Ocular AI builds an AI-native data platform spanning enterprise search and data labeling, aimed at companies that need employees to find information across scattered tools and need training data prepared for their own AI models. Founded in 2024 by Michael Moyo and Louis Murerwa and based in San Francisco, the company went through Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch.
The platform splits into complementary products: a Google-like enterprise search and co-pilot that connects to a company's internal apps and tools for cross-tool actions, and a data-labeling side, Ocular Foundry and Ocular Bolt, that lets teams label, annotate, version, and deploy data for training LLMs and computer-vision models, shifting from human-in-the-loop review to an "experts in the loop" model using a vetted external workforce. The founders built the company after experiencing firsthand how hard it is to locate information and act on it across multiple SaaS tools in both workplace and engineering contexts.
Ocular AI fits mid-market and enterprise teams that need either a cross-tool search layer for employees or a structured data-labeling pipeline for AI model training, rather than individuals seeking a personal search tool. The company does not publish self-serve pricing, running as a direct-sales, Y Combinator-backed startup with a small team.
