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Re: Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company

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Really simple and well designed website for the brand identity. Logo, background, UI and FAQ all flows well. Feel like I trust the project without knowing much about it or having the usual “trusted by” section. Keep it up!

Only nitpick maybe remove the red box next to the Pricing label on the pricing page. Looks like the Polish flag on first glance and I immediately thought “does it show me pricing from Poland”?

Re: Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company

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post #25

The source-retention detail seems more important than the model list: if an email is compiled into a wiki and later deleted, or access is revoked, how quickly does that fact disappear from the personal or company wiki? Is the wiki rebuilt from current source state, or are removals handled as a separate event?

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

Re: Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company

#33

> 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)

why "apologies for twitter link"?

Re: Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company

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post #21

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 enterpri…

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 prefer. Further, we want to allow users to also bring their own keys/subscription. We do not have formal benchmarks to measure improvement in performance. A big reason is that most benchmarks are very "atomic facts memory" focused. They'd give…

> Currently we don't allow for multiple model selection, but it is on the roadmap.

Cool! What model does it use now? Enterprises will definitely want to know.

And the other big question: Why not just use Claude or Codex (via CLI on a desktop or droplet)?

Re: Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company

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post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 prefer. Further, we want to allow users to also bring their own keys/subscription. We do not have formal benchmarks to measure improvement in performance. A big reason is that most benchmarks are very "atomic facts memory" focused. They'd give…

> Currently we don't allow for multiple model selection, but it is on the roadmap. Cool! What model does it use now? Enterprises will definitely want to know. And the other big question: Why not just use Claude or Codex (via CLI on a desktop or droplet)?

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 releasing our desktop app, which would have these things inbuilt.

Re: Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company

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post #22

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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 wiki, and more importantly, actually using this layer to then power capabilities. Two such examples are written in the post as proactive agents and the handling long horizon tasks. I believe this is still just scratching the surface. Havin…

Wishing you guys the best, but this isn't a very compelling answer. Would be helpful to provide more concrete or quantifiable examples. In the early stages when pitching to users, it's preferable to state exactly what can be done now.

Re: Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company

#38
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”.

Re: Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company

#39

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 rath…

I guess you could say, you weren't cimpress-ed
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