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We do this by providing a beautiful Google-like interface and a co-pilot that connects to all your company apps and tools. \n\n[ ](https://youtu.be/gAHGlKwBQJg)\n\n**❌ Problem**\n\nHaving worked at Google and Microsoft, we experienced first-hand how difficult it is to access and find information and perform actions across multiple SaaS tools both in the workplace and in engineering. Through our experience and conversations with people at Appian, Boeing, General Electric, Uber, Pinecone, Brex, Coda, Unity, Microsoft, and Google, we learned that as companies grow it gets very challenging to:\n\n1. **Find what you need at work:** Company knowledge lives in multiple, isolated SaaS applications, and employees spend over a quarter of their workday looking for information (think of documentation, past slack threads, etc), finding the people needed to complete tasks, and getting the required permissions.\n2. **Manage complex engineering tools:** As engineering teams scale and adopt microservices, they onboard multiple tools for documentation, development, release, monitoring, and alerting. Critical data, metrics, logs, and dashboards are all in isolated platforms such as CircleCI, DataDog, and New Relic and this makes it very difficult to have a unified view of company data, correlation data across these tools, and complete multitool workflow coordination - especially during incidents.\n\n \n\nSiloed tooling and data introduce an operational tax to the lives of employees like engineers, slowing down productivity, development cycles, and incident management. Workers spend an average of a quarter of their day searching for information. \n\nAll of this time can be used to write more code, do more deals, and talk to customers. With the rise of AI and Copilots, the value of the time spent on doing actual work has never been so high.\n\n**🚀🚀🚀 Our Solution**\n\n🔎 **Enterprise Search for everyone in your company:** Integrate all of your company’s applications, tooling, and data sources to power organizational and team-level search. Organization members only see the information they have access to based on their roles.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79032&key=user_uploads/928098/2acb388c-05d6-4ccc-bbb7-60a0a979fbf0)\n\n\\\n🤖 **Ocular Copilot- your work assistant that knows everything about your company:** Power cross-tool workflows and actions using our generative AI-powered Ocular Copilot. Create workspaces, upload files (structured or unstructured), create collections, and build usage-specific assistants for your day-to-day tasks. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79032&key=user_uploads/928098/71f00356-86e2-46b0-b8f9-8f2521f83b09)\n\n**App MarketPlace:** Integrate the tools (Notion, Jira, Google Drive, Slack) you already love and use for your day-to-day tasks.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79032&key=user_uploads/928098/b72de7e6-e224-4695-9eac-f934add88a6f)\n\n**Admin Portal:** \n\nOcular AI provides search-driven insights such as trending searches, number of searches, etc., which allows execs and managers to understand their organizations better. With Ocular, you can now see which applications are used the most and which ones are underutilized, allowing organizations to make reliable SaaS spend decisions. In addition, add members, teams, and applications to your Ocular instance.\n\n[ ](https://youtu.be/9Y9ex6e_vqE)\n\n## **📈 Maximizing Generative AI ROI for Enterprise**\n\nEnterprises are eager to adopt Generative AI in the workplace to enhance operational efficiencies. We’re partnering with organizations to implement secure, compliant, and company-specific Generative AI.\n\n**🔐 Enterprise security**\n\nComing from Microsoft and Google, we understand the importance of data privacy and security. For that reason, you can self-host Ocular AI on-premise or on bring your own cloud (BYOC), so all your data stays within your control- we don’t have access to it. Ocular AI is also getting SOC2 compliant and enforcing end-to-end data encryption AES 256. We’ll also be adding more security layers to ensure your data is 100% safe.\n\n**💯 The Team**\n\n[Dartmouth College](https://home.dartmouth.edu/) graduates with software engineering experience building large-scale and compliant applications at Google and Microsoft.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79032&key=user_uploads/928098/63025954-cc5d-4297-90fc-57ea63c5491f)\n\n**🫡 Our Ask**\n\nPlease introduce us to managers, CEOs, CIOs, and CTOs. We can help unify their tools and data together to make their teams more efficient. \n\nSchedule a demo at [www.useocular.com](https://www.useocular.com#utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=Launch+YC+Blog+Post&utm_campaign=launch&utm_id=launchyc&utm_content=launch+yc) or [here.](https://calendly.com/use-ocular/30min?month=2024-03#utm_source=launchyc&utm_medium=Launch+YC+Blog+Post&utm_campaign=launch&utm_id=launchyc&utm_content=launch+yc)\n\nJump on the [waitlist!](https://form.asana.com/?k=kIT2oNFOWol6_RptDc_vpQ&d=1206400736295884) 🚀\n\nReach us at [founder@useocular.com](mailto:founder@useocular.com)! ✉️", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KYi-ocular-ai-bringing-enterprise-search-gen-ai-and-actions-to-the-workplace", "votes": 58, "created_at": "2024-03-04T20:04:01.162Z" } ] }, { "id": 30806, "name": "Uplift AI", "slug": "uplift-ai", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4c2008e580fb1146da7922b566c2a03af87f5a0c.png", "website": "https://upliftai.org/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We build Voice Models for regional languages (like Urdu, Bengali, Greek etc) and make them available through simple APIs and SDKs. \r\nDevelopers use us to create Voice-first digital experiences (eg. 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What made you decide to work on it?", "answer": "At the core, we are solving the problem of universal access to digital knowledge and digital services. \\\r\n\\\r\nPeople who would previously never use certain digital services (like online ordering, or online health advice), actually use the service when they are given an intuitive Voice based interface — especially in emerging markets.\\\r\n\\\r\nVoice Interfaces make it more natural and intuitive to use technology; and we believe it will onboard 100s of millions of new users onto digital services. This will make people more productive, and increase GDP per capita. " }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "When we truly succeed, the world will access technology through our Voice Tech.\\\r\n\\\r\nAnd the GDP per capita would increase around the world, as more people will be able to take full advantage of technology using intuitive voice interfaces. \\\r\n\\\r\nCurrently a large part of the world is unable to fully utilize technology coz text-interfaces are very confusing for many people." } ], "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/uplift-ai", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/uplift-ai.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/upliftai/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://upliftai.org/ai-calling", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4c2008e580fb1146da7922b566c2a03af87f5a0c.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": 1455159, "full_name": "Hammad Malik", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "CEO at Uplift AI. 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Previously: Designed AWS Bedrock Guardrails.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/zaidqureshi", "x_url": "https://x.com/zqureshi_", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/213c6ace31f4682223f0ff84235321060d66a70d.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 103104, "title": "Founding Design Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/uplift-ai/jobs/u9rZioW-founding-design-engineer", "location": "Lahore, Punjab, PK", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Design", "role_type": "Product design", "salary_range": "$1.5K - $2.5K / monthly", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.50%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "CSS", "React", "TypeScript", "Prototyping", "Design systems", "Branding", "Marketing design", "Figma" ] }, { "id": 103116, "title": "Founding Engineer - Frontier Tuning Platform", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/uplift-ai/jobs/rC1wCHI-founding-engineer-frontier-tuning-platform", "location": "Lahore, Punjab, PK", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$1.5K - $2.5K / monthly", "equity_range": "0.10% - 0.50%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "Python", "React", "TypeScript", "Machine Learning", "Deep Learning", "Fine-tuning", "Evals", "MLOps" ] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 103672, "title": "Urdu-speaking AI models — really really desi style", "tagline": "Authentic Urdu AI voices — from nosey aunties to angry molvis.", "body": "We have trained an AI model called Orator, that speaks Urdu with human-like realism. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first model that can speak Urdu in an authentic way: the way everyday people speak Urdu in everyday life.\n\nWe have voices from “the whole mohalla“ (entire neighborhood). From angry molvis and nosey aunties, to thailay walas, and burger boys.\n\n**You can experience the voices at [UpliftAI.org](http://UpliftAI.org).** The website will allow you to experience dozens of voices in seconds by just clicking/hovering the circles.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103672&key=user_uploads/1455159/ac1e7d0f-ca3e-4fc0-aac6-4cc61a89797e)\n\n**Making the model**\n\nWe have put our heart into this work, and enjoying it more than any work we have ever done in the past.\n\nWe started with the map of Pakistan and asked: how do people sound in every district. That gave us the accent list.\n\nThen, we asked ourselves: what are all the unique characters we would interact with in a typical month as we go about our normal life. This gave us our character/persona list.\n\nWe then hired a leading voice producer and worked with him to hire voice actors and script writers, and then spent months doing voice recordings in studios in Karachi, Lahore, Quetta and Islamabad.\n\nOnce the voices were recorded, then we hired 50 contractors to label data.\n\nThe final and the simplest step was the model training. We trained a very small 32M param VITS2 inspired model.\n\nThe results are very encouraging.\n\n\\- Here is someone creating a story book using our voices: \n\n\\- Here is me just having fun with it: [https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hammad2_is-your-mom-complaining-about-massi-leaving-ugcPost-7468570160233107457-sbQ5/](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hammad2_is-your-mom-complaining-about-massi-leaving-ugcPost-7468570160233107457-sbQ5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAQRT3MBhOY-xG4s8JvUtCqBaUrSdpKe93Y)\n\n**Ask**\n\n* If you know anyone that may benefit from this, please do connect us.\n* If you know any actors, dubbers or media houses that would be interested in recording more characters, please do connect us.\n* I can be reached at: or [founders@upliftai.org](mailto:founders@upliftai.org) ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Qy8-urdu-speaking-ai-models-really-really-desi-style", "votes": 7, "created_at": "2026-06-23T16:15:41.627Z" } ] } ]