We have lived the problem we are solving.
Abhinav Soni
Co-Founder
Previously led agent systems at Emergent (YC P26). Unofficially he was called ‘the agent whisperer’.
Kaushik ASP
Co-Founder
2x founder in the past. He jokes he was Claude before Claude. Founding engineer at Emergent (YC P24).
BentoLabs AI is built by engineers who scaled AI agents, saw them breaking, and decided to fix it.
The five-phase trace from lived reality to production infrastructure
PHASE 1
Emergent
Started as founding engineers at Emergent. Scaled the company from $0 → $100M.
PHASE 2
In the Trenches
Topped SWE-Bench twice. While the industry focused on getting agents to work once, we were deep in production systems, studying what broke after deployment.
PHASE 3
The Insight
After thousands of hours debugging traces, prompts, tools, and skills, we realised the real bottleneck was the harness layer.
PHASE 4
Building Bento
So, we built BentoLabs AI (YC P26), a monitoring and learning layer for long-running agents. Bento detects silent regressions and turns every resolved failure into durable agent intelligence.
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PHASE 5
The Future
Backed by Y Combinator. Trusted by unicorns. We're building the world's best continuous improvement infrastructure for AI agents.
Build the future with us
We are hiring candidates ready to build the decade-defining agent infrastructure.
Reach out to us at contact@bentolabs.ai
A world where intelligent systems don't just perform, but learn, remember, and stay accountable to the humans guiding them.
To give the people running AI agents the clarity, trust, and control they need to build and ship with confidence.
We are engineers, operators, and builders driven by the belief that the best AI systems are the ones that stay deeply connected to the people they serve.
Build for human agency
Humans should stay in control without carrying the weight of system complexity.
AI should learn the way we do
Through iteration, feedback and accumulated experiences.
Playing the long game
Great systems are not built through urgency alone, but through sustained conviction.