Brickwise YC Application

Fall 2025Active

Brickwise went through Y Combinator in the Fall 2025 batch as a Real Estate and Construction 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: Fall 2025
Industry: Real Estate and ConstructionHousing and Real Estate
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Ismail JeilaniFounder
Elias KassellFounder

What Brickwise does

We've built an AI property manager that automates maintenance requests, handling tenant calls and messages 24/7, following up by chasing contractors and resolving issues. We're based in London, but have over 10 customers throughout the world, from San Francisco to Dubai. We have a reliable sales pipeline, including a >$1m cARR enterprise contract. Since our formation 6 months ago, we have raised over $3M in funding. Ismail, co-founder & CEO, is an ex-Founder at LiveLink AI, where he raised $3M, growing the platform to editing 150k videos per month. He also built his own prop firm to $500k ARR. Elias, co-founder & CTO, was an early engineer at a YC backed company, acquired by Google. While a senior engineer at Google for 5 years, he took the product from $50k ARR to >$100m. CS at Bristol, MBA from Imperial.

Brickwise's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Brickwise, Fall 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Brickwise

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI property manager for landlords and estate agents

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

We've built an AI property manager that automates maintenance requests, handles tenant communication 24/7, chases contractors, and resolves issues without landlord or agent intervention.

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

We live in London, United Kingdom, and the company will remain based in London after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

London is where we both live and have our networks. The UK property market is large and complex, so being local helps us build trust and learn the domain fast.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Brickwise YC application?

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