Scout YC Application

Winter 2025Active

Scout went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2025 batch as a Education 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 2025
Industry: Education
Team size: 8
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Max Bertfield
Noah Fichter

What Scout does

The student information system (SIS) is the core system of record in every K-12 school. It tracks students, attendance, grades, schedules, staff, and more - kind of like the ERP for schools. Legacy SIS providers do just about that, and not much more. School districts layer dozens of tools on top of their SIS to fill in the gaps. Scout is an AI-powered student information system that automates school- and district-wide busywork, from day-to-day operations like attendance tracking to annual compliance reports. Our mission is to help school districts run like high-performing organizations, enabling them to provide high-quality, personalized instruction to every student.

Scout's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Scout, Winter 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Scout

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-powered student information system

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

We are building an AI-powered student information system for K-12 schools that automates day-to-day operations like attendance tracking and annual compliance reports. It replaces legacy SIS products that only store data by automating busywork school districts handle with many disconnected tools.

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

We live in New York, NY and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is where we are rooted as a team and where we understand the K-12 school market and customers best.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Scout YC application?

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