Lightfield YC Application
San Francisco
Lightfield went through Y Combinator in the Fall 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
- Fall 2026
- Industry
- B2BLegal
- Location
- San Francisco
- Team size
- 2
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2026
Founders
Luke WagnerFounder/CEO
Luke MainwaringFounder/CTO
What Lightfield does
Lightfield connects to a company’s email, chat, and business systems and does the legal work before it reaches the legal team. It gathers context, applies company policies and past decisions, and presents the completed work to in-house counsel for approval.
Lightfield's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Lightfield, Fall 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Lightfield
AI that works for in-house legal teams
Lightfield connects to a company's email, chat, and business systems and does the legal work before it even reaches the legal team. It gathers supporting context automatically, applies the company's own policies and past decisions, and presents the finished work to in-house counsel for review. Legal teams only see the tough or unusual stuff; Lightfield does the rest.
San Francisco, CA, USA. The company will also be based in San Francisco after YC.
San Francisco is where many of our early customers are and where B2B SaaS companies building for legal teams have to be if they want to move fast and get direct user feedback.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Lightfield YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Lightfield's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Lightfield would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Lightfield in?
Lightfield was part of the Y Combinator Fall 2026 batch.
Who founded Lightfield?
Lightfield was founded by Luke Wagner, Luke Mainwaring.
What does Lightfield do?
AI that works for in-house legal teams
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Lightfield's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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