Candidature YC de Sentient OS
San Francisco
Sentient OS a été sélectionné par Y Combinator dans le cadre du batch Fall 2026 en tant qu'entreprise B2B. Ci-dessous : ce que fait l'entreprise, qui l'a fondée, et sa candidature à YC, reconstruite question par question dans le vrai formulaire YC.
- Batch YC
- Fall 2026
- Secteur d'activité
- B2BProductivity
- Lieu
- San Francisco
- Taille de l'équipe
- 2
- Statut
- Active
- Lancé
- 2026
Fondateurs
Jesai TarunFounder/CEO
Aditya VellankiFounder/CTO
Ce que fait Sentient OS
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.
Candidature YC de Sentient OS, reconstruite
Candidature Y Combinator
Sentient OS, promotion Fall 2026. Les vraies questions de candidature, répondues à partir de données publiques.
- 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 réponses supplémentaires dans la candidature complète
se trouvent dans la version complète. Créez un compte gratuit pour l'ouvrir dans YC Insights, à côté de tous les autres batches YC.
Questions fréquemment posées
Est-ce la vraie candidature YC de Sentient OS ?
Non. Y Combinator garde les candidatures soumises privées. Ceci est une reconstruction : les vraies questions du formulaire YC, répondues à partir des données publiques de Sentient OS (notes de lancement, parcours des fondateurs, description du produit). Cela montre comment une entreprise comme Sentient OS se présenterait à YC, pas le texte qu'ils ont soumis.
À quel batch YC Sentient OS appartenait-il ?
Sentient OS faisait partie du batch Fall 2026 de Y Combinator.
Qui a fondé Sentient OS ?
Sentient OS a été fondé par Jesai Tarun, Aditya Vellanki.
Que fait Sentient OS ?
On-device AI that knows your entire life and does your work overnight.
Comment lire la candidature complète reconstruite ?
Créez un compte Round Funded gratuit. La version complète de la candidature de Sentient OS en 26 réponses, et de chaque autre promotion YC, se trouve dans YC Insights.
