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Agency

Agency replaces traditional security and compliance headcount with AI without replacing your existing tools. Our platform is operated by forward-deployed engineers who run your entire security and compliance program including full virtual CISO coverage on your behalf. All powered by our proprietary AI agents. Agency is a vertically integrated AI platform and services company that enables organizations to achieve and maintain SOC 2, ISO 27001, CMMC 2.0, HIPAA, GDPR, FedRAMP, HITRUST, ISO 42001, a

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #4896

Agency replaces traditional security and compliance headcount with AI without replacing your existing tools. Our platform is operated by forward-deployed engineers who run your entire security and compliance program including full virtual CISO coverage on your behalf. All powered by our proprietary AI agents. Agency is a vertically integrated AI platform and services company that enables organizations to achieve and maintain SOC 2, ISO 27001, CMMC 2.0, HIPAA, GDPR, FedRAMP, HITRUST, ISO 42001, a

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Agency is classified as AI agents from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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AIISO 27001SOC 2CMMC 2.0ISO 42001ISO 42001
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Companies similar to Agency

AI agents · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Clicks

match 65

Clicks is the AI-native BPO backed by Y Combinator. We replace traditional BPOs and shared service centers by automating back-office work with AI agents that operate your existing tools and follow your existing processes. We achieve higher accuracy and faster turn-around times at a fraction of the cost, with SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA compliance built in.

shared product terms: replace, traditional, compliance, exist; shared product theme: security and compliance; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Feroot Security

match 46

Feroot (YC W21) is the leading compliance and security platform for b2b websites that helps you easily achieve and maintain compliance with PCI DSS 4.0.1, CCPA, CIPA, HIPAA and 50+ data privacy regulations.

shared product terms: security, compliance, achieve, maintain; shared product theme: security and compliance; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Hessian

match 41

Hessian is the platform for automating business operations with AI agents. We forward deploy on-site to map the work, and build the agents on our platform to run it end-to-end. Unlike off-the-shelf tools that don't know your business, you get a partner that owns the software and operates it every day. Why now? Coding agents have matured to the point where, combined with our engineering judgment we've built across a decade of shipping production systems, we can scale forward-deployed engagements

shared product terms: forward, deploy, engineer, run; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Lightsprint

match 33

Lightsprint is a collaborative platform for software teams to plan visually, preview live and ship with an army of cloud agents. Your whole team, including non-engineers, can now ship end to end reliably. The company is founded by Ben Ong, an AI investor who previously scaled AI products at SEA Group (NYSE: SE) and Temasek ($300B fund), Benedict Chan who was VP Engineering at Chainlink and CTO at BitGo (NYSE:BTGO), and Heng Hong Lee who built Facebook Messenger in 2013 and was Director of Engine

shared product terms: includ, engineer, who; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

smol machines

match 25

Smol machines solve the problem of "but app works on my machine" by shipping the machine. Smol machine enables devs to ship a lightweight virtual machine with any software, similar to how Electron ships an entire browser with the web app.

shared product terms: enable, virtual, entire; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Accountable

match 21

HIPAA compliance made easy

shared product terms: hipaa, compliance; shared product theme: security and compliance