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Manaflow: AI Workflow Builder for Businesses | Y Combinator
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### AI Workflow Builder for Businesses

Manaflow automates repetitive internal workflows involving data, APIs, and actions. Manaflow provides the infrastructure for businesses to build useful AI agents that can schedule recurring tasks, loop in human approval, and call custom tools. Instead of operations teams manually using internal tools, Manaflow agents listen to English instructions and operate tools in the background, interfacing directly with sources of truth, applications, and databases.



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Founded:2024

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Location:San Francisco

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### Active Founders

### Austin Wang, Founder

Co-founder & CEO of Manaflow / previously Google, NASA JPL, & Chess.com / Yale Physics / featured on Business Insider & The Economist



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### Lawrence Chen, Founder

Co-founder of Manaflow / prev. Minion AI / Berkeley '24



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### Wesley Tjangnaka, Founder

Co-founder of Manaflow / Stanford CS



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### **🛎️ TL;DR**

*   [**Manaflow**]( empowers **operation managers** to automate workflows involving data analysis, API calls, and business actions.
*   You can **command Manaflow agents in English** to execute recurring tasks and manage them on a spreadsheet interface.
*   Think of us as an **AI-first Zapier alternative** but with natural language and spreadsheets.
*   **Frustrated with repetitive manual tasks** in your business? We’ll automate them all for you. [**Let’s chat**](

### **🗂️ The Problem: Too much Excel, too much manual stuff, too much repetition**

Are you tired of **juggling countless Excel files and manual workflows for your business**? Do these workflows prevent your business from scaling up?

After **conducting over 250 calls**, we've discovered a recurring problem: **small-to-mid-sized businesses (SMBs)** rely heavily on folders of Excel files and third-party apps to **manually execute their day-to-day operations**, which is **time-consuming, error-prone, and a huge bottleneck to scaling**.

For instance, in freight forwarders, operations include managing client communications, inventory oversight, and coordinating delivery schedules, most of which are done manually. These **manual processes** not only **decelerate business growth** but also **heighten the risk of mistakes**.

Today’s operation managers are blocked by a lack of **technical knowledge,** **customization,** **and** **simplicity** in current workflow automation builders.

### **💡 Introducing MANAFLOW: Automate operations workflows with AI**

We are building **Manaflow** specifically for **underdog SMBs to scale** like their tech-enabled, big corporation counterparts, transforming manual spreadsheet and software tasks into **automated end-to-end workflows**.

The ideal way to execute workflows is not for a human to manually operate Excel sheets or interface with different software apps but for a human to **merely click a button**.

**AI can own end-to-end technical workflows** and convert them into features, while **humans can oversee** them, update them as the business evolves, and tackle higher-level automations. Let’s see this in **action**.

### **📕 Building a Basic Workflow on Manaflow**

We’ll begin by building a fun, basic workflow on Manaflow to **send payment reminders to clients** via email.

[Manaflow Demo: Building Sending Payment Reminders Workflow](

Next, we’ll go into more specific examples of potential use cases for business customers.

### **📸 Manaflow Workflow #1: Watermark videos and send them to your clients via Gmail**

One of our customers uses Manaflow to take in unpolished videos from Google Drive, process them, watermark them with their logo, and then email the final products to their clients — **all in one click of a button**.

[Manaflow Demo: Watermarking Video Workflow](

This has **cut their** **20-hour weekly manual workflow down to 20 minutes**, and Manaflow has become a core part of their operations.

### **🛻 Manaflow Workflow #2: Find and email truckers for your shipment logistics**

Another customer uses Manaflow to find and email local trucking companies based on the shipment origin and final destination.

[Manaflow Demo: Finding Truckers for Logistics Workflow](

This has allowed them to gather rate quotations faster for their clients and has **reduced their manual operations by over 50%.**

### **🙌 One more thing: Collaborate with all stakeholders, including us, to build automations**

There are countless workflow automations that you can build on Manaflow. We understand that people have many different ideas and love working in teams. So, we made **real-time collaboration** so all of you can build and automate workflows together on Manaflow.



Partnering with us, you will also have **24/7 access to Manaflow’s engineering support staff.**

### 👥 **OUR TEAM**

[**Austin Wang**]( Yale Physics, CS & Econ; Prev. SWE @ Google, NASA JPL, [Chess.com]( ML @ Datacy  
[**Lawrence Chen**]( Berkeley CS; Prev. Founding Eng @ Minion AI, Berkeley RISE Lab  
[**Wesley Tjangnaka**]( Stanford Math & CS; Prev. Stanford AI Research, ML @ Juniper Networks



**🙏 Our Ask**

**If you are or know any** **operation managers or businesses** **that run on spreadsheets**, **please let us know or schedule a time with us** [**here**]( Any intros or shoutouts would be super awesome and greatly appreciated.

We’d really appreciate a like and subscribe on our [YouTube]( a follow on our [Twitter]( and [LinkedIn]( and some feedback on our [product](  
  
Thank you!

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