Assemble

Assemble YC Application

Summer 2026Active

San Francisco

Assemble went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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
Summer 2026
Industry
B2B
Location
San Francisco
Team size
4
Status
Active
Launched
2026

Founders

  • Aliyan Ishfaq
    Aliyan IshfaqFounder/CEO
  • Shaurnav Ghosh
    Shaurnav GhoshFounder/CTO
  • Shrish Janarthanan
    Shrish JanarthananFounder/CPO

What Assemble does

Assemble accelerates IT teams by performing development work inside core enterprise systems like ERP, CRM, and HRIS. Our agents help IT teams scope dependencies, build logic, and validate changes across your systems.

Assemble's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Assemble, Summer 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Assemble

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Autonomous IT Delivery

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

We're building Assemble: agents for IT teams that handle development work inside core enterprise software systems like ERP, CRM, and HRIS. Our product automatically scopes dependencies, builds logic, and validates changes, so IT can ship updates much faster and with less risk. IT teams use us directly to automate work that would have required manual coding or coordination across systems.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA and the company will stay based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team lives and it's the center of AI and enterprise SaaS - so it's the right place for us to build Assemble and hire the people we need.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Assemble YC application?

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

What YC batch was Assemble in?

Assemble was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2026 batch.

Who founded Assemble?

Assemble was founded by Aliyan Ishfaq, Shaurnav Ghosh, Shrish Janarthanan.

What does Assemble do?

Autonomous IT Delivery

How do I read the full reconstructed application?

Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Assemble's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.

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