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Kaizen

kaizenautomation.com

Kaizen uses browser agents to automate operational workflows across legacy web portals and websites.

HQSan Francisco, California, United States
Employees1-50
Jobs checked 9h ago
Developer ToolsAI AgentAPI / Platform

About

Kaizen builds browser-agent software that automates operational workflows across websites and legacy web portals. It sells primarily to businesses with repetitive operations, including healthcare providers, and differentiates itself by integrating with virtually any website and learning workflows, procedures, and feedback like an employee.

Market

Kaizen competes in the enterprise browser automation, agentic RPA, and legacy-system integration market, positioning itself as an API-independent way to automate operational work across existing web portals. Its differentiation is the combination of LLM-powered browser agents, workflow learning from SOPs and live feedback, secure browser execution, and rapid deployment, rather than requiring customers to build or wait for conventional integrations.

Target Customers

Kaizen targets engineering and operations teams at established organizations in traditional, portal-heavy industries such as logistics, financial services, healthcare, and insurance. The likely buyers are engineering, operations, and integration leaders seeking to automate manual web workflows without waiting for formal API integrations.

At a Glance

Problem

Kaizen addresses the integration bottleneck created by legacy web portals and software that lack APIs. Operators in healthcare, logistics, financial services, and related industries often work across hundreds of systems, while software vendors must manually stitch those portals together. The pain is operationally expensive: long integration cycles delay customer onboarding, slow product development, and limit the value vendors can deliver. Kaizen positions this opportunity within the roughly $300 billion business-process-outsourcing market, where much of the work consists of repetitive manual portal operations.

The clearest high-value use case is healthcare operations, particularly credentialing, payer-portal work, claims extraction, and prior-authorisation forms across systems such as United, Aetna, CAQH, and Availity. Comparable opportunities exist in logistics, where agents can bid across many shipper boards, and in lending, where software can collect data from numerous government websites.

Product / Service

Kaizen is a cloud-based, API-first browser-automation platform. Users teach it workflows using instructions, standard operating procedures, and live feedback, or developers assemble automations from reusable blocks. Kaizen’s browser agents use computer-use models to navigate websites, complete forms, retrieve data, and execute end-to-end processes even when no formal API exists. Applications can trigger workflows programmatically through APIs and webhooks, while Kaizen handles browser sessions, logins, two-factor authentication, and human-review handoffs.

Workflows run in secure cloud browsers and can be executed in parallel at large volume. Kaizen caches browser actions to improve speed and reliability, and describes its executions as deterministic rather than one-off agent responses. The commercial model is usage-based, charging credits consumed when workflows run; the core customer benefit is reducing integrations from weeks to minutes while making repetitive web operations scalable and repeatable.

Market

Kaizen competes in the emerging browser-agent, web-automation, and no-API integration market, with a vertical focus on automating business-process work in healthcare, logistics, financial services, and insurance. Its competitive set includes adjacent browser-agent and managed-browser platforms such as Skyvern, Browserbase, and Anchor Browser. Skyvern is especially relevant for form-heavy no-code automation, while Anchor Browser is positioned around deterministic browser automation and authentication infrastructure; Kaizen differentiates through a more complete workflow product combining browser execution, domain-specific use cases, APIs, authentication, and orchestration.

The public evidence indicates an early but active company rather than a mature software vendor. Y Combinator lists Kaizen as a Spring 2025 company founded by Kenneth Acquah and Michael Silver, and its launch materials say leading AI companies use the product in logistics, healthcare, and financial services. Public company data also reports a $500,000 pre-seed round involving Y Combinator. However, no reliable public revenue figure or customer count is disclosed in the reviewed sources, so Kaizen is best described as early-stage with revenue status undisclosed rather than definitively labeled pre-revenue.

Founders & Leadership

Kenneth AcquahFounder
Cofounder & CTO
Michael SilverFounder
Co-Founder & CEO

Funding History

2025-07
Pre-Seed$500K

Y Combinator

Recent News

2026-01-29
Y Combinator X25 Batch Companies

Extruct’s directory of Y Combinator’s Spring 2025 X25 companies lists Kaizen under kaizenautomation.com and describes it as a company focused on automation for the web.

2025-11-04
Spotlight: Michael Silver @ Kaizen

Stedi profiled Michael Silver and described Kaizen as a browser-automation platform that lets companies deploy complex automations in minutes rather than weeks. The profile says Kaizen is deployed across public companies and healthcare.

2025-09-14
Kaizen Revenue 2025: $990K Est. ARR, $3M Valuation

GetLatka reported that Kaizen generated an estimated $990K in annual revenue in 2025 and had shown consistent revenue growth since launch.

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Business Model

Kaizen uses a usage-based model, charging customers for credits consumed each time an automated workflow runs.

Products

Kaizen Automation Platform for browser-based workflow automationLLM-powered browser-agent workflows for forms, data retrieval, and portal operationsKaizen Automation API for programmatic workflow executionVertical workflow automation, including healthcare credentialing

Customers

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Tech Stack

LLM-powered browser agentsBrowser automation across legacy web portalsSecure browser executionWorkflow automation API

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