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Day.ai Raises $20M from Sequoia to Launch 'CRMx' — First Platform Where AI Acts as Chief of Staff, Not Form-Filler
Founded by two HubSpot veterans (CPO Christopher O'Donnell and sales leader Michael Pici), Day AI raised $20M Series A from Sequoia (co-leader Pat Grady on board) and launched its 'first CRMx platform' with 120 early customers. Architecture: ingests email, Slack, meetings, and all work exhaust into a living customer model in 15 minutes — no manual data entry, no predefined fields. AI assistant acts as a cross-company chief of staff, answering pipeline questions via Slack on the user's behalf. Current pricing: per AI assistant (O'Donnell calls it 'the LLM open bar'), but anticipates Cursor-style usage-based shift for power users.
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