Adrian Stoica is Co-Founder of Axelrod (YC S26), an AI-powered autonomous operating layer for boutique and luxury hotels that handles all front-of-house and back-of-house tasks without requiring any integrations.

Adrian grew up in Berlin cleaning guest apartments, giving him firsthand, ground-level experience in hospitality operations that deeply informs Axelrod's product vision.

Prior to Axelrod, Adrian conducted research on AI Awareness and co-produced music records totaling over 40 million streams at Sony Music, reflecting a rare blend of technical depth and creative range.

Axelrod was accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch and is trusted by Michelin Key-awarded boutique hotels, with its AI agent platform already live across four continents.

Axelrod's computer-use agents operate directly inside existing hotel systems like PMS and POS without APIs, enabling one butler agent to cover four times the rooms and freeing staff to focus on the guest experience.