PLAN0 AI YC Application

Spring 2026Active

PLAN0 AI went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2026 batch as a Real Estate and Construction 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: Spring 2026
Industry: Real Estate and Construction
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Arash BaratiFounder
Shervin BaratiFounder

What PLAN0 AI does

PLAN0 is building the Bloomberg of construction for real estate developers, investors, and general contractors - $20B of projects are already running through the platform. We analyze architectural plans using vision models to generate detailed cost estimates and analytics in minutes. Through large scale industry partnerships, the platform also aggregates historical and real-time project data across all major geographies to power ML-driven analytics, decomposing costs into market-observable factors and predicting local trade-level pricing up to 24 months out.

PLAN0 AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

PLAN0 AI, Spring 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

PLAN0 AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI native construction cost estimation

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

We built a platform that analyzes architectural plans using computer vision to generate detailed construction cost estimates in minutes. Our product also aggregates large-scale project data to provide analytics and predict local trade-level pricing up to two years ahead. It's designed for real estate developers, investors, and general contractors who need fast, accurate cost insights.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the talent pool and investor community important for scaling an AI and construction tech company. Being here helps us build industry partnerships and hire engineers familiar with AI and real estate tech.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real PLAN0 AI YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from PLAN0 AI's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like PLAN0 AI would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.