Sapling.ai YC Application

Winter 2019Active

Sapling.ai went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2019 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 2019
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Ziang XieFounder

What Sapling.ai does

Sapling offers an API and SDK to help businesses integrate language models into their applications. Its messaging assistant sits on top of CRMs and messaging platforms to help users more efficiently compose responses.

Sapling.ai's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Sapling.ai, Winter 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Sapling.ai

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Language models for enterprise applications.

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

We are building an API and SDK that lets businesses integrate language models directly into their workflows. Our main product is a messaging assistant that works on top of CRMs and messaging platforms to help users compose responses faster and more accurately.

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

We live in Los Angeles, CA, and plan to keep the company based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We have deep ties here and access to engineering talent in Los Angeles. Our customers and early users are also primarily remote, so we don't need to relocate for now.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Sapling.ai YC application?

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