Lighthouz AI YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Lighthouz AI went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2024
Industry: B2B
Team size: 8
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Srijan KumarCEO & Co-founder
Sonali PattnaikCTO & Co-founder

What Lighthouz AI does

Lighthouz is a backoffice AI solution for freight brokers, to automate AP, AR, and Collections. Leading freight brokers are using Lighthouz AI to automate FTL (full truckload) and LTL (less than truckload) freight bill auditing, automatically filing disputes, and invoicing customers. With Lighthouz, 70%-85% emails do not need to be touched by humans. Hence, brokers using Lighthouz are invoicing customers 36% faster, getting paid 5 days sooner, and reducing back office costs by 40%. Lighthouz brings 25+ years of supply chain, logistics, and AI experience to brokers, with a AI Professor from Georgia Tech who taught 1000+ students, and team with PhD and MS in AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science.

Lighthouz AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Lighthouz AI, Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Lighthouz AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Automate freight broker backoffice tasks

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

We built an AI-driven backoffice automation platform for freight brokers that handles AP, AR, and collections. It audits full truckload (FTL) and less than truckload (LTL) freight bills, files disputes automatically, and invoices customers - all by reducing human involvement on most email communications.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company is based there as well. After YC, we plan to keep the company in San Francisco.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where most of our team is based. It's also the center of AI and B2B SaaS innovation, allowing us to hire experts and stay close to investors.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Lighthouz AI YC application?

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