Tessera
an AI agent that refuses to answer without evidence
Details
- External ID
- 48822458
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Tessera
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1081242532855436
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai agent infrastructure and tooling
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ai agent that requires evidence-based responses
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes An AI agent that inspects source documents, applies strict citation prompts/schema validation, and refuses to respond without retrieved grounding citations is a standard RAG pipeline easily vibe-coded.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 1960 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1747 of 1961 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 251 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Mnemosyne · hn · 2026-02-24 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Rubric AI · yc · 2026-03-11 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.62
Other launches for this product
Same idea, different domain
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