Basis, Clay and Exa turn onboarding, sales and integrations into agent workflows

Basis, Clay and Exa Labs show three ways founders are turning bounded internal processes into agent workflows, from onboarding and account triage to tested developer integrations.

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Why it matters

Basis, Clay and Exa are turning founder knowledge into repeatable software. Their results suggest agent adoption will depend on bounded workflows, measurable outcomes and review gates instead of broad mandates to "use AI."

A founder intently reviews a holographic screen displaying a business playbook transforming into dynamic automated workflows.

Matthew Harpe and Mitchell Troyanovsky founded Basis to turn the repetitive, structured work of accounting into jobs for AI agents. They are applying the same premise inside Basis, where a Codex workflow now handles much of a new employee's first-day setup.…

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