Almanac is an enterprise AI agent built on top of Hermes. It allows one-click connections to accounts such as Gmail, Calendar, Granola, and PostHog, managing personal and shared accounts separately.
Almanac (YC S26) Releases Enterprise AI Agent Providing Contextual Memory via Wiki-style Pre-compilation
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The memory layer consists of two Wikis. It ingests information from connected sources and pre-compiles it into a Personal Wiki (preferences, relationships, life circumstances) and an Enterprise Wiki (business details, roadmaps, blockers). The agent accesses these two Wikis and the original accounts to provide context-aware responses.
In terms of functionality, it features a proactive mode where background workers monitor completable tasks and suggest automation. The developers cited examples such as resuming tasks several days later by maintaining ongoing projects in the Wiki, or detecting a reply four hours after an email was sent to draft a follow-up that retains the original context.
The company was co-founded by Rohan, Kushagra, and Divit. They stated that they studied electrical engineering at IIT-affiliated universities and researched this pre-compilation layer as a capstone thesis at Harvard. They also claimed to have developed similar products for Harvard and NASA.
Source: Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company (Hacker News Frontpage, 2026-09-01)