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AI-powered coaching that researches your startup, analyzes your application, and delivers partner-level feedback before you hit submit.

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Under the Hood

See exactly how our AI engine transforms your application into a comprehensive, multi-partner evaluation — step by step.

1

YC Application Form

  • 25+ fields, founder profiles & social links
  • Pitch deck upload (PDF/PPTX)
  • YouTube demo video URL
2

Pitch Deck Analysis

  • Text extraction from PDF/PPTX
  • First 5 pages rendered as images
  • Visual layout analysis
3

Website Intelligence

  • 5 pages scraped (/, /about, /team, /pricing, /product)
  • Full-page screenshots via headless browser
  • Content extraction
4

Video Processing

  • Full transcript extraction
  • 4 key frame captures (25/50/75/90%)
  • Presentation quality signals
5

Founder Enrichment

  • GitHub (repos, languages, stars)
  • LinkedIn (experience, skills, headline)
  • Twitter/X (bio, followers)
6

Market Research

  • Google Trends 12-month analysis
  • Web traffic ranking (Tranco top-1M)
  • Google Play Store metrics
7

RAG Partner Agents

  • 13 YC partner personas, trained on real talks, blogs & tweets
  • Embedding retrieval (cosine top-5 from 500-token chunks)
8

AI Evaluation

  • Rubric scoring across 7 areas
  • Iterative coaching questions
  • Multi-round refinement
9

Multi-Partner Panel

  • Up to 5 partners evaluate in parallel
  • Each with RAG-contextualized feedback
  • Consensus: Strong Yes / Yes / Maybe / No
Input Data Extraction Enrichment AI Analysis

How do the AI partners work? Each AI partner is powered by a curated knowledge base from their real talks, essays, and interviews, using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). This means feedback is grounded in each partner's actual perspectives, not generic AI responses.

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Data Sources Analyzed

13

AI Partner Personas

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Real YC Application Format

Visual

Design & UX Analysis

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this affiliated with Y Combinator?

No. This is an independent, community-driven project. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Y Combinator in any way. We use publicly available information about the YC application process to help founders prepare.

How does the AI feedback work?

We research your startup using 9 data sources (website scraping, GitHub, LinkedIn, traffic data, pitch deck analysis, video review, and more). The AI then evaluates your application against the same rubric criteria YC partners use, and asks follow-up questions to help you strengthen weak areas.

What are the 13 AI partner personas?

We've built AI simulations of YC partner evaluation styles based on publicly available talks, essays, and interview patterns. Each persona brings a different perspective -- some focus on technical depth, others on market size, growth metrics, or founder-market fit.

Is my application data secure?

Your data is stored securely and is never shared with third parties. We use it solely to generate your evaluation. You can delete your data at any time.

Can I submit multiple times?

Yes. You can iterate on your application and resubmit to get fresh feedback as you improve it.

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