Lantern AI (YC F26) turns your taste into hires by handling everything in recruiting.
San Francisco
Joined August 2026
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Lantern AI retweeted
today we're launching People Infrastructure for Agents
the problem: every people stack you pay for was built for a human with a mouse, and your agents hate using your mouse, with all those separate logins and invoices
introducing Lantern's People Infrastructure for Agents:
-> 70+ popular tools (people data, company signals, deep research, outreach) behind one connection
-> CLI native, built for codex, claude code and grok bot
-> your agent describes the job, Lantern picks the tools, finds the human, explains the fit and reaches out via Linkedin, email, iMessage
-> one wallet instead of 6 separate subscriptions
Tell your agent "setup people.lantern.md", and get started with our generous free tier
let's give agents the ability to contact ANYONE in the world ;)
@LanternAI__ @ycombinator
Try us now at lantern.md 🚀🎃
@ycombinator
Today, we are killing Workday, SuccessFactors and Ashby.
Recruiting software was built to track hiring. Recruiters still do the work: finding people, reviewing applications, running interviews, taking notes, doing reporting, and chasing calendars.
Lantern (YC F26) is an agentic recruiting platform with connected agents that do the work for you.
It learns your hiring taste, searches a billion professionals, and shares context across sourcing, screening, interviews, and scheduling. Every interview and hiring decision makes the next search better.
Teams can start with Lantern on top of their existing ATS, or replace it entirely.
We have processed over 2 million candidates for companies including Crypto.com, Hyatt and Eight Sleep.
@ycombinator @LanternAI__
Lantern AI retweeted
this isn't even the worst part about an ats.
the deeper problem is that the system turns hiring into a keyword bingo, and then calls the match a “signal.” a resume with the right keywords will beat someone whose work is clearly better, because softwares can parse nouns more easily than judgment.
we built lantern.md to understand people. we study the work, the team’s standards, and the evidence behind a career.
hiring should begin with judgment. that's our philosophy.
Lantern AI retweeted
i'm hosting a dim sum w/ @rhobusiness before yc fall batch kicks off 🥟
on 9/6, in SF
details + rsvp: partiful.com/e/sV3MzBYxN7N4v…
come join us! :)
Lantern AI retweeted
i got into YC on my third try, and it was actually the one i spent the least time on.
@JustinTang29 and i had been shipping almost every month, so every application was different.
the overcorrection is thinking you need a perfect application. make something people want and the it writes itself 🙌
Lantern AI retweeted
half the reason @JustinTang29 and I started building lantern.md/. why judge people on a document and a made up task if what you need to know about an applicant is already available? so that's what lantern does: you tell it what a good hire looks like for you, it goes and finds those people with the proof attached.
our goal:
> help every company hire the best people
> help good candidates get hired on what they've built
Lantern AI retweeted
three months ago, i got rejected from yc (landed on top 10% so we were rlly close)
today, @LanternAI__ is published in the yc directory
gotta celebrate the "small" wins :>
yc f26, we’re just getting started!
