03 · YC FALL 2026 · Editorial analysis
A Cloud for Small Software
Agents make bespoke tools easy to create, while deployment, permissions, and secure sharing remain needlessly difficult.
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The problem
Today's clouds optimize for large applications and burden personal or team-scale software with heavyweight infrastructure.
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The opportunity
A secure, radically simple runtime could make small applications as easy to share as a document.
Core themes
02 Agents Become Collaborators
Agents are evolving from private assistants into visible teammates with long-running tasks, handoffs, and shared decisions.
Open analysis05 New Compute and Financial Rails
The batch looks beneath applications toward new runtimes, compute locations, and programmable financial infrastructure.
Open analysis