About Askel.ai

Our Mission

At Askel.ai, we believe that integration automation should be accessible to everyone - not just engineers. Our platform enables implementation teams to ship customer integrations faster, catch drift before it breaks, and maintain healthy integrations without writing code.

We're building the future where AI agents autonomously handle integrations, adapt to each customer's unique setup, and keep everything running smoothly after go-live.

Our Story

Founded by Joosep Kõljalg (former Twilio engineering director), Kristofer Kurvits, and Tim Jaanson, Askel.ai emerged from firsthand experience with the challenges of scaling integrations and back-office operations at hypergrowth companies.

Estonia-based Askel.ai launched in 2024 with a €380,000 pre-seed funding round led by Superangel. The round included notable founders and investors: ProcessOut co-founder Manuel Huez, Matrix partner Patrick Malatack, Veriff co-founder Janer Gorohhov, Ott Kaukver (former CTO of Checkout.com and Twilio, and tech executive of Skype), Andres Kitter (Formerly from LHV and Skype and currently member of the management board at Lightyear), and Mark Gilbert (former Microsoft, Hearsay and Twilio executive, currently founder of successful Zocks.io startup for financial advisors). Later joined by Felipe Navio and Juan Urdiales, the co-founders of Job&Talent.

"At Twilio, we saw how inefficiencies in back-office operations hindered the ability to scale growth," says Joosep Kõljalg. "Askel.ai solves this by making automation easy and cost-effective for everyone. Rather than adding another tool into the mix, we embed automation directly where the work is being done."

Early Results

Our platform's pilot customers report significant benefits, reducing the time spent on task completion up to 10 times. Askel.ai helps companies reduce manual workloads, increase scalability, and minimize errors to achieve better business results - from improved customer satisfaction to higher revenue.

Our Vision

"We see a future where anyone, no matter their tech savviness, can use simple, everyday language to create AI agents that handle their repetitive tasks - doing them faster, more accurately, and around the clock," says Joosep Kõljalg.