# BaseFrame

> BaseFrame is a San Francisco AI startup from Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch, founded by UC Berkeley classmates Anshul Paul and Vaibhav Agrawal. The company has iterated quickly across the AI stack - launching first as an AI copilot that catches hardware design flaws before boards are built, then as a desktop app that scans a team's own work history to find what AI can automate, and most recently pivoting to Clam, a 'Semantic Firewall' that adds enterprise-grade security around broad-access AI agents. Across all three, the thread is the same: make powerful AI safe, useful, and grounded in real work.

- **Founded:** 2025
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Anshul Paul (Co-Founder & CEO), Vaibhav Agrawal (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** 2
- **Products:** BaseFrame (hardware design copilot), BaseFrame (automation discovery desktop app), Clam - Semantic Firewall
- **Notable:** Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch, Shipped three distinct products (hardware copilot, automation discovery, Clam) within the batch, Clam launch drew 84+ upvotes on YC's Launch page

## Products & services

- **BaseFrame (hardware design copilot)** — AI agents that scope hardware projects, run validations to catch design gaps and contradictions, and generate a Bill of Materials with pricing and lead-time data - catching fatal mistakes before the first board is spun.
- **BaseFrame (automation discovery desktop app)** — A desktop application that analyzes a team's historical work data across email, docs, Slack, calendar, browser, and files - using local AI models - to identify the highest-value automations, then exports them to the team's automation tool of choice.
- **Clam - Semantic Firewall** — Enterprise-grade security for broad-access AI agents like OpenClaw. A network-level checkpoint that scans everything the agent sends and receives for data leaks, prompt injection, and malicious code, and injects API keys and secrets so the AI never sees credentials.

## Achievements

- Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch
- Shipped three distinct products (hardware copilot, automation discovery, Clam) within the batch
- Clam launch drew 84+ upvotes on YC's Launch page
- Founding team drawn from HappyRobot (Seed to Series B) and Augment Code

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Launched on YC as a hardware design copilot: 'Bring confidence and clarity to your hardware designs.'
- **2026-01** — Raised a $130K seed round via Y Combinator (W26).
- **2026-02** — Launched Clam - 'Semantic Firewall meets OpenClaw' - pivoting to enterprise-grade security for broad-access AI agents, now at tryclam.com.

## Links

- Website: https://baseframe.co
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/baseframe
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZgsWj-y5hQY

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Last updated: 2026-07-31