Wayline YC Application

Summer 2025Active

Wayline went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2025 batch as a Real Estate and Construction 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: Real Estate and Construction
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Jason OkraFounder
Eric RowellFounder

What Wayline does

Wayline is an AI front desk assistant purpose-built for real estate to answer calls and messages 24/7. It’s like an always-on property manager that can convert leads and resolve issues better than any human, day or night. Our AI can be setup in as little as 24 hours and works seamlessly with existing phone/management software. Uniquely, our AI knowledge base is domain-specific to learn and handle the most complex real estate workflows. For property operators, Wayline instantly replaces robo-menus and call centers, while centralizing and scaling back-office teams.

Wayline's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Wayline

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI voice assistant for property managers

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

We built an AI front desk assistant specialized for real estate property managers. It answers calls and messages 24/7, handling lead conversion and issue resolution better than humans can outside business hours. Our AI plugs into existing phone and management software and is trained specifically on real estate workflows to replace robo-menus and call centers.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company will be based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We live in San Francisco because it's where we are rooted and the real estate market here is dense enough to test and iterate on Wayline quickly. Staying here post-YC keeps us close to our early users and potential partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Wayline YC application?

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