YC W24 · San Francisco

I’m Rafi.

Co-founder and CTO of Octolane AI.

Octolane

At Octolane, we’re building agents that help revenue teams decide what to do next on each account, act with their approval, and learn from the outcome.

As co-founder and CTO, I lead the engineering team and technical direction.

The Octolane application in a dark rounded frame. A sidebar lists Overview, Actions, Emails, Messages, Meetings, Signals, Accounts, Contacts and Pipelines, with Home selected. The main column is headed "Never miss a follow-up" over an ask box holding the typed, unsent request "Find deals stuck in negotiation for 14+ days and draft a check-in to each champion", the text cursor still at its end and a round submit button at its right. Below sit cards for AI Memory and AI Actions and a list of upcoming meetings with their participants. — Octolane’s home workspace, with a follow-up request ready to send.

Previously, I co-founded Mainly Coding, which was acquired by Shikho.

Writing

Your agent's knowledge base is not a retrieval problem
We connected our documentation site to our AI agent so it would stop answering product questions from memory. Retrieval was the easy part. Almost all of the work started after it was already working.
September 20, 2026
Helping an agent finish longer tasks
Some requests need several rounds of work. I designed and built the execution path that lets the agent delegate tasks, save its progress, and resume with the results.
September 16, 2026Case study

A long pier shed with white railings and weathered timber posts, in warm low light, with an empty concrete plaza in front. — WaterfrontMore photographs

Outside software, I’m learning photography.

mdabdulhalimrafi@gmail.com

I’m Rafi.

Octolane

Writing

Your agent's knowledge base is not a retrieval problem

Helping an agent finish longer tasks