Aliyan Ishfaq is Co-Founder and CEO of Assemble (YC S26), an AI agent platform that accelerates IT teams working inside enterprise systems like ERPs, CRMs, and HRIS platforms.

Aliyan studied Computer Science at Stanford University, conducted AI/ML research at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL), and previously worked at LangChain where he built open-source coding agents and agent evaluation frameworks.

A Stanford dropout with a builder-first mindset, Aliyan authored technical research at LangChain on domain-specific coding agents and has a track record of launching products that scale quickly with minimal resources.

Prior to Assemble, Aliyan co-founded BuildSync, a pioneering Text-to-3D Building Information Modeling (BIM) platform piloted with top architects, and built an AI-native document editor that scaled to 100,000+ users with $0 in marketing spend.

Assemble, backed by Y Combinator (S26), targets the enterprise IT transformation market where only 48% of digital initiatives meet their intended outcomes, helping teams plan, execute, and roll back changes across complex multi-system environments.