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

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

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Hi ! Are you guys looking for interns or smth right now , this looks like something I would want to work on xD

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

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

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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 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 ability to define teams inside a company as well? I was thinking admins/owners could create teams and select the people they want, and then their permissions

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”?

Forgot to reply instantly, but its gone now: https://usealmanac.com/pricing

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

#46

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 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 ability to define teams inside a company as well? I was thinking admins/owners could create teams and select the people they want, and then their permissions

I suspect nearly “any” solution is good enough to get started and learn what users use and like.

In my guessed-at ideal world, assuming the permissions setting isn’t complex, I’d like the ability for a user to define multiple teams and manage them with an easy method. Maybe that’s an API; maybe it’s a periodic ingest of a csv file. If you must have “admins” and “users” (rather than mostly users who can share teams they create), that will be an ok way to start, but I would bias towards “there are a tiny number of true admins but almost everyone is a user and users can share teams with other users”.

We’re very comfortable with storing config data like this in git and it would be great for tech teams to adjust team ownership by commit/pushing csv files, but that might not fit your actual user base (or the purchase-decision-making subset ;) )

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

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> 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"?

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

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The interesting tradeoff here is not just better retrieval, but whether the pre-compiled wiki makes behavior more predictable over long-running tasks. It would be useful to see comparisons against a plain markdown repo plus Claude/Codex: task completion, citation accuracy, stale-context failures, and the cost of keeping the wiki updated. Multi-model support and bring-your-own-key options also seem important for enterprises that don't want their company's context tied to a single provider.

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

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post #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"?

Twitter doesn't show an author's follow on tweets to an initial tweet when the viewer is not logged in, and people frequently post their twitter thoughts in chains of tweets rather than in the one post. Historically people would therefore post links to sites like xcancel that showed the full content instead, but it appears to be dead.

So reading the linked post, I have no idea if that's the whole thing or if that's just the introductory statement to a larger idea.

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

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post #48

The interesting tradeoff here is not just better retrieval, but whether the pre-compiled wiki makes behavior more predictable over long-running tasks. It would be useful to see comparisons against a plain markdown repo plus Claude/Codex: task completion, citation accuracy, stale-context failures, and the cost of keeping the wiki updated. Multi-model support and bring-your-own-key options also seem important for enter…

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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