AI beyond a chat window
What changes when an assistant can draw on everyday context and decide when help might be useful?
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Haris Malik · Vexo
Haris Malik is building Vexo, an AI hardware device worn on the wrist. The startup is part of Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch, with a focus on remembering context and helping people act on it.
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About Haris
Haris Malik is the founder and CEO of Vexo, a San Francisco AI hardware company in Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch. Before Vexo, he worked at Tesla and K-Scale Labs, and studied computer science at the University of Toronto. He is building the company with Farqaleet Kiani and Vikram Narra. Vexo's focus is a wearable assistant designed to remember conversational context and act through connected applications. Its product combines a screenless bracelet, a microphone, health sensors and a companion phone app. Malik's work places him in personal AI hardware, where everyday usefulness, design and user trust all shape the product.
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What Vexo is building
Vexo is developing a wrist-worn AI assistant designed to capture conversational context and help complete tasks through connected apps. The company describes a screenless band with a microphone, health sensors and discreet haptic feedback. Its product approach combines personal memory with actions in services such as email, calendars and work tools.
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Questions around Haris Malik's work
Context from Haris Malik’s work. Full episode and show notes are coming soon.
Designing hardware people will wear
How do comfort, battery life, sensing and subtle feedback shape the experience of a personal AI device?
Memory, control and trust
What choices should people have over the conversations a wearable remembers, the apps it accesses and the information it deletes?
Building a consumer AI company
What does a founding team need to learn when bringing hardware, software and a new user habit together?
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