Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company
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Almanac is a new AI agent that hooks into your company accounts and builds a memory of them. It’s trying to make assistants that actually remember work, not just answer one-off prompts.
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Almanac is launching out of Y Combinator with a simple pitch: give the agent your company context, and it stops acting like a goldfish. Co-founder Kushagra says the team first tried to set up Hermes for its own company and ran straight into the usual mess — connectors, OAuth apps, context loading, and memory that didn’t stick. That frustration turned into the product.
The setup is straightforward. You sign up, connect accounts like Gmail, Calendar, Granola, and PostHog, and Almanac starts building two wikis from that data. One is personal, for your preferences, people, and day-to-day life. The other is for the company: what it is, what the team is building, the roadmap, and the blockers. The agent then uses those wikis along with the source accounts, which is how the founders want it to feel like it already knows the user.
They’re leaning hard on memory as the core idea. The founders say most AI assistants treat it as an afterthought, while Almanac is built around a pre-compiled knowledge layer that pulls in more compute up front. That approach was used in earlier products for Harvard and NASA, and the team says it has spent more than a year working on wikis for AI.
That memory is meant to make the agent useful over time, not just in one chat. Almanac can watch for tasks in the background, suggest things it could automate, and pick up long-running work days later. The example they give is pretty telling: it might wake someone up with a draft fundraising pitch deck already prepared, or follow up on an email thread hours after sending the first message.
The early use cases are all over the map. One user runs a dog rescue through it, another uses it to study Polymarket strategies, and another builds marketing campaigns without re-explaining the business each time. Almanac says it only accesses accounts that are explicitly connected, stores OAuth credentials with its connection provider rather than in its own database, and keeps the wiki plus the source behind its citations. It’s live now, with a 7-day trial on all plans.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
The interesting part here isn’t the agent talk; it’s the memory plumbing. Most AI products still act like a tab that disappears when you blink, and that gets old fast. If Almanac really keeps context without turning privacy into a clown show, that’s the kind of boring infrastructure people actually pay for.
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