Locke
An AI-native government affairs firm rebuilding the public-private partnership, with YC backing and a philosophical name.
- Category
- AI & Machine Learning
- Launched
- August 6, 2026
- Website
- locke.inc
Locke is not a lobbying firm with a chatbot bolted on. It is an "applied AI company" that has chosen government affairs as its first battlefield, and it is backed by Y Combinator. The pitch is audacious: use AI to rebuild the partnership between companies and the U.S. government, a relationship that Locke's founders argue has decayed into slowness and inaccessibility. If the thesis holds, Locke could make government affairs as systematic and data driven as modern software sales. If it fails, it will be because the problem was never just information asymmetry, but trust and relationships—things AI has not yet learned to build.
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- Y Combinator Launches · · Locke