AI infrastructure

Orchestra

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Founded 2026Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Orchestra is an inference cloud. We capture your AI work traces, train smaller models, and automatically deploy them (only when they outperform the expensive model you are currently paying for).

Instead of renting the same frontier model forever, your AI infrastructure gets faster, smarter, and cheaper every time it runs.

Suppose your product uses Claude for a repetitive legal workflow.

Orchestra observes successful production runs, learns the specific tools and judgment required for that workflow, and trains a specialized open-weight model.

Once that model matches or beats Claude on a held-out evaluation, Orchestra starts routing production traffic to it.

As more work is completed, the model keeps improving.

We started Orchestra because we believe every company using AI should be accumulating intelligence, not accumulating API bills.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Founders & team

Previously Understudy Labs

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Luis Manrique

Founder/CEO

Founder at Orchestra (YC S26). Previously founding Member of Technical Staff (and founding sales guy) at Gumloop, closing ~$2M in first year. Led Ads ML and also consumer AI as first PM at Instacart's Carrot AI. Prior co-founder/CEO at Ones and Zeros (text-to-SQL using transformers). Early at Wildfire (acquired by Google), then 5 years across Google's ads ML and programmatic platforms. SVP Solutions at VideoAmp building TV measurement infrastructure.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Aamir Poonawalla

Founder/CTO

Founder at Orchestra (YC S26). 10 years at Instacart. Built the ads serving and ML infrastructure, auction platform, and experimentation framework. 2nd time YC Founder. MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.

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Founded 2026 · Source

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Y Combinator

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Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Launched · 3 of 6 areas documented

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The company website offers product access through a trial, free start, app download, purchase, or onboarding with existing-account login. Customer adoption is not established by this evidence.

Company website: home Checked 2026-11-06

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