BricksAI YC Application

Summer 2022Inactive

BricksAI went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2022 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 2022
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2023

Founders

Spike LuFounder
Donovan SoFounder

What BricksAI does

BricksAI is an open-source AI gateway that helps you manage how each of your services is calling different LLM providers. You can create API keys with rate-limits, spend-limits, and expiration dates, then use them to make requests to different LLMs. With our SSO dashboard, you also get (1) role-based access control, and (2) fine-grained metrics (e.g. cost, number of requests, tokens) over each API key.

BricksAI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

BricksAI, Summer 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

BricksAI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Streamlining LLM application management

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

We built an open-source AI gateway that lets enterprises manage how their services call different LLM providers. It handles API keys with rate-limits, spend-limits, expiration, role-based access control, and detailed usage metrics per key.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in San Francisco puts us close to both AI innovation and enterprise customers, which is vital for iterating our product and building relationships quickly.

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.

See full application

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real BricksAI YC application?

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