Terminal Use
Terminal Use is a YC Winter 2026 (W26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 4.
About Terminal Use
Summary
Terminal Use rebuilds entire operational departments for construction, logistics, manufacturing, and retail companies using AI agents, replacing the manual workflows those departments run today. Starting with a process audit, the team re-engineers a targeted process end to end so that agents handle the work previously done by human operators. Past deployments include large engineering, procurement, and construction firms as well as national-scale medical billing operations.
Go-to-market
Target customers are large industrial and operational businesses; engagement starts with a process audit where the prospect walks Terminal Use through a painful workflow and the team determines what to rebuild first, combining a consultative sale with a hands-on deployment.
From the Y Combinator listing
Vercel for background agents
Terminal Use is an orchestration platform for background agents. Purpose-built for agents that use filesystems. Our platform is CLI-first, making it easy for your coding agents to experiment and continuously improve your deployed agents.
Facts
- B2B / B2B -> Infrastructure
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 4
- Active
- Early
Founders (3)
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