Deel's Akai agent learned by recording employee screens, automated 3,000+ hours of finance work
JafarNajafov · x · 2026-09-22
While hitting $140M ARR in 90 days, Deel quietly built Akai, an AI agent trained by recording employees' screens as they worked. It has already automated 3,000+ hours of month-end finance work — matching bank transactions against NetSuite, pulling data across systems, screenshotting for auditors, chasing missing info across teams, and submitting paperwork into FloQast across 100+ finance managers and 300+ entities. An employee shows it the process once; it captures the steps into a reusable workflow, stores new edge cases as they appear, and can share the workflow with a colleague abroad. Deel is now opening it to other companies.
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