Why Axal
Samai & Nand at Y Combinator
We're Samai and Nand. We built Axal to automate the tedious factory work that buries your best people in spreadsheets and manual research, so they can spend their time actually making sense of information instead of hunting for it.
One day a client asked us, "Could you guys build a research tool that monitors global events for our supply chain?" We said yes, shipped it, and immediately offered it to the rest of our clients. Every single one jumped at it. Turns out, nobody enjoys spending hours every morning scouring news sites, trade publications, and government filings just to figure out if something halfway around the world is about to disrupt their next shipment.
That's when it clicked: why keep this to ourselves? The same global events (tariff changes, port shutdowns, raw material shortages) affect supply chain teams everywhere. Everyone deserves an overnight research agent that reads thousands of sources and delivers only what matters, right to their inbox, before their first cup of coffee.
So that's Axal. We do the research overnight. You make the decisions in the morning.
