Clad Labs YC Application

Fall 2025Active

Clad Labs went through Y Combinator in the Fall 2025 batch as a Consumer 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: Consumer
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Richard WangFounder
Kevin LeFounder

What Clad Labs does

free codegen from brainrot workflows in your IDE.

Clad Labs's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Clad Labs

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

free codegen from brainrot workflows

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

We build an AI-powered IDE tool that generates code automatically from developers' brainrot workflows - those messy, iterative thought processes that don't fit into traditional coding patterns. Our product integrates into developers' editors so they can get working code without breaking their flow or context.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where most early users and developer talent are. Being here helps us stay close to users and iterate fast.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Clad Labs YC application?

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