HubSpot co-founder Dharmesh Shah entered the AI space with Agent.ai, an agent platform designed to help users create and collaborate with custom AI agents.
First announced at the INBOUND 2024 conference, the project has already gained 258,000 users in just four months, significantly exceeding its original goal.
“At the time of launch, I wanted to get on stage and say that thousands of users were already in the beta. As it turns out, I was right. We had 47,000 users,” Shah shared in a recent update on LinkedIn.
The platform allows creators to experiment with low-code tools and build agents tailored to specific use cases, from analyzing personal health data to optimizing workflows. It also serves as a professional network and marketplace, with over 3,400 agents built to date, including contributions from HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan.
“Currently, there are 14,422 builders approved to create agents, of which 1,697 have created agents,” Shah said, highlighting the platform’s accessibility and ecosystem growth.
Agent.ai’s rapid adoption highlights the potential to democratize AI innovation and reach everyone from professionals to middle school students. With Shah’s hands-on approach, the platform is continually evolving with the aim of bridging the gap between AI tools and real-world applications.
“This is the most fun we’ve built since ChatSpot (now Breeze Copilot),” Shah added, expressing his excitement about this innovative project.
Shah is currently building an agent on top of Agent.ai that processes data from Oura Ring (using an API). Although the exact use case is unknown, we are considering a chat agent to query data insights such as sleep patterns, average bedtime, and correlations such as readiness scores with social media activity and engagement.
“Imagine one day being able to take some of your health/sleep data and intersect it with your meeting/transcription data. Will it change?” he asked in a social media post.
A few days ago, Shah said that the future will be all about agents. “Even with the large language models we currently have, we want to empower our teams and create useful AI agents that can take on some of the tasks they need to perform to achieve their goals. “I think it’s possible,” he said. He expects that as the underlying technology improves over the course of this year, there could be more use cases using AI agents.
Shah confirmed that it is currently running independently of HubSpot, but hopes it will eventually be incorporated into HubSpot.
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The agent AI craze continues, with big tech companies and startups alike working to build customized agents for their customers. The AI agent market is experiencing promising growth. The market is expected to reach $47.1 billion by 2030, up from $5.1 billion in 2024, with Indian entrepreneurs in particular driving the growth.
Indian founders in the AI startup space are increasingly driving this growth. Several founders say that advances in the underlying models have made it easier and cheaper to build AI agents.
Recently, Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella introduced Copilot Studio, a conversational AI platform that helps users build AI agents, at the Microsoft AI Tour at Namma Bangalore. “Building an agent should be as easy as creating a spreadsheet,” says Nadella.
Similarly, at the AI Pitchfield event, Salesforce India head Arundhati Bhattacharya expressed enthusiasm about the Agentic startup front in India.
“India’s startup ecosystem is the third largest in the world and is uniquely positioned to address billion-plus challenges. “The advances we’re seeing in agent AI are incredible,” she said.
