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Orchestra launch: what they're building and where to launch next

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What they're building

Self-optimizing neocloud that cuts LLM costs by 100x

Batch
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industry
B2B
Team size
2
Based
San Francisco, CA, USA

Founders

orchestra.ai ↗

See their funding details ↗

Orchestra on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: Orchestra is an inference cloud. We capture your AI work traces, train smaller models, and automatically deploy them (only when they outperform the expensive model you are currently paying for). Instead of renting the same frontier model forever, your AI infrastructure gets faster, smarter, and cheaper every time it runs. Suppose your product uses Claude for a repetitive legal workflow. Orchestra observes successful production runs, learns the specific tools and judgment required for that workflow, and trains a specialized open-weight model. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "Orchestra evaluates production work, improves the models behind it, and trains specialist models your team owns." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Luis Manrique, Founder/CEO: Founder at Orchestra (YC S26). Previously founding Member of Technical Staff (and founding sales guy) at Gumloop, closing ~$2M in first year. Led Ads ML and also consumer AI as first PM at Instacart's Carrot AI. Prior co-founder/CEO at Ones and Zeros (text-to-SQL using transformers). Early at Wildfire (acquired by Google), then 5 years across Google's ads ML and programmatic platforms. (source)
  • Aamir Poonawalla, Founder/CTO: Founder at Orchestra (YC S26). 9 years at Instacart. Built the ads serving and ML infrastructure, auction platform, and experimentation framework. 2nd time YC Founder. MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. (source)

Timeline

  1. 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)
  2. 2026-07-07: "Show HN: Orchestra – Browser automation tool with export plain Playwright" posted to Hacker News by oceandoughnut, 1 point and 0 comments. (source)

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Where else to launch Orchestra

  • Product Hunt ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree
  • Hacker News (Show HN) ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Hacker News readers; engineers, technical founders, infra-curious people
  • Indie Hackers Forum ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: IndieHackers; bootstrapped solo founders sharing revenue and behind-the-scenes
  • Demand Curve ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • Dev Hunt ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree
  • No Code Founders ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • OnlineGeniuses ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • Product Makers ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group

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