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The Hardware Store Has an Information Problem
A paint shop can know every contractor by name and still lose money to a ten-week pricing error. Rundoo is building the software behind the counter to catch what experience alone cannot.
Kevin Figueroa Graduated Early. Now He Is Building for Time That Creators Never Get Back
He earned a bachelor's degree before his high-school diploma and a master's at 18. Years later, Kevin Figueroa is still preoccupied with time - this time, the hours independent creators lose to the business of being creative.
Yandex 360 wants to own the working day
Email got Yandex 360 through the office door. Now its suite spans files, meetings, projects and AI - with a growing business built around the hard work of switching.
Reapit wants to put the whole estate agency in one place
First the client records. Then the rent payments. Now the AI assistant. Reapit is betting that an agency’s most valuable technology is the system that remembers its customers.
Your To-Do List Needs a Clock
Akiflow pulls scattered tasks into one calendar and makes every ambition bargain for a real hour. For busy professionals, that honesty can be worth more than another heroic to-do list.
Raycast AI Puts the Chatbot Where Your Fingers Already Are
The clever part is not the chatbot. It is the half-second between selecting something and doing something useful with it - no tab pilgrimage required.
ChatGPT Ate the Blank Page
The chatbot that made prompting a household verb now wants to search, draw, speak, study, code, and finish the errand. Here is how to use its sprawling toolbox without handing it your judgment.
Lindy Wants the Busywork - Keep a Hand on the Wheel
Lindy has grown from a box of build-your-own agents into a shared AI teammate with a seat in Slack and a memory for office lore. For teams drowning in follow-ups, it can be useful - as long as somebody still checks the work.
Shortwave Turns Gmail Into a Working Memory
The ex-Firebase crew rebuilt Gmail as a searchable memory and a promptable workbench. It can clear real inbox drag, provided your working life already runs through Google.
CastorDoc Turned the Data Catalog Into the Office Help Desk
The catalog once known as CastorDoc makes a persuasive case that governance works better when it feels like search, not paperwork. Its acquisition by Coalesce gives the friendly front door a much bigger engine room.
Give Claude the Whole Assignment
Claude has grown from a careful chatbot into a workbench for writing, research, code and files. It rewards people who bring context, judgment and a job worth finishing - but its shifting usage limits still demand a little housekeeping.
Mesh Wants Your Expense Report to Disappear
Mesh is trying to make travel and expenses vanish from the employee’s to-do list without making control vanish from finance. The idea is sharp; the buying decision still comes down to integrations, geography and whether the mobile experience can keep up.
The Planner That Makes Overbooking Feel Slightly Embarrassing
Sunsama asks one unfashionable question: will all that work actually fit before dinner? For overloaded professionals, its daily ritual can be the difference between a plan and a guilt list.
Grok Put the Internet on Speed Dial
Grok reads the room faster than most assistants because one of the world's noisiest rooms is built into the product. That makes it useful, funny, occasionally unnerving, and worth learning with both hands on the wheel.
Sam Karu Left NVIDIA to Build the AI That Notices First
A physics medalist, wireless-AI researcher and former NVIDIA engineer is betting that useful software should understand the work in front of you - before you write the perfect prompt.
Unibuddy Built the Wrong Product Twice - Then Universities Gave It a 500-Campus Playbook
The edtech started with a high-school dashboard, tried to build its own marketplace, and kept hearing one awkward question: where is the traffic? Its answer - live inside university websites - turned a student chat idea into an enterprise enrollment platform.
Reap Is Teaching AI the One Trick Investor Relations Cannot Fake: Knowing When to Shut Up
A nine-person fintech is turning filings, earnings calls and investor questions into an always-on IR desk. Its real product is not fluent answers - it is disciplined silence when the documents run out.
Spekit, Glean and the End of Looking Stuff Up at Work
Two well-funded startups are attacking the same quiet tax on office work - the hours people lose hunting for answers that already exist somewhere in the company. One buries the answer inside the sales tools; the other indexes everything and lets you ask.
UserGuiding
The no-code onboarding tool that grew from an Istanbul startup studio into a product-adoption platform used by teams at Verizon and Costco - by betting that the people who understand users shouldn't need an engineer to guide them.
GhostDraft
Simplify every step of your insurance communications, from policy language creation to document delivery, in one powerful platform.
Blue
Blue is a Y Combinator-backed (S25) startup building a voice-first way to operate an iPhone. Its shipping product is the Blue Smart Dictation Keyboard, an iOS keyboard that turns spoken thoughts into polished text and is pitched as roughly four times faster than typing. The longer-term product is a small USB-C dongle plus app that lets you speak a task - send a follow-up, book something, reply to a thread - and have Blue open the right app and carry it out hands-free. The founding team previously worked on Google Assistant, Google DeepMind, and Apple Vision Pro.
Caddy
Caddy is a personal AI for everyday work that lives in your text messages and responds to voice. Built by the team that led product and design for Loom's AI suite, it connects to the tools people already use - email, calendar, Slack, Linear, Notion - and gets work done without forcing anyone to open yet another app. You text or talk; Caddy handles the tickets, reminders, scheduling and follow-ups. The company is part of Y Combinator's Fall 2025 batch and is based in New York City.
jo
jo is a voice-first personal AI agent for macOS that runs on your Mac and a private, per-user cloud machine. Rather than waiting to be asked, it proactively summarizes what is on your screen, drafts emails, manages your calendar, clips relevant content, and keeps up with the loose ends of work and life. Built natively in Swift for Apple Silicon and backed by Y Combinator (W24), jo reaches users across Mac, web, iMessage, Telegram, and WhatsApp while keeping personal data local and out of model training.
PlanRadar
PlanRadar is a Vienna-based SaaS platform that digitizes construction and real estate project management. Its mobile and web apps let site teams pin defect and task tickets directly onto digital plans and BIM models, capture photos, video and voice notes, assign work, and generate reports - replacing paper checklists and scattered spreadsheets. Founded in 2013, it serves more than 170,000 users across 75+ countries.
Yango
Yango is a Dubai-headquartered technology company that started as a ride-hailing brand from the Yandex Taxi team in 2018 and has grown into a global everyday-services ecosystem. Operating in more than 30 countries across Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Europe, and Latin America, Yango bundles mobility, food and grocery delivery, mapping, fintech, advertising, entertainment, and AI into locally adapted apps. Rather than owning fleets, it partners with local taxi companies and businesses, using a 'hyperlocal' playbook to tailor each product to regional cultures, currencies, and infrastructure.
Tiffany Teng
Tiffany Teng is a product and marketing executive turned strategic operator who works on Strategic Projects for the CEO (fractional) at Jump, an AI assistant for financial advisors. A Stanford-trained student of how people make decisions, she pairs go-to-market and product marketing chops with a deep interest in behavioral psychology. She was named to the Innovate Finance Women in FinTech Powerlist 2020 and chairs the board of SaverLife, a nonprofit helping working families build savings.
C8 Health
C8 Health is a healthtech company building an AI-powered best-practices implementation platform for hospitals. It consolidates scattered clinical protocols, guidelines and reference material into a single, site-specific source of truth, then delivers vetted, role-aware answers to clinicians at the point of care through search, mobile-friendly formats and a natural-language AI assistant. Founded in 2022 and used across 100+ U.S. hospitals, the company aims to close the gap between medical evidence and day-to-day clinical practice.
Glean
Glean is a Palo Alto-based enterprise AI company that builds a 'Work AI' platform - a permissions-aware assistant, search layer, and agent environment that connects to a company's scattered SaaS tools and documents so employees can find answers and automate work. Founded in 2019 by former Google search engineers led by Arvind Jain, Glean crossed $200M in ARR by late 2025 and was valued at $7.2 billion in its June 2025 Series F.
Jump - Advisor AI
Jump is an AI assistant and intelligence engine built specifically for financial advisors. It turns client meetings, emails, and documents into notes, CRM updates, follow-ups, and audit-ready compliance records, aiming to give advisors back roughly 10 hours a week of administrative time. Founded in 2023 and publicly launched in January 2024, Jump is used by 35,000+ advisors and firms including LPL Financial, Equitable Advisors, and Allianz, and raised an $80M Series B led by Insight Partners in February 2026, bringing total funding to about $105M.
Magic
Magic is a San Francisco-founded, remote-first company that matches businesses and busy professionals with dedicated remote assistants backed by an AI layer. Founded in 2015 out of Y Combinator by the team behind Made in Space, it launched as a viral SMS 'text us for anything' concierge service and has since evolved into a platform for full-time and part-time executive, admin, customer-support and bookkeeping assistants, plus an always-on 'Magic 24/7' human-plus-AI service. Every assistant is equipped with Magic AI, an in-browser tool wired to premium models from OpenAI and Anthropic.