Cheers YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Cheers 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: B2B
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Dylan Allen-ArnegårdFounder

What Cheers does

AI assistants are replacing search for local businesses. When someone asks ChatGPT for a plumber or hotel recommendations, reviews are the primary training signal, especially in local markets where other data is sparse. This is GEO (Generative Engine Optimization). Cheers is the full-stack GEO platform for local service businesses. We audit AI visibility, build optimization plans (schema markup, citation fixes, review strategy), and give frontline teams NFC tools to generate reviews with employee-level attribution. Vivint generated 70,000+ five-star reviews in 5 months. They now rank #1 on ChatGPT and Google Search across their markets.

Cheers's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Cheers

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Win local search on ChatGPT & other LLMs

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

We built a full-stack GEO platform that helps local service businesses rank better on AI assistants like ChatGPT. Our product audits AI visibility, creates optimization plans with schema and citations, and gives frontline teams NFC tools to generate reviews with employee attribution.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and the company will stay based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we both live and can best access local service businesses as customers, plus it's a major tech hub to scale from.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Cheers YC application?

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