Exclusive: NEA and Pear VC just led a $4.5 million seed investment in Orby, the AI that wants to make workers more efficient
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It gets to know the peculiarities of your jobwhich applications you rely on, which forms you fill out, how long it takes you to reply to an emailand it starts to make suggestions. It identifies wasted energy and inefficiencies, repetitive tasks that can be automated and handed off to the computer.As a result, says Liu, no two Orbys are alike, each one is a snowflake, trained on the idiosyncratic work habits of a particular user. This, they say, would normally involve receiving a request through a ticketing system, pulling vendor information from government websites, and then updating a company database, something that might take 15 minutes each time. They say Orby can identify this repetition and write code to automate it.The product was built on the simple assumption that whether youre an HR associate onboarding employees, a salesperson following up on leads, or a finance manager processing invoices, some part of your day is spent on mindless, repetitive tasks. Lu, who spent the better part of a decade building AI products at Google, says he sees Orby as the culmination of his lifes work.