deterministic-ai
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Interfaze
Interfaze is a San Francisco AI startup building a model purpose-built for deterministic developer tasks - OCR, web scraping, speech-to-text, object detection and classification - where consistency and verifiable output matter more than open-ended chat. Its hybrid architecture fuses specialized neural networks (CNN/DNN) directly into a transformer decoder, and the model ships as an OpenAI-compatible API with confidence scores, bounding boxes and metadata so developers can build rule-based systems on top. Founded by Yoeven Khemlani and Harsha Vardhan Khurdula, Interfaze is part of Y Combinator's 2026 batch and grew out of the team's earlier developer-API company, JigsawStack.
Keye
Keye is a New York-based AI company (YC F24) building a due diligence platform exclusively for private equity. It converts raw deal files into structured, audit-ready analyses, using what the company calls deterministic AI - natural-language understanding paired with code-based execution - so that every number ties back to a source, formula, or quote. Funds representing more than $1.4T in AUM use it to cut days off each deal.
Rohan Chopra
Rohan Chopra is the co-founder and CEO of Convey, a San Francisco enterprise AI company that lets non-technical operators build and manage autonomous 'digital teammates' to run repetitive business operations. An early DoorDash engineer who spent roughly eight years there building the logistics and dispatch systems behind its delivery network, Chopra started Convey in 2024 with childhood friends Diego Canales and Will Harvey. In June 2026 the company raised a $38 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Khosla Ventures and Pear VC participating, after its platform logged more than one million hours of automated work for customers including NBCUniversal, Samsara, TelevisaUnivision, Unity, Faire and ChargePoint.
Scaled Cognition
Scaled Cognition is a Mountain View AI company building what it calls the first Agentic Pretrained Transformer (APT), a model designed and trained specifically for taking reliable, policy-adherent actions rather than just predicting language. Founded by the team behind Semantic Machines (acquired by Microsoft in 2018), it targets enterprise customer-experience workflows where mistakes and hallucinations are unacceptable - financial services, healthcare, telecom, and insurance. In June 2026 the company raised a $100M Series A led by Khosla Ventures to expand its research team and accelerate enterprise deployments.
Kognitos
Kognitos is a Mountain View-based enterprise AI company that lets business users automate back-office operations by writing instructions in plain English. Its patented neurosymbolic platform, Koncierge, pairs the language understanding of large language models with a deterministic symbolic execution engine, aiming to run automations that are auditable and free of hallucinations. Founded in 2020 by former Nutanix CTO Binny Gill, the company pitches itself as a modern alternative to legacy RPA tools like UiPath and has raised roughly $85M across seed, Series A, and a $25M Series B.