Turbo AI

What Turbo AI does

Turbo AI is a San Francisco-based software development company founded in 2024 that combines frontier AI agents with human experts to design, build, test, deploy, and integrate software products on behalf of early-stage startups, founders, and select enterprise clients. The company effectively serves as an outsourced, AI-augmented product team, providing strategy, design, engineering, and QA capabilities without requiring customers to hire or coordinate multiple vendors. Turbo AI has reached $13 million in lifetime revenue as of July 2026 with an 11-50 person headcount, supported by a $2.1 million seed round led by Upload Ventures in September 2024.

The company's core offering centers on two interlocking products: Gio, an AI operating system and 'teammate' that routes requests across specialized sub-agents (Strategy, Design, Engineering, QA) and to human experts while maintaining persistent institutional memory; and Turbo Squad, the human-agent delivery team that handles end-to-end product work. Gio operates natively inside customer workflows via Slack (tagging, DMs, async updates), direct codebase integration (commits, PRs, diff reviews), and a browser extension for in-context feedback. Notable customers include AccessPoint (AI deal intelligence for private equity and private credit), Seoul Beauty Club (K-beauty marketplace), Trailblazer (EdTech for first-generation college students), Comfort Care (medical supply platform), and an unnamed government command center, spanning private markets, retail, education, healthcare, and public-sector verticals.

Turbo AI employs a sales-led go-to-market motion in which prospects book a 15-minute discovery call on the website and are subsequently introduced to a dedicated product manager and engineer. Revenue is generated through a pay-as-you-go subscription model with month-to-month commitments, scale-up and pause flexibility, and quote-based (undisclosed) pricing. The company is co-founded by Jeremy Topp (CEO) and Sarthak Dhawan, and operates under the DBA 'Turbo Time' alongside the sub-brands Gio and Turbo Squad.

Name

Turbo AI

Website

https://turbotime.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Turbo AI provides outsourced, AI-augmented product teams that combine frontier AI agents with human experts to design, build, and ship software for startups, founders, and select enterprise clients across multiple verticals, delivered via a pay-as-you-go subscription.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Software Development Platform

NAICS

Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

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

akta.pro secondary industries

AI Integration & Orchestration Platforms (Connectors, Workflow, iPaaS for AI) (HDAEANAI), AI/ML Engineering & Model Development Services (BPAEAHAF), End-to-End Enterprise AI Platforms (MLOps & Model Lifecycle Management) (HDAEANAA)

Keywords

• AI software development
• AI agent platform
• Software engineering automation
• AI operating system
• Autonomous AI teammates

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Turbo Squad Subscription: Monthly subscription model for access to AI agents and human experts. Pay-as-you-go structure with ability to scale up or pause anytime. Month-to-month commitments.
2. Usage-based Scaling: Flexible scaling based on customer needs - scale up when growing, pause when not needed. Variable consumption tied to squad output requirements.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Turbo AI sells Gio, an AI operating system that functions as an autonomous AI teammate for software engineering teams, paired with its Turbo Squad service that combines AI agents with human engineers to deliver full product builds. Customers subscribe to or contract the platform to plan, build, review, and ship software across the engineering stack, with integrations into tools like GitHub, Linear, Slack, and Notion.

Product overview

Turbo AI offers a unified product development platform that combines an AI operating system (Gio) with human-agent teams (Turbo Squad) to build software products. The core system consists of Gio, the AI teammate that coordinates work across specialized sub-agents (Strategy, Design, Engineering, QA), and Turbo Squad, which provides the human oversight and expertise. Customers engage through Slack and codebase integration, with the platform handling the full product lifecycle from roadmapping through deployment. The offering is delivered as a subscription service with pay-as-you-go scaling.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Gio: AI teammate who serves as a full-time strategist, designer, coder, tester, shipper, and reporter for product teams. Gio coordinates frontier agents and human experts to ensure the right specialist is always working.
• Turbo Squad

Products and services

• Gio Gio is Turbo AI's AI operating system that functions as an autonomous AI teammate for software engineering teams, capable of planning, building, reviewing, and shipping software across the engineering stack. It integrates with GitHub, Linear, Slack, and Notion and operates through an agent roster architecture accessible via a workspace and project management API.
• Turbo Squad Turbo Squad is a service offering that pairs Turbo AI's AI agents with human engineers to deliver end-to-end product builds for customers. It is sold via a sales-led motion and is targeted at companies that want to ship software products without scaling internal engineering teams.
• Turbo AI Platform The Turbo AI Platform is the company's subscription-based AI software development offering that underpins Gio and supports customers across private markets, K-beauty, edtech, medical supply, and government sectors. It is delivered on a monthly subscription pricing model.

Quantifiable outcome

• Turbo AI has surpassed $13 million in lifetime revenue

Named customers6 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability7 records

Feature4 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Sierra: Enterprise AI agent platform (founded by Bret Taylor) for customer-facing automation. Adjacent emerging player in the AI-agent operating-system category that signals the broader TAM Turbo is targeting.

Direct peers

• v0 (Vercel): Vercel's generative UI/product builder that turns natural language into production-ready React/Next.js applications. Competes for the same startup/founder segment building MVPs and internal tools with AI assistance.
• Bolt.new (StackBlitz): AI-powered web app builder from StackBlitz that prompts, codes, runs, and deploys full-stack applications in-browser. Closely comparable on the 'AI builds your product' proposition targeting founders and small teams.
• Cognition (Devin): Builder of Devin, the autonomous AI software engineer that designs, codes, and ships entire projects. Most direct competitor in agentic end-to-end software delivery and the category benchmark for AI product-team replacement.
• Lovable: AI app-generation platform that lets non-technical founders build and ship full web apps from prompts. Targets the same 'founder without a product team' use case as Turbo Squad, with a pure-software (not human-augmented) delivery model.
• Windsurf (Codeium): AI coding agent/IDE (formerly Codeium) that autonomously writes, edits, and ships code across multi-file projects. Directly comparable agentic-coding product competing for engineering-team mindshare.
• Cursor (Anysphere): AI-native IDE that provides agentic code generation, multi-file edits, and autonomous refactors inside the developer's workflow. Competes for the same founder/builder audience seeking AI-amplified software productivity.

Broad incumbents

• Replit: Browser-based development platform with built-in AI agent for app generation and deployment. Broader incumbent in the 'anyone can build software' category that overlaps with Turbo's founder-and-startup segment.
• GitHub Copilot: Microsoft/GitHub's AI coding assistant with expanding agentic capabilities (workspace, coding agent). A large incumbent alternative that customers may use instead of an external AI product team.
• Adept: Enterprise-focused AI agent platform for software workflows across tools and systems. A broader incumbent in the agentic-AI-for-productivity space that competes for enterprise software-development budgets.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors4 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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