COWORKED
Techstars '24Bellingham, US · Founded 2023 · 9 employees on LinkedIn · 3 known investors
Coworked provides Harmony, an AI agent that serves as a project manager for enterprise teams. The platform integrates with existing systems and workflows to automate administrative tasks, allowing project managers to focus on strategic leadership rather than manual coordination.
Also known as Coworked Harmony · Coworked, Inc.
Founders & leadership
COWORKED was founded in 2023 by Shawn, Ravi, Sulak, and Shawn D. Harris.
Investors · 3
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Coworked, Inc. is an enterprise AI company that develops Harmony, an agentic "AI project manager coworker" aimed at large-scale programs and PMOs. Rather than shipping another dashboard or user interface, Harmony is positioned as headless AI that operates inside the systems, channels and processes an enterprise already runs, including email, chat, voice and project and portfolio tools such as Microsoft Project and Planner, Atlassian Jira, Smartsheet, Fluid, ServiceNow, Salesforce and NH360.
Harmony is designed to perform the day-to-day work of project management: assembling and maintaining the full program context across systems, conversations and decisions; keeping plans and status current; managing RAID (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies); chasing actions to closure; pressing for decisions and escalating stalled progress; scheduling meetings; and generating status reports. Over time it accumulates organizational context across teams, systems and stakeholders so that its execution reflects how a given enterprise actually delivers, capturing delivery knowledge that would otherwise leave with departing staff. The product is described as being grounded in project management best practice and orchestrated by a system of hundreds of agents.
Typical program contexts cited by the company include cloud migration, post-merger integration, Basel III and DORA regulatory programs, EHR consolidation and AI platform deployment. The company states it is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified and publishes governance, controls and trust-center material for enterprise security review.
Founding story
Coworked was founded by Shawn Harris (PMP, CEO), Ravi Linganuri (CTO) and Dr. Sulak Soysa (Chief AI Officer). The founders describe the company as a response to the gap between project management as a strategic leadership craft and its reality as administrative work. Harris draws on decades at IBM, Dell and Zebra observing how enterprise programs succeed and fail; Linganuri built Target's engineering hub in India; Soysa led AI teams at Deloitte. Rather than building another dashboard, they set out to build an agentic coworker that uses a customer's existing systems and absorbs the administrative load so project managers can act as project leaders.
Business model
Coworked sells Harmony as enterprise software, positioning it as an AI labor model that expands PMO delivery capacity without adding project manager headcount and without requiring seat licenses for a new tool. Coworked owns the product sale, pricing, contracting, procurement, deployment, onboarding and ongoing support, while channel partners layer advisory, implementation, adoption, governance and staffing services around Harmony engagements.
Subscription-based software revenue, referenced in the partner program as first-year net subscription fees with renewals. Partner-sourced business carries a 10% referral fee on first-year net subscription fees, paid quarterly on amounts collected.
Traction
Publicly disclosed traction is limited to a $1.8 million round announced in May 2026 from Open Opportunity Fund, Two Ravens, Underdog Labs and Techstars; SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certification; a launched partner program listing selected partners; and a pilot-based commercial motion starting with a single customer program.
Latest developments
In May 2026 Coworked announced a $1.8 million funding round co-led by Open Opportunity Fund and Two Ravens, with participation from Underdog Labs and Techstars, to accelerate development and deployment of Harmony, expand engineering and deployment teams, deepen enterprise platform integrations and scale go-to-market. The company also operates a partner referral program for PMO advisory, staffing and implementation firms.
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Market position
Coworked positions Harmony against project management tooling and dashboards, arguing that project delivery is a labor-capacity problem rather than a tooling one, and cites a Project Management Institute figure that the industry needs 25 million additional project managers by 2030. Its investor Open Opportunity Fund frames the company as an example of agentic AI filling enterprise talent gaps, citing the founding team's project management domain expertise as differentiating.
The product performs the project manager role rather than providing coordination support or reporting, and does so without introducing a new UI, dashboard or seat licenses — working inside the customer's incumbent systems and communication channels. Other stated differentiators are accumulation of organizational and tribal delivery knowledge over time, an agent architecture grounded in project management best practice, founders with operating experience in enterprise project management at Fortune 500 companies, and SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certification.
Technology
Headless agentic AI: a system of hundreds of orchestrated agents that operate through existing enterprise systems and communication channels (email, chat, voice, project and portfolio management tools) instead of a dedicated application interface. Integrations cited include Microsoft Project and Planner, Atlassian Jira, Smartsheet, Fluid, ServiceNow, Salesforce and NH360. The company reports SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certification and publishes governance and controls documentation.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales anchored on a land-and-expand motion: prospects are invited to start with a single program or initiative as a pilot, with the engagement measured on how well Harmony performs the project manager role, the capacity it returns to the team, and progress against the program's expected value. The website offers a live voice conversation with Harmony as an entry point. This is complemented by a non-exclusive partner referral program targeting PMO advisory firms, PMO staffing and delivery firms, and transformation and implementation partners, with a 12-month influence window from accepted lead registration. Funding proceeds are being applied in part to scaling go-to-market.
Enterprise PMOs, transformation offices, IT and operations organizations running large multi-workstream, multi-year programs; the company references a Fortune 500-focused customer base and named solution areas of PMO and transformation as well as rollouts and field execution.
Geography
Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with a global team; a co-founder previously built an engineering hub in India.
History
The founding team combines project management practitioners, AI researchers and enterprise builders from IBM, Dell, Zebra, Target and Deloitte, with multiple prior exits reported. The company developed Harmony as a headless agentic AI project manager, obtained SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certification, and in May 2026 announced a $1.8 million funding round co-led by Open Opportunity Fund and Two Ravens with participation from Underdog Labs and Techstars, to be used to expand engineering and deployment teams, deepen enterprise integrations and scale go-to-market.
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Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsCoworked announced a $1.8 million funding round co-led by Open Opportunity Fund and Two Ravens, with participation from Underdog Labs and Techstars. Proceeds are earmarked for expanding engineering and deployment teams, deepening enterprise platform integrations, and scaling go-to-market.
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Coworked is reported as SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does COWORKED do?
- Coworked builds Harmony, an agentic AI project manager that performs enterprise PMO coordination work inside existing systems.
- Who founded COWORKED?
- COWORKED was founded by Shawn, Ravi, Sulak, Shawn D. Harris in 2023.
- Who are COWORKED's investors?
- COWORKED's investors include Open Opportunity Fund, Techstars, Two Ravens.
- Where is COWORKED headquartered?
- COWORKED is headquartered in Bellingham, US.