Unitary enterprise-saas
Entrepreneur First '19London, GB · Founded 2019 · 7 known investors
Unitary builds AI-powered "Virtual Agents" that log in to a company's existing tools with standard credentials to automate manual, multi-step tasks, escalating to human experts when human judgment is needed. It targets operations teams in accuracy-sensitive industries such as insurance, financial services, healthcare, and marketplaces, offering outcome-based pricing backed by SLAs.
Also known as Unitary · unitary.ai
Founders & leadership
Unitary enterprise-saas was founded in 2019 by Sasha Haco and James Thewlis.


Investors · 7
Also in the syndicate · 1
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Unitary offers AI-based "Virtual Agents" that operate inside a customer's existing software rather than through API integrations. According to the company, the agents log in with standard credentials and navigate systems in the same way a human operator would, following the customer's existing processes without requiring workflow redesign or technical changes. The agents are described as handling multi-step tasks with branching logic, synthesising multiple data inputs and making decisions against a stated policy or guidance document.
A central design element is the escalation path: when a task requires human judgment, the Virtual Agent hands off to human experts, which the company frames as the mechanism for delivering contractually guaranteed human-level accuracy across an entire workload. Unitary states that the automation rate rises over time as the agents learn from the human decisions made during escalations. The company positions this combination of AI plus humans-in-the-loop against alternatives it names on its site: RPA (limited to simple rule-based tasks and brittle to change), generic AI agent models (improvisational, with compounding errors), workflow builders (require the customer to codify processes), narrow task-specific AI tools, and in-house builds.
The product is marketed to operations functions in sectors described as accuracy- and reliability-sensitive: insurance (submissions, bordereaux, customer operations), financial services (onboarding, clearing, applications, regulatory reporting), healthcare (patient, referral, rota and prescription administration) and marketplaces (seller, buyer, moderation and support workflows). Unitary states it holds ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certifications and lets customers choose data processing locations in the UK, EU or US.
Business model
Enterprise B2B software sold to operations teams, delivered as a managed automation service combining AI agents with human expert escalation, and backed by contractual service-level agreements on accuracy.
Outcome-based, pay-per-task pricing. The company states there are no implementation or setup fees and that customers begin paying only once results are delivered, with cost scaling non-linearly as volume grows.
Traction
The company publicly claims customer results of 80-100% automation rates on complex multi-step processes, roughly 50% cost reduction from day one, and a 19% increase in customer satisfaction, alongside references to customer stories and "operations teams worldwide". These figures are self-reported and not independently verified in the sources available.
Latest developments
No dated announcements, funding events or product news are present in the sources reviewed; the only substantive source is the company's own website.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, risks & controversies
Market position
Positions itself in the enterprise workflow-automation market as an alternative to RPA vendors, generic agent platforms and workflow-builder tools, emphasising guaranteed accuracy for complex reasoning tasks. The available sources do not establish market share, revenue or competitive standing.
Unitary contrasts its approach with RPA, general-purpose AI agents, workflow builders, point AI tools and in-house development, arguing that it requires no process or tooling change, handles reasoning-heavy tasks rather than only deterministic rules, covers the full workload by routing edge cases to human experts, and carries contractual accuracy guarantees rather than best-effort output.
Technology
AI agents that interact with customer systems through the standard user interface using ordinary login credentials, avoiding API or integration work. The company describes built-in guardrails intended to make behaviour predictable at scale, automatic codification of complex workflows "from any input", confidence-based self-assessment so the agent escalates when it is not human-level accurate, and continual learning from human escalation decisions. Security posture cited includes ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certification and selectable UK, EU or US data processing regions.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales, with the website's primary call to action being a booked demo. Commercially, the company reduces adoption friction by charging nothing upfront and promising measurable results within four weeks, supported by published customer stories and per-industry landing pages.
Operations teams at enterprises in insurance, financial services, healthcare and online marketplaces — settings the company characterises as dependent on accuracy and reliability, with high-volume or regulated manual workflows.
Geography
Markets to customers internationally and offers a choice of data processing in the UK, EU or US.
Risks & controversies
No controversies are documented in the sources. Notable evidentiary limitations: all performance, pricing, certification and customer claims originate from the company's own marketing site, with no third-party corroboration, financial data or funding information available in the material reviewed.
Compiled by commissioned research from 2 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
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primary sources listed
- Unitary enterprise-saasunitary.ai · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Unitary enterprise-saas do?
- Unitary sells AI "Virtual Agents" that log into a company's existing tools to automate complex, multi-step operational workflows.
- Who founded Unitary enterprise-saas?
- Unitary enterprise-saas was founded by Sasha Haco, James Thewlis in 2019.
- Who are Unitary enterprise-saas's investors?
- Unitary enterprise-saas's investors include Entrepreneur First, January Ventures, SGH Capital, Creandum, Paladin Capital Group, Plural.
- Where is Unitary enterprise-saas headquartered?
- Unitary enterprise-saas is headquartered in London, GB.



