Inlet YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Inlet 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: B2BLegal
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Adam Miller
Sean Adler

What Inlet does

Attorneys at small- and medium-sized law firms juggle dozens of matters, context-switching throughout the day - and often failing to record their billable time for every task they worked on. Inlet records these tasks automatically - eliminating painful admin time and increasing their revenue.

Inlet's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Inlet

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI timekeeping for legal professionals

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

We built an AI product that automatically records time lawyers spend on tasks throughout their day. It captures billable work without manual entry, reducing lost revenue and admin time for small and medium law firms.

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

We live in New York City and the company will be based here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We picked New York because it's where we live and where many of our early users - lawyers at smaller firms - are located or connected. Being close to customers helps us iterate quickly.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Inlet YC application?

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