{"id":101784,"title":"Hessian: Automating business operations with forward-deployed AI agents","tagline":"We embed engineers into companies and ship AI agents that automate the real work.","body":"Hey YC, We're Bao, James, and Tom - co-founders of Hessian!\n\n# **TL;DR**\n\n* Every company is racing to adopt AI, but most don't know where to start at scale.\n* We forward-deploy engineers into your team, map the work, then build and operate AI agents on our platform.\n\n**We are already saving our customers hundreds of hours a month and allowing them to put the work where it matters.**\n\n# \u003chttps://youtu.be/7lmP5CyehD4\u003e\n\n# **The Problem: Companies cannot adopt AI effectively**\n\nEvery company is racing to adopt AI. Most use disparate SaaS tools that are  built for everyone, optimised for no one and need to be actively prompted.\n\nTwo reasons most companies get stuck:\n\n* **Lack of knowledge and capacity to adopt AI effectively.** Most companies can't identify which workflows should be automated, let alone build a production-grade system to do it. The engineers who can do this work are scarce and concentrated in a handful of frontier firms.\n* **Off-the-shelf tools don't know your business** and lack integration with your existing systems. They do not meet customers where they are.\n\n# **Our Solution: Forward-deploy with AI agents**\n\nWe forward deploy on-site to map the work, and build the agents on our platform to run it end-to-end.\n\n**1. Map the work.** Our engineers deeply embed into your organization to find where automation can be most effective – freeing your team to do more meaningful work.\n\n**2. Build the agents.** Custom AI agents on the Hessian platform that take over that work end-to-end. For example:\n\n* 📊 **Sales agents** that draft proposals between calls, pulling CRM, pricing decks, and customer context automatically.\n* 💰 **Financial agents** that reconcile invoices and prepares month-end close overnight.\n* ⚙️ **Ops agents** that keep internal systems in sync without anyone asking.\n* 📈 **Data agents** deliver critical insights to frontline teams, allowing them to query internal databases and filesystems through chat.\n\n**3. Operate them in production.** We deploy, operate, and scale the agents on our platform.\\\n\\\n**The Hessian Platform.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=101784\u0026key=user_uploads/1814065/57dedbc8-a622-4d8e-924a-2d7157f9333b)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=101784\u0026key=user_uploads/1814065/b038c07e-b933-4d86-91b8-c366e6e07608)\n\n# **The Team**\n\n* **Bao** – Previously co-founded Zettafleet, where he led the team behind a decentralized LLM training platform across hundreds of GPUs; previously published ML research with Google DeepMind; CS from Cambridge and Durham.\n* **James** – Spent five years at Bloomberg building and forward-deploying a data platform processing billions of time series observations a day. CS from Durham, awarded three Cambridge scholarships.\n* **Tom** – Migrated GoCardless core payments database live, with zero downtime, on a system processing over £1B on peak days; previously built CMC Markets's 0-to-1 retail trading app for US investors; CS from Durham.\n\nBook a forward deployed engagement at: \u003chttps://calendar.app.google/JSYFwaCXXTiN6Mka8\u003e\n\n📅[**Book a call**](https://calendar.app.google/JSYFwaCXXTiN6Mka8)   [🔗**hessian.sh**](http://hessian.sh)  [📧**founders@hessian.sh**](mailto:founders@hessian.sh)","slug":"QTg-hessian-automating-business-operations-with-forward-deployed-ai-agents","created_at":"2026-05-22T13:39:25.445Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T04:19:19.368Z","total_vote_count":9,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QTg-hessian-automating-business-operations-with-forward-deployed-ai-agents","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=101784\u0026key=user_uploads/1814065/b038c07e-b933-4d86-91b8-c366e6e07608","company":{"id":31496,"name":"Hessian","slug":"hessian","url":"https://hessian.sh","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/f536986f121d1ec1c4cb08cbe10e493da54b21ee.png","batch":"Spring 2026","industry":"B2B","tags":["Developer Tools","Machine Learning","Workflow Automation","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/31496"}}