Announcing Ara's backing from Y Combinator.
Ara finds the next thing worth building, ships it, and never waits for a prompt.
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MetaThe loop
Ara is a proactive software engineer that works in a loop. Each pass ships a real improvement and makes the next one better.
The loop never waits for another prompt. Ara reads your product and codebase, spots the highest-value next step, and turns it into a scheduled agent or background run, so work keeps moving while you're elsewhere.
Ara runs the work end to end: it edits files, drives the browser and terminal, opens a PR, reviews the diff, then keeps the method as a skill. Every run leaves the loop sharper than it found it.
Memory, Hermes Cron, skills, and Mac computer use close the loop: Ara remembers what shipped, understands the codebase a little better, and tees up the next improvement. Self-driving, and compounding.
Mission control
Mission control keeps every self-driving loop visible across chats, files, browsers, terminals, and review panes, so you can supervise the agents improving your codebase instead of babysitting them.
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Our team was pushing close to 100 pull requests a day, and the hard part stopped being writing code — it became knowing what to build, what broke, and what's on fire. This week we launched Ara out of YC and shipped Autosuggest.
Today we're introducing non-invasive computer use in Ara. A real cursor that drives your Mac, clicks through apps, and gets work done in the background while you keep going.
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