Specific YC Application

Fall 2025Active

Specific went through Y Combinator in the Fall 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: Fall 2025
Industry: B2B
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Janak SunilFounder
Siddhant PaliwalFounder

What Specific does

Specific builds audio and enterprise datasets representative of work inside real-world businesses. The next frontier of AGI is bottlenecked by data that is hard to access, and we make that easier.

Specific's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Specific, Fall 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Specific

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Audio and Enterprise Human Data for AI

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

We build datasets of audio and enterprise human data that reflect real work inside businesses. Our product collects, curates, and organizes this data to help AI developers train models on harder-to-access enterprise and voice inputs.

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

We both live in San Francisco, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where the tech and AI ecosystem is strongest, which is crucial for building and selling our enterprise AI data product.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Specific YC application?

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