Mentlio (YC S26) — Engineering intelligence and token optimization for the AI-Coding era
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.
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What it does Engineering Intelligence and Token Optimization for the AI-Coding Era (source)
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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.
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Mentlio measures enterprise AI adoption, quality, training gaps, and ROI without collecting prompts or source code.
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Ashank Shah
Founder/CEO
Building Mentlio | Prev. CS @ Caltech | Researched generative and graph-based DL for biomedical problems @ Dartmouth Health.
Ahmet Demirbas
Founder/CTO
Tokenmaxxing → ROImaxxing | Prev CS @ Caltech | 5x Published ML, NLP, Agents Research @ IEEE, ACM, BMC
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