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Requests for Startups, Summer 2026: Company Brain

Tom Blomfield / Y Combinator · May 21, 2026

The demand-side signal. Blomfield names the company brain as the missing primitive of the AI era: a system that pulls knowledge out of fragmented sources, structures it, keeps it current, and turns it into an executable skills file for agents. Notably absent from the brief: any mention of who is allowed to see what. The RFS defines the market; the access-control papers on this list define the hard part.

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