Automat YC Application

Winter 2023Active

Automat went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2023 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 2023
Industry: B2BOperations
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Lucas OchoaFounder
Gautam BoseFounder

What Automat does

Traditional automation software is slow and expensive, Automat is 10X faster and 1/10th the price. It lets operations teams automate using video and natural language. 🧐 The problem: Traditional Robotic Process Automation is slow and expensive. 💡 Our Solution: Automat makes it 10X cheaper and faster to build any robotic process automation using natural language on any operating system We’re solving this by creating a platform that enables robotics process automation for Chrome using large language models and computer vision. Currently our customers send us descriptions or videos of the processes they’d like us to automate and we use our internal tooling to quickly build out those automations.

Automat's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Automat, Winter 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Automat

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI enabled RPA using ChatGPT and computer vision

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

We make a platform that lets operations teams build robotic process automations by describing the tasks in natural language or showing us videos of the process. It uses large language models like ChatGPT plus computer vision to automate workflows in Chrome, making it about 10X faster and 10X cheaper than traditional RPA tools.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we both live and have our network. It's also where many operations teams and startups looking for faster, cheaper automation are based.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Automat YC application?

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