ShortLoop

The problem we solve: 56% of dealership leads arrive after business hours, and most dealers lose these potential customers to competitors who happen to be available 24/7. Missing after-hours calls alone costs the average dealership $1M annually in lost revenue. We built Flai to fix this - AI assistants that answer dealership calls 24/7, scheduling test drives, oil changes, or running outbound recall campaigns so no opportunity slips away. The result: No more missed opportunities, no more losing

shared extracted concept terms: dealership, customer; shared product terms: dealership, customer, miss, call; shared product theme: sales and marketing; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Certus AI is replacing the restaurant phone line with Voice AI. Restaurants lose up to $100,000 per year per location from missed calls, lost orders, and abandoned hold lines. Staff are overwhelmed. IVRs frustrate customers. Call centers are expensive and impersonal. It’s 2025. Guests don’t leave voicemails or wait on hold. They just move on. Certus is an AI voice agent built for restaurants. It answers every call, 24/7 — taking orders, processing deliveries, booking reservations, upselling, and

shared extracted concepts: customers; shared product terms: phone, year, miss, call; shared product theme: sales and marketing; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Hamming AI is the complete QA platform for voice agents from pre-deployment testing to production monitoring. 4M+ calls tested. 10K+ agents monitored. Trusted by public companies and the fastest-growing voice AI teams. Connect your agent, auto-generate test scenarios, and run thousands of test calls in minutes. In production, monitor every call with 50+ built-in metrics and get alerts before customers notice. Sumanyu (CEO) was previously Head of Data at Citizen and Senior Staff Data Scientist at

shared extracted concepts: customers; shared product terms: test, call, auto, run; shared product theme: sales and marketing; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

BrainHi is an automated receptionist for local businesses. Local businesses are in search of new clients and revenue, yet 25% of phone calls to local businesses are missed and 80% of potential clients don’t leave voicemails. BrainHi uses AI to create an automated receptionist that answers missed calls 24/7 and chats with clients to schedule appointments and answer admin questions, resulting in more business. Cofounders Emmanuel and Israel started BrainHi after Hurricane Maria made communicating

shared product terms: revenue, phone, call, miss; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Hey YC! We're Devi and Jianna - the founders of Cardinal. TL;DR: Cardinal is the AI platform for precision outbound. We run outbound for 40+ YC companies, like Mintlify, Greptile, and Luminai. The Problem “Spray and Pray” outbound is dead. The best teams at outbound do it with extreme precision. Finding things in common with your customers, staying in touch with them through their content, mapping inbound from signups and ads, tracking website visitors, monitoring various signals, etc. This soun

shared extracted concepts: customers; shared product terms: outbound, run, like, customer; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Lovage helps barbers and stylists fill empty appointment slots and get more clients. Beauty professionals frequently have gaps in their schedules due to cancellations, no-shows, and uneven demand. Lovage turns that unused availability into booked appointments. We integrate with booking systems to detect open slots, generate on-brand content, and distribute it to channels like Instagram where clients can instantly book. The result is more bookings, higher utilization, and increased revenue withou

shared product terms: appointment, due, book, like; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator