Auxos YC Application

Spring 2026Active

Auxos went through Y Combinator in the Spring 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: Spring 2026
Industry: B2B
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Ashton DanielCo-Founder and CEO
Kerry LuCo-Founder
Jerry WuCo-Founder

What Auxos does

Auxos builds AI customer twins for marketing, product, and research teams to test their hypotheses at scale. We work with companies to create 1:1 replicas of their customers by sourcing and interviewing real people in their ICP, allowing us to accurately model how they behave and make decisions. Currently, market research is too slow and expensive to use on anything but the biggest decisions. Surveys and panels cost a fortune and it takes weeks to recruit, moderate, and gather insights. Auxos provides a 24/7 available customer panel that can give population-scale insights in minutes. The day-to-day decisions surrounding product, pricing, and positioning can now be validated with the same rigor that used to be reserved for the big ones.

Auxos's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Auxos, Spring 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Auxos

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Simulations of real people for market research

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

We build AI customer twins for marketing, product, and research teams. Our product creates 1:1 replicas of real customers by sourcing and interviewing actual people within a company's ideal customer profile. These AI twins simulate how customers behave and decide, letting teams test product, pricing, and messaging hypotheses at scale and in minutes rather than weeks.

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

We live in San Francisco, and Auxos will continue to be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we built our network and can access both top engineering talent and early users in marketing and market research roles. It keeps us close to customers and industry partners who need faster insights.

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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Auxos YC application?

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