Startup Spotlight: Riveter turns Abby Grills' manual research into a live data API
After selling customer spreadsheets by hand, Abby Grills and CTO Cody Watters built Riveter's agents to search, extract and structure live web data, now available through ChatGPT and Codex.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: Y Combinator
Why it matters
Riveter is trying to turn web research from a recurring manual chore into a reusable data workflow. Its early spreadsheet-selling process gave founders Abby Grills and Cody Watters real customer tests, while the ChatGPT and Codex integrations put that workflow closer to where users make requests. The business depends on making the results reliable enough for repeat use, not merely impressive in a demo.
Abby Grills spent weekends checking customer spreadsheets by hand before she tried to automate the work. That early routine became the product thesis for Riveter: let a user describe a dataset, then send software to find, extract and organize the information across live websites.…
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