ORO AI YC Application

Fall 2026Active

Vancouver

ORO AI 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: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Location: Vancouver
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Shardul BansalFounder/CEO
Seth SchilbeFounder/CTO

What ORO AI does

We're building the open benchmark for commerce. Builders submit shopping agents. Independent validators run them against problems that change daily. The best agent earns the rewards, and every run becomes training data.

ORO AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

ORO AI, Fall 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

ORO AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Continuously improving evals for agentic commerce

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

We're building ORO AI, an open benchmark for commerce agents. Developers submit shopping agents; independent validators run them against daily-changing buying challenges. The best performing agent wins crypto rewards, and every run becomes new training data. It's a feedback loop to make agentic commerce smarter every day.

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

Vancouver, BC, Canada; Vancouver, BC, Canada

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're based in Vancouver now, and will continue here after YC. This is where we live and work best as a small founding team.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real ORO AI YC application?

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