Mentlio
Engineering Intelligence and Token Optimization for the AI-Coding Era
YC Summer 2026Developer ToolsMachine LearningProductivity
About Mentlio
Mentlio an applied research lab focused on optimizing AI ROI for the modern enterprise. We help engineering teams draw a line between their AI spend and delivery, per engineer. We then cut ~30% of AI spend via Mentlio's custom ML-based intelligent routing, context optimization, and prompt compression.
Founders
Ashank Shah
Co-Founder & CEO
Building Mentlio | Prev. CS @ Caltech | Researched generative and graph-based DL for biomedical problems @ Dartmouth Health.
Ahmet Demirbas
Co-Founder & CTO
Tokenmaxxing → ROImaxxing | Prev CS @ Caltech | 5x Published ML, NLP, Agents Research @ IEEE, ACM, BMC