New Intel: Button Computer is building a wearable AI button that only listens when pressed. After Humane and Rabbit struggled, the privacy-first interaction model may be the wedge that makes conversational hardware more acceptable.
Button Computer
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Consumer Hardware
YC Winter 26
New Intel: Burt is helping teams replace expensive frontier model calls with specialized models that run faster and cheaper. That is a production AI problem, and agent teams will feel it first.
Burt
AI Infrastructure
New Intel: Bubble Lab is building Pearl, a Slack-native agent that runs workflows across Notion, Jira, Stripe, and other tools. The play is making Slack the execution interface for ops workflows.
Bubble Lab
Workflow Automation
New Intel: Booko is bringing dynamic pricing to salons, fitness studios, med-spas, and other slot-based businesses. The bet is that local services will start using yield management the way airlines and Uber do.
Booko
Dynamic Pricing
New Intel: Bidflow is starting with AI estimating for electrical contractors, with data center construction as the tailwind. Faster bidding could become a real edge as AI infrastructure projects strain contractor capacity.
Bidflow
Construction Technology
New Intel: Beyond Reach Labs is building deployable space solar arrays that launch small and expand to football-field scale. With $175M+ in LOIs, the company is betting power becomes the bottleneck for orbital infrastructure.
Beyond Reach Labs
Aerospace & Defense
New Intel: BeeSafe AI is deploying agents that engage scammers for months to extract mule-account and attacker-infrastructure data. That turns scam baiting into a fraud intelligence product for banks, crypto, telecoms, and law enforcement.
BeeSafe AI
Cyber Security
New Intel: Beacon Health is deploying EHR agents for quality gaps, risk adjustment, and patient outreach across an IPA with 40,000 patients. That ties the product to value-based care revenue and admin relief in the same workflow.
Beacon Health
Primary Care
New Intel: BaseFrame appears to be testing a second product, Clam, an AI message firewall for leaks and prompt injection. That could pull the company from hardware search into enterprise agent security.
BaseFrame
Hardware Engineering
New Intel: Balance is building an AI bookkeeping agent that reconciles, categorizes, reports, and answers finance questions across SMB systems. Human review keeps trust while the AI does the repetitive accounting work.
Balance
AI Accounting
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