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Frigade

frigade.com

Frigade builds in-product AI agents that guide onboarding, drive feature adoption, and scale product support.

HQSan Francisco, California, United States
Employees1-50
Jobs checked 4d ago
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Business
Software Applications
Market
Software Development
Ecosystem
Applications
Customers
Developersand 1 more customers values
  • Enterprises
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Commercial Company
Ecosystem
Applications
Business
Software Applications
Specialization
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Market
Software Development
Customers
Developers, Enterprises
Delivery models
Hosted Software, On Premise Software
Revenue models
Subscription
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About

Frigade builds product-onboarding and adoption tools for developers and B2B SaaS companies, including ready-made React components, SDKs, and AI-powered in-product assistance. It differentiates itself by putting flexible, native onboarding workflows into developers’ codebases rather than relying on rigid, marketer-oriented no-code platforms.

Market

Frigade competes in the product adoption and digital adoption platform market for B2B SaaS companies, positioning itself as a developer-first, AI-powered alternative to traditional tools designed primarily for marketers and managers. It differentiates through React components, code-native workflows, web SDKs, and an AI assistant that can answer questions, guide users through live product workflows, or take actions for them.

Target Customers

Frigade is aimed at product-led B2B SaaS companies, particularly organizations where engineering and product teams own onboarding, adoption, and customer education. Its primary buyers and users are developers and product teams that need flexible, code-based in-product experiences rather than rigid marketer-oriented no-code tools; a specific customer-size band is not stated.

At a Glance

Problem

Frigade addresses the difficulty modern SaaS companies face in onboarding users, driving product adoption, and getting new features adopted. The pain is operational and economic: users who do not reach value quickly create more support demand, while bespoke activation and onboarding flows consume engineering time. The core use case is automating user activation inside the product; in Valley’s case, Frigade was associated with a 35% reduction in support tickets, three-times-faster time-to-value, and zero engineering hours.

Product / Service

Frigade Assistant is an AI-powered digital adoption platform delivered through in-app onboarding, product-adoption, and feature-adoption experiences. It is designed to feel native to the host product rather than like a generic widget, allowing SaaS teams to guide users through activation and adoption in context.

The commercial model is subscription-based, with pricing starting at $1,000 per month and including two AI agents and 2,500 queries, plus scale discounts. The benefit is faster deployment of adoption programs with less engineering involvement, while improving user activation, reducing support burden, and shortening time-to-value.

Market

Frigade competes in the digital adoption platform category, positioning itself as an AI-powered, next-generation platform for modern SaaS companies. Its focus is narrower and more product-led than a general enterprise change-management tool: in-app onboarding, activation, product adoption, and feature adoption. The available research does not identify named competitors, so a reliable competitor list cannot be established from the evidence.

The evidence indicates a commercialized product rather than an obviously pre-revenue company: Frigade publishes paid pricing and has a Valley customer case study with quantified operational results. However, the available research does not provide revenue, customer-count, funding, or broader market-share figures, so traction can be characterized only through this customer outcome and the existence of a paid offering.

Founders & Leadership

Eric BrownroutFounder
Co-Founder and CEO
Christian MathiesenFounder
Co-Founder and CTO

Funding History

2023-01
Pre-Seed$500K

Y Combinator

2023-07
Seed$3M

Craft Ventures, La Famiglia

Recent News

2026-09-30product_launch
Frigade adds an MCP server to its Assistant

Frigade announced that its Assistant now has an MCP server, letting customers connect Claude, Cursor, or ChatGPT to a Frigade workspace and ask questions about workspace data in plain language. The update was published September 30, 2026.

2026-09-08product_launch
Frigade launches Assist API for AI-agent onboarding and support

On September 8, 2026, Frigade launched the Assist API, which gives a company’s existing AI agent expert knowledge of its product for onboarding, support, and in-app assistance. The API was available immediately and Retell AI was identified as building on it.

2026-07-14product_launch
Frigade Launches Skills, Giving Any Product an AI Assistant That Takes Action for Users, No Code Required

Frigade launched Skills, a capability that lets its in-product AI assistant discover and perform actions for users without customers writing or maintaining integrations. Skills is available as part of Frigade Assistant.

2026-04-14product_launch
Introducing Magic Links

Frigade introduced shareable Magic Links tied to Suggestions. Clicking a link opens the Frigade Assistant and guides users through the workflow without requiring code changes.

2026-03-26partnership
Respond to Feedback Directly from Slack

Frigade expanded its Slack integration to support two-way feedback. Teams can rate responses and submit corrections from Slack threads, with that feedback flowing back into the system.

2025-12-02product_launch
Launch YC: Frigade: Product onboarding that builds itself

Frigade appeared on Y Combinator’s Launch YC with Suggestions, which generates in-product guidance from prompts by learning the product directly rather than relying on help-center documentation.

2025-12-02partnership
PostHog Integration

Frigade launched a native PostHog integration connecting product analytics with in-app guidance. Engagement events can be sent to PostHog to measure how guidance affects conversion funnels.

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Business Model

Frigade appears to monetize through recurring subscriptions for its B2B product-adoption platform. Its website uses a demo-led sales motion alongside self-service sign-up, while available company data identifies subscriptions/recurring revenue as its revenue stream.

Products

Frigade AssistantIn-app user onboarding and product-adoption platformReady-made React onboarding componentsWeb SDKs and flexible APIsPersonalized registration flows and getting-started guidesIn-product announcements, upsells, feedback, and communication workflows

Customers

VercelArcMergeMorning ConsultValleyJuiceboxHotplateSanityLegoraProductboardRollstackPerfect VenueSimplifyTypewise

Tech Stack

ReactAI-powered in-product agentsWeb SDKsFlexible APIsEmbeddable UI components

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