Almanac (YC S26) Launches AI Assistant That Builds a Living Knowledge Base for Your Company

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Almanac, a Y Combinator S26 startup founded by Kushagra, Rohan, and Divit, has launched an AI assistant that connects to a company's tools and accounts to build a continuously updated knowledge base. The product integrates with services like Gmail, Google Calendar, Granola, and PostHog via one-click OAuth, then organizes pulled data into personal and shared company wikis. These wikis serve as a pre-compiled memory layer for an underlying Hermes agent, enabling context-aware responses without manual setup. Unlike session-bound AI tools, Almanac supports long-horizon tasks by maintaining ongoing project context across days, and can proactively suggest or draft work autonomously. The founders, who previously built AI knowledge-layer products for Harvard and NASA, developed the concept from a capstone thesis and were motivated by their own frustrations setting up AI agents for internal use.

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