Terracotta AI YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Terracotta AI went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 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 2023
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Carlos FelicianoFounder
Casey WilcoxFounder

What Terracotta AI does

Terracotta AI is an AI-powered Infrastructure as Code PR reviewer for Terraform, OpenTofu, and CDK-TF code, making Infrastructure as Code changes more transparent, less risky, and faster. Terracotta stops your Infrastructure as Code deployments from becoming ticking time bombs every time you modify your environment with AI-driven, contextual feedback delivered directly to your pull requests.

Terracotta AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Terracotta AI, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Terracotta AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-powered Infrastructure as Code PR reviews

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

We built Terracotta AI to review Infrastructure as Code pull requests for Terraform, OpenTofu, and CDK-TF. It uses AI to provide contextual feedback that catches risky or unclear infra changes before deployment, making reviews faster and ops safer.

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

We don't have a fixed base; we currently work remotely and plan to continue remote or flexible after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Operating remotely lets us hire and collaborate globally and adapt to where the best work gets done for us and users.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Terracotta AI YC application?

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