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1,300+ tools, 13+ providers
On-demand, no subscriptions, single unified balance across every connected service.
San Francisco · Founder & Builder
Shengkun Ye
Connecting the dots between humans and artificial minds.
Co-founder of Monid (@monid_ai) — the OpenRouter for agent tools. Previously led payments risk at TabaPay. Currently a fellow at Founders, Inc.
LAT 37.77° N / LON 122.41° W
STATUS: BUILDING
BUILDING IN PUBLIC // SAN FRANCISCO // MONID ROUTER // ONE SKILL EVERY TOOL // BUILDING IN PUBLIC // SAN FRANCISCO // MONID ROUTER // ONE SKILL EVERY TOOL // BUILDING IN PUBLIC // SAN FRANCISCO // MONID ROUTER // ONE SKILL EVERY TOOL //
A builder bridging human cognition and machine intelligence.
I'm fascinated by how humans think and create, and how AI is going to reshape the way society runs and reconstructs the world. My work sits at the seam between people and intelligent systems — designing tools that make either side stronger when they meet.
Today I'm an SF-based co-founder at Monid and a fellow at Founders, Inc. Before that I led product and payments risk at TabaPay, shipped product at Deserve, and studied at the University of Washington.
"I build things I use every day."
1,300+
Tools routed
13+
Providers integrated
1,662+
Connections on LinkedIn
Currently building
Monid — One skill. Every tool your agent needs.
Monid is an agent-native router for tool calls. Your agent describes what it needs; Monid discovers the right endpoint and routes the call — metered under a single balance.
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Drop-in for any MCP agent
Works as a single skill in Claude Code, OpenClaw, or any remote MCP-capable agent.
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Pay only for what's called
Metered usage with free credit to start — no idle costs, no per-seat surprises.
E-commerceTrend research
10 hrs/week of manual hunting → one prompt, 10× faster.
CreatorRepurposing
Saves up to 14 hrs/week turning long-form into platform-ready output.
B2BResearch SDR
9× cheaper per qualified lead vs. traditional outbound stacks.
ReputationReview monitoring
Real-time across Google / Yelp / Facebook with <1 hr Slack alerts.
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Discover
Describe the task in natural language. Monid finds the right endpoint.
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Request & pay
Only what's needed — metered against a single unified balance.
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Receive
Structured, normalized JSON your agent can act on directly.
Backed and supported by Buildbreak, Composio, Firecrawl, E2B, LiveKit, Mercury, and MongoDB.
Selected work
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Personal news agent. Follow specific topics; eliminate FOMO.
#1 on Product Hunt#38 App Store · News
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Note-taking that connects everything you write — auto-tags, builds bridges between concepts, and surfaces hidden meaning from fragmented ideas.
#2 on Product Hunt
TabaPay
Led payments risk products at TabaPay, a SoftBank-backed processor moving $100B/year. Built the company's first Real-Time Monitoring product to protect fintech clients from complex payment fraud.
Payments Risk$100B/yr processed
Notes from building in public
You should stop going to events. And start building in public. I used to grind the event circuit. Got almost nothing from it. You meet 50 people, they meet 50 people, and nobody remembers anybody. Then I started making content, and people came to me. When you show your values, people want to know you. I've found meaningful friends, customers, and investors — all through building in public. That's the most efficient networking there is. — @shengkun_ye
What's the loneliest part of being a founder?
The best part of being a founder is building something you use every day.
I use @monid_ai every day. What about you?
When you have hardware founder friends, your trunk is never empty.
Recent highlights
- Demo Day at Founders, Inc. — presented Monid Router at the Canopy Festival with cofounder Feiyou (117+ reactions on LinkedIn).
- Introduced the Monid Router publicly: one skill, every tool your agent needs.
- Granted Claude Code access to hundreds of tools via a single Monid skill.
- Powering long-running research agents built on Monid + Active Graph.
Let's connect.
Best places to reach me — I build in public, so DMs are open.