Convictional YC Application

Winter 2019Active

Convictional went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2019 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 2019
Industry: B2BOperations
Team size: 15
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Roger KirknessCEO & Founder

What Convictional does

Convictional (convictional.com) is the company brain that replaces Slack, to keep teams mission aligned by design. Your goals, email, meetings, chat and knowledge search in one place, where your team's effectiveness compounds.

Convictional's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Convictional, Winter 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Convictional

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Replaces Slack to keep teams mission aligned

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

We built a platform that replaces Slack as the company brain. It combines goals, email, meetings, chat, and knowledge search into one place, so teams stay aligned by design and their effectiveness improves over time.

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

We live in Toronto, Canada, and the company is based here and remote.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Toronto is our home and the team is distributed here. Staying local and remote helps us attract talent comfortable with where we operate and work styles that suit us.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Convictional YC application?

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