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Archer

AI-powered gifting for customer acquisition and retention

Archer is the agentic commerce platform for customer acquisition and retention. We help companies deploy AI agents that can automatically purchase, personalize, and deliver physical gifts on behalf of their business. Instead of manually coordinating rewards, swag, meals, experiences, and gifts, companies can give agents budgets, goals, and instructions, allowing them to take action automatically when important business events occur. Today, businesses use Archer to automate corporate gifting across outbound sales, customer onboarding, referrals, partnerships, customer success, and employee milestones. A prospect books a meeting. A customer completes onboarding. A partner generates a referral. An agent understands the context, selects an appropriate gift, purchases it, and handles fulfillment automatically. What makes Archer different is that companies no longer need to manage gifting campaigns manually. Agents continuously monitor what is happening across a business and execute personalized physical experiences at the right moment for the right person. We believe corporate gifting is just the beginning. As AI agents become increasingly capable of understanding business context through CRMs, product data, Slack, Linear, Notion, and other systems, they will become active participants in how companies build relationships, acquire customers, retain users, and grow revenue. For decades, businesses have relied on software to track relationships. We believe the next generation of businesses will rely on AI agents to strengthen them.
Active Founders
Benjamin Nguyen
Benjamin Nguyen
Founder
Co-founder, CEO at Archer (YC P26). Previously COO at Absinthe Labs, where he built go-to-market strategies from the ground up. BA in Operations Research from Columbia University.
Vivek Yanamadula
Vivek Yanamadula
Co-Founder
Co-founder, CTO @ Archer | Ex-AWS, B.A./M.S. CS @ Columbia University
Company Launches
Archer: Reward. Anything.
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TLDR: Archer lets companies turn any behavior into an instant payout or physical reward using plain English. “Send a cake when a user fully onboards” or “pay affiliates when deals close.” AI agents handle the tracking, orchestration, and money/physical rewards movement automatically.

About Us: https://youtu.be/hD-k2Uicza4\


Problem: In the age of AI, software is becoming abundant while real world experiences and human connection become more valuable. As AI agents increasingly handle digital interactions, companies need new ways to create memorable moments with customers, employees, creators, and partners through real world rewards and actions. Agentic commerce makes it possible for software to not just communicate with people, but to physically reward, celebrate, and engage with them automatically.

Our solution: We’re @Benjamin Nguyen and @Vivek Yanamadula building Archer. Archer is a conversational AI platform that turns any event into an instant payout or physical reward. Define a behavior in plain English. Archer tracks it and money and physical rewards move automatically. We deploy AI agents with the ability to send payments and rewards globally using stablecoin and card rails. No dashboards. No manual ops. No engineering bottlenecks.

Launch referral programs, affiliate payouts, creator rewards, customer incentives, employee bonuses, loyalty campaigns, and commissions simply by describing what you want to happen. Archer handles the tracking, orchestration, and money/physical reward movement underneath.

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Our ask: If you want to automate rewards and add a physical element to your product experience, feel free to reach out:

https://calendly.com/ben-archermoney/30min

If you know of someone who does, also feel free to reach out!

Email: [email protected]

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Archer
Founded:2026
Batch:Spring 2026
Team Size:4
Status:
Active
Primary Partner:Harj Taggar