Activepieces blog · Jul 2026
Explains Activepieces' chat-to-flow approach, draft vs locked publishing, and why it rejected a prompt-to-flow feature in favor of auditable, human-reviewable automation.
Open-source, AI-first and no-code business automation tool
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Activepieces is an open-source, AI-first workflow automation platform for teams. It offers a visual builder for no-code automations and AI agents, with self-hosted and managed-cloud deployment, enterprise governance, and community-contributed integrations.
Primary product
AI-first no-code workflow automation platform
Founded
2022
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
20-30
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Business/Productivity Software
Sub-industry
Workflow automation / iPaaS / no-code automation
Offices
95 Third Street, 2nd floor, San Francisco, CA 94103, United States
Distributed workforce across 10 countries, including Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Poland, Egypt, and Nigeria
Business model
freemium
usage-based SaaS
enterprise custom pricing
open-source self-hosted
Funding
Stage
Seed / Early Stage VC
Total raised
$1.7M
Latest round
Seed · Mar 2023
Latest amount
$1.6M
People & investors
Leadership
CEO & Founder
Co-founder & CTO
Product & Customer Success
Platform
Platform
Platform
Pieces
Product
Work & culture
Small-team, low-process, builder-heavy culture: engineers decide what to build, the company hires slowly, favors broad skill sets and low ego, and emphasizes pragmatic shipping and user empathy.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
Compensation is role/location/level-based, fixed, and non-negotiable rather than negotiated. The handbook says salaries are updated based on market trends and company performance; public job posts also show salary bands and equity for some roles.
Product & market
Pricing
Free Community Edition; cloud plan with 10 free active flows, then $5 per active flow per month; enterprise custom pricing.
Differentiators
- —MIT-licensed open-source core
- —self-hosted or managed cloud deployment
- —TypeScript-based pieces framework with hot reloading
- —native AI agents and MCP server support
- —human-in-the-loop approvals and auditability
- —enterprise governance (SSO, SCIM, RBAC, audit logs)
- —community-contributed integration ecosystem
- —predictable pricing versus per-task billing
Technology
TypeScript
MCP
Docker
Helm
Nuxt 4
Vue 3
Kubernetes
S3
SSO
SCIM
RBAC
GitHub Actions
npm
OpenAI
Anthropic
Google AI
Azure OpenAI
Customers
Funding Societies
Google
Roblox
ClickUp
Competitors
Zapier
Make.com
n8n
Workato
Bardeen
Pabbly
Microsoft Power Automate
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
about $1.6M-$1.7M ARR (public estimates vary)
Estimated monthly visits
218.4K
Traffic estimate as of May 2026
Latest news
Activepieces blog · Jul 2026
Introduces the native Agent step, showing how AI agents can live inside flows with explicit tool use, reasoning visibility, and no separate orchestration stack.
Activepieces blog · Jul 2026
Argues that production AI agents need debugging, version control, testing, and monitoring, and positions Activepieces as infrastructure for reliable agentic workflows.
GitHub releases · Jul 2026
A July 2026 release for the core repository with new features, polish, bug fixes, and documentation updates.
Activepieces changelog · Jun 2026
Documents major 2026 product and infrastructure changes, including lightweight workers, durable pause/resume waitpoints, network security improvements, a platform admin redesign, and staged release processes.
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