A16z-backed Codi launches AI agent office manager

Summary

Codi, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup founded by Christelle Rohaut and Dave Schuman, is launching what it hails as the first AI-powered platform to fully automate office management. Codi was founded in 2018, in a pre-pandemic world, with a mission to help companies find flexible office spaces. It was more of a marketplace, as TechCrunch previously reported, that matched companies to buildings that offered flexible office arrangements. Codi then assisted with the move-in processes. Rohaut, the company’s CEO, said she and her team back then used to manually manage office spaces and vendors for their clients, but the recent advancements in AI have allowed them to essentially automate themselves. “The previous model of Codi, you had to get the space with Codi. Now, whatever office you lease, you can use this to automate your office logistics,” she said of her new AI SaaS product. The startup released its beta version of the new AI office management product in May and officially launched it on Tuesday. The company last raised a $16 million Series A in 2022 led by a16z, and has raised $23 million to date. The technology comes as return-to-office continues to take hold throughout corporate America. “Office management remains very manual and broken,” Rohaut, the company’s CEO, told TechCrunch. She added that it can cost companies at least $80,000 a year just in administrative costs to run an office. The role of an office manager has also changed throughout the years. In this post-pandemic world, as companies moved toward remote and hybrid work, the formal job of office manager has often been left unfilled. When companies do have an office manager, they are often spending more time on planning events rather than the logistics of the office, she said. Techcrunch event San Francisco | October 27-29, 2025 Rohaut said she and the team trained the Codi AI on all the expertise and data they’ve accumulated over the past few years. The vendors a company uses are put into the A...