Donna

What Donna does

Donna is a private AI startup founded in 2025 (1-10 employees) that operates a proactive AI Chief of Staff platform for CEOs, founders, and executives. The platform connects via OAuth to business tools — Gmail, Slack, Google Calendar, HubSpot, Stripe, Notion, Google Drive, and Vanta — and uses cross-system pattern recognition to surface compliance gaps, tax liabilities, financial anomalies, team communication shifts, and relationship risks that would otherwise be buried across systems. The product delivers text-based daily executive briefings, weekly strategic reports, and prioritized alerts (Critical/High/Medium), with claimed autonomous monitoring 24/7 and the ability to draft messages, schedule meetings, and assign tasks based on detected events.

The underlying technology is positioned as a "Cross-System Intelligence Engine" that combines anomaly detection, predictive analytics, and process automation across the eight integrations, supported by a zero data-retention policy and SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance claims. Donna is offered in three tiers: Donna Personal ($49/month) covering Gmail and Calendar basics, Donna Executive ($149/month, currently free during private beta) providing the full intelligence suite with white-glove onboarding, and Donna Enterprise with custom pricing for private-cloud, multi-executive, and SLA-backed deployments.

The go-to-market combines a product-led growth motion (self-serve private beta waitlist via imdonna.ai, LinkedIn, and SEO) with direct enterprise sales. Customer testimonials come exclusively from startup CEOs, and the company has not disclosed funding rounds, headcount beyond a 1-10 range, paying customer counts, or revenue. The platform was launched in 2025 and is currently in private beta, so commercial traction and growth metrics are not yet observable in the source data.

Name

Donna

Legal name

Donna AI

Website

https://imdonna.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Donna is a private AI startup that offers a proactive AI Chief of Staff platform for CEOs, founders, and executives, connecting to Gmail, Slack, Google Calendar, HubSpot, Stripe, Notion, Google Drive, and Vanta to deliver cross-system pattern recognition, daily briefings, and compliance alerts. Currently in private beta with three pricing tiers ranging from $49 to $149 per month plus enterprise custom contracts.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Executive Intelligence Software

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Software/SaaS Subscriptions (Consumer & Prosumer) (CRAFAIAB)

Keywords

• AI chief of staff
• Executive intelligence platform
• Cross-system pattern recognition
• Proactive business insights
• SaaS executive assistant

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Subscription - Personal Tier: Monthly subscription at $49/month for individual executives. Includes Gmail integration, Google Calendar integration, basic pattern analysis, weekly intelligence reports, and email support. This is a self-serve tier targeting individual executives.
2. Subscription - Executive Tier: Monthly subscription at $149/month for power users. Includes full intelligence suite, all integrations, real-time proactive alerts, custom intelligence models, and white glove onboarding. This is the primary revenue-generating tier for the beta period.
3. Enterprise Custom Pricing: Custom pricing for enterprise deployments including private-cloud deployment, multi-executive deployment, custom integrations, dedicated success manager, and SLA guarantees. Sold through direct sales engagement.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Donna is a SaaS AI Chief of Staff platform that connects via native OAuth integrations to an executive's existing business tools (Gmail, Slack, Google Calendar, HubSpot, Stripe, Notion, Google Drive, and Vanta) and continuously analyzes cross-system patterns to deliver proactive text-based briefings, priority alerts, compliance gap detection, financial/tax insights, relationship monitoring, and scheduling assistance. The product is sold as monthly subscriptions across Personal ($49/month), Executive ($149/month, currently free during private beta), and Enterprise (custom pricing) tiers, with white-glove onboarding for Executive customers and dedicated sales engagement for Enterprise deployments.

Product overview

Donna is a unified AI Chief of Staff platform for CEOs, founders, and executives, currently in Private Beta. The platform is offered across three pricing tiers: Donna Personal ($49/month) for basic email/calendar intelligence and weekly reports; Donna Executive ($149/month, free during beta) for the full intelligence suite with all integrations, real-time proactive alerts, and custom intelligence models; and Donna Enterprise (custom pricing) for private-cloud deployment, multi-executive deployment, and SLA guarantees. All tiers are built on a single underlying platform that connects via OAuth to business tools including Gmail, Slack, Google Calendar, HubSpot, Stripe, Notion, Google Drive, and Vanta, then delivers cross-system pattern analysis as proactive text-based briefings and alerts.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Donna — AI Chief of Staff AI-powered executive intelligence platform for CEOs, founders, and senior executives that natively integrates with Gmail, Slack, Google Calendar, HubSpot, Stripe, Notion, Google Drive, and Vanta, then continuously analyzes cross-system patterns to deliver proactive compliance alerts, financial and tax insights, team and relationship monitoring, scheduling assistance, and daily and weekly executive briefings on a 24/7 basis. Sold via tiered subscriptions: Personal ($49/month) for individual executives, Executive ($149/month, free during private beta) for the full intelligence suite with white-glove onboarding, and Enterprise (custom pricing) for private-cloud, multi-executive deployments with dedicated success management and SLAs.

Quantifiable outcome

• 10+ hours saved per week for executives
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration8 records

AI capability5 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Gmail (Google)coreTechnology or IntegrationNative OAuth integration with Gmail for analyzing email metadata and patterns to deliver executive insights on communication workflows and follow-up needs.
• SlackcoreTechnology or IntegrationNative integration with Slack for analyzing activity patterns and response times to identify team communication trends and relationship changes.
• Google CalendarcoreTechnology or IntegrationNative integration with Google Calendar for analyzing meeting schedules, patterns, and scheduling conflicts to surface time management insights.
• HubSpotcoreTechnology or IntegrationNative integration with HubSpot CRM for tracking deal progression, customer interactions, and revenue pipeline insights.
• StripecoreTechnology or IntegrationNative integration with Stripe for analyzing billing data, customer locations, and tax compliance across 23+ countries.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Slack AI: Slack AI (from Salesforce/Slack) provides message summarization, thread recaps, and meeting notes natively inside Slack, an integration Donna depends on. As a bundled incumbent, it directly competes for the executive-communication intelligence layer.
• ChatGPT Enterprise: OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise offers executive-grade AI assistants with custom GPTs, data privacy, and integrations. As a broad incumbent, it provides overlapping executive productivity capabilities and competes for the same enterprise AI budget.
• Microsoft Copilot: Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 is embedded in Outlook, Teams, Calendar, and Office, providing AI-driven email summarization, meeting prep, and cross-app intelligence to enterprise executives. It is a broad incumbent competing for the same executive use cases from a bundled distribution position.
• Notion AI: Notion AI embeds AI assistance inside the Notion workspace for summaries, search, and writing. Donna integrates Notion as a data source and competes with Notion AI for executive use of workspace intelligence.

Emerging players

• Otter.ai: Otter.ai provides AI meeting notes, summaries, and action items — a narrower slice of Donna's broader executive intelligence scope but competing for the same executive time-saving value and calendar/meeting data signals.
• Fireflies.ai: Fireflies.ai offers AI meeting transcription, summaries, and CRM sync across Google Calendar, Slack, HubSpot, and Salesforce — the same tool stack Donna integrates. It competes for executive meeting intelligence and CRM insight generation.

Direct peers

• Motion: Motion is an AI-powered productivity and calendar management platform for executives and teams, offering automated scheduling, task management, and project planning. It targets the same executive persona with AI-driven time and workflow intelligence.
• Magical: Magical is an AI-powered productivity automation tool that helps knowledge workers eliminate repetitive tasks across browser apps. It targets similar executive and prosumer users with workflow automation across multiple SaaS tools.
• Lindy AI: Lindy AI builds AI assistants/agents for individuals and small teams that automate workflows across email, calendar, and SaaS tools. It is the closest direct competitor to Donna in the 'AI executive/personal chief of staff' category.
• Reclaim AI: Reclaim AI provides AI calendar assistant capabilities for busy professionals, automatically scheduling tasks, habits, and meetings. It overlaps with Donna's calendar-based intelligence and executive-time-saving value proposition.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/imdonnaai

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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 →

Frequently asked questions about Donna