Executive Summary


  • Company: Composite Sciences, Inc.
  • Description: Composite is an AI-powered browser extension that automates repetitive digital tasks to enhance professional productivity.

  • Key Business Metrics:
    • Funding $5.6M in seed round
    • Primary Investors: Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Menlo Ventures, Anthropic Anthology Fund
    • Customer Base: includes professionals at hundreds of companies including Google, Uber, DoorDash, Tesla, Salesforce and Reddit.
    • Value Proposition: Composite transforms your existing browser into an intelligent autopilot that predicts and automates your busywork, saving time and reducing manual errors.

Company Overview:


  • Business Model: Composite operates on a freemium model, with a free version for 30 days and a starting price of $20 per month for the paid version. The company generates revenue through subscriptions to its browser automation tool.
  • Target Market: Composite targets professionals who perform repetitive browser-based tasks such as form filling, data entry, and site navigation. Their early user base isn't just from small startups; it includes employees at some of the most respected and technologically sophisticated companies in the world.
  • Product/Service: Composite is a local browser-based AI agent that integrates into existing macOS and Windows browsers. It uses AI to automate tasks based on user behavior and plain English descriptions. The tool operates locally on the user's device, ensuring privacy and security.
  • Geographic Presence: The company is based in San Francsico, United States

Leadership Team:


  • Founders:
    • Yang Fan Yun (Co-Founder & CEO): Yang Fan Yun was New Zealand's national valedictorian and achieved the highest GPA in Stanford's Computer Science department. He previously worked as a Product Manager at Uber.
    • Charlie Deane (Co-Founder): Charlie Deane has a background in building tools that operate behind the scenes of the internet, with experience in server proxies and web infrastructure.
  • Team Composition: The team is comprised of individuals with strong technical backgrounds in computer science, AI, and web infrastructure.

Competitive Landscape:


  • Direct Competitors:
    • Perplexity Comet
    • Arc Max
    • Microsoft Edge Co-pilot
    • Brave Leo
    • Opera Aria
    • Sigma AI
  • Competitive Advantages:
    • Zero Setup: Works instantly on any website with a 30-second install.
    • Learns From You: Proactively suggests tasks to automate based on user behavior.
    • Multi-Task Freely: Runs in the background, allowing users to work on other tasks.
    • No Lock-in: No data or AI lock-in, and it works with the user's existing browser.

Potential Risks or Challenges:

  • Execution: The vision is ambitious. Building an AI that can reliably and accurately learn and automate a wide variety of complex user workflows is a major technical challenge.
  • Competition: The market is heating up. While Composite has a strong strategic position, it will be competing for attention and users with both well-funded startups and, eventually, the major tech incumbents (Google, Microsoft).
  • Monetization: The company has not yet detailed its pricing strategy. Finding the right balance between a free offering to drive adoption and a premium offering that captures value will be critical.
  • B2C to B2B Clients: The crucial step of proving to moving upmarket and secure business clients.

Recent Developments & Insights:


  • Composite announced a $5.6 million seed funding round.
  • The company launched its platform on Windows, expanding beyond its Mac-only beta.
  • Composite introduced personalization features that detect and automate rote tasks, as well as a new "Spotlight View" to improve user experience.

Key Insights

  • Enhance Personalization: VentureBeat article notes plans to "launch new personalization features that watch your actual work habits, detect the rote tasks bogging you down, and complete them automatically."
  • Improve Core Functionality: The TechCrunch article notes they are "aiming to develop a better mechanism to automatically surface tasks" and working on a "way to schedule tasks."
  • Build Enterprise-Ready Features: VentureBeat article notes their plan to "add enterprise collaboration capabilities."
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