Outship YC Application

Winter 2025Active

Outship went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2025 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 2025
Industry: B2BRecruiting and Talent
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Saner CakirFounder & CEO
Kayla LeeFounder & COO

What Outship does

Software engineering is being rewritten in real time, and hiring is getting pulled along for the ride. With tools like Claude Code and Cursor, being able to ship is the new baseline. The signal for finding extraordinary engineers is the process: how candidates break down work, steer the agent, make tradeoffs, and recover when things break. Outship is a recruiting tool that allows you to capture and analyze that process alongside the final code so you can hire with confidence. Candidates work in a cloud workspace that's ready to code. We handle the environment setup and secret management to give you a level testing ground.

Outship's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Outship, Winter 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Outship

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Hire amazing engineers by seeing how they use AI

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

Outship is a recruiting tool that captures how engineering candidates use AI throughout their coding process. Candidates code in a cloud workspace we provide, where we manage environment setup and secrets. We record not just the final code, but how candidates break down tasks, steer AI agents, and recover from errors. This process insight helps hiring teams identify extraordinary engineers beyond just the finished product.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to base the company there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We live in San Francisco, the hub for both tech talent and AI innovation, which makes it easier for us to connect with users, recruits, and investors.

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 Outship YC application?

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