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Clad Labs

the brainrot ide

Y CombinatorFall 2025ActiveConsumerDeveloper Tools

What they do

Problem

Developers waste time manually translating workflow ideas into code inside their IDE.

Solution

An IDE-integrated tool that generates code for free from “brainrot” workflows.

Who it's for

Software developers who want faster code generation directly in their IDE.

Founders

Richard Wang
Founder

Co-founder and CEO of Clad Labs. CS at Caltech. AI research at PerformanceStar where I designed physics-informed embedding models for high-dimensional time series. Building adtech in AI-native.

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Kevin Le
Founder

Building Chad IDE | Ex-Meta | UIUC Alum

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