Sentient OS YC-Bewerbung
San Francisco
Sentient OS durchlief Y Combinator im Fall 2026-Batch als ein B2B-Unternehmen. Unten: Was das Unternehmen tut, wer es gegründet hat und seine Bewerbung bei YC, Frage für Frage im echten YC-Formular rekonstruiert.
- YC-Batch
- Fall 2026
- Branche
- B2BProductivity
- Standort
- San Francisco
- Teamgröße
- 2
- Status
- Active
- Gestartet
- 2026
Gründer
Jesai TarunFounder/CEO
Aditya VellankiFounder/CTO
Was Sentient OS tut
Nobody's built truly proactive AI, because it requires running inference on your entire life. In the cloud, that's insanely expensive and a privacy nightmare. But not on your own chip. Every night, Sentient's on-device LLM wakes your Mac and understands what's new in your life (email, messages, files, Granola transcripts...), entirely locally, and distills it into a knowledge base. You wake up to your work already prepared: the reply you forgot, drafted from your own context; the subscription you never use renewing tomorrow, caught; the report you promised in the group chat, ready to send. Everything is one click from firing through computer use, and nothing fires until you click. Or click your Mac notch anytime and say "finish this for me." Sidekick takes over the thing you were doing with its own cursor while you move on. On-device inference at this scale was supposed to be impossible: devices too slow, and models too dumb. So we built the stack ourselves: a custom LiteRT-LM fork (KV-cache reuse, speculative decoding, custom k-quants) that runs nightly on 8 GB Macs. The user's hardware does ~90% of the compute, and their own ChatGPT or Claude subscription does the rest, so our marginal cost is ~$0, and our servers store nothing. We soft-launched late July with one Reddit post: top of r/macapps, 2,000+ users in 48 hours, $0 marketing. Free and open source for consumers; the same engine on the work stack (Slack, Granola, Linear, Notion) becomes the enterprise business.
Sentient OSs YC-Bewerbung, rekonstruiert
Y Combinator Bewerbung
Sentient OS, Fall 2026 Batch. Die echten Fragen des Antrags, beantwortet aus öffentlichen Daten.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Sentient OS
On-device AI does your work overnight.
We're building Sentient, an on-device LLM that processes all your personal and work data (email, files, messages, work apps) locally on your Mac each night. In the morning, you have prep work already done: drafted replies, caught subscriptions, prepared reports, one-click from completion - but nothing is sent until you approve. There's also a real-time command UI: click your Mac notch anytime, say 'finish this for me,' and Sidekick takes over the task using your own context. All inference runs mostly on the user's Mac, keeping privacy and marginal costs low. We ship a custom LiteRT-LM fork, optimized to do this on 8GB Macs.
San Francisco, CA, USA. We would stay based in San Francisco after YC.
San Francisco is where the best AI and productivity startups are, and it's easier to find users and technically-minded companies to partner with here.
21 weitere Antworten in der vollständigen Bewerbung
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Häufig gestellte Fragen
Ist das die echte YC-Bewerbung von Sentient OS?
Nein. Y Combinator hält eingereichte Bewerbungen privat. Dies ist eine Rekonstruktion: die echten Fragen des YC-Formulars, beantwortet aus den öffentlichen Daten von Sentient OS (Veröffentlichungsnotizen, Gründerhintergründe, Produktbeschreibung). Sie zeigt, wie sich ein Unternehmen wie Sentient OS bei YC präsentieren würde, nicht den Text, den sie eingereicht haben.
In welchem YC-Batch war Sentient OS?
Sentient OS war Teil des Y Combinator Fall 2026-Batches.
Wer hat Sentient OS gegründet?
Sentient OS wurde von Jesai Tarun, Aditya Vellanki gegründet.
Was macht Sentient OS?
On-device AI that knows your entire life and does your work overnight.
Wie lese ich die vollständige, rekonstruierte Bewerbung?
Erstelle ein kostenloses Round Funded Konto. Die vollständige 26-Antwort-Version der Bewerbung von Sentient OS, und jede andere YC-Kohorte, findest du in YC Insights.
