GoKawiilEvery new technology creates a new environment in which we work, but it’s not clear how AI will do that. One possibility is that the interface disappears entirely.
That’s the vision of Josh Sirota, who founded the startup Eragon back in August and has just raised $12 million at a $100 million post-money valuation to build an agentic AI operating system for enterprise customers.
There’s a simple thesis: “Software is dead,” Sirota says. Buttons and dialog boxes and pull-down menus are a thing of the past, and future business will be done by prompt. Eragon is attempting to offer the whole suite of business software — your Salesforces, Snowflakes, Tableaus, and Jiras — through an LLM interface.
Sirota, who worked on go-to-market teams at Oracle and Salesforce, admits to suffering a bit of a quarter-life crisis in the lead-up to moving to San Francisco and launching Eragon with a small team from a live-work loft across the street from the Giants’ baseball park. On a recent, sunny Wednesday, the dining room table sports a bottle of Moët, several Mac minis, and a copy of the book Eragon, the Christopher Paolini fantasy novel that gave the company its name — in the tradition of Palantir and Anduril, which also borrowed from fictional worlds.
Sirota’s experience implementing the world’s premier corporate software convinced investors of his “founder-market fit.” His backers include Arielle Zuckerberg at Long Journey Ventures, Soma Capital, Axiom Partners, and strategic angels Mike Knoop and Elias Torres.
“We see enormous potential for Eragon to become the connective tissue for how modern teams operate and make decisions,” Axiom’s Sandhya Venkatachalam said. Eragon’s technical talent includes Rishabh Tiwari, a Berkeley computer science PhD student, and Vin Agarwal, an MIT PhD; together, they’re building out the company’s tech stack.
At Eragon’s customer center of excellence — a battered white sofa — Sirota shows how the company eats its own dog food. Eragon post-trains open source models like Qwen and Kimi on customer datasets, and links to company email accounts and other resources. When Sirota wants bring on a new customer — he demonstrates with Dedalus Labs, which is adopting the tool this week — he asks in a natural language prompt, and the software automatically assigns each new user credentials, spins up a new Eragon instance in the cloud, and begins an onboarding workflow.
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