Inscrição YC de Sentient OS
San Francisco
Sentient OS passou pela Y Combinator no batch Fall 2026 como uma empresa B2B. Abaixo: o que a empresa faz, quem a fundou e sua inscrição para a YC, reconstruída pergunta por pergunta no formulário real da YC.
- Batch YC
- Fall 2026
- Indústria
- B2BProductivity
- Localização
- San Francisco
- Tamanho da equipe
- 2
- Status
- Active
- Lançada
- 2026
Fundadores
Jesai TarunFounder/CEO
Aditya VellankiFounder/CTO
O que Sentient OS faz
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.
Inscrição YC de Sentient OS, reconstruída
Inscrição Y Combinator
Sentient OS, lote Fall 2026. As verdadeiras perguntas do formulário, respondidas com dados públicos.
- 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 respostas a mais na inscrição completa
Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference estão na versão completa. Crie uma conta gratuita para abri-la no YC Insights, ao lado de todos os outros batches da YC.
Perguntas Frequentes
Esta é a inscrição real da YC de Sentient OS?
Não. A Y Combinator mantém as inscrições submetidas em privado. Esta é uma reconstrução: as perguntas reais do formulário da YC, respondidas a partir dos dados públicos de Sentient OS (notas de lançamento, históricos de fundadores, descrição do produto). Mostra como uma empresa como Sentient OS se apresentaria à YC, não o texto que eles submeteram.
Em qual batch da YC Sentient OS esteve?
Sentient OS fez parte do batch Fall 2026 da Y Combinator.
Quem fundou o Sentient OS?
O Sentient OS foi fundado por Jesai Tarun, Aditya Vellanki.
O que o Sentient OS faz?
On-device AI that knows your entire life and does your work overnight.
Como eu leio o application completo reconstruído?
Crie uma conta gratuita no Round Funded. A versão completa de 26 respostas do application do Sentient OS, e de todos os outros lotes do YC, está no YC Insights.
