps for call centers. 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Calltree helps enterprises' VP of Operations understand how to make their call center more efficient. Our AI agent analyzes millions of minutes of call center recordings to find inefficiencies in workflows and quantifies the cost of each action. For example, when a rep is handling a credit card dispute, Calltree can identify that reps spend 30 seconds per call on manual data gathering and data entry, propose a solution, and measure the opex savings. Calltree surfaces these insights in an analytics tool and generates reports, making it easy for operation leaders to build business cases to prioritize improvements, realizing millions in opex savings.\n\nAsk: If cutting every second matters to your call center, please email us [kun@calltree.ai](mailto:kun@calltree.ai) and [rob@calltree.ai](mailto:rob@calltree.ai) or [book a demo here.](https://calendly.com/kun-calltree/30min) \n\n[Checkout our launch video!](https://youtu.be/v-9hFgH_gCI)\n\n**The Problem**\n\nLarge enterprises track every second of a phone call because **reducing average call time** can save millions of dollars each year. However, enterprises don't have a scalable way to find these inefficiencies. Manual time studies (in person shadowing call center reps, etc.) are tedious, unscalable, and expensive. \n\n**What Are Screen Recordings?**\n\nMany contact centers don’t just record the audio of customer calls; they also capture **everything the rep does on their screen** for training, compliance, and quality assurance. **Less than 1% of these screen recordings** are ever reviewed by a manager or analyst and **miss 99% of calls**. This leads to blind spots and missed opportunities for massive cost savings.\n\n**Our Solution**\n\n* **AI agent that finds workflow inefficiencies** (e.g., toggling between multiple systems to complete a single task).\n* **Quantify the time and cost** of each action (e.g., “Switching between these five legacy apps costs 20 seconds per call → $5M/year”).\n* **Operation leaders use these insights** to build quick business cases to fix inefficiencies. After changes are implemented, Calltree measures the impact pre- and post-fix to **prove cost reductions**.\n\n**Our team**\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdf17k-TMCzITHR-cAuUjxmf1XRQMpsQRvVeVslxQKILE2Jv6xHq2NSXtJWSM1WyEDXZBON4FJ1U7A77AKzZt7VvkUe7HGq8ozwJT3lf8O4nUgM8CwHtfhZ60iIsEanYT077wTjFA?key=5B91WL3MPEXhLdY8htNQCHC6)\n\n* **Kun** led product at AWS’ contact center solution, working with hundreds of large enterprises such as Capital One, Intuit, and Adobe.\n* **Rob** specializes in multimodal search for video and audio, previously helped companies like Walmart and Etsy fine tune embedding models.\n* After seeing how **little** of these screen recordings ever got analyzed—despite their huge potential value—we decided to automate that process end-to-end.\n\n**Our Ask**\n\n* Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/calltree-ai), and [book a demo](https://calendly.com/kun-calltree/30min) with our team.\n* Share this post! -  Do you know anyone in your network who is a VP of Operations, VP of call center operations, VP of Contact Center? Please share this post (or our demo video below!)\n* Learn more at [calltree.ai](https://calltree.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mie-calltree-ai-agent-that-optimizes-enterprise-call-center-workflows", "votes": 23, "created_at": "2025-01-31T19:55:57.857Z" } ] }, { "id": 30294, "name": "Sennu AI", "slug": "sennu-ai", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/35cbadbc20698fdbde411ffce51ce8c13ee4beb3.png", "website": "https://www.sennu.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Sennu AI builds AI systems that fundamentally transform how your business operates", "one_liner": "We turn traditional companies into AI companies", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1737750089, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "SaaS", "B2B", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "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/sennu-ai", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2025/sennu-ai.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/sennu-ai", "x_url": "https://x.com/SennuAI", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sennu-ai", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/35cbadbc20698fdbde411ffce51ce8c13ee4beb3.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tyler Bosmeny", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tyler-bosmeny" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1939169, "full_name": "Sukhjit Singh", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Building Sennu AI | prev @ Brex", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sukhjit-singh-ut/", "x_url": "https://x.com/ssinghh14", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/dafa03e73686719484132985fc169297ae1590f9.jpg" }, { "user_id": 990840, "full_name": "Sriman Gaddam", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Building Sennu AI | prev @ Confluent", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sriman-gaddam/", "x_url": "https://x.com/SrimanGaddam", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a09b8c3aaf1edccc3a67fabe82c46e31013c7f65.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 96202, "title": "Sennu AI: AI Code Review for Salesforce Development", "tagline": "Sennu AI reviews every pull request with full context of your Salesforce codebase like a senior Salesforce architect would", "body": "# **Problem**\n\nSalesforce code reviews often take days to merge and often contain Salesforce specific bugs that are hard to catch.\n\n---\n\n# **Solution**\n\nSennu AI is an AI code reviewer built for Salesforce. It automatically reviews every pull request using Salesforce best practices and full context of your custom Salesforce org just like how a senior Salesforce architect would. Sennu AI leaves actionable in-line PR feedback so Salesforce dev teams can merge code faster and ship fewer bugs.\n\nQuick demo: [**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1PV8OizUms**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1PV8OizUms)\n\n---\n\n# **Who We Are**\n\nWe’re Sukhjit & Sriman, best friends who have been building together since high school. We are Salesforce certified devs who grew up around Salesforce consulting and have felt the pain in writing & reviewing Salesforce code firsthand.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96202&key=user_uploads/990840/22bca36a-830b-4911-998d-3d8aa33c44ac)\n\n---\n\n# **Our Ask**\n\nIf you have Salesforce devs working on your Salesforce instance, we would love to talk to you.\n\nBook a demo here if you are interested: [**https://calendly.com/d/cwq3-bw8-cr4**](https://calendly.com/d/cwq3-bw8-cr4) or reach out at [sriman@sennu.ai](mailto:sriman@sennu.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/P1e-sennu-ai-ai-code-review-for-salesforce-development", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2025-12-15T00:12:53.645Z" }, { "id": 91696, "title": "Sennu AI: Hands off Salesforce QA", "tagline": "AI QA Engineer that tests your Salesforce just like a human", "body": "### **Problem**\n\nTesting Salesforce is an absolute pain - countless hours are spent either testing functionality manually or writing tests in a no code framework.\n\n---\n\n### **Solution**\n\nSimply link your sprint board and our AI Salesforce QA Engineer generates test cases and executes them exactly like a human using browser automation. This entire experience is fully hands off - no setup needed except linking your Jira and Salesforce sandbox environment.\\\n\\\nBenefits of this approach\n\n* Get started in less than 5 minutes\n* All tests written in plain English\n* Can run 100s of tests at the same time\n\nQuick demo: [**https://youtu.be/PdPoNmbbsw0**](https://youtu.be/PdPoNmbbsw0)\n\n---\n\n### **Who We Are**\n\nWe’re Sukhjit & Sriman—best friends who have been building together since high school. Sriman grew up working at his parents‘ Salesforce consulting firm and saw the difficulties of Salesforce QA first hand. 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We’re Sukhjit and Sriman, co-founders of Sennu AI (W25).**\n\n## The Problem\n\nTech consulting firms offer a suite of deeply technical services (SAP S/4HANA migrations, AWS Redshift implementation) with large contract sizes ($100,000-$1,000,000+). Sales representatives at these firms struggle due to a lack of technical knowledge leading to ineffective outbound, inaccurate estimates on pricing, and lost deals. AI has only made this problem worse as SDRs face an increasing number of new unfamiliar services to sell (Agentforce, Microsoft Copilot Studio) and rapid changes in recent years have rendered historical pricing unreliable for many technical services.\n\n## The Solution\n\n**Sennu AI** is our answer to this problem: we provide an **AI SDR** purpose-built for tech consulting companies. Instead of juggling multiple tools and outdated workflows, Sennu AI autonomously:\n\n* **Creates targeted outbound campaigns** based on your specific offerings\n* **Sources leads** from across the web, qualifying them through extensive research\n* **Crafts personalized emails** with a deep understanding of each prospect’s business needs\n* **Syncs seamlessly** with your existing CRM or workflow\n\nAll with just one click. By leveraging context on all your previous projects combined with comprehensive business & technical expertise, we’re ensuring that our AI agent sends the most compelling outbound possible to every lead at scale.\n\n\n\n## Backstory\n\nGrowing up in a tech consulting family, I (Sriman) experienced firsthand the challenges of running a project-based business, especially a technical one. The lack of recurring revenue meant that sales was an ongoing challenge to keep the lights on year after year. I saw in the previous technology shift how sales reps were left struggling from the radical shift from on-prem to cloud leading to unsuccessful outbound, mistakes in sales calls, and frustrated teams. We aim to prevent the same thing happening again during this shift to AI by solving sales and host of other problems that impact project based businesses.\n\n## Our Team\n\nSukhjit and Sriman have worked together for over a decade having been debate partners in high school, starting our own tutoring business out of our college dorm, to even interning together at Brex. With strong technical backgrounds—Sukhjit at Brex and Sriman at Confluent—they’re now channeling their expertise into solving a problem that directly affects their own parents, a mission they’re both deeply passionate about.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87149&key=user_uploads/1939169/60643d7e-51cc-4ed4-a495-afd71b8c2851)\n\n## Our Vision\n\nWe believe that in the next 10 years humans will no longer be the central processors of information but rather strategic overseers who provide high-level direction. A future service based business will operate as an ecosystem of AI workers that handle all end to end business operations. Sales is just the beginning - at Sennu AI we plan to lead the transformation of service based businesses into the AI age.\n\n## Asks\n\nIf you are a tech consulting firm interested in more leads\n\n* book a demo [here](https://calendly.com/d/cqrg-cr5-7ks)\n* reach out at [sukhjit@sennu.ai](mailto:sukhjit@sennu.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mfd-sennu-ai-ai-sales-agent-for-tech-consulting-firms", "votes": 27, "created_at": "2025-01-25T03:29:31.426Z" } ] }, { "id": 30297, "name": "OpenIntake", "slug": "openintake", "former_names": [ "TripleZip" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1df405069dcaa60afa0846603e01e765ebe5af44.png", "website": "https://www.openintake.ai/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "OpenIntake boosts law firm revenue by converting callers into clients 24/7.", "one_liner": "The AI Front Door For Law Firms", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Legal", "launched_at": 1739319968, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Sales", "Legal", "LegalTech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Legal" ], "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/openintake", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2025/openintake.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/106200029/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1df405069dcaa60afa0846603e01e765ebe5af44.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Harj Taggar", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/harj-taggar" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 2375948, "full_name": "Yash Sahota", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder of OpenIntake, the AI front door for law firms.\n\nBefore OpenIntake, I was a product security engineer at Slack and a consultant at McKinsey & Company.\n\nCornell CS '20", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/yashsahota", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/65cc0cd62110c0500ee9aa7d8d519117c00c4b84.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2371405, "full_name": "Grayson Pike", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder of OpenIntake, the AI front door for law firms..\n\nBefore OpenIntake, I was a consultant at McKinsey & Company and a back-end tech lead at a hedge fund.\n\nUniversity of Texas at Austin class of '21 🤘", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/graysonpike/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/edb51d6ffda537f5cd707b4e8604c1d02d4b3e6d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 87973, "title": "TripleZip - AI for Commercial Real Estate Accounting 📊", "tagline": "Commercial property accounting in minutes, not months.", "body": "**TLDR:** TripleZip automates complex accounting tasks for Commercial Real Estate firms, cutting admin costs and lowering legal risk.\n\n**Demo:** \n\n**❌ The Problem: Expensive and error-prone accounting**\n\n* CRE firms pay $$$ for lawyers to manually extract data from their leases\n* Then they pay $$$ for accountants to reconcile tenant accounts\n* The whole process takes 3+ months & often has costly errors.\n\nWe learned about the problem from our parents, who own commercial real estate in San Antonio, TX. After trying existing CRE accounting software, we found that the entire process relied on error-prone manual entry and expensive consulting services.\n\n**✅ Our Solution: Replace manual entry with AI**\n\n* TripleZip extracts data from leases with AI (more accurately than humans)\n* TripleZip feeds that data into an accounting engine which reconciles accounts instantly\n* Done in <1 day, 10X cheaper than hiring a consultant or service firm\n\nWe’ve started by automating the most complex part of CRE accounting: Triple-net (NNN) reconciliation. This process accounts for up to 1/3 of the accounting effort for a large CRE firm and often results in expensive human errors and audits.\n\nBy reducing the overhead costs of accounting and avoiding costly audits related to NNN reconciliations, we aim to improve our customer’s margins by as much as 25% percent.\n\n**Our Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87973&key=user_uploads/2371405/6fe9a40c-dc81-438e-8c4b-76a5bbebf00d)\n\nGrayson and Yash are close friends who have collaborated on software projects since they met in middle school. Since then, they have worked together as consultants at McKinsey & Company in New York.\n\nMost recently, Grayson was a back-end tech lead at a hedge fund and Yash was a security engineer at Slack while helping with his family’s commercial real estate business.\n\nYash earned a B.S. and an M.Eng. in Computer Science from Cornell in 2020.\n\nGrayson earned a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 2021.\n\n**Our Ask**\n\n* **Do you know someone who works in Commercial Real Estate?** We’d love to meet them! Please reach out at [founders@triplezip.ai](mailto:founders@triplezip.ai) \n* **Do you manage commercial real estate?** We’d love to chat! Contact us at [founders@triplezip.ai](mailto:founders@triplezip.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Msv-triplezip-ai-for-commercial-real-estate-accounting", "votes": 67, "created_at": "2025-02-24T20:59:43.717Z" } ] }, { "id": 30321, "name": "Woz", "slug": "woz", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3ec5c6a24f1037c7183c8ce6c5dc019a1f42ec3d.png", "website": "https://www.wozcode.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "WOZCODE is the highest performing, lowest cost AI coding agent. Available via Claude Code Plugin. \r\n\r\nThe WOZCODE plugin outperforms Claude Code alone on all key metrics:\r\n\r\nCost: 25-55% cheaper\r\nSpeed: 5-10x faster on database tasks, 30-40% faster on most others\r\nPerformance: beats Claude code on Terminal Bench 2.0 (68% vs 58%)\r\n\r\nInstall with one command. 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It installs in two commands, uses your existing Claude subscription, and fits directly into your current tools and workflows (CLI, Claude Desktop App, VS Code, Conductor, etc.)\n\n\n\n**Problem:**\n\nLast month, our Claude Code spend crossed $100k.\n\nThe scary part wasn’t the total. It was how much Claude wasted by being inefficient. Tool call after tool call that bloated context and burned unnecessary tokens. Claude Code is incredible, but too often it was wasting our tokens and money. As a startup we couldn’t continue burning funds in this fashion. \n\nSo we built a fix.\n\n**Solution:**\n\n[WOZCODE](https://www.wozcode.com/) is a plugin that optimizes how Claude Code works under the hood.\n\nCompared to Claude Code alone, WOZCODE delivers:\n\n* **25–55% cost savings**\n* **30–40% faster coding tasks**\n* **Higher benchmark performance (Terminal Bench: 70% vs 58%)**\n\nFor teams using Claude Code heavily, this can mean:\n\n* 50% Lower API spend\n* 2x more AI coding throughput\n* 2x more output before hitting limits \n\n\\*checkout[ wozcode.com](http://wozcode.com) for side-by-sides on real world coding tasks\n\n**How it works**\n\nInstead of relying solely on the default tools inside Claude Code, WOZCODE uses a set of custom tools designed for efficiency and context optimization.\n\nFor example, in vanilla Claude Code, a simple \"find and edit 3 files\" takes 9+ calls (3× Glob/Grep + 3× Read + 3× Edit) — and call #9 reprocesses all prior output as input tokens.\\\n\\\nWOZCODE collapses that to 2 calls (1× Search + 1× batch Edit). The context stays small, so every subsequent call in the session is cheaper. Over a 30-prompt session, this compounding effect drives significant cost savings.\n\n**See what you could be saving:**\n\nRun the below common in your terminal. It scans your existing Claude Code history and shows you exactly what you could have saved over the last 30 days\n\n _curl -fsSL [https://wozcode.com/savings-check.js](https://wozcode.com/savings-check.js) | node -_\n\n**Get started for free:**\n\nSign up at [ wozcode.com](http://wozcode.com)\n\nWOZCODE installs in two commands, uses your existing Claude subscription, and fits directly into your current tools and workflows (CLI, Claude Desktop App, VS Code, Conductor, etc.)\n\n**Help us help you:**\n\nIf you’re hitting Claude limits or seeing your spend rapidly accelerate, we’d love to hear from you. The sooner we learn about your use case the sooner we can optimize for it and help you save.\n\nReach us at [founders@withwoz.com](mailto:founders@withwoz.com)\n\nThank you!\n\n\\-Ben & Brad", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pya-wozcode-cut-your-claude-costs-by-50", "votes": 9, "created_at": "2026-04-17T15:44:51.341Z" }, { "id": 87776, "title": "Woz - Your AI Technical Cofounder", "tagline": "Launch a software business from scratch, no cofounder required", "body": "Hey everyone - we’re [Brad Eckert](https://www.linkedin.com/in/chefeckert/) and [Ben Collins](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bentcollins/), cofounders of Woz. 👋\n\nWoz is an AI platform that empowers non-technical entrepreneurs to build and scale real software businesses–no technical cofounder or engineering team required. To start, we’re helping entrepreneurs build high quality mobile apps and launch them directly to the app store.\n\n\n\n### **Problem:**\n\nFor most people, finding a technical cofounder is a frustrating and often insurmountable challenge. AI tools for generating prototypes and toy apps only exacerbate the struggle, leaving non-technical users stranded with no way to get from prototype to customer-ready product. \n\n### **Solution:**\n\nWith a proprietary system of AI agents, **Woz enables you to go from idea to production-ready product, eliminating the need to find a technical cofounder or hire developers.** Simply explain your business idea as you would to a human developer, and Woz handles the rest - product, payments, security, infrastructure, scalability, and more. Once you're up and running, Woz provides the tools you need to reach customers, grow sales, and scale your business, all in one place. Think of Woz as the command center for your business. \n\n### **What Woz is NOT:**\n\nWoz is **NOT** another no-code tool for generating prototypes, demos, or “toy apps” (e.g. surveys, to do lists, landing pages, etc). Maybe you’ve tried tools like Bubble, Lovable, or Bolt–these tools are fun and easy to use, but they're not engineered for business building. At Woz, we take the opposite approach–starting from battle-tested backend infrastructure and then customizing it to your business. That way, everything built on Woz is ready for customers on day one.\n\n### **Our Team:**\n\nWe met 13 years ago as roommates at MIT and have been building companies pushing the limits of AI/ML ever since. Brad previously cofounded Cairns Health (YC S17, formerly Totemic) where he led an engineering team of 30+ and built an LLM enabled device to cure chronic insomnia. We’re joined by a world class team of ML scientists and production engineers who’ve worked together for the last 10 years, scaling products to millions of users. Woz is now a fulltime team of six, and growing. If you’re interested in joining us as we remove barriers to business building, please reach out.  \n\n### **Itching to launch a mobile app?**\n\n👉 Apply for our Beta at [www.withwoz.com](https://www.withwoz.com) or contact us directly at [founders@withwoz.com](mailto:founders@withwoz.com)\n\n**We can’t wait to see what you build!** 🚀 🚀 🚀", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mpk-woz-your-ai-technical-cofounder", "votes": 40, "created_at": "2025-02-18T15:52:03.555Z" } ] }, { "id": 30322, "name": "Spott", "slug": "spott", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5f49530f7f80f640f3de8119e00764c7ea777491.png", "website": "https://spott.io", "all_locations": "Leuven, Flanders, Belgium", "long_description": "Spott is the first AI-native ATS/CRM for recruiting & staffing firms. 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Master's degree in Statistics at LSE.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuelsmeys/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/966e397c46b42f03d2d4ab5edad7d8c25df0da2d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 111818, "title": "BDR", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/spott/jobs/HGqPlMG-bdr", "location": "New York, NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$160K - $220K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 111819, "title": "Customer Success Manager", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/spott/jobs/m0vHaIl-customer-success-manager", "location": "New York, NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Support", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$140K - $200K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 99581, "title": "Spott: The AI workspace for agency recruiters", "tagline": "Outp(l)ace everyone", "body": "**TL;DR** \\\nSpott is the AI-native ATS/CRM for recruiting & staffing agencies. We are the modern alternative to Bullhorn and Loxo. We offer an all-in-one, AI-native system that truly understands your data and helps you act on it. This enables you to make more placements, faster.\n\nHundreds of recruitment agencies worldwide, from executive search firms to temp agencies of all sizes, already made the switch.\n\n\n\n**📉** **Problem**\\\nRecruiting is a $1T+ industry, yet the most widely used recruitment platforms were built 20 years ago. They were never built for AI and have shown a clear lack of innovation, which has led to a growing reliance on add-on functionality. Most of today’s \"AI features\" are just layers on top of outdated systems that can’t properly understand, update, or act on data. This is despite the enormous potential AI has in recruitment.\\\n\\\n**📈 Solution**\\\nWe built Spott from scratch in the AI era. It captures all your data, understands the meaning behind it, and can act on it. That is how you can find the candidate who mentioned six months ago that they were open to relocating. This helps recruitment agencies make more placements, faster.\\\n\\\n**How it works**\\\\\n\n* **AI Matching.** Contextual, not keyword-based. Matches across CVs, notes, Socials, call transcripts, and interviews. Shows _why_ each candidate was matched.\n* **Deep Customizability.** Custom attributes, AI-prompted columns, drag-and-drop views, kanban boards.\n* **AI Note-Taker.** Transcribes calls, creates smart summaries, auto-updates candidate profiles. No manual data entry.\n* **Unified Inbox.** Email, Socials, WhatsApp, calendar, VOIP. Two-way sync. Every conversation auto-attached to the right record.\n* **Candidate Presentations.** Client-ready presentations in your own Word/PPT template plus CV reformatting and a client portal.\n* **Multi-channel sequences, Analytics, Automations, Data enrichment…** All included. No add-ons required.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99581&key=user_uploads/2229948/d5bf76a4-6589-4a1f-9d97-9dafe14a3329)\n\nBook a demo at [Spott.io](http://Spott.io)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pu9-spott-the-ai-workspace-for-agency-recruiters", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2026-04-08T21:02:09.556Z" }, { "id": 87367, "title": "Spott: AI agents for recruiting firms", "tagline": "Supporting recruiters to focus on human interactions and increase placements", "body": "**TL;DR** \\\nSpott is building AI agents for recruiting firms to replace legacy recruiting platforms like Bullhorn. Today, headhunters use our first agent to generate detailed candidate presentation reports in their template within minutes, using data they already own.\n\n[Spott video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w3Ae-KDHEU)\n\n**📉Problem**\n\nHeadhunters create detailed reports for every candidate they propose to a company at the end of their search process. Manually writing these reports from scratch can take several hours, while most of the required inputs are readily available in their recruitment platform (think CV, cover letter, job description, interview notes). Similar tasks such as rewriting job descriptions and CVs are time and labor-intensive, adding up to \\~10% of the total workload. These tasks primarily involve converting raw information into standardized formats, which is time-consuming and slows down the hiring process.\n\n**📈Solution**\\\nSpott's candidate report writing agent streamlines this process by ingesting CVs, job descriptions, and interview notes to generate polished drafts in seconds. You can import recordings of in-person conversations and link transcripts from Zoom or Teams meetings to quickly create an 80% complete draft. Our context-rich editor, powered by AI, helps you efficiently finalize your report in minimal time. What sets Spott apart from ChatGPT and comparable solutions is the exceptional quality of its reports, the anonymized processing of sensitive client data, and the ability to export directly to your custom Word or PowerPoint templates. Our solution allows exec search recruiters to truly create reports in minutes rather than hours.\n\n**Founders**\\\nFounders [Manu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuvanderveeren/), [Samuel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuelsmeys/), and [Lander](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lander-degr%C3%A8ve/) bring recruiting expertise from McKinsey, BCG, and Bain. There, we saw clients struggle with legacy systems and realized AI-powered solutions could prove a transformative growth lever in executive search. Our goal: build the recruitment platform for the next generation of executive search firms.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87367&key=user_uploads/2229948/50385b80-397b-40ab-9ea7-d0da64422aff)\n\nContact us at [manu@spott.io](mailto:manu@spott.io)\\\nLearn more at [spott.io](http://spott.io)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mj9-spott-ai-agents-for-recruiting-firms", "votes": 27, "created_at": "2025-02-03T01:31:08.785Z" } ] }, { "id": 30333, "name": "TensorPool", "slug": "tensorpool", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/79bd0c6f85962c1282260ab60adb0462fdb87ec8.png", "website": "https://tensorpool.dev", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Our CLI makes ML model training effortless - just describe your job, and we handle GPU orchestration and execution at half the cost of major cloud providers.", "one_liner": "Vercel For GPUs", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Infrastructure", "launched_at": 1738629191, "tags": [ "AIOps", "Developer Tools", "SaaS", "DevOps", "Cloud Computing" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2025", "status": "Acquired", "industries": [ "B2B", "Infrastructure" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/tensorpool", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2025/tensorpool.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/105594641/", "x_url": "https://x.com/tensorpool", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/tensorpool/tensorpool", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/79bd0c6f85962c1282260ab60adb0462fdb87ec8.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 2359695, "full_name": "Tycho Svoboda", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-founder & CEO of Tensorpool. 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We’re [Joshua](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/969804), [Hlumelo](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/1709047), and [Tycho](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/2359695) - cofounders of TensorPool!👋\n\n**TLDR;** Our CLI makes ML model training effortless - just describe your job, and we handle GPU orchestration and execution at half the cost of major cloud providers.\n\n[Get setup in 3 minutes](https://github.com/tensorpool/tensorpool)\n\nHere’s a quick demo of how easy it is to train ML models with TensorPool!\n\n[**TensorPool Demo -- Fine-Tuning DeepSeek**](https://youtu.be/RqqLIVzP780)\n\n# **Problem**\n\nSince high school, when we trained our first ML models, **accessing remote compute has always been a massive hurdle**. As the years went by and we moved further into academia/industry, a good solution never came. Whether it was AWS EC2’s absurd amount of configuration, or Google Colab’s inability to run jobs without your computer being on, nothing left us satisfied. We talked to our co-workers and friends and they all felt the same. We wanted using GPUs to be as easy as programming locally.\n\n# **Solution**\n\nWe got together and built a way to **access industry-scale compute from your IDE**. No more SSHing. No more massive data migrations. No more ML Ops headache. Just a simple CLI. \\[We also **cut your costs by 50%** which will be explained below :)\\]\n\n# **How It Works**\n\nTensorPool has 2 main advantages:\n\n1. **Ease of Use:** \n * **Don’t leave your IDE:** TensorPool deploys your code directly to GPUs and ships the results back, just as if you were developing locally. \n * **Intuitive CLI & Configuration:** With TensorPool you can run your job with a single command, kick off several experiments with different tp.config.toml configurations, and version control training jobs with your code.\n2. **Price Advantage**\n * **Multi-cloud integration:** We’ve developed technology to do a real time analysis of all available GPU cloud providers, and put your job on the cheapest one.\n * **Spot node resummation tech:** We’ve created a way to give users the price advantage of spot nodes with the reliability of on-demand instances. This leads to \\~50% savings!\n\n# **Our ask**\n\nWe’re currently giving away $5/week of **free compute** to early users, and would love for you all to **try us out**! Whether your start-up needs an ML infra upgrade or you love messing around with models in your free time – reach out to us we’d love to chat ([team@tensorpool.dev](mailto:team@tensorpool.dev))! You can find all the information to get started [on our GitHub](http://github.com/tensorpool/tensorpool) (**drop us a star while you’re there** 😊) or [our website](https://tensorpool.dev).\n\n**We would also love intros to enterprises** that you believe could benefit from cheaper / easier access to GPUs.\n\n# **Try TensorPool today!**\n\nBelow is a quick start:\n\nAfter completing [the prerequisites](https://github.com/tensorpool/tensorpool?tab=readme-ov-file#prerequisites), we create a “tp.config.toml” ([explained here](https://github.com/tensorpool/tensorpool?tab=readme-ov-file#configuration)), either manually with: \n\n```\ntp config new\n```\n\nOr auto-generate one with natural language: \n\n```\ntp config \n```\n\nTo then deploy and run your job – simply run:\n\n```\ntp run\n```\n\nand that’s it! Your model is training on cloud GPUs! \n\n# **About Us**\n\nJoshua, Tycho, and Hlumelo all met their freshman year at Stanford where they got placed on the same dorm floor. Since then, they’ve taken all their classes together and have worked at companies like Apple, Blackstone, DeepMind, Nextdoor, CZI, and PIMCO.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mq0-tensorpool-the-easiest-way-to-use-gpus", "votes": 697, "created_at": "2025-02-18T22:18:38.093Z" } ] }, { "id": 30339, "name": "Ergo", "slug": "ergo", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a2d5f1e26b979ee4eabfed131c5f771fc09a4639.png", "website": "https://joinergo.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Ergo is AI revenue infrastructure for B2B sales teams. It ingests every customer interaction (calls, email, Slack, calendar) and turns it into deal health scores, forecasts, ready-to-send follow-ups, rep coaching, and clean pipeline data, automatically. 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Your reps are on six different communication channels. None of it connects. None of it acts on itself.\n\n* Deals slip because no one followed up at the right moment\n* Leadership asks reps what's happening instead of just knowing\n* Marketing sequences run on empty fields because the right data never made it in\n* AEs walk into calls without context because handoffs live in someone's Slack DMs\n\nThe conversations are happening. The signal is there. It just never goes anywhere.\n\n**📈 The Solution**\n\nErgo plugs into every channel where your team talks to prospects and customers and builds a unified data layer across all of it. Every call, email, and message gets structured into a single source of truth your entire revenue org can act on.\n\n* **For revenue teams:** Structured deal data captured automatically across every call, email, and message, without touching your CRM\n* **For reps:** Follow-ups drafted and surfaced at the right moment, every time\n* **For managers and founders:** Real-time pipeline visibility without chasing anyone for updates\n* **For RevOps and marketing:** Clean, structured data that actually powers your sequences and reporting\n\n**⚙️ How It Works**\n\n1. **Connect your channels** — Zoom, Google Meet, Gmail, Outlook, Slack, dialers. Wherever your team talks to customers, Ergo listens.\n2. **Structure the signal** — Every conversation becomes structured, actionable data across your pipeline.\n3. **Execute on what's next** — Follow-ups drafted. Deals surfaced. Pipeline moving. No manual work required.\n\n**🎬 Our Story**\n\nWe started at Georgia Tech, and got our first real signal at a YC-backed startup in SF. We spent four days embedded with their sales team and watched 15-20 daily calls evaporate into missed follow-ups and stale records. We built a first version over a weekend that unlocked $75K in closed contracts. That problem turned out to be everywhere.\n\nToday Ergo supports revenue teams running their entire bottom-of-funnel motion, from first conversation to close to expansion, without the admin.\n\n**👉 [joinergo.com](http://joinergo.com)** Questions? [yash@joinergo.com](mailto:yash@joinergo.com) or [ishan@joinergo.com](mailto:ishan@joinergo.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MdY-ergo-revenue-infrastructure-for-high-growth-sales-teams", "votes": 23, "created_at": "2025-01-21T19:55:12.638Z" } ] }, { "id": 30413, "name": "Serafis", "slug": "serafis", "former_names": [ "MetaSpark" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/67a815e7868c4a6d85c8b5fdb3324a29a6600f72.png", "website": "https://serafis.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Serafis is building the AI knowledge graph for market intelligence, starting with the information frontier. 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Search by person, company or theme across 100K+ curated transcripts.\n\n**We’re democratizing narrative intelligence**\n\nToday we’re launching the [Serafis mobile app](https://serafis.app): the world’s first podcast app for investors, with an AI-native interface.\n\n* Discover content relevant to the companies you follow\n* Explore a feed of the most insightful ideas found in podcasts\n* Ask questions about episodes, shows, or the Serafis library. Get answers with timestamped citations that take you to the exact quote.\n\nWe’ve thoughtfully integrated AI to help you find better information, faster. We also know how important it is to stay close to the source. For any episode, you can export, search, and highlight the full transcript.\n\n**Download the app now:**\n\n* [**iOS**](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/serafis/id6751523936)\n* [**Android**](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.r9a.serafis.mobileui)\n\nWe’d love your feedback. Feel free to get in touch: [founders@serafis.ai](mailto:founders@serafis.ai)\n\nIf you’re a business interested in using our data platform, please [request a demo.](https://tally.so/r/gD0xxK)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=102769&key=user_uploads/288934/86305a78-39e4-40ea-8dae-eb7ef9315e5e)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QjZ-serafis-the-podcast-app-for-investors", "votes": 21, "created_at": "2026-06-08T23:06:52.317Z" } ] }, { "id": 30417, "name": "GroundControl", "slug": "groundcontrol", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/aa0a54f0fef4c64097aee43f99b1b40bf7bda56a.png", "website": "https://rungroundcontrol.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "GroundControl builds mission-critical software for manufacturers in highly-regulated industries (aerospace, defense, medical)\r\n\r\nOur core product automates lengthy, complex, and regulated quality documentation in aerospace manufacturing.\r\n\r\nAs an example, the Boeing 777 is made up of over 3 million parts sourced from manufacturers around the world. 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We'll continue to build for quality, and upstream towards operations, engineering, and sales to empower manufacturers with AI. GroundControl will embed itself across the global supply chain, from Tier 4 suppliers to OEMs with vertically integrated manufacturing.\n\n**Our Ask**\n\nIf you know anyone in regulated manufacturing (aerospace, automotive, medical), or their customers (OEMs like Lockheed, SpaceX, Anduril, etc.) we would love to chat. Reach us at [**founders@gndctl.com**](mailto:founders@gndctl.com) or **408-390-4460**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90406&key=user_uploads/1816593/5a76bc6a-30b2-49fb-9e27-43c222bcab9d)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NWA-groundcontrol-vertical-ai-for-highly-regulated-manufacturing", "votes": 76, "created_at": "2025-05-14T18:21:40.860Z" } ] }, { "id": 30425, "name": "Auctor", "slug": "auctor", "former_names": [ "Auctor AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e14ac50e2fa0724e7b0c94e9bc2c4cdac5732e9e.png", "website": "https://getauctor.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Auctor brings alignment and intelligence to software implementation, enabling every project to deliver its intended value with clarity and precision.", "one_liner": "The agentic operating system for modern system integrators.", "team_size": 30, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1744707028, 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We’re building an AI-native platform that streamlines enterprise software implementations.\n\n**TL;DR:**\\\nEnterprise software implementations (Oracle, SAP, Salesforce, etc.) are messy and expensive, plagued by shifting requirements, misaligned teams, and obsolete documentation. 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That’s nearly **12 hours in a standard 40-hour week**, often more if you're part of a fast-growing team.\n\nMost tools are still manual and time-consuming, stealing hours better spent building, selling, or scaling.\n\nGreat documentation isn’t just helpful—it’s a **growth engine**. Look at Stripe: their docs earn trust and convert users.\n\nThe truth? At most companies, documentation is an afterthought (we haven’t written ours yet either!) And we get it—“documentation specialist” usually isn’t on anyone’s job title.\n\n# 💡 What is the solution?\n\n**Docucod auto-generates and maintains always-up-to-date documentation—straight from your codebase.** You continue building, we’ll focus on the documentation.\n\nIt fits effortlessly into your workflow, whether you’re a small team or managing complex repos.\n\nFrom onboarding guides to API references and system diagrams, Docucod delivers clear, comprehensive docs with zero manual work.\n\nFully editable and always in sync, it lets you ship fast **and** document well—without compromise.\n\n# 🧠 How it works:\n\n* Connect your GitHub account and select a repo.\n* Docucod scans your repo to understand its structure and functionality, building an intelligent knowledge graph that maps out components, features, code flow, and so on.\n* It creates a structured documentation plan, outlining sections, navigation, and individual pages.\n* Docucod generates rich content with diagrams and contextual clarity.\n* Finally, it automatically pushes the documentation back to your repo for deployment.\n\n# 😎 Want to see some real examples?\n\nhttps://github.com/clidey/whodb-docs - deployed at http://whodb-docs.docucod.com/\n\nhttps://github.com/clidey/todos-docs - deployed at https://todo-docs.docucod.com/\n\n# 💯 Who Are We and Why Did We Build This?\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90620&key=user_uploads/1558575/1eddcff2-4b1a-4343-847d-eb35680c9693)\n\nWe’re Hemang and Anguel—friends, builders, and longtime hackathon teammates. After years working at places like Palantir, J.P. Morgan, and Morgan Stanley, we saw one issue everywhere: documentation gets rushed, postponed, or skipped—and the fallout is always the same.\n\nWe built Docucod because this isn’t a people problem—it’s a systems problem. The fix isn’t better habits. 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We’re [Amine](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amine-amor-4a7a42135/), [David ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidstromback/)and [Mark](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-feldner/), and we’re building Crimson - the AI associate for litigation lawyers.\n\n**TL;DR**\n\nLitigators deal with thousands of case files, often spanning several years. Crimson processes all that data and uses its understanding of each case to analyze legal arguments, locate evidence and draft documents.\n\n**Crimson saves litigation lawyers 10+ hours of manual work each week.**\n\n[Crimson Launch Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSzn7CMqX5s)\n\n**The problem:** Litigation teams are drowning in case documents\n\n* Case files are scattered across Outlook, shared drives and document management systems.\n* Lawyers spend hours reviewing letters, emails, transcripts and evidence, identifying key issues, and drafting case-specific documents.\n* Existing AI tools aren’t built for litigation workflows.\n\n**The solution:** Crimson’s AI associate that knows each dispute inside-out\n\n* Crimson automatically organizes and analyzes case documents, extracts key legal issues, and identifies inconsistencies between party positions.\n* Lawyers can ask questions such as “What have the defendants said about termination?” and get answers with citations across pleadings, hearing transcripts, letters and other case files.\n* Crimson helps legal teams draft arguments, chronologies and letters with content tailored to each case.\n\n**Why are we building this?**\n\n* Mark spent seven years as a litigator at leading law firms. He lost countless hours trawling through case files, searching for evidence and manually drafting documents.\n* With recent advances in reasoning models, we can now build an AI associate that understands the nuances of complex legal arguments.\n* Horizontal AI tools will only go so far. To unlock real value, lawyers need a context-aware platform that is tailored for litigation workflows. Crimson is that tool.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90879&key=user_uploads/2365297/767fac65-ca2a-4160-8d74-3911b6a64832)\n\nWant to see Crimson in action? Book a demo here: [crimson.law](https://crimson.law).\n\nYou can reach us at [founders@crimson.law](mailto:founders@crimson.law).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ndn-crimson-the-ai-associate-for-litigation-lawyers", "votes": 42, "created_at": "2025-05-30T14:05:41.366Z" } ] }, { "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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All run on massive amounts of energy, and America is running heading to an energy crisis. It’s incredibly difficult to build or operate energy projects, and REGULATORY COMPLIANCE requirements made it even harder. Energy companies are slapped with $$$ tens of millions in penalties while buried in a mountain of spreadsheets, PDFs, and forms to stay compliant.\n\nWe’re building **Rimba** to fix that.\n\n**\\*\\*Ask:\\*\\*\\\nKnow someone or work in energy (mom, dad, aunt, grandpa)? Introduce us [timothy@rimba.ai](mailto:timothy@rimba.ai) or send them our [LinkedIn Launch](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/y-combinator_rimba-yc-x25-is-ai-for-energy-industrial-activity-7329943880416612352-aryT?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABs6HnMB3XNRo_a9KqN2METPAum-VybW7UA).**\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoNWA6gVa6Y\n\n## **❌ The Problem**\n\n## Compliance today is manual, error-prone, and incredibly expensive. 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Our early users have used the copilot and agents to cut investigation time by 90% and increase detection quality & coverage. Book a demo to learn how you can do the same!\\\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnyZuJGQ5C0\n\n### ❌ The Problem\n\nSecurity is complex, but the problems facing most teams are not:\n\n1. Alert Fatigue: Hours lost to false positives, while genuine threats slip by unnoticed.\n2. Context Switching: Investigations requiring constant toggling across 5-10 disconnected tools just to assemble basic context.\n3. Documentation Overhead: Teams spend more time as technical writers than security practitioners, bogged down in endless reporting.\n\nBefore founding Cotool, we collaborated with cutting-edge security teams including OpenAI, Coinbase, Figma, and DoorDash, experiencing these universal challenges firsthand.\n\nAdvancements in AI now offer an opportunity to truly reimagine this model; by building intuitive, collaborative tools that complement, not replace, security professionals.\n\n### 👷 Our Solution\n\nCotool provides a suite of Agents and an AI co-pilot designed specifically for security teams, streamlining workflows and reducing frustration through:\n\n* Seamless Investigations 🔍: A true AI co-pilot that works alongside security engineers during alert triage, investigations, and detection engineering; automatically gathering relevant context from across tools so they can focus on reasoning, not tool-hopping.\n* No-code Agents 🤖: Turn successful debugging flows into reusable agents, then refine their behavior with natural language prompts and connect them to any tools Cotool has access to, with granular permission controls.\n* Automated Documentation 📊: Generating thorough, accurate reports in seconds, freeing up valuable security practitioner time.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90398&key=user_uploads/2254937/d59dd9d1-e396-4f77-8dce-283a5e31c4ee)\n\n### 👨‍💻 The Team\n\nWe have worked together for years and co-founded Cotool in 2025.\n\n[Max Pollard](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmpollard/) (CEO) led the forward deployed engineering team at Material, working directly with security teams to understand their workflows and pain points. 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But lack of large dishes is not the only thing broken about space communications, so are the design tools. \n\nIndustry standard spreadsheets are painful to build and maintain and error prone, but they can at least get you started. That said, they completely break down once you need to predict how your spacecraft will perform in real world dynamic environments, analyzing multiple variations of a system, or sharing and keeping the design updated across teams.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96236&key=user_uploads/222992/5bdf36f9-9f71-4796-9f12-ecbeba37d8c4)\n\nEvery space company eventually starts to build internal tooling to parse 3D antenna patterns and scripts to evaluate link performance over given flight trajectories. This is usually unplanned work done by RF engineers that takes months to get even a rudimentary implementation up and running. This software is very bespoke and often brittle, and makes the tight timelines of early stage companies even tighter.\n\nAcross the industry this work gets duplicated over, and over, and over. \n\n**Enter Cascade Designer**. The pipeline is already built. Start by designing your system in a graphical interface, get your link margin with a single button click. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96236&key=user_uploads/222992/7e4a5642-dc70-4093-a7d5-5a2b1802cda3)\n\nNext, analyze entire trajectories with a single API call. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96236&key=user_uploads/222992/980c9907-784c-4861-8758-b6341afd2721)\n\nDesigns can be shared with anyone on your team through our interface\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96236&key=user_uploads/222992/bec0b967-999c-4089-849f-d0c547431498)\n\nWe built this out because the customers of the best ground network need the best design tools, but we didn’t just build this for our ground station customers. 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Our ground station network and integrated software tools work together to maximize uptime and availability, while reducing spacecraft iteration cycles from weeks to hours. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90423&key=user_uploads/222992/7b3a56ce-8dc0-48db-a2e5-3badb2afd893)\n\n**Why are we building this and why now?**\n\nThe Deep Space Network (DSN), NASA’s global network of ground terminals for communicating with deep space probes, is [oversubscribed by 40% and in desperate need of upgrades.](https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2024/09/02/nasas-deep-space-network-challenges-and-the-road-ahead/) The DSN is all but unavailable for most commercial operations. Companies with missions going to the Moon and beyond have to deal with a patchwork of individual dish operators for every mission, each with bespoke hardware, specs, and interfaces. Furthermore, many of these commercial providers are not able to handle the demand and [operational failures also can lead to loss of mission](https://www.astroforge.com/updates-collection/odint-mission-debrief).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90423&key=user_uploads/222992/c6aa8968-e567-42e5-8866-866414630f22)\n\n**Comms system design is fraught with peril**\n\nThe spacecraft comms system design is tightly coupled to the available ground network. Engineers spend hundreds of hours poring over datasheets, on the phone with vendors and suppliers, and endless email threads, only to put all this data into a giant spreadsheet to make sense of it. Every iteration requires not only painful attention to detail, but also in-depth esoteric knowledge of how radio frequency systems and channel coding schemes work in order to accurately predict in-flight performance. Simple misunderstandings can lead to catastrophic errors in design and configuration.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90423&key=user_uploads/222992/1623d16f-4789-4793-892f-2c7adffc84a7)\n\n**End-to-end comms system validation often doesn’t happen**\n\nFully integrated testing between the spacecraft and ground terminal is typically cost prohibitive. Instead, engineers compare spec sheets and email configurations to the ground operators, and hope it works in flight (spoiler alert: it often doesn’t). It is routine for spacecraft to fly having never done an end-to-end test of their system with ground terminal representative hardware. The whole process is subject to human error from end to end. \n\n**This approach to space communications does not scale**\n\nCommercial space ventures beyond low earth orbit have already pushed existing infrastructure to its breaking point, and demand for deep space comms support is expected to grow exponentially over the next decade. We will not have a spacefaring future for humanity until communications for spacecraft become as easy as signing up for cable internet. \n\n**We are redefining the process, starting with spacecraft design**\n\nBetter comms starts at the beginning, in the early trade study and design phase. We are replacing industry-standard spreadsheets with a modern software tool that lets you see how your system will perform with our ground network in real time.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90423&key=user_uploads/222992/4873c5a0-9288-48fe-8d2e-a3a32f3fcad0)\n\n**Test as you fly, fly as you test**\n\nYou don’t rise to the level of your expectations, you fall to the level of your testing. 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Now on a mission to help blue-collar entrepreneurs scale with AI at Cohesive.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/nam-nguyen96/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/584870332dad35c0559e0f2685f6d60ed159f5f4.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 90422, "title": "Cohesive - AI CRM for blue collar businesses 🧹🧤", "tagline": "We automate sales and marketing for blue collar companies, helping them stay on top of new commercial opportunities in their service area", "body": "Hey everyone, we’re[ Kevin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevindzhang/) and[ Nam](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nam-nguyen96/) - cofounders of[ Cohesive](https://getcohesiveai.com/) 👋\n\n**TL;DR**\n\nCohesive helps service business owners take control of their own destiny - our agentic CRM fully manages growth today for over 350 commercial cleaning, landscaping, and pest control owners.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE3ZNisKZoQ\n\n**❌ The Problem**\n\nIf you run a commercial service company (e.g., janitorial, HVAC, landscaping, pest control), you’re probably out in the field quite often visiting clients.\n\nSince you’ll be constantly on the move, most of your growth is dependent on others - outsourced sales talent (like offshore VAs), paid ads (like LSA), or from marketing agencies (like for SEO or lead generation). \n\nThis is the reality for the 1+ million blue-collar businesses in the United States today.\n\n**👷 Our Solution**\n\nOur agentic CRM helps service businesses grow by in-housing growth:\n\n* **Market Research:** building out a list of potential business owners and property owners and their contact information in their service area\n* **Outreach:** automatically reaching out to potential targets to assess interest, and self-updating the CRM accordingly\n* **Monitoring:** constantly monitoring and triggering follow-ups based on active signals (e.g., new location opening or existing contract ending)\n\nIt’s helped our customers so much that one of early clients is buying us NBA floor tickets (albeit for the worst team in the league):\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXc1EFN9K8a4exd5YmdWDeo6af4PDp4M_GTp8eqIRZB0pf5nxrh7OWotK1VZQg3QYBjQ7QbclIsSJm5TkIyz6W50FTO_OD01zEGaFOOgM82Jy2nA2iA5Tg13zVXg6gP_FtTUJ2GSGg?key=HJjAgxbnHaeSWRuTHARDMw)\n\n🙏 **Our Ask**\n\n* Follow us on [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cohesive-ai)\n* Share this post - do you know anyone running a commercial service business (e.g., did you recently hire a janitor or landscaper? Let them know - they can book a demo [here](https://calendly.com/cohesiveapp/demo)!)\n* Learn more at [getcohesiveai.com](http://getcohesiveai.com)\n\n**👬 The Team**\n\nKevin and Nam have known each other for years (founded a 50K MRR+ service business together before) and co-founded Cohesive in late 2024. \n\nKevin (CEO): Previously led a product at Charthop (a16z-backed HR tech), and was a consultant at McKinsey, where he worked with national service franchises on GTM strategy. BS Econ at Duke\n\nNam (CTO): built LLM-powered recommendation systems at Microsoft, founding engineer at Starlight (South Park Common and General Catalyst backed fintech startup). 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Building AI software for electrical contractors.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jc10/", "x_url": "https://x.com/jesse_choe10", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/df7d3df3631ef86be1acce92e6aa46ae90ba4344.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2694876, "full_name": "Gautham Ramachandran", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "taking care of change orders", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/gautham-ramachandran-74b5712a4/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7f61fd9ece592bdfecd3b2104c37e873db832e7d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 96918, "title": "Bidflow - AI Copilot for Electrical Estimating", "tagline": "We use AI to help electricians compete for 4x more contracts", "body": "Hi!\n\nWe’re [Jesse](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jc10/) and [Gautham](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gautham-ramachandran-74b5712a4/), and we’re building [Bidflow](https://usebidflow.com/) to help electricians bid on more jobs. Bidflow is an AI copilot that helps electrician companies sift through tedious documents and automate the repetitive work that goes into quoting a job.\n\nAsk: Do you know any electrical contractors? If so, introduce us at [founders@tryghostship.dev](mailto:founders@tryghostship.dev) or [book a demo with us](https://calendly.com/jessechoe10/demo-with-bidflow).\n\n# The Problem\n\nElectrical estimating - the process of figuring out how much an electrical construction project will cost is super tedious and can take anywhere from a few hours to months. Imagine reading through 500-page PDFs, counting hundreds of small symbols per page on 50 pages of complicated circuits, and manually entering thousands of numbers on slow, legacy software.\n\nElectrical estimators do this process everyday but manually, and most of the time, they lose the job by a small margin. Estimating is the only way electrical contractors make revenue, and they do it manually because one mistake can cost thousands of dollars and they need to be careful!\n\n# Our Solution\n\nBecause estimating is such a careful process, electrical contractors still do everything manually, especially because AI is hard to trust. That’s why we built Bidflow - an AI copilot for electrical estimating that serves as an assistant not a replacement.\n\nBidflow is designed with context to think like an electrician and most importantly, show the estimator “proof of work”, turning the estimators job more into reviewing the AI’s mistakes. We’re able to process all of your project documents and save you time in reading through hundreds of pages of fine print.\n\nBidflow also has the same features as the legacy softwares these estimators use, but it combines everything together, making it an all-in-one platform that also saves estimators time switching between the softwares.\n\n\n\n### Our Team\n\nWe decided to target electrical contractors because we both have family in the industry who’ve complained about how slow work has been. We then decided to go door-to-door in the Bay Area and got our first design partner.\n\nJesse (CEO, right) - **Top 1%** competitive coder in the US; **Jane Street** extern. Gautham (CTO, left) - Bootstrapped to **$120K** at **16**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96918&key=user_uploads/1512811/3c223688-5b55-49b7-b1bf-e08439b4b1e4)\n\n### Why Now?\n\nConstruction is picking up in the United States, and the demand for electrical work is going up due to the data center boom. New data centers are being built left and right, meaning there’s a lot of electrical construction projects in the market. A huge boost in estimating efficiency would give the faster electrical contractors a huge advantage in winning jobs, and with AI agents getting better now more than ever, now is the time to bring AI into the electrical estimating workforce.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PDC-bidflow-ai-copilot-for-electrical-estimating", "votes": 16, "created_at": "2026-01-19T04:48:20.442Z" }, { "id": 92813, "title": "Ghostship - QA agents to find bugs in your product", "tagline": "Ghostship helps you 10x your UX by catching bugs before production.", "body": "Hey guys! \n\nWe're [Jesse](https://x.com/jesse_choe10) and [Gautham](https://x.com/TheGauthamRam), and we're building [Ghostship](https://tryghostship.dev/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=yc_s25) to help you never ship a bug again. Ghostship spins up AI agents to find bugs in your product by crawling through your interface and simulating users.\n\nAsk: Do you care about shipping a good user experience? You definitely should and if so, email us at [founders@tryghostship.dev](mailto:founders@tryghostship.dev) or [book a demo with us](https://calendly.com/jessechoe10/demo-with-ghostship-yc-s25).\n\n# The Problem\n\nTo grow quickly, you probably rush shipping new features, which often introduces bugs and causes customer churn. Current solutions like manual testing is expensive and slow and automated testing is flaky.\n\n# Our Solution\n\nImagine a QA team of 5,000 testers available 24/7 on every new feature you ship. That's Ghostship, but we use AI agents. \n\nOur agents will crawl through your product and interact with it like users would to find the bugs (especially edge cases) that lead to churn—all at a fraction of the cost.\n\nHere’s a demo video of our product:\n\nhttps://youtu.be/THa43hQMDEU\n\nOur Team\n\n**TL;DR: We are competitive programmers that never finished college, so we're all in on Ghostship.**\n\nJesse (CEO, right) - Jesse was a **top 1%** competitive coder in the US and was the **first high schooler** to write competitive coding questions. He was a **Jane Street** intern at **18** before dropping out.\n\nGautham (CTO, left) - Gautham was a **top 5%** competitive coder in the US. He also has 3 preprints related to **reinforcement learning** in the **ICML** conference and bootstrapped his way to **$120K** at **16**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92813&key=user_uploads/1512811/b271ce7f-ac3f-465c-95b6-0fe28b05a408)\n\nBoth of us have been developers for more than half our lives, and we've experienced the pain of shipping bugs throughout our lives. We want to solve this problem once and for all, and make developers' lives way easier.\n\n# Our Ask\n\n\\- Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ghostship), [X](https://x.com/ghostship_ai), and [book a demo](https://calendly.com/jessechoe10/demo-with-ghostship-yc-s25) with us.\n\n\\- **Share this post!** - If you know any startup founders who are having trouble with growth due to technical debt or product people (PMs, QAs, etc.) at larger companies who care about shipping quality, please share this post with them.\n\n\\- Visit [our website](https://tryghostship.dev/) for more info.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O8z-ghostship-qa-agents-to-find-bugs-in-your-product", "votes": 132, "created_at": "2025-08-07T19:28:30.592Z" } ] }, { "id": 30623, "name": "Playgent", "slug": "playgent", "former_names": [ "Pharmie AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5ad8d62052816b9ab3349fc92ba2137b2b1edb02.png", "website": "https://useplaygent.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "When enterprise agents fail in production, the conditions that caused the failure are critical: user state, data, tool calls, and context. Without a way to recreate these conditions, teams can't fix what broke.\r\n\r\nPlaygent provides infrastructure to create high-fidelity sandbox environments for AI agents. Our environments come packaged as a single MCP url where tool calls are mocked, authentication is abstracted away, and test data can be initialized via natural language or JSON specifications.\r\n\r\nTeams can use Playgent to reproduce production failures in safe, scoped environments that accurately reconstruct state. 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I did 4 years of NLP research with publications in EMNLP/ACL and was on-route to pursue a PhD when I decided to join YC.\n\nIn my free time, I like writing articles on Medium, playing basketball, and doing acrylic art.\n\nYou can reach me at aniruddh@useplaygent.com!", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/aniruddh-sriram/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f137d83046edc10cc83d2700771d9c031fb2cbfa.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 92806, "title": "Pharmie AI - Your AI Pharmacy Technician", "tagline": "AI voice/text agents that handle pharmacy admin so staff don’t have to", "body": "We’re excited to share Pharmie, an AI assistant for pharmacists. Check out our [launch video](https://youtu.be/pFKd8YJ6vsQ) and [website](https://www.pharmie.app/)!\n\n**The Problem**\n\nPharmacies are overwhelmed with phone calls about refills, insurance questions, chasing doctors, and handling appointment logistics. This nonstop volume creates constant interruptions, forcing pharmacists and technicians to multitask and context-switch throughout the day. As a result, staff burn out quickly, turnover is high, and time is lost retraining replacements.\n\n**What’s Pharmie?**\n\n**Pharmie is your always-on AI pharmacy assistant.** It never gets tired, works autonomously, and plugs directly into your pharmacy management system to streamline communication and boost efficiency.\n\nPharmie can:\n\n* **Answer inbound calls 24/7:** no more missed calls or hold times\n* **Process refills, transfers, and appointments:** fully automated, no staff intervention needed\n* **Verify insurance and handle patient questions:** from copays to medication availability\n* **Upsell pharmacy services:** intelligently offers vaccines, delivery, or sync programs based on the conversation and patient history\n\n**How It Works**\n\nPharmie seamlessly integrates with your existing pharmacy management system (PMS) to automate phone calls, refills, and patient communication.\n\nDuring onboarding, we work closely with you to:\n\n* Connect to your PMS or set up secure workflows if a direct integration isn’t available\n* Give Pharmie pharmacy-specific information like store hours, address, staff names, services offered, and policies\n* Train Pharmie on your workflows (e.g. how you handle refills, transfers, insurance, and voicemails)\n* Customize messaging for promotions, vaccine reminders, and targeted outreach campaigns\n* Set up call routing and escalation rules to transfer to your team when needed\n\nWe’re already in production at 4 locations, cutting phone volume by 70% and helping teams focus on patient care instead of call chaos.\n\n**The Team**\n\nAniruddh and Neer met freshman year of high school and instantly bonded over their love for math and science. Since then, they’ve worked on all types of projects together from personal gadgets to sophisticated sports betting models that generated 6-figure profit.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92806&key=user_uploads/2671843/472d3c8e-7a05-494f-8149-e7fdd21b5942)\n\nIf you know a pharmacist or work with pharmacies, shoot us a message at [**founders@pharmie.app**](mailto:founders@pharmie.app)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O8s-pharmie-ai-your-ai-pharmacy-technician", "votes": 43, "created_at": "2025-08-07T00:47:21.168Z" } ] }, { "id": 30652, "name": "OnDeck AI", "slug": "ondeck-ai", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9fb6ad4cbd4cdfac49ff1b40404d7053d5789883.png", "website": "https://www.ondeckai.com", "all_locations": "Vancouver, BC, Canada", "long_description": "OnDeck is the infrastructure layer that makes Vision Language Models accessible and scalable for enterprise. 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Now, our model Perception-0 beats the best VLMs including Gemini at long video understanding.\r\n\r\nOur current customers include:\r\n- National Defense Organizations\r\n- Robotics Research\r\n- Security cameras\r\n- Behaviour analysis for port monitoring\r\n- Off-shore oil & gas monitoring", "one_liner": "Analyze any footage, without training a model", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Analytics", "launched_at": 1755488960, "tags": [ "Machine Learning", "SaaS", "Computer Vision", "B2B", "Video" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Analytics" ], "regions": [ "Canada", "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/ondeck-ai", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/ondeck-ai.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "Vancouver", "country": "CA", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ondeckai/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9fb6ad4cbd4cdfac49ff1b40404d7053d5789883.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1161477, "full_name": "Alexander Dungate", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Solving vision @ OnDeck. 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Instantly find any event, behaviour, or object without needing any training data.\n\n### Ask:\n\n**Do you know anyone who needs to analyze tons of video or imagery? Please introduce us!**  [alexander@ondeck-ai.com](mailto:alexander@ondeck-ai.com)\n\n\\[[https://youtu.be/MafiM94IkV8\\\\\\]](https://youtu.be/MafiM94IkV8%5C%5D)\n\n### The Pain:\n\nCreating vision models can take months of engineering time: collecting training data, training, then deployment.  Worse yet: \n\n* it’s often impossible to get enough data for a specific task, and \n* even the best cv models struggle to generalize across diverse camera setups, workflows and environments.\n\n \n\n### Our Magic:\n\nTo overcome these blockers, we bet early on the power of VLMs and built a vision engine that can generalize across any task and doesn’t need any training data. We **published a NeurIPS workshop paper** showing our new methods with VLMs beat traditional CV even at niche tasks.\n\nWhy this is good:\n\n* We never train on customer data, unlocking sensitive use cases.\n* Deploy instantly and skip months of R&D.\n* Identify things that have never been seen before.\n* Unlike traditional cv, OnDeck can **_understand_** qualitative behaviour and sequences of events.\n\nThis summer we’ve analyzed thousands of hours of footage across:\n\n* Fleets of Autonomous Surface Vessels \n* Robotics Research\n* Security cameras \n* Behaviour analysis for port monitoring\n* Off-shore oil & gas monitoring\n\n### The Team:\n\nSepand (CTO) has a Master in ML from Cambridge and worked at the European Space Agency, Amazon, and swarm robotics research labs. We both studied cs in university together and we’ve been best friends since grade 6. We originally started OnDeck to automate fisheries monitoring (counting fish in video 🐠). We generated six-figure revenue before pivoting in January.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93172&key=user_uploads/1161477/796316a1-6848-4ece-a2b3-cc5e56514825)\n\n**Ask: Do you know anyone with loads of video or imagery to analyze? Please introduce us!\\\n\\\nPing us anytime:** [alexander@ondeck-ai.com](mailto:alexander@ondeck-ai.com) / [ondeckai.com](http://ondeck-ai.com) / [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ondeckai/) / [Twitter](https://x.com/ondeckai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OEm-ondeck-ai-analyze-any-video-without-training-a-model", "votes": 34, "created_at": "2025-08-20T01:13:05.704Z" } ] }, { "id": 30655, "name": "Frizzle", "slug": "frizzle", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3daf2d29bc3da3d9f526ade87b3daa93b0d6a6cd.png", "website": "https://www.frizzle.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Frizzle uses AI to grade handwritten math assignments for teachers and transform them into rich analytics and differentiated assessment to help personalize instruction for every student. Teachers spend over 10 hours a week or 25% of all their work grading - Frizzle does it in minutes. 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Teachers have already graded thousands of worksheets and saved hundreds of hours using Frizzle! \n\n**Frizzle is an official [White House](https://www.whitehouse.gov/edai/) partner for bringing AI into education!**\n\n**Ask**: Can you introduce us to any math teachers, schools, or districts that would benefit from Frizzle? Contact us at [abhay@frizzle.com](mailto:abhay@frizzle.com)\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zx_mCw8soI\n\n**❌ The Problem**\n\nTeaching is one of the most important jobs in society, yet teachers are among the most overworked professionals. Many work 50–70 hours a week, often grading late into the night and on weekends.\n\nAcross the U.S., there’s a national teacher shortage where 1 in 8 teaching roles remain unfilled. Superintendents and principals consistently mention that teacher time is now their most valuable resource. But teachers lose 10+ hours every week just grading math assignments, time that could be spent supporting students. 25% of all their work is spent grading!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93211&key=user_uploads/332377/7654e581-e8c4-4cf2-b330-6f78bddfd521)\n\nExisting grading tools handle essays or multiple-choice questions, but fail with math, especially handwritten step-by-step work. Classrooms are also moving back to pen and paper, but teachers are left with more paperwork than ever and no scalable way to manage it.\n\nThis has created a massive bottleneck in the classroom, adding to burnout and pushing talented teachers out of the profession.\n\nUntil now…\n\n**✅ Our Solution**\n\nAt Frizzle, we’re a team of former math nerds and AI experts building the first system that actually handles math grading at scale.\n\nTeachers simply upload or snap a photo of student work and instantly get back:\n\n* **Accurate grading** ✏️: Every step graded in seconds, whether it’s handwritten or typed.\n* **Actionable insights** 📊: A class dashboard highlighting where each student is struggling across assignments.\n* **Student-friendly feedback** 🧑‍🏫: Clear explanations that help students learn from their mistakes, not just see a score.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfy5uI9ZGxksf8CXCUL5xLmMc9MdRY5IM3WmuBqz9HFynZMzwCudL_y5ydsK41z55RDJksFqnHEEw3aU48mgTUx4bm_VXnAZlSS7pbenqW9JOQIef6oQIZ4IWpTAdQ_LcW_Nh8oJg?key=q7LswlE0gngKWIM4LuJkjQ)\n\nFrizzle eliminates the 10–15 hours a week teachers lose to grading, giving them time back to focus on what matters most - teaching.\n\n**🙏 Our Ask**\n\nIf you answer “yes” to any of these, we’d love your help:\n\n* Do you know any math teachers that would benefit from an extra 10 hours in their week?\n* Do you know any schools or districts that would benefit from saving their teachers 10+ hours a week?\n* Have you scaled B2B SaaS into K–12 districts or worked closely with educators?\n\n👉 Contact us at [abhay@frizzle.com](mailto:abhay@frizzle.com)\n\nYour help can make a huge difference in bringing Frizzle to more teachers. Thank you!\n\n**👬 The Team**\n\nAbhay and Shyam have been best friends and roommates since high school, where they met 10 years ago at the Illinois Math and Science Academy.\n\nAbhay (CEO) has helped scale an e-learning platform to millions in revenue and was previously a Product Manager at Coinbase, where he drove $50M in incremental revenue. He holds a Bachelor's in Computer Science and Economics from Vanderbilt University.\n\nShyam (CTO) was a Machine Learning Engineer at Microsoft, holds a patent in LLM applications, and co-founded the Midwest Math Circle, which has served hundreds of students for more than a decade. 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Feature is merged.\n\n**Demo: [https://youtu.be/H84HrOJx4QM](https://youtu.be/H84HrOJx4QM)**\n\n**What makes it different**\n\nEvery agent gets its own sandbox with your Docker containers running, secure access to your internal services via our action catalog, and can be configured to respond to any trigger. Your code and data stay in your control- fully self-hostable, MIT licensed.\n\nAnother large difference comes with how your team interacts with the work. Reading AI-generated code is tedious. So every session produces a live UR. Sessions are multiplayer. Anyone on the team can jump in, check logs, or steer the agent in real-time.\n\n**Our ask:** ⭐ Star the repo- we just open-sourced it. \n\nIf you're tired of handholding local agents and want to move them to the background with real infrastructure access, reach out. We're working closely with a handful of teams to help improve their engineering velocity and adoption of AI. [Book a demo](https://cal.com/team/proliferate/demo) or email [pablo@proliferate.com](mailto:pablo@proliferate.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PVw-proliferate-the-open-source-company-coding-agent", "votes": 31, "created_at": "2026-02-23T14:58:55.138Z" } ] }, { "id": 30661, "name": "Stockline", "slug": "stockline", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bd3787e9958fd9e9b42a9bb7223fe8689a2863a9.png", "website": "https://stockline.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "\r\nStockline is an AI-native ERP for food wholesalers. 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", "body": "# **Hi!**\n\nWe’re **Moncef DJAFRI** and **Mariem Ould Ismail** from 🇫🇷 Paris, and we’re building **Stockline**.\n\n---\n\n# **TL;DR**\n\n**Stockline** is an **AI-native ERP** for food wholesalers — automating manual order entry and replacing their clunky software from the 90s.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92425&key=user_uploads/2131140/29e05c95-954b-4073-9a4c-32fa93e0e7a2)\n\n---\n\n# **WHY WE CARE**\n\nMariem’s father is a fish wholesaler. 🐟 Back in high school, she spent her summers helping him — and watched him waste hours every day retyping orders, chasing invoices, and drowning in paperwork. ✏️\n\nThat’s where the idea was born.\n\nMariem and Moncef met at **École Polytechnique** in France, where we went through years of military training, rigorous math, and team projects.\n\nWe were both admitted to **MIT** and **Stanford**, but chose to focus on **Stockline’s mission**: bringing tech to an industry long overlooked by digital transformation.\n\n---\n\n# **THE PROBLEM**\n\nMost food wholesalers still rely on software from the 90s.\n\nOne symptom among many: **Orders come in through WhatsApp, SMS, email, or phone calls — and get retyped manually into their ERP.**\n\nAdmin work takes over.\\\nHeadcount grows just to keep up with repetitive tasks.\\\nFrom quoting to delivery, everything is **manual, error-prone, and slow**.\n\nThey barely use data. **Prices are set by instinct**, with no visibility into stock or margins. And most tools out there just don’t match how they actually work.\n\nThis leads to:\\\n→ Mistakes\\\n→ Tight margins\\\n→ Food waste\n\n---\n\n# **THE SOLUTION**\n\n**Stockline replaces outdated ERPs with AI at the core.** The game-changer? **No more manual data entry**.\n\nOur AI captures orders from every channel — **WhatsApp, SMS, email, even phone calls** — and feeds them straight into one unified system.\n\nWe centralize:\\\n• Communication (WhatsApp, emails, SMS…)\\\n• Operations (billing, inventory, CRM…)\n\n**All in one platform. Admin disappears.**\n\nOnce you have all the data in one interface, the sky’s the limit! And the broader vision is to rethink ERPs entirely so that wholesalers finally get to focus on what really matters:\\\n→ Their products\\\n→ Their customers\\\n→ Their margins\n\nhttps://youtu.be/TsbPuwGhZhs?si=u5U0orZ_aIgIVbJE\n\n# **OUR ASK**\n\n👀 **Intros in the US or EU**\\\nKnow **a food wholesaler, supplier, restaurant, supplier, fish market, butcher, supermarket**…?\\\nAn intro would mean a lot.\n\n🧠 \\*\\*ERP experience?\\*\\*\\\nIf you’ve worked with ERPs or know the market (Europe or US), we’d love to chat.\n\nLet’s fix food logistics together!\n\n📧 **Email us:** [contact@stockline.ai](mailto:contact@stockline.ai)\n\n📱 **Text us:** +1 627 268 9935 // 0033 652266829 (WhatsApp)\n\n💻 **Ask for a demo**: https://stockline.ai", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O2j-stockline-ai-native-erp-for-food-wholesalers", "votes": 57, "created_at": "2025-07-28T18:38:46.566Z" } ] }, { "id": 30684, "name": "Doe", "slug": "doe", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c4f710ccf11734c2c75ffd07ca7442b64c2f35ab.png", "website": "https://doe.so/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Doe is where AI agents actually do your work. Connect your tools, tell Doe what you need, and agents handle it. When you want to do something yourself, Doe makes you faster and smarter. The boring stuff disappears. Everything else gets better.", "one_liner": "The boring stuff, handled. 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Actual execution: pull data, update records, send messages, run workflows across your systems. When you do things yourself, like modifying spreadsheets or writing an email, agents work alongside you.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96000&key=user_uploads/1867926/622bda3c-17da-4c86-b127-9e495e250a54)\n\n\\\nhttps://doe.so\n\n**What we're building toward**\n\nKnowledge working is changing as you read this post. Not \"AI answers your questions\" change. More like: you wake up and agents have already reconciled your expenses, flagged at-risk deals, and drafted the weekly update. You review, adjust, and move on. The tedious stuff happened while you slept.\n\nWhen you do want to dig in or do stuff yourself, you're augmented with sets of tools. A good example is cursor’s tab/autocomplete. Your work platform has context and every action you take is faster because of what's running in the background.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96000&key=user_uploads/1867926/23d9a617-3216-4243-8198-3f6a8ae8e52d)\n\nThat's the vision. A workspace where agents do work and humans get augmented.\\\n\\\n**What you can do today**\n\n1. **Ask anything about your data.** No SQL. No dashboards. Just ask.\n2. **Get boring work done.** Agents update your CRM, send Slack messages, create Linear tickets, pull reports, and create financial models. You watch in the preview pane and step in when you want.\n3. **Set up Loops.** Agents that run on a schedule. Daily pipeline reviews. Weekly reconciliation. Continuous monitoring. Set it once.\\\n \\\n We like having Doe go through our linear + github to create a performance review each day :)\n\n**Enterprise stuff**\n\nSOC 2 Type II. HIPAA-ready. Zero data retention with LLM providers. SSO, SCIM, audit logging.\n\n**Our asks**\n\n**Try it:** [doe.so](http://doe.so) - it’s free\n\n**Tell us what's broken:** We're building fast and want to know what doesn't work\n\n**Intros:** If you know ops, sales, or finance folks, we'd love to meet them. We think this can be a cursor", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OyO-doe-a-new-productivity-platform", "votes": 20, "created_at": "2025-12-04T22:23:34.811Z" } ] }, { "id": 30687, "name": "Trace", "slug": "trace-so", "former_names": [ "Trace AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4c08d892e148caaaf2ce4e85ef39beddd97353a8.png", "website": "https://www.trace.so/", "all_locations": "London, England, United Kingdom", "long_description": "Trace is a workflow orchestration platform that gives agents shared context across systems and lets teams build visual processes combining AI and humans. It automatically identifies which tasks can be AI-automated and which need human input, so non-technical teams build and run workflows without engineering involvement.", "one_liner": "Context-aware orchestration between humans and AI.", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1754919932, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Productivity", "Enterprise Software", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "regions": [ "United Kingdom", "Europe" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/trace-so", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/trace-so.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "London", "country": "GB", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/trace-so/", "x_url": "https://x.com/trace_so", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4c08d892e148caaaf2ce4e85ef39beddd97353a8.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": 1016719, "full_name": "Tim Cherkasov", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CEO of Trace. Former product manager at Copper, a digital asset custodian, where he delivered an institutional offering for State Street. Fintech background across hedge funds and scaleups as a data scientist. Built startups since 17 in retail tech, travel, and web3.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcherkasov", "x_url": "https://x.com/timcherkasov", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/44c6b4427ed9b36aafd3d7aa691f504dec9e921f.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1620833, "full_name": "Artur Romanov", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CTO of Trace. Former senior engineer at Deliveroo who built the grocery data-enrichment ML pipeline (millions of items, thousands of retailers). Multi-time founder; led backends in logistics and finance, and deployed workflow automation across engineering and ops.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/artur-romanov", "x_url": "https://x.com/K1ngArtes", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f53f493a8993cf308d79af67cdb1fee7ba9dac4d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Trace raises $3M to solve the AI agent adoption problem in enterprise | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/26/trace-raises-3-million-to-solve-the-agent-adoption-problem/", "date": "Feb 25, 2026" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 92892, "title": "Trace 👾 Route repetitive tasks to AI agents", "tagline": "Trace helps teams map existing workflows and automate repetitive tasks using AI agents", "body": "Hey everyone 👋\n\nWe’re [Tim](https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcherkasov/) and [Artur](https://www.linkedin.com/in/artur-romanov/) – co-founders of [Trace](https://www.trace.so/).\n\n**📙 TL;DR**\n\nTrace is a workflow automation platform that routes tasks to the right agent – human or AI.\n\nBy connecting to tools like Slack, Jira, and Notion, Trace breaks down existing workflows, spots automation opportunities, and embeds AI agents to handle repetitive tasks – without disrupting how your team works. More than 30 companies already use Trace to automate gruntwork.\n\n**Ask**: If you’re currently working in operations, product, or support teams, we’d love to talk. Email us at [founders@trace.so](mailto:founders@trace.so) ‼️\n\nhttps://youtu.be/RfJerH9r2-8\n\n**❌ The Problem**\n\nMost teams lose ≈ 40% of their productivity on repetitive manual tasks. \n\nRoutine work like chasing updates, filling docs, coordinating teams, and handling support drains hours, breaks focus, and slows execution.\n\nMeanwhile, employees aren’t sure which tasks can be automated, which agents to use, or which tools to trust – problems made worse by fragmented data and lost context.\n\nEven worse, most AI tools work alone, disconnected from both teams and the people using them.\n\n✅ **Our Solution** \n\nTrace is an AI-native workspace that breaks down existing workflows, assigns repetitive tasks to AI agents, and routes the rest to the right people.\n\nWith Trace, AI works across your entire team – passing tasks between agents and people without disrupting operations.\n\nIt respects permissions, learns from past and ongoing work, tracks progress with a full audit trail, and lets you review, edit, or reroute tasks in a simple interface.\n\n**Connect and Prompt Away**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92892&key=user_uploads/1016719/794551f2-0e27-4ccf-a406-326622b90d15)\n\n**Create, Curate and Replicate**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92892&key=user_uploads/1016719/75f7fd26-b38a-4420-b7dc-1a7fe5bea7e6)\n\n**Route and Execute**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92892&key=user_uploads/1016719/4490fdd4-1ff7-47dc-887b-cab413a3b51c)\n\n**🦄 How It Works**\n\nHow? – Through a company wide context engine!\n\nBy integrating with your systems, our context engine analyzes your internal wiki, activity logs, and people data to understand your team’s work.\n\nTrace then builds a unified index of your company and provides rich context for every new workflow, making it easy to route tasks between people and AI agents.\n\nWe’re on a mission to build CompanyOS – a cognitive layer that ingests internal signals and drives intelligent action across every team.\n\n**🙏 Our Ask**\n\nReady to ditch the busywork? – Please try [demo.trace.so](http://demo.trace.so) for free and tell us which workflows you’ve tried to automate.\n\nIf your team is suffering from repetitive manual workflows, or you work in operations, product, or support roles, we’d love to talk.\n\nEmail us [📨 founders@trace.so](mailto:%F0%9F%93%A8founders@trace.so) or [book a call](https://calendly.com/trace_so/20min) ☎️\n\n**👥 The Team**\n\nTim and Artur met at university and have worked together on countless projects, papers and startups over the last 10 years.\n\nTim (CEO) – Former product manager at Copper, a digital asset custodian, where he delivered an institutional offering for State Street. Fintech background across hedge funds and scaleups as a data scientist. Built startups since 17 in retail tech, travel, and web3.\n\nArtur (CTO) – Former senior engineer at Deliveroo who built the grocery data-enrichment ML pipeline (millions of items, thousands of retailers). Multi-time founder; led backends in logistics and finance, and deployed workflow automation across engineering and ops.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92892&key=user_uploads/1016719/b774ddc3-03f9-4008-b443-bef97237826e)\n\nps: Thank you for taking the time to read this and show your support ❤️\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92892&key=user_uploads/1016719/457742b1-bb72-48ff-9d4c-029b6bc8b033)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OAG-trace-route-repetitive-tasks-to-ai-agents", "votes": 1038, "created_at": "2025-08-11T19:45:04.234Z" } ] }, { "id": 30694, "name": "Epicenter", "slug": "epicenter", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/15e87b5dae1ddc0ace7595505c49a86f51b6979a.png", "website": "https://epicenter.so", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Epicenter is an ecosystem of open-source, local-first apps that share a memory. We store all your work—notes, transcripts, chat histories—in a single folder of plain text and SQLite. Every tool we build shares this memory: your text editor, personal assistant, etc.. It's open, tweakable, and yours. Grep it, open it in Obsidian, host it wherever you like. The choice is yours.\r\n\r\nOur vision is to build a personal workspace where you own your data, choose your own AI models, and replace siloed apps with open, interoperable alternatives. All while preserving authenticity and being free and open source. ❤️", "one_liner": "ChatGPT's memory feature in an open, portable format", "team_size": 1, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1754070642, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Productivity", "Open Source", "Note-taking", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "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/epicenter", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/epicenter.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "https://x.com/EpicenterHQ", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/EpicenterHQ/", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/15e87b5dae1ddc0ace7595505c49a86f51b6979a.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1027274, "full_name": "Braden Wong", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "At 18, I taught myself to code while studying ethics, politics, and economics at Yale. Since then, I’ve averaged ~10k commits/year and worked at three YC startups. I wrote my 65-page senior thesis on open-source governance and digital platforms. I care deeply about data ownership, open-source, and interdisciplinary thinking.\n\nhttps://github.com/braden-w/\n\nI build tools to help automate the boring parts of my writing. Hopefully, something good comes from it!", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/braden-wong/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4361c8f572e6fec96bcca807fe2078068a909ea9.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 92919, "title": "Whispering: Local-First, Open-Source Speech to Text at Your Fingertips", "tagline": "Own your data. Use any model you want. Free and open source.❤️", "body": "Hey everyone! 👋 It's Braden, and I'm excited to introduce Whispering—a fully open-source, local-first speech-to-text app, and the first app in the Epicenter ecosystem. You can [give it a star](http://go.epicenter.so/github), install it [here](https://go.epicenter.so/install/whispering), and start using it today.\n\nI use Whispering multiple hours daily for voice coding, writing, and thinking out loud. I churned from Wispr Flow and Superwhisper after I built it.\n\nI think the ergonomics are quite delightful, and I hope you will too!\n\n[Voice coding workflow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpix588SeiQ)\n\n## **The Problem**\n\nYou use a transcription app, but you have no idea what happens to your data.\n\nThey’re not open-source. They might call themselves “local” or say “inference stays on device”—but you still can’t see the code. It’s a black box, and for all you know, _you’re the product_.\n\nYour voice recordings might be sitting on their servers and sold to other providers. You're locked into their ecosystem. When they pivot, get acquired, or shut down, your workflow will break.\n\nMany “AI transcription” startups are just API or local inference wrappers with subscription pricing. You speak into their app, they send your audio to a transcription API like Whisper, then charge you monthly for what you could run yourself. Some run locally, but none I found were open-source with the UX I needed.\n\n## **The Solution**\n\nTruly free and open-source transcription software that matches (or surpasses) the ergonomics of paid, closed-software alternatives. I think Whispering is now at that stage.\n\n## **What makes us different:**\n\nThere are many other applications in the transcription landscape. Whispering offers some notable features:\n\n* **Hands-free, voice-activated dictation**: One of our most ergonomic features so far. Press once to start the session, and it will automatically start and stop as you speak. No button-holding or toggling nonsense. Perfect for dictating when your hands are full\n* **Custom AI transformations with any prompt, any model:** Design custom transformations that chain multiple AI models to fix grammar, translate, or refactor your transcribed text\n* **Unbeatable price:**  Nothing beats free. If you bring an API key from [Groq Cloud](https://console.groq.com/keys), you’ll get nearly instantaneous transcription at $0.04/hour plus a generous free tier. And of course, if you run locally with Speeches, it’s completely free. We hope to expand our models soon.\n* **Open-source**: MIT licensed. Fork it, examine it, roast it. We pride ourselves in our code quality.\n* **Everything is local-first**: In Whispering, everything is local-first. Recordings are stored in IndexedDB, and settings are stored in local storage. Built with Svelte 5 and Tauri, and it's tiny (\\~22MB) and fast.\n\n## **Real Daily Usage**\n\n* **Talking to Claude in my room** (3-4 hrs/day): I use dictation to prompt Claude Code significantly faster than typing. I have a custom post-processing transformation set up so that every text blob that I dictate is passed through a Gemini 2.5 Flash prompt, making the output more Claude-Code-friendly (bullet points, etc.). Once done, I paste into Claude Code.\n* **While carrying pizza boxes back from the Y Combinator office:** My hands are full, so I’ll open the web app on my phone, turn on voice activated dictation, and then start yapping as thoughts come up. The words are waiting when I get back in my room\n* **Other custom transformations**: I have a common writing workflow of speech → Transcribe (Groq) → Fix Grammar (Claude 4 Sonnet) → Format (Gemini 2.5 Flash).\n\n## **Why This Matters**\n\nFundamental tools shouldn’t require trusting a black box. And they shouldn’t charge you rent for something you could run yourself.\n\nWe believe productivity apps should be open-source and transparent with your data, and we want to destroy their business models with open-source alternatives.\n\nThese alternatives will need to match them feature-by-feature, have a great UX, and eventually, be built on top of our shared memory layer.\n\n## **Where This Is Going**\n\nWhispering is the first app in the Epicenter ecosystem: local-first, open-source tools built on top of a shared memory of plain text and SQLite. We hope to replace siloed, data-driven tools with local-first alternatives that share a single, user-owned memory layer.\n\nWe also hope to support many more offline models over time, giving you maximum flexibility in how and where your data is processed.\n\nWe’re not stopping at transcription. While most transcription apps tinker with static dictionaries or custom word lists, our eventual goal with Epicenter is to leverage that shared memory. We could connect transcription to everything you think, write, and build, all within a trustworthy, local-first environment.\n\nWhispering would pick up your common phrases, technical terms, and more. Over time, you create custom transformation pipelines that adapt to your writing style, your voice, and your world.\n\n## **Our Ask**\n\n* 🌟 [**Upvote on Product Hunt**](https://www.producthunt.com/products/whispering?launch=whispering). Help others discover open-source alternatives\n* 💻[ **Download the desktop app**](https://go.epicenter.so/install-whispering) from our [installation guide](https://go.epicenter.so/install/whispering), or directly from our latest [releases](https://github.com/epicenter-so/epicenter/releases)\n* ⭐ [**Star on GitHub**](https://github.com/epicenter-so/epicenter/tree/main/apps/whispering). Back local-first software. Fork it, break it, improve it. Everything’s MIT licensed. Copy whatever you want.\n* 💬 [**Join our Discord**](https://go.epicenter.so/discord). Shape what we build next\n\nTry it, and let us know what’s up. I hope Whispering becomes a part of your workflow!\n\n[Full Setup Guide](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jYgBMrfVZs)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OAh-whispering-local-first-open-source-speech-to-text-at-your-fingertips", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2025-08-12T00:53:13.916Z" }, { "id": 92752, "title": "Epicenter: A Database for Your Mind, Built on Plain Text", "tagline": "A shared workspace for everything you think, write, and build.", "body": "**TL;DR:** if you're a hacker, a generalist, a cracked Svelte/Typescript developer, or a local-first/open-source/privacy enthusiast, join our [Discord and DM me](https://go.epicenter.so/discord). I would love to build with you.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZNOH5yKxO0\n\nHey everyone! 👋 It’s[ Braden](https://www.linkedin.com/in/braden-wong/), and I’m building Epicenter.\n\nEpicenter is an open-source suite of tools built around a single idea:\n\n**Creativity thrives when you blur the lines between disciplines.**\n\nYour tools should reflect that. Most tools divide you—one for writing, one for planning, one for research. We’re building tools that talk to each other—so you can stay in flow across every kind of work. \n\nEpicenter will be a growing software ecosystem—a text editor, a CRM, a personal assistant, and more—all built around a shared local memory.\n\n**The problem**\n\nModern knowledge work is fragmented.\n\nI journal into an app I don’t trust. I plan my week in a calendar app I’ll abandon next month. My notes drift aimlessly in systems I’ve outgrown. And every time I switch apps, the app forgets what I was working on.\n\nNotes, code, and ideas live in isolated tools that don’t talk to each other, breaking flow and burying context.\n\n**The solution**\n\nA suite of open-source tools that share a single memory: a folder on your machine. Open-source, open-format, and fully yours.\n\nThe tools share so you can make connections across disciplines. Your ideas and data are never locked in.\n\n[**epicenter.sh**](http://epicenter.sh)\n\nI just launched [epicenter.sh](http://epicenter.sh): a local-first assistant you can chat with. It lives in a folder, and we want to make it the access point to everything you’ve ever written, thought, or built.\n\n[epicenter.sh](http://epicenter.sh) is the first addition to Epicenter. This is your new shell: your second brain becomes your dialogue partner. You type; it thinks. You ask; it searches. Under the hood, it’s powered by a modified version of [Opencode](https://github.com/sst/opencode), an excellent open-source coding agent. We’ve made our own CLI and UI to simplify configuration and the user experience. It’s rough around the edges, but it’s our first step in laying the foundation for our future applications.\n\n**Where We’re Headed**\n\nIn a world where every app wants to trap you and your data, we’re building the opposite.\n\nEpicenter is open-source, local-first, and plain-text native—so you can trust it, tweak it, or take it with you. We’re building tools that support intentional, interdisciplinary thinking: software for people who read, write, build, and connect.\n\nA renaissance workflow, built on plain text and real ownership.\n\n**Our Ask**\n\nWe’re early. But if you think like a generalist, build like a hacker, and value tools that respect your mind—we’d love to hear from you.\n\n**→ if you’re a cracked Svelte/Typescript developer, please[ DM me](https://go.epicenter.so/discord)**\n\n**→ star / fork / dive into the code on GitHub: [https://github.com/epicenter-md/epicenter/](https://github.com/epicenter-md/epicenter/)**\n\n**→ join the community on [Discord](https://go.epicenter.so/discord). share what you’re excited to build**\n\nSign up and tell us which tools you’d be most excited to use. Your input will shape what we build next.\n\n**About me:**\n\nAt 18, I taught myself to code while studying ethics, politics, and economics at Yale. Since then, I’ve averaged \\~10k commits/year and worked at three YC startups. I wrote my 65-page senior thesis on open-source governance and digital platforms. I care deeply about data ownership, open-source, and interdisciplinary thinking.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92752&key=user_uploads/1027274/a3ef7b07-ca73-4d27-bf0a-53e194f9f587)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O80-epicenter-a-database-for-your-mind-built-on-plain-text", "votes": 33, "created_at": "2025-08-05T21:49:16.393Z" } ] }, { "id": 30701, "name": "Mimos", "slug": "mimos", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9f836a0c8c51e91ad3364666cbc06dd260a0a3c1.png", "website": "https://www.trymimos.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Plaintiff-side law firms compete in some of the most expensive search ad markets to acquire high-intent leads, but the path from click, call, or form fill to signed retainer is still fragmented. Disconnected intake workflows, slow response times, and disconnected spend-to-case data makes it hard to know what is actually working.\r\n\r\nMimos automates their growth and intake playbook:\r\n1. Generate Qualified Leads: Our agents manage Google Ads, Local Services Ads, Google Business Profile, and other high-intent acquisition channels.\r\n2. Convert Faster: Every lead flows into a CRM built for intake, triage, follow-up, and handoff from inquiry to signed retainer.\r\n3. Close the Loop: We connect spend, lead source, intake actions, and signed-case outcomes so firms know what to scale, pause, or fix.\r\n\r\nThe result: more qualified leads, less wasted spend, and more signed cases.", "one_liner": "The growth OS for plaintiff-side law firms", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1753307750, "tags": [ "SaaS", "LegalTech", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "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/mimos", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/mimos.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/trymimos", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9f836a0c8c51e91ad3364666cbc06dd260a0a3c1.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": 2633951, "full_name": "Rohit Sirosh", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Rohit is the Co-Founder and CEO of Mimos. \n\nAt Microsoft, he led the architecture of Azure's high-throughput storage infrastructure, working with OpenAI to support their training workloads for GPT-series and Sora models. In high school, he was a competitive Junior Golf Captain (3x League Champion, 7x Top-10 in State).\n\nAt Mimos, he is connecting acquisition, intake, follow-up, and attribution so plaintiff-side firms convert leads into signed cases in a fraction of the time.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohit-sirosh/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9f7e14d06d5d438bc2a6f45b0df3ae6290065d1a.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 93031, "title": "Mimos - Answer Engine Optimization for regulated companies", "tagline": "With compliance at our core, we help you rank in AI search", "body": "Hey everyone! We’re Rohit and Michael, co-founders of Mimos. We’ve been building together since sixth grade—everything from mobile apps to algorithmic trading systems—and now we’re turning compliance into an advantage in the age of AI.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/McIKklZ0xHI\n\n**The Problem:**\n\nAI answer engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini) are replacing Google for high-value questions on health, wealth, and legal. Whoever they cite becomes the voice customers trust.\n\nRegulated firms should dominate this shift — they already have **compliance** as verifiable proof of authority. But that advantage is trapped behind a unique structural dynamic:\n\n* **Marketing** needs to move quickly to publish relevant, expert answers.\n* **Compliance** must carefully review every word to ensure regulatory safety.\n\nThis friction results in a drawn out publishing cycle, resulting in missed opportunity to rank in AI search.\n\n**Our Solution:**\n\nMimos makes it easy for regulated firms to get cited in AI answers by streamlining the path from insight to compliant content.\n\n* **Define your audience** — Capture your brand expertise and ICPs to guide tone, examples, and disclosures.\n* **Find the right questions** — Track the exact high-intent prompts your prospects ask AI using trend and citation data.\n* **See where you stand** — Monitor visibility by engine, track competitor citations, and measure share of voice.\n* **Act on opportunities** — Get prioritized recommendations for content, SEO, and distribution.\n* **Create faster** — Generate first drafts aligned to your brand and compliance needs.\n* **Speed up review** — Package answers with disclosures and claim checks so compliance can approve faster.\n\n**Result:** Insight → content → review → AI visibility — in minutes, not weeks. \n\n**Our Traction:**\n\n* Signed **5 paying customers** across finance, proptech, and wealth management within one month of launch.\n* Building an **active pipeline** in health, investing, proptech, and marketing.\n* Early usage already delivering **2× higher AI citation rates** compared to baseline content.\n\n**Our Team:**\n\n* **Michael (Co-Founder & CTO)** — Led the launch and integration of AI into Amazon Alexa devices, architected petabyte-scale data infrastructure at Coinbase, and built consumer websites/mobile apps reaching thousands of users. Brings deep expertise in AI, large-scale infrastructure, and online trust.\n* **Rohit (Co-Founder & CEO)** — Designed Azure’s high-throughput storage and auto-scaling infrastructure, working with OpenAI to support their training workloads. Brings experience in building and scaling complex cloud systems for high-demand, mission-critical applications.\n\nTogether, our backgrounds in high-performance infrastructure and AI underpin Mimos’s mission: helping regulated firms attract clients by enhancing their online visibility in the age of AI.\n\n**Our Ask:**\n\nWarm intros to Chief Marketing/Growth Officers or fractional CMOs at:\n\n* **Finance** (esp. wealth managers managing $300M+ AUM)\n* **Pharma / Biotech**\n* **Legal**\n* **Telehealth**\n\nAn email to [rohit@mimos-ai.com](mailto:rohit@mimos-ai.com) would be greatly appreciated!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OCV-mimos-answer-engine-optimization-for-regulated-companies", "votes": 21, "created_at": "2025-08-15T18:06:54.517Z" } ] }, { "id": 30711, "name": "Char", "slug": "char", "former_names": [ "Hyprnote" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/aca02a57c5f38896120f1fe6767d1975b6a6b522.png", "website": "https://char.com", "all_locations": "Seoul, Seoul, South Korea; Remote", "long_description": "Char is a daily notepad that finishes your todos for you. Type a checkbox, and an agent picks it up — researching, drafting, or scheduling on your behalf. Stay in command. Char does the work.", "one_liner": "The AI notepad that knows and works for you", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Productivity", "launched_at": 1755302445, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Productivity", "Open Source", "AI", "AI Assistant" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Productivity" ], "regions": [ "South Korea", "East Asia", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/char", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/char.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "Seoul", "country": "KR", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/charnotes", "x_url": "https://x.com/getcharnotes", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/fastrepl", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/aca02a57c5f38896120f1fe6767d1975b6a6b522.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/c4470d243a167150cf9dc68c684d5223f7c8ee1d.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1166442, "full_name": "John Jeong", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "designing interfaces for humans and agents", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/johntopia", "x_url": "https://x.com/computeless", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ea10a90642ece06e0d2532013e4753735870be0a.jpg" }, { "user_id": 652833, "full_name": "Deokhaeng Lee", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "CS @ Duke \nFormerly founder @ Hyprnote (S25), engineering @ Carousel Technologies (W24) \n", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dklee0127", "x_url": "https://x.com/duckduckhero", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/62062010b3f111a712747148585d18b807b525df.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1374655, "full_name": "Yujong Lee", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "OSS enthusiast. Check out my work at: https://github.com/yujonglee", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/yujong1ee", "x_url": "https://x.com/yujonglee", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/caf1a60577dd61bc87ba59b5b794090ec04fe0ed.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 93180, "title": "Hyprnote⚡️ Open-source AI notetaker for enterprises", "tagline": "We help teams craft personalized meeting notes while keeping full control of their data", "body": "### **TL;DR**\n\n[**Hyprnote**](http://hyprnote.com/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=launch_yc) is an [open-source](https://github.com/fastrepl/hyprnote) **AI notetaker for enterprises**. It transcribes and summarizes meetings while keeping 100% of data on-device or on-prem — so companies stay in control.\n\n\n\n### **Why Existing AI Notetakers Fail**\n\nEvery other tool ships your conversations off to 3rd party clouds. Enterprises banned them because they violated data sovereignty.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93180&key=user_uploads/1166442/15cd071d-825d-49a9-a1fe-b078d3e2f2b5)\n\n### **How Hyprnote Flips the Script**\n\n[**Hyprnote**](http://hyprnote.com/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=launch_yc) runs entirely on your laptop, server, or air-gapped network:\n\n* **Private by default**: not a single byte leaves your system, ever.\n* **AI-powered notes**: clear, actionable summaries.\n* **Enterprise-ready**: HIPAA, SOC2, ITAR, FedRAMP-friendly.\n* [**Open source**](https://github.com/fastrepl/hyprnote): transparent and extensible.\n* **Flexible deployment**: run it where you want.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93180&key=user_uploads/1166442/e9e59bd3-9993-4029-b8ab-de8bde4a1ea1)\n\n### **Why We Built This**\n\nWe saw enterprise employees stuck taking manual notes because “AI notetakers” weren’t actually enterprise-ready. [**Hyprnote**](http://hyprnote.com/?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=launch_yc) exists so teams can finally use AI without giving up control of their data.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93180&key=user_uploads/1166442/df8a57c6-74fb-4f4f-a455-0091527206b6)\n\n### **What You Can Do**\n\n1/ Introduce us to **_VPs or Directors_** driving **_digital transformation_** in regulated industries.\n\n2/ Start using it **_FREE FOREVER_** — and spread the word.\n\n3/ Star us on [**GitHub**](https://github.com/fastrepl/hyprnote)!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93180&key=user_uploads/1166442/2119f8f8-575f-4a5c-aa1c-295bfe57a15c)\n\n### **NEED an AI notetaker you can actually trust?**\n\n[**Try Hyprnote — where conversation stay yours**](http://hyprnote.com?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=launch&utm_campaign=launch_yc)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93180&key=user_uploads/1166442/a2e52475-b1e0-47de-8e1b-ba56959bdae5)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OEu-hyprnote-open-source-ai-notetaker-for-enterprises", "votes": 58, "created_at": "2025-08-20T14:56:21.706Z" } ] }, { "id": 30729, "name": "Floot", "slug": "floot", "former_names": [ "Combini" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1f34cf0cf02c3e2059e48082daf0ddc693722515.png", "website": "https://floot.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Floot is the layer where vibecoded software runs.\r\n\r\nSaaS is dead. Hundreds of millions of people already spend their day in Claude or ChatGPT - and increasingly, when they need an app, they won't buy one. They'll describe it, and it will exist.\r\n\r\nWe're building the infrastructure that makes that real. When Claude creates an app, it needs somewhere for that app to live: a backend, a database, hosting, a domain, the ability to scale, various services, maybe even to be able to work as a mobile app. Floot is that place - a full stack purpose-built for AI to operate, from a specialized framework that defines how AI writes and runs code, down to scalable hosting on AWS.\r\n\r\nThis means you can now build and ship real apps directly inside Claude and ChatGPT. Connect Floot, and the model you already pay for writes and debugs the code, shows a live preview, and publishes to your own domain. No need to wire up git, vercel, supabase and a dozen other providers. And no AI credits - every message runs on the subscription you already have, because we charge for the platform, not for a token markup.\r\n\r\nWe built Floot this way because we've watched the model layer commoditize - every serious builder writes good code now, including us. The lasting value isn't another agent between you and the model. It's the layer underneath, from wherever people already are. We're building Floot to be the home for all operation software, for the decades where most new software on earth is written by AI.\r\n\r\n✨ Try it: floot.com\r\n", "one_liner": "The app platform inside Claude and ChatGPT.", "team_size": 4, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design", "launched_at": 1753721322, "tags": [ "SaaS", "No-code", "Web Development", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Engineering, Product and Design" ], "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/floot", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/floot.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/floothq/", "x_url": "https://x.com/floothq", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1f34cf0cf02c3e2059e48082daf0ddc693722515.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Brad Flora", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/brad-flora" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 2071169, "full_name": "Yujian Yao", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Yujian was a staff engineer at Retool where he rebuilt the entire Retool runtime powering every Retool app. Before that, he was an early engineer at Asana. He’s also a gold medalist in National Olympiad Informatics, Singapore.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/yjyao/", "x_url": "https://x.com/yyjhao", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8e0d4160a3651f09be412d301746a264197e4261.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 82610, "title": "Founding Full-Stack Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/floot/jobs/2rbWibL-founding-full-stack-engineer", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$150K - $220K", "equity_range": "0.25% - 2.00%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Node.js", "React", "TypeScript" ] }, { "id": 82612, "title": "Founding Growth Marketer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/floot/jobs/gyHYJjj-founding-growth-marketer", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Marketing", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$100K - $180K", "equity_range": "0.10% - 1.00%", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 112249, "title": "Floot - build and run your app with ChatGPT and Claude. No AI credits needed.", "tagline": "Floot gives your agent a place to write, test, and ship code - you never touch git, local files, or a thousand vendor accounts.", "body": "ChatGPT and Claude can already write you an app. Getting it live is another story.\\\n\\\n\n\nConnect Floot, and your AI becomes a full-stack app builder. You don’t get limited to your computer - the AI agent can use Floot on the web, in the desktop apps, or from your phone. The model you already pay for writes and debugs the code, shows you a live preview, and publishes to your own domain. No git, Vercel, Supabase, Resend, or OneSignal to set up - a stack of tools that was never built for you anyway.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=112249&key=user_uploads/2071169/fcf08d3d-384b-4da1-bb8c-b342dbb8c478)\n\nAnd the part we're most excited about: Floot doesn't charge you AI credits.\n\nEvery message, every change, every random question uses the Claude or ChatGPT subscription you already have. No settling for a lesser model to make the credits last. Explore freely - test every idea, ask every question.\n\nTakes a minute to connect. Free to start → [**floot.com**](http://floot.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/TCT-floot-build-and-run-your-app-with-chatgpt-and-claude-no-ai-credits-needed", "votes": 22, "created_at": "2026-08-25T23:52:27.371Z" }, { "id": 92516, "title": "Floot - The easiest and most powerful AI app builder", "tagline": "The fastest way for non-coders & entrepreneurs to build apps that actually work.", "body": "Hi everyone 👋 We’re Edward and Yujian, the founders of Floot!\n\n**TLDR:** Floot lets non-coders & entrepreneurs build real web apps that actually work. We’re taking a new approach by building everything from the ground up for AI.\n\n✨ [Try building an app right now!](https://floot.com)\n\n# The Problem\n\nExisting AI app builders fall short of enabling non-coders to build real, serious apps. They often:\n\n* **Break down** when building anything more than a prototype or toy app\n* **Have non-coders stuck** with errors they don’t understand\n* **Require non-coders to handle multiple services** designed for developers (e.g. for backend, database, hosting, etc)\n\n**The fundamental problem**: these AI app builders just cobble together existing developer tools and slap AI on top, but these tools were designed for humans and not for AI.\n\nThe result? Non-coders get excited, start building, hit a wall, and then abandon their projects.\n\n# Our Solution\n\nFloot is purpose-built for AI. Our secret sauce:\n\n1. Instead of reusing a coding framework designed for humans, **we created a specialized framework** that dictates how AI should write code and how the code runs on our infrastructure. This allows us to enforce best practices, detect errors earlier, and give the best feedback to the AI. As a result, Floot can write better code and fix issues more effectively.\n2. **Floot has the entire tech stack built-in** (backend, database, hosting, etc) so building and managing an app feels seamless, especially for non-coders. And because we control every layer of the stack, we can optimize each layer for AI-first coding.\n\nBecause of this, **non-coders can get more done with less time** and prompting. They can finally **build serious apps** that work, instead of getting stuck in frustrating error loops and then abandoning their projects.\n\nWe also built a **highly scalable hosting system** directly on AWS so Floot apps can handle real traffic and business demands. This means non-coders can build, deploy, and scale their apps on a single platform seamlessly.\n\nPlus, **Floot is really fun to use**! It takes your prompt, breaks it down, and shows you how it accomplishes each step. If it sees a bug while building, it lets you know and fixes it right away.\n\nYou can even draw on your app to visually communicate the changes you want:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92516&key=user_uploads/2071169/b6bd69f7-9f86-4db9-929e-4ad3ab66b129)\n\n**Here’s what a customer said about Floot:**\n\n_I'd tried other platforms but could never advance far enough to feel truly productive. The time investment and constant token usage just to fix issues had me ready to hire a developer again. With Floot, I had a working app within a week, even working in my off-hours, and started beta testing with my team days later. We estimate Floot has saved us around $20,000 so far. Best of all, their customer support has gone above and beyond at every turn._\n\n✨ [Try Floot yourself!](https://floot.com) (bonus: build something you’ve made in other tools to compare)\n\n# Why are we building this?\n\nWe believe that existing tools are based on technologies built for human developers and ill-suited for the future of AI writing most of the code. The whole toolchain of building and maintaining software desperately needs to adapt to the new reality. We are starting with web apps with the goal of evolving into the new foundation of software, empowering the next generation of builders.\n\n# Team\n\n[Yujian](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yjyao/) was a staff software engineer at Retool and Asana. At Retool, he rebuilt the entire runtime to optimize the user experience for builders. At Asana, he built the rich editor that powers every task and comment. Yujian ranked 4th in the National Olympiad in Informatics, Singapore.\n\n[Edward](https://www.linkedin.com/in/edwlk/) scaled his SaaS to 10k+ customers by taking something technically complex and making it accessible to non-technical users, and now he’s doing the same with Floot. For his SaaS, he built a highly scalable and reliable distributed system to handle low-latency applications. Before that, Edward built infrastructure at AWS and studied CS at Berkeley.\n\n# Our ask\n\n✨ [Try building an app in minutes on Floot!](https://floot.com)\n\nWe’d love your feedback (even nitpicks!) - reach us at [founders@floot.com](mailto:founders@floot.com)\n\nKnow someone who needs to build an app? Have them try Floot :)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92516&key=user_uploads/2071169/d62a49f0-5907-44fa-8ff3-f9c374f1e8b0)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O4C-floot-the-easiest-and-most-powerful-ai-app-builder", "votes": 63, "created_at": "2025-07-28T18:39:02.551Z" } ] }, { "id": 30743, "name": "Opennote", "slug": "opennote", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5a57c2d57c9bd745bb44f95e1f930dda18b6c534.png", "website": "https://opennote.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Opennote is a notebook with an AI thinking partner built in.\r\n\r\nFeynman lives in your work: it edits your writing, references your knowledge and the web, runs background tasks, and gives feedback as you work. 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Our tutor, Feynman, analyzes your writing and thinking patterns in real time, guiding you with Socratic questions, targeted feedback, and visual explanations right where you’re working—helping you truly understand, not just memorize.\n\nYou can study on your own or invite friends to join you—discuss your thoughts, share your journals, and publish your learning in real time for others in the community to see! Opennote makes learning more engaging, social, and effective.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92047&key=user_uploads/2474963/dd596675-705e-4000-bbdc-5c559f3206d0)\n\n**Why This Matters**\n\nExisting tools are either static note-takers, passive quiz generators, or outdated LMS systems. Students are demanding smarter, more social ways to learn. Opennote is redefining the space by making learning truly interactive and collaborative.\n\n**The Team**\n\nWe’re a team of three undergrad CS and software engineering students with experience across building software at medtech, fintech, and infrastructure startups — and years spent tutoring and TA’ing. We’ve lived the education grind and built the product we always wished we had.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92047&key=user_uploads/2474963/6716fc0c-983c-4b71-9438-9d1855905c52)\n\n**Our Ask**\n\n* Are you a college student looking for better study tools? Or do you know students who are always looking for smarter, more effective ways to learn? Check us out here: [**https://www.opennote.com/**](https://www.opennote.com/)\n * Use the promo code **YC** for 50% off any subscription for 3 months!\n* Can you introduce us to any groups, clubs, or institutions interested in exploring more interactive and collaborative ways for students to learn?\n\nIf you can help—or want to send us some feedback—feel free to reach out at [**founders@opennote.com**](mailto:founders@opennote.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Nwd-opennote-interactive-learning-for-students", "votes": 63, "created_at": "2025-07-10T17:00:26.960Z" } ] }, { "id": 30759, "name": "Certus AI", "slug": "certus-ai", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4913536f9defe2e375acb9a499aa2ac443e9dc95.png", "website": "https://www.certus-ai.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Certus AI is replacing the restaurant phone line with Voice AI.\r\n\r\nRestaurants lose up to $100,000 per year per location from missed calls, lost orders, and abandoned hold lines. Staff are overwhelmed. IVRs frustrate customers. Call centers are expensive and impersonal.\r\n\r\nIt’s 2025. Guests don’t leave voicemails or wait on hold. They just move on.\r\n\r\nCertus is an AI voice agent built for restaurants. It answers every call, 24/7 — taking orders, processing deliveries, booking reservations, upselling, and handling complaints in English, Spanish, French and more. Certus is built to manage the phone line end to end, from the customer call to the restaurant tech stack, with zero human intervention required. It currently integrates with industry-leading systems like Toast, Square, Clover, UberEats, DoorDash, and more.\r\n\r\nWe’re building the voice layer of the modern restaurant — the employee they’ll never fire.\r\n\r\nWe started Certus because we lived the pain. Gurveer (CEO) grew up answering phones in his family’s restaurant and helped operate them, growing from 1 to 11 locations in 7 years. Later, he and Adam (CRO) ran a restaurant growth startup to help others increase revenue, but kept watching clients bleed cash because no one picked up the phone. So we built the solution the industry always wished existed.\r\n\r\nUntil now, this problem was considered unsolvable. But Voice AI has finally crossed the conversational chasm and 72% of consumers now prefer AI over humans as long as it means faster and better service.\r\n\r\nMore importantly, the market is begging for this. The North American restaurant industry crossed $1 trillion in 2024, and it's projected to hit $1.5 trillion in 2025. Yet over $100 billion is still lost annually to missed calls, human error, and outdated tech. As the market continues to grow, so do the losses!\r\n\r\nOur customers say it best:\r\n\r\n- “Certus changed my life overnight.”\r\n- “We were losing the ability to give great in-house service — the phone was killing us.”\r\n- “70% of my business comes through the phone. That’s mine and my 16 staffs livelihood.”\r\n- “Before Certus, I used to lose 40 - 60 calls a day…. now my printer just stays printing!”\r\n- “I’ve been in the business 38 years. 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Later, I co-founded a restaurant growth startup with Adam (now Certus CRO), helping independents grow revenue across takeout, catering, and event— but clients still lost money because no one answered the phone. That’s what led me to build Certus: the solution I wish we had when I was 15 and the kitchen was on fire.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/gurveer-singh-35168031b/", "x_url": "https://x.com/gurveersingh299", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/382987456b7ac9a69be4ce36f64e24cd613219da.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2365312, "full_name": "Adam Gamieldien", "title": "Founder/CRO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder & CRO of Certus AI. \n\nBefore Certus, I helped scale a restaurant growth startup with Gurveer, working directly with dozens of independent restaurants and closing our deals. We helped drive revenue across delivery, catering, and events — but time after time, sales fell through because no one picked up the phone. That’s what led us to build Certus. I now lead GTM and speak with operators daily to uncover what’s broken and how Certus can fix it.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-gamieldien-067605247/", "x_url": "https://x.com/AdamGamieldien", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9b31eb17e8add0a07e52c37fd0caa7ce885114b6.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2365310, "full_name": "Isaac Nichols", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder & CTO of Certus AI. \n\nI got my start at 16 with a full-time internship at Falcon Eye Drones. Since then, I’ve built AI systems across logistics, telecom, and restaurant tech, always focused on automation and operational leverage. Before Certus, I was a founding engineer at Hive AI, co-founded 2 startups, and built a full-stack hospitality management system. That gave me deep insight into how restaurants really run, and why fixing the phone line had to be next.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaac-nichols-963857251/", "x_url": "https://x.com/_apisaac", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/699dc47d352b8bfaf0ef2d5e0a2eaab76bd1a5ea.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 92344, "title": "☎️ 👨‍🍳 Certus AI: Replacing the Restaurant Phone Line with Voice AI", "tagline": "The AI Phone System Restaurants Rely On", "body": "**We’re Gurveer (CEO), Adam (CRO), and Isaac (CTO),** and we’re solving the $100B+ phone problem for restaurants\n\nhttps://youtu.be/ydTdJDJMiKE\n\n## TL;DR — Certus AI is an AI voice agent for restaurants. Certus answer every call, take orders, processes deliveries, and books reservations.\n\n---\n\n### ❌ The Problem\n\nRestaurants lose **up to $100,000 per year per location** because of missed calls.\n\n* The average restaurants gets 75 calls/day from customers trying to order, book, or ask a simple question\n* 25% of those calls go unanswered on any given day\n* Every missed call = lost revenue/ angry customer\n* Call centers are expensive. IVRs frustrate customers. Staff is overloaded.\n\nThe phone is still one of the most valuable channels in hospitality, yet it costs the industry **$100B+ annually**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92344&key=user_uploads/2362198/84bc1556-5735-4b05-8664-5054b06ba4e7)\n\n---\n\n### ✅ Our Solution\n\n**Certus AI is a multilingual Voice AI agent that answers every call:**\n\n* Takes orders\n* Books reservations\n* Processes deliveries\n* Handles complaints better than humans\n* And always upsells, increasing AOV\n\nIt answers every call, in real time, and **connects to POS, reservation and delivery systems like:**\n\n* Toast\n* Square\n* Clover\n* UberEats\n* DoorDash & more\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92344&key=user_uploads/2362198/78dc0426-c23d-4db3-8144-4427fce04bc7)\n\n---\n\n### 🎯 Why Now\n\n* **72% of consumers** are comfortable speaking to AI if it means faster service\n* **LLMs and voice synthesis** have finally crossed the quality threshold for real-world use\n* **Labor costs are rising, staff is burning out**, and operators are actively searching for solutions\n* The **restaurant industry crossed $1T** in 2024 and it's bleeding $100B/year to missed calls, human error, and outdated workflows\n\n---\n\n### 👋 Who We Are\n\n---\n\nI’m Gurveer, and **I’ve been answering restaurant phones since I was 9.**\n\nMy family started with one location and grew to 11. At every stage, the phone _made or broke_ the business: missed calls meant missed orders, staff burnout, and broken operations. That chaos didn’t go away as we scaled.\n\n**In the early days, we couldn’t afford to lose revenue, BUT, we also couldn't afford to hire someone just to manage the phone.** So I became the phone guy. I was so obsessed with not missing calls that **I carried our restaurant hotline with me _everywhere:_** to the gym, school, or even parties. No joke. I’d step out mid-convo to take a catering order.\n\nLater, Adam (CRO) and I ran a growth startup for restaurants. We’d drive serious demand, but the same problem always came back: no one picked up the phone to covert that into revenue.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92344&key=user_uploads/2362198/a1a5d359-a692-4803-8a78-357383fcd24d)\n\nThat obsession, and frustration, is what led us to build Certus. The phone line is still one of the most valuable, yet broken, parts of a restaurant. **Now, it’s finally being replaced by Certus AI.**\n\n---\n\n### **💬 What Our Customers Say**\n\n> Certus **changed my life overnight.**”\n>\n> “We were losing the ability to give great in-house service… **the phone was killing us**.”\n>\n> “**70% of my business comes through the phone. That’s mine and my 16 staffs livelihood.**”\n>\n> “Before Certus, **I used to lose 40 - 60 calls a day…. now my printer just stays printing!**”\n>\n> “I’ve been in the business 38 years. **I’ve been waiting for this since then.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92344&key=user_uploads/2362198/ea3d515c-f5fe-4c96-9bb6-6357d7f6f510)\n\n---\n\n### 🙋 Our Ask\n\n* **Do you know a restaurant group, franchise operator, or overwhelmed manger?** A warm intro would mean the world!\n\n---\n\n### 👑 Thank you!\n\nWe’re super excited to introduce you to Certus AI, but more importantly, we’re excited to build and grow alongside all of you!\n\n**– Gurveer, Adam & Isaac**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O1Q-certus-ai-replacing-the-restaurant-phone-line-with-voice-ai", "votes": 30, "created_at": "2025-07-22T02:52:29.974Z" } ] }, { "id": 30768, "name": "Okibi", "slug": "okibi", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2add42dcef83667e3ac21f0eabb0f202583f5d0c.png", "website": "https://okibi.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Okibi generates a CLI from any product's codebase, so AI agents can use it the way people do.\r\n\r\nAgents are becoming software's next customers. 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Used by 100,000+ people.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/thesauravmitra/", "x_url": "https://www.twitter.com/thesauravmitra", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/65318fee772e03105f7ea545a50aff50921896a0.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 114523, "title": "Okibi - Agent-ready CLIs", "tagline": "Turn your product into a CLI, and agents into customers", "body": "Hey everyone, we're Mahyad and Saurav, the founders of Okibi.\n\n**TL;DR** [Okibi.ai](http://Okibi.ai) turns your product into a CLI, so AI agents can use it just like your users do.\n\nAgents are becoming the main users of our apps and softwares, but most of those products still aren't designed to be fully usable by agents.\n\nDoorDash, Mercury, Gusto, and 30+ others have already launched agent-ready CLIs.\n\n**Okibi generates yours.**\n\n\n\n### **Problem**\n\n**The shift.** Work has quietly moved into agentic tools like Claude and Codex. The person who used to open your app now sends their agent. Agents create 90% of new Supabase databases and 2/3 of Mintlify docs traffic.\n\n**The gap.** Agents can read everything, but signing up, configuring a project, or placing an order, is another story. With MCPs, you'll give the agent too many tools at once and it'll start using the wrong ones. With direct API calls, the agent has to individually call endpoints for complex workflows or polling loops.\n\n**The turn.** Claude Code and Codex proved it; agents do their best work in the terminal, and a CLI is how your product shows up there. No tools need to load up front, because agents can discover what they need when they need it through progressive disclosure with --help, and all complex workflows are pre-built so it doesn't have to figure it out on the fly.\n\n**The proof.** Companies are already shipping agent-ready CLIs. Even Notion, with one of the best-known MCP servers, shipped one.\n\nAn agent that struggles to use a product will go to a competitor that it won't struggle with.\n\n**Okibi is how you become that competitor.**\n\n### **How it works**\n\nBuilding a toy wrapper CLI is easy. Building an agent-ready production CLI is a different story.\n\n**Research.** Okibi **reads all of your APIs, SDKs, MCPs, and researches similar products** to yours and defines the standard for your product's commands.\n\n**Build.** We build your entire product as commands in a CLI, with structured JSON output, descriptive errors, and dry-runs with input validation.\n\n**Customize.** You can keep customizing the commands that are generated through our agent.\n\n**Verify.** This isn't just \"it compiles\". Commands run in a real sandbox, the outputs are checked, and **the CLI is fully evaled for agent use.**\n\n**Ship.** You get a compiled binary with a skill file baked in, so an agent that installs it already knows how to use your product.\n\n**Maintain.** Whenever your product updates, **Okibi mints the changes and maintains your CLI for you.**\n\n**Identity.** Even with a CLI, an agent can't set up an account for your user. With **Okibi Identity, the agent can set up the account** and continue working uninterrupted. And that's how you get agents as customers!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=114523&key=user_uploads/539005/aaf9f512-390f-4a14-85ca-9bfb8db5a29c)\n\n### **About us**\n\nWe've been building software together for almost a decade, and this is our second YC startup. At SigmaOS (S21) we built the first browser with built-in agents. Since then, every time we wanted our agents to use a product, we generated a CLI for it, since MCPs weren't enough for the job. It happened enough times that we're now building it for everyone.\n\n### **Our ask to you**\n\nIf you are building a product that you want agents to use, **please reach out to us**! We would love to learn what you are building and how you are letting agents use your product.\n\nYou can also head over to [okibi.ai](http://okibi.ai) to turn your product into a CLI\n\nBook a call: \n\nEmail: [m@okibi.ai](mailto:m@okibi.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Tn9-okibi-agent-ready-clis", "votes": 34, "created_at": "2026-09-10T14:09:32.663Z" }, { "id": 92336, "title": "Okibi | The agent that builds agents 🤖", "tagline": "Effortlessly build automations and agents using simple prompts", "body": "Hey everyone 👋\n\nWe are [Mahyad](https://x.com/MahyadGhassemi) and [Saurav](https://x.com/thesauravmitra), the co-founders of [Okibi](https://okibi.ai)\n\n# TL;DR\n\n**Okibi is a web app that lets you create AI agents using natural language**. You can think of it as Lovable for Agents.\n\n**Our ask:** try it out [@ijustwannabuild.ai](https://ijustwannabuild.ai), and [book a call with us](https://calendly.com/d/cq3k-yhy-g6d/user-interviews)! We’d love your feedback and what kind of agents you need for your company\n\nhttps://youtu.be/3cZWA9SAohM\n\n# ❌ The problem and why we care to solve it\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92336&key=user_uploads/539005/cd13cafb-1a52-4dba-a8d7-92d71516dbfa)\n\nThe two of us have been **building software for over 10 years** and **working together for the past 7.** Actually, This is also **our second YC startup together**. At our previous company, SigmaOS (S21), where we built the first browser with built-in agents, we **ran into a ton of repetitive tasks** and **had to build many agents for our own product**. Automating those tasks was **slow and complicated**. We often ended up doing things manually or relying on partial solutions like Zapier, Lindy, custom scripts, or hacked-together LLM tools. The agents we did build for our product also eventually became **messy and hard to maintain**.\n\nCreating AI agents typically requires **complex**, **time-consuming** **setup**, including **tool calls**, **LLM syntax management**, **multi-agent orchestration**, **browser use**, **human in the loop**, **evals**, and **hosting deployments**.\n\nSo, when building agents two primary challenges always come up:\n\n* Evals\n* Architecture and Infrastructure\n\n# **✅ How Okibi solves it for you**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92336&key=user_uploads/539005/e323bc33-463f-42f7-ad7a-daf85d3ceb03)\n\n\nOur web app provides a **chat interface and toolkit to easily create AI agents**. Just describe your agent in natural language, similar to vibe coding, and our app **automatically generates your agent's tool calls, human in the loop, browser use, and runs an initial eval on your agent.**\n\nWhether you're building an **internal workflow automation** to remove repetitive or time consuming tasks, or **launching a product with** **agents**, Okibi can help you build it.\n\nWe are currently **working with** **15 YC companies** from the current and previous batches to automate tasks like:\n\n* Pre-qualify companies with the right person at those companies to sell your product to\n* Generate invoices and update their invoice trackers based on email and contract\n* Pre-meeting prep for client or sales lead call\n* Generate pricing and proposal based on meeting notes and existing contracts\n\nhttps://www.loom.com/share/2c038ed7243a4984a0b8224c2e24eacb?sid=cec442cb-88cf-4b75-b9bf-84b7fa3618de\n\n# 🤖 Ready to start automating with agents?\n\nHead over to [ijustwannabuild.ai](https://ijustwannabuild.ai), and…\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92336&key=user_uploads/539005/3a716ad3-1715-4646-a37a-80045f928406)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/O1I-okibi-the-agent-that-builds-agents", "votes": 155, "created_at": "2025-07-21T21:10:06.804Z" } ] }, { "id": 30807, "name": "Paloma", "slug": "paloma", "former_names": [ "Salesmith" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f1218976659374be7dae288b56678777bbb6a1eb.png", "website": "https://getpaloma.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Paloma gives manufacturing companies an embedded team of engineers and ops experts who replace their manual operations with custom AI-native software.", "one_liner": "Digital transformation for real economy businesses", "team_size": 3, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1754546482, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Analytics", "Manufacturing", "Operations", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "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/paloma", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/paloma.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/108207089/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f1218976659374be7dae288b56678777bbb6a1eb.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": 520906, "full_name": "Nazli Danis", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "CEO and co-founder @ Paloma | Previously GPM and first product hire @ Deel where I led Employee of Record (EOR), our highest revenue generating vertical, as we blitzscaled from $10K MRR to $XXM MRR.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/nazlidanis/", "x_url": "https://x.com/nazlidanis", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/7d271a3f5b1cafb751db1b728c33034d02c60d91.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2703464, "full_name": "Alex Avnit", "title": "Founder/CRO", "founder_bio": "CRO and co-founder @ Paloma | Previously Head of Deel’s EOR Business Unit - their fastest-growing and highest revenue-generating product | Quant & Data scientist by trade.\n\n", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-avnit-222b3611a/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e9384bffde5c89c504343f3270759669145f4083.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 93175, "title": "Paloma: AI-native CRM for billing, renewals, and expansions", "tagline": "Auto-pilot everything after the handshake", "body": "### **TL;DR**\n\nPaloma unifies contracts, service consumption, and customer relationship context so that revenue, success and sales teams can operate from the same ground truth. With everything centralized, you can stay ahead of upsell and churn signals while billing runs smoothly in the background.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/jav-7qS-S4U\n\n---\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nFragmented customer context and manual billing kill revenue potential:\n\n* Account managers and customer success don’t have full visibility on which clients to pay attention to for maximizing upsells and minimizing churn\n* Complex pricing or custom deals often require manual work to bill accurately, making them hard to support and creating a real barrier to selling\n\n### The Result\n\n* Revenue opportunities slip through the cracks because signals for upsell or renewals aren’t surfaced on time\n* Teams don’t have a clear view of what they can upsell or at what price, leading to missed opportunities\n* Sales is constrained to “billable” terms, creating friction and slowing execution\n\nThe result is a reactive, fragmented go-to-market motion where growth is capped by operational bottlenecks instead of driven by customer opportunity.\n\n---\n\n### **How Paloma Solves It**\n\nPaloma is the AI copilot and system of record for everything that happens after the handshake:\n\n* **Unified ground truth:** Parses contracts, communications, notes and service consumption into one shared customer context for revops, finance and customer success.\n* **Surfaces revenue opportunities:** Flags upsells, renewals, churn risks, and usage changes and prioritizes them by impact.\n* **Automates billing workflows:** Turns complex terms into billing-ready instructions that run behind the scenes.\n* **Works with your stack:** Seamlessly integrates with your CRM, billing software, and data sources to sync context and actions.\n* **Human-in-the-loop by design:** You stay in control. Paloma learns from your feedback and gradually automates more over time.\n\n### Demo: From Contract to Invoice in Seconds\n\n**1. Upload Contract & Add Notes**\\\nEasily import customer contracts and attach important context in seconds.\n\n![Effortless Billing and Invoicing 💻](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXenCXn3XWc-aJ86auvk1b4EbfYkrX83Tacb9LElt6_O29CrmLlKpIV3-g3t-A_ZoEwNMRTLizwutLePHZd6OQoxoJBYoBENxRAEhjZ5StRPdrED7L42JfBVZGDrxzT9GZLvY1NwDg?key=BG5KxR_KYqp8AhZRK2bQPQ)\n\n**2. Parse & Review Contract Data**\\\nPaloma extracts terms, pricing, and key conditions from the contract.\n\n![Effortless Billing and Invoicing 💻](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXcWyfWU9QpLWYr70cBoUZtfs1pqaC4uSNPLA-zF3eCa0zgAMZLXcOxQTZ2EZs-Gl2GMEaTMcyt7oDKcETvRgggs25ZpNHVSVuz0kxx3aHVqSeVKSJplYcr7lpgKw4Dxd0iAc23LpQ?key=BG5KxR_KYqp8AhZRK2bQPQ)\n\n**3. Upload Usage Data**\\\nFeed in real consumption data to trigger accurate billing calculations.\n\n![Effortless Billing and Invoicing 💻](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXczxqONAnGu0BAaL8dL5EZ8zABzWHQyDBgMN8xgW4YBFvyu7vGKcgBTcBK9s9JNdLqq4ekGPJGVjCCO7KWRvTtxm9x9dR0n4QoPnD5qaQSj188gQ4fMT0A6QwRymziy0-VI-kXY?key=BG5KxR_KYqp8AhZRK2bQPQ)\n\n**4. Generate & Review Invoice**\\\nWatch the system apply contract rules and usage to produce the final invoice, automatically.\n\n![Effortless Billing and Invoicing 💻](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXcCNxVydjEGKUle7c1KaAb4Pqzr9zZ-H7WrQGYXDH8re-Q1ggk8tOCqwZ6Y3jvxgOl-dEmspx3B7_hWdY-gsPiHSV_nfRj_8FnQ8oPXl8zBgoNTzu8KJ1XCYPFmEVdKOSMemx8nYw?key=BG5KxR_KYqp8AhZRK2bQPQ)\n\n### **The Team**\n\nWe met at Deel, where we were early employees. Naz (CEO) and Alex (CRO) spent 3 years building and scaling Deel’s largest revenue-generating product from zero to $500m ARR. Kai (CTO) led the development of Deel’s billing and payments infrastructure from the ground up. We’ve lived the pain of messy post-sales firsthand and we’re building Paloma to solve it.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93175&key=user_uploads/2703464/b02e3435-4880-4c5e-a9a6-1f9c9b46bb59)\n\n### **Our ask**\n\nIf your team spends too much time on messy workflows, manual billing processes or you feel like you’re leaving money on the table, let’s talk.\n\n* **Book a call**: [https://cal.com/team/paloma/intro-call-with-paloma-](https://cal.com/team/paloma/intro-call-with-paloma-founders)\n\n [founders](https://cal.com/team/paloma/intro-call-with-paloma-founders)\n* **Or email/call us at** : [founders@getpaloma.ai](mailto:founders@getpaloma.ai) / +1 (917) 971-7795\n\nThank you!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OEp-paloma-ai-native-crm-for-billing-renewals-and-expansions", "votes": 118, "created_at": "2025-08-20T14:28:04.109Z" } ] }, { "id": 30844, "name": "Uplane", "slug": "uplane", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6f996a4ae5a6f6c50880fc529dd16c13be2500bd.png", "website": "https://uplane.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Uplane replaces marketing agencies with AI. We generate hundreds of ads with matching landing pages and steer the ad spend across channels like Meta, Google, LinkedIn and others. By connecting to CRM and ERP data, Uplane learns what drives profits and continuously improves campaigns.\r\n\r\nCompanies waste billions on bad ads, mismatched landing pages, and poor budget allocation. Uplane fixes this by replacing a patchwork of agencies, spreadsheets, and siloed tools with one self-improving system. The result: Higher ROAS for enterprises and effortless, expert-level marketing for SMBs.", "one_liner": "Replace marketing agencies with AI", "team_size": 26, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Marketing", "launched_at": 1759250646, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Analytics", "Advertising", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Marketing" ], "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/uplane", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2025/uplane.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/uplane-com", "x_url": "https://x.com/uplane_com", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/uplane", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6f996a4ae5a6f6c50880fc529dd16c13be2500bd.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/f0d7831fd25ce874238df0079276b6ea6b651dda.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tom Blomfield", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tom-blomfield" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 2716487, "full_name": "Julius Körfgen", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Managed 7-digit monthly ad spend as a Marketing Director of one of the fastest-growing D2C brands in Europe. Scaled a lead platform from 0 to >$10M monthly revenue in just 12 weeks.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/julius-koerfgen/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4c23c3638c973e3e831769089ee1a530e0df0be2.jpg" }, { "user_id": 822694, "full_name": "Marvin Abdel-Massih", "title": "Founder/COO", "founder_bio": "Studied Computer Science, Data Science, and Business at Imperial, TUM and Harvard. Received 4 different academic scholarships. Declined McKinsey offer to become right hand of a unicorn founder.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/marvinabdel-massih/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/8dd3a0aef8edb6c177aee2a6a489196365ace23c.jpg" }, { "user_id": 346365, "full_name": "Lukas Vollmer", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Has 15 years of fullstack experience, was Head of Engineering at two former YC companies and won Product of the Month at Product Hunt.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukasvollmer/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4c8f2712ca84d086b4785315bf932a42367dd301.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 91103, "title": "AI Marketing Strategist - San Francisco", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/uplane/jobs/aFjvQEb-ai-marketing-strategist-san-francisco", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Marketing", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$100K - $130K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 93708, "title": "AI Marketing Strategist Intern - San Francisco", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/uplane/jobs/TEEElmy-ai-marketing-strategist-intern-san-francisco", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US", "type": "Internship", "role": "Marketing", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$4K / monthly", "equity_range": "", "experience": null, "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] }, { "id": 94434, "title": "AI Marketing Strategist Intern - Berlin (German Speaking)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/uplane/jobs/Gb8bLOl-ai-marketing-strategist-intern-berlin-german-speaking", "location": "Berlin, Berlin, DE", "type": "Internship", "role": "Marketing", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "€2.41K EUR / monthly", "equity_range": "", "experience": null, "visa": "US citizenship/visa not required", "skills": [] }, { "id": 96251, "title": "AI Marketing Strategist - Berlin (German Speaking)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/uplane/jobs/lBJkLEw-ai-marketing-strategist-berlin-german-speaking", "location": "Berlin, BE, DE / Berlin, Berlin, DE", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Marketing", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "€60K - €100K EUR", "equity_range": "", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizenship/visa not required", "skills": [ "Marketing design" ] }, { "id": 113831, "title": "Growth Operations", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/uplane/jobs/GjRkpRq-growth-operations", "location": "San Francisco, CA, US / Berlin, BE, DE / Berlin, Berlin, DE", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Operations", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$80K - $130K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Pitch Deck: Uplane Raised $4.5 Million to Replace Marketers With AI - Business Insider", "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/pitch-deck-uplane-raised-funding-to-replace-marketing-agencies-ai-2026-4", "date": "Apr 15, 2026" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 94720, "title": "Uplane: Replace your marketing agency.", "tagline": "Uplane increases return on ad spend by 20-50% by automating digital marketing with AI.", "body": "### TL;DR\n\nUplane (YC F25) is building AI software to replace marketing agencies.\n\nTheir AI has already created thousands of ads and landing pages, delivering a 20-50% increase in return on ad spend for their customers.\n\nCompanies waste billions on bad campaigns because they don’t have the time to do the research, personalization, and A/B testing to do the job right.\n\nUplane builds an all-in-one marketing platform that uses AI to create, launch, and test ad campaigns across Meta, Google, Taboola, TikTok, and others. The software delivers new, creative ideas, and gives full flexibility to ensure every marketing message is on brand and compliant.\n\nIn marketing, speed and analytics are essential. Humans simply can’t catch up with the speed and precision of AI.\n\nBook a [demo](https://uplane.com/talk-to-us?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yc-launch) now.\\\n\\\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUhS6pz4-hs\n\n### Problem\n\nFor years, the promise of digital marketing has been data-driven revenue growth at scale. The reality for most marketers, however, is a losing battle fought with manual work.\n\nMarketing teams and their agencies are drowning in a sea of spreadsheets, unreliable data, and siloed ad platforms. They are buried in repetitive tasks: endlessly creating and testing ad variations, designing new landing pages, trying to make sense of the data, and manually shifting budgets across ads and channels. This makes it impossible to move at the speed and precision the market demands.\n\nThe result: billions of dollars are lost due to low-performing marketing campaigns. No human can do the manual work that is required to do the job right.\n\n### Solution\n\nUplane replaces manual work with AI automations.\n\n💡 **Phase 1) Insight & Creation:** Uplane analyzes the target audience, brand style, ads, competitors' ads, and even real-time market trends. It uses these insights to instantly generate thousands of ads and matching landing pages.\n\n🚀 **Phase 2) Launch & Management:** Select your favorite ads, and with a single click, campaigns go live across all channels. Uplane takes over, managing everything 24/7. It monitors performance and shifts budget to the ads and channels that deliver the highest return.\n\n📈 **Phase 3) Learning & Scaling:** Built-in dashboards give instant transparency. The insights from the data are not just useful for marketers but also for our AI. It continuously tracks ad performance, identifies best value propositions and designs, and gets smarter with every conversion. Thus, it creates better ads with every iteration.\n\n### Our Ask\n\nUplane is working hand-in-hand with ambitious companies that want to scale their marketing profitably, eliminate manual work, and make marketing that their customers love.\n\nWant more customers? Let’s talk.\n\n📅 Book a [demo](https://uplane.com/talk-to-us?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yc-launch)\n\n👉🏻 Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/uplane-com) and [X](https://x.com/uplane_com)\n\n💬 Share this post with people in your network", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Odk-uplane-replace-your-marketing-agency", "votes": 19, "created_at": "2025-10-17T17:21:33.522Z" } ] }, { "id": 30854, "name": "Hyperspell", "slug": "hyperspell", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4149c6afc651c9770fc182e08dde776e24f88554.png", "website": "https://hyperspell.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Hyperspell is your Company Brain. AI agents are brilliant and clueless. They ace any test and still have no idea how your company works. Hyperspell connects your tools and synthesizes documents and conversations into a live, permissioned context graph. 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We’re [Harshit](https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshitgarg03/) and [Kiran](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiranmohanb/), and we’re building Lexi - AI Associates for law firms & legal teams\n\n### **TL;DR**\n\nLaw firms & legal departments spend countless hours drafting, reviewing, organizing, and managing documents.\n\nUnlike other LegalTech tools, Lexi integrates directly into your workflow, acting as an AI associate that learns your team’s standards, tone, and processes to handle your workflows end to end.\n\n**Lexi saves lawyers 10+ hours of manual work every single week.**\n\n[Lexi Launch Video](https://youtu.be/3LSrawsmCfI)\n\n### 🔴 **The Problem**\n\nLawyers are drowning in low-leverage work.\n\n70% of a lawyer's day is spent on tasks that don't require legal expertise: summarizing documents, drafting routine correspondence, building chronologies, organizing files.\n\nExisting tools don't solve this—they're point solutions that force lawyers to juggle between multiple platforms and subscriptions, slowing them down instead of speeding them up.\n\nThe result? Clients wait for updates, strategy gets postponed, and burnout rises. Even top-tier firms struggle to scale without adding headcount.\n\n---\n\n### 🟢 **The Solution**\n\nLexi doesn't just \"help\" with legal work—it does the work. From intake to delivery, Lexi acts as a trained associate that learns your firm's style, standards, and processes.\n\n**What used to take 8 hours now takes 20 minutes.**\n\n**Document Intelligence**\\\nTransform scattered emails, PDFs, and transcripts into organized, searchable case files. Analyze thousands of documents and extract key information with reliable accuracy.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95269&key=user_uploads/2650346/de522fac-c1ec-4375-a762-74e096a803f6)\n\n**Drafting**\\\nGenerate polished first drafts of pleadings, contracts, and letters in your firm's voice. Lexi learns your writing style and standards to produce documents that need minimal editing.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95269&key=user_uploads/2650346/f2be1518-b09f-4069-8f0f-7d2f4b693fdc)\n\n**Contract Review**\\\nReview agreements against your firm's playbooks and flag risky clauses automatically. Lexi learns from your past reviews to improve recommendations and match your standards over time.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95269&key=user_uploads/2650346/c5c1a104-ed80-4e30-8a1d-1111270646a7)\n\n**Chronology Builder**\\\nBuild comprehensive timelines from thousands of documents. Extract dates, facts, conflicts, and citations instantly—perfect for depositions or trial prep.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95269&key=user_uploads/2650346/6b475d7c-a3f7-45c6-90d3-35fe6c15124f)\n\nThe best part: Lexi **Integrates seamlessly** with the tools you use daily: Microsoft Word, Outlook, Google Docs, iManage, and more. No new systems to learn. No workflow disruption.\n\n**The impact?** Firms using Lexi take on **25% more cases without new hires**—reclaiming 10+ hours per lawyer per week.\n\n---\n\n### 🔵 **The Team**\n\nWe've lived this problem from both sides—legal practice and AI engineering.\n\n**Harshit Garg** (CEO) — Practiced law at top firms where he watched talented lawyers lose hours to repetitive work. Built Lexi to give that time back.\n\n**Kiran Mohan** (CTO) — Former Engineering Manager at Ethlas and Shopee. Built AI systems and infrastructure at scale for millions of users. Now building the AI associate every law firm needs..\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95269&key=user_uploads/2650346/d9190728-ed4d-4e12-acd0-a4cedbd871fe)\n\nWant to see Lexi in action? Book a demo here: [getlexi.io](http://getlexi.io) or reach us at [founders@getlexi.io](mailto:founders@getlexi.io)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Omb-lexi-ai-associates-for-law-firms-legal-teams", "votes": 487, "created_at": "2025-11-06T19:17:07.374Z" } ] }, { "id": 30936, "name": "Patent Watch", "slug": "patent-watch", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5c1d7fe830232f3ad92055c328a9c623fe69050a.png", "website": "https://www.patentwatch.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We automate patent infringement detection. Our software interprets patents, identifies competing products, and generates claim charts showing who’s infringing and how.\r\n\r\nTeams use us to:\r\n\r\n- Find licensing and litigation targets\r\n- Send cease-and-desist letters\r\n- Find counter litigation\r\n- Sell IP in wind-downs\r\n- Accelerate M&A diligence\r\n\r\nWe also run AI invalidity and prior-art searches to help your patents hold up in court.\r\n\r\nCompanies spend up to $50k to file and maintain a single patent over its lifetime, but once it's granted, they let it collect dust. With Patent Watch, you can start turning your patent portfolio into revenue in 10 minutes.", "one_liner": "AI for detecting patent infringements", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1758491604, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Legal", "LegalTech", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "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/patent-watch", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2025/patent-watch.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/patentwatch-ai/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5c1d7fe830232f3ad92055c328a9c623fe69050a.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Nicolas Dessaigne", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/nicolas-dessaigne" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1250636, "full_name": "Alexander Stroe", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Founder @ Patent Watch | Prev day traded funded accounts, spent > $1M on ads", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-stroe/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/94ff65b5d68579dddef6be5fecb2e0fa4a01e7f9.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1595753, "full_name": "Andreas Stroe", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Founder @Patent Watch | Ex Research @ Philips", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreasstroe/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/cfd385d73761d9cd87f365e5876e19941070a85d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 94773, "title": "Patent Watch - AI for patent infringements 📜", "tagline": "Upload your patents, we find infringing products so you can sell licenses or litigate. ", "body": "[**Patent Watch Launch Video**](https://youtu.be/9rLBsb_cX6E)\n\n**Problem**\n\nMy co-founder, [**Andreas Stroe**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreasstroe) (also my brother), was doing research at Philips. He applied for 4 patents while he was there. After spending way too much time talking to the IP team, he realized that they hold 50,000 patents with a team of \\~10 people to defend them.\n\nA little background: a **patent costs** around **$50k** to obtain and maintain. $17k is non-negotiable, paid directly in fees. That means their **portfolio costs $850M** to **$2.5B**. The best part is that they, and pretty much every company in the world, rely on Googling competitors and sending salespeople to trade shows to hear about new products that could be infringing. This whole **portfolio** is **making** little to **no revenue.**\n\nI guess you can see why we started building this right away.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94773&key=user_uploads/1250636/63eddfc4-bbda-4f22-b80e-7d4f0f15ced3)\n\n_Can you tell we’re brothers?_\n\n**Solution**\n\nSuper simplified to keep it easy to understand:\n\n✅ We let companies upload their patents and get a list of claim charts showing what **products are infringing and how**, in 20 minutes instead of months.\n\n✅ When companies get sued, they can **use us to find counter litigation**, since the person suing them is most likely infringing on some of the patents they hold too.\n\n✅ The most common way to get these cases thrown out of court is by considering a patent invalid. That means there is some proof, like other patents, research papers, or products that existed before your patent was filed. We find all these and **confirm your patents will hold up in court.**\n\nThere is more, but you can consider this our “core”.\n\n**Proof**\n\nAs you can imagine, pretty much everyone we work with has us under NDA. What I can tell you is that we work with private inventors up to Fortune and Global 500 companies.\n\n**Why now?**\n\nOf course, AI …\n\nBut also, the US Patent Office is tightening the rules for challenging patents in its review court. The director is being pickier about which cases get heard, and some evidence no longer counts.\n\n🚨 It’s going to be a lot harder to attack a patent and a lot easier for owners to defend one🚨\n\n**Ask**\n\nIf you hold patents and have more applications pending, you can probably use us.\n\nOutside of that, we’d really appreciate intros to:\n\n* Patent attorneys\n* IP managers\n* Licensing managers\n* CTOs or heads of R&D at hardware, biotech, industrial, and large software companies\n\nMy email is [**alex@patentwatch.ai**](mailto:alex@patentwatch.ai) if you want to chat :)\n\n_Thanks for reading!_", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Oeb-patent-watch-ai-for-patent-infringements", "votes": 78, "created_at": "2025-10-21T00:06:19.043Z" } ] }, { "id": 30939, "name": "Expected Parrot", "slug": "expected-parrot", "former_names": [ "Expected Parrot, Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fb8df693185d3d01a607d26dc392fa6f5307be2a.png", "website": "https://www.expectedparrot.com", "all_locations": "Boston, MA, USA", "long_description": "Expected Parrot helps companies simulate their customers with AI agents to explore pricing, product, marketing, communications and other scenarios at scale. Our open-source library and no-code web app let you design custom agent personas and conduct interviews and surveys with them using LLMs of your choice to generate results and reports. Everything is cached and reproducible, and you can send the same surveys to human respondents to validate results in the same interface.", "one_liner": "Simulate your customers with AI agents", "team_size": 5, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1760614076, "tags": [ "Generative AI", "SaaS", "Open Source" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/expected-parrot", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2025/expected-parrot.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "Boston", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/expectedparrot", "x_url": "https://x.com/ExpectedParrot", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/expectedparrot/edsl", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fb8df693185d3d01a607d26dc392fa6f5307be2a.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/9f94adca79875ba4d2dea725280dab8492eae80c.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Pete Koomen", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/pete-koomen" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 696545, "full_name": "Robin Horton", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Prior to building E[P] I was as founding member of Uber's Legal Data team and spent 7 years managing cross-functional data reporting. Before joining Uber I was a tax and investment funds attorney at Ropes & Gray LLP and served as an Assistant Attorney General in Massachusetts prosecuting environmental and white collar crimes. Before law school I managed simulations contracts for Northrop Grumman. Harvard JD & Columbia BA (Math).\n\nHarvard JD, Columbia BA Math.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/robertahorton", "x_url": "https://x.com/ExpectedParrot", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3a1c76533e7aa2c5c12dbec40b19174023f4db09.jpg" }, { "user_id": 50096, "full_name": "John Horton", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder of Expected Parrot. Professor at MIT Sloan. Economist. Former Army Officer. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-horton-48a75819/", "x_url": "https://x.com/johnjhorton", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b62d0cec76320c0a7050f9d7491a43c678e96cda.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 95172, "title": "Expected Parrot: Simulate your customers with AI agents", "tagline": "Meet Expected Parrot, the open-source framework for simulating your customers with AI agents.", "body": "Hi everyone, we’re [Robin ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertahorton/)and [John](https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-horton-48a75819/), co-founders of [Expected Parrot](https://www.expectedparrot.com).\n\n**TLDR:**\n\nUser research is expensive, slow, and hard to do well. Expected Parrot makes it radically cheaper, faster and easier.\n\nWe let you simulate customers with AI agents—run surveys, test pricing, get reactions to new features—before spending money on conventional research or building the wrong thing. Our tools make it easy to optimally combine human and AI generated data to run the best possible versions of your experiments.\n\n[Expected Parrot: Simulate your customers.](https://youtu.be/wVggRUnIdnA)\n\n**How it works:**\n\nTurn your customer data into AI agent personas, then run them through surveys just like you would with real people. Get instant results you can compare directly to human responses. E\\[P\\] provides the open source tools and services to validate these simulated results to increase confidence.\n\nWe offer a web app (for PMs, designers, and researchers) and a Python library (for data scientists who want full control). Surveys are the interface—expressive, familiar, and perfect for comparing AI to real human data.\n\n**Use it for:**\n\n* Pricing strategy: simulate hundreds of variations, estimate revenue\n* Product testing: find confusion before you build\n* Message testing: iterate on positioning at machine speed\n* Policy and legal: explore stakeholder reactions to different arguments\n\n**Key features:**\n\nWe handle all the plumbing—prompt engineering, async execution, structured parsing, caching, API management. Researchers focus on questions, not debugging Python or juggling API keys. \n\nWith conventional research, you have an idea, you design a survey, launch it, wait 2 weeks and then learn you didn't quite ask the right question—and you spent several thousand dollars. With E\\[P\\], you can design a survey, generate agents, run the survey and get results in seconds.  \n\n**Traction:**\n\nWe’re working with tech companies like Upwork, a global consulting firm, and users in banking, entertainment, consumer products, government statistical agencies, and non-profits. Our open source tools are being taught in business and CS programs at many universities. \n\n**About us:**\n\n[Robin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertahorton/) (CEO), who led legal and regulatory data science at Uber, has seen firsthand how the right tools can unlock productivity. [John](https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-horton-48a75819/) (CTO), [a professor at MIT](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=L_O2kH0AAAAJ&hl=en), was conducting research with his PhD students on how to use AI simulations in economics ([here](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17407), [here](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11794) and [here)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07543) but found existing tools inadequate. We started building our tools because we needed them, and we started building the platform when we realized others needed them as well.\n\n**Get in touch:** [founders@expectedparrot.com](mailto:founders@expectedparrot.com) | [expectedparrot.com](http://expectedparrot.com)\n\nHere’s a quick demo of our tools:\n\n[Expected Parrot: Demo](https://youtu.be/SzhrhBZkfjo)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ol2-expected-parrot-simulate-your-customers-with-ai-agents", "votes": 93, "created_at": "2025-11-04T22:53:55.562Z" } ] }, { "id": 30943, "name": "Aside", "slug": "aside", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2e9196c93cd4fc802b51eabcb6432760d1efd3fb.png", "website": "https://aside.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Aside is an AI browser that completes real work across the websites you already use. It can sign in through your browser, work inside email, dashboards, internal tools, docs, and spreadsheets, and keep going when a task takes minutes or hours.\r\n\r\nUnlike agents that depend on integrations, Aside uses the web the way you do. Browsing history becomes local memory, so it knows which tools and context matter. Its password manager lets agents autofill credentials without exposing secrets to the AI. Sensitive actions like payments, posts, and messages wait for your approval.\r\n\r\nWe achieved state-of-the-art on agentic browsing benchmarks, surpassing OpenAI and Anthropic's result- Aside ranked #1 across Mind2Web, Odyssey, bu-bench-v1.", "one_liner": "The browser built to do real work for you", "team_size": 8, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1760485553, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Automation", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/aside", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2025/aside.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/asidehq", "x_url": "https://x.com/AsideAI", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/at-inc/", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/2e9196c93cd4fc802b51eabcb6432760d1efd3fb.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/b6937d01eda60304dd53f923c04c9412ae29df0e.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Andrew Miklas", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/andrew-miklas" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1576589, "full_name": "Jun Kim", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder & CEO of Aside (YC F25) / founding member of Airbridge.io since age 17 ($30M ARR). crafted products from OS, DB to K-POP since my age 9.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/therne", "x_url": "https://x.com/hyojun_at", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4a08d34995961dc97330e3173e8d4dc547de9fdd.jpg" }, { "user_id": 709934, "full_name": "Chanhee Lee", "title": "Founder/CPO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder, Aside (F25)\nFounding Engineer at Airbridge.io, helped scale the company from $0 to $30M ARR. 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Like:\n\n> Are HSTS or strict transport policies enforced during data transmission?\n\nMost say, _“Let me get back to you”,_ and the deal cools off. That’s why teams burn $60K+ a year on coaching, mock calls, and LMS exams. I’ve paid that bill too.\n\nBut onboarding drags. Products change fast. Tech-savvy AEs are rare.\n\nWhat if your reps could pull the right answers instantly– straight from your best calls, API docs, or Slack threads?\n\n## ✨ Solution: Let your reps cheat on sales calls\n\n[Aside](https://asidehq.com/?utm_source=launch_yc) listens to your sales calls and surfaces real-time answers pulled from your docs, HubSpot, or past calls. It's like pressing **𝚌𝚝𝚛𝚕+𝚟** on your company’s knowledge into every rep – so anyone can sound like your best rep.\n\n**_🎬 Watch our [launch video](https://youtu.be/ZZVn6w0o8jQ) 👇_**\n\n---\n\n---\n\n# How it works\n\n\\*\\*🔎 Get answers from your docs, Slack, and past winning calls.\\*\\*\\\nWhen a tough question hits, just click **“How can I answer?”** - the right answer lands in 800ms. No guessing, no “let me get back to you”.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95050&key=user_uploads/1576589/873df5e6-aeb0-4bc6-bc89-ff00031ecf4c)\n\n📝 **Live coaching that catches what you miss**\\\nWhen you miss a key pain point, Aside flags it live — before the deal goes cold. It nudges what to ask next and coaches you using your playbook — BANT, SPICED, whatever your team runs on.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95050&key=user_uploads/1576589/667d0f76-a05a-46ff-9d2f-4fa8a781f218)\n\n💬 **Preload your cheatsheets as Live Cards**\\\nTurn your best answers into in-call cards that pop up right when you need them. No more flipping tabs — your best answers, ready the moment the question hits.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95050&key=user_uploads/1576589/d9b7fd18-89bb-418d-a733-85713ab3f4a1)\n\n**🎓 Coaching feedback, remembered by AI**\\\nAfter the call, Aside reviews what happened, gives you feedback, and turns it into live suggestions for the next one - so you never repeat the same mistake.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95050&key=user_uploads/1576589/efb28b23-26ec-49b4-a50e-a66616439ca6)\n\n# Our story\n\nJun and Chanhee were the founding engineers of [Airbridge.io](http://Airbridge.io). 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(_we have a special offer for you_)\n\n## Reach us\n\nJun - [jun@asidehq.com](mailto:jun@asidehq.com) / [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/therne/) / [X](https://x.com/hyojun_at) / 628-529-8098\\\nChanhee - [chanhee@asidehq.com](mailto:chanhee@asidehq.com) / [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/hiddenest) / [X](https://x.com/hiddnest) - 628-529-6213", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Oj4-aside-live-answers-for-enterprise-tech-sales", "votes": 180, "created_at": "2025-10-31T00:30:14.965Z" } ] }, { "id": 30953, "name": "Relaw", "slug": "relaw", "former_names": [ "Relaw", "Primer" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bb0260bafa98dc299797de55569bc9898b1505c1.png", "website": "https://www.relaw.ai", "all_locations": "Los Angeles, CA, USA", "long_description": "Relaw powers leading AI-native law firms.", "one_liner": "AI Legal OS", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Legal", "launched_at": 1759337648, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Legal", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Fall 2025", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Legal" ], "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/relaw", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/fall-2025/relaw.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "Los Angeles", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/relaw-ai", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bb0260bafa98dc299797de55569bc9898b1505c1.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 734292, "full_name": "Chris Farestveit", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Prior PM and Eng. 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This is [**Sri Raghu Malireddi**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/r4ghu) from [**Moss**](https://usemoss.dev/).\n\n### **TL;DR**\n\nMoss is a high-performance runtime for real-time semantic search. It delivers sub-10 ms lookups, instant index updates, and zero infra overhead. Moss runs where your agent lives - cloud, in-browser, or on-device - so search feels native and users never wait. You connect your data once; Moss handles indexing, packaging, distribution and updates.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95036&key=user_uploads/2412081/c21db6f6-b453-40b6-a15d-5654971ab2ab)\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nIf you’ve ever built a conversational or voice AI product, you’ve felt it - that awkward pause when your agent lags or hesitates. The illusion of conversation breaks, and suddenly it feels less like talking to intelligence and more like waiting for a page to load.\n\nThe culprit is almost always retrieval. Every query hops across networks and cloud databases, adding seconds of delay. As usage scales, those small lags snowball into lost users, rising infra and egress costs. Teams spend weeks rebuilding embeddings and indexes, tuning search infra just to get “good enough” answers instead of focusing on what actually matters: building great AI experiences!\n\n### **Solution**\n\nMoss puts real-time semantic search in the same runtime as your agent and application, so you can -\n\n* **Keep retrieval close** - embed & index right alongside your agents (docs, chat history, telemetry).\n* **Answer in <10 ms** - local lookups, zero network hops.\n* **Manage at scale** - store, sync, and distribute indexes with our managed data layer at [**https://moss.dev**](https://usemoss.dev)\n* **Drop-in SDKs** - [**JavaScript**](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@moss-js/moss) and [**Python**](https://pypi.org/project/moss/).\n\n### **Our Story**\n\nMoss founding team knew each other for 8+ years and bring deep expertise in machine learning, high-performance computing and developer experience.\n\nSri was an ML Lead at Grammarly and Microsoft, where he shipped LLMs and personalization systems used by millions of users across Office, Bing, and Grammarly. His work on personalization drove 300% retention growth for Grammarly Keyboard and scaling models to 40M+ DAUs. He has published at top ML conferences such as ACL and holds multiple patents in real-time ML.\n\nThe idea for Moss came from our deep frustration with how slow “intelligent” systems actually felt in practice. While building large-scale agentic systems at Microsoft and Grammarly, we kept hitting the same wall - retrieval lag that made even the smartest models feel lifeless. Through evolution, humans are wired to expect instant replies; when AI hesitates, it breaks the illusion of intelligence. We started Moss to fix that by collapsing the multi-hop retrieval stack into a real-time, local-first runtime that lets AI think and respond at the speed of thought.\n\n\n\n### **Who is it for?**\n\n* **Platform/Founding Eng:** Drop in realtime semantic search. No new service to run.\n* **Infra Leads:** Local retrieval to slash p95 and egress.\n* **Agent/Voice PMs:** Hit <10 ms so conversations feel natural.\n* **Security/Compliance:** Keep sensitive context local (offline-ready).\n* **Data/ML Eng:** A/B embeddings & index configs on your corpus - fast.\n\n### **How to onboard?**\n\n* Login to the portal -  \n* Start a new Project, create an index either through the portal or [JavaScript](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@moss-js/moss) and [Python](https://pypi.org/project/moss/) SDKs\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95036&key=user_uploads/2412081/ecd79cf8-972e-4233-9987-e015ad49abd8)\n\n* Using our SDKs - **init**, **load** and **query** indexes in **sub-10ms**.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95036&key=user_uploads/2412081/60e783b7-d7d3-411a-91fd-05cbd678130a)\n\n\n### **Our Progress**\n\nWe’re seeing strong inbound pull from the market with 6 enterprise design partners and 3 paying customers actively building their products around Moss’s core tech, with 7 more actively evaluating. We’re working closely with Voice AI orchestration companies like Pipecat ([Daily.co](http://Daily.co)) and LiveKit, embedding Moss at the core of their real-time retrieval and context pipelines. 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Founded my first company at 15, invited to the UN.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/siddhantpaliwal/", "x_url": "https://x.com/siddhantpa1iwal", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/2e97fd5871a88b44c76f7e983e0fde1d83c9638d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 114666, "title": "Real-SWE: A coding benchmark built from private company codebases", "tagline": "Can coding agents can do real engineering work on codebases they've never seen?", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=114666&key=user_uploads/426892/94ad1344-e8cb-4757-8023-59f3ed3e6081)\n\n**TL;DR**\\\nSpecific Labs (YC F25) is launching Real-SWE, a benchmark that evaluates coding agents on real software engineering tasks that engineers performed, using private, out-of-distribution codebases. Public benchmarks are built on open source repos models have already seen. Real-SWE tests whether an agent can do the work inside a company it has never encountered. Leaderboard and task examples at \\\n\\\n**Hi, we're Janak and Sid**\\\nOver the past year we've acquired and licensed operational data and codebases from real companies, and one question kept coming up with labs: how do coding agents actually perform on private code? Nobody had a clean way to measure it. So we built one.\n\n**The problem**\\\nEvery major coding benchmark is built on public repos. Models have trained on that code or on code that looks a lot like it. Scores keep climbing, but the number companies care about is different - can this agent land a fix in our billing system, our permissions layer, our customer data pipeline, without having seen any of it before?\n\n**What Real-SWE is**\\\nReal-SWE is a set of tasks pulled from real work engineers did on private company codebases. Examples include an app with 200K+ users, a fintech platform processing 100K+ bank statements, and enterprise sales tools.\n\nEach task gives the agent the codebase and the context an engineer would have had, then checks whether the fix actually works. One example: fix invoice billing so each business charges the right tax and exempt customers aren't taxed. The agent has to work out how the business handles tax, connect the tax provider, and keep invoices consistent.\\\n\\\n**What we found**\n\nAgents that look strong on public benchmarks struggle a lot more when the codebase is one they've never seen.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=114666&key=user_uploads/426892/5c10421b-da9c-4447-bb76-5cf298a890c9)\n\n\\\n\\\n**The ask**\n\n* If you're at a lab and want your model evaluated, or want the full task set for training, email [janak@withspecific.com](mailto:janak@withspecific.com)\n* If you run a company and would be open to contributing a codebase (we handle anonymization and tasks stay private), reach out", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/TpS-real-swe-a-coding-benchmark-built-from-private-company-codebases", "votes": 11, "created_at": "2026-09-10T18:52:18.053Z" }, { "id": 94289, "title": "Bear - Get recommended by AI Agents 🤖", "tagline": "Track and influence how often you appear on ChatGPT, Claude Code, Perplexity, and more", "body": "Hey everyone 👋\n\nWe’re [Janak](https://www.linkedin.com/in/janaksunil/) and [Siddhant](https://www.linkedin.com/in/siddhantpaliwal/), co-founders of [Bear](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bear)!\n\n# **TLDR ⚡️**\n\n**Bear helps companies get recommended by AI Agents.** **60+** companies use our platform, including **Browserbase**, **Wispr Flow**, **Cal.com** & tons of other YC companies.\n\n**Asks ❓**\n\n1. Can you introduce us to any heads of growth/marketing at Series A+ companies?\n2. You can try us out at [usebear.ai](https://usebear.ai). We would love your feedback!\n\n[**https://youtu.be/463PtjO_87g**](https://youtu.be/463PtjO_87g)\n\n# **Problem 😔**\n\nMarketers don't have a reliable way to track how often they and their competitors get recommended by AI agents like ChatGPT and Claude Code. Further, they do not know how their products can be recommended by them.\n\n# **Solution 😃**\n\n1. **We gather a lot of data** 📊: when your company shows up, when competition shows up, the sources contributing to AI answers, and the exact prompts behind them.\n2. **Find and Copy content that AI likes 😃**:\n\n **Example:** if you’re Brex, and Ramp has a blog titled “Best Business Credit Cards 2025” that shows up as a source for ChatGPT a lot, our platform makes it easy to clone it for Brex.\n3. **Find and reach out to sources that AI likes** 🤝:\n\n **Example:** if CNET is a frequently cited source for a question like “What are the best laptops 2025?”, we automatically find the author of the blog and reach out to them on your behalf.\n\nYou can sign up for **free** on our [website](https://usebear.ai)!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94289&key=user_uploads/1243050/5260a478-aa4a-444a-b7c3-263f5ae7a8da)\n\n**Why this matters now ‼️**\n\n\\~10% of searches on US Desktops now happen on AI Search (probably more).\n\nYour customers are asking “what’s the best project management tool” or “best AI CRM” and getting answers that might not include you - even if you rank on Google.\n\nBlue links are inherently **archaic.** The future of search is **conversational.**\n\n# **Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94289&key=user_uploads/1243050/87e46333-fc56-49eb-aa81-900f6f274d85)\n\nJanak was previously at Coinbase and is the founder of UCLA’s largest apartment listing platform (Acquired 2024).\n\nSid was an early engineer at Third Chair (YC X25) and Intel. 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The team is.\r\n\r\nCLEAN Cause now runs its daily sales decisions on Corvera: 5,000 queries in 40 days across 12 users, $250K of opportunities surfaced within days, and a 7x return on the analysts they would otherwise hire.\r\n\r\nWith Corvera in place, every sales rep starts the morning with:\r\n- The stores to act on today, ranked and priced, with the reason on the row,\r\n- The outreach already drafted to the right contact at the right distributor, and\r\n- The follow-up booked, logged, and measured against the goal it was set to move.\r\n\r\nAll from the distributor feeds, retailer portals, and ERP data they already have, resolved into one context layer - without a data team, and without handing their sales to a broker.\r\n\r\nWe’re founded by Chris (2x Founder; ex-CEO at Better Nature; Forbes 30U30), Dirk (ex-Google Data & AI Lead), and Matthew (ex-Head of Product at Rosemark; Princeton MEng in CS).\r\n\r\nTo date, we’ve raised $6.2M and are backed by YC, firstminute capital, 6 Degrees Capital, 20VC, Rebel Fund, Duke Capital Partners, and more. 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Direct them to our website to schedule a demo!\n\n**Website:** \n\n**Book a demo:** \n\n\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nRetail CPG brands are drowning in operational debt.\n\n* **Ops is a massive opportunity cost** – US CPG brands waste 40% of their time and spend $78bn managing supply chains when they should be getting their products out there and selling to more customers.\n* **Poor ops is a huge growth bottleneck** – CPG founders typically stem from product, marketing, or sales backgrounds. Therefore, ops handled by non-ops founders = distraction, pain, and time wasted on non-value-add tasks.\n* **Ops pain scales with the brand –** Ops debt and headcount grow as a brand serves more customers, launches more products, and operates in more geographies, further hampering the brand’s growth.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\n**Corvera is the fully autonomous command centre managing ops for fast-growing retail brands.** \n\nWe help brands cut wastage, improve margins, and maximise revenue, with an AI workforce that knows exactly how CPG brands work. We automate the 3 core ops workflows which consume the most time and hamper growth:\n\n**1) Sales Order Processing**\n\n_Process orders end-to-end without lifting a finger._\\\n\\\nCorvera plugs into your existing tools and automatically processes sales orders end-to-end, from fulfillment to invoice. It parses email PDFs and text, matches them against known entities in our catalogue, and executes downstream actions with human-in-the-loop approvals.\n\n**2) Inventory Management**\n\n_Track inventory across every location in real time._\n\nCorvera knows exactly where your stock is and how much you’ve got at all times. We seamlessly sync inventory data across all of your warehouses, track shipments and transfers, and suggest actions to rebalance stock across your estate to maximize short-term revenue.\n\n**3) Demand Forecasting & Supply Planning**\n\n_Forecast demand in real time and automatically process purchase orders to prevent stockouts._\n\nCorvera learns from your sales history and, coupled with insights from your team, forecasts demand in real time. With full visibility of your inventory across all locations, Corvera suggests corrective actions to prevent stockouts, so you can maximize your revenue, keep your customers happy, and accelerate your growth. \\\n\\\n**In short:** We take away ops pain from CPG brands, allowing them to do what they do best - market and sell their products to their customers. \n\n### **The Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96996&key=user_uploads/3038174/4e3af8f4-816c-4f7e-bb27-9a529803d966)\n\nFrom Left to Right:\n\n[**Dirk Breeuwer**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirkbreeuwer/) (Co-Founder & CTO)\n\nFormerly Data and AI Lead at Google with 6+ years of experience. Led Google’s marketing AI transformation, incubating five AI systems, including a multi-agent workflow automation that improved brand compliance review efficiency by 90%.\n\n[**Christopher Kong**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cwnkong/) (Co-Founder & CEO)\n\n2x Founder, Forbes 30U30, formerly CEO of Better Nature - one of Europe’s fastest-growing and largest meat-free brands, active in 6 countries and sold in 5,000+ retail stores. Closed every major sales deal and led every fundraise.\n\n[**Matthew Collins**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsmcollins/) (Co-Founder & CPO)\n\nEx-CPO at Rosemark, an AI-powered B2B data analytics and marketing platform, and scaled the Computer Science department at Eton College, the UK’s most prestigious boarding school. 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Keen to meet as many CPG brands as possible between now and demo day!\n\n### **Get In Touch**\n\nContact us: [founders@corvera.ai](mailto:founders@corvera.ai)\n\nBood a demo: ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PES-corvera-ai-agents-for-cpg-brands", "votes": 17, "created_at": "2026-01-21T02:00:02.532Z" } ] }, { "id": 31082, "name": "Quotient Labs", "slug": "quotient-labs", "former_names": [ "Syntropy" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/67e517c455ab1e170ed6b2628a4dce9546f07490.png", "website": "https://quotientlabs.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "You should only be paying frontier model prices for top-shelf reasoning. But 88% of your token bill is just tool I/O.\r\n Quotient Labs runs on top of Claude Code to reduce token spend, compress context, and optimize tool calls while preserving output quality. Same models, same workflow, no changes to how you work. 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Today, that process is: \n\n* **Slow**: Weeks to months per candidate spent on time-consuming data analysis and report generation that limit how fast new therapies can reach patients \n* **Expensive**: On average, it costs $1M+ for each day of delay in a clinical trial. Every day a biologic is delayed from entering the market is a missed opportunity to generate revenue and to save lives\n* **Not scalable**: Labs are throwing thousands of therapeutics through the discovery pipeline, but processing the data requires individuals to perform expert analysis leading to reproducibility challenges and a specialized, manual bottleneck\n\nThe result: candidates pile up, timelines slip, and the promise of AI-powered discovery gets stuck. \n\n💡**Our Solution**\n\n**10x Science** is the unlock **🔑**\n\nWhat if you could go from raw data to output-ready characterization reports in minutes? 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The real challenge is to have safe-execution inside these core systems, letting IT move just as fast as the business.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105577&key=user_uploads/1578320/4aa47909-92cb-46a2-9479-917d889f318c)\n\nShrish (left): Cyber Security at KPMG, Mayfield Fellow. \n\nAliyan (center): Researcher at Stanford AI Lab, Applied AI Engineer at Langchain, built products used by 100k+ people\n\nShaurnav (right): AI Engineer at Amazon and Apple. Researcher at Stanford AI Lab\n\nWe have worked on long-running agents and are excited to apply that experience to enterprise IT.\n\n**Asks:**\n\n1. If your company uses Salesforce, NetSuite, Workday, ServiceNow, SAP, or similar systems, we’d love to learn how your IT / business systems team handles changes today. **Are they backlogged? We might be able to help!**\n2. If you know someone who leads IT, Business Systems, or Enterprise Applications at a scaling company, we’d be very grateful for an intro!\n\nTalk to us at [founders@assemble.ai](mailto:founders@assemble.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RSr-assemble-agents-for-enterprise-it", "votes": 4, "created_at": "2026-07-13T16:23:12.785Z" } ] }, { "id": 31230, "name": "o11", "slug": "o11", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/34cf69944142b4ae981a790f75fe9293d52369a2.png", "website": "https://o11.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "o11 helps your AI agents access apis, tools, and other paid goods and services. 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Many of these systems are manual, outdated, and inefficient. In the age of AI, the legacy giants that create this software aim to “duct tape” AI onto their tools – but what they end up with is a **mangled mess that can’t actually do anything useful (Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, the generic useless “AI” sidebar in every application).** Enterprises and consumers need a way to automate work directly inside of the tools they are familiar with – \\*\\*their solution is o11.\\*\\*\\\n\\\nStarting with **the entire Google & Microsoft Suite,** we’ve enabled hundreds of companies to automate presentation / spreadsheet / document generation directly within their workflow. Teams that use us no longer need to move from app to app or deal with agents that merely “provide insights.” Now they can actually do things in these tools, and do them **fast.**\n\n# Start today:\n\nTry o11 for Free in Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 at . Book a demo at \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98341&key=user_uploads/1788479/2a4f8871-f9de-4f49-9758-39a582173ea4)\n\n# \n\n# How did we come up with this?\n\nBefore we dropped out of UNC we were surrounded by finance students who all faced similar problems at their internships over the summer: Legacy software, no AI, and tons of grunt work. Most existing finance solutions thought the best way to provide workflow value was to build an external dashboard. But after speaking to hundreds of finance professionals we realized that teams don’t want an external solution, they require something that is directly within their workflow. So, we started by building a Microsoft PowerPoint plugin. Soon, financial teams started asking us for more, and we then introduced o11 For Excel and o11 For Word. But, why confine ourselves to Microsoft only? Teams that we worked with and spoke to all wanted integrations with the full G Workspace suite, and soon we built it for them in Google Slides, Docs, and Sheets. **We’re not stopping there though – while these productivity suites are a large part of our user’s workflows, their workflows aren’t just confined to these tools.**\n\n# Where does this go?\n\nOur users use thousands of enterprise legacy apps that need automation, not duct-taped AI. That’s why, the product we’re soon going to release will enable you to use o11 in any app — **it’s going to enable you** **to automate directly inside any workflow.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98341&key=user_uploads/1788479/8296e217-4385-4f12-a50d-cebffe7b974d)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=98341&key=user_uploads/1788479/2a8ae383-97a2-41e9-8f95-66e9368a4230)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pa9-o11-the-ai-agent-inside-of-every-enterprise-app", "votes": 10, "created_at": "2026-03-02T18:19:12.551Z" } ] }, { "id": 31272, "name": "Poth Labs", "slug": "poth-labs", "former_names": [ "Poth" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ee08f2b3965c952b7b91fda669eab1aace70f2b1.png", "website": "https://pothlabs.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Poth is an agentic research platform that connects to your company data, creates hypotheses about what might be causing problems, and validates them using both existing data and adaptive user feedback.", "one_liner": "The customer brain that connects data to explain customer behavior", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1782326273, "tags": [ "SaaS", "B2B", "Workflow Automation", "Market Research", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2026", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "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/poth-labs", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2026/poth-labs.json", "year_founded": 2026, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/company/poth", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ee08f2b3965c952b7b91fda669eab1aace70f2b1.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": 2622339, "full_name": "Mojmir Horvath", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Cofounder & CTO of Poth Labs. 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Poth connects that information into a living model of your customers, mapping analytics from Posthog and transcripts from Granola to the same customer, so you can finally answer the questions that live across multiple tools: churn, adoption or what to build next, with cited evidence. pothlabs.com**\n\n\n\n**The problem:**\n\nCompanies have customer information scattered across support tickets, sales calls, CRM notes, surveys, interviews, product analytics and more. \n\nBut answering a new question about customers still usually means manually searching across those systems or beginning another research project.\n\n**The (soft) pivot:**\n\nWe originally built Poth to generate hypotheses and launch adaptive interviews and surveys to test them. To determine what questions to ask and which customers to ask, Poth first had to understand all of the customer information a company already had.\n\nUnder the hood, we built a customer knowledge graph: Poth identifies the important objects in a company’s data: customers, accounts, users, products, features, conversations, behaviors, and feedback, and connects them through their relationships.\n\nAs we integrated with more teams, we noticed that several were using this underlying model as much as, or more than, the survey functionality itself. They wanted to ask questions across everything their customers had already said and done so we made that a core part of the product!\n\n**Customer knowledge graph example:**\n\nFor a company like Slack, Poth might model five objects:\n\n* **Account**  (a company paying for Slack)\n* **User**\n* **Workspace**\n* **Feature** (Slack Connect, Huddles, Canvas, or workflows)\n* **Customer signal** (A support ticket, call transcript, survey response, or product event)\n\nIt then connects them through relationships such as:\n\nUser —BELONGS_TO→ Account Account —OWNS→ Workspace User —USED→ Feature Customer Signal —CREATED_BY→ User Customer Signal —REFERENCES→ Feature\n\nSlack could then ask:\n\n“Why are enterprise accounts trying Slack Connect but not adopting it broadly?”\n\nAnd Poth could connect low Slack Connect usage in PostHog, permission-related support tickets in Pylon, security concerns mentioned in Granola transcripts, and renewal context from HubSpot, all through the same accounts, users, workspaces, and features.\n\nInstead of returning a generic summary, Poth can show the supporting and contradicting evidence, cite the underlying sources, and explain what information is still missing.\n\nIn practice, the model contains many more objects and relationships based on each company’s business and data.\n\n**Ask Poth:**\n\nConnect your customer data sources and internal documentation. Poth automatically builds the living model, and your team can ask questions naturally across everything customers have said and done.\n\nWhen the existing evidence is not enough, you can also use Poth to launch adaptive interviews and surveys to collect what is missing.\n\nSome use cases we’ve seen:\n\n* **Discovery:** “Across our discovery calls, what do users want most that we haven’t built?”\n* **Adoption and growth:** What is preventing activated customers from adopting more of the product and expanding?”\n* **Churn and risk:** “Identify the top three reasons customers have churned, then flag the five active accounts showing similar warning signs.”\n* **Win-loss analysis:** “What are the most common reasons we lose enterprise deals, and which product gaps are actually affecting revenue?”\n* **Account intelligence:** “Give me everything relevant to this account before my next customer call.”\n\n**Our ask:**\n\nWe’re already working with several teams in the YC batch, and we’re looking for more companies whose customer context is spread across several systems.\n\nI’d especially appreciate introductions to:\n\n* Founders and product leaders at growing startups with significant customer data across three or more tools\n* Heads of Customer Insights, Voice of the Customer, Customer Experience, User Research, or Customer Success at larger companies\n\nAnd if your team has important customer questions it still cannot answer confidently, email me at [matthew@pothlabs.com](mailto:matthew@pothlabs.com)! We’ll work closely with early teams to connect their core systems and get them live.\n\npothlabs.com", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RpS-ask-poth-ask-anything-about-your-customers", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2026-07-22T20:02:23.718Z" }, { "id": 103949, "title": "Poth Labs - The AI Native Customer Research Platform", "tagline": "Understand why users behave the way they do—hypotheses from your data, validated through interviews.", "body": "**TL;DR:** Poth helps you understand _why_ your users behave the way they do. It uses your company's data and context to generate hypotheses, then validates them through adaptive user interviews until it uncovers the root cause.\n\n**What we do:** Poth is an AI-native customer research platform\n\nAnalytics tools show behavior. Traditional research tools ask users static, predetermined questions. Poth connects the two—starting from your own data.\n\nIt takes a company's existing data and context to generate hypotheses, validates them through adaptive interviews, and continuously updates its questioning based on each user's responses—helping teams uncover the reasons behind churn, failed activation, checkout abandonment, or any user behavior.\n\n\n\n**Who we are:** Before Poth, I (Matthew) was an FDE at Palantir, where I worked closely with enterprise customers to help them make better use of their data. My co-founder Mojmir was a data scientist at Tietoevry, where he did the same.\n\nNow we're building Poth to help every company understand why users behave the way they do.\n\n**Our ask:** If you work in product, growth, customer research, or analytics, we'd love to chat — reach out and connect. Try it at [pothlabs.com](http://pothlabs.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/R2b-poth-labs-the-ai-native-customer-research-platform", "votes": 41, "created_at": "2026-06-25T19:41:41.476Z" } ] }, { "id": 31327, "name": "Korso", "slug": "korso", "former_names": [ "Korso", "afterfive" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fd03c9be7cf358b8834377c00d3855af56d7f064.png", "website": "https://korsoai.com/", "all_locations": "Irvine, CA, USA", "long_description": "Korso is an intuitive AI assistant that can work alongside you on your computer. 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Shepherd is an open-source tool that allows all of your agents, across sessions and team members, to communicate and collaborate while they work.\n\nThis was a problem that our team encountered while developing our previous product, so we built an internal tool to solve it.\n\nWe've been using Shepherd internally for a while now. It was initially more of an experiment to see how well agents could collaborate, but as we've iterated on it, it's become genuinely useful. Not only does it save us the time and effort of fixing rewrites/conflicts, but we've actually been seeing cleaner and more robust code from our agents, simply because they're able to see what their fellow agents are working on and communicate to write code that works together.\n\nShepherd is a simple MCP that you install once and your agents use forever with zero human input. We provide a dashboard where you can see what you and all of your team members' agents have being doing, in addition to a chat where you and your agents can send announcements, either directly or to everyone.\n\nYou can sign up at and it'll guide you through the process. The repo is also open-source at , and you can read more about Shepherd at korsoai.com/docs. Try it on our platform or even host it yourself.\n\n**Free** for all YC companies - we're currently in open beta, so we'd love for you to give it a try and share any feedback you have!\\\n\\\nShepherd in action:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105011&key=user_uploads/2729430/a8674cb3-9106-455c-ba95-43da06d29ba0)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105011&key=user_uploads/2729430/bb1ac2f5-2bf1-4448-8aab-f0eac1e5f182)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RJj-korso-shepherd-tooling-for-all-your-agents-to-collaborate", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2026-07-08T21:30:46.820Z" }, { "id": 101233, "title": "Korso - AI Agents for Manufacturing", "tagline": "Automate any workflow and gain insights across your ERP, CRM, MES, Inbox, and more.", "body": "**TL;DR:** Manufacturers are buried in coordination work that is well-defined but still manual. Korso lets them describe those workflows in plain English and deploy autonomous agents that run across their existing systems.\n\n## \n\n## The Problem\n\nOps, procurement, and customer-service teams at manufacturers spend the majority of their week on coordination that is clearly defined but never automated:\n\n* Chasing suppliers for ETAs\n* Processing incoming RFQs\n* Routing PO approvals\n* Monitoring order exceptions\n* Following up on stale opportunities\n\nEvery person on one of these teams could write down the exact steps for the task, and yet nobody has built the thing that runs those steps reliably at scale.\n\nThe tooling around this problem is stuck in a half-finished state:\n\n* ERP-native AI answers questions about ERP data; it doesn’t execute the multi-step workflows that sit between the data and the work getting done.\n* Middleware and iPaaS connect systems but don’t make decisions.\n* Systems integrators custom-code workflows that take quarters to ship and break when a process changes.\n* BPO adds variable cost and leaves the underlying coordination fragmented.\n\nWhen a manufacturer adds a product line, a new region, or a new supplier tier, the coordination load scales linearly, and so does the headcount requirement.\n\n## What We Built\n\nAtlas generates autonomous coordination agents on top of the ERP systems manufacturers already run: SAP, NetSuite, Oracle, Dynamics 365, Odoo, and more.\n\nA workflow that today takes a quarter to custom-code or an ongoing BPO contract to staff is, on Atlas, described in plain English and stood up as a running agent in hours.\n\n## Workflows We’ve Deployed\n\n### Procurement & Supplier Coordination\n\nChases supplier responses, confirms ETAs, routes PO approvals, and escalates exceptions before they become missed deliveries.\n\n### RFQ to Quote\n\nParses incoming RFQs from email or portal, prices against history and current cost, drafts and routes quotes for approval, and tracks through to response.\n\n### Order & Exception Handling\n\nMonitors order status across ERP and transport systems, surfaces exceptions before they escalate, and maintains a complete audit trail.\n\n### Natural Language to Workflow\n\nTurn any manual process into automation simply by prompting an agent.\\\n\\\n**Our Ask:**\n\nIf you know any manufacturer with a coordination-heavy ops or procurement team, we’d love to talk! Feel free to book a demo at [korsoai.com](https://korsoai.com) or reach out to [support@korsoai.com](https://mailto:support@korsoai.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QKn-korso-ai-agents-for-manufacturing", "votes": 29, "created_at": "2026-05-12T04:20:47.491Z" } ] }, { "id": 31352, "name": "Marker", "slug": "marker", "former_names": [ "Widari", "Widari Inc." ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/93931f5e81e962ad8d0a22dae5ec988c5226fb07.png", "website": "https://onmarker.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Marker is a platform for rebuilding enterprises agent-first, delivered by forward-deployed engineers. 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Ours don’t.**\n\nThe hard part is understanding how work happens across people, systems, and teams; choosing the opportunities that matter most; and getting solutions into production.\n\n## **How Marker works**\n\nWe embed with each company and lead the transformation end to end:\n\n* **Understand the organization.** We listen closely to leaders and frontline teams, learn their systems and ways of working, and map the processes that usually live in people’s heads.\n* **Find the biggest opportunities.** We identify and prioritize the problems where AI can have the greatest impact on cost, capacity, speed, or growth.\n* **Build and ship.** We create custom agents and automations around the company’s real workflows and systems. The agents we deploy run on the Marker Command Center and go live in production within weeks.\n* **Compound.** Every agent we deploy deepens our understanding of the company. 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Marker is the company we wish we could have hired at Gap.\n\n## **Our ask**\n\n**If you are (or you know) a leader looking for real AI transformation—not another pilot, deck, or self-serve tool—please send them our way.**\n\nReach us via email at [**founders@onmarker.com**](mailto:founders@onmarker.com), or visit [**onmarker.com**](http://onmarker.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SvE-marker-ai-native-consultancy-rebuilding-businesses-with-ai-agents", "votes": 72, "created_at": "2026-08-19T14:00:01.019Z" } ] }, { "id": 31363, "name": "Saffron", "slug": "saffron", "former_names": [ "Saffron AI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d3143a0fc23ce4251d146cce9ebb5799fc664317.png", "website": "https://www.trysaffron.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Saffron allows companies to quickly evaluate how well software engineers use AI to code. \r\n\r\nThe way engineers write code has fundamentally changed, but the way companies evaluate them hasn't. 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Teams can now get structured metrics on how candidates actually build, not just whether the final output compiles.\n\nBook an onboarding call here: [**https://trysaffron.ai**](https://trysaffron.ai)\n\n**Our Launch Video**\n\n\n\n---\n\n**The Problem**\n\nAI coding tools have finally gotten good enough to actually change how engineers work. But the way companies evaluate SWEs hasn't changed at all.\n\nNow, interviews are testing the wrong thing and candidates are passing every round of your hiring process, before showing up on the job unable to build a single feature without AI doing the thinking for them.\n\nOn the flip side, companies are missing out on engineers who actually know how to use AI to be ten times more efficient.\n\nWe know because we've been on both sides. As candidates, we realized how how much potential there was to become 10x with AI. As founders, we’ve heard the same story from dozens of teams: \"They crushed the interview. Two weeks in, they couldn't ship anything independently.\"\n\n---\n\n**Our Approach**\n\nWe’ve built an assessment that embraces AI and measures how efficient an engineer is. Candidates get a real codebase, AI tools they’d actually use on the job, and a task that simulates engineering work. We capture the full process and evaluate it automatically.\n\n---\n\n**⚙️ How It Works**\n\n**Step 1: Create an assessment in under 5 minutes.** Point us at your GitHub repo or choose a question from our bank, configure AI agents, and invite candidates.\n\n![uploaded image](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post&id=100291&key=user_uploads%2F2767627%2F8e7827fe-4250-4411-b495-f0b5d2dbbd18&variant=large)\n\n**Step 2: Candidates build in a fully managed environment.** They get an online IDE that they can customize, a timer, and a real task. No setup required on their end. 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Imagine paying for an app on the app store but not being able to use it for 6 months. [Lab0](https://lab0.ai/) solves exactly this.\n\nWe’re building an AI FDE that automates entire post-sales delivery for software companies - all from discovery, solution design, config, to testing and go-live. We’re currently working with Adobe and a couple of system integrators.\n\nThe future of enterprise software is self-serve, where enterprises buy a product, and it gets configured by agents.\n\n[Lab0](https://www.linkedin.com/company/lab0-hq/) is the AI FDE making that real: 6 months → 10 days.\n\n\n\n# **The problem**\n\nIf you've sold to an enterprise, you know this already.\n\nA $200K contract lands. Hand off to post-sales. On a deeper technical discovery of your client’s processes, you realize you need a lot of custom changes to serve them.\n\nThat's the hidden tax on every enterprise sale, 3 months of bespoke FDE / Solution Architect’s work, rebuilt from scratch for every customer. That’s 3 months of lost value for the customer.\n\nEither you wait months to start billing, or somehow show enough ROI in the remaining duration of the contract to get a renewal.\n\n# **What we built**\n\n[Lab0](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lab0) is the AI FDE for your (AI?) B2B SaaS. It joins discovery calls and tells you what to ask, generates handoffs, design documents and test plans. It even configures the product, writes custom integrations and tests all the workflows before signing off.\n\n_Six months of services work, done in days._\n\n# **Who we are**\n\n[Onkar Borade](https://www.linkedin.com/in/onkar-borade/) , CS grad from IIT Bombay, saw the problem from inside Oracle, where the implementation team was bigger than the dev team.\n\n[Lakshya Gupta](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lakshya-gupta-0030771ba/) , also CS from IIT Bombay, was an early engineer at Emergent Labs where he scaled the Agent platform from 0 to $100M in ARR with over 5M users.\n\n[Sujay Srivastava](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sujaysriv/) , quantum computing grad from IIT Madras, was building an AI startup for BFSI, where every rollout felt like its own custom project.\n\nWe've sat on every side of an enterprise deployment, and [Lab0](https://www.linkedin.com/company/lab0-hq/) is the software we wished we'd had on every one of those projects.\n\n# **Our ask**\n\n**1. 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If you've seen this pain from a previous job - even from across the aisle in a product or engineering role, a warm intro goes a long way.\n\nDrop an email at [founders@lab0.ai](https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&to=founders@lab0.ai)\\\nor\\\nBook a call at [Lab0-Calendly_Link](https://calendly.com/d/ctzx-ndw-n8b/office-hours-with-lab0)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QQr-lab0-ai-fde-for-enterprise-software", "votes": 20, "created_at": "2026-05-20T03:31:19.320Z" } ] }, { "id": 31432, "name": "Keyframe Labs", "slug": "keyframe-labs", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ca6ef21e7c765ce2b9f612cc2ec833a2654c6bd4.png", "website": "https://keyframelabs.com", "all_locations": "Los Angeles, CA, USA", "long_description": "We build human foundation models. 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Before Keyframe, he spent 5 years at Ericsson on frontier AI, founding and leading a team of 35 building foundation models for voice & video synthesis on one of the world's first petascale human datasets, shipping Ericsson's first generative AI products. Before that, as a research scientist at AT&T Labs he developed novel neural architectures for photorealistic 3D telepresence, enabling the world's first 3D call over production networks. B.S. CS UCLA.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/parthradia/", "x_url": "https://x.com/parthnradia", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/19df1fc54bb17e3b127d5179247e82a7382c1774.jpg" }, { "user_id": 569532, "full_name": "Kaahan Radia", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Kaahan is co-founder and CTO of Keyframe Labs, building the world's first photoreal, emotionally expressive AI humans for real-time video agents. Previously, he spent five years at Zipline as a Perception Engineer, building their camera-based detect-and-avoid system for autonomous drone operations. His work spans computer vision and applied ML, with research at CVPR and JAMA.\n\nB.A. CS, UC Berkeley.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaahan-radia-2ba47354/", "x_url": "https://x.com/kradisme", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/69561b5971be202ad21208b2ba78d5cfb96772ba.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 99738, "title": "Keyframe Labs - turn AI into lifelike video calls", "tagline": "Bring AI to life with photoreal, conversational humans", "body": "**tl;dr:** our real-time, generative models turn AI into lifelike video calls. Deploy in minutes with a few lines of embed code. Photorealism, emotion, and scale for just $0.06 per minute.\n\nWe’re [@Kaahan Radia](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/569532) and [@Parth Radia](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/user/3206626) from Keyframe Labs. Our interactive video models bring your AI agents and applications to life.\n\n\n\nYou can try a video call for yourself here: . To get a sense for the interactivity and expressive range, try asking for a sad Shakespearean monologue. Or for a “funny” dad joke.\n\n**But why video agents?**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99738&key=user_uploads/3206626/ad0420da-db57-4562-a1a4-b5db0b0de005)\n\nFace-to-face interaction triggers responses that text and voice simply can’t. Video calls close more deals, language learning with video tutors outperforms audio-only, and human presence drives outcomes in high-stakes interactions (e.g., telehealth, tax prep).\n\nNow that voice has emerged as a primary conversational interface across industries, video is the next leap. Developers and enterprises already use Keyframe to easily deploy photoreal, conversational humans to a wide variety of use cases, including:\n\n* AI roleplay, for corporate training / learning and development\n* AI recruiting, for interview practice and automated screenings\n* Telehealth\n* High-touch customer support\n* AI sales and customer success reps\n* Always-on digital twins of influencers, to scale engagement and hyper-personalize interactions\n\n**How it works**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99738&key=user_uploads/3206626/34f670bd-7436-48e9-bd72-2d0f8bd73e44)\n\nSuper simple.\n\n1. Connect your agent or LLM, or choose from our supported providers\n2. Select a persona from our stock library\n3. Drop the embed code into your application\n\nNeed a custom persona or more control? Custom personas are available on enterprise plans, and our SDKs let you roll your own implementation.\n\n**Why Keyframe**\n\nOur research goals from day one have been:\n\n* Make meaningful progress towards beating the uncanny valley\n* Run at real-time, with world-scale efficiency\n\nThe result:\n\n* Industry-leading realism and concurrency limits\n* At a fraction of the cost of competitors\n\n**Get up and running**\n\n* [Sign up free](https://platform.keyframelabs.com/) (no credit card required) and build something cool\n* Have a use case? [Book time with us directly](https://keyframe-labs.cal.com/sales/intro-call)\n* Know a company that could benefit from face-to-face AI interactions? We’d love an intro", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pwg-keyframe-labs-turn-ai-into-lifelike-video-calls", "votes": 24, "created_at": "2026-04-14T18:57:11.659Z" } ] }, { "id": 31437, "name": "Sidekick", "slug": "textsidekick", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/70f52c907fab24ab4f95aa200a11907c5bc3896f.png", "website": "https://textsidekick.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Sidekick is an AI agent that runs custom manufacturing operations over text. Workers text a problem, photo, video, or voice memo and get an answer from the shop's own documents. It reads live machine data and acts on its own: flagging issues before they become downtime, opening and routing work orders, and placing purchase orders. No app, no login.\r\n\r\nThese shops run on tribal knowledge: a handful of veterans know how every job is set up, and they are retiring. Sidekick learns from every message it handles, so answers outlive the people who gave them, and shops run 15% more jobs with the same crew. 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It’s now live at facilities across the globe.\n\n**_Ask:_** Do you know anyone who owns or runs a manufacturing plant, warehouse, or industrial facility? I'd love an intro! Email [**justin@textsidekick.com**](mailto:justin@textsidekick.com) or [**book a demo**](https://calendly.com/justin-textsidekick).\n\nCheck out our launch video:\n\n\n\n## ❌ The Problem\n\nI grew up in my dad's manufacturing plants and spent summers working on the factory floor at EDS Manufacturing.\n\nHere's what I watched happen repeatedly. A machine goes down, everyone's waiting, and the person who can help is in a meeting or on another line. Half the time the answer already existed. Nobody could get to it.\n\nWhy it keeps happening:\n\n* **No computer access.** Nobody on that floor has a company login or an email address, so none of the plant's software reaches them.\n* **The answers are scattered.** An SOP in a binder, a manual on a shared drive few have permissions to, a safety procedure someone printed and taped to a wall in 2019.\n* **The best answers were never written down.** Thirty years of tribal knowledge lives in one guy's head, and when he retires it leaves with him.\n* **So the same questions get asked over and over.** Shift after shift, and every one of them costs somebody their afternoon.\n\nThere are 239,000 manufacturing plants in the US, and only 29% of the people working in them have advanced digital skills. Any tool that requires a download, a login, and training makes adoption difficult.\n\n## ✅ Our Solution\n\nWorkers text the Sidekick phone number. Problems, photos, voice memos, in any language. No app to download, no account to create, nothing to learn. Every worker on the floor already knows how to send a text, which is why adoption isn't a fight.\n\n* **Answers from your own documents.** SOPs, manuals, safety procedures, tribal knowledge. Sidekick responds in the worker's language, in seconds.\n* **Creates and routes the work order.** The issue gets logged and sent to the right person, without anyone needing a laptop.\n* **Syncs with the software you already run.** Sidekick pulls from and writes to your existing systems instead of replacing them, and integrates directly through PLC and SCADA systems so the floor and the software finally see the same thing.\n* **Captures tribal knowledge.** Every exchange builds a searchable knowledge base the company owns, so the know-how stays when the veteran leaves.\n\nHere's a full walkthrough:\n\n\n\n## 👤 The Team\n\nI'm Justin, founder and CEO. I'm the third generation in a manufacturing family, and I've been around plant floors since I was a kid. I studied Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania, worked in finance at Arm, and left both to build Sidekick after watching the same problem play out on every floor I'd been on.\n\n## 🙏 Our Ask\n\nIf you answer \"yes\" to any of these, I'd love your help:\n\n* **Do you know anyone who owns or runs a manufacturing plant, warehouse, or industrial facility?** Even a name and a \"you two should talk\" goes a long way.\n* **Have you sold software into manufacturing?** I'd love to hear what actually worked and what didn't.\n\nContact me at [**justin@textsidekick.com**](mailto:justin@textsidekick.com) or [**book a demo here**](https://calendly.com/justin-textsidekick)**.**", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SNH-sidekick-ai-agent-that-handles-frontline-operations-over-text", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2026-08-07T15:00:00.438Z" } ] }, { "id": 31441, "name": "Infera", "slug": "infera", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e31e68f847b8067b4a5a541fed968e4b0739a6c4.png", "website": "https://www.infera.bio", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Describe an experiment in plain English, and Infera turns it into a validated, instrument-ready run across the equipment your lab already uses. 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MechE + CS at Harvard.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/chloe-sow", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d783871016e75c83c0534d668a503a2fca45d369.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 102417, "title": "Infera – Control Lab Instruments with Natural Language", "tagline": "Infera turns a plain-English experiment into a validated, instrument-ready run", "body": "### **⚡TL;DR**\n\n**Infera is the Claude Code for scientific instruments.** Describe an experiment in plain English, and Infera turns it into a validated, instrument-ready run, handling the protocol logic, vendor scripts, data, and inventory across the instruments your lab already uses. One system, from intent to execution.\n\n### 🤔 **The Problem**\n\nLabs run on hardware from the future and software from the past.\n\nThe instruments are extraordinary. Mass specs identify thousands of proteins, flow cytometers read tens of thousands of cells a second, and cryo-EMs image at near-atomic resolution. These are the machines behind biomarker discovery, immunotherapy, structural biology, and drug development. But the software around them still looks like it shipped in 2003, and runs like it.\n\nWe've watched labs running \\~6 instruments from 3+ vendors write a one-off script for every experiment, stitch outputs together by hand, and track inventory in a Google Sheet someone probably forgot to update last Tuesday. Scientists spend their week being human glue between machines that should already talk to each other.\n\n### **🔍How Infera Works**\n\n[**Demo Video**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GPze4X7AeA)\n\n**I. Describe the experiment in plain English.** Infera asks the right questions, surfaces edge cases, and checks against your lab’s inventory and instrument state.\n\n**II. Infera turns it into a run, accommodating both manual and automatable steps.** For programmable instruments, it generates vendor-specific scripts, executes, pulls the data back, and runs the analysis. For manual work like pipetting, gels, hand fermentation, etc., it's the context layer underneath: which step you're on, which reagent goes where, what could go wrong, and how others in the lab have run it before.\n\n**III. The knowledge stays.** Every protocol, every validated run, every edge case becomes part of the system and checked against instrument constraints, lab SOPs, inventory, and prior experiments.\n\nThat last part is the hard part. It's what general-purpose LLMs can't do, and it's what enables a researcher to trust the output the way they'd trust a trained technician.\n\n### 👩‍🔬 **Team**\n\nHi! We’re Chloe and Troy, and we're building Infera to close the gap between science and instrumentation.\n\n* Chloe studied Mechanical Engineering at Harvard. She's been building research software and medical devices since before college (Regeneron STS Scholar), including a microfluidic device that detects harmful chemicals in household products, and has been doing research at places like Fred Hutch, Brigham and Women's, Harvard Medical School, and Pacific Northwest National Lab.\n* Troy studied Computation & Neural Systems at Caltech, where he held an endowed research fellowship in a top research lab as an undergraduate. He's published two first-author cancer papers, holds a first-inventor agtech patent, and built and sold two companies before Infera.\n\nBetween us, we've run experiments by hand, written the scripts, and watched the whole system break when one person leaves. That's the problem we're building Infera to fix.\n\n### **🎯Ask**\n\nWe're currently running pilots with Boston-area academic labs and cores. If any of these are you, reach out at [**hello@infera.bio**](mailto:hello@infera.bio):\n\n* **Academic labs and cores:** know a PI or core director in proteomics, genomics, flow, automation, or screening? We'd love an intro, and we're happy to set up a pilot\n* **YC founders with wet labs (diagnostics, therapeutics, synbio, tools):** we’d love to meet whoever runs your lab ops\n* **Biotech and life sciences folks:** come say hi\n* **Instrument manufacturers** whose customers wish the software were better, let's talk\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=102417&key=user_uploads/3288797/b9d81458-f74b-47a8-88ac-e3cf756951b9)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Qdt-infera-control-lab-instruments-with-natural-language", "votes": 153, "created_at": "2026-06-02T15:49:42.214Z" } ] }, { "id": 31549, "name": "Enjamb Labs", "slug": "enjamb-labs", "former_names": [ "Enjamb Labs Inc", "Enjamb" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b1348d79301216902dfdfa731a133bfa809b1447.png", "website": "https://www.enjamb.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We've worked with 130 life science companies, preclinical through phase 3, to deploy AI securely inside the systems they already work in.\r\n\r\nPharma runs on decades of closed software like Benchling, Veeva, Medidata, and SAS. 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I'm an ML and biology researcher. At 17, I published a first-author cancer ML paper in JMIR that beat SOTA models by 20%. Previously, I researched drug therapeutics for pesticide poisoning (30% more effective) and presented at top bio conferences (SOT, ISCB).", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rayanmubarak/", "x_url": "https://x.com/rayannmubarak", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3051be1dd51ca5887a4a57b988def17442882bb2.jpg" }, { "user_id": 3208056, "full_name": "Maadhav Deekshitha", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Maadhav is an AI researcher. He was the youngest engineer at Dell's AI Lab, shipping AI CPU optimization on supercomputing infra,. He also worked at Broadcom R&D developing SOTA AI ASICs. For fun, he built a Rocket League AI trained on 1M+ sessions that beats the top 1% of players.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/maadhav-deekshitha-0921b4243/", "x_url": "https://x.com/MaadhavD2", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/b0f50775b6b810aa51b242d6fbe47dfab29e23e3.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 102105, "title": "Enjamb - The AI Workforce for Biopharma", "tagline": "Enjamb runs the entire drug program for biopharma teams, from discovery to FDA approval.", "body": "Hey YC 👋\\\n\\\nWe’re Rayan and Maadhav, and today we’re excited to launch [Enjamb Labs](https://www.enjamb.ai/).\n\n\\\n\\\n**TL;DR**\n\nEnjamb runs the entire drug program for biopharma teams, from discovery to FDA approval. \\\n\\\nPharma runs on decades of closed legacy systems like Benchling, Veeva, Medidata, and SAS, with no AI layer and no MCP to connect agents to them. So we built that connection layer. \\\n\\\nOur agents run on top of their existing systems and data, with no migration, and do the work across the whole program: clinical evidence, trial design, statistical programming, and regulatory submissions.\\\n\\\nIn just 3 weeks since launch, we're already being used by 500+ employees at top pharma companies, including Johnson & Johnson, AbbVie, Bristol Myers Squibb, Merck & Sanofi.\n\n**The Problem: Pharma’s systems have no AI layer**\n\nIt costs $2.6 billion and 10+ years to ship a single drug, and most of that isn't the science. It's the work around it, spread across decades of closed legacy systems that don't talk to each other:\n\n* Benchling stores the data\n* Veeva holds the documents\n* Medidata runs the trials\n* SAS does the stats\n\nAgents are **_finally_** good enough to do real scientific work. But there's no AI layer on these systems, and no MCP to plug an agent into where pharma's data and work actually live.\n\n**So, we built that connection layer we wished existed.**\\\n\\\n**What We Offer: Agents that run on top of pharma’s existing systems**\n\nEnjamb invented the fastest way to run a drug program: a single agentic workspace that unifies the evidence, analysis, and regulatory work.\n\nOur agents:\n\n* Synthesize up-to-date clinical evidence from the literature and real-world data to pinpoint the right endpoints and patient populations\n* Design trials and run the statistical programming behind them, including SDTM, ADaM, TFLs, and QC\n* Draft and audit regulatory documents like INDs, protocols, SAPs, and NDAs\n\n— all in one auditable workspace, with the context carried end to end.\\\n\\\n**The results:** Enjamb generates an FDA submission package in **48 hours** instead of 8 months, with **23x fewer errors** than GPT-5.5. 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We’re building the AI-native platform for ERP services.\n\n**TLDR**\n\n* After buying an ERP, companies spend over $50B a year on consulting services to get the software implemented\n* 70% of ERP implementations fail to meet budget, timelines, or targets\n* Trope deploys agents to help ERP implementation teams deliver projects on time and on budget from one AI-native platform\n\n**Launch Video:** \n\n\\\n**❌ Problem**\n\nCompanies buy an ERP expecting it to become the most powerful software in their stack. It runs finance, inventory, procurement, operations, reporting, and the workflows the business depends on.\n\nBuying an ERP is easy. Implementing it is hard and requires labour heavy consultant work where:\n\n* Requirements get missed\n* Workflows get configured differently than agreed\n* Data issues get discovered too late\n* Testing reveals the system does not match how the business actually works\n* End-user adoption suffers\n\nFor implementation teams, the challenge is managing hundreds of stakeholders across concurrent projects, with thousands of documents, decisions, and system dependencies to track.\n\nThat is why so many ERP projects miss their budget, timeline, and targets, and why companies spend billions on implementation services.\n\n**✅ Solution**\n\nTrope is the AI-native platform that deploys agents to deliver successful implementations faster.\n\nUsing Trope is like having a project manager, consultant, and developer working 24/7, so you can spend more time on the design and decisions.\n\nTrope connects to the systems where project work already lives. 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And the people who need internal tools most, in ops, support, and finance, are done waiting on engineering.\n\nSo they build it themselves. They rip Claude Code or Cursor, pull straight from company data, and ship a working tool in an afternoon. No permissions. No audit trail. No one watching where the data goes.\n\nSecurity is assumed to be fine because the tool is \"just internal.\"\n\nit's not…\n\n**The solution**\n\nPeople aren't going to stop building with AI. So we built them a place where it's safe.\n\nWith Prized, anyone can spin up a sandbox that comes with company data already attached, scoped to what they should see, with an audit trail on every access. \n\nFrom there it's whatever building style they like: describe the tool in our app builder and watch it take shape, or bring a coding agent like Claude Code and build it themselves. Shipping is one click, and the finished tool sits behind your company's sign-in.\n\nThe person who runs the workflow finally gets to build the tool for it. Safely, this time.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105647&key=user_uploads/2485896/e426b427-8a79-4ca5-b462-b26b98db43e0)\n\n**Secure by default**\n\nSecurity is enforced in the infrastructure, not left to the person building the tool:\n\n* **Least privilege per tool.** Every tool gets its own database role and integration scopes; it can read and write only what it was granted.\n* **Credentials stay out of reach.** Secrets live in a broker and never touch the tool's code or the agent's context, so they can't leak or cross workspace boundaries.\n* **Outbound traffic proxy.** External calls only go to explicitly allowed hosts, and integrations are read-only until someone turns writes on.\n* **Admin visibility.** IT sees every tool in the org: who built it, what data it reads or writes, who can use it, and risky changes (like a destructive migration) need explicit approval before they ship.\n\n**Your agent, our sandbox**\n\nAlready have a favorite coding agent? Bring it. 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We're [Jordan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-zietz/) and [Daniela](https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielamunoz12/), founders of LemonLime.\n\n**TL;DR**\n\nMost companies don't have the time or technical expertise to build custom AI automations. LemonLime connects to your existing tools, studies your business, and builds specialized automations for you — actual outcomes, fast.\n\n\n\n**The problem**\n\nEvery small business knows they should be \"using AI,\" but almost none of them can. We learned this firsthand doing custom AI consulting for businesses. After building workflows for a handful of customers, two things immediately became obvious:\n\n1. The context AI needs to succeed is scattered — files, documents, chat threads, you name it. Searching for and organizing this information was 95% of the work, every single time.\n2. Companies don't want to spend weeks learning another complicated new tool. That's a huge ask for busy teams.\n\nSmall businesses need impact out-of-the-box, they don’t have the time or capital to spend on fancy AI initiatives that aren’t creating value from day one.\n\n**Our solution**\n\nSince company information is all over the place, we started by building the layer underneath that powers AI search and retrieval. If you’ve heard the term “company brain”, that’s what this first layer is. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=104861&key=user_uploads/3669391/f4cccbb6-1c98-4e2d-a37e-0d4603f8e3e5)\n\nThen, we took it a step further.  Value from day one.  \n\nAfter your company’s unique knowledge architecture is built, users can use plain-language to deploy agents and automations that support their business without writing a single line of code.  You tell it what you want automated, LemonLime automates it.  It’s that easy.\n\nDon’t know where to start?  No worries, LemonLime handles that, too. After running deep research on your business, LemonLime automatically surfaces suggested automations that you can implement with a single click.  \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=104861&key=user_uploads/3669391/cdca4a15-4d2b-4807-9014-51ad700dbeb0)\n\n\n**If you’re a small business, let’s talk <3**\n\nDon't have time to handle automating your sales, marketing, support, or something else? **We’ll set it up for you.** Email us at [hello@lemonlime.ai](mailto:hello@lemonlime.ai).\n\n\\\nOr, visit our website to get started: [lemonlime.ai](http://lemonlime.ai)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=104861&key=user_uploads/3669391/84c1c154-5f99-4a95-82dc-d5031894ba8c)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/RHJ-lemonlime-automate-your-workflows-with-a-single-click", "votes": 12, "created_at": "2026-07-08T16:25:19.821Z" } ] }, { "id": 32220, "name": "COACH", "slug": "ai-coach", "former_names": [ "COΛCH" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/78b58d361b887533d84ef36e56f833ff7fd87c5c.png", "website": "https://www.getcoach.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "85% of all sales still happen face-to-face. 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And it works so well that 5 months in, thousands of reps already run on COACH, and we're live with the top 5 in-person sales companies in France, lifting conversion rates by 32% on average.\n\n\n\n## The Problem\n\n85% of sales in the world happen face-to-face. And in-person selling is brutally hard: a rep alone in someone's living room, reading signals, handling doubts, feeling the exact moment to push.\n\nThe best reps catch what no playbook can teach. That's why 20% of them bring in 80% of the revenue, and nobody knows what they're doing differently. The only way to find out is to physically be there: a ride-along, a full day, 100 km of driving to watch a single meeting. It doesn't scale.\n\n## The Solution\n\nCOACH's AI learns how to close customers for your business, and closes the gap at every layer of the sales org:\n\n* **Every rep gets a personal coach:** they record every in-person meeting from our mobile app, in-home, showroom, door-to-door, and walk out of each one with personal, precise feedback and a clear path to the next close. Our AI learns from your top 20% and coaches everyone to perform like them, starting each day with a morning brief on their weakest point. 90% improve on it in their first week.\n* **The company gets a sales brain that learns how to close its customers:** every meeting feeds it. Why is one region closing twice as much as another? Which objection is killing deals this month? Leadership just asks, COACH has the answer.\n\nThousands of reps already run on COACH, live with the top 5 in-person sales companies in France, where we've lifted conversion rates by 32% on average, and dozens of reps 3–4×'d their numbers. We're now growing fast in the USA, where our first customers are switching from virtual ride-along platforms to COACH.\n\nEvery rep gets a coach. Your company gets a brain.\n\n## The Team\n\nAt 18 and 21, we built Alsace Test: a 44-rep field sales team that did €3.5M in 14 months. Alsace made us fall in love with in-person sales, obsessed, actually.\n\nAnd one thing was driving us crazy: same product, same material, same training, and one guy closed 4× more than the others. We were driving 2,000 km a week just to watch reps sell.\n\nSo we asked them to record themselves. Suddenly, without moving, we were listening to 10 hours of meetings a day. That was COACH before COACH.\n\nIn an AI-driven sales world, we're deeply convinced Zoom sales and call centers will soon be replaced by AI agents. Face-to-face selling will be the last human job on Earth. We're betting on it.\n\n## Our Ask\n\nIf you run 5+ field sales reps, let's talk, we'll show you how to make them superhuman.\n\n* **Book a demo:** [Calendly](https://calendly.com/mathieu-perez-ai-coach/nouvelle-reunion)\n* **Email me:** [mathieu@getcoach.com](mailto:mathieu@getcoach.com)\n* **Text/call me:** +1 628-358-7470", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SBP-coach-the-ai-coach-for-in-person-sales-reps", "votes": 51, "created_at": "2026-07-30T19:46:52.311Z" } ] }, { "id": 32223, "name": "Marble", "slug": "joinmarble", "former_names": [ "Remy", "Truffle" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/fd8594643506090563d23eac2d8bee3b9c1e526f.png", "website": "https://joinmarble.ai/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Marble is the first AI-native operating system for the restaurant back-of-house. \r\n\r\nRestaurants, cafes and bars still run on a patchwork of disconnected point solutions, spreadsheets, clipboards and tribal knowledge, which costs the industry billions each year in stockouts, food waste, and lost profit. \r\n\r\nMarble replaces that entire stack with one system. 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We’re Arjun and Aakar, and we’re launching Marble (previously Truffle), the first AI-native operating system for the restaurant back-of-house.\n\n**TL;DR:** We help restaurants control their two biggest costs, inventory and labor—saving them thousands of dollars per month in food waste, stockouts, and labor overage. We replace today's patchwork of disconnected point solutions, spreadsheets and clipboards with a single, easy to use system that actually does the work. We use computer vision and voice AI to count inventory 90% faster than manual counts, ML models to forecast item-level demand with 97% accuracy, and AI agents that run dozens of end-to-end workflows autonomously, including ordering, invoice reconciliation, scheduling, food prep, menu engineering, and more.\n\n**The result**: We're live and scaling rapidly across multi-unit operations in the US and Canada. You can find us today in A&W Restaurants, The Kati Roll Company, Sophie’s Cuban, Kokomo NYC, HolyShred, Dead Letter No. 9 and many more. We’ve driven a 40% reduction in food waste, eliminated stockouts, and saved managers 30+ labor hours per week.\n\nCheck us out here:[ www.joinmarble.ai](http://www.joinmarble.ai)\n\n**Our ask:** If you run or know someone who runs a restaurant, café, bar, or hospitality group, we'd love to talk. You can reach us at [founders@joinmarble.com](mailto:founders@joinmarble.com).\n\n**Everyone knows someone who runs a restaurant, bar, or cafe - we’re also giving away $500 (or an Oura Ring) per referral!** [www.joinmarble.com/refer](http://www.joinmarble.com/refer) \n\n \n\n**The Problem**\n\nRestaurant operators face an uphill battle. Ultra-competitive markets, rising food and labor costs, unforgiving hours, and after all of it, they take home 5% in net profit (if they're lucky).\n\nA restaurant can be full all day and night, but it's the back office operations that determine whether that money hits the bottom line. Today that back office still runs on clipboards, spreadsheets, and guesswork. Inventory gets counted by hand, if at all, so no one has a real-time picture of what's actually on the shelf. Orders get placed from memory, so operators either over-buy (contributing to $150B+ in annual food waste) or under-buy and stock out on the exact items guests came for. Food prep and schedules are built on best-effort guesses, and invoices go unchecked while suppliers quietly raise prices line by line.\n\nEvery one of these is a margin decision, and every one is being made blind, leading to errors that compound every day, across every location.\n\n**The Solution**\n\nMarble runs the entire back office for restaurants. This centers around managing the two biggest cost centers (inventory and labor) and works in 4 phases:\n\n* **Capture:** Computer vision + voice AI through our mobile app allow operators to count inventory 90% faster than manual counts, with 99% accuracy. No more hours spent counting items in a walk-in freezer with a clipboard (IYKYK). Invoices and deliveries are captured the same way.\n* **Forecast:** ML models predict item-level demand for the weeks ahead at 97% accuracy. In addition to that, LLM-powered agents scan the signals a spreadsheet never sees - local events, weather, news, reservations, holidays - and adjust the forecast for what's actually happening around each location.\n* **Act:** A set of AI agents run the workflows that actually move the needle on profitability: placing optimized orders, building demand-informed prep sheets, drafting schedules, proactively tracking and flagging waste, reconciling invoices, engineering menus, and more.\n* **Learn:** This industry runs on tribal knowledge. We have built the product as a closed-loop system from day one: every count, correction, and order flows back into the platform as context that our agents carry forward, so Marble learns how each location actually runs, adapts to its patterns automatically, and gets sharper every day.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=108273&key=user_uploads/1278164/1dd8a396-a754-4277-ad3b-1613bf1d4212)\n\n**Team**\n\nWe’ve been close friends for nearly 10 years, since our freshman year at Michigan, and we're having a blast taking on this industry.\n\nAakar grew up managing the back office for his family's multi-unit quick service restaurants, where he saw the problem up close. He later covered the restaurant sector as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs before leaving to lead growth at an applied-AI startup in healthcare.\n\nArjun is a second-time founder and was previously a Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg, where he led AI/ML initiatives on the Electronic Trading team. 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Then you can ask:\n\n* maintain a second brain for every person, projects, tasks, meetings\n\n\n* turn the workday into a daily recap and time breakdown for standups or client billing\n* maintain a personal CRM from the people, conversations, and follow-ups seen during the day\n* find commitments mentioned in meetings or messages that never made it into a task list\n* analyze repeated work and produce a list of workflows worth automating\n* save prompts and context from Claude, Codex, and ChatGPT into a searchable journal\n\nAgents can use screenpipe as long-term memory, so they work from what actually happened instead of only what you remembered to paste into a prompt.\n\nThe same foundation also works across team machines. Teams can map repeated workflows, generate SOPs, find bottlenecks, and identify automation opportunities across the tools where work actually happens.\n\nscreenpipe is open source and local-first. 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We're Gurshabd, Mazin and Farhan from Definite.\n\n\n\n**The Problem**\n\nProving to regulators that their books follow the rules is a constant, non-negotiable obligation for banks. Each report is thousands of numbers, personally signed off by an executive. Getting it wrong can mean a **fine up to a million dollars** over a single undetected error. Producing that proof is slow, and doesn't even guarantee it's correct. \n\nHere's where the current system breaks down:\n\n1. **Wasted Hours:** A controller pulls data from the core system into Excel and maps it line by line by hand. By regulators' own estimate, one quarterly filing takes weeks of employee time, time pulled from higher-value finance work every quarter.\n2. **False Confidence:** The software banks use to file checks formatting, not truth. A loan mapped to the wrong schedule line sails through every check. Nothing catches it until an examiner does, and by then it's not a mistake, it's a violation.\n\n**The Solution**\n\n**Report agents:** We connect to your books and our agents build the reports you owe.\n\n**Verification engine:** Every number is recomputed from source records and checked against a versioned rulebook, so each line carries its rule and source data.\n\n**Self-correcting agents:** When a check fails, the agent gets the reason and fixes it in seconds. Real exceptions come to your team with a drafted explanation, not a blank error. This loop is why our agents are the most accurate in finance.\n\n**Receipts:** Every check produces a tamper-evident receipt you can hand an examiner or auditor.\n\nYour team reviews and signs instead of building.\n\n**How we got here**\n\nGurshabd worked at BitGo, a regulated crypto custodian, where attestations proving customer assets matched the ledger were built by hand every period. Farhan worked at Meta where he delved extensively into machine learning and building AI agents. Mazin saw Optiver recheck daily regulatory numbers by hand, then built LLM agents at [Boosted.ai](http://Boosted.ai) and learned finance people won't act on AI output unless every number comes with its source.\n\nThe lesson from all three: in finance, producing a number is cheap, proving it is the job. On two public reporting benchmarks, DeepSeek V3 with our verification engine outperformed GPT-5 on reconciliation accuracy (FinBalance) at roughly 50× lower cost, and beat the entire published field on XBRL calculation validation (FinAuditing).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=105798&key=user_uploads/2947446/1b80714c-9a38-4d02-a037-ab05ad2c9205)\n\n**The Ask**\n\n* Work at a bank, credit union, fintech or insurer on regulatory filings? Let's talk: , or text me: +1 519-619-5467\n* We’d also love an intro to a VP of Finance or Engineering at your partner bank (personal or business)\n\nFollow us: [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/usedefinite/?viewAsMember=true), and [X](https://x.com/UseDefinite).\n\nWe'll be in the comments. 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We previously built one of the world’s most scalable cyber-resillience systems at Clumio.\n\n**🔥 The problem**\n\nAI usage is exploding, but the data about it is stuck in billing totals and static dashboards. When you want to know which team's agents are burning tokens, which MCPs get called most, or who is using AI in ways that don't fit policy, you end up exporting CSVs or waiting on someone to build a report.\n\n**🕸️ How TraceGraph works**\n\nTraceforce runs on the endpoint, so it captures AI activity across every app and agent. 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We'll show you the answer.\n\n📩 xia@traceforce.ai\n\nBook a time ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/USi-traceforce-tracegraph-ask-anything-about-your-company-s-ai-usage", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2026-09-28T14:55:58.682Z" }, { "id": 107460, "title": "Traceforce — Catch risky agent actions your security gateway will never spot", "tagline": "Company-wide security monitoring for AI apps", "body": "# \\*\\*\\*\\*\n\n**TL;DR:** AI agents are quietly pulling secrets off your employees' laptops — and your security gateway can't see it. Traceforce installs in under 5 minutes and gives you a full inventory of every AI app, MCP, and skill running on every device, then lets you block the dangerous stuff in real time. Built by the ex-Clumio engineering team. Traceforce is already deployed on 6,000+ devices across 10+ enterprise customers, with 40+ active pilots worth $3M+ in ARR. Try it free at [www.traceforce.ai](http://www.traceforce.ai).\\\n\\\n**The incident that started this**\\\nAt our last company, an AI coding agent running on a developer's laptop scraped what looked like database credentials and pushed them straight into a public GitHub repo. It took us _weeks_ to investigate, rotate credentials, and clean up the fallout. We got lucky — they were dev-environment creds, so no customer was affected. Next time, nobody will be that lucky.\\\n\\\nThat's the whole problem with AI at work now: ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and Claude Code are everywhere on employee devices, wired into your data through MCPs and skills that no one is tracking. The tools your security team already owns — gateways, proxies, enterprise APIs — never see any of it, because the risky action happens _on the device_, before it ever hits the network.\\\n\\\n**Why us**\\\nWe're Xia and Varun. We ran engineering at Clumio, a cyber-resilience company acquired by Commvault in 2024, where Xia was Director of Engineering and Varun was tech lead. We've spent our careers building security infrastructure — and we validated this problem with 50+ CISOs and CIOs before writing a line of code. Every one of them said the same thing: \\_I need to see and control this without slowing my engineers down.\\_\\\n\\\n**Why on-device — and why gateways can't do this**\\\nCompetitors sit at the gateway or plug into enterprise APIs. That misses the self-adopted AI tools employees install themselves, and it can't see how an agent is actually connected to your data via MCPs. Traceforce runs on the endpoint, so we see the full picture — which AI apps are running, what MCPs and skills they're wired to, what data they can reach — and we can _warn or block_ an unsafe action the moment it happens, not after it's already on the network.\\\n\\\n**What you get**\n\n* Install in <5 min. Full inventory of every AI app, MCP, and skill across your devices within 30 minutes.\n* Discover shadow AI and see exactly how each agent connects to your data sources.\n* Real-time controls: warn and block unsafe actions (like uploading a client list to a chatbot) before they happen.\n* Open-source MCP pentesting: we also built [mcp-xray](https://github.com/traceforce/mcp-xray) to dynamically detect vulnerable MCPs — try it today.\n\n\\\n**Traction**\n\n* Securing 6000+ employee devices across 10+ enterprises.\n* Customer quote from a leading database provider with over 500 employees: “To govern AI, we need full visibility into AI usage before we can place any type of controls. Traceforce gives us both visibility and control we needed”.\n* 40+ Active pilots including multiple Fortunate 500 enterprises.\n\n\\\n\\\n**Our ask**\n\n* **Intros** to security engineers, security architects, DevSecOps teams, or CISOs securing AI adoption. 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FlowManual automates the back-office work before and during construction, so teams can reliably secure and complete projects faster than ever before.\n\n\\\n\\\n**The Problem:**\n\nMeet Jeremy. He’s a project manager at a mid-sized contractor, and his job is to secure projects and then make sure the company doesn’t lose money on already thin margins.\n\nA bid invite lands in his inbox. To put together one number his firm can send in, Jeremy has to read thousands of pages. A 400-page project manual, drawings, insurance, spec sections, and so much more. Buried somewhere inside all this print is a line that can ultimately decide whether this job makes or loses money. From a liquidated-damages clause to a scope item sneakily handed to the mechanical contractor, if Jeremy misses it, it’s a $5K-$10K mistake.\n\nJeremy’s got one week, three other bids on his desk, and no way to read all of it as carefully as he’d like. So he reads what he can and sends in a number.\n\nSay he wins. A change in the signed contract by the General Contractor or a sneaky difference in vendor pricing costs the company thousands after the fact. Every step of the way requires hundreds of pages of reading and referencing done under a deadline. And Jeremy does this for every job.\n\n**The Solution:**\\\nFlowManual automates these historical workflows that contractors run on, allowing teams to submit bids and complete projects faster than ever before. Here’s a couple major features:\n\n* AI Takeoffs from drawings\n* Drawing comparisons / overlay\n* Bid leveling\n* Contract Review\n\nOur software doesn’t do the job for you, but it works alongside you to reduce time spent and mistakes made.\n\n**About Us:**\\\nMichael and David were college roommates and engineers at Harvard. When renovations for a heater in our dorm took 6 weeks, we poked at the problem, realizing it stems from a larger issue. Through hundreds of conversations with professionals, we found an industry that ran on file cabinets, Excel, and page-by-page manual review.\\\n\\\n**Our Ask:**\n\n* **Know anyone in construction?** Connections to anyone in the industry, including on the legal and tech side, is greatly appreciated. Anyone in Project Management, Business Development, Marketing, IT are ideal! Reach us at [founders@flowmanual.com](mailto:founders@flowmanual.com) \n* **Feedback, intros, or just want to chat?** Book a call with us, or email [founders@flowmanual.com](mailto:founders@flowmanual.com)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SXy-flowmanual-an-ai-native-back-office-for-construction-contractors", "votes": 5, "created_at": "2026-08-10T13:00:00.161Z" } ] }, { "id": 32617, "name": "Whitespace", "slug": "whitespace", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d7ab9b902afa3fe0a37b3622022557a9cd82d082.png", "website": "https://whitespacehq.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Whitespace builds AI agents that run the entire operation of supply chain businesses, starting with wholesale distributors. 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It connects to their systems to build a living model of their business, then deploys self-improving AI agents to do work like inventory planning, customer service, and order processing.\n\n**Problem**\n\nWholesale distribution is a $60 trillion global industry that touches one in every five dollars of global output. Yet it still runs largely manually. At a typical wholesale distributor, 30-50% of staff are dedicated to back-office tasks.\n\nThey spend their days on email, spreadsheets, and legacy systems, relying on tribal knowledge in their heads. Businesses cannot scale without hiring, and training a new hire takes >6 months.\n\nA quote from one of our customers really brings this to life: “I have 6 reps typing 600 lines of orders from email into the ERP every day. Everyone is inside our ERP and spreadsheets, copying data from one place to another.”\n\n**Solution**\n\nWhitespace is the AI operating system for wholesale distributors. It connects to their systems to build a living model of their business, then deploys self-improving AI agents. \n\nWe’re already working with wholesale distributors in sectors including industrial supplies and building materials to set up agents for processes like:\n\n* **Inventory Planning.** Forecasts product demand, recommends reorder quantities against stock levels, and learns over time from actual demand.\n* **Customer Service.** Monitors inboxes for support queries, digs through systems to find answers, and responds with human oversight.\n* **Order Processing.** Monitors inboxes, enters orders into the ERP, flags exceptions to humans, and learns from their corrections.\n\n\n\n**Team**\n\nBoth our families ran wholesale distribution businesses, so we grew up seeing the inefficiencies and the opportunities firsthand.\n\n[Alex](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexyctung/) advised F500 manufacturers and distributors on tech/AI at BCG, took a startup from launch to 7-figure ARR in a year as its first non-engineering hire, and graduated top of his college at Cambridge.\n\n[Leon](https://www.linkedin.com/in/linghong-yao/) built AI products for F500 logistics distribution companies at InstaDeep, published first-author RL papers at tier-1 conferences, and previously founded an EdTech startup that served thousands of users worldwide.\n\nWe’ve been best friends for 12 years since high school. 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The reason it works is GitNexus, our open-source knowledge graph for your codebase.\n\n\n\n##### The problem\n\nCoding agents don't understand your repo. They grep, they guess, they re-read the same files, and they stuff half your codebase into a context window hoping the answer is in there somewhere. You pay for every one of those tokens, and the agent still misses the cross-file relationship that mattered.\n\nThe bottleneck isn't the model. It's context.\n\n##### What we built:\n\nGitNexus indexes your repository into a knowledge graph (symbols, call paths, imports, ownership, history) and serves the agent exactly the context a task needs, instead of everything it might need.\n\nIt's one connected stack:\n\n* The knowledge graph. Run npx gitnexus analyze and you have it\n* A coding agent that runs on top of it\n* Automated PR review grounded in the same graph\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=110659&key=user_uploads/1607382/1d3e51af-d3b5-4ee6-b0c3-b80bc4337c3e)\n\n##### The proof:\n\nOn the DeepSWE benchmark, we ran the same agent with our graph and without it:\n\n* 37% to 68.4% pass rate. Nearly twice the bugs solved\n* Half the cost per fix, with fewer tokens\n* On the hardest tasks, the gap more than triples\n\nFull methodology and results: \n\n##### Where we are:\n\n* 45,000+ GitHub stars\n* 65,000 weekly npm downloads\n* 10+ enterprises onboarded\n\n##### About the team:\n\nSubham Kundu and Abhigyan Patwari have spent nearly half a decade working on knowledge graphs. Between them, they've been founding engineers, CTOs, and principal AI engineers, taking products from 0 to 100 at multiple startups. Subham is a seasoned engineer who has scaled products to millions of users, won multiple hackathons, and doing a PhD in reinforcement learning. Abhigyan is a seasoned technologist and serial open source contributor, with involvement across multiple open source projects.\n\n##### Run it in your way:\n\nManaged, or fully sovereign. Self-hosted, air-gapped, nothing leaves your network.\n\n##### Looking to cut your coding agent bill?\n\nIf you want to lower your coding agent spend without giving up frontier performance, sign up at . We'll get you set up on your own repo and show you the before-and-after on your actual token costs.\n\n##### Our other asks\n\n* Try the open-source version. Run npx gitnexus analyze. Takes a minute\n* Intros. Engineering leaders where agent cost or code-context quality is a real line item, especially in regulated or air-gapped environments\n* Tell us where it breaks. Weird monorepos and polyglot repos are the most useful feedback we get\n\nGitNexus, by Akon Labs. The nervous system for agent context.\n\nContact us at: [founders@akonlabs.com](mailto:founders@akonlabs.com)\n\nWebsite: [https://www.akonlabs.com](https://www.akonlabs.com/)\n\nLinkedin: [https://www.linkedin.com/company/akon-labs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/akon-labs/)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Smp-akon-labs-we-re-building-the-most-token-efficient-coding-agent-in-the-world", "votes": 45, "created_at": "2026-08-17T19:30:00.167Z" } ] }, { "id": 32748, "name": "PokerClubHub", "slug": "pokerclubhub", "former_names": [ "Rounder" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bdce623e4f66c5199feb962395591af2b0973e32.png", "website": "https://www.pokerclubhub.com", "all_locations": "Jaco, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica", "long_description": "TL;DR: PokerClubHub is the first licensed poker club platform. We protect players’ deposits and allow anyone to open their own poker club and make money.\r\n\r\nRegulated online poker sites like PokerStars have open player pools and thus are full of pros and bots, driving players to unregulated private clubs.\r\n\r\nExisting poker club platforms like ClubGG have no payments processing. Players deposit with a club owner by sending them crypto for play-money chips. In theory, these chips can be exchanged back for money. However, players can get scammed and withdrawing takes ages.\r\n\r\nThis model is also broken for honest club owners who have to manually process hundreds of deposits a day. They lose out on rake when they sleep and struggle to get players to trust them.\r\n\r\nOn PokerClubhub, players deposit with PokerClubHub, not the club owner. We handle all deposits and withdrawals for the club owner, saving them time and increasing their earnings. We pay the rake (if any) to club owners as affiliate fees.\r\n\r\nWe hold the same gaming license as BetHog (built by founders of FanDuel) and Nexa Poker (part of World Poker Tour). Player deposits are secured using Fireblocks.\r\n\r\nYou can also play rake-free games with your friends and acquaintances on our platform. 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We protect players’ deposits and allow anyone to open their own poker club and make money.\\\n\\\n[https://drive.google.com/file/d/15qCencYd92aBcZdMjZxykUytkduYrGIb](https://drive.google.com/file/d/15qCencYd92aBcZdMjZxykUytkduYrGIb/view?usp=sharing)\n\n**♣️ Problem**:\n\nRegulated online poker sites like PokerStars have open player pools and thus are full of pros and bots, driving players to unregulated private clubs.\n\nExisting poker club platforms like ClubGG have no payments processing. Players deposit with a club owner by sending them crypto for play-money chips. In theory, these chips can be exchanged back for money. However, players often get scammed and withdrawals are regularly delayed.\n\nThis model is also broken for honest club owners who have to manually process hundreds of deposits a day. They lose out on rake when they sleep and struggle to get players to trust them.\n\n**Solution:**\n\n**Players deposit with PokerClubHub, not the club owner.** We handle all deposits and withdrawals for the club owner, saving them time and increasing their earnings. We return the rake to club owners as affiliate fees.\n\nWe hold the same gaming license as BetHog (built by founders of FanDuel) and Nexa Poker (part of World Poker Tour). Player deposits are secured using Fireblocks.\n\nYou can also play rake-free games with your friends and acquaintances on our platform. We ensure that everyone pays up.\n\n**Our ask:**\n\nPlease play some cards on [www.pokerclubhub.com](http://www.pokerclubhub.com). Sign up using code: “LAUNCH” and receive up to $40.\n\nContact us at [support@pokerclubhub.com](mailto:support@pokerclubhub.com) if you’re a club owner and interested in starting a club on our platform.\n\nIf you know anyone in iGaming, we’d love to chat to them! ([ivan@pokerclubhub.com](mailto:ivan@pokerclubhub.com))\n\n**Why we built PokerClubHub:**\n\n1\\. To stop players from getting scammed\n\n2\\. All the value in poker is created by players but too much of it accrues to a handful of companies. We think clubs, where hosts build communities and share in the economics, are healthier for the ecosystem.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=107788&key=user_uploads/2574088/85ca689f-b4f9-4d4d-b6af-afa61336a17c)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/S2W-pokerclubhub-the-first-licensed-online-poker-club-platform", "votes": 14, "created_at": "2026-07-27T15:27:37.799Z" } ] }, { "id": 32753, "name": "Ekho Labs", "slug": "ekho-labs", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8de6c5bf64155f5dfde0293d76560b38b3e3b46f.png", "website": "https://ekholabs.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Ekho predicts the wars, strikes and tariffs that break global shipping, and tells freight teams which shipments are exposed and what to do about them. 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Previously Founding Engineer at Inca Digital, where she built a DARPA-funded AML platform, deployed across DoD, CFTC, PayPal, and more. \n\nAwarded Innovator of the Year by CFTC, prev. built Yachay AI, achieving state-of-the-art text-based geolocation (30km median error, 80+ languages). \n\nGuest speaker at Columbia MBA and Stanford Engineering.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alinapark/", "x_url": "https://x.com/olenyapark", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9565da5bd46340e43022e967896174e95bfc8264.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 109994, "title": "Ekho Labs - Forecasting Supply Chain Disruptions", "tagline": "Decision Engine for Supply Chains", "body": "**TLDR:**\n\n**Companies with global supply chains lose money to every small disruption. Ekho makes sure they don't.**\n\n**Problem:**\n\nManufacturing means choosing suppliers, booking transport, and keeping pulse on new tariffs - to make sure your production is fine. Companies tend to find out about disruptions when things break and cost them millions.\n\n**Solution:**\n\nEkho customers get an early warning AND optimal solution 1-3 weeks ahead of the events. So ships keep moving, production lines keep running, and customer promises get kept.\n\nI used to build signal detection systems for DARPA. Now that same type of engine watches 1M+ sources for the industry our phones, food, and clothes depend on - Supply Chains. What you get:\n\n* **Freight forwarders:** container-level forecasts. We’ll tell you what happens, when, and what to do while freight is still available and cheap. Your clients hear about the disruption from you, not from the news.\n* **Manufacturers and retailers:** you know which inbound materials will miss the production run, launch, or retailer order - and the cheapest fix, from expediting to switching suppliers or lanes.\n\n**Proof we’re cool:**\n\n1. When the Strait of Hormuz closed in February, we correctly predicted ceasefire dates, duration, and next steps in the war ()\n2. We already work with large global companies\n\n**Ask**\n\nIntro us to Supply Chains VPs/COO at a retail (Target, Walmart, etc.), manufacturing (Fashion, Electronics, Food, etc.), or Freight Forwarding companies.\n\n**Email:** [alina@ekholabs.com](mailto:alina@ekholabs.com)\n\n**Website:** \n\nMy hilarious twitter: ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Sc6-ekho-labs-forecasting-supply-chain-disruptions", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2026-08-11T21:00:00.268Z" } ] }, { "id": 32947, "name": "Executor", "slug": "executor", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/948ce8964e024f509e8d2c3db33ab94f3acb5b17.png", "website": "https://executor.sh", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Executor.sh is an MCP gateway that allows you to sign in once to all of your integrations and use them with any client.\r\n\r\nWe enable you to connect your agents to anything (MCP, GraphQL, OpenAPI) so regardless of what you're trying to connect agents to you're able to.\r\n\r\nIf you're trying to scale agents to access all of your production services, data, etc, you need Executor as a unified management layer.", "one_liner": "The open source tool gateway", "team_size": 1, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Infrastructure", "launched_at": 1785345907, "tags": [ "AIOps", "SaaS", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2026", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Infrastructure" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/executor", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2026/executor.json", "year_founded": 2026, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "https://x.com/executorsh", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/948ce8964e024f509e8d2c3db33ab94f3acb5b17.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1133501, "full_name": "Rhys Sullivan", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Founder at Executor, enabling your to connect every agent to anything. Previously Software Engineer at Vercel, at Microsoft, Raven Software, and Epic Games.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhyssullivan/", "x_url": "https://x.com/RhysSullivan", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/91ca30bf14b18325ab55dfdc29d5723fab969094.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 108331, "title": "Executor — One place to connect your agents to everything", "tagline": "Connect your tools once and every agent has them, with permissions you control", "body": "**TL;DR:** Executor is your tool gateway. Connect every service and every account once, set per-tool permissions, and any MCP-compatible agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, whatever ships next) reaches all of it through one endpoint. Try it at [executor.sh](https://executor.sh).\n\nhttps://youtu.be/NWYFpDW02Dw\n\n## The problem\n\nYou don't have one agent anymore. You have Claude Code, a ChatGPT account, Cursor, maybe a box in the corner running jobs overnight. Three problems follow:\n\n1. **Every agent wants its own OAuth into everything.** You connect your calendar to the tenth harness in a slightly different way, tokens expire, connectors deprecate, and each agent is missing something when you need it.\n2. **Most connectors stop at one account per service.** One Google login means your agent sees your work calendar or your personal one, never both. Your flights land in one inbox, your meetings in the other, and no agent can reason over your actual day.\n3. **Permissions are an afterthought.** Once an agent holds a token, it can do anything that token allows. Giving an agent your email shouldn't mean trusting it to never hit delete.\n\n## What Executor does\n\nConnect once in Executor, and sever all the one-off connections.\n\nEach integration gets credentials plus a per-tool policy: **always allowed**, **needs approval**, or **blocked**. Point any MCP-compatible agent at Executor and it has everything.\n\n- **All your accounts, not just one.** Accounts are connections: work and personal Gmail, two calendars, a staging and a production Stripe, side by side. Every agent sees all of them.\n- **One tool shape.** MCP, OpenAPI, and GraphQL integrations all normalize into a consistent name + schema. 1,600+ tools collapse into a single ~1k-token surface instead of ~280k tokens of tool definitions.\n- **Safe by default.** Executor preserves operation semantics (GET vs DELETE, destructive hints, GraphQL mutations), so agents auto-run safe operations and ask before risky ones.\n- **Sandboxed execution.** Tool calls run in an isolated JavaScript sandbox; secrets are injected host-side, so the model never sees a raw token.\n- **Team-ready.** Per-user and shared credentials. Onboard the team once, not per agent per person.\n\nBecause enforcement lives in Executor rather than in any agent framework, you can adopt whatever new agent ships next week without re-thinking data access. You keep everything first-party connectors offer and gain what they don't: multiple accounts per service, per-tool policies, and one place to see and revoke access.\n\n## How to use it\n\n- **Local:** open-source (MIT) desktop app and CLI, everything stays on your machine\n- **Self-hosted:** a Dockerfile that lets your team own all its data\n- **Executor Cloud:** hosted, nothing to manage\n\n## Traction\n\n- 2,800+ GitHub stars, ~14k npm downloads/week, ~3,000 users on the local version\n\n## Background\n\nSolo technical founder, previously at Vercel. Before Executor I built [answeroverflow.com](https://www.answeroverflow.com) and grew it to 1.5M monthly users as a solo dev, bootstrapped.\n\n## Asks\n\n1. **Try it and tell me where it breaks.** [executor.sh](https://executor.sh) has a \"Copy prompt\" setup you can paste into your agent to get started.\n2. **Intros:** if your team (or one you know) is drowning in per-agent integration setup, I'd love an intro: rhys@executor.sh\n3. **Star the repo:** [github.com/UsefulSoftwareCo/executor](https://github.com/UsefulSoftwareCo/executor)\n4. **Want a walkthrough?** Grab a time: [cal.com/rhys-sullivan/executor-chat](https://cal.com/rhys-sullivan/executor-chat)\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SBH-executor-one-place-to-connect-your-agents-to-everything", "votes": 9, "created_at": "2026-08-04T15:41:42.736Z" } ] }, { "id": 33021, "name": "Care GP", "slug": "care-gp", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3f871fa8c32b501e71ef06d881893d564e003fbd.png", "website": "https://caregp.com.au/", "all_locations": "Sydney, NSW, Australia", "long_description": "Care GP is building AI agents to run operations for primary healthcare clinics", "one_liner": "AI agents to run primary healthcare operations", "team_size": 10, "industry": "Healthcare", "subindustry": "Healthcare", "launched_at": 1780569041, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Healthcare", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2026", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Healthcare" ], "regions": [ "Australia", "Oceania" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/care-gp", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2026/care-gp.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "Sydney", "country": "AU", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/caregp", "x_url": "", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61576741965683", "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/orgs/Care-AI-Inc", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3f871fa8c32b501e71ef06d881893d564e003fbd.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tyler Bosmeny", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tyler-bosmeny" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1162884, "full_name": "Melvin Chen", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Founder & CEO at Care GP (YC S26). \n\nPreviously Co-founded Avigo and StarLake Group. 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CarSignal provides a complete end to end operating system for mechanics and shop owners. We’re live in over 40 shops across 18 US states and are expanding everyday. \n\n\n\n🤯 **The Problem**\n\nThe average auto repair shop in the US runs across multiple different systems, none of which talk to each other. With over 300,000 of these shops existing in the US, the problem is vast. Owners are trapped paying for a web of complex disjointed software in order to maintain basic functionality. \n\n🛠️ **The Solution**\n\nCarSignal fixes those discontinuities, streamlining recurring tasks that every shop runs daily. We deploy four Agents across the traditional auto shop stack to boost efficiency and lower lift time. A voice agent is deployed as the shop's receptionist, a custom OBD-II scanner provides factory level context to a diagnostic agent who aids in finding root cause issues in the vehicle. 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A fix that used to take weeks to roll out, Palisade now applies in minutes across every endpoint.\n\nHey YC! I'm Prince, an ML researcher and engineer who dropped out from Caltech at 18 to build Palisade.\n\n**What’s the problem:** Modern attacks increasingly target the operating system, but most security products only observe the network, cloud, or application layers. That leaves OS vulnerabilities among the hardest problems to detect and the slowest to remediate across a fleet.\n\n**Why I’m building this:** Since I was 16, I have done plenty of professional red-team and blue-team security work. One pattern kept showing up: OS-level vulnerabilities were consistently the hardest to handle. Detection required low-level visibility, and even after identifying a vulnerability, rolling out a mitigation across hundreds or thousands of machines often took weeks. My background in both machine learning and operating systems convinced me this didn't have to be a manual process, so I built Palisade to automatically detect and remediate these vulnerabilities at the kernel level across an entire fleet.\n\n**What Palisade does:** Palisade watches your systems at the kernel level—syscalls, eBPF traces, process and memory events, and network packets—and uses AI to find OS vulnerabilities other tools miss, then implement the fix automatically across every endpoint.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=106995&key=user_uploads/2688178/fa8c6d6a-b058-4f44-87d0-5511d038718b)\n\n_The Palisade control plane, live against a real kernel (LSM-BPF). The live feed at the bottom: every row is a real syscall decision._\n\nThe vulnerabilities it catches are the ones you can't see from the app or network layer alone:\n\n* Privilege escalation\n* Remote code execution\n* Memory corruption\n\nMost are caught before an exploit ever happens, and the fix is applied immediately, fleet-wide. The same patch that used to take weeks now lands in minutes.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=106995&key=user_uploads/2688178/2f4e756d-1348-44a2-bdce-bb3491925da5)\n\n_The host audit: real findings ranked by severity. The bottom one is the cloud-metadata exposure: the same path behind the Capital One breach. 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Debugging it when it breaks in production is still slow, because the value that explains the failure was never logged. HyperProbe is an on-call agent for engineering teams. It takes an open incident to a confirmed root cause by dropping read-only probes into your running service and capturing the exact variable state logs don't have. No redeploys, no restarting the app. \\\n\\\n📹 **Launch Video: [https://youtu.be/QtaZrQ8_Uk8](https://youtu.be/QtaZrQ8_Uk8)**\n\n**🚧 The Problem**\n\nTeam ships faster than ever with agents that write most of our code. This is already shrinking the useful context engineers need to debug AI written code. Not helped by the limited telemetry added in the same code by AI. So when something breaks in prod, the first instinct for engineers is to open logs or throw them to agents. But if the line you are looking for is not there, agents will start guessing the root cause on limited data, forcing engineers to collect more logs by redeploys.\n\nThe result: our best engineers become our on-call team, incidents stay open longer, and patches come from data that never capture production context, so issues recur.\n\nYou can see where that leads. In September last year, a public fintech in India paid out $5 million after failed transactions were incorrectly marked successful. NYSE the same year miscalculated price bands for 40 symbols, printing trades so wrong they had to be reversed. Same pattern: the code ran clean, wrote the wrong state, and neither logs nor traces could show it.\n\n ✅ **What Hyperprobe does**\n\nHyperProbe gives engineering teams an on-call agent that works the incident and takes it to a confirmed root cause, live in production.\n\n* **Plan:** the agent picks up the alert from PagerDuty, Datadog, or Slack, then reads your logs and traces to locate the file and line. The easy incidents resolve right here.\n* **Probe:** logs not enough? places read-only virtual breakpoints on the suspect lines and captures the exact variable state live, across services. No redeploys, no restarts. \n* **Confirm:** the diagnosis is verified against real captured evidence, not a guess. Your engineer gets a confirmed RCA and commits the fix.\n\nThere are two pieces. An SDK that runs inside your service, and an MCP server your coding agent talks to. The SDK is what makes setting probes (virtual breakpoints, log or metric) possible without a redeploy. \n\n### **🔍 A few examples**\n\n* **An intermittent 500 that won't reproduce locally:** catch it live with full variable state \n* **A third-party API misbehaving:** see the exact payload and response\n* **A function returns a wrong value with no error:** see what it computed and why\n* **Anything that only happens in prod:** stop redeploying with console.logs\n\n🚀 **The team**\n\nWe've both lived this problem. Shailendra ran production at scale. Karan was a senior architect at a SaaS company. Before this, both spent three years building production SDKs for a testing product, learning the hard parts of pulling real runtime state out of a running service without breaking it.\n\nEvery incident we watched came down to the same question: what was the actual value at the moment it broke. Nobody built it for the way engineers debug with coding agents now. So we did.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=110401&key=user_uploads/3173209/ddf3d8d0-2bd4-4a8c-9547-fa5ea2496469)\n\n### **🎁 Why now**\n\nFor thirty years the expensive part of software was writing it, and every tool got built for that. Generation is now nearly free, but the cost didn't disappear. It moved downstream, to figuring out why the generated code broke in production.\n\nAnd that system is now mostly code no human wrote or holds in their head. When it breaks, the engineer has less context than ever, and their first move is already to hand it to the coding agent. That agent only has your logs and traces, so it guesses. We give it the evidence instead, captured live from the running code at the point of failure.\n\n### **🙏 Our ask**\n\n* If you're an engineer tired of the redeploy loop, debugging code you didn't write at 2 AM, try it on your own service.**,** first investigation in 10 min:[ https://docs.hyperprobe.co/quickstart](https://docs.hyperprobe.co/quickstart)\n* If your best engineers have become your on-call team and you want that fixed, let us work one real incident from your stack, free: ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Sif-hyperprobe-on-call-agent-for-engineering-teams", "votes": 82, "created_at": "2026-08-17T15:30:20.732Z" } ] }, { "id": 33674, "name": "UFO.ai", "slug": "ufoai", "former_names": [ "Metalcraft", "ufo.ai" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5f7933f1917a47bf844572cf253da02eeececc9f.png", "website": "https://ufo.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "UFO is the operating platform for your business built by the creators of Github Copilot and Perplexity Computer. \r\n\r\nUFO learns your company, goals, tools, and workflows. 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When someone sends legal a contract or a question, the work is already done before a lawyer opens it, ready to review and approve.\\\n\\\n\n\n## **The problem**\n\nEvery part of your company runs through legal.\n\nSales needs contracts signed. HR needs employment agreements. Finance needs board approvals. And every department has legal questions.\n\nBut legal teams spend a lot of their time on repetitive work: reviewing the same terms, searching for old agreements, answering familiar questions, and chasing information.\n\nThe software tools haven't solved this. One tool manages contracts, another handles requests, and another tracks approvals. Lawyers still have to piece the work together themselves.\n\nAnd when teams reach capacity, companies hire more lawyers or send work to expensive outside firms.\n\n## **What we’re building**\n\nNeomatter takes a request from start to finish. It gathers context, reviews documents, checks the company’s policies and precedents, and prepares the work for approval.\n\n## **How it works**\n\nNeomatter monitors the places legal requests already come through (email, Slack, teams, Salesforce, and more) and automatically triages requests to the right lawyer. Nobody has to tag anything or learn a new tool.\n\nThen it does the work. It reads everything, does the redlines, checks it against your team’s playbooks, drafts the reply, and waits for your decision. By the time you know the matter exists, 90% of the work has already been done. The lawyer opens finished work, checks the sources, writes any edits, and makes the decision.\n\nAnd it can handle anything. Commercial work, employment work, corporate work, a “can I do this?” question, or anything else a legal team receives. Neomatter does it all.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=122248&key=user_uploads/1633544/eecfd55b-a702-4725-b7b3-3baed9d62b2f)\n\n## **The team**\n\nWe’re Luke & Luke. We dropped out of university to move to San Francisco.\n\nWe believe AI has fundamentally changed how much work one person can do. 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Today there are two ways to get one, and both are bad.\n\nSome teams do it by hand. Chris Nguyen at ETEC+ used to spin up a VPS with a Hermes agent on it for each client and email it over, more than 30 times. Others build it themselves. Wes Merrill at Boon spent close to six months building a provisioning pipeline on Render. In his words: \"it was not fun.\"\n\nEither way, the time goes into plumbing instead of the product.\n\n**What we built**\n\n* Pick a template for any popular agent harness, or bring your own Docker image.\n* Each agent gets its own sandbox with persistent files, a browser, and Gmail, Slack, Notion, GitHub and 1,000+ other apps through Composio.\n* Every customer's agent is fully isolated from everyone else's.\n* Billing is per minute. An idle sandbox only costs its disk.\n* Our open-source starter kit is a white-label app with sign-up, an agent per customer, chat, files and integrations. 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Asakana reads those messages and does the entry automatically. Restaurants and reps keep working the way they do today. In production at a US food distributor.\n\n\n\n**The problem**\n\nA food distributor runs on messages. Restaurants order by text, phone, WhatsApp, a photo of a handwritten note, often not in English. They report an incorrect, short, or damaged delivery the same way. A rep or an admin staff member reads every one of those messages and enters it by hand into an ERP or spreadsheet: the order, the return, the credit memo.\n\nOne of our customers receives about 60 orders a day this way, some over 75 lines. A sales rep reads each one, works out which of 10 salmon items \"salmon\" means, and types it into the ERP line by line. Then the credit requests from yesterday's deliveries, each one a return and a credit note typed in by hand. Reps there spend about 30% of their day on this.\n\nApps and portals tried to replace this manual work, but old school restaurants and distributor’s sales reps never learned them, so the retyping remained. The US has more than 27,000 food distributors and their 100,000 sales reps and back-office staff suffer from painful manual work like this.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=122477&key=user_uploads/2103989/75737558-db33-4f61-b265-2230e25c9ef6)\n\n**What Asakana does**\n\nAsakana does the manual work so reps can focus on selling. Restaurants and reps keep working the way they do today. Three steps, the same for every workflow:\n\n* Read messy information: spreadsheets, PDFs, handwritten notes, and messages, down to the photo of the handwritten invoice a driver brings back from a delivery.\n* Understand your business: customer habits, product shorthand, and unwritten rules. \"Same as last Friday\" is order SO-78211. \"AC\" means albacore tuna. Salmon is always skin-on.\n* Connect to your systems: work directly with your existing ERP and tools.\n\nAnything unclear goes to a person before it goes in. The rep gets one email notification per task: what was entered and anything to keep an eye on.\n\nWorkflows we automate this way:\n\n* Order entry\n* Credit memos and returns\n* Upsell suggestions\n* Cutoff reminders\n* Past-due collections\n* PO creation\n* New customer discovery\n\nChinese, Korean, Spanish, Japanese: read the way they were written, with the shorthand and nuance of each language, and matched to the item in the English catalog.\n\nAnything that moves by hand from a message into a system or a spreadsheet, we automate.\n\n**The team**\n\nWe're Yudai and Ben. Yudai was a fisherman and a seafood distributor (Mitsubishi Corporation), where he did this manual work himself, then at McKinsey transformed companies that still ran on it. Ben spent 8 years at Google as a senior AI research engineer on Project Mariner and Gemini.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=122477&key=user_uploads/2103989/00516563-7bf8-455c-8256-40d8ce2b5667)\n\n**Our ask**\n\nIf you work at or know a food distributor please reach out.\n\nWebsite: [asakana.co](https://www.asakana.co/?utm_source=launch_yc&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=yc_launch_202610)\n\nEmail: [yudai_matsuoka@asakana.co](mailto:yudai_matsuoka@asakana.co)\n\nBook a call: \n\nYudai and Ben", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/VrR-asakana-automating-sales-and-the-entire-back-office-for-food-distributors", "votes": 52, "created_at": "2026-10-16T19:00:00.208Z" } ] }, { "id": 35397, "name": "Quivly AI", "slug": "quivly-ai", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c9dd1fbd0b76e538f581f702ad2deb68c3eca171.png", "website": "https://www.quivly.ai/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Quivly is the agentic workspace for everything after the sale. 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But that's when the real work starts. The work after the sale is scattered across Slack threads, spreadsheets, calls, tickets, and someone's memory. Quivly brings it together and turns it into outcomes.\n\n**One account, one year with Quivly**\n\nAs one customer put it: “Traditional customer success tools were all built for seat-based SaaS. Quivly is the first post-sales platform we found that’s actually designed for consumption pricing.”\n\n**Day 1: Onboarding**. The kickoff call ends and Quivly has already turned it into a plan, shared with the customer in their own portal. If something blocks launch, like an SSO config, the agent follows up with the right person. With Quivly, our customers have reduced their time to value by 77%, going from live in 30 days to live in 7.\n\n**Month 4: Risk**. Usage starts to slip, and a support ticket is sitting in another tool. Quivly connects the dots before your CSM has to, and the walkthrough is already booked.\n\n**Month 9: Expansion**. The customer acquires another company. Quivly catches the news, ties it to the account, and flags the expansion opportunity to your account manager.\n\n**Month 12: Renewal**. No piecing together the story. What shipped, what changed, where Quivly stepped in, and where the customer can grow next is all in one place.\n\nUse Quivly in the app, in Slack, or through our MCP.\n\nMCP:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=120590&key=user_uploads/1833192/8f70eefa-486a-4a91-b0fe-1d648a270a9c)\n\nSlack:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=120590&key=user_uploads/1833192/53a10622-290a-471f-af35-c43d0087abb8)\n\n**Traction**\n\n\\- Our customers include companies like Siftly (W22), Octolane (W24), Hyperspell (F25); We manage over 10,000 accounts our customers \n\n\\- 77% faster time to value (30 → 7 days)\n\n\\- 4.3x average revenue expansion with Quivly\n\n\\- 8 hours saved per FDE per week \n\n**Team**\n\n**Chandrika Maheshwari (CEO)**: 2x founder (previously founded Pull, payroll-linked lending). \\~15 years at Plaid, Docusign, Google, and Bain, where she built internal tools to fix fragmented customer data. MIT grad.\n\n**Tanay Agrawal (CTO):** Founding PM at Atlan, scaling it 0 to $2M ARR and 200 enterprise customers in 50 countries. Solo-built an app to 200K downloads in 6 weeks. Led pricing and billing infra at JPMorgan Payments ($2B annual volume). CMU grad.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=120590&key=user_uploads/1833192/156a8e33-4d11-41f0-9b22-b260975234b3)\n\n**Our ask:**\n\nIf you answer “yes” to any of these, we’d love your help:\n\n\\- Are you a B2B founder with enough customers that you’re starting to lose track of them?\n\n\\- Are you an FDE, CSM or Account Manager at a B2B SaaS or AI company?\n\n\\- Do you know Heads of FDE or CS at B2B SaaS or AI companies?\n\nPlease book time with us. We’ll map your first year after the sale: [cal.com/chandrika/30min](http://cal.com/chandrika/30min)\n\nor reach us at [chandrika@quivly.ai](mailto:chandrika@quivly.ai)\n\nYour help can make a huge difference. 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