About
Korso builds Atlas, an autonomous AI-agent platform for manufacturing enterprises, automating quoting, procurement, supplier follow-up, and delay coordination across existing ERP systems. It sells to manufacturers and their operations, procurement, and customer-service teams, differentiating through natural-language workflow deployment, ERP integration, verification controls, human escalation, and complete audit trails.
Market
Korso's primary publicly described market is vertical AI and agentic workflow automation for manufacturing operations, procurement, supplier coordination, RFQ processing, and order-exception handling. It differentiates from ERP question-answering tools, middleware, systems integrators, and BPO providers by letting users describe workflows in plain English and deploying agents that execute multi-step work across existing enterprise systems. Its stated enterprise moat is reliability: scoped tools, verification and dry-run controls, secondary review, audit trails, and checkpointed long-running workflows; however, the current homepage also presents Korso as a quantitative trading firm, indicating a possible repositioning or product split.
For its manufacturing offering, Korso targets mid-to-large manufacturers whose operations, procurement, customer-service, and supply-chain teams run coordination-heavy workflows across ERP and CRM systems; likely buyers are operations, procurement, supply-chain, and enterprise-IT leaders. The current homepage also describes Korso as a quantitative trading firm releasing internal tools, suggesting a second audience of traders, developers, and research teams, although the public materials do not establish one unified customer profile.
At a Glance
Problem
Korso targets the coordination-heavy operational work that still consumes manufacturing teams even when the steps are well defined: chasing supplier ETAs, processing incoming RFQs, routing purchase-order approvals, monitoring order exceptions, and following up on stale opportunities. The pain is structural rather than purely administrative: ERP-native AI can answer questions about stored data, but it generally does not execute the multi-step work between that data and a completed business process. Middleware connects systems without making decisions, while systems integrators and BPO providers can require long implementation cycles or add recurring labor cost.
The economic pressure compounds as manufacturers add products, regions, and supplier tiers, because coordination volume—and therefore headcount requirements—scales with the business. The clearest “killer” use case is RFQ-to-quote: an RFQ arrives by email, someone extracts the line items, checks pricing history, prepares a quote, obtains approval, and tracks the customer response.
Product / Service
Korso’s principal manufacturing product is Atlas, an AI agent platform that sits on top of a manufacturer’s existing ERP rather than replacing it. A company describes a workflow in plain English, and Atlas deploys an autonomous agent to run it; Korso says a process that might take a quarter to custom-code or require an ongoing BPO contract can be stood up in hours. The platform is designed to connect with systems including SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Odoo, and Dynamics 365.
Atlas handles end-to-end processes such as extracting RFQ line items, checking historical pricing, generating quotes, routing approvals, coordinating suppliers, and escalating delivery exceptions. Its intended benefit is automation with controls: write operations are verified before reaching the ERP, high-risk or low-confidence cases are routed to a human, and actions, decisions, and outcomes are logged for auditability. Korso’s current site also lists Shepherd, an open-source coordination tool for coding agents, plus beta trading and research products, suggesting the company is operating a broader internal-tools portfolio alongside Atlas.
Market
Korso competes in the emerging category of AI-native operations and workflow automation for manufacturing—more specifically, an intelligence and execution layer over ERP, CRM, email, documents, and related systems. Adjacent competitors and substitutes include manufacturing platforms such as Plex, Tulip, and Parsable; general workflow tools such as Zapier and Make; and incumbent enterprise vendors such as SAP and Oracle that are adding AI capabilities. Korso differentiates its stated position by emphasizing autonomous decisions and execution across existing systems rather than analytics, simple system-to-system automation, or a replacement ERP.
The company appears to be very early stage. Y Combinator lists Korso as an active Spring 2026 company founded by three people in Los Angeles, and its manufacturing launch was dated May 11, 2026. Atlas invites prospects to book a demo, while the public site labels Shepherd, its trading API, and research workspace as beta; the reviewed public materials disclose no named customers, revenue, or usage metrics. The best-supported characterization is therefore pre-revenue or revenue-undisclosed and pre-scale, with product development and early customer discovery underway. Public positioning is somewhat fluid because the homepage currently describes Korso as a small quantitative trading firm even though its YC profile and Atlas product page frame its main enterprise opportunity as manufacturing automation.
Founders & Leadership
Funding History
Y Combinator
Recent News
Y Combinator's directory of funded AI startups lists Korso as a P2026 company. The listing identifies it as active and points to Shepherd, an agent-collaboration tool for coding.
The profile describes Korso's AI agents as handling manual manufacturing operations, including processing RFQs, following up on quotes, and coordinating workflows.
Extruct's P26 batch directory says Korso builds AI agents for manufacturers that automate quoting, purchase orders, and supplier communication, and identifies the company as backed by Y Combinator.
A roundup of YC's Spring 2026 companies identifies Korso as “The intelligence layer for manufacturing.”
The profile describes Korso as building AI agents for manufacturing operations, including processing RFQs, following up on quotes, and coordinating manual work.
Korso's Y Combinator launch presents AI agents that automate workflows and provide insights across ERP, CRM, MES, inboxes, and other manufacturing systems, with autonomous-agent deployment.
Korso's website listed Shepherd as an open-source beta, describing it as a tool for agents to coordinate work across sessions and team members. The same update also listed a Trading API beta.
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Korso sells custom-priced manufacturing AI-agent engagements to enterprise customers. Pricing is scoped to workflow volume, connected systems, and support requirements rather than seats, feature tiers, or message usage; implementation is included and customers are directed to contact sales.