I have come to believe that Delegation is the New Automation, and we are in the first year of a new movement that builds on what we started with DevOps and Infrastructure as Code. This is why I’m excited to welcome our newest portfolio company, Kubiya, as it introduces an entirely new category of DevOps tooling called AI Teammates. Kubiya gives overloaded infrastructure and platform teams new superpowers enabling people to offload boring, complex, and repetitive tasks and nuisances so they can focus on what matters.

Professional developers have always struggled to balance their hopes and dreams of building interesting projects against the need to clear out their task lists. Platform engineering teams continue to lose countless hours to endless maintenance tasks. As a result, teams at companies large and small end up focusing on fighting short-term fires instead of building long-term solutions.

Kubiya lets any team in any organization simply delegate away those time-consuming tasks in the same way they would with a coworker: By typing out what they need and sending it in a direct message. The company’s AI platform, which combines natural-language prompting with robust execution capabilities under the hood, does the rest.

Why We're Excited

Having a productive development team is crucial to shipping products on time and meeting your organization’s goals. But keeping teams productive has become more challenging than ever. The well-publicized statistic about software devs spending less than 30% of their day actually writing code still largely holds true as technical teams increasingly find themselves on the hook for testing, deployment, security, and many other tasks.

Obviously, developer productivity has been an enormous issue for years, and while automation has become a significant part of the development process, we’ve noticed a counterintuitive “time to automation” paradox. Automation, which is supposed to speed everything up, takes too long to implement itself. We’ve talked to many technical leaders who have made valiant efforts to stand up internal developer platforms to automate processes. They struggle to drive adoption for teams that aren’t always eager to learn an entirely new platform to replace the far easier-to-understand process of sending a Slack message to their colleagues. In particular, human teammates can undertake complex projects with simple instructions, they understand security and compliance concerns, and perhaps most importantly, they already possess the “tribal knowledge” that’s so important to organizations. Unfortunately, automation platforms just don’t have the historical context for why things must be done in a certain way.

Kubiya solves with an AI platform whose teammates rapidly take on and solve the important-but-low-level work that always seems to fill the queue (and the day)–in a context that is completely secure and that is context-aware of your organization’s various quirks. No need to learn a new platform–just send your AI teammate a message and delegate away your tasks. In short, Kubiya has made delegation the “new” automation. Now teams across any organization can offload the bulk of their project queue to their teammates and focus on creating interesting, innovative solutions.

Going forward, the Kubiya team will be continuing to enhance the platform and scaling its go-to-market program. Learn more about Kubiya or sign up to onboard your own AI teammate.

Meet the Founders

Amit Eyal Govrin

Co-Founder and CEO

Amit Eyal Govrin is the CEO and co-founder of Kubiya. He is a technology and go-to-market veteran, having previously led revenue organizations at Panaya, Cloudyn, and AWS.

Shaked Askayo

Co-Founder and CTO

Shaked Askayo is the CTO and co-founder of Kubiya. A DevOps veteran, he has previously managed systems and led DevOps teams at HP Enterprise, Intel, and BlueVine.