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Agnost AI

YC S26Entrepreneur First '25

San Francisco, US Β· Founded 2025 Β· 2 employees Β· 3 known investors

Agnost AI provides observability and failure detection for AI agents in production environments. The platform analyzes real production conversations from any LLM or framework to identify failures, extract patterns, and generate fixes that teams can implement, with support for intent detection, sentiment analysis, and automatic improvements.

Also known as Agnost Β· Agnost AI (YC S26)

Founders & leadershipΒ· Y Combinator alumni (S26)

Agnost AI was founded in 2025 by Parth Ajmera and Shubham Palriwala.

PAParth Ajmera
Parth Ajmerain𝕏Co-FounderParth Ajmera holds a Computer Science degree from IIT Madras and previously held engineering roles at Infurnia focused on graphics and at Microsoft working on large-scale data infrastructure. He is Co-Founder and CTO at Agnost AI.
SPShubham Palriwala
Shubham Palriwalain𝕏Co-Founder & CEOHe previously worked as an engineer at Cisco on analytics projects and was an early hire at Formbricks, an open-source survey platform, while also contributing to various open-source initiatives including Bitcoin and projects under OWASP and the Linux Foundation.

Investors Β· 3

Also in the syndicate Β· 1

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Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Agnost AI is a San Francisco-based developer tools and analytics company that positions itself as product analytics for conversational AI agents. Its platform ingests production conversations and traces from a company's AI agents, reads each trace alongside the underlying conversation, and maps activity back to individual users in order to detect "silent failures" β€” cases where a trace reports success but the user received nothing useful, such as an agent claiming to have sent a document that never arrived or confidently answering the wrong question. Product capabilities described on the company site include automatic discovery of intents and sentiment, auto-clustering of conversations into recurring problems ranked by impact, detection of hallucinations, broken promises, and quality, policy, and compliance violations, alerts for silent failures and rising friction, and self-improvement suggestions for the agent [0][1][2].

A second product line builds on the same data: Agnost uses historical production traces to identify recurring workflows an agent performs, generates evaluation sets from held-out traces, and trains workload-specific "custom" or specialist models for narrow, repeatable jobs such as request routing, tool selection, data retrieval, and response formatting. The company frames this as complementary to, not a replacement for, frontier models, which it says remain appropriate for open-ended work. Customers are benchmarked against their existing model on task success, latency, and cost before considering a switch [0][1][2].

Integration is designed to avoid re-architecting the agent: traces can be sent via OpenTelemetry or Agnost's SDKs, and a published skill package supports installation through a CLI command. SDKs cover conversation/AI interaction tracking (Python package `agnost`, TypeScript package `agnostai`) and Model Context Protocol server analytics (`agnost-mcp` for Python, `agnost` for npm, and a Go module). The API exposes session-creation and event-capture endpoints, with methods for initialization, begin/end interaction tracking with automatic latency calculation, single-call tracking, user identification/enrichment, and flush/shutdown. On security, the company states it processes only the conversation data customers choose to send, uses HTTPS transport and authenticated dashboard access, and explicitly does not perform automatic PII redaction, advising customers to use pseudonymous IDs and redact sensitive fields before ingestion [0][1][3].

Compiled by commissioned research from 7 cited public sources β€” announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Custom model cost per 1,000 completed tasks vs. baselineJan 2026$42.00 to $2.30, 94.5% lower than Opus 4.8
Custom model median latency vs. baselineJan 20264.80s to 0.47s, 90.2% lower than Opus 4.8
Custom model tail latency vs. baselineJan 202611.20s to 1.35s, 87.9% lower than Opus 4.8
Estimated annual revenue (third-party estimate)Jan 2026$171.1K
Estimated valuation (third-party estimate)Jan 2026$547.6K
HeadcountAug 20265
Messages analyzed per dayJan 20261,000,000 messages/day
Pro plan priceJan 2026$499
Starter plan priceJan 2026$49
Team sizeJan 20262 employees
Total fundingApr 2026$250K

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed β€” not independently audited.

Images

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Competitors Β· 5

by search overlap
Composio27 shared keywordsComposio provides a developer platform that gives AI agents and autonomous systems access to over 1,000 third-party tools with managed authentication, sandboxed execution, and intelligent tool selection. The platform enables developers to build multi-step AI workflows across applications without handling OAuth flows or tool configuration.
DataCamp26 shared keywordsDataCamp is a learning platform for teams that teaches data and AI skills through hands-on coursework accessible via web browser and mobile app. It serves enterprise customers and development teams seeking to build technical capabilities.
Stainless17 shared keywordsStainless builds open-source standards and developer tools that combine GraphQL and gRPC capabilities with REST's simplicity, targeting API developers and platform builders. The company offers a suite of developer platform products designed to deliver high-quality API experiences.
OpenAI17 shared keywordsOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company focused on developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) with emphasis on safety and beneficial outcomes for humanity.
Merge14 shared keywordsMerge provides a unified API and integration infrastructure that lets software companies connect their products to hundreds of third-party systems (HRIS, accounting, ticketing, file storage, CRM) and deploy AI agents that take authenticated actions across enterprise tools. It also offers model routing to direct LLM requests to different providers, serving product and engineering teams building AI features and integrations.

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Timeline Β· 4

launches, deals, and filings
Apr 2026
$250K pre-seed round with investment from Entrepreneurs First

$250K source β†—

Jan 2026
Accepted into Y Combinator Summer 2026 batch

Listed on Y Combinator's company directory in the Summer 2026 batch with primary partner Tyler Bosmeny; site is badged "Backed by Y Combinator".

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Jan 2026
Custom specialist models trained from agent traces

Second YC launch introducing workload-specific model training from production traces. The first custom model, built for an early customer's Identifier Extraction Agent, was evaluated on 780 held-out traces against Opus 4.8 and reported 22.9% higher task success, 90.2% lower median latency and 94.5% lower cost per 1,000 completed tasks.

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Jan 2026
Launch of Agnost AI as product analytics for AI agents

Initial launch reading every conversation between users and agents to surface hidden insights and product feedback; company stated it was working with teams at Google, Exa and Corgi.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

In the news

β–ΈResearch sources Β· 7

primary sources listed

7 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Agnost AI do?
YC-backed startup that analyzes AI agent production traces to surface silent failures and train workload-specific custom models.
Who founded Agnost AI?
Agnost AI was founded by Parth Ajmera, Shubham Palriwala in 2025.
Who are Agnost AI's investors?
Agnost AI's investors include Y Combinator, Entrepreneur First.
Where is Agnost AI headquartered?
Agnost AI is headquartered in San Francisco, US.