Hursh Shah

@subramanya yes! and you can chat with the agent too

@hursheybar2 does it show facilities teams why a fix saves energy before applying it?

We just built world models that can simulate anything in a building (to save billions in energy costs) Across the country, schools alone spend $8B on their utilities. This is air conditioning, lights, heater  — all the things we take for granted. But over 30% is wasted on inefficiencies like poor scheduling, equipment failures, or things as simple as leaving the HVAC running. Compounding this is that facilities staff are overworked and have to deal with archaic software that doesn’t talk to one another, maintenance issues that are hard to triage, and obscure bills that are difficult to verify.  Me and @KsTanuj founded @Edviro_energy to solve this problem. The company started when I was 17, and a teacher handed me a year of district utility bills to analyze for a project. I built software to parse them and discovered PG&E had been overbilling the school on gas, about $360,000 for that year. Today, Edviro has helped other schools save hundreds of thousands of dollars on their utility bills. Edviro integrates with BMS, utility, and sensor systems, continuously monitors buildings, simulates fixes (and upgrades) before touching anything, and puts the best option in front of the facilities manager for one-click approval + action. Plus, our models help construction teams with the baselining and M&V to ensure project success. If you’re a construction company, facilities team, or have a partnership idea, book a meeting at edviroenergy.com

@Mechanicnear_me @ycombinator not yet but we will!

@hursheybar2 @ycombinator I appreciate your model it’s excellent work, but fundamentally you haven’t solved the key problem.

@Mechanicnear_me @ycombinator helps identify all inefficiencies and constantly simulates fixes (scheduling, maintenance, upgrades, etc.)

@hursheybar2 @ycombinator It’s a great management model, how does it create efficiency of energy?

@GJarrosson very true

@hursheybar2 the best founders I meet at YC are obsessively curious about things way outside their product. it shows up in how they think.

if you’re a founder you should probably spend at least a few hours a week learning something new (to keep yourself sane)

it’s crazy how in some industries startup tech can be three generations ahead of what’s actually deployed

@dimabytes agreed

@hursheybar2 Outside of tech*

@micahomnd making cool energy models to help reduce energy use in buildings

@hursheybar2 what're you guys cooking? what's edviro

i understand the yc hype now

Even @OpenAI's recent Erdős breakthrough didn't convince me that LLMs can do general math research. This changed my mind.. Using a clever 'prover-verifier' LLM loop, this harness solved 9 substantial open problems in Theoretical CS, including one that kept me up at night for 2 years. Incredible work by my former Columbia collaborator @binghuip, @runzhou_tao, Steven Wang & @HantaoYu_Theory. The plan is to expand this to ALL fields of science. Stay tuned.

hey btw electricity is going to be proportional to intelligence so we should build nuclear wind and solar as a national security imperative

It is very easy to be pessimistic and right. Most ideas are bad. Most markets are too early, too small, too crowded, too hard. You can build an entire worldview around seeing the flaw first, and be rewarded for it over and over again But the strange thing about startups is that the only outcomes that matter come from the places where someone was optimistic and right I used to underestimate how much this matters. But there is a whole world of difference between reacting to the world as it is, and having enough understanding of the world as it is to still stay open to what it could become Long optimism

Happy Demo Day! @liveplayahouse

happy to announce edviro is now backed by YC! we’re building the next generation of agentic energy management for buildings. more to come soon… if you work in energy, construction, or facilities, would love to chat. enjoy a video of us post interview:

@boardyai building an energy AI startup at UCSB and running ucsb.network to connect founders. would love in on Boardy Pro

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sign up at ucsb.network/hackathon! @mindfort

@hursheybar2 and I are doing live office hours with anyone building anything at UCSB. Talk about your project, get advice, and we’ll post it online. (Also u get free cursor credits) Find a time ucsb.network/office-hours