Rote

AI-native insurance department for auto body shops

Y CombinatorWinter 2027ActiveB2BOperationsB2BWorkflow AutomationInsurance

What they do

Problem

Auto body shops lose significant revenue because they lack the resources to negotiate denied or undervalued insurance repair claims.

Solution

Rote provides AI agents that use shop estimates and technical repair data to autonomously file, negotiate, and defend insurance claims on behalf of shops.

Who it's for

Auto body repair shops that need help recovering revenue from insurance claim negotiations.

Founders

Gabriel Castillo

Founder

Building the AI-native insurance department for auto body shops. CS @ Cornell | ex-SWE @ Apple (AI Tools & Automation). Previously built the fastest-growing dating app at Cornell.

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Aditya Mittal

Founder

Founder and CEO of Rote (YC W27). A CS student at Cornell, he built scaled iCloud Mail Intelligence at Apple and engineered the computer vision pipelines powering Toyota’s autonomous factory fleets. A 4x hackathon winner focused on agentic AI applications, he developed machine learning infrastructure for Raytheon and served as Vice President of the Cornell Entrepreneurship Club.