Worktrace AI tackles the hardest part of enterprise automation: figuring out what is actually worth automating. Its software runs on employees' desktops and passively observes work patterns, identifying repetitive, structured processes that are good candidates for automation and ranking them by potential impact.
The company says it can surface a prioritized list of automation opportunities within roughly a week of deployment, giving organizations a data-driven map of where AI agents and automations will deliver the most value, instead of guessing.
Worktrace was founded in 2024 by Angela Jiang, a former OpenAI product manager who helped oversee the ChatGPT and GPT-4 launches, alongside Deepak Vasisht, a research scientist and former University of Illinois assistant professor.
The startup closed a $9.3M seed round (announced at its December 2025 launch) led by Conviction, with participation from 8VC, the OpenAI Fund, SV Angel and others, plus notable angels including former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati and OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon.