Assembly YC Application

Winter 2018Active

Assembly went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2018 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 2018
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 25
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Marlon MisraFounder/CEO
Neil RainaFounder

What Assembly does

Assembly is the AI-powered platform for professional service firms. Give clients a clean, branded portal that brings everything together - tasks, payments, messages, files, contracts, and forms - and give your team a simple CRM and an AI Assistant that knows full client context. Run onboarding and back-office work faster, improve customer retention, and make clients happier. Extend the platform with embeds, Zapier/Make, webhooks, and a public API, or build Custom Apps for your exact workflow.

Assembly's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Assembly, Winter 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Assembly

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Create remarkable client experiences

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

We built Assembly, an AI-powered platform for professional service firms. It gives firms a branded client portal that centralizes tasks, payments, messages, files, contracts, and forms. On the back end, it provides a simple CRM and an AI Assistant that understands full client context. This lets teams onboard clients faster, automate back-office work, and improve retention. Users can extend the platform with embeds, Zapier/Make integrations, webhooks, and our public API or build Custom Apps tailored to their workflow.

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

We're based in New York, NY and would remain here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is where our initial customers and team are. Staying put lets us stay close to users and grow the product with direct feedback from professional service firms.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Assembly YC application?

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