# Mentlio

[Mentlio on Hacklab](https://hacklab.so/org/mentlio)

Startup · 2 people on Hacklab

## Links

- [Website](https://mentlio.com/)
- [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mentlio)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/mentlio/)

## About

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## 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.

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashank-shah/) · [X](https://x.com/ashankshah_x)

### Ahmet Demirbas — Founder/CTO

Tokenmaxxing → ROImaxxing | Prev CS @ Caltech | 5x Published ML, NLP, Agents Research @ IEEE, ACM, BMC

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmet-demirbas7/)

[Source: Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mentlio) · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.

## Current staff

- [Ahmet Demirbas](https://hacklab.so/ahmet-demirbas) — Founder/CTO (Present)
- [Ashank Shah](https://hacklab.so/ashank-shah) — Founder/CEO (Present)