Building the communication infrastructure needed for fully autonomous agents
primitive is a Y Combinator company in the Spring 2026 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: communication for agents. The founder listed is Ethan Byrd (Founder/CEO) (Y Combinator directory entry, March 10, 2026).
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Building the communication infrastructure needed for fully autonomous agents
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Primitive is email infrastructure for AI agents: universal email addresses, hosted functions, and transactional email over the protocol every business already uses. It also ships a ChatGPT app — an in-agent MCP App UI built on the OpenAI Apps SDK that renders your inbox inside the agent host.
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