Retail ecommerce

ORO AI

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Founded 2026Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

We focus on capability gaps and safety benchmarks so that AI agents can be trusted to run businesses autonomously.

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

Shardul Bansal

Founder/CEO

Founder at ORO AI. Previously founding engineer at Crucible Labs, scaling Crucible Wallet from 0 to $3.5M AUM in 3 months. Before that, was at AWS Cloud Map, helping scale API throughput 4x. Computer Science @ University of Toronto, early undergrad researcher, working on evals for distributed training. Co-President at UofT AI, running the largest undergrad ML competition in 2021 to model climate change, secured $100k+ in grant funding from Google, DeepMind, IBM, Accuweather, etc.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Seth Schilbe

Founder/CTO

Founder at ORO AI. Previously Senior Software Engineer at AWS, leading distributed systems projects across ECS and AWS Cloud Map. Earlier, co-founded HomeWurk, building a two-sided marketplace for local services. Targeting low skilled contract work for high school and university students to make extra money while in school. Software Engineering degree from University of New Brunswick.

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2team members reported
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Founded 2026 · Source

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedVancouver, BC, Canada
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Not assessed · 2 of 6 areas documented

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