Ontara Systems provides an AI-powered back-office operating layer for ops-heavy businesses, combining workflow mapping, autonomous knowledge work, and phone answering into a single platform. The system runs proactive agents on a schedule with sandboxed compute and policy-gated actions, integrating with 100+ tools like Slack, Salesforce, and QuickBooks. In one 3PL engagement, it reduced an RFP bidding cycle from 40 hours to under one hour.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Ops-heavy businesses rely on dozens of outside parties scattered across multiple systems and inboxes, with no single person responsible for holding the workflow together. This fragmentation forces employees to manually monitor, coordinate, and execute routine knowledge work, consuming hours that could go to higher-value tasks.
Solution
Ontara Systems provides a full operating layer that maps how a business actually runs and then executes the daily knowledge work automatically. The platform includes Watchdog, which maps workflows; Ezra, an autonomous agent that runs on a schedule to monitor, detect, and act without prompting; and Mia, which handles inbound phone calls. Agents operate in dedicated sandboxed compute environments with Docker-isolated browsers, terminals, and filesystems, and every action is checked against access policies at the system layer. The system integrates natively with 100+ tools including Slack, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Yardi, ServiceTitan, DAT, and QuickBooks, and users interact with agents in plain English through existing communication channels.
Target Audience
Primary customers are ops-heavy businesses in verticals like logistics and 3PLs, property services, and real estate development that need to automate repetitive knowledge work across fragmented systems.
Features
- Proactive 24/7 agent that runs on scheduled workflows and event triggers rather than waiting for user prompts
- Dedicated sandboxed compute per employee with Docker-isolated browser, terminal, and filesystem access
- NemoClaw privacy router that keeps workloads on local NVIDIA hardware when data residency matters
- Runtime policy gating that checks every agent action against access policies at the system layer
- 100+ native OAuth and MCP integrations across comms, CRM, property management, dispatch, and finance tools
- Voice-based phone answering capability that handles inbound calls in English and Spanish
- Workflow mapping via Watchdog that documents how the business operates before automation begins