Workhelix – a tech-enabled services company that helps organizations quantify and maximize the value of their AI investments – announced $15 million in Series A funding led by AIX Ventures, with participation from Andrew Ng’s AI Fund, Accenture Ventures, BGV, Bloomberg Beta, Future of Work Partners, Telesoft, Zetta Ventures, Paul Daugherty, Jeff Dean, Reid Hoffman, Yann LeCun, Mira Murati, Sebastian Thrun, and Jeff Wilke.
Workhelix shows companies their top opportunities to create value with AI and measures its impact. This approach has drawn customers such as Wayfair, Coursera, BAYADA, and more than a dozen publicly traded companies.
Despite investing billions of dollars in AI, most companies struggle to measure its impact rigorously. And without clear guidance, businesses chase hype instead of driving real productivity. To compound the issue, organizations rarely have the right KPIs and measurement frameworks to understand what’s working. This lack of clarity leads to wasted investments, misaligned projects, and frustration at the board level as leaders demand proof that AI is delivering value.
To create its roadmaps, Workhelix analyzes 250,000+ tasks for the typical client to determine exactly where AI can create value. And using proprietary methodologies developed over a decade of research, the platform helps C-suite leaders prioritize AI investments based on real business needs, not hype. Workhelix then deploys engineers with a combination of data science, AI, and econometrics skills to help customers establish cadences for measuring progress and understanding each AI effort’s ROI and performance impact.
Leading experts on AI, work, and digital transformation created Workhelix. They include
1.) Erik Brynjolfsson – Co-Founder & Co-Chairman – Erik is the Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, a Professor at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
2.) Andrew McAfee – Co-Founder & Co-Chairman – Andy is the Co-Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and also the Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is the author of The Geek Way and the coauthor, with Erik, of The Second Machine Age and other books.
3.) James Milin – Co-Founder and CEO – James brings experience and DNA from top technology firms including Google and Amazon.
4.) Daniel Rock – Co-Founder and Director of Research – Daniel is a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
KEY QUOTES:
“Right now, companies are flying blind, struggling to separate AI’s potential from the hype. Workhelix changes that by not only providing a data-driven roadmap for AI deployment but also tracking what actually moves the dial.”
- Erik Brynjolfsson, Co-Founder and co-chairman of Workhelix and Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab
“We’re in the first inning of a multidecade transformation of global enterprises from primarily human-powered to AI-powered. The companies that most effectively adopt AI will outcompete their rivals for customers, top talent, and investors. Workhelix helps them do that.”
- Shaun Johnson, Founding Partner of AIX Ventures, who is joining Workhelix’s Board of Directors
“Erik and Daniel pioneered the task-based approach to identifying and measuring AI value. I recommend their technique for every company trying to identify opportunities for AI.”
- Andrew Ng, Managing Partner of AI Fund, a venture studio that led the seed investment in Workhelix
