ByteAsk
New accelerator entry · 2026-09-09 · the record
In their words
ByteAsk is an AI coding agent built for C and C++, the code that runs trading systems, cars, chips, and operating systems. It does not stop at a diff that looks right. ByteAsk builds, debugs, and tests every change with the real toolchain until the change holds. If the compiler, the debugger, or the tests can catch it, then ByteAsk catches it too. It runs from the terminal or inside VS Code, Neovim, and Emacs, and is available fully on-prem.
What the record says
What the site is built with
Read from the page's own HTML and response headers on 10 September 2026, at https://byteask.ai/. Each badge matched a string the site serves about itself — hover one to see which. Nothing here is a traffic, ranking or revenue figure: those cannot be read off a page and are not claimed.
Where this sits on the site
Most-starred repository: ByteAsk-Embedded-MCP — 23 stars, Python.
Counted 2026-09-10 across repositories the account owns; forks are excluded.
Checked away from the directory entry. Neither line below comes from the company's Y Combinator page.
ByteAsk edits your repo from the terminal, then drives the sanitizers, the debugger, and your test suite before you see a diff. Built-in support for LLVM, GCC, gdb, Valgrind, CMake, and more.
The title and description the site itself served, answering 200. Not a cached copy and not the company's directory entry — what was live when we asked.
Counted only where a thread links to this company's own site, announces it by name on that forum, or names it beside its own Y Combinator batch. A thread whose title merely carries the words is not counted — a name is not an identifier. Hacker News is not us, and nothing above is our opinion of the company.
Building coding agents for C and C++ - Prev. low-latency C++ at Optiver and Quantbox - built SOTA Python-to-C++ optimizing transpiler - CSE @ IIT Delhi - Founder/CEO LawSutraAI, acquired by Manupatra, India's largest legal tech firm, where it serves 100k+ lawyers - solo travelled to 12 countries
Pratyush is the co-founder and CTO of ByteAsk, an AI coding tool for C and C++. He studied Computer Science at IIT Delhi. He was a core engineer on NeuralDB and BOLT, ThirdAI's CPU-only search and deep learning engines, then a founding engineer at Simbian, where he co-built the AI security agent that handles over a million incidents a year. He co-founded LawSutraAI as CTO and sold it to Manupatra, India's largest legal tech firm, where his legal research agent serves over 100,000 lawyers.
Founders, titles and bios as the company published them. Photographs are our own copies of the ones on that record, so they do not break when the original link expires.
Against the 37 companies on file from Fall 2026. Median team 2, largest 6.
Interest Score
Every component below is a field already shown elsewhere on this page.
| Component | What it read | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Team size against its batch | 2 on the directory entry | 3 / 25 |
| Founders named | 2 named | 11 / 15 |
| Site answered when asked | https://byteask.ai/ answered | 20 / 20 |
| Public repository linked | a GitHub account is linked from the record | 20 / 20 |
| Named on Hacker News | a thread carries the company by name | 20 / 20 |
| Total | 74 / 100 = 74 | |
The formula is the table: each component scores against a fixed maximum, the totals are added, and the score is the total divided by the points this record type can carry — 100, not 100 — because a directory entry states no offering amount or investor count, and scoring it against components the entry cannot hold would rank every company below every filing for the same reason. It measures how much publicly checkable activity surrounds this record today. It is not growth, not traction, not quality, and it is not a prediction.
Companies doing the same kind of thing (B2B › Engineering, Product and Design), matched on the sectors each one lists rather than on when it was admitted.
| Company | Batch | Sectors | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rindler | Summer 2026 | Developer Tools, SaaS, Infrastructure | 2026-07-07 |
| Alkera AI | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, Data Science | 2026-07-10 |
| hardware intelligence | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, Hardware | 2026-07-14 |
| Hoplite | Summer 2026 | Developer Tools, Cloud Computing, AI | 2026-06-23 |
| HyperProbe | Summer 2026 | AIOps, Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools | 2026-07-07 |
| Prized | Summer 2026 | Developer Tools, SaaS | 2026-06-30 |
| Simantic | Fall 2026 | Developer Tools, Hardware, Semiconductors | 2026-06-24 |
| Agent FM | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, Productivity | 2026-08-05 |
| Graphify Labs | Summer 2026 | Developer Tools, Open Source | 2026-07-26 |
| herdr | Fall 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, AI Assistant | 2026-08-06 |
| Linzumi | Spring 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, Chat | 2026-06-11 |
| OnePatch | Fall 2026 | DevOps, Automation, AI | 2026-09-03 |
| OpenRelay | Summer 2026 | AI | 2026-07-09 |
| Osseus | Summer 2026 | Robotics, B2B, Biotech | 2026-07-11 |
| Workers IO | Fall 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, B2B | 2026-08-28 |
| Zenbu | Spring 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, Open Source | 2026-06-03 |
| Amorphic Labs | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Marketplace, B2B | 2026-07-31 |
| CoArena | Summer 2026 | AIOps, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | 2026-06-24 |
| OpenProse | Spring 2026 | — | 2026-05-19 |
| ORO AI | Fall 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Crypto / Web3, Consumer Products | 2026-09-08 |
| Palisade | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Marketplace, Sales | 2026-08-13 |
| Simulithic | Fall 2026 | Artificial Intelligence | 2026-08-11 |
| Vendo | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, B2B, Customer Success | 2026-07-19 |
| Assemble | Summer 2026 | SaaS, Enterprise Software, AI | 2026-07-12 |
| screenpipe | Summer 2026 | SaaS, B2B, Enterprise | 2026-07-07 |
| ByteAsk (this page) | Fall 2026 | Developer Tools, Generative AI, SaaS | 2026-09-09 |
Click a column heading to sort. 214 other records here share at least one sector with this one; the 25 nearest are in the table. Comparison is against records held here, not against every company that exists.
- 2 founders named on the directory entry.
- One of 24 companies held here in B2B › Engineering, Product and Design.
No investor is drawn from a Form D — the form states how many invested and never who. The one investor on this graph is named because a batch has exactly one.
The full profile
Source Check, INVEST, RECRUIT and Press Requests on ByteAsk
- Source Check — verify Anirudha Kulkarni's other claims against the registers that hold them.
- INVEST — compare this company against the peers above, on the numbers.
- RECRUIT — see who is already on the team.
- Press Requests — connect with Anirudha Kulkarni for a story.
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Sourced from the company's Y Combinator directory entry, from the company's own site, read directly on 2026-09-10 (byteask.ai), from the public GitHub account that record links to (ByteAsk), and from Hacker News, where 1 thread met the matching rule stated beside the count. Figures are read directly from the source record; names have not been matched against other people.