Bretton AI YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Bretton AI went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 batch as a Fintech 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 2023
Industry: Fintech
Team size: 34
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Will LawrenceFounder

What Bretton AI does

Bretton AI (formerly Greenlite) is the leading AI agent platform for compliance in financial services. Regulated banks and fintechs - including those overseen by the OCC, FDIC, and SEC - trust Bretton AI to automate mission-critical work like sanction reviews and anti-money laundering investigations with speed and accuracy.

Bretton AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Bretton AI, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Bretton AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI agents for financial compliance

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

We build AI agents that automate compliance tasks like AML investigations, KYC checks, and sanction screening for banks and fintechs regulated by agencies such as the OCC, FDIC, and SEC. Our product speeds up and improves accuracy on these traditionally manual and error-prone processes.

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

We live and work in San Francisco and plan to remain based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we found our team and early customers in regulated financial services. It's the best place for hiring talent familiar with fintech compliance and AI.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Bretton AI YC application?

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