Hyperengage · Sep 2023
Podcast episode featuring Maxwell Lu discussing building Paragon/Pilot AI, product-market fit, and revenue intelligence.
Turns your sales calls into CRM data, automatically.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Paragon AI (formerly Pilot AI) is a YC-backed B2B SaaS company that automates post-call sales admin by turning sales calls into structured CRM updates, summaries, Q&A capture, and autofilled custom fields.
Primary product
AI sales-call-to-CRM automation platform
Founded
2022
Headquarters
New York City, NY (official YC jobs page; some directories still list Palo Alto, CA)
Team size
1-10
Work style
Flexible
Industry
B2B SaaS
Sub-industry
sales automation / CRM automation
Offices
San Francisco, CA
Business model
SaaS
Per-seat subscription
Enterprise pricing
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
Founder, CEO
Work & culture
Lean, early-stage, sales-ops-focused startup centered on reducing CRM busywork; public hiring language emphasizes speed, automation, and customer outcomes.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
Public YC roles show salary bands of $50K-$200K depending on role plus equity grants of about 0.05%-1.00%.
Benefits
Remote (US) options for some roles
Equity in open roles
Product & market
Pricing
Self-serve per-seat SaaS with enterprise quote-based pricing; published plans at $69/seat/month and $100/seat/month, plus a contact-us enterprise tier.
Differentiators
- —Automatically fills CRM fields from calls rather than only summarizing them
- —Captures questions, answers, and next steps from calls
- —Targets reducing post-call admin work for sales reps and leaders
- —Published self-serve pricing
Technology
AI call summarization
CRM field autofill
Q&A capture
follow-up email drafting
custom field extraction
call recording
Semantic Engine
SSO
CRM integrations
Customers
Sales representatives
Sales teams
Sales leaders
Revenue operations teams
Competitors
Fireflies.ai
Gong
Microsoft Viva Sales
Winn.ai
Attention
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$1M/year (public estimate)
Estimated monthly visits
3.5K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Latest news
TechCrunch · Mar 2023
Explains the company’s sales-call-to-CRM workflow, says it raised $2.2M, and names Emmet Shear and Arash Ferdowsi among investors.
TechCrunch · Sep 2022
Early YC coverage describing Pilot AI as a tool that converts call recordings into structured CRM data and call summaries.
LinkedIn · Aug 2022
Founder post announcing the public launch and describing the product as automating note-taking, CRM updates, and admin work for sales teams.
Jobs and careers at Paragon AI
2 jobs at Paragon AI
Account Executive
Remote
Sales
Los Angeles HQ (Remote OK)
2mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Product Marketing Lead
Remote
Marketing
Los Angeles HQ (Remote OK)
3mo ago
Remote
Full-time