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Building for billions
of digital workers.

GrupaAI is a Pioneer AI Lab building digital humanoid workers and infrastructure for founders, enterprises, and developers to automate operations and build autonomous businesses.

Multi-screen. Multi-device. Multi-application. Multitasking.

01 / The work

What GrupaAI does

02 / The approach

What makes GrupaAI different

A worker across the digital world

We are building a digital humanoid that works through the computers, phones, tablets, watches, browsers, and applications a person uses. It carries the human’s goal and context across the environments where the work happens.

Multiple screens. Multiple tasks. One mission.

Our architecture is designed for multitasking across screens, devices, and applications. A worker should coordinate parallel tasks, preserve context, and carry a mission forward as work moves between environments.

Engineer for work that never stops

A digital workforce must handle interruptions, changing software, and long-running tasks. Our reliability agenda is continuous, 24/7 operation with recovery, observability, and verification built into the worker runtime.

Make security part of the worker

Our engineering standard puts scoped permissions, protected credentials, isolation, and traceable actions at the foundation. People define the boundaries, approve sensitive work, and retain control as workers take on more responsibility.

Build the economics of a digital workforce

Our ambition is infrastructure that can provision and coordinate billions of autonomous digital workers for organizations. We work across perception, reasoning, orchestration, and runtime to reduce the full cost of completing work correctly.

Explore the thinking in our Journal and the execution model in the Workers API documentation.

03 / The people

Who uses GrupaAI

We are building the foundation for the next generation of companies: autonomous businesses and organizations powered by digital workers. GrupaAI serves the founders creating them, the developers building their systems, and the enterprises automating their operations.

  • AI founders building autonomous businesses

    Founders creating the next generation of companies: autonomous businesses and organizations powered by digital workers. They build on GrupaAI’s worker infrastructure to turn their business ideas into operating companies.

  • Enterprises automating operations

    Organizations bringing digital workers into their existing operations, from customer systems and internal tools to vendor portals. They need reliable execution, security, oversight, and coordination across teams and systems.

  • Developers building on worker infrastructure

    Engineers creating AI-native products, agent applications, and services. They use the Workers API to provision workers, coordinate execution, and integrate autonomous work into the systems they build.

  • Founders and growing teams

    Founders using Momentum to move customer acquisition, research, hiring, and everyday operations forward. They direct a worker toward a goal while keeping visibility and control over the work.

  • Consultancies and service businesses

    Teams bringing digital workers into repeatable client work. They build services on GrupaAI while retaining the judgment and accountability their customers depend on.

04 / The people behind it

The team behind GrupaAI

Founder & CEO

Samuel Isidore Ekpe

Samuel founded GrupaAI in March 2026, drawing on his earlier startups, consulting work, and experience running the Grupa.io talent marketplace. Working directly with clients, talent, and delivery gave him firsthand insight into human work and the operations that support it.

Samuel on LinkedIn
Head of Enterprise

Sid Navelkar

Sid previously held vice president roles at Cognizant and Genpact and served as a managing director at Accenture. He brings enterprise leadership experience and deep industry relationships to GrupaAI.

Head of Engineering

Kapil Bodkhe

Kapil brings 16 years of engineering experience, including roles at Oracle and Cisco. He leads engineering at GrupaAI.

Investor & Advisor

Dev Mudaliar

Dev brings nearly three decades of experience, including Teleperformance and TP.ai. He advises GrupaAI on enterprise services and AI in operations, drawing on longstanding relationships across the industry.

Our origin

Software scaled.
The operations still needed people.

An understanding of work, earned by doing it

Before founding GrupaAI, Samuel Ekpe built multiple startups, worked in consulting, and ran the Grupa.io talent marketplace, handling operations, onboarding, and matching. That experience revealed the problem he set out to solve: software could scale, but the operations around it still depended on people doing the work. He founded GrupaAI in March 2026 to build digital humanoid workers and the infrastructure for autonomous businesses.

Build beside the people doing it

We worked onsite with Y Combinator startups during their batches to understand the work they were still doing manually. The first browser and computer workers grew out of those workflows, including early autonomous runs beyond 12 hours.

Learn from production

The work expanded to individuals inside insurance and banking companies. Across 1,583 production iterations reported by our founding team, the focus stayed on the details that make a worker useful in real software: continuity, recovery, permissions, and a completed result.

A desktop worker becomes infrastructure

Revi, a food-ordering startup, asked for an API. Requests from a consulting firm and YC startups pointed in the same direction: developers wanted to build on the worker itself. That demand led us to build the Workers API alongside the Momentum desktop application.

Why a Pioneer AI Lab

Infrastructure for billions of autonomous digital workers.

Our ambition is to make provisioning digital workers as straightforward as provisioning cloud compute. Organizations should be able to deploy and coordinate billions of workers across their software and devices, with reliable execution, security, and human oversight built into the infrastructure.

The standard we are pursuing is reliable, secure, 24/7 work: 10× human performance on defined tasks, higher reliability, and one-tenth the total cost of comparable skilled labor in the world's lowest-cost regions. These are research goals, to be evaluated against completed work, its quality, and the full cost of delivery.

The path from one worker to autonomous organizations
The team we are building

Help define the next era of work.

We are recruiting exceptional people in AI, agents, engineering, research, and security. Our ambition is to build the world's best organization for digital humanoid workers: a lab whose research breakthroughs and engineering discipline make reliable, secure work possible at the scale of billions of workers.

Explore the roles and our interview process
05 / Getting started

How GrupaAI works

  1. Define the work

    Start with an outcome, the systems involved, and what a correct result looks like. Use Momentum for a personal mission, or the Workers API for work inside a product or operation.

  2. Set the boundaries

    Authorize the necessary sessions and tools, set budgets, and decide which actions require approval. For enterprise work, agree the deployment scope and onboarding with our team.

  3. Follow execution and review the result

    Follow the worker's progress, respond when judgment is needed, and inspect the resulting work. Developers can integrate run status, approvals, webhooks, and execution evidence through the API.

For product and deployment questions, email team@grupa.ai or book a conversation. Support arrangements and onboarding depend on the scope of the work.

06 / At a glance

Key facts

Company name
GrupaAI
Type
Pioneer AI Lab
Ambition
Billions of autonomous digital workers, provisioned on demand for reliable, secure, 24/7 work
Founded
March 20, 2026
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Office
Palo Alto, California
Field
Digital robotics and autonomous work
Products
Momentum, Workspace (preview), and Workers API
Core offering
Digital humanoid workers and the infrastructure to run and coordinate their work
Worker scope
Multi-screen, multi-device, multi-application, and multitasking
Who we build for
AI founders building autonomous companies, enterprises automating operations, developers, growing teams, and service businesses
Contract terms
Confirm the commercial terms and any service commitments for your product and deployment with our team.
Services
Desktop workers, worker infrastructure APIs, and enterprise deployment support
Website
grupa.ai
Communication
team@grupa.ai
07 / Questions

Frequently asked questions

What is a digital humanoid worker?

A digital humanoid is an AI worker designed to use digital environments the way a person works: across screens, devices, and applications, while coordinating multiple tasks. People set the goals, permissions, and boundaries; the worker carries the mission through the tools and environments the work requires.

What does GrupaAI mean by digital robotics?

We use digital robotics to describe the engineering of workers that act in software environments. Our focus includes perception, reasoning, action, recovery, and coordination through the interfaces where work already happens.

Should I use Momentum, Workspace, or the Workers API?

Momentum is the personal desktop experience. Workspace previews agents working together, while the Workers API is for developers who want to provision and integrate workers into their own products and operations.

Can one worker coordinate work across devices and applications?

That is central to the digital humanoid we are building: a worker that carries context and coordinates multiple tasks across screens, devices, browsers, and applications. The architecture is designed to support a continuous mission across those environments, with permissions and oversight set by the person or organization directing it.

Does a worker have unrestricted access to my accounts?

No. You authorize the accounts, sessions, and tools used for a mission and set its budgets and approval boundaries. A worker’s authority comes from that delegation.

How do I get started or discuss an enterprise deployment?

Start with Momentum or the Workers API documentation, or contact team@grupa.ai to discuss the workflow. Deployment scope, support arrangements, onboarding time, and any service commitments are agreed for the engagement.

What are GrupaAI’s scale, performance, and cost goals?

Our ambition is infrastructure for billions of autonomous digital workers carrying out reliable, secure work around the clock. We are pursuing 10× human performance on defined tasks, higher reliability, and one-tenth the total cost of comparable skilled labor in the world’s lowest-cost regions. These are research goals, evaluated against task quality, reliability, completion rate, and the full cost of delivery.