# Autostep

> Autostep is a San Francisco startup building a desktop app that installs across an organization to map how people actually work, surface repetitive high-cost tasks, and rank them by cost and impact so leaders know what is worth automating. Framed as "the P&L for knowledge work," it measures the ROI of both human effort and AI agents, then recommends whether to build an agent, change a process, standardize a workflow, or use software the company already pays for. Founded by Aidan Pratt and backed by Y Combinator (Spring 2026 / P26) and Neo.

- **Founded:** 2025
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Aidan Pratt (Founder and CEO)
- **Team size:** 2-3
- **Products:** Autostep desktop app, Operational Intelligence, Auto-Agentic, Compounding Context
- **Notable:** Accepted into Y Combinator's Spring 2026 (P26) batch and backed by Neo., Raised $0.5M pre-seed in June 2026., Reports helping even a 10-person team uncover $100K+ in operational waste.

## Products & services

- **Autostep desktop app** — A desktop application installed across an organization that maps real work with no integrations required, surfacing repeated tasks, bottlenecks, waiting, and admin loops, then ranking them by cost and impact.
- **Operational Intelligence** — Discovers repetitive work across departments and ranks it by financial impact and implementation difficulty, pricing each task in real dollars.
- **Auto-Agentic** — Automatically generates agents, prompts, templates, and workflow automations based on the patterns Autostep observes.
- **Compounding Context** — Builds an ongoing, queryable record of company operations - a living map - that improves week over week.

## Achievements

- Accepted into Y Combinator's Spring 2026 (P26) batch and backed by Neo.
- Raised $0.5M pre-seed in June 2026.
- Reports helping even a 10-person team uncover $100K+ in operational waste.
- SOC 2 Type 2 listed as in progress.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Raised $0.5M pre-seed backed by Y Combinator and Neo.
- **2026-06** — Launched on Y Combinator as 'Measure the ROI of Knowledge Work,' positioning as the P&L for knowledge work.
- **2026-07** — Hiring a Founding Go-To-Market role in San Francisco.

## Links

- Website: https://autostep.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/autostep-ai
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/aidan__pratt

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Last updated: 2026-07-31