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Detect what AI can automate for your team

Winter 2026Founded 20252 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA
AI insightcan contain mistakes
AI Automation Discovery & AuditingSaaSEnterprises and teams starting AI automationLow competition
Moat
Desktop activity monitoring and historical workflow analysis; local-first privacy model.
Key risk
Privacy concerns around desktop monitoring; integration with automation tools is fragmented.
Why now
Teams want AI but lack awareness of automation opportunities; historical data analysis unlocks quick wins.
Competitors
Emerging space, some workflow analytics tools

About

Most teams want to plug in AI but don't know where to get started. BaseFrame's desktop app finds exactly what to automate for each employee using the historic data on their computer. Instead of relying on screen recording or generic AI demos, we use the existing history of how work gets done across email, docs, Slack, calendar, browser, and files to identify the highest-value automations. We use local models so that your sensitive data doesn’t have to leave your system. Once you find a set of automations, send them off to your automation tool of choice and share them with your team so that everyone can get productivity boosts.

Founders Β· 2

Anshul Paul
Anshul PaulFounder
Berkeley

Co-Founder and CEO of BaseFrame (W26). Previously first full-time employee and founding engineer at HappyRobot, where I worked on omni-channel AI communication, AI evals, and enterprise system integrations. Helped grow company to 100+ in size and Seed to Series B. Majored in EECS and Business at UC Berkeley M.E.T.

Vaibhav Agrawal
Vaibhav AgrawalFounder
Berkeley

Co-Founder of BaseFrame (W26). Previously a Fellow at Sutter Hill Ventures. Worked on the data ingestion infrastructure at Sigma Computing and remote agents orchestration and containerization at Augment Code. Studied CS at Berkeley.

Launch

Launched on Y Combinator Β· Jan 2026
View launch post β†—

AI agents that catch risks and tradeoffs early during hardware project scoping

BaseFrame offers AI agents that assist hardware teams in project scoping, validations, and BOM generation to identify design gaps and data-driven tradeoffs before prototyping, aiming to reduce lead times and procurement issues. The launch covers how the platform scopes projects, validates findings, generates BOMs from datasheets, and enables parallel architecture simulations to reveal cost and lead-time tradeoffs.

Formerly β€œBaseFrame”, β€œClam”, β€œClam (formerly Baseframe)”, β€œClam”

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