Hyper GTM brain

Hyper connects company tools and knowledge to an AI work agent for employees and AI-first teams.

category

AI workplace agent and company knowledge

market profile

  • text: Company information is fragmented across applications, making research and AI-assisted work dependent on finding the right context.
  • text: Hyper competes across workplace search, AI assistants and organizational context for agents, a crowded category with both established and newer vendors.

personas

  • title: Founder or operations leader at an AI-first startup
    pains:
    • Important decisions and files are scattered across applications.
    • A small team spends too much time assembling context for repetitive work.
  • title: Engineering lead or developer
    pains:
    • Researching repository architecture and old decisions takes repeated searches.
    • Coding agents need reliable company and project context to work effectively.
  • title: Sales or GTM lead
    pains:
    • Preparing outreach and follow-ups means pulling information from multiple tools.
    • AI-generated work can miss customer context and company voice.

icp

  • text: AI-first startups and small teams with company knowledge spread across documents, email and developer tools.
  • text: Larger organizations exploring enterprise contracts and agent access to connected workplace systems, subject to security review.

message pillars

  • text: Connect tools to give the agent company context.
  • text: Make finding company knowledge fast.
  • text: Reduce setup friction.
  • text: Present work in interfaces users can act on.

objections

  • objection: Can we safely connect sensitive company data and grant actions?
    response: Review permissions, access controls, retention and connector scopes, then pilot with a limited set of sources.
  • objection: How does this differ from our existing enterprise search or AI assistant?
    response: Compare an actual cross-tool task, including source quality, setup time and action support, against the incumbent.
  • objection: Will usage charges be predictable?
    response: Start with a bounded trial and observe usage for representative tasks before selecting a plan.

competitors

  • name: Glean
    why: Enterprise search and AI assistant grounded in company knowledge.
  • name: Hyperspell
    why: Provides organizational context and a knowledge graph for AI agents.
  • name: Guru
    why: Workplace knowledge management and AI search overlap the company knowledge use case.

influencers

  • name: Shalin Shah
    url: https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/shalin-shah
    why: Cofounder and CEO of Hyper.

keywords

  • AI company knowledge base
  • AI workplace agent
  • company brain for AI agents
  • enterprise AI search
  • AI knowledge graph
  • connect AI to company tools
  • agent context layer

voice

  • Playful and energetic
  • Human friendly
  • Speed and usability focused

signals

  • text: A team is adopting AI coding or work agents but repeatedly supplying the same company context manually.
  • text: A growing company uses multiple knowledge and communications tools and struggles to find information across them.

stack

  • GitHub
  • Google Drive
  • Gmail
  • Stripe
  • Outlook
  • Rust

pricing

model: freemium
starting price: Free; paid plans start at $25/month

motion

hybrid

channels

  • Hacker News
  • Product Hunt
  • LinkedIn
  • X
  • SEO
  • free trial

confidence

high

Founders

  • name: Shalin Shah
    title: Founder/CEO
    role: CEO
    bio: cofounder & ceo @ hyper, led autonomy @ matic robots + built their v0 humanoid which closed their series b, studied cs+math @ berkeley & top 1% of class. in a past life: started coding at 12; interned at 2 yc co's in 7th/8th grade; built study tool w 100k MAU in middle school & app for blind ppl w 3m+ users in high school; won $100k in high school science fairs to pay all college tuition and scored a perfect 2400 on the SAT.
  • name: Kanyes Thaker
    title: Founder/President
    role: Founder
    bio: cofounder & president @ Hyper. prev autonomy lead @ Matic Robots. IC to team lead in < 1 month, shipped Matic's #1 most requested feature. prev youngest FDE at Snorkel AI, closed 7-figure renewals at Snorkel's #1 (top 5 US bank) and #2 (top 10 P&C Insurer) largest customers. cs + math @ Berkeley '21. Led Cal's largest CS RSO (120+ active members) & organized TechFair (largest student maker showcase in CA). Quant finance @ Goldman Sachs, Point72.

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