Klaus AI YC Application

Winter 2026Active

Klaus AI went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2026 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 2026
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Robbie ThompsonFounder
Bailey WickhamFounder

What Klaus AI does

Get your personal OpenClaw instance on the cloud and connected to your Slack or other messaging app in 3 minutes. Pre-installed security features and common skills.

Klaus AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Klaus AI, Winter 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Klaus AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Fast and Safe OpenClaw on the cloud

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

We provide a personal OpenClaw instance hosted on the cloud that connects to Slack or other messaging apps in minutes. It comes with pre-installed security features and common skills so teams can deploy and use it without hassle or risk.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company will be based here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and work; it's where we can best tap into engineering talent and customer feedback for B2B infrastructure software like ours.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Klaus AI YC application?

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