Your AI Agent Now Has a Phone Number, Email, and iMessage

Three founders. MIT, Harvard Med, Northeastern. Summer 2026 YC batch.

They are building the identity layer for AI agents: email, phone, iMessage, and an internet address — for software that does not have a body.

Ray Liao has a PhD from MIT. Dima Vremenko built ML pipelines at Harvard Medical School. Alex Wilcox did ML engineering and networking research. Three people. Their product gives agents a way to exist in communication channels the way humans do.

The problem is obvious: agents can do incredible things, but they have no inbox. No phone number. No way to receive a text. Every interaction requires a human to bridge the gap.

Inkbox solves that. An agent gets its own email. Its own phone number. Its own iMessage contact. Every interaction flows through Inkbox, so agents are enhanced with multi-channel context — the same email thread across a week, the SMS thread, the iMessage thread.

Tyler Bosmeny is their YC partner. Founded 2025. Three people. San Francisco. Live. Agents are already sending and receiving messages as if they were people.

We are past the era where agents only exist in a terminal window. The next generation has phone numbers. They live in your contacts list. Three people from MIT just built the infrastructure for it.