No-code workflow automation startup Bardeen Inc. today launched out of stealth mode, announcing it has raised $3.5 million in a seed round that included 468 Capital and FirstMark Capital as investors.

Founded in 2020, Bardeen offers a no-code platform designed to provide workflow automation that helps knowledge workers become more productive.

The company’s platform is pitched as enabling everyone to automate mundane and repetitive tasks that are part of everyday life at work and beyond. That includes copying information from apps into a spreadsheet, scraping data from the web, finding email addresses or reminding participants about an upcoming meeting.

Bardeen argues that over the last decade there has been an explosion of modern, well-designed tools such as Slack, Zoom, Google Sheets, Airtable and Twitter. But users have been left with the time-consuming and often mind-numbing task of constantly switching among those apps and moving data across them many times each day.

The company’s service was designed as an easy-to-use platform to help orchestrate repetitive workflows across apps. Users can download the Bardeen browser extension and pick whichever tasks they want to automate from a broad range of options and playbooks. With Bardeen, the company claims that “we don’t have to work for our apps, instead we can finally fully make them work for us.”

In short, Bardeen offers one-click automation for repetitive tasks. The service replaces repetitive tasks with a single shortcut, allowing users to control their web apps from anywhere. The plugin is said to to allow users to delegate low-level tasks to technology.

Out of the box, Bardeen’s platform comes with integrations to commonly used tools such as Google Workspace, Jira, Slack, Trello, Notion, Airtable and Coda, including its own built-in tools that include a website data scraper and artificial intelligence modules for optical character recognition, text-to-speech and more. The platform ships with hundreds of pre-build “Playbooks” which can be instantly used by new users to automate their workflows with just one click.

“As engineers and product leaders, we tend to think in terms of systems that can be optimized and it was clear to us that the way we all go about our workdays is a vastly under-optimized system with a lot of room for improvement,” Pascal Weinberger, co-founder and chief executive office of Bardeen, said in a statement. “We built Bardeen to remove the time sink and give users the superpower to automate manual workflows with just one click. Things that can be done by machines should be done by machines, and that’s where our focus is.”

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