Silicon Valley technology startup accelerator Y Combinator has been used to launch more than 4,000 companies since the program was established in 2005.
Some names that you may recognize include Airbnb, Quora, Reddit, and Stripe.
Among the graduates have also been a slew of BC-based companies, including Truss, Matidor, IcePanel, and Metritport.
This year, a Vancouver-based startup is among Y’s Winter 2024 cohort, which recently held its Demo Day.
AgentHub was launched last year after cofounder Max Brodeur-Urbas discovered AutoGPT, an open-source framework for autonomous agents powered by AI, and was inspired by its potential to change the world.
After some iterating, AgentHub today offers a no-code platform for automating repetitive and complex workflows end-to-end with AI.
Builders drag, drop, and connect modular components onto a canvas to build custom automations, according to its founders.
“We came up with a new approach of letting users define a step-by-step pipeline,” explains Brodeur-Urbas, formerly of Microsoft, in a 2023 blog post. “It started off with a simple step-by-step drop down menu and slowly evolved from there.”
The platform provides “the tools and the infrastructure to operate at 10x the speed of writing, testing, and productionizing code so you can focus on the problem at hand,” the startup states online.
Most companies have “extremely manual tasks that employees do hundreds or thousands of times per month,” according to the company.
But these tasks can actually be hard to automate with traditional tools simply because they require some degree of human reasoning.
The flexibility of AgentHub’s automation builder, in contrast, “allows for extremely complex workflows to be automated.”
Automations are often 90% infrastructure and 10% AI, “resulting in increased consistency and reliability, while being economically efficient at scale,” the company says.
“We’re super excited for the future of the platform,” Brodeur-Urbas wrote, “and are building quite literally as fast as we can to improve the product daily.”
Brodeur-Urbas launched AgentHub alongside Rahul Behal, a software engineer with a stint at Amazon.
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