Y Combinator-backed startup Caucus has been launched by founders Tyler Chen and Amir Farahani. Labelled the “last piece of software the American government,” Caucus makes use of general-purpose AI agents designed to understand workflows, integrate with existing tools, and eliminate the friction of fragmented software.
Starting with congressional offices, Caucus empowers government workers to streamline tasks, remove fragmentation, and work faster.
The founders of Caucus have noticed that while government work is critical for the country, it often consumes too much time because of outdated software, siloed systems, and manual processes across federal, state, and local agencies. Public servants spend hours daily on repetitive, low-leverage tasks: retyping information across systems, routing emails between departments, tracking sentiment in spreadsheets, and responding to routine inquiries in Word docs.
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Tools are rarely integrated, and critical data is often fragmented. Caucus believes this isn’t just inefficiency, but also failure at a scale.
In order to solve this problem, Caucus has decided to build general-purpose AI agents that integrate across the tools and workflows government employees already use, starting with congressional offices. The company believes that this would empower a more responsive government, better connecting Americans to the services and representation they deserve.
Caucus believes the time is right for this software, since government employees are under tremendous pressure, with growing workloads, increased demands, and staffing levels stretched thin. The company states they’re not building just another CRM, but a “cursor for government.”
Chen and Farahani started Caucus after seeing the everyday chaos inside congressional offices. While the two of them have known each other since childhood, Farahani (who is also CEO of Caucus) pitched the idea to Chen (who is currently the CTO), when he was a student at Yale. Farahani has also previously founded Turbo Legi, an AI legislative solutions startup. This startup has since been acquired by FiscalNote.