Prox YC 지원서

Fall 2025Active

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

YC 배치: Fall 2025
산업: B2BRetail
팀 규모: 7
상태: Active
출시됨: 2025

창업자

Dima YanovskyFounder
Gregory MakodzebaFounder

Prox의 사업 내용

Every product ever sold needs support at some point. That support falls into one of two buckets. Bucket 1: Simple stuff. T-shirts, screen protectors, keyboards. You buy it, it shows up, maybe you ask “where's my order?” once. This is solved. Zendesk and a hundred other horizontal companies solved it. Bucket 2: Hard stuff. $20,000 industrial heaters. HVAC systems. CNC machines. Car parts. Products where buying wrong means your building doesn't have heat or your manufacturing line is down. Support for these products can only be performed by highly trained domain specialists and there aren't enough of them. If you're selling EV charging stations, your support person needs to be a certified electrician who understands local power grids, installation codes, and compatibility matrices. You can't hire this off the street. You can't outsource it overseas. You'd think LLMs would have solved this by now. They haven't. Three years into the LLM era, penetration in this industry is very low & the reason is twofold. First, off-the-shelf models don't actually understand these products. The knowledge lives in 48-page technical manuals buried on some manufacturer's website in terrible formatting - wiring schematics, compatibility matrices, installation diagrams that can only make sense visually. A general-purpose LLM can't draw you the diagram showing how to connect terminal A to terminal B. It doesn't have the spatial understanding or the product-specific reasoning to be a real technical advisor. So companies still rely entirely on human experts. Second, even if the models were good enough, there are no harnesses to make them useful in the business. No engine to capture deep technical knowledge about complex physical products and keep it updated. No way for a company to offload tribal knowledge from their senior technicians into a system. No way to see what questions customers are actually asking and feed that back into the knowledge base. No generative multimodal presentation and no expressive voice support. Prox is building the best technical product expert for extremely complicated physical products. A multimodal agent that can draw wiring schemes, share CAD models, process incoming videos from a technician in the field, and support people over the phone with voice that can pass the Turing test. To get there, we're solving multimodal knowledge graph building at a very deep level. A huge portion of your work will be developing SOTA knowledge engines that can truly understand complex physical products.

Prox의 YC 지원서, 재구성됨

Y Combinator 지원

Prox, Fall 2025 기수. 공개 데이터를 기반으로 작성된 실제 지원 질문.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Prox

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI technical support for complex products

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

We're building a multimodal AI agent that acts as a technical support expert for complicated physical products. It can interpret wiring diagrams, CAD models, and videos from field technicians, and support users through voice interaction. This goes beyond generic support tools by deeply understanding complex manuals and the spatial and technical reasoning required to advise on products like industrial heaters, EV chargers, or CNC machines.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and will base Prox here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we and most of our early team are based. It's also the center of AI talent and customer demand for high-tech B2B products, so we get to build and sell from here.

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Prox의 실제 YC 지원서인가요?

아닙니다. Y Combinator는 제출된 지원서를 비공개로 유지합니다. 이것은 재구성된 것입니다. 실제 YC 양식 질문에 Prox의 공개 데이터(출시 노트, 창업자 배경, 제품 설명)를 기반으로 답변했습니다. Prox과 같은 회사가 YC에 어떻게 자신을 소개하는지 보여주며, 그들이 제출한 텍스트는 아닙니다.