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Minicor

minicor.com

Minicor provides self-healing desktop automation that connects AI companies to legacy applications without APIs.

HQSan Francisco, California, United States
Employees1-50
1 active role
Jobs checked 7h ago
Developer ToolsAI Agent / AutomationAPI / Platform

About

Minicor builds an orchestration platform for scalable desktop automations and self-healing computer-use agents, helping AI companies access legacy applications without APIs. It serves companies in healthcare, automotive, logistics, and financial services; its differentiator is combining deterministic workflows with AI-driven recovery and observability for more reliable production automation than brittle traditional RPA.

Market

Minicor competes in enterprise RPA, desktop automation, and the emerging computer-use-agent infrastructure market, focused on legacy Windows applications whose systems of record lack APIs. It positions itself as an API and orchestration layer for AI products rather than only a conventional bot builder: workflows run on Windows VMs or Citrix, use deterministic automation by default, and invoke self-healing computer-use agents when interfaces change. This emphasis on on-demand agent calls, recovery, observability, and production-scale execution differentiates it from broad RPA incumbents and simpler prompt-driven desktop agents.

Target Customers

Minicor targets AI startups and engineering or AI-product teams at companies selling into legacy industries—especially healthcare, logistics, automotive, finance, and hospitality—that must read from or write to no-API Windows desktop systems of record. The likely buyer is the technical team responsible for customer integrations and moving workflows from early deployments to reliable enterprise-scale production.

At a Glance

Problem

Minicor addresses the integration dead end created by legacy Windows applications—especially EHRs, ERPs, dental practice-management systems, and other systems of record that have no writable API. AI companies selling into healthcare, financial services, logistics, and automotive need to read and write customer data in those systems, but the only practical route is to interact with the user interface like a human. Traditional RPA scripts are brittle, while general-purpose computer-use models reportedly achieve only 80–85% accuracy in production. The economics worsen with workflow length: on a 20-step process, even 95% per-click accuracy means roughly two out of three runs experience at least one misclick.

The clearest use case is healthcare automation: an AI application needs to update an EHR in real time, but cannot launch until it proves that it can reliably write back to the provider’s system. Minicor targets workflows such as patient registration, appointment management, clinical messaging, insurance eligibility verification, document filing, and claims processing. At healthcare volumes, even a small error rate creates failures involving real patients, while integration projects that traditionally take four or more months can block sales and delay go-live.

Product / Service

Minicor is a managed desktop-automation platform that turns workflows in no-API applications into API-callable services. A customer installs Minicor’s Desktop Client on the machines running the legacy software, records or describes a human workflow—either directly or through a coding agent using Minicor’s MCP—and receives an API endpoint. Each request routes the workflow to a Windows VM or browser environment, executes the steps, and returns structured data such as a success status and verification result. Deployments can run on-premises, in the cloud, or through Citrix.

The product combines deterministic automation code with a computer-use recovery layer. A reflection agent checks each action against the live screen, adapts when a UI changes or an unexpected dialog appears, and self-corrects before an error cascades. Minicor says customers can reach production in weeks rather than the four-plus months typical of traditional RPA and integration work; its commercial model is tied to successful data delivery, with the company stating that customers pay only when the data gets into the target system.

Market

Minicor competes in enterprise RPA, workflow automation, and the emerging computer-use-agent market, with a focused wedge in legacy desktop software for healthcare and other highly regulated or operationally complex industries. Its competitive alternatives include building and maintaining RPA internally, brittle traditional RPA platforms such as UiPath, Blue Prism, and Microsoft Power Automate, and general-purpose computer-use models that must rediscover workflows at runtime. Minicor’s differentiation is the combination of API delivery, deterministic workflows, self-healing recovery, and deployment into on-premises or Citrix environments.

The company appears to be an early, revenue-generating startup rather than pre-revenue. Minicor says it launched in 2024, is VC-backed and selling to agentic healthcare companies, and is processing thousands of workflows per week across healthcare EHRs and other legacy systems. Its website also describes production architecture processing 25,000 patients per day. A PitchBook profile reports a $500,000 total raise, identifies Y Combinator among its investors, and lists a completed June 2026 seed round as “Generating Revenue”; these traction and financing figures are company-directory or company-reported claims rather than independently audited results.

Founders & Leadership

Faizaan ChishtieFounder
Co-Founder & CEO
Saheed AkinbileFounder
Co-founder & CTO

Funding History

2026-03
Seed$500K

Y Combinator

Recent News

2026-07-28product
The RPA Maintenance Problem: Why Bots Break and How to Fix It

Minicor explains why traditional RPA bots fail in production and promotes self-healing agents as a way to achieve 96–99% accuracy.

2026-07-24product
How to Write AI Scribe Notes into Epic Without an API

A Minicor guide describes using deterministic Python and computer-use agents to write clinical notes directly into Epic’s Hyperspace without an API.

2026-07-22product
How to Write Data into athenahealth Without an API

Minicor presents a self-healing desktop-automation approach for writing clinical data into athenahealth without API access, potentially avoiding partner-approval delays.

2026-07-22product
How to Automate QuickBooks Desktop Without an API

The guide shows how to automate QuickBooks Desktop on Windows and expose workflows as REST endpoints using self-healing desktop automation.

2026-07-16product
How to Automate AS/400 Green Screens With an AI Agent (No API)

Minicor describes automating AS/400 5250 terminal workflows with deterministic code and self-healing AI agents, claiming 99% accuracy.

2026-07-15product
How to Automate CDK Global and Dealer Management Systems

Minicor describes automating CDK Global, Reynolds & Reynolds, and other dealer-management desktop systems using deterministic workflows plus a computer-use recovery agent.

2026-06-04
What Y Combinator's Latest Batch Reveals About The Future

Forbes features Minicor among YC companies bringing AI into the enterprise. The article says Minicor combines deterministic code with agentic workflows and tripled monthly recurring revenue during the YC batch.

2026-05-27
Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale

In a Launch HN post, Minicor’s founders describe a platform for AI companies that need to connect to desktop systems with no API. The platform supports API-triggered workflows, video replays, logs, MCP-based debugging, VM cloning, and 2FA/OTP handling.

2026-03-22product
Launch YC: Minicor - Windows desktop automations at scale

Minicor launched on Y Combinator’s platform as a self-healing desktop-automation platform for legacy Windows applications. The company said it was processing thousands of workflows weekly and had taken a customer from proof of concept to production in three weeks.

2026-01-01funding
Minicor 2026 Company Profile

PitchBook’s 2026 company profile identifies Minicor as a robotic-process-automation platform for legacy desktop systems and reports that the company has raised $500,000.

Active Roles

1
San Francisco, CA, US/Engineering/33d ago

Business Model

Minicor uses a usage-based B2B model, charging per successful workflow execution so customers pay when data gets into the target system. Its service is deployed through a desktop client and triggered through API endpoints, with customer acquisition supported by direct demos.

Products

Scalable desktop-automation and orchestration platformSelf-healing computer-use agents for Windows desktop workflowsNo-API integration layer that converts desktop workflows into callable REST endpointsWorkflow deployment, observability, routing, load balancing, and scaling across Windows VMs, including healthcare EHR, ERP, DMS, and financial-software use cases

Customers

Sully.aiMycroft

Tech Stack

AI computer-use agents with reflection/self-healing recoveryDeterministic workflow code combined with agent-based recoveryWindows VMs and browser-based execution, deployable on-premise, in the cloud, or through CitrixREST API endpoints returning structured JSON, plus MCP integration for coding agentsAzure, AWS, and private-cloud Windows environmentsReported engineering technologies: AWS, Google Cloud, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, Python, and Next.js

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