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AI-Staffed Companies That Compete With Incumbents

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Request for Startups

Elevator Pitch

Instead of selling AI agents to law firms, start a law firm staffed by AI agents and compete with them. YC wants full-stack AI companies in industries run by slow-moving incumbents.

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YC wants more founders building full-stack AI companies. Its example: if you believe LLMs can now automate a lot of legal work, most people would build an AI agent and sell it to law firms. The full-stack route is to start your own law firm, staff it with AI agents, and compete with the existing firms directly.

Where it applies: any industry, and especially those dominated by slow-moving incumbents. Instead of selling to the dinosaurs, YC says, "you could make them extinct."

The ask: founders who would rather replace incumbents than sell tools to them.

Read the full request on YC →

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