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Relay.app Built the Humane Automation Tool. Then It Pulled the Plug.
Relay.app made business automation feel less like plumbing and more like teamwork. Its shutdown leaves a useful product lesson - and a September 14 deadline for paying customers to export everything.
Gumloop
Gumloop is a no-code AI automation platform that lets any employee build, deploy, and manage AI agents and workflows by dragging modular nodes onto a canvas. Where legacy tools like Zapier treat AI as one node among many, Gumloop makes AI orchestration the core primitive - connecting a company's internal data to leading AI models to complete complex, repetitive work. Founded in 2023 by McGill classmates Max Brodeur-Urbas and Rahul Behal, the company went through Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch and raised a $50M Series B led by Benchmark in March 2026. It counts Shopify, Ramp, Gusto, Instacart, Samsara, and Opendoor among its customers.