Workflow Automation Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2026

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.

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.

1. Multi-model Agents SDK: build production-grade tool-calling agents in 5 lines of code using our open-source, vendor-agnostic SDK. Connect multiple models across providers (eg. Opus 4.6 + Gemini 3 Flash + GPT 5.4) within the same agent to optimize your agentic workflow's cost, latency, efficiency, and performance. 2. Agents-as-a-Service (AaaS): serve your agent or service as a hosted endpoint that anyone - including OpenClaw and Claude Code - can call.

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.

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.

What Corsair is: Corsair gives you (or your agent) safe access to hundreds of integrations. It natively handles all integration plumbing. The only code you write is the code that's specific to your use case. Your data stays yours. Why we wrote it: Integrations make products capable. Integrations are also frustrating to write. If you look at any codebase with integrations, 95% of the code is identical. It's all just basic plumbing. The part of the integration that is unique to a codebase and actually adds value is probably just a few lines. We shouldn't waste time writing and maintaining the 95% for a few lines. The developer community has just accepted that we do. Corsair handles the 95% so you don't have to. It's really hard to get wrong.

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. origami.chat has 100+ data sources - use it to find more of your perfect customers, enrich a CSV, or get decision makers. Try it out and get a lead list in seconds, 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, supplier onboarding, contracts, order tracking, and 4-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 AI is building a sovereign operating system for intelligence, designed for regulated, high-stakes institutions such as professional services firms, financial services, and government agencies. These organizations are overwhelmed by data and experimenting with generic AI tools that lack auditability, repeatability, and secure deployment. As a result, critical decisions are increasingly shaped by systems they do not fully control. Capitol runs entirely inside enterprise infrastructure and transforms proprietary data into structured, decision-grade artifacts such as due diligence reports, regulatory documentation, and executive intelligence. The platform is model-agnostic, fully auditable, and operates with no data egress, giving institutions durable control over their data, workflows, and standards.

Lighthouz is a backoffice AI solution for freight brokers, to automate AP, AR, and Collections. Leading freight brokers are using Lighthouz AI to automate FTL (full truckload) and LTL (less than truckload) freight bill auditing, automatically filing disputes, and invoicing customers. With Lighthouz, 70%-85% emails do not need to be touched by humans. Hence, brokers using Lighthouz are invoicing customers 36% faster, getting paid 5 days sooner, and reducing back office costs by 40%. Lighthouz brings 25+ years of supply chain, logistics, and AI experience to brokers, with a AI Professor from Georgia Tech who taught 1000+ students, and team with PhD and MS in AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science.

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 OpenClaw Framwork that builds 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 deal teams 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

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.

Alphawatch AI offers a secure document agent that allows you to manipulate and convert PDF and Word files, along with your internal knowledge in your knowledge base.

Our AI browser assistant automates insurance tasks like verifying benefits, submitting prior auths, checking claim statuses, and more across all payer portals, directly from the clinic's EHR. It does exactly what the admin team is doing today, just helps them do it 10x faster and as thoroughly as a seasoned teammate.

Mulligan is an end-to-end AI automation platform for commercial insurance brokers. Automates quoting, policy checking, proposals and more by up to 90%. Start for free at usemulligan.com

Latent Space develops AI applications specifically designed to address the unique challenges and opportunities in emerging economies. Our products are Halo AI (an AI universal concierge for SEA enterprises), GoVisa (an AI-enabled online visa and permit application), and Supa (a hyperlocal knowledge AI for 280M+ Indonesians).

Activepieces is an open-source (MIT) business automation software. For example, you can build automations to receive email and Slack notifications about new contacts add to your HubSpot CRM.

Cone is an AI-powered work operating system that unifies accounting workflows — proposals, tasks, billing, payments, and client engagement into one platform

Windmill is an open-source developer platform to quickly build production-grade multi-step internal apps, workflows and integrations from minimal Python and Typescript scripts. Open-source alternative to Airplane and Pipedream. Simplified temporal with automatic app generation. Usable as a self-hosted AWS Lambda. Sync your scripts from your github repo or write them directly on Windmill, have them be converted to apps and no-code modules automatically. Use those apps as standalone or, build powerful flows using either those scripts or scripts made by the community on hub.windmill.dev. The experience is similar to no-code tools except that at any point, any module can have its code inspected and tweaked. Leveraging the open-source community, we will build an exhaustive library of scripts for all apis and generic tasks. You may also wrap Windmill with your own frontend to provide automation as a feature on top of your own SaaS. Focus on your business logic for all kind of flows, Windmill is the platform to build, share and run them.

The goal of Vantedge AI, formerly known as 8vdx, is to provide an Agent Marketplace of curated agents to enable investors to get an investing edge to generate alpha by leveraging AI. Our insight to build this marketplace comes from our experience from running a credit hedge fund for 15 years and as a Y Combinator backed startup, we understand the complexities of AI and are here to offer a complete infrastructure to funds and startups alike. Our platform is built to serve the investment community with the highest security, compliance, and infrastructure tailored for institutional investors.

Cloudthread is an analytics platform that helps engineering teams build cost efficiently in the cloud. We were behind Lyft's internal cloud cost management system and now we use that deep expertise to help organizations save hours of engineering time, reduce cloud bills, and prevent costly re-architectures.

OneSchema is the AI-powered automation platform for messy files. Map and integrate your messiest spreadsheets and PDFs with your enterprise business systems without countless hours of manual work.

We help IT departments collaborate, simplify their operations, and organize their information. Users can share passwords, network documentation, business processes, and other technical information in one secure, customizable, and easy interface. Instead of multiple, complex services to manage their businesses, companies can now use one, unified solution.