The AI coding agent for C and C++
ByteAsk is an AI coding agent built for C and C++, the code that runs trading systems, cars, chips, and operating systems. It does not stop at a diff that looks right. ByteAsk builds, debugs, and tests every change with the real toolchain until the change holds. If the compiler, the debugger, or the tests can catch it, then ByteAsk catches it too. It runs from the terminal or inside VS Code, Neovim, and Emacs, and is available fully on-prem.
Active Founders
Founder/CEO
Building coding agents for C and C++
- Prev. low-latency C++ at Optiver and Quantbox
- built SOTA Python-to-C++ optimizing transpiler
- CSE @ IIT Delhi
- Founder/CEO LawSutraAI, acquired by Manupatra, India's largest legal tech firm, where it serves
100k+ lawyers
- solo travelled to 12 countries
Building coding agents for C and C++
- Prev. low-latency C++ at Optiver and Quantbox
- built SOTA Python-to-C++ optimizing transpiler
- CSE @ IIT Delhi
- Founder/CEO LawSutraAI, acquired by Manupatra, India's largest legal tech firm, where it serves
100k+ lawyers
- solo travelled to 12 countries
Founder/CTO
Pratyush is the co-founder and CTO of ByteAsk, an AI coding tool for C and C++. He studied Computer Science at IIT Delhi. He was a core engineer on NeuralDB and BOLT, ThirdAI's CPU-only search and deep learning engines, then a founding engineer at Simbian, where he co-built the AI security agent that handles over a million incidents a year. He co-founded LawSutraAI as CTO and sold it to Manupatra, India's largest legal tech firm, where his legal research agent serves over 100,000 lawyers.
Pratyush is the co-founder and CTO of ByteAsk, an AI coding tool for C and C++. He studied Computer Science at IIT Delhi. He was a core engineer on NeuralDB and BOLT, ThirdAI's CPU-only search and deep learning engines, then a founding engineer at Simbian, where he co-built the AI security agent that handles over a million incidents a year. He co-founded LawSutraAI as CTO and sold it to Manupatra, India's largest legal tech firm, where his legal research agent serves over 100,000 lawyers.
Founded:2026
Batch:Fall 2026
Team Size:2
Status:Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Nicolas Dessaigne