Roger YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Roger 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: B2BSales
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Rithwik Pattikonda

What Roger does

💼 Augment builds AI-powered tools to automate company operations, starting with Roger - an intelligent CRM that acts as your AI-powered sales team. 💼 🚀 Built by experienced founders and backed by Y Combinator, Augment is redefining sales automation with AI-driven workflows that handle prospecting, outreach, and deal management - so businesses can scale effortlessly. How it Works - Roger, Your AI-Powered CRM 📊 A CRM That Works for You Unlike traditional CRMs that require constant manual updates, Roger actively manages your sales pipeline. It tracks interactions, follows up with leads, and keeps your team focused on closing deals instead of admin work. 🤖 AI-Powered Outreach & Engagement Roger automates lead generation and crafts personalized outreach messages across email, LinkedIn, and other channels. It continuously refines its approach based on engagement data to increase conversions. 🎯 Smart Deal Management Roger qualifies leads, schedules follow-ups, and moves deals through your pipeline automatically. It ensures your team never drops the ball on a potential customer. 📈 Seamless Integration & Insights Roger syncs with your existing tools, updating your sales data in real-time. AI-powered analytics provide actionable insights, helping teams optimize sales strategies. By automating tedious sales tasks and making CRM proactive instead of passive, Roger turns AI into your most efficient sales teammate - helping businesses close more deals, faster.

Roger's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Roger

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI sales automation for outbound and follow-ups

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

We are building Roger, an AI-powered CRM that automates outbound sales and follows up with leads 24/7. Roger manages the entire sales pipeline by generating leads, sending personalized outreach messages via email and LinkedIn, qualifying leads, scheduling follow-ups, and moving deals through the funnel automatically. It reduces the manual work sales teams face and keeps deals from slipping through the cracks.

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

We are currently remote; post-YC we plan to be based wherever it benefits our growth and collaboration with YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We want to stay flexible and accessible to YC resources and network. Since we're a small team, location flexibility improves our ability to hire and engage with customers globally.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Roger YC application?

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