Stratum Industries (YC Summer 2026)

Stratum builds AI agents that clear the U.S. government backlog. Every permit, license, patent, drug approval, and benefits claim in America has to be reviewed by a government adjudicator and the software they rely on was built decades before AI. The result is millions of applications stuck in queues: veterans waiting on disability ratings, families waiting on pensions, builders waiting years to break ground. Stratum replaces that workflow. A reviewer drops in an application, selects the rubric it needs to be checked against, and an agent plans, executes, and reviews the file end to end routing each step to the right model for the most accurate and cost-efficient decision. Hundreds of agents run in parallel in the cloud, with a human kept in the loop to approve and full auditability at ev…