This week / Lists / AI operating systems
Updated November 13, 2026
AI operating systems startups to watch, week of November 9, 2026
Platforms that let a whole organization build, run and govern AI agents across functions, rather than one department or one task.
This week's top 3: Unframe (score 74, headcount +92% in 3 months); Dust (score 67, headcount +13.2% in 3 months); Lyzr (score 61, headcount +41.3% in 3 months).
| # | Company | Momentum | Headcount | Headcount 3m | Web visits 3m | Last round |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unframe Enterprise AI platform that delivers tailored AI solutions on a shared blueprint, sold on outcomes. | 74 | 167 | +92% | +161% | Series B, $50M (May 2026) |
| 2 | Dust Enterprise platform for building custom AI agents connected to company knowledge and internal tools. | 67 | 163 | +13.2% | +57.5% | Series B, $40M (May 2026) |
| 3 | Lyzr Enterprise agent platform for building and deploying agents across business functions, with a focus on banking and insurance. | 61 | 202 | +41.3% | +25.1% | Series B, $100M (Jul 2026) |
| 4 | Langdock Berlin-based enterprise AI workspace for company-wide chat, assistants and agents with model choice. | 60 | 36 | 0% | +119% | Seed, $3M (Apr 2024) |
| 5 | CrewAI Open-source multi-agent framework with a commercial platform for deploying agent crews in enterprises. | 53 | 74 | 0% | +46.3% | Series B (Jul 2026) |
| 6 | Distyl AI Builds and deploys AI systems inside large enterprises, combining a platform with forward-deployed engineering. | 49 | 187 | +8.1% | +0.8% | Series B, $175M (Sep 2025) |
| 7 | Credal Secure enterprise platform for building AI agents with permission-aware access to company data. | 47 | 18 | -5.3% | +108% | Series A, $5M (Nov 2024) |
| 8 | Enhans Enterprise agent platform (AgentOS) that generates workflows across commerce, pricing, quality and document operations. | 47 | 80 | 0% | -52% | Funding Round (Oct 2026) |
| 9 | Glean Enterprise search and work AI platform that connects company apps and lets employees build agents on that context. | 47 | 1.7K | +16.7% | +11.6% | Series F (Jun 2025) |
| 10 | Kore.ai Enterprise platform for conversational and agentic AI across customer service, employee experience and process automation. | 44 | 1.2K | -1.3% | +23.8% | PE Growth (Jan 2026) |
| 11 | Beam AI Agentic process automation platform that runs back-office workflows with AI agents. | 43 | 61 | -3.2% | +25.2% | Seed (Aug 2025) |
| 12 | Genspark General-purpose AI agent workspace that produces documents, slides, sheets and research from one prompt. | 41 | 74 | 0% | +35.2% | Series B (Nov 2025) |
| 13 | Maisa Builds 'digital workers' that run multi-step enterprise processes with an auditable reasoning trail. | 36 | 93 | -1.1% | +8.8% | Seed, $25M (Aug 2025) |
| 14 | Airia Enterprise AI orchestration platform covering agent building, security and governance. | 35 | 170 | -1.1% | +27.7% | Funding Round, $100M (Sep 2025) |
| 15 | Sema4.ai Enterprise AI agent platform for knowledge work automation, built by the team behind Robocorp. | 31 | 49 | +8.9% | -6% | Series A, $25M (Jul 2025) |
| 16 | Writer Full-stack enterprise generative AI platform with its own Palmyra models, agent builder and governance. | 25 | 628 | +10% | -53.4% | Series C, $200M (Nov 2024) |
| 17 | Relevance AI Platform for building and running teams of AI agents for business workflows without heavy engineering. | 23 | 117 | -5.6% | -14.1% | Series B, $24M (May 2025) |
| 18 | Vellum Platform for building, evaluating and shipping AI agents and workflows, aimed at product and ops teams. | 18 | 32 | -5.9% | -23.6% | Series A, $20M (Jul 2025) |
| 19 | Contextual AI Enterprise platform for grounded, retrieval-based AI agents over company documents. | 14 | 28 | -26.3% | -29.2% | Series A, $80M (Aug 2024) |
| 20 | SPIRITT Workspace platform where each AI agent gets its own cloud computer, memory and tool access, sold as an operating system for company-wide AI transformation. | 11 | 17 | -5.6% | -95.4% | Seed (Jul 2023) |
Scores compare each company with all 89 tracked companies, not only this list. Read the methodology, see past weeks, or open a company for every number and its source.