Enso has unveiled the industry’s first ecosystem of Guided AI Agents, offering small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) AI-powered Service-as-a-Software. Driving Enso’s launch is a $6 million seed funding round led by NFX with participation from top angel investors like Yossi Matias (head of AI Google Research), Shmil Levy (ex-GP at Sequoia Capital), Dark Mode ventures, and operators from top companies including Slack, Twitter, OpenAI, and more.
Launching with over 1,000 AI agents trained and fine-tuned on domain-specific best practices across 70 specific industries, Enso offers SMBs with affordable high-end services critical to running a business—including research, accounting, digital marketing, recruiting, etc.
Small businesses make up nearly half of the American workforce and represent nearly half of of America’s GDP. But small businesses often run into growing pains. They are often hindered by daily demands such as customer communication, accounting, and administrative tasks such as data entry and scheduling.
AI provides solutions by automating these tasks, but it is often cost-prohibitive for small businesses, leaving them behind the technology curb. Enso was created to address this issue by providing SMBs with affordable, autonomous service providers that deliver better quality at a fraction of the cost.
Enso’s Guided AI Agents are designed to overcome the unpredictability and unreliability often associated with conventional AI agents. Traditional AI agents often make autonomous decisions that can lead to incorrect outcomes, limiting the ability to provide consistent, high-quality services at scale. And Enso plans to launch a “Guided AI Agent Builder” for developers to build and market services to SMBs on the platform.
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“Running a small business means constantly being in survival mode, lacking the resources and expertise that larger businesses have. AI has fast become readily available to these larger companies, but not to small businesses. We created Enso by making AI accessible to companies that serve traditional industries so they can compete on an equal footing with larger corporations—instead of spending money on bank-breaking agency services.”
- Mickey Haslavsky, CEO of Enso
“Small businesses are the backbone of our economy, yet they have passed by the AI revolution. While larger businesses speed by leveraging AI to maximize productivity gains, small businesses struggle to perform the most basic of administrative tasks. Enso is one of the first companies recognizing this need and putting enterprise-grade AI in the hands of emerging companies, democratizing AI by providing access and scalability. We are thrilled to support Enso as it transforms the business landscape and empowers traditional businesses to thrive.”
- Gigi Levy-Weiss, Partner at NFX Ventures
