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Motion

San Francisco, CA, USA65+ employeesSeries B+ raised
The only work management platform for both Human and AI Employees

The only work management platform for both Human and AI Employees

YC W20

About the Company

Given the speed of AI advancement, we operate under two assumptions about the future of work:

  1. AI will do 100x more work over the next decade

  2. Humans will always be needed for oversight, strategy, and the toughest decisions

To manage this future, there must be a system that lets a single human manage 100x more work, done by both AI and people. That’s what we’re building at Motion.

We spent the past 5 years building the best automated project management software—an AI project manager that eliminates reactive project management—Motion predicts what will get done early or late, automatically coordinates the right person to do the highest impact task at the right time, and ensures no steps are missed.

The real moat in AI agents is context: whoever has the most data to let the system think and work exactly like their users will win. Motion already has a lead: tasks, projects, docs, meetings, calendars, and communication all live in one place, making us best equipped to swap out human work for AI technology improves. Integrating all these systems seamlessly is incredibly hard, but we're uniquely capable of doing this because we are one of the most operationally excellent companies in the world.

With backing from YC and Sam Altman, a $500M+ valuation, and hundreds of thousands of users, we’re well positioned to lead. Now we’re building agents that work with extreme accuracy and unlock an order-of-magnitude boost in productivity.

Motion isn’t a 9–5. It’s intense, fast, and not for everyone. But if you want to work with top talent, learn fast, and help redefine how work gets done—you’ll thrive here.

Founders

Harry Qi
Harry Qi

Math + CS double-major from Dartmouth. Worked as a quant trader for 2+ years before founding Motion; kinda knowledgeable about financial markets and high-frequency trading.

Omid Rooholfada
Omid Rooholfada

Math + CS double-major from Yale. Engineering at Facebook and Optimizely. Loves startups and productivity tools.

Ethan Yu
Ethan Yu

CS major from Dartmouth. Before founding Motion, worked as a quant trader for 3 years and software engineer at WhatsApp and Facebook

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