Drafted YC Application

Spring 2026Active

Drafted went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2026 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: Spring 2026
Industry: Consumer
Team size: 9
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Nicholas DonahueFounder

What Drafted does

Drafted is building multimodal generative models for residential architecture and spatial design. The product allows users to design homes by combining sketches and direct spatial input to generate coherent floor plans and elevations that can be explored in both 2D and 3D. Users can define footprints, lot boundaries, room placement, relationships, room programs, and square footage constraints that persist across generations and iterative design exploration, then export CAD, PDF, and other files into the rest of the home design and construction process. More info on the company: ⁃ In the past month, we've had 120k users come to the site, generating 325k+ floor plans through socials and word-of-mouth. ⁃ A team of 9, made up of researchers from Stanford, Autodesk, Brown, Adobe, and Architects from WeWork, Atmos, and design families ⁃ Raised $17.5M from investors such as Buckley Ventures (Josh Buckley), YC (Aaron Epstein), Patrick Collison, Evan Moore, Convective Capital (Bill Clerico), Ben Silbermann, Jack Altman, Samsung, Starship Ventures, Charlie Songhurst, Ryan Tedder, Moses Moody, Alex Blania, and Kevin Mahaffey

Drafted's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Drafted, Spring 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Drafted

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Design your home instantly with AI

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

We build multimodal generative models that let users design homes by combining sketches and spatial inputs into coherent floor plans and elevations. Users define footprints, room placement, relationships, and constraints, then explore designs in 2D and 3D before exporting CAD and PDF files for construction.

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

n/a

Explain your decision regarding location.

n/a

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Drafted YC application?

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