IIT Bombay Duo Builds Platform to Create Devin-Like AI Agents Effortlessly
AI startup Composio made an early move into AI agents, offering tools and platforms to create production-ready AI applications. It recently launched AgentAuth, a product that integrates AI agents with third-party tools and APIs more efficiently. It supports a variety of authentication protocols, including OAuth 2.0, OAuth 1.0, API keys, JWT, and Basic Authentication. The platform also integrates over 250 widely used apps and services, catering to diverse needs such as customer relationship management (CRM) systems and ticketing platforms. “The biggest problem that people face while building agents is connecting them to reliable tools. For example, if someone is building a sales agent, they would need to connect it with CRMs like Salesforce, HubSpot, etc,” said Karan Vaidya, Composio chief in an exclusive interview with AIM. Vaidya and his 2017 IIT Bombay batchmate Soham Ganatra cofounded Composio in July 2023 and have since raised $4 million, including from OpenAI executive Shyamal Hitesh Anadkat. Vaidya has worked at several startups, including Rubrik and Nirvana Insurance, before starting Composio. He believes that agents are the future, as LLMs are not improving dramatically. Vaidya explained that while LLMs like GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 have seen notable improvements, they are still limited when it comes to performing complex tasks. “The agents are the future because LLMs are getting better, but they need systems built on top of them to make them accurate and effective,” he said. Composio can be integrated with multiple AI agentic frameworks and the company has partnered with Langchain, Llama Index, and Crew AI. “We have native integrations with all of them, so you can use Composio’s tool in conjunction with any of these frameworks,” said Vaidya. He further revealed that several startups today are using Composio to build AI agents that automate functions like sales. “AI agents are essentially trying to act as employees,” Vaidya said. Companies are using their tool to integrate with platforms like Gmail, Calendar, Google Meet, Slack, and LinkedIn, automating tasks previously handled by humans, such as scheduling events. Composio charges customers based on the number of API calls made by LLMs. “We have a pretty good premium package where we allow, like, 10,000 API calls per month,” Vaidya added. It recently launched Composio SWE-kit, an open-source framework to help developers build coding agents. It helps you create PR agents that review code, suggest improvements, enforce coding standards, catch issues, automate merge approvals, and give feedback on best practices, making code reviews faster and improving quality. Customers Vaidya explained that one of the ways people are using Composio is to build sales agents. “Before, humans had to record calls, listen to them, and then update CRMs and create tickets for product updates or client needs. With our integrations, including Salesforce, HubSpot, Klaviyo, Pipedrive, and more, all of that is automated,” he said. He added that early-stage startups and developers, including companies like Assista, Fabrile, and Ingram, are key customers of Composio. Recently, Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce have also launched their own AI agents. When asked about Composio’s unique advantage, Vaidya explained that their platform offers the flexibility to integrate multiple AI agents, freeing customers from being locked into any single ecosystem. “Most companies don’t use just Microsoft products. They also use Salesforce and HubSpot for different needs, depending on what each company does best,” said Vaidya. He added that the company will soon launch a new product where people can build their own software engineer, like Devin. Composio is planning to roll out a new feature that will allow two AI agents to interact with one another. Vaidya explained that the company also intends to train its own model using the structural data it has collected. “We plan to improve function-calling accuracy across the domain and introduce agent-to-agent interactions,” said Vaidya. He said that their long-term goal is to serve as the communication layer for AI agents. He mentioned that their platform is SoC-compliant. He added that the rise of enterprises building AI agents is good news for Composio, as the company sees an opportunity to empower these businesses. “The fact that enterprises are creating their own agents is something we’re excited about because we can help them improve and scale those agents,” he concluded.
Composio can be integrated with multiple AI agentic frameworks and the company has partnered with Langchain, Llama Index, and Crew AI.
AI startup Composio made an early move into AI agents, offering tools and platforms to create production-ready AI applications.
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