Elliot (elliot-ylambda)
Building privacy-first tools for Agentic Engineering, including Clinch, a terminal optimized for AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex.
At a Glance
- AI developers
- Agentic engineers
- Privacy-conscious software engineers
- Power users of Claude Code and Codex
AI Tools by Elliot (elliot-ylambda)
(1)Clinch
macOS Terminal for AI Agents
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Products & Services
A local-first macOS terminal for Claude Code and Codex that resumes agent sessions on restart. Features include project tabs, remote control via phone, and no telemetry.
A Chrome extension that sends one prompt to Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini simultaneously using existing logins.
Automation tool for Claude Code and Codex, compiling repeated prompts into skills, rules, and hooks.
Market Position
Clinch positions itself as a privacy-first, local-only alternative to modern terminals like Warp, specifically optimized for the 'agentic engineering' workflow where persistent sessions and agent status are critical.
Leadership
Founders
Elliot Eckholm
Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 10+ years of experience. Previously at Mix.com (an Expa company) and first ML hire at two startups. Education: University of California, Santa Cruz.
Executive Team
Elliot Eckholm
Founder & Principal Engineer
Solo practitioner and creator of Clinch. Senior ML Engineer with extensive startup experience.
Founding Story
Elliot Eckholm created Clinch because he wanted a terminal that could handle multiple parallel AI agent sessions and resume them after a restart. He forked the Warp client after it was open-sourced to build a local-first, no-telemetry alternative tailored for agentic engineering.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Independent consulting (fixed project fees or hourly rates) via Y Lambda; software products like Clinch are currently free and open source.
Pricing Tiers
Clinch is 100% free, open source (AGPL-3.0), and requires no sign-in or account.
Target Markets
- AI developers
- Agentic engineers
- Privacy-conscious software engineers
- Power users of Claude Code and Codex
- AI-assisted coding and agentic development
- Managing multiple parallel Git worktrees and agent sessions
- Remote monitoring of long-running agent tasks via mobile