Trellis AI YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Trellis AI went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2024 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: Winter 2024
Industry: B2B
Team size: 25
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Mac KlinkachornFounder
Jacky LinFounder

What Trellis AI does

Trellis helps healthcare providers treat more patients, faster - while eliminating pre-service paperwork. We automate document intake, prior authorizations, and appeals at scale to streamline operations and accelerate care. Our AI agent is trained on millions of clinical data points and converts messy, unstructured documents into clean, structured data directly in your EHR. With Trellis, leading healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies were able to: 1. Reduce time to treatment by over 90% 2. Improve prior authorization approval and reimbursement rates 3. Leverage structured data to enhance drug program performance and clinical decision-making Administrative costs account for over 20% of U.S. healthcare spending - delaying care, draining revenue, and driving staff burnout while having less visibility into patient care than ever before. We built Trellis to tackle this head on.

Trellis AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Trellis AI, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Trellis AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI for streamlining healthcare paperwork

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

We built an AI platform that automates healthcare paperwork like document intake, prior authorizations, and appeals. Our AI ingests messy, unstructured clinical documents and turns them into clean, structured data that integrates directly into providers' EHR systems. This lets providers reduce the time it takes to get patients treated and improves prior authorization approvals and reimbursements.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is a hub for AI and healthcare tech talent, which makes recruiting and partnerships easier. Being close to healthcare providers here helps us iterate on the product with real users.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Trellis AI YC application?

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