Hi everyone,
We’re Samika & Siddhant - cousins and co-founders of Iris. Our aim is to create a true digital extension of your mind that can take off 20-30% of your daily workload.
❌ The Problem:
The problem isn’t a lack of tools - it’s that they all expect you to think like them. Between five calendars, three inboxes, and constant context switching, simple things like moving a meeting or replying to an email still take minutes of mental load. Apps like Motion or Reclaim help you plan, but they don’t understand you. They still need perfect inputs, perfect routines, perfect focus.
We didn’t need another productivity system to maintain - we needed something that worked with how we already do things.
✅ The Solution
Iris is a digital extension of yourself that learns how you work. She observes how you reply, decide, and prioritize - the small behavioral patterns that make up your day - and uses them to prepare the next set of actions automatically. The core insight is simple: if you model real behavior, you can replicate judgment. With personal agents and a knowledge graph, Iris reduces the mental load of constant context switching by pre-filling the actions you would take, the way you would take them. You simply swipe to hand it off to your proxy.
We started with email and calendars. In four weeks, over 1,200 people have downloaded Iris, 168 use it daily, and they’ve taken more than 36,000 actions - growing 48% week over week. This is the first real step toward a future where everyone has a personal digital extension running their day with near-perfect accuracy.
The Team
We’re cousins who’ve been building together since we were kids.
Samika previously worked on adaptive AI systems at CMU for a year, and studied how humans build trust in AI.
Siddhant has been coding since he was 11, he built and launched 12 consumer apps with 2500+ active users. He studied Computer Science from UCSD.
Earlier in the batch, we met Adam Cheyer (founder of Siri), who became a mentor and advisor. That conversation reshaped how we think about assistants - not as UX problems, but as deep engineering problems.
Our Ask
If you find yourself juggling multiple calendars and inboxes every day, try Iris!
Let Iris handle the busywork so you can focus on what actually matters.