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Mentlio

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Founded 2026Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Mentlio an applied research lab focused on optimizing AI ROI for the modern enterprise. We help engineering teams draw a line between their AI spend and delivery, per engineer. We then cut ~30% of AI spend via Mentlio's custom ML-based intelligent routing, context optimization, and prompt compression.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Product & workflow

Mentlio integrates with Slack, Microsoft Teams, GitHub, Claude, OpenAI, Cursor, Linear, and Jira.

Source-reported As recorded 2026-10-06

Founders & team

Previously Adjoint

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Ashank Shah

Founder/CEO

Building Mentlio | Prev. CS @ Caltech | Researched generative and graph-based DL for biomedical problems @ Dartmouth Health.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Ahmet Demirbas

Founder/CTO

Tokenmaxxing → ROImaxxing | Prev CS @ Caltech | 5x Published ML, NLP, Agents Research @ IEEE, ACM, BMC

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2026 · Source

News & product activity

Sources & observations

Y Combinator

Profile depthenriched profile
Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

Source-based assessment · automated evidence rules

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