Guide Labs YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Guide Labs went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2024 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 2024
Industry: B2B
Team size: 9
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Julius AdebayoFounder

What Guide Labs does

At Guide labs, we build Interpretable foundation models and AI systems that can reliably explain their reasoning, and are easy to audit, steer and understand. We provide access to these models via our API.

Guide Labs's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Guide Labs, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Guide Labs

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Interpretable AI models and agents

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

We build foundation AI models and systems designed to explain their reasoning in a way users can audit, steer, and understand. Our API gives customers direct access to these interpretable AI models, helping them trust and control AI decisions reliably.

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

We live and are based in San Francisco, CA, and the company will continue to be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live, work, and have built our network. It remains the best place for us to grow our technical team and connect with early customers given the local ecosystem.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Guide Labs YC application?

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