Application YC di Sentient OS
San Francisco
Sentient OS ha partecipato a Y Combinator nel batch Fall 2026 come azienda B2B. Sotto: cosa fa l'azienda, chi l'ha fondata e la sua application a YC, ricostruita domanda per domanda nel form reale di YC.
- Batch YC
- Fall 2026
- Settore
- B2BProductivity
- Luogo
- San Francisco
- Dimensione team
- 2
- Stato
- Active
- Lanciata
- 2026
Founder
Jesai TarunFounder/CEO
Aditya VellankiFounder/CTO
Cosa fa 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.
Application YC di Sentient OS, ricostruita
Domanda per Y Combinator
Sentient OS, batch Fall 2026. Le vere domande del form, risposte da dati pubblici.
- 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 risposte in più nell'application completa
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Domande Frequenti
Questa è l'application YC reale di Sentient OS?
No. Y Combinator mantiene private le application inviate. Questa è una ricostruzione: le domande del form YC reale, a cui si è risposto usando i dati pubblici di Sentient OS (note di lancio, background dei founder, descrizione del prodotto). Mostra come un'azienda come Sentient OS si presenterebbe a YC, non il testo che hanno inviato.
A quale batch YC apparteneva Sentient OS?
Sentient OS apparteneva al batch Fall 2026 di Y Combinator.
Chi ha fondato Sentient OS?
Sentient OS è stato fondato da Jesai Tarun, Aditya Vellanki.
Cosa fa Sentient OS?
On-device AI that knows your entire life and does your work overnight.
Come leggo la ricostruzione completa della application?
Crea un account Round Funded gratuito. La versione completa di 26 risposte della application di Sentient OS, e di ogni altro batch YC, è in YC Insights.
