YC Spring 2026 (P26) founder

Clint Burgess

Founder of CharacterQuilt, Computer use agents to deploy enterprise marketing campaigns

Company

Clint Burgess is listed as a founder of CharacterQuilt. CharacterQuilt builds computer use agents to deploy enterprise marketing campaigns. Marketers today don’t actually do much marketing at all. Today, over 80% of time spent on launching a marketing campaign is actually ops work: tweaking automation flows in Pardot, configuring audiences in LinkedIn, or wiring HTML emails in Marketo. What’s crazy about enterprise marketing is companies pay agencies millions of dollars just to deploy campaigns in their systems — and they still have to wait weeks for each one. CharacterQuilt is AI infrastructure for marketing teams: a brain that learns your brand, and agents that operate your existing tools. Marketing campaigns that used to take 3 agencies, 10 tools, and 6 weeks are now being built, designed, and deployed from CQ in an hour. Customers submit a brief like they would send to a human teammate or marketing agency, and they get back fully designed and deployed campaigns. Teams like 1upHealth, ABC Fitness, and Emplifi use us to: 1-) Build segments/audiences faster 2-) Create on-brand creative (AI is terrible at staying on-brand) 3-) Deploy campaigns automatically into HubSpot, WordPress, LinkedIn etc. We replicate your brand guidelines, deeply understand past campaigns, and work inside your systems. If you run demand gen or lifecycle at a B2B/B2C company and want to ship campaigns faster, send us a brief and we’ll build it in 15 minutes.

Founder traction evidence

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  1. LinkedIn

    10 weeks at Y Combinator and one marketer's story yesterday tied the whole thing together for me.

    10 weeks at Y Combinator and one marketer's story yesterday tied the whole thing together for me. The marketer was in Ops and is really leaning into AI. He built a full engine for producing blog content, from keyword research, to external research, pulling in...

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    This is exciting

    This is exciting

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    I really appreciate that one family member who I think believes my social media algorithms are broken and graciously sends me several videos a day to watch.

    I really appreciate that one family member who I think believes my social media algorithms are broken and graciously sends me several videos a day to watch. Thank you.

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    Two personal finance wins today.

    Two personal finance wins today. 1-) Needed a Mint replacement and found that “Fidelity Full View” is free and can download transactions to Excel (thank you Reddit) 💰

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    “Who are you kidding? How could you doubt me? I’ve always delivered?… I rarely miss, you know I’m relentless A’int got a choice, no way to prevent it”

    “Who are you kidding? How could you doubt me? I’ve always delivered?… I rarely miss, you know I’m relentless A’int got a choice, no way to prevent it”