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ORO AI launch: what they're building and where to launch next

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What they're building

Continuously improving evals for agentic commerce

Batch
Y Combinator Fall 2026
Industry
B2B
Team size
2
Based
Vancouver, BC, Canada

Founders

oroagents.com ↗

See their funding details ↗

ORO AI on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: We're building the open benchmark for commerce. Builders submit shopping agents. Independent validators run them against problems that change daily. The best agent earns the rewards, and every run becomes training data. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "AI-powered agents, evaluated on Bittensor. Where AI learns to shop." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Shardul Bansal, Founder/CEO: Founder at ORO AI. Previously founding engineer at Crucible Labs, scaling Crucible Wallet from 0 to $3.5M AUM in 3 months. Built distributed systems at AWS Cloud Map, scaling API throughput 4x. Computer Science @ University of Toronto, early undergrad researcher, working on evals for distributed training. (source)
  • Seth Schilbe, Founder/CTO: Founder at ORO AI. Previously Senior Software Engineer at AWS, leading distributed systems projects across ECS and AWS Cloud Map. Earlier, co-founded HomeWurk, building a two-sided marketplace for local services. Targeting low skilled contract work for high school and university students to make extra money while in school. Software Engineering degree from University of New Brunswick. (source)

Code

  • GitHub organization ORO-AI: 4 public repositories, 12 stars in total, mostly Python; most starred is oro (9 stars, Python); last push 2026-09-01 (read 2026-09-08). (source)

Timeline

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

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Where else to launch ORO AI

  • Product Hunt ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree
  • Indie Hackers Forum ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: IndieHackers; bootstrapped solo founders sharing revenue and behind-the-scenes
  • Hacker News (Show HN) ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Hacker News readers; engineers, technical founders, infra-curious people
  • Demand Curve ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • 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
  • ProductLed ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group

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