Superpowered AI YC Application

Summer 2022Inactive

Superpowered AI went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2022 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 2022
Industry: B2B
Team size: 4
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2022

Founders

Justin ClarkFounder
Dillon MartinFounder
Nicholas McCormickFounder
Zach McCormickFounder

What Superpowered AI does

Superpowered AI makes it easy to build production-ready LLM applications with access to external knowledge. Our API lets you connect external sources of knowledge (like regulatory archives, for example) to LLMs. We leverage proprietary RAG technology to dramatically improve retrieval performance and reliability for a wide variety of use cases. If you have an LLM-based application in mind, please reach out! We've helped companies build real-world applications, ranging from internal productivity tools to complete external products.

Superpowered AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Superpowered AI, Summer 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Superpowered AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

API for Retrieval Augmented Generation

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

We have built an API that connects large language models to external knowledge sources. This allows developers to build production-ready LLM applications that access up-to-date or specialized data - like regulatory archives - in a way that improves retrieval performance and reliability. Our proprietary RAG tech solves the hard problem of bridging LLMs with precise external data at scale.

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

We are based remotely with core founders in Salt Lake City, Utah, and plan to remain flexible with remote work after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

The team is spread across Salt Lake City and remote; we prioritize execution and flexibility rather than relocating. YC's remote-friendly approach fits our distributed setup.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Superpowered AI YC application?

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