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Approximately 12% of the current Y Combinator batch is using Ploy.
Ploy is developing the capability for AI agents, such as Anthropic's Claude, to use its platform to build websites.
Webflow is the platform used to create 1% of all websites currently live on the internet.
Bryant Cho's new startup, Ploy, is part of the current Y Combinator batch.
Ploy is a website platform that also functions as a marketing platform designed to help businesses get discovered by AI search tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude.
Ploy has embedded knowledge and prompts for creating videos using models like Google Veo.
Ploy can analyze a URL from the Wayback Machine to understand a business's context and automatically redesign its website for the modern era.
Ploy spent approximately $750,000 worth of tokens to create its "Ploy Slurper" technology.
The "Ploy Slurper" is a deterministic system that ingests an existing website to create a complete design system and all its corresponding components.
Ploy integrates with approximately 50 different tools, including codebases, Figma, analytics platforms, CRMs, and spreadsheets.
Ploy's platform runs nightly analyses of a user's traffic, Google Search Console data, and sales pipeline to provide automated marketing and sales suggestions.
Ploy has created a proprietary library of 3,500 prompts for web design which the platform uses for inspiration when generating websites.