AI agents that interviews every employee to hand context to AI tools.
One month ago we launched Ontora. Here's what happened
Our progress
- 5 enterprise customers as design partners (many more to come ;)
- 150+ inbound demo calls — we didn't do outbound, they came to us
- $700K raised before officially opening our round
- 80+ inbound VC calls already lined up for our fundraise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI8shNqqmRE
And we released our product live with our first customers !
1. Why companies are banging down our door:
Every company we talk to has the same story: they bought Claude licenses for their teams but merely use it to rewrite emails. The AI transformation stalled because nobody mapped what to actually automate.
That's the real bottleneck. Not code. Context.
A 800-person European media agency flew to San Francisco to meet us after realizing they'd need 4-5 months and a team of consultants just to understand their own operations. With Ontora, they can map their entire company in days.
2. What Ontora does for your company:
Ontora deploys AI agents that interview every employee in your company -- not once, but continuously -- to map out how work actually gets done. We turn that into a living context layer that your AI agents can act on.
What used to take a consulting firm 4 months and 50-100 manual interviews, Ontora does in days. And because interviews run continuously, your context layer never goes stale. Your organization keeps learning about itself.
Here's how it works:
- Deploy -- Ontora's AI agents reach out to employees across your org through async interviews, meeting them where they work
- Map -- Every interview extracts processes, decision rules, tools used, handoffs, and tribal knowledge into structured operational maps
- Act -- The living context layer feeds directly into your AI agents and automations so they have the real-world context they need to perform
3. Who's already using Ontora:
- A PE firm in San Francisco -- deploying Ontora across portfolio companies to drive operational efficiency at speed no consulting firm can match
- A major European media agency (800+ employees) -- building their corporate memory to manage enterprise customers like Volkswagen and Bosch
- A 1,000-person European roll-up -- mapping what their remote workforce actually does day-to-day to build a concrete AI automation roadmap
- A US facilities maintenance marketplace -- extracting the proposal rules and customer preferences locked in their sales team's heads to build the context layer for their AI automations
4. We want to hear from you:
- If your mid-market company (200-2,000 employees) is planning AI transformation...
- If your PE/VC firm wants to drive efficiency across portfolio companies...
- If your company spent 6 figures on consultants to map processes...
...we need to talk.
Ontora - Read your company like a book
How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)
Max led process optimization at Porsche. David built data pipelines in finance. Leon built AI automations at consultancies. They all noticed critical knowledge is trapped inside people's heads and never reaches the people who need it.
The team then felt inspired to work on the problem after a tour to Stockholms fastest scaling startups organized by Max, where all three decided to quit their jobs and start a company.
What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?
Every company already has the answers to most of the questions leadership is asking.
The problem: those answers are scattered across hundreds of people, and there's never been a practical way to ask every single employee.
So leaders make crucial decisions with partial information or spend months and millions on external consultants to retrieve what the org already knows.
What we're building
Ontora is an AI agent that has a real conversation with every employee in your company within hours.
It learns, follows up, and surfaces what people actually do and where they get stuck.
We deliver two things: a synthesized answer to the specific question leadership couldn't crack in their last business review (themed insights, process maps, automation roadmap with ROI), and a continuously refreshed operational context that humans and AI agents can both reason over.
What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?
Answers in hours instead of months. We imagine truly intelligence native companies that unlock the last proprietary data source left in the enterprise: operational knowledge living in your employees heads.
Enabling cost reduction, post-merger integration, and AI transformation… within hours and at a fraction of the cost of traditional consulting.
