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Developers Max Brodeur - Urbas and Rahul Behal opine that AI has the potential to automate lots of business - relevant tasks , but that many of the AI - powered automation tools on the mart today are treacherous and costly . Part of the problem is that users ask too much of AI , Brodeur - Urbas enjoin TechCrunch — for instance , they assume that it can handle extremely specify , niche workload where precision matters .
“ If users ever require to use AI for initiative use , the engineering really has to have no border for fault , ” Brodeur - Urbassaid . “ Leaving specific workflow completely up to AI is not realistic . exploiter would be paying for [ an AI ] to reel its wheels performing the same Google hunting over and over again . ”
Still , Brodeur - Urbas , an passe - Microsoft software engineer , and Behal , previously a software package developer at Amazon Web Services , think today ’s AI had promising narrower diligence . So they started thinking about room they could squeeze what Brodeur - Urbas called “ real value ” out of AI technical school .
These ideas became a wrapper for the open source appAuto - GPT , then a proof - of - concept , and finally a startup : Gumloop . Gumloop automates repetitive workflow with AI , direct to streamline basic tasks .
“ We started the company in a sleeping room in Vancouver as a side project , ” Brodeur - Urbas said . “ We were seek to solve a very unsubdivided job for a mathematical group of untechnical people in a Discord server , and it corkscrew into something larger than we could have ever imagined . ”
Gumloop provides a workflow builder that integrates with third - party apps and shaft including GitHub , Gmail , Outlook , and X. Users can drag modular components onto a canvas to construct automation , or choose from prebuilt pipelines for tasks like give day-to-day stock report and summarizing documents .
Brodeur - Urbas claim that team at Instacart and Rippling are using Gumloop for various use cases .
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“ Today , thousands of drug user rely on Gumloop as a core pecker for their line , ” he say . “ Giving untechnical people the tools to figure out their own problem without relying on engineers is where we found grocery store pull . ”
There ’s no dearth of workflow automation pecker out there . Parabola , Tines , Induced AI , andNanonetscome to beware . And on the horizon are “ agentic ” tool fromOpenAIand others , which foretell to automatise more complex tasks finish - to - end .
To stay nimble , Gumloop contrive to keep its squad quite diminished . The company is charter , but Brodeur - Urbas say that the plan is to crest headcount at 10 people .
“ Using AI to code countenance us have the throughput of a 20 - person team and outpace competition , ” he claimed . “ Our plan is to be a 10 - soul , billion - dollar ship’s company . ”
As it prepares to relocate from Vancouver to San Francisco , Gumloop has close up a $ 17 million Series A rhythm led by Nexus Venture Partners with participation from First Round Capital , Y Combinator , and angel investor including Instacart co - founder Max Mullen and Databricks co - founder and chief architect Reynold Xin . To escort , Gumloop has elevate $ 20 million in capital .
“ We did n’t postulate the money at all , ” Brodeur - Urbas said . “ raise money is n’t the goal — building a merchandise hoi polloi sleep together is . This new speculation capital will help us build and scale that product even quicker . ”
