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What they're building

Forward-deployed AI Agents

Batch
Y Combinator Spring 2026
Industry
B2B
Team size
3
Based
San Francisco, CA, USA

Founders

hessian.sh ↗

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Hessian on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: Hessian is the platform for automating business operations with AI agents. We forward deploy on-site to map the work, and build the agents on our platform to run it end-to-end. Unlike off-the-shelf tools that don't know your business, you get a partner that owns the software and operates it every day. Why now? Coding agents have matured to the point where, combined with our engineering judgment we've built across a decade of shipping production systems, we can scale forward-deployed engagements with minimal headcount. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "We forward deploy with you to apply agents to your use-cases, using your existing tooling." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Bao Nguyen, Founder/CEO: Bao, co-founder and CEO of Hessian – leads GTM, fundraising, customer relationships, and ML strategy. He co-founded Zettafleet, leading engineers to build a decentralized LLM training platform on hundreds of GPUs, and was a SWE at Bloomberg building ML pipelines to rate physical assets and managed a Bloomberg-Goldman Sachs Index. (source)
  • James Smith, Founder/COO: James, co-founder and COO of Hessian – leads forward-deployed engagements: customer relationship, system design, shipping AI pipelines to production. Previously five years at Bloomberg building a data platform processing billions of observations for financial firms, including entity-disambiguation AI pipelines, then DRW building data infrastructure and pipelines for commodities trading desks. (source)
  • Tom Watson, Founder/CTO: Tom, co-founder and CTO of Hessian – leads technical direction and engineering of the platform which Hessian runs on. Previously at GoCardless, he was part of a team which migrated the core payments database to a more scalable provider live with zero downtime, on a system processing over £1B on peak days. Prior, spent 2 years at CMC Markets building a 0-to-1 retail trading app for US investors. (source)

Timeline

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

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Where else to launch Hessian

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