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These SMEs do not get paid in advance and have narrow windows (2 to 7 days) to execute orders. Yet their invoices take as long as 90 days to pay. This is further compounded by an inefficient way to track how and when they get paid. They are left struggling to execute large client orders and miss out on significant business opportunities and earnings.  \n\n**The Pivo Solution**\n\nStarting with freight carriers, Pivo provides easy access to a smart bank account, debit card and digital invoicing tools that track payments so they can get paid faster. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65366&key=user_uploads/147283/c94afb6e-46c0-424c-9633-9c94b17b6364)\n\nThis will be further augmented by more fundamental financial products such as access to credit and expense management, to improve cash flow for these SMEs. \n\nOur goal is to build an end-to-end financial operating system for these businesses.  \n\n**Our Ask** \n\nKnow any supply chain companies or tech platforms looking for a smart financial partner for their SME vendors? We’d love to connect with them. 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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. 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Our AI-powered procurement agents:\n\n* Proactively email suppliers for order updates\n* Surface supply chain disruptions and extract supplier updates (like lead times & price updates) from emails\n* Save 20+ hours per week per team member\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82795&key=user_uploads/1376951/2c1d8412-6fe0-4a76-9d51-d461ec432b01)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82795&key=user_uploads/1376951/6000a50f-4441-40d4-afcb-470574a4b499)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82795&key=user_uploads/1376951/cf3b9f13-47b4-4d05-b8c2-bf5bb39865ec)\n\n## **Why It Matters**\n\nProcurement teams spend up to 80% of their time manually emailing suppliers for RFQs and PO update requests, leading to production delays and miscommunications that can result in millions or billions in lost sales. As Covid proved, in today's global supply chain, real-time visibility and rapid response to issues are critical for the business and the end consumer.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82795&key=user_uploads/1376951/7e0f13f0-ca52-4e22-82f2-3726b9b2eaa4)\n\n**We have already processed $50M+ in material spend and 40,000+ email threads.**\n\n**To create your first Mandel AI agent, sign up on our website:**\n\n### [**www.mandel.ai**](http://www.mandel.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LXP-mandel-ai-never-chase-suppliers-for-updates-again", "votes": 80, "created_at": "2024-08-07T00:24:34.437Z" } ] }, { "id": 28827, "name": "Airgoods", "slug": "airgoods", "former_names": [ "Stack" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d261d8dfa76354809d8e5792b2d21ef5d258f8d5.png", "website": "https://airgoods.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Trusted by independent grocers across America, Airgoods is the AI-native distributor transforming how stores discover, order, and sell the products their customers want. \r\n\r\nBy combining proprietary data with automation across discovery, purchasing, receiving, and merchandising, Airgoods gives independent grocers the intelligence and operating leverage once reserved for the largest retail chains.", "one_liner": "The modern distributor for grocers.", "team_size": 10, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Retail", "launched_at": 1689699732, "tags": [ "Grocery", "Supply Chain", "Food & Beverage" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "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/airgoods", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/airgoods.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/airgoods", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d261d8dfa76354809d8e5792b2d21ef5d258f8d5.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": 797737, "full_name": "Aaron Farr", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Building Airgoods to modernize food & beverage distribution.\n\nStudied Econ at Yale.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/aaron-farr", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/16327a5a3cafd08d3d5d0eb1162a036e0fe0ede2.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1346042, "full_name": "Paolo Carroll", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "From Brazil, went to Yale, and now building for specialty food stores.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/paolo-antici-carroll-8b0241192", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/c36720ddd994d78aa0f254bcbde1001feeb1ad8c.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1177613, "full_name": "Elian Haddock", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Yale '22", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/elianhaddock", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f749d0c2fe45b49395390683be1bf48b57eb1ab4.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 93967, "title": "Growth - Retailers", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/airgoods/jobs/eHjNGRk-growth-retailers", "location": "New York, NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$90K - $150K", "equity_range": "0.01% - 0.20%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "Will sponsor", "skills": [] }, { "id": 96320, "title": "Software Engineer - Full Stack", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/airgoods/jobs/apQff1i-software-engineer-full-stack", "location": "New York City", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$120K - $220K", "equity_range": "0.01% - 0.20%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 73226, "title": "Airgoods – the wholesale marketplace for food & beverage", "tagline": "We connect specialty food stores with their next best selling products", "body": "**TLDR:** [**Airgoods**](https://airgoods.com/) is a wholesale marketplace that makes it easy for specialty food stores to buy their inventory in one place. Today, we focus on connecting these stores with over 1,000 non-alcoholic and functional beverage products.\n\nHi everyone! We’re Aaron, Elian and Paolo – the team behind Airgoods. We’re on a mission to level the playing field for specialty food stores by offering tools previously only available to big box chains.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73226&key=user_uploads/797737/38498184-4bb5-425f-8025-35e02960e710)\n\n### 🤔 **The Problem**\n\n* **Specialty food stores struggle to stay up to date on new and trending products.** Today, most rely on social media platforms like Instagram for discovery. Once they see a product they like, they send the brand a DM to ask for a sample – which can take weeks to months to receive.\n* **To purchase inventory, they have to manage dozens of direct brand relationships.** That means placing orders and coordinating payments over email, phone calls and texts.\n* **Best sellers often go out of stock.** At most specialty stores, reorders only happens when the buyer sees that the shelf is empty. This means there are days – if not weeks – that go by with best sellers being out of stock.\n* **Most brands don’t have the resources to run an in-house wholesale team.** They primarily rely on inbounds, and many relationships end because of limited resources to maintain the account over email, Instagram DMs, and texts.\n\n### **🧰 Our Solution**\n\nAirgoods makes it easy for specialty food stores to discover, sample and order inventory in one place. How?\n\n* **Curated marketplace views that align with store type.** This industry is unique in that the product mix is homogenous within the same store type. For example: an specialty cheese shop in New York offers the same kind of products as one in San Francisco. This allows us to show a business all of the products they want – and nothing they don’t – with high accuracy. For example, today liquor stores and NA bottle shops see the following.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73226&key=user_uploads/797737/653e9c5f-f193-4070-9c93-b6da89fddb52)\n\n* **Simplified sample requests.** On Airgoods, stores receive samples in days instead of weeks. We do this by making it easy for brands to track and fulfill samples with in-platform tools that embed the process into their daily order fulfillment workflows. By streamlining this process, we also help brands boost sample to order conversion rates.\n* **Data-driven recommendations and insights.** We provide our buyers with insight into what products are selling best in similar stores around the country. This adds transparency for an industry that traditionally relies on word-of-mouth recommendations.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73226&key=user_uploads/797737/015ce154-6e52-4ac5-b3ce-058e77460b29)\n\nWe also integrate with Shopify, which allows brands to fulfill orders from Airgoods without having to onboard to a new sales channel.\n\n### **🐶 Who are we?**\n\nWe are three Yale alums who have been close friends since our first year of college. Before starting Airgoods, Aaron and Elian worked together at an emerging VC fund in NYC, and Paolo and Elian were on Yale’s mens soccer team.\n\nAaron’s dad owns a brick and mortar shop in Maine, and he saw how challenges around ordering inventory put his small store at a major disadvantage to big box chains with dedicated buying teams.\n\n### **🙂 Our Ask**\n\n* Do you have any favorite non-alcoholic or functional beverage brands? Let us know! We’d love to onboard them [**🥂**](https://emojipedia.org/clinking-glasses/)\n* Connect us to anyone you may know in the specialty grocery / wholesale space (store owners, brand owners, service providers) – we’d love to chat at [**founders@airgoods.com**](mailto:founders@airgoods.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J34-airgoods-the-wholesale-marketplace-for-food-beverage", "votes": 70, "created_at": "2023-07-19T16:18:15.129Z" } ] }, { "id": 28860, "name": "Terminal", "slug": "terminal", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/acdabd0c7f626bea58520be4df19e9d87e878e06.png", "website": "https://www.withterminal.com/", "all_locations": "Toronto, ON, Canada", "long_description": "Terminal builds telematics data infrastructure for the commercial fleet industry. 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Terminal (_[_withterminal.com_](http://withterminal.com)_) is a Universal API for Telematics that makes it easy for these teams to integrate all of the top telematics platforms into their application without needing to worry about the complex underlying details._\n\n## 😰 **Problem**\n\nOur customers include (but are not limited to): insurance companies, fuel cards, invoice factorers, fleet management systems, digital freight brokers, load boards and transportation management systems. These folks need access to telematics data to support their end-users who are trucking companies and commercial fleets. Integrating telematics is often a must-have for them and there’s typically a direct correlation between their number of supported integrations and their sales closure rate.\n\nThe telematics market is fragmented, with hundreds of available platforms, each with their own type of integration (REST, SOAP, etc.), and documentation that is not always available. Companies that need to integrate into these vendors have large integration teams and are still unable to meet their customers' demand.\n\n## **🔮 Solution**\n\nTerminal's Universal API for Telematics enables companies to support all of the leading telematics platforms through a single integration. Similar to Plaid and Stripe - our mission is to increase the innovation velocity of transportation, logistics and fleet management through making fleet data more accessible.\n\nWe provide a white-labelled **User Interface** for fleet managers to grant access to telematics data like GPS, vehicle stats, driver hours and safety events.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72500&key=user_uploads/1241796/c7ebf48f-6014-4192-adc8-5eed6aef0aa9)\n\nOnce a fleet manager grants access, we extract, normalize, enrich, and sync the data for our customer. We also offer common data models, webhooks and access to raw telematics data to make it easy for customers to integrate. You can learn more about how it works in our [**API Documentation**](https://terminal.stoplight.io/docs/terminal).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72500&key=user_uploads/1241796/9b511455-57e1-4ced-a523-df860d3e67a8)\n\nCustomers also receive a **Support Portal** for managing their integrations, customer connections and data syncs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72500&key=user_uploads/1241796/42b9409c-1fbe-4a22-bb93-5d685c91598d)\n\n## **😇 Ask**\n\nIf you know any companies that currently integrate or are looking to integrate with telematics, please let us know at [**founders@withterminal.com**](mailto:founders@withterminal.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IrM-terminal-plaid-for-telematics", "votes": 62, "created_at": "2023-06-24T00:00:20.370Z" } ] }, { "id": 28940, "name": "Guac", "slug": "guac", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3ffff2e450f7c22939b75b50d62a49acbce05716.png", "website": "https://www.guac.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Guac accurately forecasts grocery demand to help supermarkets order and produce the right amount of inventory — reducing food waste and increasing availability.", "one_liner": "AI-powered forecasting & replenishment for grocery", "team_size": 7, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Supply Chain and Logistics", "launched_at": 1688056061, "tags": [ "Grocery", "Machine Learning", "Climate", "Supply Chain" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Supply Chain and Logistics" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/guac", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/guac.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "New York City", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/guac-ai", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/3ffff2e450f7c22939b75b50d62a49acbce05716.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": 1328192, "full_name": "Euro Wang", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder & CEO of Guac. 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It’s [Saif](https://www.linkedin.com/in/saifabuhashish/), [Omar](https://www.linkedin.com/in/omarabuhashish/), and [Pradhit](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pradhit/) here to introduce you to [Reform](https://www.reformhq.com/)!\n\n🤓 **TL;DR**\n\nReform is the easiest way for dev teams to build modern logistics software fast. Logistics service providers use our pre-built components and APIs to build software that can automate tasks such as quoting, shipment creation, and customs clearance filing. \n\nOne of the largest freight forwarders in Latin America is using Reform to automate shipment creation and invoice processing.\n\n\\\n**❌ Problem**\n\nLogistics service providers rely on dated, archaic ERP and transportation management systems (TMS) to manage their operations. These systems are rigid, closed, and opinionated. Oftentimes, they require customization, and hence, the need for logistics service providers to hire development agencies to build bespoke customizations and internal tools on top of these systems to make them easier to work with. \n\nAn alternative these companies resort to is to build an internal system from scratch to fit their business needs. However, such an undertaking is long, costly, and is oftentimes a distraction from their core business.\n\n\\\n**⚒️ Solution**\n\n**Reform is the sweet spot between buying a generic off-the-shelf TMS and building one in-house**. Our APIs and pre-built components allow logistics service providers to build the modern transportation management system they need - faster, better, and without the maintenance overhead.\\\n\\\nOur first product is an AI-powered API suite that allows logistics service providers to build custom automations for mundane tasks related to their TMS. \\\n\\\nOur APIs are used to power automation use cases including:\n\n🚢 Shipment and quote creation\n\n👮 Customs clearance filing\n\n🏭 Warehouse order intake\n\n🧾 Invoice reconciliation\n\n\\\n⚙️ **How it works**\n\n**Eliminate manual document analysis:** Our customizable AI-powered data extraction API, purpose-built for the logistics industry, allows you to extract data with high accuracy from incoming emails and documents including commercial invoices, BOLs, packing lists, and more.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79036&key=user_uploads/1369382/b3cfab82-392b-4fee-853c-1adaed324808)\n\n\\\n**Integrate with any TMS**: Our Universal API allows you to plug extracted data into any system without the burden of building and maintaining integrations.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79036&key=user_uploads/1369382/259bb079-8490-4260-b8b8-fc598221c91b)\n\n**Build beautiful interfaces:** Our headless UI components allow you to embed our APIs directly in your products and customer-facing dashboards.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79036&key=user_uploads/1369382/1200b04a-798a-44ea-8de9-0bbe694a316c)\n\n**Meet The Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79036&key=user_uploads/1369382/28bdbda5-b565-4a50-8d9d-919bed1cac4f)\n\nSaif and Omar are brothers, born and raised in Jordan, before moving to the US to pursue a career in technology. 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Most companies don’t file for drawbacks because it can be complicated & cumbersome. We solve this by taking on all the work for our customers from organizing data to filing, and automating it behind the scenes. Reach out to us at: [www.forgehq.com](http://www.forgehq.com).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89310&key=user_uploads/89898/703a07d3-3dad-49eb-9cd3-1c80cd2719a9)\n\nHello everyone! We're Emir and Haris, two brothers and the co-founders of Forge! We’re here to help companies save money on their tariffs & duties.\n\nHaris (left) is the CTO of Forge. Before Forge, he worked at Facebook and Vanguard as a backend engineer. Emir (right) is the CEO of Forge. Previously he was a lead engineer with experience designing, building, and testing rocket engines at Blue Origin and Stoke Space. At Stoke, Emir was part of a small team that became the fastest to ever go from seed funding to engine hot fire.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89310&key=user_uploads/1181593/44c70c94-7705-4dd2-8c02-215f92c83d2e)\n\n🧩 **The problem:**\n\nLast year, the US collected over $85 billion in import duties, and that number will increase dramatically with the newly established tariffs. However, when a business imports goods, they are allowed to claim a refund on the taxes they paid if they later export or scrap goods - this process is called duty drawbacks.\n\n$6 billion dollars of recoverable duties go unclaimed every year, and that was before Trump’s new tariffs. Most companies don’t file for drawbacks because the process is extremely cumbersome & complicated. The biggest companies have compliance teams & specialized customs brokers supporting them on multi-million dollar claims, but if you’re a small or medium-sized business, you have no options. Supply chain teams don’t have the time to manage all the work needed to run a drawback program, and brokers avoid supporting claims under $500k.\n\n💡 **Our solution:**\n\nOur team provides duty drawback as a white glove service while leveraging AI and custom internal tools to automate the work. This allows us to serve more businesses, while also requiring little to no effort from our customers. We file all paperwork with customs, extract all necessary data, and do the work to maximize their refund. The best part: it’s free upfront— we only get paid when our customers get paid.\n\nSupply chain & logistics are hard. Tariffs & duties make it even harder. We are here to make it easy for businesses to claim the revenue they deserve.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89310&key=user_uploads/1181593/8a06bd8f-bb66-428f-a439-d9727f160284)\n\n\\\n🙏 **Ask: How you can help**\n\nConnect us to importers, exporters, manufacturers, DTC brands, and any business impacted by the tariffs in your network! Email [emir@forgehq.com](mailto:emir@forgehq.com)\n\n* Check us out and talk with us at [forgehq.com](http://forgehq.com)\n* Share this post!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NEU-forge-getting-companies-refunds-on-tariffs-duties", "votes": 26, "created_at": "2025-04-07T21:36:45.016Z" }, { "id": 77785, "title": "🛠️ Forge - Procure hardware and control spend on one platform", "tagline": "Collaborate with manufacturers, track orders from quote to delivery, manage purchase approvals, and more!", "body": "**tl;dr:** We’re bringing everything related to your team's hardware procurement under one platform. [Forge](https://www.forgehq.com/) makes it easy to get your parts made while also providing insight into your teammates' purchases, the status of their parts, and more. On top of this, we give companies the ability to set their procurement policies in a straightforward manner, making it simple for everyone to follow. **Request a demo at [www.forgehq.com](https://www.forgehq.com/)**.\n\nHello everyone! We're [Emir](https://linkedin.com/in/emir-sahmanovic-976b71b5) and [Haris](https://linkedin.com/in/haris-sahmanovic-438884126), two brothers and the co-founders of Forge! We’re on a mission to help hardware teams move faster.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77785&key=user_uploads/1181593/f67f210b-2410-49ec-a452-9fa5eaf20b34)\n\nHaris (left) is the CTO of Forge. Before Forge, he worked at Facebook and Vanguard as a backend engineer. Emir (right) is the CEO of Forge. Previously he was a lead engineer with experience designing, building, and testing rocket engines at Blue Origin and Stoke Space. At Stoke, Emir was part of a small team that became the fastest to ever go from seed funding to engine hot fire.\n\n\\\n🧩 **The problem:**\n\nGetting parts into engineers’ hands sets the pace for hardware companies. However, procurement teams use email, spreadsheets, and phone calls to manage billions of dollars of spend. This causes huge coordination issues as many engineers don’t know whose approval they might need, when parts are coming in, and who ordered what. We saw it over and over again at companies of all sizes: poor supply chain operations cause constant delays and bottleneck the pace of development. In 2023, engineers were estimated to spend over 6 hours per week on procurement activities.\n\n**💡 Our solution:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77785&key=user_uploads/1181593/d75081e4-05ee-4d46-84c7-c0bf54dfac90)\n\nOur software allows you to request quotes from your suppliers, where you can attach drawings and CAD. We then organize the quotes into a format that’s perfect for comparing your options. Once a supplier has been selected, you can continue to work with them by messaging, sharing files, and getting feedback directly on Forge. All these actions are viewable by your teammates, ensuring everyone is on the same page without the need for time-consuming meetings or searching through documentation.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/ugOWDLKfrQ1vBzd6yGZ5v0K2sYRXfPy9B2clqANCArFWQZp_Ef68QtXryh9Nsrh5BGND-36ErJc2DUDj3QsBQIAY7SmXwNIdlX3ymAi9ycLecJm2Ir-iyzlNxJ6URwENwLBJ50xgGNFlqiG66AsGddU)\n\nMany companies struggle with unclear procurement operations. Forge offers a highly customizable tool for companies to publicly set their procurement flows in an easily readable manner. No more wondering who’s approval you need or what you’re waiting on. Even better - no IT team is needed for set up and changes can be made at any time!\n\nCombine all this with integrations into your other business software and you have a tool that makes collaborating with coworkers and manufacturers easier than ever before.\n[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hifUYQdYGJI)\n\n**🙏 Ask: How you can help**\n\n* Connect us to engineers, procurement managers, or supply chain teams in your network! Email [emir@forgehq.com](mailto:emir@forgehq.com)\n* Check us out and book a demo at [forgehq.com](http://forgehq.com)\n* Share this post!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KEb-forge-procure-hardware-and-control-spend-on-one-platform", "votes": 47, "created_at": "2024-01-23T19:41:15.869Z" } ] }, { "id": 29517, "name": "RetailReady", "slug": "retailready", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/199d48c929434ddb64281cd83b9621eb37c3ed62.png", "website": "https://www.retailreadyai.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Every time workers in a warehouse box an order, they reference a 100 page manual with instructions like where to put the shipping label. 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Every unpaid invoice means emailing a customer, checking a portal, following up again a week later, and manually deciding which accounts are actually at risk — work that scales linearly with headcount and doesn't get easier as a book of business grows. DSO creeps up not because customers refuse to pay, but because no one has time to chase every invoice consistently.\n\nLighthouz built Lucie, an AI collections agent purpose-built for freight finance. Lucie works customer accounts the way a best-in-class AR analyst would, just continuously and across every account at once:\n\n* Email Collections Agent — drafts and sends context-aware payment reminders and follow-ups, escalating tone as invoices age\n* Portal Collections Agent — logs into customer payment portals to check status and submit documentation, so nothing stalls waiting on a portal check\n* Collections Work Queue — surfaces the accounts that actually need a human, with full context, instead of a flat list of overdue invoices\n* AR Risk Dashboard — flags at-risk accounts early using payment-behavior signals, before they become write-offs\n\nEvery action Lucie takes is visible to the AR team, with clear ownership indicators showing what's automated and what's waiting on a person — collections teams stay in control of the relationship, they just stop doing the busywork.\n\nFounders:\n\nSrijan and Sonali are married co-founders who met at IIT during undergrad and bring 15+ years of combined AI and supply chain experience. Srijan was a CS professor at Georgia Tech, a former Google research scientist, and a Stanford postdoc with 60+ publications. Sonali spent a decade as an AI/data engineer in fintech and insurance, including at Halliburton, Progressive, and American Family.\n\nKey Metrics:\n\n* DSO reduction: 5-8 days faster to collect\n* 30%-50% reduction in overdues \n* 45% of collections touches now automated\n* One AR specialist manages 2x more accounts\n\nTraction:\n\nLighthouz already powers finance operations of 40+ freight brokers and 3PLs, including Hoplite Logistics, Southern Reins Logistics, ADL, and NAD Logistics. Lighthouz AI has won the TIA 2025 and 2026 Technovator Awards.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/TcY-lighthouz-ai-ai-to-automate-collections-for-freight-brokers-and-3pls", "votes": 3, "created_at": "2026-09-07T20:11:49.454Z" }, { "id": 96349, "title": "Lighthouz AI: AI to automate AP and AR for freight brokers and 3PLs", "tagline": "3PLs invoice customers within 24 hours of delivery & get paid 5 days faster", "body": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNdu7kqN0MY\n\nFreight brokers and 3PLs still run AP and AR manually.\n\nAccounting teams spend days processing carrier bills, chasing missing PODs, delaying customer invoicing, and collections efforts. Cash flow stagnates. Before Lighthouz, teams typically take 3–5 days to approve carrier bills and send customer invoices — and still miss errors like duplicate payments and invalid accessorials.\n\n**At Lighthouz, we’ve built freight-native AI agents to automate AP and AR for brokers and 3PLs. With Lighthouz, brokers are invoicing customers within 24 hours of delivery and reduce days-to-get-paid by 5 days.** \n\n### **Who we are**\n\nWe’re **Srijan and Sonali**, the founders of **Lighthouz AI**. We’re part of YC S24. \n\nWe met a decade ago during undergrad at **IIT**, have been building together ever since, and have been married for 5+ years. Srijan and Sonali have 15+ years of combined experience in AI and supply chain, building AI systems for companies like Halliburton, The Home Depot, Google, and more. \n\n* **Srijan** an award-winning AI scientist with **60+ publications and 6,000+ citations**.  He’s been a **CS professor at Georgia Tech**, an **ex-research scientist at Google**, completed his **postdoc at Stanford**, and earned his **PhD from the University of Maryland**.\n* **Sonali** is a former **Lead AI Engineer** at **Halliburton**, **Progressive Insurance, and American Family**, specializing in **unstructured data** and building production-grade AI systems from scratch. She earned her **MS from the University of Washington**.\n\nWe’ve spent our careers building and deploying AI for complex, messy real-world data — which is exactly what freight finance looks like.\n\n### **What Lighthouz AI does**\n\nLighthouz handles the entire freight billing workflow:\n\n✅ Ingests **carrier bills, PODs, BOLs, lumpers, and invoices** from email and uploads\n\n✅ Extracts and structures **all freight data** — rates, accessorials, remit-to, signatures, handwritten notes\n\n✅ Verifies carrier bills against **rate confirmations / quotes**\n\n✅ Detects exceptions like **duplicates, overbilling, missing PODs, wrong factors, and invalid accessorials**\n\n✅ Auto-approves clean bills and routes **only true exceptions**\n\n✅ Approves and submits **customer invoices within 24 hours of delivery**\n\n✅ Sends automated **collections reminders** to customers pre- and post-due date \n\n✅ Creates a work queue for human collectors \n\n✅ Posts clean, validated data directly into the **TMS with full audit trails**\n\n### **Why this matters**\n\nManual AP/AR quietly kills cash flow in freight. Before Lighthouz, teams typically take **3–5 days** to approve carrier bills and send customer invoices — and still miss errors like duplicate payments and invalid accessorials.\n\nWith Lighthouz:\n\n* Processing time drops from **3–5 days → <24 hours**\n* Days to get payment from customers reduces by 5 days \n* One AP specialist can process **4–5x more volume**\n* Errors and rework drop dramatically\n* Teams scale without adding headcount\n\nThis isn’t generic automation. 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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": 29773, "name": "Soff", "slug": "soff", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6da2b305915dd2f4090a9cd55210079b59c3095d.png", "website": "https://soff.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Distributors & Manufacturers use Soff to grow revenue through Soff's sales agents that process quotes, orders and handles all communication with customers, co-workers & suppliers.", "one_liner": "AI Agents for Distributors", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Supply Chain and Logistics", "launched_at": 1721748598, "tags": [ "B2B", "Sales", "Manufacturing", "Supply Chain", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Supply Chain and Logistics" ], "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/soff", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/soff.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/soff-ai", "x_url": "https://www.x.com/soff_hq", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6da2b305915dd2f4090a9cd55210079b59c3095d.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": 1972623, "full_name": "Berni Hausleitner", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Co-founder and CEO at Soff. 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Contracts are collapsing. And manufacturers? They're fighting to keep the lights on while costs explode.\n\n📉 Fortune 500s have already lost **over $5 billion** to supply chain failures this year.\\\n📈 Tariffs are **hitting 145%**. Imports could plummet 20%.\n\n_So who’s left holding the bag?_\n\n**Procurement**. They need to keep raw materials flowing—fast!\n\nBut instead of focusing on supplier relationships or unlocking opportunities, procurement teams are stuck chasing emails, digging through spreadsheets, and losing time—and money—by the hour.\n\n# Enter Soff\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90126&key=user_uploads/1972623/f4436cc5-bc8e-4b95-8d0a-1ccdfa93e46f)\n\nSoff connects directly to your purchasing inbox, streamlining how manufacturers request, track, and approve supplier quotes—all in one place.\n\n1. No more chaos. Just **faster, smarter** procurement.\n2. **60% faster** procurement cycles.\n3. Teams freed up to do what matters: manage supplier relationships and **keep production running**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90126&key=user_uploads/1972623/25354546-6587-414f-a341-6414a4567cc1)\n\n# The bottom line\n\nYou can’t control global tariffs. But you **can** control how fast you respond. The manufacturers who win in 2025 will be the ones who move **quicker than the chaos**.\n\n👉 Visit [soff.ai](http://soff.ai) to see how.\\\n🎯 Know a manufacturer? We’re offering **free consultations** to navigate today’s tariff mess.\\\n⬇️ Hear what customers say about Soff.\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NRe-soff-the-ai-powered-supply-chain-hub", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2025-05-06T13:34:15.864Z" }, { "id": 83460, "title": "🚛 Soff: Supply Chain Operating System for Manufacturing Companies", "tagline": "Unify supply chain data and automate core workflows.", "body": "**⛓️ TL;DR**\n\n[Soff](https://soff.ai) is a supply chain operating system for manufacturing companies. We automate data entry, requesting quotes, comparing quotes, and issuing purchase orders. Our customers save dozens of hours a week spent on repetitive manual tasks.\n\n👬 **Team**\n\nWe met five years ago while studying at the CDTM in Munich. Most recently, [Berni](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hausleitnerb/) worked as a full-stack engineer at Tesla on the Autopilot team, whilst [Raban](https://linkedin.com/in/raban) finished his engineering master’s at Stanford. At Tesla, Berni built tons of internal tooling and saw the supply chain inefficiencies firsthand. During the batch, Raban worked as a purchasing manager for one of our customers.\n\n🌋 **Problem**\n\nSupply chain data is spread across multiple platforms, such as ERPs, custom spreadsheets, and email inboxes, leading to inefficiencies and a lack of visibility. Supply Chain Managers spend hours each week searching through emails and spreadsheets to track the status of parts procurement, from request to quote to award. This process is not only time-consuming but also prone to errors and delays. For example, changes in production schedules require Supply Chain Managers to follow up with all suppliers individually to adjust their purchase orders. Quotes that aren’t used are lost in the abyss of email inboxes. Suppliers are reluctant to upload quotes to yet another portal and often fail to notify about delays, leading to costly production standstills.\n\n🚛 **Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83460&key=user_uploads/1755188/cacbe907-12f5-429f-9391-9ba957afa746)\n\nSoff connects suppliers, parts, and quotes into a single platform.\n\nWe integrate with ERPs and email to automate supplier communication, send RFQs, and issue purchase orders. We turn unstructured email and PDFs into SQL-ready data, injecting quotes directly into the ERP system. 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Existing platforms (like Xometry and Protolabs) hide suppliers from you, mark up your parts, and give you minimal control and flexibility.\n\nAlternately, you do a bunch of manual outreach to find suppliers, check if they have production capacity, see if they have the right equipment, can provide a quote quickly, can meet your tolerances and finish, follow-up a bunch of times, etc… Whichever option you use today - it sucks.\n\n# **THE SOLUTION**\n\nJust submit ONE RFQ on Vendra - **_that’s literally it._**\n\nWe match your parts to US manufacturers who meet your exact specs and automate all the manual sourcing steps. You receive multiple competitive quotes and lead times, collaborate directly with suppliers on design and manufacturing details, and choose exactly who builds your parts.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88957&key=user_uploads/914508/a65ec6d6-69cd-4490-a8f9-8089c0a00ef4)\n\nWe’re the **_only platform_** optimized for real-time production capacity. Need parts machined on a 5-axis CNC or printed on a large-format SLS printer? We’ll connect you exclusively with suppliers who have that exact equipment available immediately - **_so you get fast quotes and even faster production._**\n\nWe’re already trusted by Apple, Skydio, and leading aerospace and hard-tech startups. **_Our automation and capacity optimization have saved them up to 40% on part cost and cut lead times in half_** compared to legacy platforms.\n\n# **THE ASK**\n\n* Need parts made? [Submit an RFQ!](https://vendra-marketplace.io/)\n* Know someone who needs parts made? Send them this post or tell them to [submit an RFQ!](https://vendra-marketplace.io/)\n* Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/vendra-hq/) and [X!](https://x.com/vendraHQ) Oh, and [SUBMIT AN RFQ!](https://vendra-marketplace.io/)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88957&key=user_uploads/914508/6c2e372e-651b-40e6-930d-96193dfb5e26)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/N8n-vendra-custom-parts-manufactured-in-america", "votes": 284, "created_at": "2025-03-25T16:40:06.168Z" }, { "id": 83256, "title": "Vendra - AI vendor and project management for hardware teams", "tagline": "We use AI to help hardware teams manage projects, files, and more with their vendors and suppliers - all with no change to their existing workflows", "body": "### TL;DR\n\n* Hardware engineers **_should_** spend their time building cool products, but they **_actually_** spend their time dealing with vendors and doing non-engineering work (digging through emails, searching for files, updating spreadsheets, etc.)\n* Traditional project management solutions don’t really work in hardware, and vendor communications inevitably revert to emails/text messages/WeChat/etc.\n* Vendra uses AI to understand these vendor communications, giving hardware teams modern project management and instant information lookup with almost no change to their existing workflow\n* We offer solutions to hardware teams at all stages - [book a demo today!](https://calendly.com/vendra-shan/30-minute-vendra-chat)\n\n### The Team\n\nWe’re [Shan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shanmohta/) and [Anish](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anish-b-00109695/)! We’ve known each other since childhood when our parents moved from India to the same apartment complex in Santa Clara. Between us, we’ve built a lot of cool hardware (cameras for autonomous drones, AR/MR headsets) and cool software (ML for satellites, AI for the shipping industry).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83256&key=user_uploads/914508/f65f0c3b-ceef-4c41-b76f-0ded74c39615)\n\n### The Problem\n\nAs a former hardware engineer, Shan experienced the challenges of managing complex projects across a network of vendors, suppliers, and manufacturers. He saw hardware teams struggle to use traditional project management solutions with vendors because of the unstructured nature of projects and communications, security and access issues, and difficulties in the adoption of new processes. The workflow inevitably defaulted to emails, text messages, WeChat, etc., often leading to misplacement of crucial information.\n\nA 2021 report revealed that 70% of engineers still use email for external collaboration, struggling to track critical information across teams. 94% of engineers want faster access to data, and 29% often work with outdated information, leading to costly delays, reworks, and longer time to market.\n\nWe’re building Vendra to change that.\n\n### The Solution\n\n**Vendra uses AI to bring a smart project management suite and file repository to hardware teams working with vendors and suppliers - all with no change to existing workflows.**\n\nSimply connect Vendra to your email/WeChat/WhatsApp/Slack (or cc it to your conversations and threads):\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83256&key=user_uploads/914508/0497419e-34ee-4f22-8f08-e15331533c4c)\n\nVendra automatically contextualizes your emails/messages/files and generates key takeaways like project and conversation summaries, open items, blockers, tasks, etc. It also creates a smart file directory so you never have to go digging through emails or attachments ever again.\n\nEasily access all this information from anywhere through our SlackBot, GPT-like chat interface, or web-based dashboard:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83256&key=user_uploads/914508/ad310c5b-4582-4e07-9e43-1bbaf6691b37)\n\nYou can ask Vendra AI things like\n\n* ‘Show me all the quotes and lead times we got from vendors for the upper bracket machining in the past month’\n* ‘What are all the open items for the enclosure injection molding tooling?’\n* ‘Pull up the RF module datasheet the supplier sent me last week’\n* And so much more!\n\nFor teams looking for 2-way external collaboration, we also offer VendraPM - a secure end-to-end platform to onboard your vendors and work together across projects and tasks. Features like secure file sharing, document revision control, and AI-enabled language translation make external work easier than ever:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83256&key=user_uploads/914508/850d8b2a-133f-492b-a346-3f441932ab20)\n\n### The Ask\n\n* If you work in hardware, [book a demo today!](https://calendly.com/vendra-shan/30-minute-vendra-chat)\n* We also love warm intros to folks in hardware - if you know anyone working in (or around) hardware, we’d love to chat with them to understand their workflow and see how we can help!\n* Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/vendra-hq/) and [X!](https://x.com/vendraHQ)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Leq-vendra-ai-vendor-and-project-management-for-hardware-teams", "votes": 1024, "created_at": "2024-08-23T15:30:21.401Z" } ] }, { "id": 29853, "name": "No Logo", "slug": "no-logo", "former_names": [ "Terra Labs", "Terra" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/b5b06eac03359187ea4b158a471d8bc4ecb6c046.png", "website": "https://nologo.com/", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "No Logo is building the orchestration layer for creating viral consumer products. The manufacturing world is full of capable, underutilized overseas factories with the machines, tooling, and engineers to build winning products – but no way to connect them to the creators and brands with the ideas and distribution. As a result, bringing a new product to market has traditionally taken 6-12 months, tens of thousands of dollars, and a team of 20-30 people.\r\n\r\nNo Logo collapses that. 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Shopify solved the store. Stripe solved payments. TikTok solved distribution. Manufacturing is the one piece that never moved. Launching a single new product still takes 6 to 12 months, tens of thousands of dollars upfront, and a team of specialists. Most great product ideas die before they become something you can hold.\n\nWe are building the orchestration layer for physical product creation, bridging the gap between customer demand and manufacturing supply.\n\nIt works like this. You describe an idea. Our AI visualizes it with you, breaks it into components and manufacturing processes, and matches each step to the right factory in our network. We run production, QC, and fulfillment, going from idea to a growing brand in about a month with no upfront costs.\n\nWe are not putting logos on mugs. We create entirely new consumer products: a digital camera that clips onto a purse, a lava-lamp humidifier, a painting that glows like the sun. We are starting with creators whose audiences have already validated demand; production happens only after demand exists, not before.\n\nSo far we’ve launched hundreds of products, shipped tens of thousands of items, and reached creator audiences totaling more than 90M people. Every product we create makes the network faster and smarter for the next one.\n\nHave a product idea your audience keeps asking for? We'll make it real. [nologo.com](http://nologo.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=103396&key=user_uploads/1864416/00357a42-8390-424d-88fd-cf378c0395fe)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Qtg-no-logo-turn-any-idea-into-a-real-manufactured-product", "votes": 6, "created_at": "2026-06-17T22:59:32.498Z" }, { "id": 83615, "title": "Terra 🌎: Instant supply chain creation", "tagline": "Enter Terra, a new world of procurement.", "body": "# **TL;DR -**\n\nUse [Terra](http://useterra.com) as an all-in-one platform to seamlessly **develop, manufacture, and ship your products**. Discover pre-vetted suppliers and instantly create modular supply chains, all while having access to wholesale pricing regardless of order quantity.\n\n—\n\n# **The Team**\n\nHello all! We’re [Dylan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylan-mcfarland/) and [Lev](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lev-glushkovskii/) from Terra, and we’re _really_ passionate about making custom manufacturing accessible to everyone.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83615&key=user_uploads/1859401/1b3de9c2-aefa-40aa-aeeb-7243b3bec363)\n\n# **🚨 The Problem 🚨**\n\nWe’ve been working with suppliers globally since we were freshmen in high school. If you can think of a costly manufacturing or shipping mistake, we’ve likely already made it a dozen times over. But through our experiences building supply chains, we’ve routinely run into the same issues: \n\n⚙️ Way too many moving parts \n\n⚠️ The best factories have high minimum order requirements \n\n👎 Current software is either too rudimentary or ridiculously complex\n\n# **✅ The Solution ✅**\n\n* Forget spending weeks juggling multiple supplier group chats, spreadsheets of shipping quotes, and financial docs. Terra automatically matches you with the right partners through a single dashboard, allowing you to launch products in minutes.\n* We aggregate demand based on similarity, ensuring you’ll get access to the best pricing and factories regardless of order size.\n*  Our platform is completely modular. Build a supply chain entirely from our pre-vetted partners, onboard your existing suppliers, or use a combination of both. No constrictions, only flexibility.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83615&key=user_uploads/1859401/38054f53-5593-4f5e-8f1e-0e80ff948676)\n\n# **🤝 Our Ask 🤝**\n\nAre you or anyone in your network looking to launch/scale/streamline manufacturing processes? If so, hit us at [founders@useterra.com](mailto:founders@useterra.com), we’d love to get in touch.\n\nCurrently looking specifically for anyone selling/manufacturing furniture or home goods! ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lkd-terra-instant-supply-chain-creation", "votes": 110, "created_at": "2024-08-30T04:18:41.909Z" } ] }, { "id": 30042, "name": "Vortexify", "slug": "vortexify", "former_names": [ "Praxis AI", "Vortexify AI", "VortexifyAI" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/cb3be511411bbaed481f911d10c8dcbfcfbc8735.png", "website": "https://www.vortexify.ai", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA", "long_description": "Vortexify is an AI app builder for full-stack, internal business apps. Businesses such as manufacturers, hospitals and logistics services use Vortexify to solve complex, operational problems such as scheduling, process optimization, forecasting, root cause analysis and scenario planning.\r\n\r\nOur agents encode business logic by mapping operational problems to the data in your systems and collaborating with domain experts. Operations teams can build apps without writing code. Engineering teams can edit and manage agent written code at any time.\r\n\r\nVortexify builds applications beyond simple dashboards with native support for databases, scheduled tasks, optimization solvers, machine learning models, data pipelines, API calls and more. Our secure, managed infrastructure enables our agents to build quickly and get it right the first time.\r\n\r\nSolve your hardest operations problems today! Create a free account to get started. 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Previously a tech lead at Palantir that specialized in converting early stage enterprise customers in the manufacturing vertical by building AI solutions. I’ve been passionate about AI/ML for 8+ years since high school when I first helped startups in my local Cincinnati area optimize their marketing strategies.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/adityatewari/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/782b38d53b354dc272edc0dad7b7bdfaedc7df36.jpg" }, { "user_id": 2229645, "full_name": "Ransika Liyanage", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I've spent 8+ years working in the manufacturing industry. During that time I've experienced firsthand the frustration of spending my entire shift resolving a machine downtime, which ultimately could've been prevented. Existing solutions are too focused on dashboards and metrics rather than actions. That's why I'm passionate about arming manufacturing engineers with Praxis AI, enabling them to combine their tribal knowledge with AI insights.", "is_active": false, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ransika-liyanage/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/be3bdb3f8251df73fa38c4964a07add59b8e885c.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 85869, "title": "Praxis AI - Reasoning Agents Fine-Tuned for Manufacturing", "tagline": "Meet Praxis AI, the platform made to eliminate fire-fighting for manufacturing engineers", "body": "# TL;DR\n\nPraxis AI builds manufacturing-specific agents capable of reasoning and processing complex situations. Our engineering copilot predicts and prevents machine failures in real-time by solving problems the same way an engineer would. This results in proactive maintenance which helps prevent unplanned downtimes and quality defects.\n\n[Launch Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ41WG_X8pw):\n\n# The Problem\n\nWe have over 10 years of experience working in the manufacturing industry between the two of us. During that time we have noticed that manufacturing engineers are constantly being pulled in every direction due to production issues popping up in multiple parts of the plant. \n\nThis reactive approach results in:\n\n* Large amounts of unplanned downtime, resulting in lost throughput\n* Unnecessary wear and tear on expensive manufacturing machinery\n* Quality defects requiring non-value add rework prior to customer delivery\n\nFrom unplanned downtimes alone, US manufacturers lose over **$50 billion dollars per year**. \\\n\\\nUnfortunately, existing solutions are:\n\n* Complex and required large amounts of data science/computer science knowledge\n* Focused on dashboarding and KPI metrics\n* Extremely costly to implement and maintain\n* Not tailored for manufacturing use cases\n\n# The Solution\n\nPraxis AI provides manufacturing engineers with an end-to-end solution for identifying and root-causing machine issues by following a 5-step reasoning process. This mimics exactly how an engineer would solve an issue in the real world. Our platforms core competencies include:\n\n1. **SOTA AI architectures for manufacturing** - Our models have been specifically designed to work with time series data coming from the manufacturing shop floor.\n2. **No code tools for manufacturing engineers** - The Praxis AI platform can be used without ever touching a Jupyter notebook.\n3. **Explainable AI for root cause analysis** - Our UI gives users full visibility into the reasoning behind the output of our models, and our copilot Max.e.\n4. **Operationalized machine learning models** - Praxis ensures that every model that is built is able to be utilized every single day to drive actual changes on the shop-floor. It's not just a pretty dashboard to look at.\n\nThe Praxis platform provides the tools needed for engineers to make changes on their shop-floor which can lead to reductions in unplanned downtimes, reduced scrap/waste, improvements on the efficiency of their machines, and so much more. We’ve built the platform in a way that as we continue to work with more customers, we will be able to encompass more and more use cases. We’ve already begun preliminary work on adding production order optimization and maintenance backlog management to our solution suite. \n\n# The Team\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85869&key=user_uploads/2229645/e65c1855-0e3c-4b5a-9014-22f633580153)\n\nWe have been working in the manufacturing industry for our entire professional career, and are extremely passionate about being on the cutting edge of manufacturing technology.\n\nRansika has worked at multiple manufacturing companies like GM, Tesla, and Rockwell Automation. During this time he has worked a variety of foundational manufacturing roles like manufacturing engineer, quality engineer, controls engineer, and production planner. During this time he managed multiple projects building and implementing various digital manufacturing projects globally which resulted in millions of dollars in cost savings per year. For the last two years he has been working at Deloitte as a product lead for Deloitte’s Intelligent Ops platform.\n\nAditya worked at Palantir for three years, ending his career there as a technical lead. During this time he specialized in converting pilots in the manufacturing vertical with a 100% success rate and a TCV of over $15 million dollars. Aditya has had a passion for ML/AI in manufacturing since early college, first excelling in the space by building a predictive model for General Motors and winning first in a data challenge of over 50 teams of PhD and masters students.\n\n# Our Ask\n\nIf you are interested in testing our solution out, we would love to be in touch to do a free factory assessment! We are looking to test our solution in a variety of different manufacturing environments, but have a particular affinity to continuous processes that can be found at paper mills, oil refineries, and chemical plants. Feel free to reach out at [founders@praxis-tech.ai](mailto:founders@praxis-tech.ai). 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We can help you recover up to 10% of duties paid this year.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/6lKXDCIQj8k\n\n# **Problem**\n\nUS importers have paid **over $200B in duties** in 2025, an all-time high. A significant share of that is overpaid, and most of them never realize it.\n\nTwo shifts explain why this is accelerating:\n\n1. **Tariff volatility has exploded.** Duty rates and HTS rules now change constantly. In 2025 alone, there’s been a wave of Section 301 updates, Section 232 expansions, new IEEPA/fentanyl tariffs, reciprocal tariffs, and more. The systems importers rely on were built for a more stable trade environment and can’t keep up.\n2. **“De minimis” rollback is exposing millions of new SKUs to duties.** Brands that never paid duties before now need accurate HTS codes for every SKU, often with no internal expertise, dramatically increasing classification volume and the risk of costly errors.\n\n**The combined effect:** filing errors and misclassifications are more common than ever, leading to margin leakage, missed refunds, and rising audit exposure.\n\nAnd today’s mitigations fall short:\n\n* Large importers hire **expensive consultants** who audit filings only after duties are paid, tying up cash for months and missing most issues because they review only a small sample.\n* Many lean on their **customs brokers**, who are incentivized to clear shipments quickly, not optimize duty burden, find refunds or classify goods. And capacity is shrinking, as the workforce is aging and fewer new brokers enter the field.\n\n**Importers carry the liability but are flying blind — overpaying duties and holding compliance risk they can’t see.**\n\n# **Solution**\n\nTrava gives importers a system that continuously reviews 100% of their customs entries and product catalog for duty and classification accuracy.\n\nImporters see three core benefits:\n\n1. **Recover margin** by surfacing overpaid duties and missed refunds. Once integrated, Trava often prevents the overpayment entirely by catching issues _before_ duties are even paid.\n2. **Reduce exposure** by flagging underpayments and risky classifications _before_ they turn into penalties because of a surprise CBP audit.\n3. **Classify accurately** with a copilot that suggests correct HTS codes on every SKU, critical as rules change constantly and millions of products lose de minimis protection.\n\nAI handles the heavy lifting, and Trava’s trade specialists validate edge cases and final outputs.\n\n# **Team**\n\nPushkar was an engineering manager at Plaid, where he led Privacy & Risk Engineering and built compliance systems that scaled to thousands of customers and millions of consumers. Before that, he was an early engineer on Meta’s crypto/fintech team (Libra/Novi) building digital payments infrastructure.\n\nHe’s seen firsthand how compliance breaks under scale and regulatory volatility, and how automation with human oversight can turn it into an advantage. He’s now bringing that same approach to the world of trade compliance.\n\n# **Our Ask**\n\nMessage [pushkar@usetrava.com](mailto:pushkar@usetrava.com) or visit [**usetrava.com**](http://usetrava.com) to request early access.\n\n1. **Importers:** We’re running a limited number of year-end duty and classification audits. If you oversee the P&L or compliance, we’ll show you exactly how much margin you’re leaving on the table, and help you classify products correctly.\n2. **Customs Brokers / Trade Consultants / Trade Attorneys:** We’re open to partnerships. Use Trava to offer deeper audits and classifications as a service to your importer clients.\n\n**Intros welcome!** If you know CFOs, compliance leaders, or brokers who’d benefit from this, an intro means a lot.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95534&key=user_uploads/2380951/fc39120e-71b2-4372-a22f-7dc6cd7afd46)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Oqs-trava-protect-your-margin-on-every-import", "votes": 26, "created_at": "2025-11-16T18:11:03.164Z" }, { "id": 88327, "title": "Vora: AI Recruiter for Hiring Managers", "tagline": "Top candidates, booked directly on your calendar.", "body": "**TL;DR:** **Vora gives hiring managers an AI recruiter.** Our AI agent identifies, engages, and books meetings with **top talent that actually respond** — so hiring managers don’t have to spend hours sourcing.\n\n👉 **Hiring founding engineers? Let Vora source and book candidates for you. 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Instead of spending hours manually searching and messaging, hiring managers **assign the task**, and Vora **delivers**:\n\n* **Our sourcing agent** finds top talent (passive candidates who aren’t applying)\n* **Our research agent** crafts deeply researched emails that convert **5x better** than the basic personalization used by other tools today.\n* **Once they’re activated, our agent schedules them directly on the hiring manager’s calendar**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88327&key=user_uploads/2380951/39a04812-770c-4ac4-821e-6203bff527c8)\n\n_(Dashboard used by the internal Vora team)_\n\nBut here’s what sets us apart - we **sell the work, not just the software** - hiring managers don’t need to learn a new tool or spend time navigating dashboards. **They just get meetings booked with candidates delivered straight to their calendar.**\n\nHiring managers don’t need to log in to anything - they interact with **Rachel, our AI recruiter, directly in Slack**, just like a coworker.\n\nRachel **keeps hiring managers updated, asks for feedback, and refines searches — all in Slack.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=88327&key=user_uploads/2380951/14407af6-d1f7-441a-ba9d-77120a6938b7)\n\n---\n\n### **💡 Our Wedge**\n\nWe help **fast-growing tech startups (Seed to Series B) attract the best engineers and hire faster.** Our early customers include:\n\n* **Early-stage startups** — Founders hiring their **first engineers** without an in-house recruiter.\n* **Scaling teams** — Hiring managers at **Series A/B companies** who need to grow their team quickly.\n* **VC-backed companies** — Startups competing for **top AI and engineering talent** in a competitive market.\n\n### **🚀 We’re already delivering results**\n\n* **Trusted by fast-growing AI startups** in SF & NYC (Seed to Series B)\n* **Multiple startups already running paid pilots**\n* **Hundreds of top candidates sourced & engaged**\n* **Dozens of hiring manager screens booked — directly on their calendars**\n\nHere’s a testimonial from an early customer:\n\n_\"In just two weeks, Vora booked six interviews with engineers we previously couldn’t even reach. 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We’re [Smit](https://www.linkedin.com/in/smitdagli/) and [Vik](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vikhyath-m-a00357128/) - the founders of [Kanava AI](https://kanava.ai/)\n\n**Problem and Opportunity:**\n\nThe wholesale distribution industry is massive: _$9T+ in annual revenue. 410,000+ businesses. 6 million+ employees._\n\nAnd yet — sales teams are drowning.\n\n* **A third of the workforce is over 55**, and replacements aren’t coming fast enough.\n\n (“Most of my sales reps are **retiring in the next 2-3 years**, I have **NO idea** what I’ll do after” - a medium sized electrical goods distributor from Indiana we met)\n* **Reps spend less than 30% of their time selling**. The rest? Answering repetitive calls (“What’s the price of this SKU?” “Which warehouse has it?”), digging through systems, and manual follow-ups.\n* **Over 25% of inbound calls never reach a human** — lost revenue, lost trust, lost time.\n\nThis isn’t just inefficiency. It’s operational drag at scale — and it's only getting worse.\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1NVVxRnLL8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1NVVxRnLL8%5C%5C)\n\n**How’re we solving it:**\n\nWe’re building Kanava AI, a voice-based AI agent designed for wholesale distributors.\n\nIt handles repetitive tasks like **answering stock, price,** and **order status calls** using live **ERP** data and logging **field notes hands-free**, drafting follow-ups, updating the **CRM** all _automatically_.\n\nIt’s like a junior rep-in-training. It starts with the basics, but improves quickly by learning from the company’s best performers. Over time, Kanava takes on more:\n\n•⁠ **⁠Managing consultative sales calls** \\\n•⁠ ⁠**Identifying upsell opportunities** in real time \\\n•⁠ ⁠**Surfacing coaching insights** from rep conversations \\\n•⁠ ⁠**Re-engaging dormant accounts** with timely, data-backed outreach\n\nAnd by the time these reps are ready to retire, Kanava is **ready to fill the void they leave.**\n\nMost AI tools in this space fail because they try to do too much, too early, and distributors are famously late adopters. We’re taking a more deliberate path: start with low-leverage work, prove value, and scale responsibility as the system earns it.\n\n**Our Team**\n\nVik (CTO) and Smit (CEO) know each other since freshman year of college at UC Berkeley. Both of us studied CS, and worked as AI engineers at various startups before deciding to build our own thing and join YC.\n\n**Smit:** Built incident resolution agents at a series B observability startup called Observe. Previously worked at Abnormal Security and Salesforce.\n\n**Vik**: Built voice agents for numerical data entry and hands-free navigation for a data management platform called Uncountable. Previously worked at Uber and Amazon.\n\nWe’re both outsiders to the wholesale distribution industry, but we’re listening hard and learning fast.\n\nWhat made us really want to work together was being on the same ultimate frisbee team in the senior year of college - that team was a disaster, we lost every single game we played by huge margins, but despite that, we had a ton of fun and stuck together!\n\n**Our Ask** If you know any **distributors, field sales heavy businesses or IMR’s (Independent Manufacturer Reps)**, we’d appreciate a connection at [smit@kanava.ai](mailto:smit@kanava.ai) or [vikhyath@kanava.ai](mailto:vikhyath@kanava.ai). 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We’re [Sam](https://www.linkedin.com/in/samarthlamba/) and [Eshani](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eshanimehta/), the co-founders of Lumari 🔥\n\n**TL;DR:** Lumari is AI-powered procurement automation for direct materials and supply chain. We deploy **100s of always-on AI agents** that run sourcing workflows, manage RFQs, expedite purchase orders, and coordinate supplier communication end-to-end.\n\n### **The Problem ❌**\n\nSupply chain teams are stuck in reactive mode.\n\n* Buyers spend their days copy-pasting between email, spreadsheets, and ERPs, chasing supplier quotes, following up on late POs, and manually entering delivery updates\n* Missed delivery dates and poor visibility lead to expediting costs, production delays, and revenue risk\n* Existing tools require suppliers to adopt new portals and force rigid workflows that don't reflect how teams actually operate\n* There's too much operational work and not enough time for strategic decision-making\n\n### **Lumari’s Solution ✨**\n\nLumari brings autonomous agents to supply chain and acts as a **force multiplier** for the team.\n\n* **Automates** the manual chase across the entire procurement lifecycle, from RFQs to PO tracking to supplier follow-ups\n* Compresses cycle times and gives teams full **visibility** into active orders, RFQs, and supplier performance\n* Operates directly on top of **existing tools** (ERP, email, Slack, Excel) with no rip-and-replace and no supplier onboarding\n* Teams are always in **control** with configurable guardrails and approval layers for every action\n* **Customize** your agent behavior and configuration in plain English\n\nWe **partner** closely with every customer to adapt our agents to their specific processes and systems, from **Fortune 500s** to fast-growing scale-ups.\n\n### **The Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90564&key=user_uploads/1755497/3a1a90ce-6ebb-49fc-8c0e-6b1cd98be8fb)\n\n[Sam Lamba](https://www.linkedin.com/in/samarthlamba/) is an ex-Google engineering lead who led the development of AI-driven products that scaled to millions of weekly enterprise users, and has received 2 AI patents. Sam also previously worked at Amazon and Tesla and holds a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science from Duke University.\n\n[Eshani Mehta](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eshanimehta/) was previously at Stripe leading payments intelligence products handling $XXX million in volume. She also previously worked at Robinhood and Snap and studied Computer Science at UC Berkeley. \n\n### **Our Ask**\n\n* 📅 [Book a meeting](https://cal.com/team/lumari/lumari-demo) with us if this could be useful for you or your team\n* Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/lumari-io)!\n* Check us out at [lumari.ai](http://lumari.ai) or read lumari.ai/blog to understand the problem better", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NYi-lumari-ai-digital-workers-for-supply-chain", "votes": 128, "created_at": "2025-05-20T18:06:51.257Z" } ] }, { "id": 30598, "name": "GETASAP", "slug": "getasap", "former_names": [ "GETASAP ASIA" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/642bff7a1b26de3309aed7fc5200498a8dca5180.png", "website": "https://www.getasap.us", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Founded in 2023, GETASAP is a San Francisco–based technology and supply chain infrastructure company transforming fresh produce distribution and freight.\r\n\r\nGETASAP Fresh provides same-day delivery to thousands of restaurants and retail locations across the USA, sourcing directly from farms internationally and operating global cold-chain infrastructure. 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We stock 20,000+ SKUs from 270+ brands and operate several fulfillment centers across SEA.\n\n**Ask:**\n\nCan you intro us to CPG brands that could benefit from exposure to SEA market?\n\nCan you intro us to retail chains that we could supply to?\n\nCan you intro us to US retail tech executives?\n\nhttps://youtu.be/dPhL1k2n1Y8\n\n# **❌ The Problem**\n\nLegacy distributors _don’t believe in tech_.\n\n• Systems don’t talk to each other, so information is stuck in separate tools.\n\n• Lead times are long and freight isn’t optimized.\n\n• Forecasting is guesswork, which causes stockouts during peak season and costs stores significant revenue.\n\n• Labor costs are high, much of the work is manual, and prices are managed by hand, so margins shrink.\n\n# [**👷**](https://emojipedia.org/construction-worker)**The Solution**\n\nGETASAP ASIA is a tech-enabled distributor for retailers in Southeast Asia, operating a network of optimized fulfillment centers that restock stores in under 8 hours at the lowest landed price.\n\nOur enterprise-grade demand intelligence powers our 8-hour fulfillment model and enables real time stock tracking, automated reordering for stores, and forecasting that positions inventory close to demand—so orders move from purchase to shelf within hours and stockouts approach zero.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OG9-getasap-asia-8-hour-distribution-for-retailers-in-southeast-asia", "votes": 80, "created_at": "2025-08-22T03:54:59.748Z" } ] }, { "id": 30615, "name": "Lanesurf", "slug": "lanesurf", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4d37647098f0e48b82775e4aeffec72627577735.png", "website": "https://www.lanesurf.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Over a million loads move via trucks in the US every day and even in 2026 they are still booked through endless negotiations over calls and emails.\r\n\r\nLanesurf solves this with an army of AI agents that find nearby empty trucks, call/email them in parallel, negotiate rates, and book the best available truck.\r\n\r\nLive Demo: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7394069447327555584/\r\n\r\nOur self-improving voice AI stack is built for the messy reality of logistics - noisy calls, compliance checks, constant exceptions and turns them into faster bookings at better margins.", "one_liner": "Book any load in 10 minutes", "team_size": 11, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1753218115, "tags": [ "B2B", "Logistics", "Supply Chain", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "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/lanesurf", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2025/lanesurf.json", "year_founded": 2025, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/lane-surf/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4d37647098f0e48b82775e4aeffec72627577735.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jon Xu", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jon-xu" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1284872, "full_name": "Pratham Bansal", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Pratham studied engineering at IIT Delhi, where he contributed to ML research at Caltech and Rice. 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Automation for next-gen AI data centers", "tagline": "AI-driven automation that makes any data center as secure, efficient, and adaptive as Google’s or Amazon’s.", "body": "## **DeepAware - Automation for next-gen AI data centers**\n\n👋 Hello world! Are you ready to embrace a much more efficient AI infrastructure? Check out [DeepAware](http://deepawareai.com/) / [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/deepaware/):\n\nhttps://youtu.be/mywozPhOAnA\n\nTL;DR\n\n1. DeepAware AI brings Google- and Amazon-level technology to any data center, making them more secure, efficient, and autonomous.\n2. Our reinforcement learning scheduler, real-time market integration, and robotics cut energy waste by up to 30% while ensuring 24/7 uptime.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=92985&key=user_uploads/2760576/4188b3ad-71bd-4af7-a52d-eac733f67211)\n\n**Problem**\n\n1. With AI workloads surging, the data center industry is booming—global capacity is expanding rapidly, and the market is projected to hit **$1 trillion by 2030**\n2. Data centers waste 20–30% of energy due to siloed tooling and manual controls.\n3. 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We solve this by combining advanced optimization with LLMs that can adapt algorithms to deliver intelligent planning for real-world operations. \\\nhttps://youtu.be/9LHYILVw6ks\n\n# **💥 The problem:**\n\nPlanning just one week of routes for a 50-truck fleet involves **more possible combinations than there are grains of sand on Earth**. For humans, consistently piecing together reasonable combinations is difficult. Making optimal ones is impossible. Dispatchers juggle:\n\n* Regulatory constraints, like drivers’ hours of service\n* Complex forecasts, like considering the likelihood of receiving a load from a flaky customer\n* And human preferences, like a driver’s disdain for a specific commodity\n\nThis complexity forces fleets to effectively **silo their operations**—assigning each dispatcher a subset of trucks to manage. **Instead of coordinating as a cohesive operation, fleets become mini-operations, resulting in load mismatches and under-utilized capacity.** For a low-margin industry like trucking, those inefficiencies are the difference between making or missing payroll. \n\nIn response, some fleets have adopted expensive load planning algorithms. While these traditional solutions are a marginal improvement over manual work, they fail to meaningfully solve the problem. \n\nRigid algorithms operate like complete black boxes, often leaving dispatchers with a lack of confidence in their decisions. Deterministic algorithms cannot be responsive to the soft preferences of either the fleet or the driver. For example, dispatchers may have to reshuffle their planning board because an algorithm cannot optimize for a driver needing to be home early one day for his daughter’s recital. \n\nThat means the algorithm's recommendations are largely not followed or, if they are, drivers are left unhappy. With an active driver shortage, fleets can’t tolerate the latter. \n\nTrucking is a trillion-dollar industry, yet its biggest players have no good option for load planning. \n\n# **✅ The solution:**\n\n**Fleets no longer have to choose between two existentially threatening options with Fleetline.** By combining traditional advanced optimizations with LLMs, we created a solution that allows fleets to optimize their schedules while being adaptive to soft preferences and surprises. All users need to do is prompt our AI agent with any changes / added constraints to include in the optimization algorithm, and the load planning is re-done. \n\nFor example, if a driver at a fleet needs to make it back home by 2 PM on a given Tuesday to see his daughter’s recital, instead of manually scrambling the planning board, our AI agent can re-optimize around the new constraint. \n\nWe’re already working with large fleets in California and talking to others across the country.\n\n# **🏋️‍♂️ The team:**\n\nSaurav and Veer are lifelong friends who have been working on projects together since they were 14. Saurav graduated from UIUC and has worked at Icon, Meta, and Nvidia, and is a previous founder (Blast AI). 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Ripping these systems out would take **years**, cost **millions**, and probably spark a small mutiny. 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Customer service teams are the perfect example of this issue -  they spend most of their time re-typing orders instead of building relationships.\n\n\\____________________\\_\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\nhttps://youtu.be/hRgpT2I1XAk\n\nBurnt’s AI Agents operate inside existing ERPs - no rip-and-replace required.\n\nOur first agent, **Ozai**, monitors all incoming sales channels (email, text, voicemail, WhatsApp, fax – **even phone calls**), learns each customer’s shorthand, habits, and favorite products, interprets prep notes, and enters the order directly into the ERP.\n\nIf something’s unclear, Ozai asks the customer for clarification and continues processing without breaking the workflow. 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Upload a buying list and we land the whole container at one locked, delivered price, tariffs included. You buy from Donkey: one contract, one company responsible for everything between the factory floor and your door. Our own people check the cartons before the factory gets paid, and the balance is due when the goods are accepted at your dock.\r\n\r\nSmall businesses buy imports through three or four middlemen, each adding 15 to 30 points, because none of them can fill a container on their own. Big enough to buy pallets, never big enough to buy the box. Quotes float with freight, FX and tariffs and live 15 to 30 days.\r\n\r\nA trading company is rooms of people on the phone with factories, forwarders and brokers. Donkey runs that as one engine. It finds the real factory behind the customs record, stacks duty line by line, packs the container on weight and cube, and returns one number that holds from signature. 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We win government contracts, turn technical requirements into production-ready workflows, and execute through factory integrations that eliminate the weeks normally lost between RFQ and factory floor. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=109739&key=user_uploads/3161464/3cf82073-c0e0-4c42-8d2b-d4fab3e159ca)\n\nWe’re building GUILD in two connected motions:\n\n* First, we win and execute government manufacturing contracts directly.\n* Second, we help defense hardware companies turn designs, technical packages, and supply-chain requirements into executable procurement and production workflows.\n\nIn both cases, the goal is the same: move from technical requirements to manufactured parts faster, with less cost and less operational drag.\n\n**THE PROBLEM**\n\nGovernment contracting is fragmented, overcomplicated, and inaccessible. That makes defense manufacturing slower and more expensive than it should be.\n\nThe government waits too long and pays too much for parts the country already knows how to make. Meanwhile, the supplier base is shrinking: DoW’s reported in 2023 that small-business participation in the defense industrial base has fallen by over 40% in the last decade.\n\n**Less competition means fewer options, higher prices, weaker supply chains, and more critical work stuck before it ever reaches a production floor.** \n\n**THE CAUSE**\n\nThe defense supply chain is not wired together. Government demand, technical requirements, manufacturer capability, financial markets, and execution data all live in different places, so every contract becomes a manual search problem - stuck in PDFs, portals, spreadsheets, and domain knowledge.\n\nThe hard part is not finding government opportunities. Anyone can have Claude build a scrape-bot for [SAM.gov](http://SAM.gov) and call it a pipeline. **The hard part is turning messy technical requirements into a manufacturing decision, then executing the work.**\n\nThis favors large incumbents who can throw teams of people at the problem. Smaller manufacturers usually cannot. They either spend weeks decoding the package, price in too much risk, miss the timing, or never enter the market at all.\n\n**OUR APPROACH**\n\n**GUILD is the prime contractor**, not a marketplace or lead-gen layer for manufacturers. We win government work directly. We break the technical package into the operational steps required to produce and deliver the part. Then we execute.\n\n**The core of this is our company brain: a structural ontology of defense manufacturing.**\n\nAI-native, to us, means the company documents and learns from its own execution. Every artifact around a contract - requirements, quotes, supplier interactions, decisions, awards, workflows, and deliveries - becomes structured memory. Our agents traverse that graph to understand what a part is, how it can be made, what it should cost, and what needs to happen next.\n\nThe company brain compounds. Every bid makes the next bid smarter. Every factory handoff improves the next handoff. Every delivery teaches the system what actually happened, not just what the plan said. That is what lets us move from document parsing to execution as the contractor responsible for the work.\n\n**WHAT WE’VE BUILT**\n\nWe’ve built the company brain that turns technical packages into executable manufacturing workflows. It ingests messy contract packages, understands the requirements, prices work against known factory capability, generates the production path, and keeps improving as new parts, factories, and outcomes enter the system.\n\nThis is not a hard-coded set of workflows. 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As a result, most warehouses still say they’re “not ready” for automation.\n\nNick came together with his best friend Josh, a fellow UPenn alum and PhD at Caltech specializing in safety-critical control for robotics, to solve this problem.\n\nManifold is building robotic labor for the supply chain industry. Its robots perform picking jobs from start to finish faster than humans, with no upfront cost or infrastructure changes. 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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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