rekursiv.ai YC Application
San Francisco
rekursiv.ai went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2026 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 2026
- Industry
- B2BProductivity
- Location
- San Francisco
- Team size
- 2
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2026
Founders
Joshua DillonFounder
Dan KondratyukFounder
What rekursiv.ai does
We're scaling self-improving AI scientist teams to ideate/experiment/discover, generating new knowledge autonomously. Their discoveries reduced ARC-1/2 costs by 10,000× while maintaining state-of-the-art accuracy and yielded material advances on combinatorial ML problems. We believe that AI is bounded not by compute, but ideas. Scaling to millions of sessions of discovery enables leveraging its own discoveries and presents a novel training source capable of ushering a new era of self-reliant foundational models.
rekursiv.ai's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
rekursiv.ai, Summer 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
rekursiv.ai
AI scientists that accelerate scientific discovery
We're building autonomous teams of AI scientists that can independently ideate, experiment, and discover new knowledge. The product generates novel research and solutions in machine learning, especially combinatorial ML problems, by running millions of sessions and feeding on their own discoveries. These AI agents have already achieved material progress - they reduced the cost of solving ARC-1 and ARC-2 by 10,000× at state-of-the-art accuracy. Our focus is to scale and deploy self-improving discovery engines for organizations that need faster and cheaper innovation.
San Francisco, CA; the company will remain based in San Francisco after YC.
San Francisco is the center of AI research and the ideal place to find world-class talent, research partners, and early users. We're already here and building alongside other top technical founders.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real rekursiv.ai YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from rekursiv.ai's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like rekursiv.ai would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was rekursiv.ai in?
rekursiv.ai was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2026 batch.
Who founded rekursiv.ai?
rekursiv.ai was founded by Joshua Dillon, Dan Kondratyuk.
What does rekursiv.ai do?
Scale AI scientists whose own breakthroughs accelerate the next.
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
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