Opening Remarks
Happy 2026! Is it too late to keep saying happy new year?
This edition:
NY(SKI) updates
Shaunak Turaga of Docsum’s Tech Stack
Upcoming events
Open roles at NYCFC companies
Let’s get started! 🚀
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Founder Tech Stack: Shaunak Turaga, Co-founder and CEO of Docsum
LLM Observability & Orchestration
Modern AI products need strong infrastructure for reliability, debugging, and latency management. Docsum leans on tools that make LLM workflows more legible at scale.
Langfuse — LLM observability
“One thing that we started using for kind of LLM observability is Langfuse.”
“Another YC S23 company. It’s been great.”
Langfuse helps the team inspect prompts, trace cost vs. quality tradeoffs, and run faster iteration cycles with less guesswork.
Hatchet — Asynchronous processing & orchestration
“Oftentimes, any LLM call is long-running, and so we use Hatchet for all of this type of orchestration.”
Hatchet enables multi-step processes without blocking core application performance — critical for long-running analysis workflows inside Docsum’s contract review pipeline.
Design, Prototyping & Workflows
Docsum’s design process favors speed and clarity over high-fidelity ceremony early on.
Whimsical — UI, workflows, wireframes
“One tool that I really like using for design and prototyping… is Whimsical.”
“It is just so good. It’s so good, and it embeds well within Linear and then Notion as well.”
“We wrote a really good component library for our front end, and then all of the workflow and UI wireframing is done in Whimsical directly.”
Whimsical enables the team to quickly explore user journeys, interface patterns, and complex workflows before moving to production design systems.
Want to learn what Docsum uses for content creation, product systems, and AI-native team collaboration? Read Shaunak’s full tech stack here.
Coming Up 🔥
Events:
🗽 NYCFC Founders Dinner: Wed, Jan 21st (members only)
Founder Winter Reset at Othership Williamsburg: Wed, Jan 21st
🗽 NYCFC Founders Dinner: Tues, Jan 27th (members only)
AI Builders Co-Working Day for Founders & Early Teams: Thurs, Jan 29th
🗽 NY(SKI) Volume 2: Mon, Feb 2nd
🗽 (N)YC Alumni + Founder Friends Monthly #14: Wed, Feb 11th
Founder Opportunities:
Upfront Ventures Founder Fellowship: application due Jan 24th
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Roles at NYCFC Companies 👩🏻💻
Kickoff is hiring a BizOps Manager and Sr Software Engineer.
Stepful is hiring Engineers (Software, Growth, Product).
Supademo is hiring Senior Frontend Engineers.
Wyndly is hiring a Performance Marketing Lead.
Zingage is hiring a Head of Talent Engineering, a Strategic Finance Lead, Founding Engineers, and SWEs.
Savvy is hiring a Sr. Engineering Manager, Head of Customer Success, and Sr. Software Engineers.
Invoice Butler is hiring a Founding Engineer.
See you next month!
Thanks for tuning in!
– Aakash, Adam, Mike, and Jordan
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