Consus YC Application

Fall 2024Active

Consus went through Y Combinator in the Fall 2024 batch as a Industrials 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 2024
Industry: IndustrialsAviation and Space
Team size: 1
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Eric MagliarditiFounder

What Consus does

Consus is your single source of truth for government specifications, standards, or handbooks. We verify the active revision of documents, notify you when documents are updated, and make it easy to extract the relevant information. Win new business or execute existing contracts faster with Consus.

Consus's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Consus, Fall 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Consus

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Your single source of truth for government documents

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

Consus verifies and tracks the active revisions of government specifications, standards, and handbooks. It notifies users when documents update and helps them extract relevant information quickly. The product is intended for companies in government contracting and industrial sectors who need to stay current to win bids and deliver on contracts without delays caused by outdated or hard-to-find requirements.

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

Eric is based in San Francisco, CA, and the company operates remotely with that as the main base; post-YC we plan to keep the company headquartered in San Francisco.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are in San Francisco because that's where Eric lives, and the startup ecosystem, including YC, is centered here. Remote work lets us tap talent flexibly but having a SF HQ helps with fundraising and networking.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Consus YC application?

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