What makes CIOs trust an AI agent? Thira bets it’s not the model.

The New Stack · 2 days ago

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.