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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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Post by 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.

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

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Post by 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).

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

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Post by taoh »

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?

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

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Post by kushagrchitkar »

jedberg wrote: 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 a huge passage, conversations, and see which memory system could surface those facts. How we're different is agents could be simply given the markdown files, and they can pretty much get the perfect context themselves. Second, we are banking more on the fact that having this layer enables new capabilities of the models

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

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Post by kushagrchitkar »

htrp wrote: 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. Having the perfect context layer makes every single task you do with agents much moe powerful

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

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Post by kushagrchitkar »

willchis wrote: post #24

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).

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 been requested often, and it is on our roadmap. I'm curious, how does Microsoft WorkIQ handle these permissions?
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