Hemang Kandwal
| Hemang Kandwal | |
| Occupation | Founder and CEO of Clidey |
|---|---|
| Known for | Co-founding Clidey |
Hemang Kandwal is a software entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Clidey, a technology company that develops an open-source platform for organizational modeling and real-time decision-making. Clidey is a participant in Y Combinator's Spring 2025 batch and is based in San Francisco, California.[1]
Career
Kandwal co-founded Clidey in 2025 alongside Anguel Hristozov. The company's primary product is WhoDB, an open-source platform designed to let organizations model their internal structures—such as customers, accounts, assets, and workflows—and run decisions on top of that data in real time. Rather than relying on traditional dashboards, ad-hoc queries, or scattered business logic, WhoDB allows teams to express decisions declaratively by specifying conditions, constraints, and desired outcomes. The system then evaluates those decisions automatically as underlying data changes, producing actions, recommendations, or state updates. All data models, decision logic, and outcomes are designed to be transparent, auditable, and extensible in code. WhoDB is open source and can be deployed within an organization's own environment.[2]
Clidey operates in the areas of artificial intelligence, developer tools, software as a service (SaaS), and business-to-business (B2B) technology. In addition to WhoDB, the company has developed Dory, described as an open-source MDX documentation engine, and Docucod, a product focused on automated documentation for codebases. In a May 2025 LinkedIn post, Kandwal described Docucod as leveraging intelligence to generate documentation for software projects, noting plans to roll out documentation support for open-source projects.[3]
As of 2025, Clidey has a small team of approximately three to four employees. Kandwal has been listed as based in London, England, United Kingdom, while the company's headquarters are listed in San Francisco. His professional profile indicates ties to Glasgow, Scotland, through involvement with the local Google Developer Group (GDG Glasgow).
Clidey is backed by Y Combinator through its Spring 2025 program.
References
- ↑ "Clidey — Y Combinator". 'Y Combinator}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.
- ↑ "Clidey". 'Clidey, Inc.}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.
- ↑ "Clidey — Y Combinator". 'Y Combinator}'. Retrieved 2026-03-19.