Sredi leta 2023 ga je soustanovil Max Brodeur-Urbas, Gumloop’s original goal was to enable non-technical employees to automate repetitive tasks with AI. At that time, AI agents were still experimental. As the technology has matured, Gumloop now helps teams at companies like Shopify deploy reliable AI agents to handle complex tasks without engineers.
Employees can share the agents they build, creating a compounding effect that accelerates internal automation. “They get addicted, start building more agents, and suddenly the whole company becomes AI-native,” Brodeur-Urbas said.
Seeing this potential, Everett Randle, who had just joined Benchmark from Kleiner Perkins, led Gumloop’s $50 million Series B. Although not actively fundraising, surging enterprise demand prompted Gumloop to “step on the gas.” Partnerstvo z Benchmarkom je bilo a “nič pametnega,” je opozoril ustanovitelj. Medtem ko je prvotno nameraval “zgraditi milijardo dolarjev vredno podjetje s samo 10 ljudi,” zdaj mora razširiti tako prodajne kot inženirske ekipe.
Gumloop se sooča z močno konkurenco igralcev, kot sta Zapier in Anthropic. Vendar, Randle je odkril, da je ena stranka zaposlenim omogočila dostop do Gumloopa poleg dveh konkurentov. Šest mesecev kasneje, osebje je Gumloop uporabljalo dnevno ali tedensko, medtem ko so druga orodja ostala nedotaknjena. To pripisuje minimalni krivulji učenja: “Takoj lahko vstopite in začnete izdelovati agente in avtomatizirati potek dela.”
Dodatno, Gumloopov model-agnostični pristop je ključna prednost – stranke lahko izberejo najboljši model za vsako nalogo in uporabijo kredite pri različnih ponudnikih AI. “Avtomatizacija podjetij je ogromen lonec zlata,” je rekel Randle. “I think it’s the biggest category in enterprise AI.”