# Ressl AI

> Ressl AI (YC W26) is a San Francisco startup building a platform to train, evaluate and deploy autonomous AI agents that do real back-office work. It began by shipping AI agents that automate Salesforce administration, then moved into deploying AI 'employees' for trades and home-services businesses - answering leads, generating estimates, procuring parts and handling the admin that clogs up field-operations offices - all on top of a company's existing software with no migration.

- **Founded:** 2025
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Arushi Gandhi (CEO / Co-Founder), Abhishek Eswaran (Co-Founder / CTO)
- **Team size:** ~5
- **Products:** AI Employees for the Trades, AI Salesforce Admin, Agent training and evaluation platform
- **Notable:** Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2026 (W26) batch, Reached revenue in the tens of thousands within weeks of launch with reported triple-digit weekly growth, Founder Arushi Gandhi previously built an AI CRM to ~$120K ARR

## Products & services

- **AI Employees for the Trades** — AI agents that run the back office for trades and home-services businesses - answering and scheduling leads across calls, texts, Yelp, Google and web, generating estimates and bids, coordinating vendor procurement, and handling invoicing and follow-ups. Sits on top of existing software with no migration.
- **AI Salesforce Admin** — AI agents that let IT and RevOps teams configure Salesforce in plain English - documenting orgs, root-causing support issues, dependency mapping, building flows and automations, and writing Apex code and test classes to accelerate delivery without adding headcount.
- **Agent training and evaluation platform** — Tooling to train, benchmark/evaluate and deploy autonomous agents into real business systems, moving them from prototype to production.

## Achievements

- Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2026 (W26) batch
- Reached revenue in the tens of thousands within weeks of launch with reported triple-digit weekly growth
- Founder Arushi Gandhi previously built an AI CRM to ~$120K ARR
- Co-founder Abhishek Eswaran reported selling a segmentation model for ~$300K and scaling an AI services firm

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Part of Y Combinator's Winter 2026 (W26) batch.
- **2026-06** — Website repositioned around a platform to train, evaluate and deploy autonomous AI agents.

## Links

- Website: https://ressl.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ressl-ai
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/resslai

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Last updated: 2026-07-30