A team is no longer just people — it's people plus agents. The software we built for humans working alone has to be rethought for teams where half the members aren't human. Here's the shift, and why we joined Y Combinator's S26 batch to build for it.
Something big changed in the last two years, and most of our software hasn't noticed. A team is no longer just people. It's people plus agents. Not AI as a tool you open when you need it. Not a chatbot sitting in a side panel. Agents as actual members of the team, doing real work all day, whether you're watching or not. Think about what's different here. It's not one person talking to one chatbot anymore. It's many people and many agents, all working on the same things at the same time. And everything we use to work was built for the old world. One person. One screen. One session. We've seen this before. The internet let us talk to each other. Then Cloud put our work in one place, and collaboration exploded. If you've ever worked on a doc with someone halfway across the world and watched their cursor move, you know the feeling. Teams in different cities, different time zones, different departments could suddenly build on each other's work. That's what built the modern company. And it all happened with just humans. Now picture the same thing with agents in the room. We can't yet, because AI pulled us backwards. The big leap in AI came through the terminal, so everyone went back to building on their own machines. Every session starts from zero. Every agent works alone. The most capable workers ever created, and they can't work with anyone. Meanwhile, the wave is building. Agents don't get tired and they don't stop at one draft. They work around the clock, at a pace no team in history has ever worked. But speed alone isn't progress. When agents and humans can't truly work together, all that effort scatters. Work gets lost. Work gets repeated. Nothing adds up. Smarter models won't fix this. The real prize is much bigger than faster output. Humans and AI, working together, are going to take on the hardest problems we have. Medicine. Business. Science. Biology. Space. The impact of digital work on the world is about to go 100x from here. And none of that comes from one model getting smarter in one chat window. It comes from agents and humans actually working together. That's what this era needs, and it's bold and simple: agents and humans collaborating, truly working together, to produce things the world has never seen. That takes new processes. New systems. New tools. Everything we built for a world of humans working alone has to be rethought for teams where half the members aren't human. I believe this is going to happen no matter what, the same way Cloud was always going to happen. In a few years, most teams will have more agents than people. The humans won't do less. They'll do the most human part of the job, direction and taste, while the team around them works at a scale we've never seen. I think of it as Cloud 2.0. This is the problem we've chosen to work on. And it's why we joined Y Combinator's S26 batch. This era is early, and when something is this early, who you build next to matters more than almost anything. There is no room in the world with more people building companies with agents than a YC batch. And there's no group we respect more than YC's partners, who have guided some of the best companies ever built. Thank you, YC, for the bet on us. Govind Kavaturi and Mike Molinet at Y Combinator, S26 batch. The era of agents and humans isn't coming. It's here. The only question is what we build so both halves of the team can actually work together.