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

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What they're building

Engineering Intelligence and Token Optimization for the AI-Coding Era

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

Founders

mentlio.com ↗

See their funding details ↗

Mentlio on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: Mentlio an applied research lab focused on optimizing AI ROI for the modern enterprise. We help engineering teams draw a line between their AI spend and delivery, per engineer. We then cut ~30% of AI spend via Mentlio's custom ML-based intelligent routing, context optimization, and prompt compression. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "Mentlio measures enterprise AI adoption, quality, training gaps, and ROI without collecting prompts or source code." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Ashank Shah, Founder/CEO: Building Mentlio | Prev. CS @ Caltech | Researched generative and graph-based DL for biomedical problems @ Dartmouth Health. (source)
  • Ahmet Demirbas, Founder/CTO: Tokenmaxxing → ROImaxxing | Prev CS @ Caltech | 5x Published ML, NLP, Agents Research @ IEEE, ACM, BMC (source)

Timeline

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

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Where else to launch Mentlio

  • 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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