Yutori

Happy Monday.

Thinking a lot recently about delegating relentlessly.

When you have a finite amount of time to build, why spend that time caught up in that which can be automated? Automations aren’t a groundbreaking invention, but as agents expand in scope and ability, automations can become very powerful and personal.

After all, in the age of AI, why can’t everyone have their own chief of staff?

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Yutori is building agents for everyday tasks. Its first product, Scouts, is an always-on agentic platform that asynchronously monitors the internet for anything specified by the user and notifies them when there are updates. Its second product, Navigator, allows developers to autonomously interact with the web via an API. It is also the underlying agent and cloud browser that powers Scouts.

Check it out: yutori.com

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Yutori Scouts operates on a freemium subscription model. The Starter tier comes with up to one active Scout, monitored daily. The Essential tier is available for $15 per month, with a limit of 10 active Scouts and hourly monitoring. The Enhanced tier, costing $100 per month, allows users to have unlimited Scouts. Yutori Navigator is available to developers on a usage-based model.

• Raised $15 million from Radical Ventures, Felicis Ventures, and SV Angel, with angel investments from Elad Gil, Sarah Guo, Jeff Dean, Fei-Fei Li, Replit CEO Amjad Masad, Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch, and more

• Users can join the Scouts waitlist here, or sign up to access Navigator here

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The Yutori team is a star-studded cast of AI researchers and industry veterans. All three founders have earned technical PhDs from renowned universities. Co-CEO Devi Parikh and Chief Scientist Dhruv Batra earned their PhDs at Carnegie Mellon and went on to become professors at first Virginia Tech and later Georgia Tech. There, they worked closely with co-CEO Abhishek Das as he researched seeing, talking, and acting AI agents for his thesis.

The team has also amassed impressive accolades in industry. Das conducted AI research as an intern for Meta three times and once at Google DeepMind and Tesla Autopilot. Parikh was the senior director of generative AI at Meta and the founder of an AI company, while Batra also worked at Meta as the senior director of Fundamental AI Research.

You probably recognize the word “agent.” Almost half of YC is building agents. It’s perhaps the most commonly thrown around buzzword in AI now. In a saturated space, it’s difficult to determine which companies will stand the test of time. Yutori is one such company that we believe can achieve longevity in the agentic world.

The discourse and investment dollars regarding agents is so widespread because many believe this market will be enormous. The large AI labs have joined the race, with each offering agents in one form or another. Startups are there with them, too, demonstrated by YC’s demographics but also through many more metrics.

Then, there’s Yutori. Yutori’s Navigator allows developers to build products that programmatically and dynamically interact with the internet. Notably, it boasts metrics in accuracy, latency, and cost that beat all of the major AI players. With such significant numbers, Navigator has the potential to power a budding ecosystem of agentic applications and capture that large market share.

The best way to imagine the value one of these applications can provide is by examining Yutori’s other offering, Scouts. Scouts is a platform built atop Navigator that allows users to monitor anything they want on the internet. For example, a simple use case enables users to be notified when concert tickets drop, simply by using natural language to instruct the Scout. Tuning a Scout is as simple as modifying the natural language instructions that guide it. Together, these features turn what would have been a long, laborious project into an afterthought.

The powerhouse team is early in its innovation, but we believe they are capable of creating agentic solutions that empower developer’s creativity and eventually facilitate many of our manual workflows.

• Introducing Scouts [Yutori]

• Introducing Navigator [Yutori]

• Y Combinator is going all-in on AI agents, making up nearly 50% of latest batch [PitchBook]

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