How a Private Chef Startup Went All In on AI Agents

Yhangry is a private chef marketplace doing $15 million in GMV that's going all in on AI agents across every function of the company — from an autonomous bug fixer that shipped 25 fixes in its first week to an AI product that matches chefs and customers instantly. In this recent batch talk, founder Siddhi Mittal walks through three real business use cases for agents at yhangry, how she turned teaching AI in plain English into a growth channel worth $50K in free conference slots, and the hard org decisions she made to rebuild the company as AI native from the ground up.

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EPISODE INFO

Released: May 19, 2026
Duration: 4m
Channel: YC Root Access
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Yhangry is a private chef marketplace doing $15 million in GMV that's going all in on AI agents across every function of the company — from an autonomous bug fixer that shipped 25 fixes in its first week to an AI product that matches chefs and customers instantly. In this recent batch talk, founder Siddhi Mittal walks through three real business use cases for agents at yhangry, how she turned teaching AI in plain English into a growth channel worth $50K in free conference slots, and the hard org decisions she made to rebuild the company as AI native from the ground up.

SPEAKERS

Siddhi Mittal
guest
Founder of Yhangry, a private-chef startup, with an AI academic background (Columbia, 2013).

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of YC Root Access, featuring Siddhi Mittal, How a Private Chef Startup Went All In on AI Agents explores private chef marketplace accelerates growth by embedding AI agents everywhere Yhangry built an autonomous bug-fixing agent in under four days to clear a long-tail backlog of low-priority bugs while aiming to 10× growth from roughly $15M GMV.

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