Certus AI YC 지원서

Summer 2025Active

Certus AI은(는) Summer 2025 배치에서 B2B 회사로 Y Combinator를 거쳤습니다. 아래에는 회사의 사업 내용, 창립자, 그리고 실제 YC 양식에 맞춰 재구성한 YC 지원서가 있습니다.

YC 배치: Summer 2025
산업: B2B
팀 규모: 3
상태: Active
출시됨: 2025

창업자

Gurveer SinghFounder
Adam GamieldienFounder
Isaac NicholsFounder

Certus AI의 사업 내용

Certus AI is replacing the restaurant phone line with Voice AI. Restaurants lose up to $100,000 per year per location from missed calls, lost orders, and abandoned hold lines. Staff are overwhelmed. IVRs frustrate customers. Call centers are expensive and impersonal. It’s 2025. Guests don’t leave voicemails or wait on hold. They just move on. Certus is an AI voice agent built for restaurants. It answers every call, 24/7 - taking orders, processing deliveries, booking reservations, upselling, and handling complaints in English, Spanish, French and more. Certus is built to manage the phone line end to end, from the customer call to the restaurant tech stack, with zero human intervention required. It currently integrates with industry-leading systems like Toast, Square, Clover, UberEats, DoorDash, and more. We’re building the voice layer of the modern restaurant - the employee they’ll never fire. We started Certus because we lived the pain. Gurveer (CEO) grew up answering phones in his family’s restaurant and helped operate them, growing from 1 to 11 locations in 7 years. Later, he and Adam (CRO) ran a restaurant growth startup to help others increase revenue, but kept watching clients bleed cash because no one picked up the phone. So we built the solution the industry always wished existed. Until now, this problem was considered unsolvable. But Voice AI has finally crossed the conversational chasm and 72% of consumers now prefer AI over humans as long as it means faster and better service. More importantly, the market is begging for this. The North American restaurant industry crossed $1 trillion in 2024, and it's projected to hit $1.5 trillion in 2025. Yet over $100 billion is still lost annually to missed calls, human error, and outdated tech. As the market continues to grow, so do the losses! Our customers say it best: - “Certus changed my life overnight.” - “We were losing the ability to give great in-house service - the phone was killing us.” - “70% of my business comes through the phone. That’s mine and my 16 staffs livelihood.” - “Before Certus, I used to lose 40 - 60 calls a day…. now my printer just stays printing!” - “I’ve been in the business 38 years. I’ve been waiting for this since then.” Certus is here to fix the $120B phone problem - one call at a time. And in doing so, we’re redefining how the restaurant industry communicates forever, starting with the phone line.

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Certus AI, Summer 2025 기수. 공개 데이터를 기반으로 작성된 실제 지원 질문.

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Idea4
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Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Certus AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Replacing the restaurant phone line with Voice AI

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

We built an AI voice agent that answers restaurant phone calls 24/7, handling orders, deliveries, reservations, upselling, and complaints without human intervention. It integrates with systems like Toast, Square, Clover, UberEats, and DoorDash, managing the entire phone line interaction end to end.

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

We all live in San Francisco, CA, and the company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We live here because of the proximity to tech talent, restaurant innovators, and YC itself. San Francisco gives us access to partners and potential customers in restaurant tech.

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