{"id":103675,"title":"Autostep: Measure the ROI of Knowledge Work","tagline":"Autostep: Measure Human and Agent ROI","body":"I'm Aidan, founder of Autostep. We are raising to enable the P\u0026amp;L of knowledge work (link below).\n\n\\\nMost companies can tell you what they spend on AI. Almost none can tell you what came back. \n\nAutostep is a desktop app that installs across a company and maps real work. It finds repeated tasks, bottlenecks, waiting, and admin loops, then ranks them by cost and impact.\n\n\\\nFrom there, Autostep helps decide what should happen next: build an agent, change the process, standardize the workflow, or use software the company already pays for.\n\n\\\nProduct video: \u003chttps://youtu.be/xxzvZKfVdKM\u003e\n\nThe problem we are solving:\n\n* The blocker for AI adoption is proof and discovery. Before rollout, teams need the workflow to target and the capacity returned after the fix.\n* They still struggle to answer the board-level question: Did this return results? Autostep answers that from the work itself.\n\n\\\nHow it works:\n\n1. Install once across the org. No integrations\n2. Discover the cost of human \u0026amp; agent tasks.\n3. Measure Human ROI: where people lose time and how much capacity can come back.\n4. Measure Agent ROI: which AI workflows earn their cost and which burn money.\n5. Act: remove the step, standardize it, route it to the right tool, or build the agent.\n\nThe long-term bet is that Autostep becomes the system of record for work: the layer a company uses to see capacity, measure AI payoff, and eventually pay people for working smarter. This is different than automating a bad process faster.\n\n\\\nWe are already working with companies that have the same pain: leaders want AI to work, and operators need the scorecard before they add one more workflow to manage.\n\n\\\nOur ask:\n\n* If you know a COO, CFO, ops leader, or founder trying to prove whether AI is paying back, we would love an intro.\n* If you build agents or workflow automation products, let's talk. Autostep finds the work and can route teams to the right fix.\n* If you are an angel who believes every company will need an AI ROI layer, Aidan would love to compare notes.\n\nBook a demo: \u003chttps://calendly.com/aidan_/autostep\u003e\n\nInvestors: \u003chttps://calendly.com/aidan_/p26\u003e\n\nExample human tasks:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=103675\u0026key=user_uploads/403669/efe32ee3-91a7-4339-84a7-824e776fa5a7)\n\nRecommendations:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=103675\u0026key=user_uploads/403669/1c03b4d2-5676-4caf-af57-5ebbaac1a3c4)\n\n","slug":"QyB-autostep-measure-the-roi-of-knowledge-work","created_at":"2026-06-23T03:54:52.673Z","updated_at":"2026-07-22T07:18:42.098Z","total_vote_count":5,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/QyB-autostep-measure-the-roi-of-knowledge-work","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=103675\u0026key=user_uploads/403669/efe32ee3-91a7-4339-84a7-824e776fa5a7","company":{"id":30408,"name":"Autostep","slug":"autostep","url":"https://autostep.ai/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a64ea75986bdbe206a8fe20ee9fdaaa44ad95e9e.png","batch":"Spring 2026","industry":"B2B","tags":[],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30408"}}