Ben Smith on LinkedIn · Apr 2026
Customer story describing Skope deployments inside Clifton Law PLLC to automate back-office tasks without requiring migration off existing systems.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Skope Technologies Inc. is currently branded as Async on useskope.com. It builds specialized AI agents that automate business workflows and administrative work, with a strong current focus on legal services; earlier public launch materials described Skope as a billing system for AI-native companies with outcome-based pricing.
Primary product
Specialized AI agents for business workflow automation
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
AI agents / workflow automation
Offices
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Business model
Stage
pre-seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Pre-Seed · Sep 2025
Latest amount
$500K
Sep 2025 · Y Combinator
Investors
Small, ownership-oriented team focused on craft and real outcomes; hiring language emphasizes ownership over credentials and the mission to help businesses adopt AI effectively.
Pricing
Outcome-based pricing, with subscription and usage-based billing also supported
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
~$100k-$250k annually (third-party estimate around $171k)
Ben Smith on LinkedIn · Apr 2026
Customer story describing Skope deployments inside Clifton Law PLLC to automate back-office tasks without requiring migration off existing systems.
Ben Smith on LinkedIn · Apr 2026
Customer story describing Skope helping Josh Lowenthal’s tax and M&A practice delegate the first pass of legal and admin tasks to AI agents.
Ben Smith on LinkedIn · Jan 2026
Ben Smith described Skope as bringing frontier AI capabilities to local law firms and said the product helps lawyers draft, redline, fill in, analyze, and edit documents with greater accuracy and security than generic AI tools.
Y Combinator on LinkedIn · Aug 2025
Y Combinator highlighted Skope as a billing system purpose-built for AI companies and outcome-based pricing.
Hacker News
Launch thread introducing Skope as an outcome-based billing system for software, with support for traditional subscriptions and usage/credit billing, API/SDK event logging, and plans for LLM observability integrations and Stripe payment collection.