Microsoft WorkIQ but for companies on a non-MS stack
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
Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company
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#12> 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)
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What does this comment add to the conversation? Is it just flame bait? Seems you have a habit of making this pointless comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189670
Re: Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company
#13If AI has achieved anything it's a dramatic increase in documentation quality for the sake of training or instructions.
I'd argue that if documentation on how to operate your business can be used to feed an agent, your problem was never the ability to run operations and the ROI will amount to the ability to ask instead of doing. I don't know how much this is gonna go for, but you could probably have one of your existing staff just do basic documentation lookups too.
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#14The website tells me absolutely nothing about what makes this new or unique
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#15The website tells me absolutely nothing about what makes this new or unique
I would agree that there are a lot of people in this space, both products and roll your own. We are doing our own stuff here in our company right now, and could be interested. But for me, I didn't feel like i know enough to actually assess and take the next steps. Good luck!
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#17Congratulations on the launch! The demo in the video you linked looks awesome (though your video resolution is a bit low, some of the text is hard to read on screen, I suggest you record in higher resolution). I think you made a really good choice to have your connector provider handle OAuth credentials, since it is really hard to get security right on a multitenant app like yours, where some of your agents are doing work on customers' behalf and others are improving your product itself :). The design of your app interface also looks really great!
Re: Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company
#18If AI has achieved anything it's a dramatic increase in documentation quality for the sake of training or instructions. I'd argue that if documentation on how to operate your business can be used to feed an agent, your problem was never the ability to run operations and the ROI will amount to the ability to ask instead of doing. I don't know how much this is gonna go for, but you could probably have one of your exist…
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 mentioned in the post how this layer enables proactive agents and long horizon tasks. I just came across a Google paper yesterday (https://arxiv.org/html/2608.27454v1) that use a similar wiki knowledge base to self improve agent skills. I think these are just scratching the surface of ideas of what's possible with this layer
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#19Congratulations on the launch! The demo in the video you linked looks awesome (though your video resolution is a bit low, some of the text is hard to read on screen, I suggest you record in higher resolution). I think you made a really good choice to have your connector provider handle OAuth credentials, since it is really hard to get security right on a multitenant app like yours, where some of your agents are doing…
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 take privacy and security with the utmost seriousness
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#20The website tells me absolutely nothing about what makes this new or unique
I would agree that there are a lot of people in this space, both products and roll your own. We are doing our own stuff here in our company right now, and could be interested. But for me, I didn't feel like i know enough to actually assess and take the next steps. Good luck!
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