Ashton Daniel is Co-Founder and CEO of Auxos (YC P26), an AI-powered platform that creates simulated audiences to deliver population-scale customer research insights in minutes rather than weeks.

Ashton studied Computer Science at Columbia University, where he was a 2022 NCAA Individual Fencing Champion, ranked #1 in the nation, and competed for Team USA ranked #1 in the world.

Prior to Auxos, Ashton was a consultant at Boston Consulting Group, leading Agentic AI deployments and running customer research surveys and panels for Fortune 500 companies, where he witnessed firsthand the inefficiency and cost of traditional research methods.

Ashton co-founded Auxos alongside teammates he met fencing for Team USA, combining their collective experiences at BCG, Meta, Instagram, and Amazon Ads to build a platform that makes customer research fast, affordable, and accessible.

Auxos, backed by Y Combinator (P26 batch), enables marketing, product, and research teams to validate product, pricing, and positioning decisions at scale before going live, at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods.