Sandra AI (YC F24) — Building AI employees for car dealers
Sandra AI is building the AI operating system for car dealerships, replacing clumsy legacy software with an AI-native, automation-driven platform. Founded by 3 McKinsey, HEC & MIT alumni who met 10 years ago at Ecole Polytechnique, the company’s AI agents already automates all customer interactions across calls & messages, and increasingly run dealership operations by automating sales and aftersales workflows end-to-end.
Sandra AI is a Y Combinator company in the Fall 2024 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Building AI employees for car dealers. The founders listed are Badr El Idrissi Mokdad (Founder/CEO), Ismail Majjad (Founder), Skandere Sahli (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, October 2, 2024).
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Sandra AI is building the AI operating system for car dealerships, replacing clumsy legacy software with an AI-native, automation-driven platform. Founded by 3 McKinsey, HEC & MIT alumni who met 10 years ago at Ecole Polytechnique, the company’s AI agents already automates all customer interactions across calls & messages, and increasingly run dealership operations by automating sales and aftersales workflows end-to-end. This operational footprint naturally extends into a proprietary software layer that unifies billing, scheduling, inventory, and CRM into a single dealership OS.
Badr El Idrissi Mokdad
Founder/CEO
Ismail Majjad
Founder
Skandere Sahli
Founder/CTO
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