Motion

What Motion does

Motion is an AI-native productivity super-app founded in 2019 in San Francisco that unifies project management, task management, calendar, meetings, documents, notes, chat, and dashboards into a single workspace. Its core product is built around a proprietary optimization engine that continuously re-plans and re-prioritizes hundreds of tasks per day across deadlines, priorities, dependencies, durations, and team capacity. The platform comprises ten core modules — AI Project Manager, AI Gantt Chart, AI Workflows Builder, AI Task Manager, AI Calendar, AI Meeting Assistant, AI Meeting Notetaker, AI Chat, AI Dashboards, and AI Docs Assistant — supplemented by an AI Employees add-on suite of named autonomous agents (Chip, Alfred, Suki, Millie, Dot, Clide, Spec) that execute multi-step business workflows in sales, executive assistance, marketing, project management, recruiting, customer support, and research.

The company's monetization is primarily per-seat SaaS subscription at $19/month (Pro AI) and $29/month (Business AI), with annual billing available at a 33% discount, usage-based overage on AI Credits, and a freemium trial motion. It employs a product-led growth model with self-serve sign-up, no dedicated sales team, free trial without credit card, and an affiliate program, while layering an enterprise sales motion with White Glove Onboarding and dedicated Solutions Architects and Customer Success Managers for larger deployments. Motion serves over 10,000 B2B customers across SMBs, IT service providers, marketing/design agencies, law firms, consulting, construction, real estate, startups, sales teams, and executive teams, with 1 million+ users on the platform.

Motion is Y Combinator-backed, has raised $75 million in total venture funding across a $13M Series A (2022) led by SignalFire with participation from Sam Altman and Michael Seibel, and a $60M Series C (September 2025) at a $550M valuation led by Scale Venture Partners. The company reported $2 million in monthly revenue (~$24M ARR) with 3x year-over-year growth as of October 2024, and its AI Employees product line scaled from $0 to $10M+ ARR within three months of its May 2025 launch. Motion operates with 67 employees and is led by co-founder and CEO Harry Qi alongside co-founders Omid Rooholfada and Ethan Yu, all former hedge fund quants.

Name

Motion

Legal name

Motion

Website

https://usemotion.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Motion is an AI-native productivity super-app that unifies project management, calendar, tasks, meetings, docs, and chat into one workspace, serving over 10,000 B2B SMB customers and 1 million+ users through per-seat SaaS subscriptions and an AI Employees agent suite.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Productivity Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Agents & Autonomous Workflows (Tool Use, Planning, Multi-Agent) (HDAAACAF)

Keywords

• AI productivity software
• Project management software
• Task scheduling software
• Meeting notes software
• Workflow automation software

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Per-seat SaaS Subscription: Primary recurring revenue from Pro AI and Business AI subscription plans priced per seat per month ($19 Pro, $29 Business). Annual billing available at a 33% discount. Includes bundled AI Credits per seat and access to all AI features (Chat, Projects, Tasks, Calendar, Meetings, Docs, Workflows, etc.).
2. Usage-based AI Credits Overage: Customers can purchase additional AI Credits beyond the included 7,500 (Pro) or 15,000 (Business) credits per seat per month. Overage priced at ~25 cents per 100 credits (Pro) and ~19 cents per 100 credits (Business).
3. Free Trial / Freemium Lead-Gen: Free trial with no credit card required ('Start your free trial. Cancel in 1 click.') used as a land motion before paid conversion to Pro AI or Business AI.
4. Affiliate Program: Motion runs an affiliate program (affiliate.usemotion.com) which generates referral-driven revenue.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Motion sells an AI-native productivity "super-app" that unifies project management, task planning, calendar scheduling, meeting management, docs, notes, and chat into a single per-seat SaaS subscription. Customers also get an add-on suite of named agentic AI Employees (Chip, Alfred, Suki, Millie, Dot, Clide, Spec, plus Custom AI Employee) that execute multi-step sales, executive, marketing, project management, recruiting, support, and research workflows. The platform is offered under Pro AI ($19/seat/month) and Business AI ($29/seat/month) tiers with bundled AI Credits and usage-based overage.

Product overview

Motion is the AI Powered SuperApp for Work — a single unified, all-in-one productivity platform that combines AI-native modules for projects, tasks, calendar, meetings, docs, notes, chat, dashboards, workflows, and integrations into one product. The platform is organized around the AI Project Manager, AI Gantt Chart, AI Workflows Builder, AI Task Manager, AI Calendar, AI Meeting Assistant, AI Meeting Notetaker, AI Chat, AI Dashboards, and AI Docs Assistant as its core feature modules, supplemented by the AI Employees add-on (named AI agents such as Chip, Alfred, Suki, Millie, Dot, Clide, and Spec) and a public API for external integrations. Motion is offered under two pricing tiers — Pro AI ($19/seat/month) for professionals and small teams and Business AI ($29/seat/month) for power users and larger businesses — and serves over 10,000 B2B customers across industries including IT service providers, marketing/design agencies, law firms, consultants, construction, real estate, startups, sales teams, and executives.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• AI Employees: A separately branded product line of AI agents (Chip, Alfred, Suki, Millie, Dot, Clide, Spec) that perform business functions such as sales, executive assistance, marketing, project management, recruiting, customer support, and research.

Products and services

• Motion Platform The unified AI-native productivity super-app for businesses and teams, bundling AI Project Manager, AI Gantt Chart, AI Workflows, AI Task Manager, AI Calendar, AI Meeting Assistant, AI Meeting Notetaker, AI Chat, AI Dashboards, and AI Docs Assistant into a single per-seat subscription. Targets SMBs, mid-market, and enterprise teams that need to consolidate project management, scheduling, meeting notes, and docs into one context-rich platform.
• AI Employees An add-on product line of named autonomous AI agents (Chip the AI Sales Rep, Alfred the AI Executive Assistant, Suki the AI Marketing Associate, Millie the AI Project Manager, Dot the AI Recruiter, Clide the AI Customer Support Specialist, Spec the AI Researcher, plus a Custom AI Employee builder) that take multi-step actions across a business with human-in-the-loop approval. Built for SMB service businesses that need to scale output without adding headcount.

Quantifiable outcome

• 137% productivity increase (claimed on Motion website and in third-party reviews)
• +9 more outcomes

Named customers16 records

Segments12 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration12 records

AI capability13 records

Feature12 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• ZapierflagshipTechnology or IntegrationNative integration listed on Motion's Integrations page. Connects Motion to thousands of the most popular apps, enabling workflows between Motion and third-party tools.
• ZoomflagshipTechnology or IntegrationNative integration — users can schedule and join Zoom calls directly from Motion; AI Meeting Notetaker auto-joins Zoom meetings to capture notes and action items.
• Google MeetflagshipTechnology or IntegrationNative integration — schedule and join Google Meet calls directly from Motion; AI Meeting Notetaker auto-joins meetings.
• GmailflagshipTechnology or IntegrationNative integration — forward emails to Motion to automatically schedule them as tasks; send custom meeting reminders and rescheduling requests with one click.
• Microsoft TeamsflagshipTechnology or IntegrationNative integration — schedule and join Microsoft Teams calls directly from Motion; AI Notetaker joins Teams meetings.
• Microsoft Outlook 365flagshipTechnology or IntegrationNative integration — forward emails to Motion for automatic task scheduling; sync multiple Outlook calendars.
• Google CalendarflagshipTechnology or IntegrationNative integration — manage meetings, events, and tasks within Motion; sync unlimited Google Calendar accounts.
• iCloud Calendar (Apple)coreTechnology or IntegrationNative integration — sync unlimited iCloud Calendar accounts into Motion.
• Siri (Apple)coreTechnology or IntegrationNative integration — quickly create tasks via voice command through Siri; Motion's AI scheduling algorithm automatically slots the task onto the calendar.
• HubSpotcoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration featured on Motion's homepage 'Motion integrates with...' section.
• SalesforcecoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration featured on Motion's homepage 'Motion integrates with...' section.
• SlackcoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration featured on Motion's homepage 'Motion integrates with...' section. Used to convert Slack/Teams messages into Motion tasks.

Scale indicators16 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Notion: Notion is the most direct horizontal competitor — a unified workspace combining docs, projects, wikis, and now Notion AI for chat, summaries, and task generation. Like Motion, Notion targets SMBs and individuals with an AI-augmented super-app, and both companies market toward replacing 5–10 separate tools.
• ClickUp: ClickUp is a direct competitor in the unified work management space, combining tasks, docs, whiteboards, chat, goals, and now ClickUp Brain AI into a single platform. It targets the same SMB-to-enterprise customer Motion serves with similar all-in-one pricing and AI features.
• Asana: Asana is a direct project management and work tracking competitor with AI Studio for goal-setting, workflow automation, and task generation. It overlaps with Motion's AI Project Manager and AI Workflows modules and competes for the same mid-market and SMB teams.
• Monday.com: Monday.com is a work management platform with Monday AI for automations, project planning, and task creation — directly comparable to Motion's AI Project Manager and AI Task Manager. Both platforms target cross-functional teams replacing spreadsheets and legacy PM tools.
• Reclaim.ai: Reclaim.ai is a direct competitor to Motion's AI Calendar module — an AI scheduling assistant that auto-blocks focus time, plans tasks onto calendars, and dynamically re-prioritizes meetings. It targets the same individual professional and team productivity use case Motion serves.
• Todoist: Todoist is a direct competitor in AI-assisted task management and personal productivity. It overlaps with Motion's AI Task Manager and serves the same individual professional and SMB customer base at similar per-seat price points.
• Otter.ai: Otter.ai is a direct competitor to Motion's AI Meeting Notetaker — an AI transcription, summarization, and meeting action-item tool used by the same business professionals. Both target Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams meeting capture and the SMB-to-enterprise productivity buyer.
• Fireflies.ai: Fireflies.ai is a direct competitor in the AI meeting notes and conversation intelligence category, with similar transcription, summary, and action-item extraction features. It competes head-to-head with Motion's AI Meeting Notetaker for the same sales, recruiting, and operations buyers.
• Calendly: Calendly is a direct competitor in the AI scheduling and meeting booking space, overlapping with Motion's AI Meeting Assistant. Both serve SMBs replacing back-and-forth scheduling emails, and Motion is explicitly positioned to replace Calendly as part of its 10-tool consolidation thesis.

Broad incumbents

• Microsoft 365 Copilot: Microsoft 365 Copilot is a broad incumbent threatening Motion's super-app thesis — embedding AI chat, meeting notes (in Teams), task generation, and calendar automation into the Office, Outlook, and Teams products that Motion's 1M+ users already pay for. Distribution and zero switching cost give Microsoft a structural advantage.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/useMotion
• Facebookfacebook.com/usemotionapp
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/motionapp

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds6 records

Investors9 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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