What makes CIOs trust an AI agent? Thira bets it’s not the model.
The New Stack Frederic Lardinois
Thira, a startup founded by Apptio's Sunny Gupta and Kurt Shintaffer, is building AI agents to automate IT back-office processes that CIOs currently handle manually across multiple systems. The company raised $21 million in seed funding led by Madrona and has signed ten design partners ahead of a fall launch, initially targeting two repetitive IT processes out of six or seven identified. Thira differentiates itself through trust features like audit trails and rollbacks, offering semi-autonomous and fully autonomous modes, and plans to integrate with existing enterprise platforms rather than replace them.
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Sunny Gupta spent a decade and a half building Apptio into the system of record for enterprise technology spend. His The post What makes CIOs trust an AI agent? Thira bets it’s not the model. appeared first on The New Stack.
