Operator.io YC Application

Winter 2020Active

Operator.io went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2020 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 2020
Industry: B2B
Team size: 6
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Kevin JooFounder
David ShiFounder

What Operator.io does

Operator.io is the easiest way to set up an OpenClaw agent and connect it to 1000+ different applications like Gmail, Notion, Stripe, and more. Onboard an AI executive assistant that tackles the tasks you know need to be done that you don't have bandwidth for.

Operator.io's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Operator.io, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Operator.io

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Operator.io is OpenClaw that just works

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

We've built Operator.io to make deploying and managing OpenClaw agents easy. Our platform connects an AI executive assistant to over 1000 apps like Gmail, Notion, Stripe, so it can handle tasks you know need doing but don't have time for. The challenge is making complex AI integrations practical and accessible to busy teams without engineering overhead.

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

We live in New York, NY, and the company will be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose New York because that's where we live and work. Being here keeps our team tight and close to early users and the B2B clients we target.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Operator.io YC application?

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