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Egoist Machines launch: what they're building and where to launch next

What they're building

Your personal context, securely portable across every AI app.

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

Founders

ego.ist ↗

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Egoist Machines on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: Egoist Machines is building the user-owned context layer that will be the unlock for the next generation of consumer AI applications. Our product, AI Passport, lets people carry the personal context they generate in everyday apps into any new product, so it understands them from the first interaction. Tell ChatGPT something and Claude already knows, for example, without any app ever owning your data. The bottleneck for consumer AI is shifting from the model to context. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "Personal context layer for carrying your preferences, history, and identity across the AI apps you use." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Erin McGurk, Founder/CEO: Co-founder & CEO of Egoist Machines (YC S26). Grew 0 to 1M+ followers in a year (@erinmerylstudy) and scaled a social enterprise reaching millions. Advised Cambridge and the UK Government on social media strategy. BA (Uni of Cambridge), Land Economy (Economics + Law). Focused on privacy, and social + legal infrastructure. (source)
  • David Khachaturov, Founder/CTO: Founder at Egoist Machines (YC S26). BA/MA (Uni of Cambridge), MSc (Uni of Oxford), PhD (Uni of Cambridge) in Computer Science. Youngest-ever Fellow at St Catharine's College, Cambridge at 25. Previously ML Researcher at OpenAI (PaperBench), Lead AI Security Researcher at FrontierOne. Founded and scaled mazette! (game publisher, 10-title portfolio). (source)

Timeline

  1. 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)

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