Join us in welcoming Mixus, an AI agent unlike any other that will change how teams of all kinds get work done and move faster. Mixus lifted off from Stanford in late 2024. It allows users to easily see which tasks are open across all or any given Jira project and automatically generates reports on overdue work. Mixus has raised a total of $2.3 million in pre-seed funding. This formidable support has allowed the company to bring on a mixed bag of clients like national clothing store Rainbow Shops.
Mixus enables a variety of operators to remain deeply engaged with the decision-making process. This stakeholder-driven approach encourages an environment of independent oversight while increasing the public’s trust in autonomous task management. This design philosophy allows teams to utilize AI without relinquishing control, ensuring that human judgment remains integral to task completion.
Elliot Katz, co-founder of Mixus, describes the concept behind the platform as an advanced version of “Google Alerts on steroids.” The AI agents would now be able to dynamically and autonomously adapt to their organizational contexts by figuring out task ownership based on Jira tickets. This rich functionality makes it easy for teams to simplify their processes and still have a clear understanding of who’s responsible for what.
Users can quickly create and customize agents using a chat interface, or by providing instructions via email to agent@mixus.com. For instance, a user might instruct Mixus to “create an agent that finds all open tasks in Jira in project mixus-dummy, and send me a report with information on all tasks that are overdue.” The AI can pretty immediately create and display the initial drafts of these emails to the relevant assignees, for review before sending. Such ease of use significantly enhances productivity.
Additionally, Mixus has a distinct ability for agents to save collective memory between different users. “Spaces” is a truly revolutionary feature that extends the power of collaboration. It allows teams or departments to leverage a shared memory, uniting every agent and document associated with that area of expertise. As described by Magzimof, a user, “Then all my agents, all my files, all the people can be in that very specific Space’s memory.”
Mixus allows users the flexibility to bring in human verifiers at different points of task flow. Katz explains the importance of this feature: “We enable colleague oversight. We don’t mandate colleague oversight.” This flexibility allows teams to determine when human intervention is necessary, ensuring that the AI agents operate within well-defined parameters.
Mixus works in concert with a variety of different applications, like Gmail and Jira. This puts the ability to initiate agent actions at users’ fingertips, whether immediately or in a scheduled future period. Combined with other design features, this functionality greatly increases the potential for automation while still allowing users to maintain control.
The platform’s user-friendliness is cited as the platform’s most impressive characteristic. It therefore allows the creation of agents by teams without deep training or technical experience. Katz adds that “we’re meeting customers where they are today,” answering the familiar misperception about AI agents. He acknowledges that “most of the world, most of America, doesn’t even know what an AI agent is or why it’s helpful for them,” indicating a significant opportunity for education and outreach.
Here’s how Mixus shines in comparison with other AI tools including ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot. It offers built-in capabilities to enable people to complete simple or complex actions directly within their inboxes. The collaborative platform enables users to open and customize a live document or worksheet “in-line”— boosting collaboration, communication and productivity.