Capitol AI YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Capitol AI went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2024 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 2024
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 11
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Shaun ModiFounder & CEO
thomas hallaranFounder

What Capitol AI does

Capitol AI is building a sovereign operating system for intelligence, designed for regulated, high-stakes institutions such as professional services firms, financial services, and government agencies. These organizations are overwhelmed by data and experimenting with generic AI tools that lack auditability, repeatability, and secure deployment. As a result, critical decisions are increasingly shaped by systems they do not fully control. Capitol runs entirely inside enterprise infrastructure and transforms proprietary data into structured, decision-grade artifacts such as due diligence reports, regulatory documentation, and executive intelligence. The platform is model-agnostic, fully auditable, and operates with no data egress, giving institutions durable control over their data, workflows, and standards.

Capitol AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Capitol AI, Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Capitol AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Sovereign OS for regulated intelligence

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

We are building Capitol, an operating system that runs entirely inside an organization's own infrastructure to transform their proprietary data into structured, auditable intelligence. It supports regulated, high-stakes institutions like financial services and government agencies by delivering decision-grade outputs such as due diligence reports and regulatory documents with full data control and no external data egress.

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

We live and are based in Washington, DC, and plan to keep the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Washington, DC is the center of government, regulatory, and professional services institutions - our main customers. Being here keeps us close to users and the problems we're solving.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Capitol AI YC application?

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