Pincites YC Application

Summer 2023Acquired

Pincites went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 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 2023
Industry: B2BLegal
Team size: 4
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2023

Founders

Sona SulakianFounder
Mariam SulakianCo-Founder, CTO

What Pincites does

Pincites makes contract negotiations faster and more consistent for legal teams. Using LLMs, Pincites takes a first pass at reviewing contracts, helping lawyers focus on riskiest parts of their negotiations.

Pincites's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Pincites, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Pincites

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI to speed up contract negotiation

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

We built a tool that uses large language models to review contracts automatically, highlighting the riskiest parts for legal teams so they can negotiate faster and with more consistency. It's designed to handle the tedious first-pass review lawyers normally do by hand.

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

We live in Menlo Park, CA and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Menlo Park gives us proximity to strong legal technology and AI talent and keeps us close to our initial users.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Pincites YC application?

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