$10M/year clawd-ification of Zapier

TL;DR: After pivoting away from its email client Shortwave, OpenClaw-inspired cloud agent Tasklet has experienced explosive growth in 2026 with Sacra estimating that it’s grown from sub-$1M ARR to $10M in 5 months. Now, it’s competing to become the agent for all white-collar work against the likes of Claude Cowork and OpenAI Codex. For more, check out our full report and dataset.

We first covered Shortwave pre-pivot to Tasklet in 2022 with our interview of Jacob Wenger, co-founder and Chief Product Officer (now departed and working at Notion as of 2024). We’re following up on Tasklet after their pivot and $20M funding round with Union Square Ventures (April 2026).

Key points via Sacra AI:

After co-founding Firebase (2011, acquired by Google in 2014), Andrew Lee started the Google Inbox-inspired email client Shortwave (2020) before spinning out its fledgling AI agent feature as Tasklet, an OpenClaw-style personal agent that lives in the cloud, with a chat based frontend that could actually take action in the apps that you use every day. Built for prosumers that want to use OpenClaw but don’t want to self-host it & maintain it, Tasklet offers its cloud service through usage-based subscriptions starting at $25/month (Starter), driving expansion via AI-credit spend as users move from simple if-this-then-that email automations to more complex workflows, with the upside of using the prosumer as a foothold into companies & B2B.
Producing roughly $0 revenue over its first ~4 years, Shortwave’s growth bumped up to $250K after launching its first agent (Fall 2024) which it then spun out as Tasklet in October 2025, with its growth accelerating dramatically from there and hitting as Sacra-estimated $10M ARR in May 2026, up from $385K at the end of 2025. Compare to AI executive assistant Fyxer AI at $30M annualized revenue in 2025, up 2,900% year-over-year from $1M in 2024, AI-powered agentic workspaces Manus at $127M annualized revenue in 2025 & Genspark at $250M annualized revenue as of March 2026, up from $85M at the end of 2025, AI app builder Replit at $525M in annualized revenue in April 2026, up from $300M at the end of 2025 (+1,775% YoY), and the Grammarly-Superhuman bundle at ~$735M ARR as of June 2025, with Grammarly at $700M ARR and Superhuman’s email client at $35M ARR.
The market is converging on the idea of an agent for all white-collar work, with foundation model labs building first-party agents like Claude Cowork & OpenAI Codex on top of coding agents, app builders like Replit expanding from text-to-app to more asset types like slides, first-wave agents like Manus & Genspark moving downstream into slides & design from upstream research and no-code productivity stalwarts Zapier & Airtable (via its new product Hyperagent) going agent-first. AI agent upstarts have focused more narrowly on discrete workflows as a wedge, including Fyxer with email triage, Tasklet with app integrations & workflows, and Lindy & Howie with scheduling, where the bet is that habitual use and deepening user context can help them move to adjacent workflows.

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