"Talk to your users." If you go though the @ycombinator program, you hear this…

May 27, 2025

"Talk to your users." If you go though the @ycombinator program, you hear this over and over from YC partners.

Current YC company Stratify is democratizing access to user research at scale. With the help of AI workflows and voice interviews, you can expand beyond talking just to current users and people already in your funnel.

I like this use case for a lot of reasons:
- The value prop is clear and compelling.
- Building a really good version of this combines a lot of interesting AI engineering components.
- Empirically, people are very happy to talk to AI interviewers in this context. LLMs are good conversationalists in a way that lines up well with talking to people about products they are interested in or have tried out.
- The voice interviewer here is powered by @pipecat_ai and the @trydaily Pipecat Cloud infrastructure. 😉

Y Combinator@ycombinator

Stratify is building an AI user researcher that helps companies recruit participants, conduct customer interviews, and provide actionable insights to discover the 'why' behind every customer behavior.

Congrats on the launch @PrathamHombal & @sidjavvaji!