About
InstaLILY builds Lily, an AI Forward Deployed Engineer that learns how businesses operate, creates the software their workflows require, and keeps it running across existing enterprise systems. It sells to operationally intensive companies in industries including construction, industrial distribution, logistics, and healthcare, differentiating through rapid deployment, cross-system agent coordination, and cloud, on-premise, or edge operation.
Market
InstaLILY competes in the enterprise and vertical AI-agent market, with a particular focus on automation for operationally intensive physical and regulated industries. Unlike horizontal agent platforms that primarily provide configurable tools inside an existing software ecosystem, InstaLILY positions Lily as a forward-deployed AI engineer that learns each customer's workflows, builds missing software, coordinates systems and agents, and remains responsible for improving the deployment. Its cloud, on-premises, and edge deployment options—supported by NVIDIA technology—also differentiate it for businesses with distributed sites, infrastructure, or data-residency requirements.
InstaLILY targets large, operationally intensive businesses in construction, industrial distribution, logistics, healthcare, and other physical or regulated industries. Its likely buyers are enterprise operations, sales, service, and technology leaders seeking customized automation embedded in existing systems rather than generic productivity software.
At a Glance
Problem
Operationally intensive businesses such as industrial distributors, construction suppliers, logistics companies, insurers, and healthcare organizations run on large catalogs, specialized knowledge, fragmented legacy systems, and high-volume, multi-step workflows. This creates expensive bottlenecks: expert employees spend time on repetitive but judgment-heavy work such as quoting, sales follow-up, issue triage, part identification, policy review, and exception handling instead of higher-value customer and account work. A representative use case is a $10B-plus construction-supply distributor using AI sales support to help more than 1,500 managers turn sales data into actionable follow-ups; at SRS Distribution, a pilot aimed at frontline sales bottlenecks scaled to 1,000 salespeople across 760 branches.
Product / Service
InstaLILY provides vertical AI agents—originally branded InstaWorkers and now centered on Lily, an AI forward-deployed engineer—that learn how a business operates, build the agents and software its workflows require, and deploy them inside the systems employees already use. Rather than asking customers to replace their ERP, CRM, ticketing, or other enterprise tools, the system works across those environments and handles end-to-end execution, including quotes, schedules, approvals, follow-ups, routing, revenue work, and field-service diagnosis.
The delivery model combines domain-trained agents with an ongoing implementation and deployment capability. Lily embeds with operators to understand workflows, data, systems, and approvals; builds the required automations; puts them into production; and continues improving as it learns from live work. The intended benefit is execution rather than simple recommendations or copilots: InstaLILY says its agents can own high-variation workflows and deliver software in days rather than quarters, while augmenting—not replacing—the operational teams that manage the work.
Market
InstaLILY competes in vertical AI, enterprise agentic automation, and AI-forward-deployed software for B2B companies with complex operational processes. Its initial wedge is distribution and adjacent industries, with stated expansion across construction, industrial distribution, logistics, healthcare, and other regulated or operationally intensive sectors. The competitive set spans both general AI-agent companies and automation platforms; third-party market tracking names Manus, UiPath, and WRITER among its top competitors, although these companies address somewhat different parts of the broader agentic-automation market.
The company is commercial and has demonstrated customer deployments rather than being pre-revenue. On July 14, 2026, InstaLILY announced a $60 million Series B, bringing total funding to nearly $100 million after reporting fivefold revenue growth over the prior year. Its customer evidence includes the SRS rollout and reported use cases in sales support, replacement-part identification, and insurance claims; a December 2025 third-party estimate put annual recurring revenue at $8.6 million, though the company’s later fivefold-growth disclosure does not provide an updated absolute revenue figure.
Founders & Leadership
Funding History
Insight Partners
Energize Capital
Recent News
InstaLILY introduced Lily as an AI Forward Deployed Engineer that works across enterprise systems and agents, coordinates work, and builds missing capabilities for businesses.
Energize Capital announced its investment leadership in InstaLILY’s $60 million Series B, joined by Insight Partners, Home Depot Ventures, and United Rentals. The article highlights Lily, customer-owned InstaBrain models, and the company’s platform for automating complex supply-chain and operational workflows.
InstaLILY raised a $60 million Series B led by Energize Capital, with participation from Insight Partners, Home Depot Ventures, and United Rentals, bringing total funding to nearly $100 million. The company also launched Lily, which learns a business’s processes and executes work such as quoting, route planning, and equipment diagnosis.
InstaLILY’s founder announced the $60 million Series B and positioned Lily as a persistent AI engineer focused on deployment rather than pilots. The announcement also describes InstaBrain as the intelligence system behind Lily and says the funding will support broader industry expansion and the Small Data Center.
InstaLILY launched its Small Data Center to support autonomous AI across cloud and localized edge infrastructure. The initiative was described as involving NVIDIA and Google and as part of the company’s effort to deliver lower-cost, always-on intelligence for operational businesses.
After graduating from Google Cloud’s ISV Startup Springboard program, InstaLILY made its InstaWorkers AI agents available through Google Cloud Marketplace. The announcement also described ongoing collaboration with Google Cloud and Google DeepMind, including Gemini teacher models and Gemma student models for enterprise-specific AI deployments.
InstaLILY announced a $25 million Series A led by Insight Partners, with participation from Perceptive Ventures and Marvin Ventures. The company said it would use the funding to expand its catalog of domain-trained InstaWorkers, deepen enterprise-system integrations, and scale deployments across sales, service, and operations.
Active Roles
15Business Model
InstaLILY sells B2B subscriptions using a role-based pricing model, allowing customers to onboard AI teammates called InstaWorkers™ according to their operational needs. Its agents integrate with business systems such as Salesforce and SAP to automate sales, service, and operations workflows.
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Key Investors
Insight Partners, Perceptive Ventures, Marvin Ventures