Andon Labs YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Andon Labs went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2024 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2024
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 10
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Lukas PeterssonFounder

What Andon Labs does

Safety from humans in the loop is a mirage. We evaluate, research, and apply AI control in our own real-world deployments of autonomous organizations. We are building the Safe Autonomous Organization. We iteratively launch and scale autonomous organizations, while bridging AI control research with real-world testing.

Andon Labs's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Andon Labs, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Andon Labs

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Autonomous organizations without humans in the loop

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We build the Safe Autonomous Organization. Our product is autonomous organizations run by AI with no humans in the loop, designed to handle real-world tasks safely. We research, evaluate, and deploy these autonomous systems, bridging AI control theory and practical application.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live and work in San Francisco, CA and plan to base the company here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where the engineering talent and AI research community we rely on are strongest. It keeps us close to partners and peers testing autonomous organization concepts.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Andon Labs YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Andon Labs's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Andon Labs would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.