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The Agent Collaboration Layer for Enterprises
Alike is killing slack with autonomous agent to agent communication. We're an SF + UK Oxford/MIT team of best friends with the rare combination of expertise this requires. We are live in teams in 10 companies, have 100 companies on the waitlist from word of mouth, and signed 20 design partners such as Exus Renewables ($1B backing from Partners Group, powering Google's data centres), K-ID ($51 million raised from Lightspeed and a16z), and NewtonX ($47M raised, trusted by Microsoft and TikTok).
Alike positions itself as an enterprise-grade agent collaboration layer that automates coordination to reduce manual follow-ups and status chasing, allowing teams to stay focused on actual work. The product emphasizes background coordination across tools and channels to streamline workflows for larger teams.
Alike plugs into calendars, email, messages, and meeting notes to automate coordination without migration or disruption. It learns each team's workflow and runs coordination in the background, exposing configurable visibility and privacy controls (per person, per channel), logging actions for auditability, and sharing only contextual information rather than raw messages. It emphasizes encryption, data boundaries, and user-controlled access to determine what Alike can access and share.
Who it’s for: Enterprises and mid-to-large teams that rely on multi-tool coordination and want automated, background collaboration with strict visibility and privacy controls.
Hiring/traction mentions and product-focused narrative; mentions of leadership roles and security/privacy emphasis
I started university aged 13 and got my PhD from Oxford at 21, then pivoted to operational and leadership roles - but always out of an obsession with analytically studying group behavior and social networks
Hi! I'm CTO of Alike, and an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Oxford University, with a PhD in Computer Science from MIT (2011). My research over the past 25 years (at MIT, PARC, Nokia, and IBM) has focused on human-AI interaction paradigms, privacy-preserving systems, and core AI ethics and safety.
Hey, I'm Danial, the Chief Commercial Officer at Alike. Before starting Alike with my best friends, I represented over 30,000 individuals as student body president at Oxford and led national viral marketing campaigns. I also worked on growth at a sequoia-backed start-up.
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