6,238 companies, fifteen rows
The instruction was one paragraph long. Fifteen early-stage B2B fintech companies that are hiring, taken from the Y Combinator directory, with name, one-liner, batch, team size, location, website and open roles for each. No guessing. Show the steps.
dassi started where you would have, on ycombinator.com/companies, which listed 6,238 companies. It ticked Fintech and Is Hiring and the count fell to 165. Keeping only the batches from Winter 2025 through Fall 2026 left 31. It screened those for B2B, then opened fifteen company pages one after another and read each field off the page. Three and a half minutes.
Five of the fifteen rows, exactly as they came back:
| Company | What they do | Batch | Team size | Open roles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Klaimee | Liability insurance for AI agents | Spring 2026 | 2 | 5 |
| Kinro | Autonomous insurance brokerage for small businesses | Spring 2026 | 6 | 3 |
| Veritus | AI agents for consumer lending | Summer 2025 | 10 | 3 |
| Avallon AI | AI agents for insurance claims ops | Spring 2025 | 7 | 3 |
| Infinite | Global B2B stablecoin processor | Winter 2025 | 4 | 1 |
All fifteen came back complete. We half expected a blank team size somewhere, and the instruction said to leave a gap rather than fill one in, but it never came up.
The row we’d delete
Freya passed every filter. The directory tags it Fintech, it’s hiring, and it’s in the Summer 2025 batch. Its one-liner, though, is “Voice AI for Enterprises.”
We read that twice. Maybe there’s a payments angle we’re missing; we didn’t dig, and neither did dassi, since nobody asked it to. For the list we wanted, we’d drop the row. Someone selling something else might keep it, and that’s the reason we’d rather see it sitting in the sheet where a person can squint at it than have a model quietly decide what we meant by “fintech.”
Where the data came from
This was a recorded run on September 19, 2026, from a test browser profile, on the public pages of YC’s directory. Everything in the output is information a company published about itself: what it does, where it’s based, how many people work there, which roles are open.
People are a separate question, and we don’t sell dassi as a way to collect them. LinkedIn caps weekly connection invitations and restricts automated profile collection, and blasting requests from your account tends to end with a restricted account. If you want a contact at Klaimee, open the company page, pick one person, and write to them yourself. dassi can draft the note, and it’ll wait there until you approve it.
Keeping the list current
Saved as a workflow, the same run happens every week in your own browser, as long as it’s open when the schedule comes around. YC adds batches and companies post new roles, so those 31 will drift, and the instruction that matters becomes “add companies that aren’t in my sheet yet.”
Rows land in the Google Sheet you already use. If your team works out of HubSpot, dassi can create the company records through HubSpot’s web app while you’re signed in, and it can wait for your approval on each one. We’d guess YC is about as clean as directories get. Association member lists and conference exhibitor pages usually leave more gaps, so expect a few more empty cells there than you saw here.