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How to Give AI Agents Enough Context to Be Useful

Skyvern is an open source company helping healthcare businesses automate manual browser tasks, and co-founder Suchintan Singh scaled it past $2 million in run rate while personally handling PM, sales, marketing, and customer support — all powered by AI agents. In this recent batch talk, Suchintan breaks down why agents produce slop when they lack business context, walks through two specific skills he built, and explains why he banned DMs and records every call to make his entire company legible to AI.

Suchintan Singhguest
May 19, 20265mWatch on YouTube ↗

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Released
May 19, 2026
Duration
5m
Channel
YC Root Access
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Skyvern is an open source company helping healthcare businesses automate manual browser tasks, and co-founder Suchintan Singh scaled it past $2 million in run rate while personally handling PM, sales, marketing, and customer support — all powered by AI agents. In this recent batch talk, Suchintan breaks down why agents produce slop when they lack business context, walks through two specific skills he built, and explains why he banned DMs and records every call to make his entire company legible to AI.

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  • Suchintan Singh

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    Founder/representative of Skyvern discussing how to give AI agents enough context to be useful.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of YC Root Access, featuring Suchintan Singh, How to Give AI Agents Enough Context to Be Useful explores give AI agents full business context to avoid slop output Agents fail when they follow instructions without the business context needed to make good decisions, much like a new employee without onboarding.

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