The Prompting Company YC Application

Summer 2025Active

The Prompting Company went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2025 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 2025
Industry: B2BMarketing
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Kevin ChandraFounder
Michelle MarcellineFounder
Albert PurnamaFounder

What The Prompting Company does

The problem: People are no longer searching on Google. They’re ASKING AI. If your product doesn’t appear in AI answers, you’re dead. How it works: 1. Find & analyze user questions: We find the exact questions your users ask and check how often your product is mentioned. 2. Create content: We tell you what to post, where to post, and do it for you. 3. Route to AI-optimized page: We redirect AI traffic to AI-optimized page Offer: Get your free AI visibility report → promptingcompany.com

The Prompting Company's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

The Prompting Company, Summer 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

The Prompting Company

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Help products get mentioned in ChatGPT

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

We built a service that finds the exact AI questions your customers ask, tracks how often your product gets mentioned, then tells you how to create and place content to get those mentions. We also help you route AI traffic to pages optimized for AI answers. Essentially, we make your product show up in ChatGPT responses so you don't disappear.

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 the founders live and is the hub for AI and marketing tech startups. It gives us access to partners, talent, and potential customers focused on AI adoption in marketing.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real The Prompting Company YC application?

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