Ethan Kharitonov

Ethan Kharitonov is Co-Founder at Axiomat, a Y Combinator F2026 startup that formally verifies the queries AI agents run against company data.
Ethan worked as an Applied Scientist at AWS, where he focused on formally verifying AI responses.
His hands-on work tackling AI hallucinations at AWS shaped Axiomat's core idea of replacing manual answer checking with mathematical guarantees.
Axiomat is a small San Francisco team backed by Y Combinator, building infrastructure that proves AI answers are correct before employees or customers rely on them.
Axiomat starts with data queries and analysis, addressing the growing need for companies to trust AI agents without humans manually checking every answer.