Automat · Jul 2026
CEO Lucas Ochoa explains Automat's philosophy, defines agentic automation, and contrasts the company's managed approach with brittle selector-based legacy RPA.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Automat is a San Francisco-based AI automation company founded by ex-Google engineers Lucas Ochoa and Gautam Bose. It sells managed agentic process automation and intelligent document processing that use computer vision, LLMs, and human-in-the-loop operations to replace brittle legacy RPA in mortgage, banking, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, and back-office workflows.
Primary product
Managed agentic process automation platform for AI-driven RPA and intelligent document processing
Founded
2023
Headquarters
San Francisco Mission District, San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
20-30
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
7 jobs at Automat
AI enterprise automation / robotic process automation (RPA) / intelligent document processing (IDP)
Offices
Business model
Leadership
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder
Chief Technology Officer / Head of Engineering
Eric McLintock
Head of Talent
Yenchun Liu
Head of Growth
Kelley S.
Founding Strategy Operations
Pedro Martinez Lopez
Founding Applied AI Engineer
Denise Micu
Founding Deployment Strategist
Ignacio Vaca-Guzman
Head of Enterprise Sales LATAM
Chief of Staff
Small, in-person San Francisco team of ex-Google engineers/operators focused on fast deployment, reliability, self-healing automation, and human-in-the-loop support for enterprise customers.
Work style
Onsite
Compensation
Public job postings show base salary bands roughly from $90k to $220k depending on role, with equity in some roles (for example, Applied AI Engineer postings include 0.25%-1% equity).
Benefits
Pricing
Flexible subscription and usage-based pricing; Standard and Enterprise tiers; contact sales for custom pricing.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$1M-$5M estimated ARR (third-party estimates vary; GetLatka cited about $1.9M in July 2025)
Estimated monthly visits
12.8K
Traffic estimate as of May 2026
Automat · Jul 2026
CEO Lucas Ochoa explains Automat's philosophy, defines agentic automation, and contrasts the company's managed approach with brittle selector-based legacy RPA.
Automat · May 2026
Automat lays out its view of agentic process automation, compares itself with legacy vendors like UiPath and Automation Anywhere, and argues that true agentic systems operate at the visual layer.
Automat · May 2026
A technical explainer describing the shift from selectors/scripts to vision-based computer use and self-healing automation.
Automat · Apr 2026
Automat announced a $15.5M Series A led by Felicis, bringing total capital raised to $19.25M and highlighting customer traction and enterprise automation use cases.
Automat · Apr 2026
Automat launched a self-serve IDP platform and Document Studio for extracting, classifying, and processing documents with code-light workflows.