Codi, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup founded by Christelle Rohaut and Dave Schuman, is launching what it hails as the first AI-powered platform for fully automating office management.
Codi was founded in 2018, in a pre-pandemic world, with a mission to help companies find flexible office space. It was more of a marketplace, as TechCrunch previously reported, that matched companies with buildings that offered flexible office setups. Codi then assisted with the moving procedures.
Rohaut, the company’s CEO, said she and her team at the time used to manually manage office space and vendors for their clients, but recent advances in artificial intelligence have allowed them to essentially automate.
“The previous model of Codi, you had to own the space with Codi. Now, whatever office you rent, you can use it to automate your office logistics,” she said of her new AI SaaS product.
The startup released the beta version of its new AI office management product in May and officially released it on Tuesday. The company last raised a $16M Series A in 2022 led by a16z and has raised $23 million to date.
The technology comes as the return to the office continues across corporate America. “Office management remains very manual and broken,” Rohaut, the company’s CEO, told TechCrunch. He added that it can cost companies at least $80,000 a year just in administrative costs to run an office.
The role of the office manager has also changed over the years. In this post-pandemic world, as companies move toward remote and hybrid work, the formal position of office manager often goes unfilled. When companies have an office manager, they often spend more time planning events than office logistics, he said.
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Rohaut said she and the team trained Codi AI on all the expertise and data they’ve accumulated over the years. The salespeople a company uses are put into the AI system, and then the AI coordinates for office needs like stocking and cleaning the closet. The company said it only took five weeks to reach $100,000 in ARR after the beta launch.
“This new platform is estimated to save hundreds of hours a year in admin work,” he said. Codi gets a management fee per month, like a subscription, which is “a fraction of the cost of an office manager or a part-time office manager or even a fractional EA,” Rohaut continued.
Rohaut said that “a large portion” of their clients, from whom they managed office space, are switching to using the AI platform. Just in beta, the new Codi product has already signed up 40 new companies, including TaskRabbit and Northbeam, Rohaut said.
Rohaut sees Codi’s competitors as legacy management companies and workplace experience platforms like Envoy. He said unlike legacy management companies, Codi replaces the need for staff members to review, hire and coordinate with each vendor because execution is autonomous and the platform integrates a curated network of service providers, Rohaut said.
Also, compared to workplace platforms, Codi helps coordinate the handling of physical operations in an office, he continued.
“Codi is building the future where offices can run themselves, like cars can drive themselves,” he continued. “We want to completely remove the logistical burden of managing physical spaces and free up human talent to focus on workplace culture and development.”
This piece has been updated to reflect the correct spelling of Rohaut‘small name.
