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Janet AI

Summer 2025 · Active

The AI-Native Jira

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2025

Team size: 2

About

Janet AI is the AI-first ticket management system, built for modern engineering teams. Ticket management today is too reliant on manual work. Context gets scattered. Information doesn’t stay-up-to date. Systems get noisy. We integrate with your information channels (meetings, Slack, Discord, SMS, etc.) to auto-create, update, and organize work items.

Founders

  • Adhit SankaranCo-Founder & CEO

    Co-Founder & CEO at Janet AI (S25). Prev. Founding Engineer/GenAI Engineering Lead (YC S23 company), 2x Intern @ Google. Master's in Computer Science/GenAI Research @ Cornell. Bachelor's in Computer Science/RL Research @ UW-Madison.

  • William BarthellCo-Founder & CTO

    Co-Founder & CTO at Janet AI (S25). Prev. Founding Engineer and Employee #1 @ crypto startup where I designed a novel algorithmic AMM for Solana SPL-20 token trading and launch abstraction. Met 1:1 with investors to help raise $3M+ seed. Bachelor's in Computer Science @ UW-Madison.