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kushagrchitkar
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Comment #49530270
This is an interesting edge case. When something similar happened, Almanac texted me asking for an update if I had followed up on email, and then I mentioned that I had followed up…
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Comment #49517381
We have been debating what the best benchmark to show would be. I'd love to test it out on long horizon tasks, but then we're thinking of best to make the base wiki to test it out
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Comment #49516035
Forgot to reply instantly, but its gone now: https://usealmanac.com/pricing
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Comment #49516018
I agree with the take. This was on the roadmap, but given the responses today, we will make permissions inside the company a bigger priority. To brainstorm, would you want the abil…
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Comment #49516000
Hey, glad you found it interesting to work on. We're not looking for interns right now, but shoot me an email at kushagra@usealmanac.com, would love to keep people in mind
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Comment #49513535
Its GPT-5.6-terra under the hood. Also we want to control the harness. Features like proactivity/long tasks are not possible the way Claude/Codex work today. We do plan on releasin…
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Comment #49513055
Wiki updates happen once a day through. That is when the entire day's context is updated in the wiki. That is when the fact disappearance would take place
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Comment #49512798
The current permission implementation is binary. It is either personal to you, or is shared with everyone in the company. Having more granular permissions is something that has bee…
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Comment #49512780
Thank you
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Comment #49512778
There is truly a lot of competition in the space. The reason we're confident we stand out is because of our wiki layer. We have seen both the benefits of having a detailed compiled…
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Comment #49512726
Currently we don't allow for multiple model selection, but it is on the roadmap. We do have a cli, which allows you to use the wiki layer and the tools in whatever harness you pref…
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Comment #49512408
I'd love to hear how you're approaching this problem, and what would you like to see on the website to convince you to try out Almanac
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Comment #49512378
Thanks! I saw the video again and can't look beyond the low resolution now lol. We knew from day 1 that trusting agents is going to be the most difficult part of our product, so we…
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Comment #49512359
The documentation is not just for lookup queries. Having this layer betters the quality of responses, but also enables a lot of features we have in Almanac/plant to add. I mentione…
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Comment #49511648
Just checked out WorkIQ, the promise is quite similar. Spend compute and time upfront developing the knowledge base, which will later result in much better answers
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Comment #49511622
For us, these two things have not been very different. We do make both, a personal and a company wide wiki, so Almanac is useful in both regards
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Comment #49511458
Our browser is interactive, in the sense that one could click around the browser, as well as the agent. Usually for 2FA logins, Almanac would hand it over to the human, who'd compl…
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Comment #49511252
It of course gets more magical the longer you use it, but we've felt it starts providing utility from first few days itself. It could identify things that are going on immediately …
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Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company
Hi HN, I'm Kushagra, one of three founders of Almanac, a Hermes with a brain that knows everything about your company. We started our journey with setting up Hermes for our company…
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