Developer tools

ByteAsk

Website
Founded 2026Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

ByteAsk is an AI coding agent built for C and C++, the code that runs trading systems, cars, chips, and operating systems. It does not stop at a diff that looks right. ByteAsk builds, debugs, and tests every change with the real toolchain until the change holds. If the compiler, the debugger, or the tests can catch it, then ByteAsk catches it too. It runs from the terminal or inside VS Code, Neovim, and Emacs, and is available fully on-prem.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
LinkedIn GitHub Pricing About
Developer toolsCopilot & assistantDevelopersDevelopersSubscription

Product & workflow

ByteAsk connects through a bridge you start inside your own gdb, reads the stop state, and proposes any command that would change it.

Source-reported As recorded 2026-10-18

Pricing

Team is $40 per seat per month, and Enterprise, including on-prem, is priced on contract.

Source-reported As recorded 2026-10-18

Founders & team

Anirudha Kulkarni

Founder/CEO

Building coding agents for C and C++ - Prev. low-latency C++ at Optiver and Quantbox - built SOTA Python-to-C++ optimizing transpiler - CSE @ IIT Delhi - Founder/CEO LawSutraAI, acquired by Manupatra, India's largest legal tech firm, where it serves 100k+ lawyers - solo travelled to 12 countries

LinkedIn X
Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Pratyush Saini

Founder/CTO

Pratyush is the co-founder and CTO of ByteAsk, an AI coding tool for C and C++. He studied Computer Science at IIT Delhi. He was a core engineer on NeuralDB and BOLT, ThirdAI's CPU-only search and deep learning engines, then a founding engineer at Simbian, where he co-built the AI security agent that handles over a million incidents a year. He co-founded LawSutraAI as CTO and sold it to Manupatra, India's largest legal tech firm, where his legal research agent serves over 100,000 lawyers.

LinkedIn X
Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
2team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2026 · Source

News & product activity

Sources & observations

Hacker News · Y Combinator

Profile depthenriched profile
Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceA pricing page was detected
Maturity: Launched · 4 of 6 areas documented

Source-based assessment · automated evidence rules

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 2026-10-18 · Company website: home Checked 2026-10-18

Get started
Product Integrations Enterprise Pricing Docs Team Contact Book a demo Log in Discord

Maturity is an evidence-based assessment, not a success rating. It may understate the current stage where evidence is limited. Coverage records documented areas, not a complete or independently audited company history.

Stage definitions
independent websitesource corroborationreachable websitedescriptive evidenceclassified market and modelsourced peoplesourced founding yearpricing page observeddocumentation observedrecent publishing observeddated product or funding activity
startup.observe Directory coverage · Sources & method