
The Spine AI co-founder spent years moving research into real companies. Now he is betting that useful AI needs plans, handoffs and review as much as it needs a clever model.
Spine AI (YC S23) is a San Francisco startup building coordination software for AI agents. Its current product, Medley, is a plugin for Claude Code: you type /mission and Medley breaks the request into a plan, spins up a coordinated team of agents across different models, runs them in parallel with human approval gates, and tracks the whole job on a shared mission board. Founded by Akshay Budhkar and Ashwin Venkatesh Raman, the company argues that a governed team of agents beats any single model working alone.