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Chert

Chert provides the infrastructure for businesses to automate conversations over iMessage. We’re already working with B2C startups, customer experience teams, and sales teams to reach end users through trusted and conversational messaging.

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Y Combinator
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last updated
2026-07-15
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Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #541

Chert provides the infrastructure for businesses to automate conversations over iMessage. We’re already working with B2C startups, customer experience teams, and sales teams to reach end users through trusted and conversational messaging.

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Chert is classified as Developer tools 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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iMessageB2C startupsbusinessesend userstrusted and conversational messaging
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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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Companies similar to Chert

Developer tools · 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.

Heltar

match 69

Heltar helps businesses automate customer engagement on WhatsApp with AI-powered, no-code chatbots and bulk messaging.

shared extracted concepts: businesses; shared product terms: businesse, automate, customer, messag; shared product theme: workflow automation, developer infrastructure, sales and marketing

Steno

match 62

We provide secure, private, custom conversational AI solutions that transform content into engaging, personalized user experiences. Our platform can be deployed within a company's infrastructure or as a fully managed SaaS solution, enabling businesses to scale efficiently and increase revenue while retaining full control over their data.

shared extracted concepts: businesses; shared product terms: infrastructure, businesse, over, experience; shared product theme: developer infrastructure, sales and marketing

Ekho

match 61

Ekho's end-to-end vehicle commerce platform powers compliant, digital sales of titled vehicles. Our platform handles checkout, financing, titling, registration, signature collection, and taxes—so dealers and OEMs can sell nationwide with a seamless, Tesla-like experience. Dealers use Ekho Dealer as a “dealership-in-a-box” to capture online sales and automate in-store deals without needing large back-office teams, while OEMs use Ekho Access and Omni to extend their reach and unify dealers across

shared extracted concept terms: end; shared product terms: automate, experience, sale, reach; shared product theme: workflow automation, sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Smobi

match 55

Smobi is the AI-powered platform for branded, interactive business messaging, starting with RCS. We help businesses send rich, personalized messages that drive engagement, build trust, and create real conversations.

shared extracted concepts: businesses; shared product terms: businesse, conversation, trust, messag; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Pally

match 55

We spend our lives in messaging apps. Slack. iMessage. WhatsApp. We face a constant stream of information, introductions, and things we need to do. What if you could bring together every message, from every platform, in a Superhuman-like experience, with AI agents that automatically complete your action items? That’s exactly what we’re building at Pally; a future where you never need to check another inbox again.

shared extracted concepts: imessage; shared product terms: imessage, re, experience, messag; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Latchel

match 54

Latchel is the only end-to-end platform that automates maintenance coordination and delivers best in class resident amenities. We service over 80,000 homes across over 400 customers in all 50 states of the US. We’re growing rapidly and need a Product Designer to continue our rapid growth trajectory.

shared product terms: automate, over, re, customer; shared product theme: workflow automation, sales and marketing; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator