Salus YC Application

Winter 2026Active

Salus went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2026
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Vedant SinghFounder

What Salus does

Your agent processed a refund without looking up the order ID, costing you thousands. You only found out three hours later from a support ticket. Evals, output scoring, and observability can reduce the likelihood of mistakes like these occurring - but there's no solution that inspects and prevents an action as it’s about to execute. Salus does that. We’ve built an API that wraps around your agent and checks its actions at run time, blocking incorrect ones and providing immediate feedback to guide retries. Kevin and Vedant were roommates at Stanford, where they both studied computer science.

Salus's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Salus, Winter 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Salus

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Guardrails to validate your agent's actions before execution

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

We built an API that wraps around AI agents and intercepts their actions in real time. Salus blocks incorrect or unsafe actions before they run, saving companies from costly mistakes, and gives immediate feedback to fix errors on the spot.

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 is where we live and have our network. Being here puts us closest to enterprise customers and other AI infrastructure startups.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Salus YC application?

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