Sentient OS YC 申请

Fall 2026Active

San Francisco

Sentient OS 在 Fall 2026 批次的 Y Combinator 中作为一家 B2B 公司进行过。以下是：公司做什么、谁创立了它，以及其 YC 申请，按照真实 YC 表格逐题重建。

YC 批次: Fall 2026
行业: B2BProductivity
地点: San Francisco
团队规模: 2
状态: Active
已发布: 2026

创始人

Jesai TarunFounder/CEO
Aditya VellankiFounder/CTO

Sentient OS 做什么

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 OS 的 YC 申请，重建版

Y Combinator 申请

Sentient OS，Fall 2026 期。来自公开数据的真实申请问题解答。

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Sentient OS

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

On-device AI does your work overnight.

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

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.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

San Francisco, CA, USA. We would stay based in San Francisco after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

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 更多回答在完整申请中

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference 包含在完整版中。创建免费账户即可在 YC Insights 中打开，紧邻每个其他 YC 批次。

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常见问题解答

这是 Sentient OS 的真实 YC 申请吗？

不是。Y Combinator 对提交的申请保密。这是重建版：使用 Sentient OS 的公开数据（发布笔记、创始人背景、产品描述）回答真实的 YC 表格问题。它展示了像 Sentient OS 这样的公司会如何向 YC 自我介绍，而不是他们提交的文本。

Sentient OS 是哪个 YC 批次的？

Sentient OS 是 Y Combinator Fall 2026 批次的成员。

谁创立了 Sentient OS？

Sentient OS 由 Jesai Tarun, Aditya Vellanki 创立。

Sentient OS 做什么？

On-device AI that knows your entire life and does your work overnight.

如何阅读完整的重建申请？

创建免费的 Round Funded 账户。YC Insights 中包含 Sentient OS 的完整 26 个问题的版本，以及其他所有 YC 批次的公司信息。