TESS

What TESS does

TESS AI is a Brazilian-founded autonomous AI agent platform founded in 2024 by Ricardo Barros and Renato Ferreira, with the company now expanding to the San Francisco Bay Area to target the US market. The platform orchestrates 250+ large language models (including OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google AI, xAI, Moonshot AI, and various media models from Runway, Kling, HeyGen, ElevenLabs, and Leonardo AI) into a single unified chat interface, enabling users to route workflows to the optimal model for coding, multimodal reasoning, research, or generation tasks. Proprietary architectural features include Agentic Chat x40 (up to 40 autonomous operations per request including web search, tool calls, and iterative checks), Model Council 6.1 (three models challenging each other to triangulate higher-quality answers), Max Mode (up to 400K token context versus 32K native on ChatGPT Plus/Team), and Collectible Memories for persistent cross-conversation context.

The platform is delivered as a self-serve SaaS product at tess.im with an additional API and integrations into Zapier, N8N, and Make for workflow automation. Pricing is usage-based (pay per impact) rather than per-seat, allowing unlimited users to join a workspace at no incremental cost; customers report cutting 4-5 SaaS subscriptions within six months and up to 90% AI spending savings by consolidating in TESS. GTM combines product-led growth (free team invitations driving bottom-up adoption inside enterprises) with a field sales motion targeting listed companies, supported by enterprise features (SSO, role-based access, audit trails, GDPR/LGPD compliance). Revenue is concentrated in usage-based SaaS fees supplemented by an agent marketplace where third-party builders can sell custom agents (a documented $20,000 single-agent sale exists as a platform record). The company closed its first institutional seed round of approximately US$5M in March 2026 led by Mexico-based Hi Ventures with DYDX Capital and Honeystone, reaching a ~US$35-40M post-money valuation. As of March 2026 TESS reports US$3M ARR, 16,000+ paying customers, and 2.1M+ agentic tasks executed in 2025 (with quarterly growth from 49K in Q1 to 1.1M in Q4). Named enterprise customers include Brazilian listed companies Reserve, Petz, Odontoprev, and Hypera.

Name

TESS

Legal name

TESS AI

Website

https://tess.us

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

TESS AI is a Brazilian-founded autonomous AI agent platform that orchestrates 250+ large language models in a single chat interface, serving professionals and enterprises with usage-based pricing that eliminates per-seat costs and consolidates multiple SaaS subscriptions into one workspace.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Agent Orchestration Platform

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

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

akta.pro secondary industry

AI Integration & Orchestration Platforms (Connectors, Workflow, iPaaS for AI) (HDAEANAI)

Keywords

• Autonomous AI agents
• Multi-model orchestration
• Agentic workflow automation
• Usage-based AI platform
• Enterprise AI consolidation

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco Bay Area

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Usage-based SaaS Platform: Pay-per-impact pricing model where customers pay for the results generated by autonomous agents rather than per seat or per user. Unlimited users can be added to a workspace at no extra cost. Companies pay only for effective tool usage. This model enables up to 90% cost savings on AI spending by centralizing multiple AI subscriptions.
2. Agent Marketplace / Agent Sales: Platform facilitates sale of custom-built agents. Agent builders can sell their agents on the platform, with a documented platform record of $20,000 for a single agent sale.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

TESS is an autonomous AI agent platform that orchestrates 250+ large language and multimodal AI models in a single unified chat interface, executing up to 40 autonomous operations per request. It enables professionals and enterprise teams to automate complex tasks such as presentations, parallel research, report building, and document drafting without code or developers, priced on a usage-based pay-per-impact model with unlimited free team seats.

Product overview

TESS is a unified autonomous AI agents platform built around orchestrating 250+ AI models in a single chat interface. The core platform combines Agentic Chat x40 (enabling up to 40 autonomous operations per request), Agentic Workspace (for creating presentations, research, reports), AI Model Consensus (triangulating across three models), Model Council 6.1 (model-to-model collaboration), Max Mode (up to 400K token context), and Collectible Memories (persistent context). Users connect these agents via API, Zapier, N8N, or Make for workflow automation. The platform uses a usage-based pricing model (pay per impact) rather than per-seat licensing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• TESS Platform An autonomous AI agents platform that orchestrates 250+ AI models to execute complex professional tasks from start to finish. Enables professionals and enterprise teams to create custom agents, automate workflows, and access multiple AI models through a single unified chat interface with agentic execution capabilities, priced on a usage-based pay-per-impact model.

Quantifiable outcome

• 16,000+ paying customers and US$3M run rate within first year of institutional funding
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability11 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• ZapiercoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration partner enabling TESS AI agents to connect with 6,000+ applications through Zapier's automation platform. Users can build agents with 250+ AI models and connect them via Zapier to automate any workflow.
• N8NcoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration partner providing workflow automation connectivity for TESS AI agents. Allows users to build agents and connect them via N8N to automate complex business workflows with full flexibility to change models, instructions, and tools anytime.
• Make (formerly Integromat)coreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration partner enabling TESS AI agents to connect via Make's visual automation platform. Users can build custom agents with 250+ models and orchestrate workflows through Make for centralized control with unlimited flexibility.
• API IntegrationcoreTechnology or IntegrationTESS provides API access allowing users to build custom autonomous agents and connect them to external systems. The API-first approach enables developers and enterprises to embed TESS capabilities into their own workflows and products.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Adept: Adept builds autonomous AI agents that operate enterprise software and complete multi-step professional tasks. It is the closest direct peer to TESS in the autonomous-agent-for-knowledge-workers category, though Adept historically focused on its own foundation model rather than orchestrating 250+ third-party models.
• Lindy.ai: Lindy is an AI agent platform that lets professionals and SMBs build custom automations for tasks like email triage, scheduling, and research. It targets the same horizontal persona segment as TESS and competes for the same bottom-up PLG buyer inside companies.
• Manus AI: Manus is a general-purpose autonomous AI agent platform that executes multi-step professional tasks end-to-end with minimal supervision. It is highly comparable to TESS on the autonomous-agent execution layer and is pursuing a similar global, horizontal go-to-market.
• Cognosys: Cognosys provides an AI agent workspace for professionals to automate research, analysis, and reporting tasks using multi-step reasoning and tool use. It competes with TESS's Agentic Workspace on the same end-user persona and autonomous-execution value proposition.
• Beam AI: Beam AI offers enterprise-grade autonomous AI agents for workflow automation, with multi-agent orchestration and integration into business systems. Comparable to TESS on the enterprise field-sales motion targeting process-heavy use cases, though Beam leans more verticalized.

Emerging players

• MultiOn: MultiOn builds AI agents that browse the web and execute tasks on behalf of users, with a developer-friendly platform and a personal-assistant product. Comparable to TESS on agentic tool use and task execution but narrower in model coverage and persona.
• CrewAI: CrewAI provides a multi-agent orchestration framework that lets developers compose role-based AI agent crews for complex workflows. Comparable to TESS's Model Council and multi-agent execution layer but positioned for developers rather than end-user professionals.

Broad incumbents

• LangChain: LangChain is the leading LLM orchestration and agent framework, offering chains, agents, and retrieval tooling across 100+ model providers. Comparable to TESS as a multi-model integration layer, but LangChain is a developer framework while TESS is an end-user platform.
• Zapier: Zapier is the dominant workflow automation platform connecting 6,000+ applications, and is both a TESS integration partner and a competitive threat as it adds native AI agent capabilities. Comparable as a workflow-automation hub but with a much larger installed base and broader scope.
• Make: Make (formerly Integromat) is a visual workflow automation platform with growing AI agent capabilities. It is a TESS integration partner that also competes for the same enterprise workflow-automation buyer, particularly in EMEA where Make has strong distribution.

Market position

Strengths1 record

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/tess-ai

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors3 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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