Mentlio
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About Mentlio
YC company profile
Engineering Intelligence and Token Optimization for the AI-Coding Era
Mentlio an applied research lab focused on optimizing AI ROI for the modern enterprise. We help engineering teams draw a line between their AI spend and delivery, per engineer. We then cut ~30% of AI spend via Mentlio's custom ML-based intelligent routing, context optimization, and prompt compression.
- YC batch: Summer 2026
- Founded: 2026
- Team size: 0
- Location: San Francisco
- Country: US
- Status: Active
- Industry: B2B
- Stage: Early
- Tags: Developer Tools, Machine Learning, Productivity
- YC partner: Pete Koomen
Founders
Ashank Shah — Founder/CEO
Building Mentlio | Prev. CS @ Caltech | Researched generative and graph-based DL for biomedical problems @ Dartmouth Health.
Ahmet Demirbas — Founder/CTO
Tokenmaxxing → ROImaxxing | Prev CS @ Caltech | 5x Published ML, NLP, Agents Research @ IEEE, ACM, BMC
Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.