{"id":108362,"title":"Stratum Industries - Applied AI for Governments","tagline":"AI agents that automate the complex manual workflows governments run on.","body":"**TL;DR: Stratum builds AI agents that automate the slow, manual processes governments run on. We're starting with application review - clearing backlogs in a fraction of the time and saving agencies tens of billions a year.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=108362\u0026key=user_uploads/1648613/f70bb601-955f-4c6c-946f-8d8c90d04fa6)\n\n**The problem**\n\nGovernments run on manual work. Millions of complex processes - reviews, approvals, filings, claims -are still handled by hand, one file at a time, on software built long before AI existed.\n\nTake application review. Every permit, license, patent, drug approval, and benefits claim in America is reviewed by hand, one file at a time. Millions sit in queues while people wait months and years: veterans on disability ratings, families on pensions, builders on permits.\n\nThe tools reviewers open every morning were built long before AI. So the work stays manual, and the queue only grows.\n\nThis isn't one broken workflow. It's how the entire government runs.\n\n**What Stratum does**\n\nStratum builds AI agents that automate the slow, complex, manual processes governments run on.\n\nWe're starting with application review.\n\nA reviewer uploads an application and selects the rubric to check it against. From there, an agent takes over: it plans the review, works through the file end to end, and checks every requirement, routing each step to the right model.\n\nA human approves every outcome, and every step is fully auditable.\n\nThe difference is scale. Instead of one reviewer on one file, hundreds of agents run in parallel — clearing an entire backlog in the time it once took to review a single application.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=108362\u0026key=user_uploads/1648613/e23f9409-271f-4879-95aa-374eb37ae64f)\n\n**Who we are**\n\nWe're Vihaan (VJ) and Raj - brothers.\n\nVihaan (CTO): founding engineer #3 at Cadastral (acquired by Legora), waterloo dropout.\n\nRaj (CEO): led GTM at Deel, dropped out of CS grad school at the University of Bath.\n\n**Where this goes**\n\nApplication review is the first workflow. The mission is to integrate AI across every vertical inside the government.\n\nGovernments are among the largest, most complex organizations on earth — and almost none of it has been touched by modern AI. We're changing that, saving agencies tens, eventually hundreds, of billions a year and making the government one of the most efficient institutions in the world.\n\nLooking to bring AI into your agency? Reach out to the team or book a demo [stratumindustries.co](https://stratumindustries.co/)\n\nContact: [founders@stratumindustries.co](mailto:founders@stratumindustries.co)","slug":"SBm-stratum-industries-applied-ai-for-governments","created_at":"2026-08-14T18:00:00.843Z","updated_at":"2026-09-19T09:37:43.299Z","total_vote_count":9,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SBm-stratum-industries-applied-ai-for-governments","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=108362\u0026key=user_uploads/1648613/e23f9409-271f-4879-95aa-374eb37ae64f","company":{"id":32523,"name":"Elite","slug":"elite","url":"https://elitehq.ai/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/43b0b3923cf1e5272885bc93999098a208c85926.png","batch":"Summer 2026","industry":"Healthcare","tags":["Healthcare","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/32523"}}