Chasi YC Application

Winter 2026Active

Chasi went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2026
Industry: B2B
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Akash PavanCo-founder & CEO
Sarman AulakhCo-Founder & CTO

What Chasi does

Chasi deploys AI agents that help equipment dealers sell more, respond faster, and maximize fleet utilization - 24/7. One-third of the cost to build and maintain the physical world goes to equipment, yet fleet utilization across the industry often sits below 60%. Billions in assets sit idle while dealers drown in phone calls, emails, and manual data entry. Missed quotes, slow follow-ups, and disconnected systems mean lost revenue every day. Chasi plugs into a dealer's existing stack to deploy AI agents that handle sales, rentals, and service requests around the clock. The result: faster response times, higher utilization, and stronger margins, without adding headcount. We automate the busywork so teams can focus on what actually grows the business: customer relationships. Akash Pavan and Sarman Aulakh have built tractors, race cars, and robots, and previously led AI deployments at Tesla, Boeing, and Cummins, where they saw firsthand how much operational value gets left on the table in equipment-heavy industries. Chasi is live across equipment businesses in the US and Europe.

Chasi's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Chasi, Winter 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Chasi

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI Revenue Engine for the Equipment Industry

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

We build AI agents that plug into equipment dealers' existing software stacks and handle sales, rentals, and service requests automatically. These agents respond to inquiries and manage workflows 24/7, cutting down on manual work like emails and phone calls and increasing fleet utilization and revenue.

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

We live in San Francisco and plan to keep Chasi based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we both live and work, and it's the best place to build a B2B AI startup with access to customers, investors, and tech talent.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Chasi YC application?

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