Modo

Modo is a San Francisco-based software company that sits across an organization's existing AI tool stack to drive adoption at the point of work and to measure the impact of AI spending. A browser extension and desktop application observe workflow patterns across the daily software employees already use; the company states this capture excludes keystroke logging and screen recording. Modo interprets what an employee is attempting to accomplish, matches the task against the AI tools the company has purchased, and surfaces a real-time recommendation with one-click access to the suggested tool plus guidance on using it for that specific workflow.

The platform also enriches prompts sent to AI tools with context about the employee's role, current task, and techniques used by higher-performing peers on the same team. On the leadership side, Modo produces a dashboard covering adoption and utilization, hours saved per employee, productivity before and after AI workflows, which tools are producing results, and where adoption opportunity remains untapped. Reporting is presented at the aggregated team level, which the company describes as preserving individual employee privacy.

The company frames the problem it addresses as one of adoption and visibility rather than procurement: employees are unsure which tool to use, managers cannot see what is working, and boards lack an evidence-based answer on return on investment.

Founding story

Modo was founded by Johnny Chang and Angelina You. The founding team describes years spent teaching AI to professionals at Stanford, at Fortune 500 companies, and through executive workshops and courses, where they observed a recurring pattern: organizations invested heavily in AI tools and training, then saw adoption stall within weeks, with fragmented usage, unchanged employee workflows, and no way for leadership to determine what was working. Modo was created on the premise that training alone does not change how people work, and that behavior changes when employees are met inside their actual workflows with guidance on which AI tool to use and how to use it.

Business model

Modo sells a single platform to organizations that have already purchased AI tools, positioning itself as a layer across the customer's entire AI stack that combines employee-facing recommendations with leadership-facing adoption and ROI reporting.

Traction

The company states it has helped hundreds of professionals adopt AI, citing 200+ professionals supported in AI adoption, a 30% average productivity boost with AI, more than 10 workflow and role-specific AI use case tracks, and a 95% user satisfaction score.

Latest developments

The company reports winning the Stanford University Learning Design Award in 2025 and the HumanX x Mayfield Startup Pitch Competition in 2026.