Penciled YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Penciled went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2024 batch as a Healthcare 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 2024
Industry: HealthcareHealthcare IT
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Shawn ShivdatFounder

What Penciled does

Penciled (W24) is an AI front office assistant for physical therapy. Penciled's AI assistant schedules out plans of care, sends reminders and processes last-minute cancellations, and fills openings with an automated waitlist. Penciled books thousands of appointments for physical therapists each month and integrates directly into EHRs like WebPT.

Penciled's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Penciled, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Penciled

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI front office assistant for physical therapy

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

We built an AI assistant that handles scheduling for physical therapy clinics. It creates plans of care, manages reminders, handles last-minute cancellations, and fills openings using an automated waitlist. Our AI integrates with EHR platforms like WebPT to book thousands of appointments every month, saving clinics time and reducing no-shows.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is our home and where we have strong access to healthcare tech resources and talent. Being here keeps us close to early users and partners in healthcare IT.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Penciled YC application?

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