Flai YC Application

Summer 2025Active

Flai went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2025 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: Summer 2025
Industry: IndustrialsAutomotive
Team size: 23
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Ari PolakofFounder
Juan AlzugarayFounder
Alen PolakofFounder

What Flai does

The problem we solve: 56% of dealership leads arrive after business hours, and most dealers lose these potential customers to competitors who happen to be available 24/7. Missing after-hours calls alone costs the average dealership $1M annually in lost revenue. We built Flai to fix this - AI assistants that answer dealership calls 24/7, scheduling test drives, oil changes, or running outbound recall campaigns so no opportunity slips away. The result: No more missed opportunities, no more losing customers to competitors. Our founding team has built voice AI products at HappyRobot, scaled infrastructure at Uber for millions of users, and applied data science at Netflix to solve operational challenges. We're not just answering phones, we're helping dealerships win in an AI-first world where availability determine who gets the sale.

Flai's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Flai, Summer 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Flai

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

We Bring Customers to Your Dealership

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

We built AI assistants that answer dealership calls 24/7, handling everything from scheduling test drives and oil changes to running outbound recall campaigns. Our product stops dealerships from losing leads that come in after business hours and helps them capture sales they otherwise miss.

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

We're in San Francisco, CA. After YC, the company will remain based in San Francisco.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team lives and where the auto dealership customers we serve operate within our network. Staying here keeps us close to talent and to early customers.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Flai YC application?

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