Abhinav Soni
Founder of BentoLabs AI, Monitoring and learning layer for long-running agents
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Abhinav Soni is listed as a founder of BentoLabs AI. BentoLabs is the monitoring and learning layer for long-running agents. We detect when agents silently fail or drift from the user's goal, system prompt, or tool contracts, show affected users and root cause, and suggest the prompt, skill, or harness fix. As more teams deploy agents, keeping them reliable in production becomes mission-critical. Bento sits directly in the production loop and gives teams the operational leverage required to scale agent ecosystems without scaling human firefighting alongside them. The result is a system that turns opaque agents into agents that can be monitored, debugged, and improved continuously. The founders learned this problem at Emergent (YC S24), where they built and operated production coding agents used by 5M+ users. Abhinav was hire #1 and helped Emergent hit SWE-Bench #1 and scale from $0 to $100M ARR in just 8 months. Kaushik was hire #2, led full-stack engineering at Emergent, and was key to building the infrastructure that made production agents reliable, observable, and debuggable. Bento's self-learning engine has also lifted ARC-AGI-3 (internal) by 2.6x and Terminal-Bench 2.0 (internal) from 42.2% to 52.4% pass@1 with the same model, tools, and budget.
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- LinkedIn
BentoLabs AI (YC P26) is now live on the YC Directory. YC has felt like stepping into a pressure chamber where days blur into nights, time zones stop mattering, and every week stretches you harder than the last. Somewhere between building nonstop and watching unicorn companies start using BentoLabs, things got very real, very fast. From scrolling through YC company pages to seeing ours live there now, that feeling hasn't quite sunk in yet. Excited, nervous, proud. All of it at once. And we’re dropping something very soon. Stay tuned. Check us out here 👇🏻 https://lnkd.in/eJpFeVNY …more
BentoLabs AI (YC P26) is now live on the YC Directory. YC has felt like stepping into a pressure chamber where days blur into nights, time zones stop mattering, and every week stretches you harder than the last. Somewhere between building nonstop and watching unicorn companies...
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And we are live!
And we are live!
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Almost didn't document the day, my team made sure we did. Some days you just feel the shift. We booked a studio, brought in a team, and spent the day trying to capture what @BentoLabsAI actually is right now. Where we started, where we are, and where we're going. It's one thing Show more Kaushik and BentoLabs AI (YC P26)
Almost didn't document the day, my team made sure we did. Some days you just feel the shift. We booked a studio, brought in a team, and spent the day trying to capture what @BentoLabsAI actually is right now. Where we started, where we are, and where we're going. It's one thing...
- LinkedIn
ARR in just 2 months from launch, making us one of the fastest growing AI startups in the world This isn't from one big enterprise deal but from thousands of builders finally turning the ideas they've carried for years into reality. Like Alex, who built an AI social network where agents and humans co-create. "I'm not technical," he said. "But I shipped something VCs are now trying to fund." Maria who runs a boutique marketing agency. She'd been juggling client projects in spreadsheets for years. "I knew exactly what I needed," she said. "Finally built it in a weekend." And David, a freelance consultant who used to lose deals because he couldn't prototype fast enough. "Now I show up with working software," he said. "I win a lot more pitches." Everyone has an idea in their heart. A problem they've been itching to solve. For decades, the privilege of building software belonged to the few. W
ARR in just 2 months from launch, making us one of the fastest growing AI startups in the world This isn't from one big enterprise deal but from thousands of builders finally turning the ideas they've carried for years into reality. Like Alex, who built an AI social network...
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We just hired our first ever AI employee at @BentoLabsAI . He doesn't ask for equity. He doesn't need a desk. He won't eat your lunch from the office fridge. (We're remote anyway, but still.) Within an hour of joining, Thomas already had his first task. And before we could Show more
We just hired our first ever AI employee at @BentoLabsAI . He doesn't ask for equity. He doesn't need a desk. He won't eat your lunch from the office fridge. (We're remote anyway, but still.) Within an hour of joining, Thomas already had his first task. And before we could Show...
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Article What I learned building AI agents at a company scaling 0→$100M ARR. TL;DR: I led AI agents at Emergent for ~2 years, through the 0→$100M ARR stretch. Worked on everything agent-related: system prompts, tools, subagents, skills, evals, the lot. Consolidating...
Article What I learned building AI agents at a company scaling 0→$100M ARR. TL;DR: I led AI agents at Emergent for ~2 years, through the 0→$100M ARR stretch. Worked on everything agent-related: system prompts, tools, subagents, skills, evals, the lot. Consolidating...
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Stop fine-tuning your model. Your harness is broken. The model was fine.
Stop fine-tuning your model. Your harness is broken. The model was fine.
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Article The middle of your system prompt is an attention graveyard. Most people write top-down because that's how humans read. But LLMs follow an Attention U-Curve they prioritise the beginning and the end, while the middle is a "dead zone" where attention drops...
Article The middle of your system prompt is an attention graveyard. Most people write top-down because that's how humans read. But LLMs follow an Attention U-Curve they prioritise the beginning and the end, while the middle is a "dead zone" where attention drops...