Motion’s AI Agents Scale Scheduling to $10M ARR Fast

At 23 Harry Qi walked away from a lucrative quant career to build Motion, an AI calendaring and task-management startup he founded with two friends out of Y Combinator. What began as a consumer-focused scheduling tool evolved into a suite of agentic apps aimed at small and mid-sized businesses that can’t build custom agents in-house.

From hedge funds to integrated AI agents

Qi, Omid Rooholfada and Ethan Yu left high-paying quant roles after joining YC in Winter 2020. Over six years they iterated on scheduling, task automation and productivity features, eventually adding a fourth cofounder and expanding into agentic workflows for businesses.

What Motion built

Motion bundles multiple named AI agents into one integrated platform so workflows and data flow between functions. The suite includes scheduling and executive assistant features plus agents for sales, customer support and content marketing, tied into apps businesses already use.

• Executive assistant: scheduling, note-taking, automated replies
• Sales rep agent: outreach, follow-ups, CRM updates
• Customer support agent: triage, replies and ticket updates
• Marketing assistant: blog and social content generation

Agents connect to Slack, Google Apps, Teams, Salesforce and other SMB tools. Motion sells via usage credits: plans range from $29/month for limited access up to $600/month for larger seats and full agent access, with custom pricing for bigger deployments.

Rapid traction and backers

After launching an integrated agent bundle for SMBs, Motion saw that segment grow to more than 10,000 B2B customers and roughly $10 million in ARR within four months. That surge attracted a five-times oversubscribed $38 million Series C and a preemptive C2 round valuing the company at about $550 million.

Why integrated agents matter

Motion’s thesis is simple: businesses don’t want a pile of point solutions that don’t share context. Integrated agents let an automated assistant schedule meetings, surface notes to a sales agent, and turn customer conversations into marketing topics — all without manual handoffs. That composability is a key selling point.

Risks and open questions

Motion faces competition across specialized AI tools and platform vendors. Key challenges include maintaining agent reliability, managing costs as usage scales, and ensuring data privacy when agents integrate with core business apps.

What this means for SMBs and tech leaders

For organizations with limited engineering budgets, off-the-shelf integrated agents are suddenly viable shortcuts to automation. The decision now is less about whether to use AI and more about which vendor provides predictable costs, trustworthy integrations and measurable productivity gains.

How QuarkyByte approaches this trend

We help teams evaluate agent platforms against real use cases, model ROI under credit- and usage-based pricing, and design integration and governance plans so agents talk to CRMs, calendars and support systems safely. That way leaders can capture the productivity upside without unexpected costs or compliance gaps.