Trace YC Application
Trace 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
- B2BProductivity
- Team size
- 3
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2025
Founders
Tim CherkasovFounder
Artur RomanovFounder
What Trace does
Trace is a workflow orchestration platform that gives agents shared context across systems and lets teams build visual processes combining AI and humans. It automatically identifies which tasks can be AI-automated and which need human input, so non-technical teams build and run workflows without engineering involvement.
Trace's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Trace, Summer 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Trace
Context-aware orchestration between humans and AI
We're building Trace, a workflow orchestration platform for B2B teams. It lets users combine human steps and AI-driven automation in visual workflows, automatically figuring out which tasks AI can handle and which need human input. This means non-technical teams can set up and run complex processes across their software without needing dev resources.
We live in London, United Kingdom, and Trace is based here. After YC, we plan to keep the company in London as well.
London is where we're based and where we built the product. The city has a strong enterprise software scene and access to the companies we want to serve. Staying local lets us keep a close connection to early customers and the talent we need.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Trace YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Trace's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Trace would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Trace in?
Trace was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2025 batch.
Who founded Trace?
Trace was founded by Tim Cherkasov, Artur Romanov.
What does Trace do?
Context-aware orchestration between humans and AI.
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Trace's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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