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One of the most impressive outcomes we’ve seen recently - how Cardinal Gray (YC S23) cut data implementation timelines and time-to-value by 13x using Lume AI. ⚡ Their team had a massive challenge: mapping customer data from different Loan Management Systems (LMS) into hundreds of standardized schemas required for DMV titling compliance. Varying data models. All structured differently. All needing to be normalized, transformed, and piped into tightly-defined schemas for downstream DMV titling compliance workflows. Before Lume, this meant months of mapping work by engineers - a clear bottleneck to scaling. That’s where Lume came in. Cardinal Gray implemented our AI-powered data mapping platform and went from a projected 5-month rollout to a 6-week launch. 🚀 We helped them use AI to build and manage hundreds of mapping pipelines, and build the scaffolding to manage and evolve the mapping pipelines as customer data and compliance schemas changed and evolved. -> No more hand-coding and mapping from customer Loan Management Systems to hundreds of compliance data schemas. -> No more fragile integrations between customer and end data models. -> Just scalable, reliable data mapping - and a faster path to market. “What once was going to take 5 months took us 6 weeks with Lume.” Cardinal Gray has now got to market faster, freeing up engineering time, and scaling to hundreds of standardized documents without increasing manual effort. Super proud of this partnership, and proud to have gotten to know the killer team behind the Cardinal Gray - led by Jack Chapman, Muhammad Khattak, and Grant Pease. -- full case study in the comments👇

Quick flick at the new Lume (YC W23) HQ! What makes our team special? Every day, they each walk in with a big smile - and it’s contagious. It sets the tone, lifts the energy, and makes you look forward to the next person walking through the door. We love the grind, and even more, we love the people we get to grind with. We're in flatiron area, come visit! 😁

Here's a new list of 33 tiny startup teams (<10 people) backed by top-tier funds, all are now HIRING: 1) Fermah - universal proof generation layer (remote) 2) Paradome - AI government automations (NYC) 3) Agentuity - cloud for autonomous agents (Austin / Remote) 4) BeHeard Labs - AI customer feedback (Bay Area) 5) WaveForms AI - audio-based language models (Bay Area) 6) Oboe - educational LLM tools (NYC) 7) juna.ai- industrial process automation (Berlin) 8) t1 - real-time proofs (remote) 9) Prudentia Sciences - drug asset marketplace (Cambridge / US remote) 10) Evertune AI - brand monitoring system (NYC) 11) Goodfire - AI interpretability tools (Bay Area) 12) Grepr - cost-reducing observability (Bay Area) 13) Spara - multimodal sales engine (NYC) 14) Ocular AI (YC W24) AI - unstructured data transformation (Bay Area) 15) OffDeal - small business acquisition matching (NYC) 16) Arphie - automated RFP management (Bay Area) 17) Chai Discovery - biochemical interaction models (Bay Area) 18) The Lumber Manufactory- timber marketplace (Seattle) 19) Momentic - AI-driven testing interface (Bay Area) 20) Reducto - document parsing API (Bay Area) 21) Tranched - on-chain securitization (Paris / Amsterdam / London / Remote) 22) Collate - medical documentation automation (Bay Area) 23) Starcloud (YC S24) - space data centers (Redmond) 24) Matter Intelligence - hyperspectral sensing tech (Bay Area) 25) Gumloop - visual workflow creator (Bay Area) 26) Trayd: Construction Payroll - construction payroll automation (NYC) 27) General Galactic - renewable synthetic fuels (LA) 28) Continue - open-source code assistant (Bay Area) 29) Axal - verifiable autonomous agents (NYC) 30) Deep Infra Inc. - machine learning API (Bay Area / EU remote) 31) Lume (YC W23)- AI data integration (NYC) 32) OpenYield - bond trading marketplace (NYC) 33) Runware - fast generative AI (UK remote) Adding direct links to their career pages in the comments 👋 follow me for more lists like this every week: Ben Lang ✨ thank you to Harmonic (startup database) for helping me source the list

🚀 Lume (YC W23) is hiring! We're looking for a Founding Full-Stack Engineer to help us scale as demand from our clients continues to surge! 💡 If you're excited about solving complex AI and Big Data challenges, building sleek, high-performance web applications, and working alongside top-tier engineers, let’s talk! In this role you'll own the web app experience, while also contributing across the stack. 💰 $10K referral bonus for introductions that lead to a hire—send great people our way! 📍 This is an in-office position based in New York City.

I'm excited to welcome Collin Montag as Lume (YC W23)'s founding engineer! Collin joined the company about 6 months back from Google’s Pub/Sub team, and he’s been fundamental Lume's growth. He’s a swiss-army knife, leading infrastructure, AI, customer support, and many other efforts at the company. When we met Collin, we immediately knew he was a fit and a 1/1 candidate. He wanted to work on very hard problems and have extreme ownership and leadership over Lume’s direction. Since joining, he redesigned our entire infrastructure from scratch. Our customer’s CTO, recognizing how complex Lume’s data infrastructure must be, was shocked one person built it. This person is Collin. Most importantly, Collin is an upstanding person. He’s a pleasure to be around, and it’s an honor to work alongside him. Excited to have you onboard (and officially announced many months later 😄)! ---- And, we're still hiring! If you'd like to join the Lume's eng team, we have a Full Stack Engineer position (front end focused), among others, open (link in comments).

Towards the end of last year, I had the privilege to give a keynote speech at the National Society of Black Engineers Fall Regional Conference. My talk focused on a topic I love to opine on: the art of risk taking. In a world that's constantly evolving - especially in AI - standing still is often the riskiest move of all. Taking bold, calculated risks is how we innovate and thrive in uncertain times. At Lume (YC W23), we fully embrace this mindset by placing big bets this year--and we're hiring too! I'd love to hear from you: what risks are you planning to take in the New Year?

Our team did an office redesign, and the ONLY decoration on top of our coffee table is … Designing Data-Intensive Applications 😂🛠️ Our founding engineer Collin Montag brought this on his first day of work, and it is just a small symbol of the unreal impact he would have at our company. He redesigned our entire infrastructure from scratch. Our customer’s CTO, recognizing how complex Lume (YC W23)’s data infrastructure must be, was shocked one person built it. Kudos to Collin for being 1/1, and for the light reading available to us during our breaks!