Marble Cognition launched today with $3.75 million in pre-seed funding to build AI agents that learn how employees actually perform their jobs before taking the work over. The Munich-based startup's round was led by Heartcore and Seedcamp, with participation from angel investors including executives from McKinsey & Co. and Mistral AI and a board member of Datadog Inc.
The company was co-founded by German AI engineers Felix Rösner and Christophe Schmit, who concluded that AI agents have already become a commodity used in some form by nearly every enterprise. Most organizations deploy agents mainly to write software, but Rösner argues that capturing real value requires giving autonomous workers the detailed operational context that shows what should be built and automated.
Marble's answer is a desktop application that observes how employees use their tools and processes, taking screenshots and recording clicks and keystrokes. It converts that data into a structured process map that AI agents can read and execute in a manner similar to code. Employees and managers concerned about privacy are told the recorded data is anonymized and can be reviewed before it reaches any AI models, and processing can run inside a customer's private cloud or on-premises environment. The system also learns to recognize personal computer use, excluding activity such as browsing Facebook during lunch from what it collects.
Once the data is gathered, Marble deploys what it calls Coworkers, agents built to take over the most repetitive processes and run them end-to-end across an organization's existing software, with humans kept in the loop for important decisions. Rösner said the approach works the way a company's best employees do their jobs.
Marble said early adopters including EGYM GmbH, Mutares SE & Co. KGaA and Enam GmbH have seen efficiency gains. At one private equity-backed U.S. financial services firm, Coworkers were set up to prepare settlement offers for human review, cutting case-handling times by 90% and allowing staff to process roughly 50% more claims without additional hiring.
Seedcamp General Partner Reshma Sohoni, an early backer of robotic process automation firm UiPath Inc., said most companies want to automate more of their work, and the difficult part has always been mapping how the work gets done. Sohoni said Marble fills that gap by giving companies context for AI transformations.
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