Lighthouz AI — AI procurement specialists to 15x productivity 
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
Industry: B2B
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Workflow Automation, Supply Chain, AI Assistant
YC batch: S24 | Status: Active | Team size: 3

Lighthouz AI is building AI procurement specialists for manufacturers. 

500,000 procurement professionals waste their entire day using emails to communicate with suppliers, and entering data on spreadsheets and 90s looking ERP software. That's $40B wasted annually. 

Lighthouz's AI procurement specialists disrupts this entire profession. The AI agent automates all manual tasks of procurement -- data extraction from emails & documents, data entry on ERP systems. It 15x'es the productivity of procurement teams. 

Our AI agents will replace 500k jobs in the next 5 years. 

Our team has 20+ years of combined AI experience: 
- Srijan has been a GaTech CS professor, ex- Google, Stanford, UMD, IIT. He has built systems now in production at Meta, Home Depot, etc. He has written 60+ papers that are cited 6000+ times. 
- Sonali was a lead AI engineer at Progressive insurance, American Family insurance, Halliburton, did her MS at University of Washington, and undergrad at IIT.