Automat is a San Francisco startup building AI agents that automate business processes by operating software interfaces directly, the same way a human employee would click, type, and navigate. The company frames itself as a modern replacement for traditional robotic process automation, taking aim at incumbents such as UiPath, Blue Prism, and Automation Anywhere whose script-based bots are notoriously expensive to build and fragile to maintain.
Founded in 2023 by engineers who previously worked at Google, including on transformer models in Chrome and GCP and on products at Google Hardware and Google X, Automat applies modern AI to make automation context-aware. Its UI-based agents understand what they are trying to accomplish, so they can recover from errors and adapt rather than breaking the moment a portal layout changes. The platform also continuously improves through human feedback, turning corrections into more reliable future runs.
Automat spans three complementary capabilities: UI automation across web, Windows, and Citrix; AI-driven document extraction and intelligent document processing; and API-based integrations for systems that expose them. This lets it automate end-to-end processes that mix structured and unstructured data and span both modern and legacy applications. The company markets itself on outcomes, claiming dramatically faster deployment and far lower operational cost than legacy RPA.
In November 2025 Automat announced a Series A of more than $15M to build out its computer-operating agents, bringing total funding to around $19M. The raise reflects investor conviction that agentic, vision-and-reasoning-based automation can finally capture the messy, change-prone processes that traditional RPA struggled with.
Automat sells primarily to enterprises with large volumes of manual, repetitive computer work in operations, finance, and customer service. Its managed approach, where Automat helps stand up and maintain automations, is meant to lower the burden on internal teams and reduce the maintenance tax that has historically eroded RPA's return on investment.