About Agency Tool
Agency Tool Company makes software for teams that build robots. Its first product, ATC Deploy, sends software updates to robots wherever they are. It works with operating system images, Docker images or any file tree. It transfers only the bytes that changed, then restarts the software using hooks the customer sets up. A transfer that is cut off picks up where it left off. A robot with no connection can get an update over USB. Setup needs one install command and a config file. The launch post gives a speedup of up to 20 times over docker pull or scp.
ATC Deploy delivers software to robots at Burro, which has more than 750 machines in service worldwide. Tempo, which polishes concrete in several US states and Canada, also uses it. So does Gather AI, which runs warehouse inventory drones. Jack Morrison is the chief executive officer. He and Davis Foster earlier founded Scythe Robotics. They spent eight years growing its autonomous mower from an idea to hundreds of machines. The company launched in July 2026 and is in the Y Combinator S26 batch. Y Combinator lists a team of three in Denver.
Funding Rounds (SEC Form D)
| First sale | Filed with SEC | Amount sold | Investors | Avg. check | Terms | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2026 | Nov 6, 2026 | $3,619,990of $4.0M target | 23 | $157K | Options, Securities on exercise, Simple Agreements for Future Equity (SAFEs) convertible into equity securities of the Issuer.Rule 506(b) | Form D ↗ |
| Oct 26, 2026 | Nov 6, 2026 | $8,736,117of $8.8M target | 28 | $312K | EquityRule 506(b) | Form D ↗ |
| Total, two offerings | $12,356,107 | |||||
First sale is the date the first investor in the offering committed to invest. Companies must file Form D within 15 days of that date, so filing dates run later.
Why Investors Backed Agency Tool
Agency Tool Company sells software that pushes updates to robots working in the field. Its founders spent eight years building Scythe Robotics, where getting a fix onto the robots could take more work than writing it. The first product, ATC Deploy, already ships software to robots at three companies. The company is in the Y Combinator S26 batch.
The problem it targets
At Scythe, the founders deployed software with a tool built for the earliest robots. As the fleet grew, engineers stayed up until 2 a.m. Customers were asked to take robots out of sheds at set times to get LTE signal. Failed transfers restarted from zero. Morrison told The Robot Report that many field robots sit on slow LTE or 3G links. He added that robots turn off at random, so an update that needs hours online can fail.
What the product does
ATC Deploy is the first of a planned set of tools. Build comes next, and Build and Deploy are meant to work with GitHub, GitLab, Blacksmith, Buildkite and BuildBuddy. Teams keep their current runtime, packaging format and operating system. Hardware building blocks are planned for later. Morrison told The Robot Report that Deploy is a first step toward a platform that records which robots a customer has and what they are doing.
Progress so far
Burro, Tempo and Gather AI were launch partners, and each builds robots for a different industry. Burro has hundreds of robots in agriculture and other outdoor environments. Tempo is starting to deploy grinding machines at customer sites. Morrison said the partners want to cut bandwidth use and adopt new software without changing their whole system architecture. Access to ATC Deploy runs through a waitlist.
Who backs it
Y Combinator lists Agency Tool Company in its S26 batch, with Harshita Arora as primary partner. Morrison was founder and chief executive officer of Scythe Robotics from 2018 to 2026. Y Combinator's profile of him says Scythe exited to ASI. It also says he earlier co-founded Replica Labs and worked as a computer vision engineer at Occipital.
How the market is moving
The Robot Report notes that the AI boom brought many new companies and funding into robotics. It adds that more established robotics companies are ready to scale. Morrison's view is that this makes a good moment for deployment tools. He told the outlet that teams cannot learn from robots in the field if they are bottlenecked on how they put software out there.
We wrote this summary from public statements by Agency Tool and its investors. It is not investment advice.
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Leadership Team
Executive officers and directors listed on Agency Tool's Form D filed Nov 6, 2026.
