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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.
Unisson
Unisson (YC W26) is a San Francisco startup building AI agents that act as hands-on product experts for customer-facing teams at B2B software companies. Its agents learn to use a client's product in about 15 minutes by exploring the interface and codebase, then work alongside implementation, customer success, and sales engineering teams inside Slack, email, and text to run onboarding, migrations, integrations, audits, and change management. Founded in 2026 by Varun Mathur and Tom Achache, the company charges only when its agents are actively doing work.