ByteAsk

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About ByteAsk

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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.

YC batch: Fall 2026
Founded: 2026
Team size: 2
Location: San Francisco
Country: US
Status: Active
Industry: B2B
Stage: Early
Tags: Developer Tools, Enterprise Software, AI
YC partner: Nicolas Dessaigne

Founders

Anirudha Kulkarni — Founder/CEO

Debugged low-latency C++ at Optiver and Quantbox; now building the agent that does it.

At Quantbox, built a Python-to-C++ transpiler for trading strategies: 1.5 s to 150 ns, beating hand-optimized C++.
Spoke at CppCon 2026 on C++ in the age of AI.
Co-founded LawSutra AI (CEO); acquired within months by Manupatra, India's largest legal-tech firm. Its search now serves 100k+ lawyers.
IIT Delhi CS (B.Tech + M.Tech)
3rd in India, Jane Street Electronic Trading Challenge

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Pratyush Saini — 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.