What does Arcanist do?
Arcanist is a New York–based, Accel-backed startup building an "always-on execution layer" for companies: autonomous AI agents that learn company context, identify what needs to happen, and execute it rather than waiting for instructions. The founding team (Shivam Pandey, ex-engineering lead at Raylu; Josiah Parappally, ex-Ramp staff engineer) is betting that AI-native workflows will replace today's workflows rather than augment them. The company is pre-Series A, deliberately keeping a very small in-person NYC team and hiring generalist full-stack/applied-AI engineers.