YC Summer 2026 (S26) founder

Ashank Shah

Founder of Mentlio, Engineering Intelligence and Token Optimization for the AI-Coding Era

Company

Ashank Shah is listed as a founder of Mentlio. Mentlio an applied research lab focused on optimizing AI ROI for the modern enterprise. We help engineering teams draw a line between their AI spend and delivery, per engineer. We then cut ~30% of AI spend via Mentlio's custom ML-based intelligent routing, context optimization, and prompt compression.

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    anthropic/openai could bake auto-routing, context compression, optimizing cache hits etc.

    anthropic/openai could bake auto-routing, context compression, optimizing cache hits etc. into cc/codex. hard to imagine they're excited ab features that cut token usage and by ext revenue ig we're all sponsoring fable 6.. or just use @Mentlio and save some 💵👀

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    is this agi https://t.co/vuAWhJlq9V

    is this agi https://t.co/vuAWhJlq9V

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    god bless these anthropic & open ai yc credits https://t.co/5pNMiYRtiG

    god bless these anthropic & open ai yc credits https://t.co/5pNMiYRtiG