Continue YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Continue went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 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 2023
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Ty DunnFounder
Nate SestiFounder

What Continue does

AI coding tools made your team ship faster. But standards are slipping through review. Continue runs source-controlled AI checks on every pull request, enforcing your team's conventions, security patterns, and architecture boundaries as native GitHub status checks. Each check is a markdown file in your repo, running as a full AI agent. It only enforces what you asked for and never misses it. Consistency over breadth. Standards as checks, enforced by AI, decided by humans. With hundreds of thousands of users, Continue is loved by developers worldwide at organizations ranging from small startups to Fortune 500 companies. Continue has raised $5.1M from Heavybit, Y Combinator, and angel investors. The company was founded in 2023 and is based in San Francisco. We believe the time is now to create a future where developers are amplified, not automated.

Continue's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Continue, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Continue

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Quality control for your software factory

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

We built Continue to run AI-powered checks on every pull request. These checks enforce a team's coding conventions, security patterns, and architectural rules through source-controlled markdown files that act as AI agents. Instead of broad AI guessing, we focus on consistency and making sure teams get exactly what they asked for, seamlessly integrated as native GitHub status checks.

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

We live in San Francisco and Continue is based here already. After YC we'll continue to be based in San Francisco.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where both founders live and where the product is already being built and used. Staying here lets us stay close to our user base and investor community.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Continue YC application?

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