Ashr YC Application

Winter 2026Active

Ashr went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2026 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 2026
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Shreyas KapsFounder
Rohan KulkarniFounder

What Ashr does

Ashr is a fully contained test and evals platform that improves AI agents by ensuring accuracy and quality across a wide range of user journeys through your product. Ashr generates user journeys through your agents’ tool calls, results, and questions. We don’t generate one off tests, we generate large amounts of authentic user stories through your product, and pick up on errors, inconsistencies, and failures that would otherwise take hours of manual testing or get caught by a customer. We also work to ensure agent response quality in line with your business goals by offering custom evaluation metrics. Ashr works with voice, text, automated website generation, image, file generation, and multimodal. We’re also willing to generate custom input types or make modifications for anyone interested. Currently, we integrate as an SDK, and are proactively working to make our documentation and resources as accessible and easy to use as possible.

Ashr's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Ashr, Winter 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Ashr

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Automated Multi-Modal Testing for Agents

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

We built Ashr as a test and evaluation platform specifically for AI agents. It automatically generates large volumes of user journeys through an agent's tool usage, results, and questions. Instead of single tests, we simulate authentic user behavior across voice, text, images, files, and multimodal inputs. Ashr spots errors and inconsistencies that manual testing misses or that show up only post-launch. It also evaluates agent responses against custom business goals using tailored metrics. We ship as an SDK and are focused on making it easy for teams to integrate and extend.

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

We live in San Francisco, and Ashr will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we both live and work. It provides proximity to early customers in AI product teams and access to talent familiar with multi-modal AI. Staying here keeps us close to the ecosystem we serve.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Ashr YC application?

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