Mentlio
Mentlio is a YC Summer 2026 (S26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA.
About Mentlio
Summary
Mentlio builds an engineering intelligence platform that gives enterprises visibility into AI coding tool spend and its effect on developer output. It measures productivity signals locally on-device, so prompts and source code never leave the machine, then routes requests, compresses context, and trims prompts to cut token waste across every engineer's seat. The platform replaces ad-hoc AI bill reviews and gut-feel ROI assessments with per-engineer metrics tying AI spend directly to delivery.
Business model
Demo-gated SaaS sold to enterprises, priced per engineer seat.
Go-to-market
Mentlio targets engineering leaders and finance teams at enterprises already running AI coding tools at scale, acquired through a sales-led motion anchored on a live demo.
From the Y Combinator listing
Engineering Intelligence and Token Optimization for the AI-Coding Era
Mentlio an applied research lab focused on optimizing AI ROI for the modern enterprise. We help engineering teams draw a line between their AI spend and delivery, per engineer. We then cut ~30% of AI spend via Mentlio's custom ML-based intelligent routing, context optimization, and prompt compression.
Facts
- B2B / B2B
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
- Ahmet Demirbas
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