Duckbill
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Duckbill provides an execution layer that connects AI agents to human labor pools, triaging, routing, executing, and quality-checking real-world tasks such as phone calls, form submissions, and in-person errands that require a human in the loop. It offers direct app access and API, MCP, and CLI integrations so AI products can complete actions with businesses that lack digital interfaces, primarily in the US.
Also known as Duckbill
Founders & leadership
Investors · 11
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Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements- Undisclosed amountseed and Series AApr 2025
Forerunner Ventures (lead), Future Back Ventures, G9 Ventures, General Catalyst, Greycroft, Inspired Capital, Offline Ventures, Red Antler
Source ↗ - Undisclosed amountSeed and Series ASep 2023Source ↗
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Duckbill offers what it describes as an executive assistant for a subscriber's personal life, combining generative AI with human experts who carry out tasks in the physical and offline world. Users submit requests through an app, text message, email, voice memo, chat, or a forwarded message (including from an AI assistant such as Claude); AI breaks the request into steps and human operators pick up and complete the work. Task categories the company highlights include customer service and administrative disputes (refunds, billing errors, cancellations, denied insurance claims, negotiating bills), vendor research and discovery (collecting quotes, price comparisons, locating providers without a web presence), and appointments and reservations (doctors and dentists that accept a given insurance plan, restaurants without online booking, car maintenance).
The company positions itself against AI-only tools that can research or draft but cannot complete tasks that require phone trees, hold queues, negotiation, or persistence with counterparties. Its public task directory groups offerings into themes such as "Life On Autopilot," "Key Life Transitions" and "Life Happens," with sub-categories for people, essentials, money, health and self, spanning gifting, calendar management, reservations, pet grooming, catering and similar errands.
Founding story
Founder and CEO Meghan Verena Joyce, previously a regional general manager at Uber, developed the idea from personal experience struggling to keep up with everyday tasks such as booking doctors' appointments, filing insurance claims and grocery planning, and from observing friends and family facing the same load. The company argues that personal assistants have historically been a non-scalable luxury and that advances in generative AI, paired with human experts, make a scalable version possible. The name refers to a duck's bill as a tool for anticipating and handling risks.
Business model
Duckbill operates a membership/service model in which members delegate personal "life admin" tasks that are executed by Duckbill's human experts supported by AI. Task submission is available through multiple channels including app, text, email, voice memo and chat.
Traction
Duckbill reported completing thousands of tasks for beta members at its September 2023 launch, and its website states more than 16 million real-world interactions handled. The founder said the team doubled following the Series A. The company has raised $33 million in seed and Series A funding.
Latest developments
Duckbill has been featured on NBC News with Meghan Verena Joyce and Nina Rodríguez and on News Nation discussing travel disruptions during a government shutdown, was recognized among the top 50 most promising startups of 2025, and published a survey with The Harris Poll finding that 65% of American parents are "just getting through the day" rather than enjoying it.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
The company presents itself as making personal-assistant support, historically available only to a small, affluent group, broadly accessible. It was named to The Information's list of the 50 most promising startups in 2025 and states that it has handled more than 16 million real-world interactions.
Rather than fully automating tasks, Duckbill deliberately retains human operators for steps requiring nuance, persistence and negotiation, such as phone trees, hold queues and disputes with companies, while using AI for speed and task decomposition. Management frames the human-in-the-loop approach as job-creating rather than job-replacing.
Technology
Duckbill describes an "execution engine" built on generative AI with humans in the loop: AI anticipates, researches and decomposes tasks, while human experts perform steps that require phone calls, negotiation, bureaucratic navigation and judgment.
Go-to-market
Early growth came from a pilot with a small group of friends and family that generated proof-of-concept data and word-of-mouth referrals, followed by a public launch in September 2023. The company also uses media appearances (NBC News, News Nation), conference appearances (The Information's WTF summit) and original research published with The Harris Poll to reach prospective members.
Busy consumers and working parents in the US who want to delegate personal administrative work, including professionals balancing careers with household tasks; a Duckbill/Harris Poll study focused on American parents.
Geography
United States; the company references US-specific contexts such as US insurance networks, REAL ID and American parents in its research with The Harris Poll.
History
Duckbill publicly launched its service on September 23, 2023, announcing $33 million in seed and Series A funding after operating a beta with early members. Joyce initially bootstrapped the concept with her own money and piloted it with friends and family before raising outside capital. Since the Series A the team has roughly doubled, and the product has expanded to accept tasks routed from AI assistants.
Compiled by commissioned research from 6 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
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Timeline · 4
launches, deals, and filingsDuckbill was recognized among the 50 most promising startups of 2025; founder Meghan Verena Joyce spoke at The Information's WTF summit.
A report from Duckbill and The Harris Poll found that 65% of surveyed American parents are "just getting through the day" rather than enjoying it, with about half of married parents earning over $100,000 reporting the same.
The company disclosed $33 million raised across seed and Series A rounds led by Forerunner Ventures, with Greycroft Partners, Inspired Capital, General Catalyst, G9 Ventures, Red Antler, Future Back Ventures by Bain & Company and Offline Ventures participating.
$33M source ↗
Duckbill announced the public launch of its execution engine combining generative AI with human experts, after completing thousands of tasks for beta members. Tasks can be submitted via app, text, email, voice memo and chat.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Duckbill do?
- Duckbill is a US personal-life executive assistant service that pairs AI task breakdown with human experts who execute real-world tasks.
- Who founded Duckbill?
- Duckbill was founded by Meghan Verena Joyce.
- Who are Duckbill's investors?
- Duckbill's investors include Forerunner Ventures, Heavybit, Inspired Capital, G9 Ventures, General Catalyst, Greycroft, Offline Ventures, Temasek.