When artificial intelligence enters the workplace, it usually does so as a personal assistant: a thinking partner that drafts emails, summarizes meetings, and answers questions faster than a Google search. But stopping there means leaving the job half done. Superpal, a Vilnius-based startup that has just raised €500,000, aims to close that loop: a truly autonomous digital coworker operating inside Slack that takes complex tasks from start to finish.

Launched today, the platform allows companies to deploy a single AI agent in their Slack workspace. The agent connects to over 1,000 tools already in use—from CRMs to spreadsheets, from analytics platforms to project management systems—and manages the entire workflow of a task, from the initial prompt to the final deliverable. It maintains shared memory with the team, respects role-based access controls, and operates within the boundaries of organizational privacy.

In practice, a team member types a request into Slack—prepare a sales pipeline review, write a weekly update, create a presentation before a call—and the agent does the rest: it pulls from real company data, processes it, and returns a finished output.

“Businesses don’t need another tool that helps them think,” says Martynas Čepas, co-founder and CEO of Superpal. “They need solutions that bring results. We’ve built a colleague that works inside the tools your team already uses, understands the context of your business, and gets things done.”

Born from tinkering

The founders describe themselves as AI tinkerers, always experimenting with the latest tools. That curiosity revealed a widening gap between AI power users and everyone else. “We wanted to bring the most advanced AI technology to every business, without the burden of learning new skills,” adds Čepas. The choice to live inside the native communication channel, Slack, is deliberate: being empowered by AI shouldn’t require becoming a technologist or a developer.

A telling detail: of the first three pilot customers, two wanted to invest. One, FIRSTPICK, a venture capital fund, became the lead investor in the pre-seed round. The other, Caption, a social media marketing agency, turned into a strategic advisor and product ambassador.

An accelerating market

Superpal enters a category that is drawing serious capital. Viktor.com, one of its closest competitors in the autonomous agent space, recently closed a $75 million Series A led by Accel—a signal that the market for AI employees is no longer speculative. Superpal positions itself as a team-native alternative: the same output quality, but built from the ground up for the privacy requirements, access controls, and shared memory layer essential in real companies.

The AI-RADAR take: autonomy and data sovereignty

Superpal’s offering is entirely cloud-based and embedded in Slack, meaning data flows through third-party infrastructure. For organizations in regulated industries or those with policies requiring full data control (think banking, healthcare, government), this architecture can be a constraint. The challenge, for those evaluating the adoption of autonomous AI agents, is to replicate the same level of integration and end-to-end capability in an on-premise or hybrid setting. Today, open-source agent frameworks and self-hosted LLMs make it possible to build similar solutions, but the trade-off often lies in the ease of connecting to the vast ecosystem of SaaS tools and in system maintenance. Choosing the local path brings sovereignty but demands greater investment in integration and infrastructure management. AI-RADAR provides analytical frameworks to map these trade-offs and assess the total cost of ownership (TCO) of one approach versus the other—no shortcuts.

Superpal’s round, however modest, is a piece of a larger puzzle: AI is no longer just an assistant, but an active node in workflows. The question is not if, but where it will run.