Workflow Automation Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2026

We’re building the infrastructure for a future AI co-scientist, starting with computational research domains. Our thesis is that capable AI scientists require two things built in tandem: (1) a human-centric product suite that generates high-quality process data, and (2) the research infrastructure to turn that data into increasingly autonomous systems. We’re creating the product and training infrastructure needed for research agents that can execute the full scientific loop. Synthetic Sciences Web is our platform where scientists delegate complex research tasks to swarms of AI co-scientists across reading → hypotheses → methods → experimentation → results → drafting, even while they sleep. In parallel, we develop RL environments and process-based training data for LLMs, starting with agentic coding environments for ML research workflows.

Unisson is building trusted AI subject-matter experts for teams that are responsible for customer deployments (technical customer success, implementation, sales engineering). Within 20 minutes, our agents learn to use any product and can be used by teams in Slack, text, or email. Our agents gather requirements and context from existing tools enabling them to handle complex tasks like customer health audits, onboarding, product administration, and custom integrations. With Unisson, customer-facing teams have 24/7 access to an AI SME, allowing them to scale and save thousands of hours every month.

Jinba lets enterprise teams vibe-code AI workflows instead of drag and drop. Describe what you need in plain language, and your whole company can start using it immediately. No engineers required. Enterprise-grade permissions, audit logging, and on-prem deployment built in. We serve 40,000 enterprise users at major financial institutions. Build something your colleagues want.

BaseFrame helps hardware teams build more efficiently by identifying design gaps, data-driven tradeoffs, and component availability issues before the first board is spun, catching fatal mistakes while they are still cheap to fix. We want to speed-up hardware teams so that they can build the cool innovations they are trying to bring to life with fewer bottlenecks. The current hardware workflow is a broken sequence of handoffs: you finalize a design and send it to procurement, only to discover weeks later that there was an oversight or a critical component has a massive lead time. How It Works • Project Scoping: Specialized AI agents ask you questions to scope out the project and uncover gaps, drilling down with follow up questions if needed or handing off to the next agent when sufficient. It provides suggestions and recommendations for each question, making sure we have thought about everything early on. • Validations: Once the questions are answered, we consolidate them into a document and run parallel agents to once again find issues, contradictions, or areas of improvement. • BOM Generation: Our AI splits the scope into a block diagram and generates a Bill of Materials (BOM) for each by parsing diagrams and tables from datasheets, getting price and lead time data from top vendors, and internal vendor communications. • Versioning & Parallel Agents: You can branch designs and use parallel agents to simulate multiple architectures simultaneously, revealing quantitative tradeoffs in cost, price, and lead times We met during our first week of college and became roommates at Berkeley, and are excited to make physical innovation easier!

Bizzy handles your calls, captures and qualifies leads, and books appointments directly into your CRM. It understands your services better than a receptionist would, routes and escalates calls, and syncs with your existing tools to incorporate complex workflows, all so your team can focus on servicing leads, not qualifying them.

Ressl AI is an AI Transformation partner for the enterprise. We build custom AI agents for enterprises that matches the way they work and integrates deeply with their existing system-of-record. No migration required.

Oxus automates internal audits for pre-IPO and public companies using AI. We turn hours of manual scoping, documentation, and control testing into review-ready outputs generated within minutes. With Oxus, audit teams deliver more audits, faster.

Bubble Lab (YC W'26) lets operations teams build production workflows in minutes, just by prompting. Already trusted by thousands of professionals in BizOps, SalesOps, and RevOps who are saving hundreds of hours from manual work by automating processes across the tools they use daily.

We help construction teams eliminate rework, delays, and drawing confusion before construction starts.
We analyze PDF plans, detect clashes and inconsistencies across disciplines, and create draft RFIs so teams can resolve issues early. This saves construction companies hundreds of hours and millions of dollars. What we do: - Automatically detect clashes, missing information, and drawing mismatches - Align architectural, structural, and MEP plans so everything matches across sheets - Generate draft RFIs from issues we find - Replace long page-turn meetings with instant drawing analysis - Reduce rework and prevent schedule delays before boots hit the ground We integrate with:
Procore, Autodesk, email, and the tools teams already use Teams use us to: - Save hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars per project - Catch design and coordination issues early - Reduce RFIs and prevent field fixes - Keep projects on schedule with fewer surprises Contact us at founders@usearticulate.com

MarkIt builds AI agents that work directly inside the workflows trade professionals use every day — Excel, PDFs, broker portals, and more. From defensible classification, ACE report audits, and a self-updating system of record, it serves trade professionals end to end with agents intelligent enough to work in the complex environment. MarkIt brings reasoning, memory, and automation to global trade compliance, helping Suppliers, Brokers, and OEMs reduce errors, save time, and streamline operations in the growingly intense world of Global Trade.

A platform where users can automate web workflows using natural language prompts. We handle deterministic playback of browser workflows and fall back to LLMs where necessary, ensuring reliability.

Dedalus Labs is building Vercel for AI Agents. We host MCP servers on our cloud and handle the boring stuff like autoscaling and load balancing so users can go from idea to production in a single click. Our OpenAI-compatible SDK lets users orchestrate complex agentic workflows through one clean API. Route between any LLM provider, connect any MCP tools from our hosted marketplace, and ship in minutes.

RowFlow replaces clunky web forms with natural conversations that run over text, slack, or wherever your users are. Our platform increases your form’s response rates while cutting your internal overhead in half. With RowFlow, you can take any existing form and instantly convert it into an AI-powered conversation. New flows launch in minutes and reach respondents over your preferred channel or embedded chat. We guide the exchange, follow up automatically, and return clean structured data without extra work from your team. Forms power billions of business interactions yearly. Whether it’s forms for client intake, registrations, compliance, feedback, or surveys, they all follow the same painful pattern: low conversion, messy data, and frustrated users. Teams have long tolerated forms only because there's been no scalable alternative for collecting structured information from people - until now. Our goal is for RowFlow to become the new default way for how organizations collect user data in an AI-first world.

Trace is a workflow automation platform that routes tasks to the right agent – human or AI. We enable enterprise-grade context and AI orchestration in mid-sized teams. Trace breaks workflows into clear steps, sends repetitive tasks to AI agents, and routes the rest to the right people while respecting permissions and logging every action. We help teams cut busywork and unify AI tools across departments – helping companies adopt AI in days rather than months.

America is facing an addiction and mental health crisis. We're building a suite of AI agents to automate away the tasks that occupy half of the time and resources of behavioral health clinics—documentation, compliance, audits, and more. We save time, money, and mental bandwidth so that clinicians can stop chasing insurance reimbursements and go back to saving lives.

Cyberdesk is the first self learning computer use agent for developers to automate desktop workflows. For example, one of our customers is building an AI agent for hospital patient intake, and they’re using us to automate an entire team of people manually clicking and typing into a desktop app to book appointments. We launched mid July, and our agent is already operating in production environments, creating appointments in electronic health record apps and processing files in legacy ERPs. We’ve built the first computer use agent that memorizes tasks and repeats them quickly while still adapting to unexpected changes on the screen. A good analogy is to how humans use computers: once we get used to an app, we use it much faster, while still adapting to random popups and crashes. This new paradigm for computer use will be needed by every company automating human workflows on computers. Mahmoud previously built robotic process automation solutions impacting 20K+ employees at a Fortune 100 company. He also built AI & ML solutions at Baylor College of Medicine Neuroscience & Texas Children's Hospital + co-published a paper at the Rice Networks Group. Alan is ex-NASA and previously dropped out to be the first founding engineer at a PearX startup. He is a second time founder, having previously built and scaled a consumer AI app to thousands of paying users. Computer-use agents will automate the $6T dollars spent on enterprise knowledge work and Cyberdesk will be the platform to power this. We’d love to talk with you! https://cal.com/mahmoud-al-madi-klrs5s/30min

Bond is an AI Chief of Staff that gives CEOs and busy executives real-time visibility into what’s happening across the company and tells them what to focus on. Saving execs 10+ hours a week.

Aegis is the all-in-one platform that helps healthcare providers recover lost revenue by automating insurance denial appeals—from intake to resolution. Built for billing teams, healthcare providers and hospitals.

Every codebase has integrations. If you look at how they're written, 90% of the code is identical whether you're connecting to Slack, Gmail, Hubspot, or some random API. You have to... - make an API call with proper error handling - deal with authentication and rate limits - store responses in your database with custom schemas - map untyped API responses to your own types - keep that data fresh with webhooks or polling - write foreign keys to connect the external data to your own Each integration requires rebuilding this infrastructure from scratch. This results in fragmented code with different patterns, error handling, and auth flows for every service. Corsair is the unified framework for integrating with third-party services. Add Slack, Linear, GitHub, Gmail, and hundreds of other integrations with the same syntax, same types, and same four database tables.

The student information system (SIS) is the core system of record in every K-12 school. It tracks students, attendance, grades, schedules, staff, and more - kind of like the ERP for schools. Legacy SIS providers do just about that, and not much more. School districts layer dozens of tools on top of their SIS to fill in the gaps. Scout is an AI-powered student information system that automates school- and district-wide busywork, from day-to-day operations like attendance tracking to annual compliance reports. Our mission is to help school districts run like high-performing organizations, enabling them to provide high-quality, personalized instruction to every student.

finbar is the AI investment analyst used by several top-20 (AUM) hedge funds. It automates financial modelling, research, and data analysis so multi-million-dollar decisions can be made 100x faster.

Platus delivers fast, reliable legal infrastructure with a no-code platform and API, designed to support SMBs with instant access to notarization, legal drafting, e-signing, and workflow automations. Our solution removes the high costs and slow processing of traditional legal services, by empowering businesses to seamlessly manage compliance and legal tasks.

At Tiny, we’re building a new kind of ERP system for factories where AI agents automate repetitive workflows. Made for the four million factories still primarily relying on Excel. LLMs now unlock their troves of siloed unstructured data. We see a massive opportunity to build a compound startup and, beyond that, tap into network effects to unlock just-in-time manufacturing across entire supply chains.

Origami is an AI-powered spreadsheet to find and enrich your ideal customers. Find your perfect customers with AI, start free → origami.chat Used by sales teams at CBRE, Clipboard Health, Remote.com, and more.

AI procurement agents built for European enterprises. Automate intake, sourcing, contracts, due diligence, and 3-way match.

Ficra enables product teams to ship higher quality releases, faster. Ficra is the source of truth for every product screen and user flow, giving companies real-time visibility into what their users actually see in their live product. Ficra's AI provides a live, visual map of your users’ journeys: every screen, flow, A/B test, push notification and email. With Ficra, product teams no longer waste 25% of their time auditing complex user flows to assess product quality and find the blind spots in funnels.

Capitol builds intelligence infrastructure for companies overwhelmed by data but starved for clarity. Today, 80% of enterprise AI projects fail because outputs aren't accurate, attributable, or usable. Capitol AI works with companies in high-stakes industries to turn information into intelligence that drives decisions with model-agnostic, purpose-built infrastructure. Capitol is building a different future - one where institutions, creators, and analysts stay in control of their knowledge, their IP, and their value. We deliver a model-agnostic platform that turns complexity into decision-grade insight. We don't believe the future should be dictated by a handful of closed models. We enforce attribution, minimize hallucinations, and preserve temporal accuracy - giving companies trusted answers they can act on.

Lighthouz AI's AI agents solve the biggest problems in logistics - AR and AP! 3PLs, brokers, factors, and carriers lose billions every year to slow invoicing, manual invoice audits, and billing disputes. Manual AP & AR processes create errors, disputes, cash flow bottlenecks, late fees —hurting everyone in the logistics supply chain. 🚛 The Problem: - Factors: Auditing and verifying carrier invoices, timely invoicing - 3PLs & Brokers: Verifying carrier invoices, creating own invoices, and handling disputes and chargebacks. - Carriers: Timely invoicing, Submitting correct and complete paperwork, Dealing with late payments, incorrect deductions, and manual paperwork. - Shippers: Struggling with invoice error identification and resolution, delaying payments. 📉 The Impact: The U.S. freight industry processes over $1.2 trillion in transactions annually, yet 25% of freight invoices contain errors, leading to payment disputes and delays. 🔹 Our Solution is an AI agent that automates invoice audits, rate verifications, invoicing, and collections in the logistics industry. With Lighthouz AI agents, businesses 10x their AR and AP processes.

RetroFix is an automation platform designed to be extremely intuitive to use, making it much easier and faster to automate manual work. To create or modify workflows you can describe them in natural language and our agent will create them end-to-end for you. We allow you to connect with 2000+ applications and use our pre-built actions for your workflows. In the case we don't have a pre-built step, our agent can instead write code to access the full APIs of all the apps we integrate with.

Firstwork is a next-generation HR platform designed specifically for companies with dynamic workforce needs. Our mission is to streamline and automate key HR processes to help businesses operate more efficiently and effectively. What We Do (for now): (1) Smart Onboarding 📋: Our platform simplifies the onboarding process by automating the collection and verification of credentials, such as right-to-work documents, insurance forms and driver’s licenses. This reduces administrative burden and accelerates the time-to-productivity for new hires. (2) AI-Assisted Activation 🤖: Leveraging AI, we enhance communication and messaging for new hires, ensuring they receive timely and relevant information. This helps in better engagement and faster integration into their roles. (3) Perpetual Compliance ✅: Our system uses AI and OCR technology to continuously monitor and ensure compliance with various regulatory requirements. This includes tracking expirations of critical documents, updating records, and generating compliance reports, thus reducing the risk of penalties and legal issues.

Formula Insight offers Institutional Investors previously inaccessible data. We provide a central repository of financial models so investors can track changes to forecasts, quantify projection accuracy and expedite analysis. This further systematizes the investment process and enables better investment decisions.

An AI Workforce paired with an in-built CRM, that lives in your communication channels, is online forever, knows your everything about your business. and does the tasks on your behalf only so you can click "Approve" every morning. Build you own AI employees today... - Lead intake via Voice / SMS / Email and then updating the Contact / Matter / Case in the CRM. - Connects with Gmail / Outlook for AI to write replies (in draft for you to review) all ready to send, for every email that deserves your reply, so you don't spend time writing emails anymore. - Handles outbound sales completely, scrapes all the leads there possibly are on the internet, phone books, data brokers, and contacts customers, chats back and forth with them at scale, infinitely, parallely all at once. - Writes daily/weekly/monthly briefings and reports based on all the new context there is on the CRM every day/week/month. It finds out insights you possibly couldn't have found by looking at it all manually. - Customer Research AI agents: find powerful POCs of a company, check through your LinkedIn connection tree to find out how far apart in mutual connections you are from them, research their background, and send out intro texts / emails / call agents to connect you with the POC. and so much more. Contact us for enterprise needs.

Post-order operations are one of the least automated parts of e-commerce. After an order is placed, teams still spend their days tracking shipments, chasing exceptions, processing returns, adjusting invoices, and answering “Can you check this?” requests. This manual busywork lives outside core systems and scales linearly with order volume, forcing brands and 3PLs to keep adding headcount as they scale. Handled is an operations automation platform for e-commerce brands and the 3PLs that run their order fulfillment. We execute the manual work that happens after an order is placed by unifying post-order data across commerce, warehouse, carrier, and support systems. Handled gives teams real-time visibility across orders, shipments, returns, and inventory in one system — eliminating the need to dig through disconnected tools or react only after customers complain. When issues occur, Handled automatically executes the follow-up work, such as resolving shipment delays, processing returns, filing claims, or making order and billing adjustments, without manual back-and-forth. By combining visibility, issue detection, and automated execution in a single AI-powered operational layer, Handled replaces manual coordination with software-driven post-order operations in a large, recurring market tied directly to e-commerce volume.

Cartage is the future of freight coordination. Transparent, tech-driven and eliminating the need for human coordinators.

Tower accelerates transactional due diligence via an AI-powered, centralized diligence platform. By consolidating disparate diligence workflows, Tower helps lawyers stay organized, spot issues earlier, and close deals faster.

Solari gives non-technical team members access to agents that work right out of the box.

CommodityAI builds intelligent automation agents for some of the most operationally complex businesses in the world: physical commodity traders. In trading operations, critical data is often buried in spreadsheets, emails, PDFs, and legacy systems — making workflows slow, error-prone, and overly manual. CommodityAI acts as a digital operator, continuously reading, interpreting, and updating information across the trade lifecycle to keep records accurate and systems in sync. Our agents extract and validate key details from trade confirmations, contracts, vessel updates, and more — turning scattered, unstructured data into clean, structured records that flow directly into CTRMs, ERPs, and other core platforms. No manual entry required. By automating what others still do by hand, we help trading teams move faster, reduce risk, and focus on the decisions that matter most.

Brainbase Labs is an applied AI research lab enabling AI in the workforce by building high-fidelity agent environments and tooling.

We build AI-powered compliance software for behavioral health organizations. Our system keeps them continuously audit-ready, reduces documentation costs, and protects revenue by automating the compliance work clinicians hate, freeing them to focus on care.

Always-on AI agents for 1-1 personalization at scale

Your help center shouldn't be an afterthought. Pillar keeps yours alive and accurate, letting users self-help with trusted answers embedded right where they need them.

Carma is building an AI-native platform that transforms fleet operations from tedious, manual work into effortless, automated workflows. We’re the fastest-growing company in fleet management software. Carma already powers some of the largest fleets in the U.S., including Fortune 500 clients, saving operations teams thousands of hours by eliminating busywork and keeping vehicles on the road. Backed by Soma Capital, Y Combinator, founders of Superhuman, and Tier-1 investors, we raised our $5.5M seed and are sprinting toward a Series A in 2026. We’re hiring the top 0.1% of engineers who want real ownership and impact—starting Day 1, you’ll build and ship fast to production for enterprise clients. Fleet operations run in real time, so your work is immediately used in the field and gets real customer feedback in hours, not months.

Sola is copilot for workflow automation. We help automation-minded teams build robust robotic agents to handle tedious tasks via LLMs and computer vision, smoothly integrated into their standard workflow. Our tooling makes it easy for companies to automate data entry/scraping in manual filing and processing flows. Go from a screen recording to a bot in any desktop or browser workflow; develop logic and watch logic self-develop in the face of new events!

Affinity is a compliance training platform designed specifically for regulated industries. We’ve previously built a fintech from inception to a successful exit and are leveraging that experience to solve the learning management needs of regulated tech companies from growth stage to large enterprise banks.

Healthtech-1 automates repetitive processes for healthcare systems. We’re starting with the world’s most famous: the NHS. We’re already live in over 1,400+ primary care practices. Based out of Raj's parents' Primary Care practice the Healthtech 1 team are systematically digitising the repetitive processes they experience everyday, saving thousands of hours of staff time. Why now? The UK's National Health Service (NHS) delivers free healthcare in 590 million patient contacts every year. Post-pandemic, Britain's most treasured institution is in crisis. Patient satisfaction is at 25 year low and 1/7 staff are applying for Non-NHS jobs fuelling an 11% recruitment gap. By digitising the 100s of repetitive processes in healthcare, Healthtech 1 will reverse the trend, and produce the world's most productive health care system.

Skyvern helps companies automate browser based workflows using LLMs and Computer Vision, fully automating manual workflows and replacing brittle or unreliable scripts. Examples include: 1. Automating materials procurement from commerce websites 2. Completing complex multi-step workflows (ie getting an insurance quote from Geico.com) 3. Automatically logging into portals and downloading invoices 4. Navigating legacy content systems to do data extraction or data entry

Inkeep is the only agent platform designed to help both developers and non-developers ship Agent-powered assistants and automations. Companies like Anthropic, Midjourney, Clay, PostHog, and Postman deploy Inkeep Agents at scale to help with everything from support to sales. Highlights: - A No-Code Builder and Developer Framework with full 2-way sync - Unified search and RAG for knowledge bases, docs, and company data - MCPs and integrations with your apps, APIs, and software - Intelligent insights and monitoring over how Agents perform With Inkeep Agents, enterprises and high-growth teams empower their employees with AI teammates that help get work done and automate repeatable tasks. Backed by Khosla Ventures, Y-Combinator, Great Point Ventures and leading CEOs and founders.

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