# Almanac

> Almanac, a Y Combinator startup that launched this fall, tackles a problem anyone using AI assistants at work has hit: the assistant knows a lot about the world and almost nothing about your company. Almanac fixes that by learning your organization, maintaining a live internal wiki pulled from sources like Slack, Gmail, Granola notes, and GitHub, then answering questions with that full context in hand. The clever bit is aimed at AI agents as much as people. Agents tend to forget company policies between tasks and will happily invent an org chart that does not exist, so Almanac acts as a source of truth an agent can consult before it acts, cutting down on hallucinated structure and repeated questions. It plugs into the tools a team already uses rather than asking everyone to adopt yet another system. For non-engineers the value is simple, a place to ask how does my company actually do this and get a grounded answer. Whether it wins comes down to trust, since a company knowledge base is only useful if people believe what it tells them.

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## Wortins' read

Almanac, a Y Combinator startup that launched this fall, tackles a problem anyone using AI assistants at work has hit: the assistant knows a lot about the world and almost nothing about your company. Almanac fixes that by learning your organization, maintaining a live internal wiki pulled from sources like Slack, Gmail, Granola notes, and GitHub, then answering questions with that full context in hand. The clever bit is aimed at AI agents as much as people. Agents tend to forget company policies between tasks and will happily invent an org chart that does not exist, so Almanac acts as a source of truth an agent can consult before it acts, cutting down on hallucinated structure and repeated questions. It plugs into the tools a team already uses rather than asking everyone to adopt yet another system. For non-engineers the value is simple, a place to ask how does my company actually do this and get a grounded answer. Whether it wins comes down to trust, since a company knowledge base is only useful if people believe what it tells them.

## Source

[Read the full story at Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49511007)

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