# Lab0

> Lab0 is a Y Combinator (P26) startup building AI forward-deployed engineers (AI FDEs) that automate the entire post-sales delivery process for enterprise software - discovery, configuration, integration, testing and go-live. By running these phases inside the systems customers already use, such as ServiceNow, SAP, Salesforce, Workday and Jira, Lab0 aims to compress deployments that normally take six months into about ten days, turning consulting-heavy rollouts into a self-serve product.

- **Founded:** 2026
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founders:** Onkar Borade (Co-Founder & CEO), Lakshya Gupta (Co-Founder), Sujay Srivastava (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** 3
- **Products:** AI Forward-Deployed Engineer (AI FDE)
- **Notable:** Accepted into Y Combinator's P26 (Spring 2026) batch., Claims to compress six-month enterprise deployments into roughly ten days., Early engagements with Adobe and system integrators.

## Products & services

- **AI Forward-Deployed Engineer (AI FDE)** — An agentic system that runs enterprise implementation end to end - discovery, solution design, configuration, integration, testing and go-live - inside platforms like ServiceNow, SAP, Salesforce, Workday and Jira. Every change is previewed as a dry-run before it touches a live instance, with approval gates and rollback controlled by the customer's team.

## Achievements

- Accepted into Y Combinator's P26 (Spring 2026) batch.
- Claims to compress six-month enterprise deployments into roughly ten days.
- Early engagements with Adobe and system integrators.
- Founding team includes an engineer who helped scale Emergent (YC S24) from $0 to $70M ARR.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Lab0 announced as part of Y Combinator's P26 batch; raised standard seed funding.
- **2026-03** — Y Combinator publicly introduced Lab0 as 'the AI FDE to make Enterprise Software self-serve.'

## Links

- Website: https://lab0.ai
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/lab0-hq
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/lab0_ai

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Last updated: 2026-07-30