YC Summer 2026 (S26) founder

David Khachaturov

Founder of Egoist Machines, Your personal context, securely portable across every AI app.

Company

David Khachaturov is listed as a founder of Egoist Machines. Egoist Machines is building infrastructure for a world where your personal context belongs to you, rather than to the apps and AI companies you use. Today, every assistant and consumer app builds its own version of you. We think that architecture is backwards. Your context should live with you, persist across products, and be available to any model, app or agent you choose. AI Passport is the first layer of that infrastructure. It brings the context you generate across AI assistants and everyday apps into one portable profile you control. Tell ChatGPT something and Claude can already know it, for example. Switch to a new product and it can understand you from the first interaction, without the new company needing to own the underlying data. Apps integrate through Sign in with AI Passport, requesting only the context they need for a specific purpose and duration. Users can see what is being accessed and revoke that access later. Underneath, we have built our own memory infrastructure for fast, compact per-user retrieval and permissioned access. We are distributing AI Passport directly to consumers through first-party products, while integrating it into consumer applications with existing distribution. Every new product that uses Passport gives users another reason to maintain their context there, and every additional Passport holder makes the context layer more useful to developers. The next step is to build a true Egoist Machine: an intelligent system whose memory, incentives and actions are governed by the individual it represents. We call it Digital Domovoy, the hardware extension of AI Passport. Instead of your most personal context ultimately living on somebody else's servers, it lives and is processed locally on hardware you control. AI Passport becomes the permission layer between that private local context and the cloud models and internet services you choose to use. Our North Star is the Egoist Machine: an intelligent system whose memory, incentives and actions are governed by the individual it represents.

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  1. LinkedIn

    big tech is scary and eats your data for lunch

    big tech is scary and eats your data for lunch you deserve better - that's why we founded Egoist Machines, Inc. where we build user-first ML infrastructure that (a) enables user data sovereignity (b) paves the way to efficient full-stack on-device ML pipelines First product is...

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    we're public and we exist

    we're public and we exist

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    wow X has so many incels, I wonder what kind of parenting failure normalised bullying a woman a decade their junior online

    wow X has so many incels, I wonder what kind of parenting failure normalised bullying a woman a decade their junior online

  4. LinkedIn

    out of stealth (kinda)

    out of stealth (kinda) I've been working on Egoist Machines, Inc. for around a month now, with a focus on efficient and consumer-scale (more on this later) ML infrastructure. First product is LodeDB - a local-first vector DB for agent memory with sub-millisecond updates at 1M+...

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    this is the perfect time to bust out my favourite essay on why chat interfaces are bad design https://t.co/tCdw4nPvcS https://t.co/hUjdtO3Uf0

    this is the perfect time to bust out my favourite essay on why chat interfaces are bad design https://t.co/tCdw4nPvcS https://t.co/hUjdtO3Uf0

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    some more future concepts for how our AI Passport can integrate with robotics

    some more future concepts for how our AI Passport can integrate with robotics

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    kept bouncing between codex / claude code / opencode (testing ox alpha) and got annoyed that (a) codex and CC don't share session memories (b) opencode has no native memory at all built https://t.co/PZM7HaNXGN nice features: - memories follow the repo, so clones + worktrees

    kept bouncing between codex / claude code / opencode (testing ox alpha) and got annoyed that (a) codex and CC don't share session memories (b) opencode has no native memory at all built https://t.co/PZM7HaNXGN nice features: - memories follow the repo, so clones + worktrees