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aide

AI teammate that integrates into your workspace and handles work tasks automatically.

Plano, United States

aide
A.I
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Revenue: $100K- $1M | Monthly Growth Rate: >20%
Profile Image Koustav Chatterjee
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Summary

aide is the OS for agentic workforce. Build AI employees, integrate them with your stack, put them to work on every channel, and govern them end to end — deployed alongside your people, with any AI model, anywhere.

Notable Achievements

1. Built with Tech Mahindra and backed by Microsoft for Start-Up and NVIDIA Inception

2. Aide crossed $0.5 million ARR on launch day

3. We are live across 5 countries

4. Aide is autonomously making money for us. We did $60K already in last 2 months

5. Eyeing pilot with 300+ companies around the world with the projected ARR of $5.1 million by the end of 2026

The Business

aide is an AI teammate designed to integrate seamlessly into existing workspace communication platforms. Users add aide to Slack, Teams, or Telegram as they would a new team member. The agent introduces itself and begins learning team dynamics by reading conversations and linked documentation (Notion, Google Drive, Confluence, GitHub). aide performs autonomous workplace tasks including sending and receiving emails, making calls, joining meetings, taking notes, updating CRMs, and flagging issues. It can be assigned a phone number for calling, texting, or WhatsApp communication with external contacts. The agent answers questions with source citations and manages calendar scheduling. It also offers a Human Intervention mode for escalating conversations when needed. Overall aide aims to be the OS for agentic workforce where enterprises build, deploy, manage and govern AI employees at scale and empower existing users without hiring additional FTEs. 

The Market

Assumption: aide targets knowledge workers and distributed teams seeking to reduce administrative overhead and improve task completion rates. The market consists of organizations using Slack, Teams, or Telegram with fragmented workflows across multiple documentation and communication tools. Key pain points include context-switching, task tracking across platforms, meeting follow-ups, and spending up-to 3 hours a day just operating SaaS tools—all areas where an autonomous AI agent can reduce friction and free time for higher-value work.

Objective/Future (Use of funds)

40% - AI Infra. 30% - Engineering 20% - GTM and Sales 10% - Marketing & Social

The Team

Koustav Chatterjee - Founder and CEO

KOUSTAV CHATTERJEE

Founder & CEO, Aide  |  AI for Knowledge Work  |  Ex–Frost & Sullivan, NVIDIA, Microsoft

Bengaluru, Karnataka, Indiakoustavc.here@gmail.com   |   linkedin.com/in/koustavchatterjee

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

15 years across applied AI, digital-health research, and executive education. Founder & CEO of Aide, a Tech Mahindra– and Microsoft-backed AI workforce platform live in 5 countries, targeting the $1.1T in knowledge-work productivity lost to legacy software. Award-winning analyst (Chairman's Club + 3x President's Club) and faculty at IIM Jammu, ISB, IIIT, and University of Sussex.

EXPERIENCE

Founder & Chief Executive Officer                                                                                                                             Nov 2022 – Present

Aide  •  United States · India · 5 countries

•   Building “the AI Workforce that runs your business” — autonomous AI agents that operate inside Slack, Teams, email, and phone to automate knowledge work end-to-end.

•   Backed by Tech Mahindra and Microsoft; operations and customers across five countries.

•   Set company vision, product strategy, and go-to-market; lead fundraising, partnerships, and the founding team.

•   Targeting the $1.1T productivity loss from legacy enterprise software through vertical, domain-expert AI agents.

Visiting Faculty                                                                                                                                                                          Nov 2023 – Apr 2025

IIM Jammu — MBA (Hospital Administration & Health Management)

•   Chief architect of three graduate courses: Product Management; Entrepreneurship & Venture Planning; and Consulting Fundamentals.

•   Designed curricula bridging frontier technology with practical management for healthcare leaders.

Visiting Faculty & Guest Lecturer                                                                                                                                          2019 – Present

ISB Hyderabad · IIIT Bhubaneswar · University of Sussex (UK) · select engineering & MBA institutes (India & UK)

•   Teach and guest-lecture on AI strategy, product management, entrepreneurship, and digital innovation across leading business and engineering schools in India and the United Kingdom.

•   Mentor founders and graduate students on venture planning, go-to-market, and AI-native product design.

Head — Digital Health Ecosystem                                                                                                                              Apr 2022 – Nov 2022

NASSCOM

•   Catalyzed innovation and last-mile execution of next-generation digital-health solutions at national scale.

Global Program Lead / Industry Principal — Digital Health                                                                May 2015 – Apr 2022

Frost & Sullivan  •  Bengaluru, India · 7 years

•   Progressed from Senior Analyst to Global Program Lead, Digital Health over seven years.

•   Led global research programs and advisory engagements across healthcare technology and digital transformation.

•   Honors: Chairman's Club Award 2020; President's Club Member 2017, 2018, and 2019.

•   Authored industry publications on convenience retail / CPG and on optimizing owned media through unbranded healthcare websites.

Senior Research Analyst — Procurement & Supply Chain Consulting                                       Jun 2012 – May 2015

Beroe Inc  •  Bengaluru, India

•   Delivered procurement and supply-chain research and consulting for global clients.

•   Honors: Thought Leader (2014, 2015); Service Champion (2014); Rising Star (2013).

Research Associate (Internship)                                                                                                                                 Dec 2010 – Nov 2011

Competitive Edge Consultant

•   Early-career market and competitive research.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) — Computer Science, Mathematics & Statistics

Bangalore University  •  STEM · State Board

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

MGMA (2016–2022)  •  HIMSS North America (2016–2022)  •  Rotary International, Healthcare Program (2021–2022)  •  Voice of Healthcare (2020–2022)

HONORS, PUBLICATIONS & SKILLS

Selected Honors:  Chairman's Club 2020 · President's Club 2017–2019 · Thought Leader 2014 & 2015 · Service Champion · Rising Star.

Publications:  “Convenience Retail: Latest CPG Industry Imperative” · “Optimizing Owned Media through Unbranded Websites: A Healthcare Industry Perspective.”

Core Skills:  AI Product Strategy · Agentic AI & LLM Applications · Go-to-Market · Venture Building · Digital Health · Executive Education · Research & Advisory.

Languages:  English (Full Professional).

Ayan Khan - Founding CTO

Ayan is a 23 year old Gen AI genius from Delhi, India. He has 3 years of professional work experience in advanced Gen AI research and application post engineering. 

Sourav Kumar - Founding Team

Sourav is a senior partner at IBM Watson. Based in Texas, Sourav was our first founding team member and angel investor. 

Nachiket Pathki - Founding Team

Nachiket is the head of international growth at KaptureCX. Based in Bangalore, Nachiket was our second founding team member and angel investor. 

Financial Data

Fiscal Year End: December Currency: USD

Financials Last 12 Months 2026 Projected 2027 Projected 2028 Projected
Revenue $0.5M $5M $40M $100M
Data provided by the founder.

Growth Roadmap

Assumption: Near-term (0–6 months): Expand platform integrations beyond Email/Slack/WhatsApp/Telegram to additional workplace tools (e.g., Teams, Zoom, Chrome Extention); refine context-learning capabilities to improve accuracy in specific industry workflows (HLS, Manufacturing, Retail, and IT). Mid-term (6–18 months): Increase autonomous task scope (e.g., advanced procurement, customer support); build marketplace or app store for industry-specific aide configurations; establish usage-based pricing tiers and enterprise contracts. Build an industry-leading human-expert group and aide a pioneering agent-human co-work infrastructure.   Long-term (18+ months): Develop specialized agent variants for vertical-specific workflows; build partner ecosystem with System Integrators and SaaS vendors; expand geographic presence and localization; establish aide as a standard enterprise AI toolkit category.

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