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Assemble

YC S26

San Francisco, US · Founded 2026 · 4 employees · 2 known investors

Assemble provides a platform for managing changes across enterprise systems, allowing developers to scope dependencies, modify logic, and validate changes across multiple platforms from a single interface.

Also known as Serin · Standard Interaction · Assemble AI

Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (S26)

Assemble was founded in 2026 by Aliyan Ishfaq, Shaurnav Ghosh, and Shrish Janarthanan.

AIAliyan Ishfaq
Aliyan Ishfaqin𝕏Co-founder, CEOAliyan Ishfaq studied computer science and AI at Stanford and previously worked at SAIL and LangChain.
SGShaurnav Ghosh
Shaurnav GhoshinCo-FounderShaurnav Ghosh is a Stanford-educated computer scientist who has held roles at AWS and Apple, and previously worked at Phia.
SJShrish Janarthanan
Shrish Janarthananin𝕏Co-FounderShrish Janarthanan studied computer science at Stanford and participated in the Mayfield Fellows program.

Investors · 2

Funding

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Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Assemble (assemble.ai) develops AI agents that carry out development and change work inside enterprise IT systems. The product is organized around three stages: scoping, in which the agent maps how a customer's existing stack operates and how a proposed change would propagate through dependent systems; running, in which changes are deployed and operated across systems from a single interface via a workbench used to assemble modules, customizations and upgrades; and verifying, in which the system generates tests the work should pass, runs them against a shadow environment to demonstrate parity, and records changes in a revertible ledger.

The platform connects to enterprise applications including Salesforce, NetSuite, MuleSoft and ServiceNow, and draws on a customer-specific knowledge base holding system preferences, policy documents and field-mapping overrides. Published use cases span integration repair (for example tracing and fixing a Salesforce-to-NetSuite order sync that drops a field, then packaging change-advisory-board-ready evidence), HRIS propagation of Workday organizational changes into NetSuite, vendor master deduplication with automatic merging of safe duplicate groups and queuing of the rest for accounts-payable review, and CRM migration from Google Sheets and Notion into HubSpot with associated companies, contacts, deals and notes.

Assemble positions a control layer beneath each agent run, consisting of blast-radius analysis that evaluates existing rules and data to assess downstream effects, system rollbacks presented as version control for business systems, and auditable traces capturing every agent action for inspection and replay.

Business model

Assemble sells software to enterprise organizations, engaging prospects through a demo request and direct contact with the founding team rather than self-serve sign-up.

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market

Market position

Assemble targets the enterprise IT change and integration work that spans multiple business systems, offering agentic execution with scoping, rollback and audit controls.

Technology

The product combines AI agents with connectors into enterprise systems such as Salesforce, NetSuite, MuleSoft and ServiceNow, a customer knowledge base of preference, policy and field-mapping files, dependency analysis to determine the blast radius of a change, automated test generation run against a shadow environment for parity checking, versioned rollbacks, and traces of every agent action.

Go-to-market

Prospective customers are directed to request a demo or contact the founders directly by email, with the site inviting companies to describe current work in order to receive an assessment of potential savings.

Enterprise IT and internal systems teams that operate and modify business applications such as CRM, ERP, HR and service-management platforms, including organizations with change-advisory-board processes.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

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HeadcountAug 20264

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

Timeline · 1

launches, deals, and filings
Jan 2026
Assemble markets AI agents for enterprise IT systems with Salesforce, NetSuite, MuleSoft and ServiceNow connectors

Assemble's website presents a platform that scopes dependencies, runs changes across enterprise systems from a single workbench, and verifies them with generated tests, shadow-environment parity checks, rollbacks and auditable traces.

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In the news

Research sources · 8

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Frequently asked questions

What does Assemble do?
Assemble builds AI agents that scope, execute and validate development changes across enterprise IT systems.
Who founded Assemble?
Assemble was founded by Aliyan Ishfaq, Shaurnav Ghosh, Shrish Janarthanan in 2026.
Who are Assemble's investors?
Assemble's investors include Y Combinator, Susa Ventures.
Where is Assemble headquartered?
Assemble is headquartered in San Francisco, US.