About

Making artificial intelligence
as ubiquitous as databases.

Every company runs on databases. Soon, we believe every company will run on artificial intelligence - not as a research project, but as the operating system that handles most of the work. That is what we are building.

10,000+customers worldwide
34%of Fortune 500 trust Trail
1B+agent runs completed

The story

From a sidewalk in Mountain View to the Fortune 500.

Two classmates set out to teach machines to read the world’s paperwork. They are still going.

Sarthak Jain and Prathamesh Juvatkar behind the Y Combinator sign, winter 2017 — Mountain View, winter 2017. Y Combinator, batch W17.

2017Y Combinator, batch W17
2022$10M Series A, led by Elevation
2024$29M Series B, led by Accel
10,000+customers today

Before the sign
Classmates first.
Sarthak Jain and Prathamesh Juvatkar met as electrical engineering students at IIT Gandhinagar. By 2012 they were training models to read muscle signals and hand gestures, years before the deep learning wave.
Their first company, Cubeit, used machine learning to turn web pages into shareable mobile cards. Myntra acquired it in 2016. The exit was the easy part. What stayed with them was harder to shake: inside every business they met, skilled people spent their days retyping documents into software.
The early office was wherever the whiteboard was.
The build
A system, not a demo.
The early architecture changed as fast as the field did. Convolutional networks first, then transformers, each model retrained on every new customer's documents to find what held up in production. Accuracy on a benchmark was never the goal. Accuracy on your invoices was.
The company grew the same way: an engineering team in India, a business team in the Bay Area, and a habit of shipping before celebrating.
The Bangalore rooftop, mid-monsoon. Some standups got interrupted.
Today
Where the work happens now.
Trail runs agents for finance, healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, and more. More than 10,000 customers use our platform, including companies like Volkswagen, Procter & Gamble, and Ryanair.
Increasingly, the work happens in customers' buildings, not ours. Understanding a reconciliation workflow from the inside is still the fastest way to automate it.
The Palo Alto office.

The founders

Fourteen years, two founders, one unfinished problem.

Sarthak Jain and Prathamesh Juvatkar — Sarthak Jain (CEO) and Prathamesh Juvatkar (CTO).

Sarthak decoded muscle signals at Johns Hopkins and built gesture recognition at HP before most people had heard of deep learning. Prathamesh was a Caltech research fellow and holds IIT Gandhinagar's Institute Gold Medal. They have built companies together since 2012.

The team