Rulebricks

Rulebricks YC Application

Winter 2021Active

Rulebricks went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 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
Winter 2021
Industry
B2BOperations
Team size
2
Status
Active
Launched
2021

Founders

  • Sid Garimella
    Sid GarimellaFounder

What Rulebricks does

Many workflow builders and automation tools have support for adding logic to your processes, but get complicated quick - to the point where process owners are unable to edit them directly and require specialist services. Rulebricks separates decision-making logic from your workflows, giving your team a clear visual, spreadsheet-like interface to manage the changing rules that drive your business, and use those rules as API endpoints, visual forms, and in automation tools like Zapier.

Rulebricks's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Rulebricks, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Rulebricks

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Add decision logic to any workflow

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

We built Rulebricks to separate decision-making rules from workflows. It offers a spreadsheet-like interface for non-engineers to manage logic that powers automated processes. Teams use Rulebricks to update business rules without code, linking those rules to APIs, forms, and tools like Zapier to avoid brittle, hidden logic inside workflow tools.

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

We live in San Francisco and Los Altos, and plan to base the company in San Francisco after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Our decision to be based in San Francisco reflects our connections to enterprise software and the developer community here, plus access to YC resources and customers.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Rulebricks YC application?

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

What YC batch was Rulebricks in?

Rulebricks was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2021 batch.

Who founded Rulebricks?

Rulebricks was founded by Sid Garimella.

What does Rulebricks do?

Add powerful decision-making capabilities to any automated workflow.

How do I read the full reconstructed application?

Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Rulebricks's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.

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