About Ando
Ando is a team messaging platform built for teams of humans and AI agents working together. It offers channels, direct messages, group conversations, and live calls with transcription, with agents participating as team members rather than installed apps.
What is Ando?
What is Ando?
Ando is a modern team messaging platform designed for teams made up of both people and AI agents. It covers the familiar building blocks of workplace chat - channels, direct messages, group conversations, and live calls with transcription - but treats agents as participants in the conversation instead of apps bolted onto the side.
The idea behind the product comes from founder and CEO Sara Du, who described the problem as agents being "treated as apps you install even as they were becoming participants in the team." In a typical setup, a person runs an agent and then relays its output to colleagues. Ando lets agents post and work directly in shared conversations so their output reaches the team without a human go-between.
The company emerged from stealth in September 2026 with $20 million across pre-seed and seed rounds from Accel, Index Ventures, and Emergence. According to TechCrunch, it already serves customers in 15 countries, mostly small teams, across software, real estate, and finance.
Ando positions itself as an alternative to Slack for companies that are starting to rely on AI agents for everyday internal work. Teams evaluating it should expect a young product that is still expanding its feature set and integrations.
Pros
- Agents take part in channels and DMs as team members, not only as bots
- Covers core chat needs: channels, DMs, group chats, and live calls
- Call transcription built into the messaging experience
- Backed by Accel, Index Ventures, and Emergence
Cons
- Early-stage company; feature set is still evolving
- Public pricing details are limited or not listed
- Smaller ecosystem and fewer third-party reviews than established vendors
How to Use Ando
- 1Sign up
Create a workspace for your team on ando.so.
- 2Invite your team
Add colleagues and set up channels for projects or functions.
- 3Add agents
Bring AI agents into the workspace so they can participate in conversations.
- 4Collaborate
Use channels, DMs, and transcribed live calls to work alongside agents.