Waypoint Transit

Waypoint Transit is an AI-powered city planning platform that automates the creation of civil infrastructure studies and transportation planning reports for municipal agencies. Founded in 2024 by Stanford engineering graduates Varun Tandon and Ryan Johnston, the company emerged from Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch with a mission to transform how cities approach urban planning.

The company addresses a critical pain point in municipal government: cities spend approximately $50 billion annually on planning, often relying on expensive consultants that deliver reports over extended timelines. Waypoint Transit disrupts this model by leveraging AI to generate comprehensive technical studies and planning documents at 30% of traditional consulting costs and in months rather than years.

Waypoint Transit's platform serves municipal governments and transportation agencies, with early customers including the City of Duluth and the Minnesota Department of Transportation. The company has already engaged with more than 10 municipalities across the United States, demonstrating strong product-market fit in the government technology sector.

The founding team brings unique technical expertise: Varun Tandon previously led applied machine learning initiatives at Microsoft, working on diffusion models and LLM/LMMs for flagship Office products including Copilot, while Ryan Johnston developed chip design synthesis CAD at Apple before creating novel real-time transit signage for his hometown, which eventually evolved into Waypoint Transit.