Parley YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Parley 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: B2BLegal
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Philip SmartFounder
Ian EdwardsFounder
Jackson PerryFounder

What Parley does

Parley automates flat-fee legal work using LLM’s, starting with visa applications for immigration lawyers. Currently, immigration lawyers spend 20+ hours putting together writing-intensive work visas and green cards. We integrate directly into a lawyer's workflow and do all the reading, writing, and compiling - which is 80% of the work required to file a visa application.

Parley's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Parley

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Automating flat-fee legal work, starting with visas

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

We built software that automates the reading, writing, and compiling of visa and green card applications for immigration lawyers. Our tool integrates directly into their workflows and handles about 80% of the work, saving lawyers 20+ hours on writing-intensive tasks per case.

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

We live in San Francisco, and Parley will be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we all live, and it's a hub for legal tech startups and AI talent. Being here keeps us close to our early users and the broader startup ecosystem.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Parley YC application?

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