Almanac (YC S26) gives AI its own computer and a self-updating wiki of your company
Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company
Almanac is an AI agent that runs on its own always-on computer, signed into your tools. It maintains a wiki of your company's context—people, projects, decisions—by compiling information from Slack, Gmail, Google Docs, and more. You text it tasks, and it works autonomously, filing GitHub issues, drafting renewal decks, or answering questions from the wiki. It can even use tools without APIs by logging in like a human. Crucially, it asks before making irreversible actions and lets you watch every step. Backed by Y Combinator, Almanac aims to be the agent that truly knows your company.
Integrations fetch on demand; they don’t remember. Almanac maintains the wiki continuously and works from a computer of its own, so it starts already caught up and keeps going after you leave.
- jedberg
There is a lot of competition in this space, both commercial companies and open source. It seems like the biggest advantage for using one of these and not Claude or Codex is that you can use multiple models. Otherwise, those two have all the same features, or probably will in the next week.
Are you able to use multiple models? Or I guess the first question is, what model(s) are you using? At this point, many enterprises care so that should be front and center, especially if you're using models hosted in China, because a lot of non-Chinese companies care about that.
You mention some things about unique ways to store memory. Do you have any data or use cases on how that improves performance? If you do, you should get those on your website too.
I'm not sure you have a very strong answer to "Why not just run Claude or Codex on my laptop?" Sure, you provide compute, but so do they, and most enterprises and even regular people are getting desktops/droplets to run their agents now because of this problem. This is kind of solved already.
Also there is a small nit with your website. The graphic next to "Proactively gets things done for you" gets bigger and smaller, so if you're trying to read anything below that, it keeps jumping up and down.
- bewareofscams
> that knows everything about your company
Given that I don't know everything about my 4-person company, and that I never knew everything when it was a 1-person company (guess which person is that), this sound like https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2044529496217555333 (apologies for twitter link)
- sokoloff
Don’t have time to dig deep into it this afternoon, but want to comment to come back but also to suggest an expansion past your stated “one personal and one company” wiki.
I lead two different functional areas within tech and work in a larger tech platform for the parent company of a couple dozen operating companies.
All that to say “I would almost surely be better served by a hierarchy or general graph of wikis rather than just ‘me’ or ‘all 15K employees’.”
Even a 50 person company might benefit from “me”, “my team”, “my department”, and “whole company”.
- rdksu
Hi ! Are you guys looking for interns or smth right now , this looks like something I would want to work on xD
- willchis
How do you manage permissions in the wiki? Does it require all content being available to everyone in the org or does it do some sort of vectorizing that is unique to every single user based on their perms? Whenever we've tried to build something similar, permissions is usually the first headache and is often why something like Microsoft's WorkIQ is appealing (if you're an O365 org).