Anwar Lemu

Founder @agencidev / Angel investor / Clients: Agentcard (YC26), Inkbox (YC26), Context dev (YC26), Mireye (YC26), Hilstart (YC26), Vercel, more

[Anwar Lemu @anwarlemu]

We worked with @inkbox_ai (S26) to rethink their entire product UX, flow and how the console works.

All in 2 weeks.

Much more to come.

Big congrats to @rayruizhiliao ,@alxwlcx, and @DVremenko on the $5.3M raised. You guys have been absolutely incredible to work with on this.

@inkbox_ai is genuinely a product we use every single day. Blessed that my work involves working on products I truly love and find deeply interesting.

[Ray Liao @rayruizhiliao]

We raised $5.3M to give AI agents a computer to run on, with their own email, phone, iMessage, and WhatsApp

Led by @peakxvpartners, with @rauchg, @sternhenri, @jefrankle, @cjc, and @daniel_levine

Today we’re launching hosted agents on @inkbox_ai. Your agent runs next to its communication channels, so it never misses a reply. It sleeps when idle, so you don’t pay for downtime.

In the 4 months since our YC launch, we’ve processed millions of messages for AI agents.

[Anwar Lemu @anwarlemu]

conare is the best

[Artem Murzin @artemmurzin]

Models get smarter ever quarter. Agents still give the wrong answers, because they reason over whatever search hands them.

I've spent the last year building Conare, the most accurate AI search. Today we launch it in private beta.

• Beats OpenAI, NVIDIA, Cohere and Qwen on legal, research and agentic retrieval
• Consistenly SOTA on retrieval benchmarks
• One API that connects to all your sources and syncs your company's data
• Built-in scalable vector database
• Specialized models trained on your data

[Anwar Lemu @anwarlemu]

applies to design agencies too.

almost all i've seen are terrible at understanding products and how they should be designed.

[Anwar Lemu @anwarlemu]

@GaddipatiHarsha lesser men (aka. android users)

[mrs. robot @keyserfaty]

also: today we learned that Braxter is married

[Anwar Lemu @anwarlemu]

hiring product designers again for a new YC client:

> MUST be experts with dev tools (posthog, auth0)
> MUST know code (react, next js, the whole lot)
> ready to join a yc startup full-time
> MUST understand products & objective ux design

you will work with the best in design.

[Anwar Lemu @anwarlemu]

hiring product designers

if you want to work with 5% of YC26, come work with us

must be good at design + code (product specifically)

dm me your portfolio

[Anwar Lemu @anwarlemu]

Incredible. Such a great team to work with.

Congrats to @keyserfaty @PipeAbellos @pilisuagi @ValentinoConst6 and whoever this person is (definitely not the karen i know).

[mrs. robot @keyserfaty]

we are happy to share that we raised $8m from Peak XV, Fin Capital, Robinhood and some amazing angels.

when we started @agentcardhq we asked ourselves a question: are people willing to buy things with agents? not so many months later Instinct happened, Muse happened and what we thought was going to take years was taking place now.

agents buying things on behalf of humans is still an unsolved problem. using users’ cards is one part of it but making the purchase itself is another big one (we announced https://t.co/qLbYqziMtG last week in an attempt to help solve this problem).

some months later we are still very much obsessed with this problem and with helping build this future for the next generations. it's a true privilege to work every day on problems with no simple solutions and to try to create clean and beautiful interfaces so that more companies can bring agents to every person on earth.

thanks to our investors for trusting us and to all of you for following this crazy ride. more cool things to come :)

- @PipeAbellos , @ValentinoConst6 , @pilisuagi and me

[Anwar Lemu @anwarlemu]

once in a while we have a client who complains about something or isn’t happy with what they’re seeing so far.

my reply is always the same - “once direction is settled, we’ll polish, refine and iterate to perfection. trust the process”

a few days later, it’s always all solved

[Anwar Lemu @anwarlemu]

Always funny seeing competitors of ours who’s clients switched to working with us use the launch of work we did (replacing the previous things they did) to promote themselves.

They left your dashboard design to use ours. When they launch the dashboard we designed, you start posting case studies talking about how you worked with them.

Even though they left you to work with us. And they scrapped your design.

Business is funny.

[Anwar Lemu @anwarlemu]

@zachdotai mine does this too sometimes. didn't even have to code anything. my tired battery automatically does this for me

[Anwar Lemu @anwarlemu]

@peer_rich congrats peer

[Anwar Lemu @anwarlemu]

who cares about some dumb gta childish game. i'm pumped for this

[Agentcard @agentcardhq]

big announcement tomorrow.
and a new video starring braxter.
9am PT.

any guess? stay tuned.

[pili 🍒 @pilisuagi]

another banger video from agentcard studios launching tomorrow (i made it) (big ego ik)

announcement is huge as well.

[Anwar Lemu @anwarlemu]

@NamanyayG pumped

[Anwar Lemu @anwarlemu]

@GaddipatiHarsha @ryan_morr smh

[Anwar Lemu @anwarlemu]

@ryan_morr @moremelessyue thats the plan 🤝

[Dima Vremenko @DVremenko]

oh no way, who's that?

[Alex Wilcox @alxwlcx]

Inkbox

[Anwar Lemu @anwarlemu]

Finally seeing competitors realise that Figmas are useless

[Anwar Lemu @anwarlemu]

produce great work > get rewarded for great work > produce more great work > repeat

if you aren't getting rewarded, your work likely isn't great

pair that with "trust the process" (and lots of iteration) and you're golden

[kyzo @ky__zo]

> everyone: "we're proud to introduce the next big thing..."

> this one guy:

[Anwar Lemu @anwarlemu]

love this 1/46 series. love people who ship

[Bence Redmond @BenceRedmond]

Day 1/46

We're shipping a new Hoplite feature every day until Christmas. Today, we've completely redesigned the desktop app.

- You can now open multiple threads with Tabs.
- Gave the chat composer a big glow up.
- Overhauled our sidebar to minimise clutter.
- Massive performance improvements in virtually every part of the app.

see more at https://t.co/INPCPZnXlF. stay tuned!