{"id":99850,"title":"Ontora - Read your company like a book","tagline":"We interview every employee to surface what no CEO can see","body":"We’re [Max](https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnold-max/), [Leon](https://www.linkedin.com/in/leon-j-iwanowitsch/) and [David](https://www.linkedin.com/in/korn-david/) co-founders of [Ontora](https://ontora.com/).\\\n\\\n**TL;DR**\\\n**Ontora is an AI agent that interviews every employee in your company to map how work actually gets done.** Most operational knowledge never gets documented, it lives in people's heads. That’s crucial context inaccessible to decision-makers and AI agents.\\\n**_Ask:_** Imagine you could talk to every employee in your company within 24 hours - What would you ask? Send us your questions. We'll get you the answers: \u003chttps://cal.com/ontora/30min\u003e\\\n\\\nOur Launch Video: \u003chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPk4_Nx31nU\u003e\\\n\\\n**Problem**\\\n**Poor knowledge sharing costs Fortune 500 companies $31.5 billion every year.**\n\n* **The knowledge lives in people's heads:** 80% of operational knowledge is tacit and never documented\n* 42% of what an employee produced cannot be covered by other colleagues\n* Employees lose 5.3 hours per week searching for information and filling gaps\n* A 1,000-employee company loses $2.4M per year in productivity due to these gaps\n* **AI can't read minds (yet):** 95% of enterprise GenAI pilots deliver zero measurable business impact. Agents fail because they have no context for how operations actually run.\n\n**Solution**\\\nYou pick a question your last business review meeting couldn't answer. Ontora interviews every employee and gets you the insights within 24 hours.\\\nIt’s not a survey! A real conversation that digs deeper and surfaces what nobody thought to ask about.\\\nBuild your company's operational memory to finally operate with complete clarity:\n\n* **Synthesized findings**: Themed insights with impact ratings, an executive summary, and actionable recommendations\n* **Process mapping**: Visual process maps of how work actually flows across teams\n* **Automation roadmap**: Concrete opportunities with ROI estimates, ready to act on\n* **Proprietary context for your AI tools:** Ontora turns what your people know into a proprietary data source your AI stack can finally work with.\n\n  ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=99850\u0026key=user_uploads/1178744/68dcb300-dc42-4b79-aa10-9f8ec09af0f4)\n\n","slug":"PyU-ontora-read-your-company-like-a-book","created_at":"2026-04-17T15:35:36.009Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T00:10:24.150Z","total_vote_count":102,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PyU-ontora-read-your-company-like-a-book","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":31428,"name":"Ontora","slug":"ontora","url":"https://ontora.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/51ba58b94e0a45c3a3cc270067fe72dcf1f9027e.png","batch":"Spring 2026","industry":"B2B","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","B2B","Analytics","Operations"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/31428"}}