Aden blog · Mar 2026
Focuses on operational reliability and cost-control patterns for AI apps, including token-aware gateways, priority queuing, and semantic caching.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Aden (formerly Acho) is a YC-backed AI-native ERP / agent-infrastructure company that builds Hive and OpenHive for creating, running, and governing autonomous AI workflows with persistent memory, observability, human-in-the-loop controls, and cost management.
Primary product
Hive (with OpenHive as the open-source framework)
Founded
2020
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
15
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
AI-native ERP / AI agent infrastructure
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
1 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 (privacy/contact address)
Business model
B2B SaaS
Subscription software
Usage-based pricing
Open-source + hosted cloud
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$3.2M
Latest round
Seed · Aug 2023
Latest amount
$1M
People & investors
Leadership
CEO & Founder
Co-founder & Founding Engineer
Head of Sales
Work & culture
Hiring copy emphasizes a small, exceptional team, hard infrastructure problems, and work at the frontier of autonomous systems. Publicly visible hiring pages are San Francisco-based and framed around building AI-agent infrastructure.
Compensation
A publicly posted YC Engineering Lead role showed $100K-$200K salary plus 1.0%-5.0% equity, which is the clearest public compensation signal found.
Product & market
Pricing
Public pages indicate subscription pricing with paid plans and free-trial/demo entry points; the product also emphasizes usage/cost controls and budget enforcement.
Differentiators
- —Native cloud for AI agents
- —Deterministic execution with observability and audit trails
- —Persistent memory and secure isolation
- —Outcome-driven graph generation / adaptive agent graphs
- —Open-source MIT/Apache-licensed Hive/OpenHive
- —Built-in cost controls, budget throttling, and human-in-the-loop gates
- —100+ model/provider compatibility via LiteLLM
- —Crash recovery and checkpoint-resume execution
Technology
Python
LiteLLM
Stripe
Google Analytics
Mixpanel
Claude Sonnet 4-5-20250929
Redis
Pinecone
GPU clusters
Hypervisor-based virtualization
DAG / graph-based execution
Human-in-the-loop nodes
Customers
Alpha Vantage
Snapi Health
Lextract.ai
Over 100 operationally focused businesses
Supply chain control towers of major global corporations
IT departments of major financial institutions
Competitors
LangGraph
CrewAI
AutoGen
LlamaIndex
Plotly
PLLAY Labs
Nervana Systems
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
~$3.8M ARR (estimate)
Latest news
Aden blog · Feb 2026
Explains Aden Hive as a generative-compiler / intent-to-graph framework and compares it with LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, and LlamaIndex.
LinkedIn · Jan 2026
Public launch of Hive as open source, with the company emphasizing building in the open and the new execution-graph / goal-driven agent model.
Acho/Aden blog · Jan 2025
Official rebrand/strategy post announcing Aden as the new AI-driven enterprise application platform and describing the move from the older data platform to AI operation agents.
TechCrunch · Feb 2022
Reports the company’s 2022 seed financing: $2.2M led by Goat Capital, with Liquid2 Ventures and Capital X participating.
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