TL;DR: Sentient OS is a Y Combinator Fall 2026 startup On-device AI that knows your entire life and does your work overnight., currently active with a team of 2.
On-device AI that knows your entire life and does your work overnight.
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Nobody's built truly proactive AI, because it requires running inference on your entire life. In the cloud, that's insanely expensive and a privacy nightmare. But not on your own chip. Every night, Sentient's on-device LLM wakes your Mac and understands what's new in your life (email, messages, files, Granola transcripts...), entirely locally, and distills it into a knowledge base. You wake up to your work already prepared: the reply you forgot, drafted from your own context; the subscription you never use renewing tomorrow, caught; the report you promised in the group chat, ready to send. Everything is one click from firing through computer use, and nothing fires until you click. Or click your Mac notch anytime and say "finish this for me." Sidekick takes over the thing you were doing wi…
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Yes. Sentient OS was funded by Y Combinator in the Fall 2026 batch. On-device AI that knows your entire life and does your work overnight.
Nobody's built truly proactive AI, because it requires running inference on your entire life. In the cloud, that's insanely expensive and a privacy nightmare. But not on your own chip. Every night, Sentient's on-device LLM wakes your Mac and understands what's new in your life (email, messages, files, Granola transcri…
Sentient OS was part of Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch.
Sentient OS has a team of 2 people according to Y Combinator's directory.
Sentient OS is currently listed as Active with a team of 2 in Y Combinator's directory.
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