AI Workforce for Distributors and Manufacturers. Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
Technology is no longer the limiting factor for automating knowledge work. Deployment is. A frontier lab ships a capability, and 18 months later a handful of Fortune 500s have it in production and everyone else has a pilot. The gap isn't model quality. It's that deploying AI into a real business means learning a workflow nobody wrote down, integrating with software from 2003, and hitting a reliability bar the model alone doesn't meet.
What they're looking for
- Week one: shipped your first feature to a live customer
- Month one: got on a call with a customer, designed and implemented a feature to solve a problem for them
- Quarter one: owning a meaningful surface area of the product, end to end
- Full stack experience: NextJS, TypeScript, Python, Google Cloud
- Understand how to build production-ready agents: context engineering, tool design, evals, …
- Can talk directly with customers, ask good questions, and get to the root of their problems
More about this role
Technology is no longer the limiting factor for automating knowledge work. Deployment is. A frontier lab ships a capability, and 18 months later a handful of Fortune 500s have it in production and everyone else has a pilot. The gap isn't model quality. It's that deploying AI into a real business means learning a workflow nobody wrote down, integrating with software from 2003, and hitting a reliability bar the model alone doesn't meet.
Ventura closes the deployment gap for industrial operations, as a configurable product, not a consulting engagement. We started with one product: quoting and order entry for industrial distributors. We're live with customers doing billions in revenue, moving thousands of truckloads of material across the U.S. every day.
Those customers are already asking us to automate the next five processes. Growth is limited by how much we can ship, not by demand. We're hiring founding engineers, full time, in person in SF.
Swen (CEO): exited a B2B SaaS in the same industry, ex-BCG, Harvard MS/MBA. Jack (CTO): founding engineer at Develop Health (0 → $7m ARR with 5 people), creator of Magentic , Imperial College London.
You'd be our first founding engineer.
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