Workflow Automation Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2026

Billow handles the work of Accounting and FP&A FTEs while keeping teams compliant and audit-ready. We work within existing stacks (NetSuite, Coupa, and 80+ other systems) and complex spreadsheets, chasing down information and coordinating approvals across stakeholders. Built by repeat founders; Joan built and exited an accounting/ERP platform (45,000 businesses in 4 years) and Phil built Bloomberg's financial “brain” data infrastructure, and as CTO of a trading platform ($1B in volume). Advisors include CFOs, controllers, auditors from publicly-traded biopharma, and a Big-4 Accounting firm.

Nex automates the messy business and GTM workflows that no tool could handle before, taking real actions across 1000+ integrations. Instead of just chatting, the agent writes code as it works to make workflows deterministic, fast, and cheap to re-run, and delivers real output: a Slack message, an opened PR, or a live structured data table. Built for teams.

Zomma builds Computer Use Agents that do the repetitive screen work in finance: logging into portals, pulling reports, reconciling books, and filling forms across systems that will never get an API. Our agents use the same screens your ops team uses today, so there is no integration project. Every action stops for human approval before anything submits. Hedge funds, asset managers, and fintech firms use Zomma for reconciliation, client onboarding, KYC, and investor reporting: the work that was never automatable until now.

Rindler turns any website, including sites without APIs, into a deterministic API that AI agents can reliably use. It handles logins, 2FA, and bot detection, giving agents clean structured data and dependable actions instead of raw HTML, with robust maintenance when sites change. Rindler is agent-agnostic and built on the open MCP standard, so it works with any agent. For operators: get your team out of portals and back to the work that matters. For agent builders: let your agents act on the real web quickly, cheaply, and reliably on every run.

LemonLime enables any business to deploy custom AI automations in minutes. It connects to your existing tools to pull information across sources, studies your business, and instantly creates specialized agents designed to support your team across departments. Don't know where to start? LemonLime automatically surfaces suggested automations that can be implemented with a single click.

FlowManual is the all-in-one AI bidding and purchasing platform for both general and specialty construction contractors. Built by two engineers and Harvard dropouts, FlowManual automates the buying process during pre-construction. With FlowManual, specialty contractors win more work while general contractors deliver at higher standards.

Poth is an agentic research platform that connects to your company data, creates hypotheses about what might be causing problems, and validates them using both existing data and adaptive user feedback.

Coasty is a computer use agent that does real work inside softwares, companies already run. New web apps, old desktop tools, the legacy systems nobody wants to touch. You hand it a workflow and it owns the outcome. Most agents demo well and break the moment they hit real software. They get 18 steps out of 20 right, misclick once, and everything after is garbage. Coasty catches when it goes off track and fixes itself mid-task instead of starting over. It handles the messy parts, benchmarks never show. Permission dialogs, surprise pop-ups, a modal that steals focus, a page that loads slow. When a vendor pushes an overnight update and moves half the menus, brittle scripts break by morning. Coasty reads the screen instead of recording clicks, so it adapts and keeps going. It also checks its own output and leaves a time-stamped trail you can replay. We won't pretend it gets every task right. Nothing automating this work does. What matters is what happens when something breaks. It catches the mistake, fixes what it can, and flags what it can't so a person can step in. Nothing fails quietly. That's what lets a team trust it on the work where a silent error gets someone fired. We scored 82% on OSWorld, which puts us among the most reliable agents out there. Reliability is the whole product, not a feature.

Rote handles the entire negotiation lifecycle between shops and insurance companies to help them recover thousands of dollars in denied claims. Shops today lose millions per year because they lack the resources to negotiate with insurance companies that undervalue repair costs. Rote's agents recover denied revenue by taking shop estimates and referencing technical repair data to autonomously file and defend shop claims.

GodHands is a deterministic computer use layer that enables AI agents to reliably operate across browser and desktop apps. We make real-world workflows even on legacy or non-API systems more deterministic and predictable, without completely relying on fragile vision-based approaches. By leveraging our infrastructure, your agent can seamlessly operate across new or internal enterprise applications without requiring custom integrations or per-app handling.

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.

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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, utilization review, and more.

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.

TamLabs' agent teams deliver professional work products for experts across law, finance, and consulting with speed and precision.

Corsair connects your app to any other API. Use Corsair to build custom agents, dashboards, and workflows with hundreds of different integrations.

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.

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.

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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.

At Redouble AI we have developed Silverlake, a Java-native agentic AI operating system for enterprise. While other AI solutions force enterprise stakeholders to embrace unfamiliar concepts in an unfamiliar language, we do the opposite: we slot agentic AI right into the enterprise comfort zone - by mapping all agentic concepts onto established enterprise primitives in their own language, their own security model, their own infrastructure. It’s like moving from Bitcoin to Stablecoin, just for agentic AI. When we did YC we realized there was no framework or platform that gave us as enterprise and workflow automation veterans what we needed to build truly secure, reliable, and scalable agentic solutions for mission-critical workflows. That’s why we spent the past 18 months building Silverlake from the ground up. We empower the 12 million Java engineers worldwide to write and deploy their own AI, securely, at scale. They define an agent in a few lines of code, and our platform does everything else, from orchestration to permission control, from auditability to rate limiting, from long-running agents to autonomous coordinated networks that perform the work of entire departments. Silverlake has been developed with design partners across biopharma, insurance and financial services. For example, our agentic workflows write submission-ready Clinical Study Reports that are hundreds of pages long, analyze entire datarooms full of financial and operational data for private equity investors, and automate claims processing for a large insurance player. We are backed by Y Combinator, Exponential, Transpose Platform, Tiny VC, and the Oxford Seed Fund and advised by Java inventor James Gosling and automation guru Professor Christian Terwiesch.

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.

Decisional is the fastest way to build self healing automation agents that work with the apps you use. You just ask for an agent in natural language, it builds and tests its own workflow that it runs constantly in the background.

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.

Attunement extracts, reconciles, and structures behavioral health records from any source, giving operators, clinicians, and AI systems a single, accurate picture of the patient.

Automate freight operations from quote to cash without replacing your trusted systems.

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.

Keystroke is an all-in-one platform for building internal agents and workflows. It's built from the ground up with coding agents in mind. Build agents and workflows as TypeScript in your own repo, then deploy them to a web app where your whole team can use them.

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 builds clinical AI that navigates patients to the right place, first time. Today we automate eligibility checks, triage and appointment booking for 1,600+ NHS GP practices. Tomorrow, every healthcare appointment - GP, pharmacy, dentist, physio - is instantly bookable on bookable.health. Why now? The NHS has come a long way, but access to it hasn't. Patient satisfaction is at a 25-year low. Automating access to care - eligibility, triage, booking - is how we reverse the trend.

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