After two years of development, Metal has launched Autopilot — an AI capital back office that draws on proprietary intelligence to run the round process for founders, from building collateral to managing investor relations post-close. It's now open by request to select Seed, Series A, and Series B companies.

What is Metal Autopilot?

Metal has launched Autopilot, an AI capital back office that draws on proprietary intelligence to run the round process for founders. Announced after two years of development, Autopilot combines precision — from Metal's proprietary intelligence on investors and rounds — with the speed of AI-driven automation. It spans the full capital lifecycle: from building top-decile round collateral to running round operations and managing investor relations after a round closes. Rather than a tool founders operate manually, Metal Autopilot is designed to run the mechanics of a raise on their behalf, both between and during rounds.

Why did Metal build Autopilot for founders?

Metal built Autopilot around a simple thesis: in the future, the founders best positioned to raise will not run the round process themselves. Instead, they will use the right tools to automate the raise in ways that create unique advantages over other founders competing for the same capital. Fundraising has traditionally rewarded founders with time, networks, and operational bandwidth. By handling collateral, process, and strategy through one capital back office, Metal Autopilot aims to level that field — freeing founders to keep building while proprietary intelligence and automation move them from preparation to execution with structure and momentum.

"In the future, founders best positioned to raise won't run the round process themselves — they'll use the right tools to automate it in ways that create unique advantages."

— Usman Gul, Founder & CEO, Metal

What does Metal Autopilot do across the round?

Metal Autopilot organizes the raise into three core capabilities: collateral preparation, process management, and round strategy. In round preparation, it builds the right investor pipeline, maps intro paths, and produces top-decile round collateral for capital markets. In round operations, it manages the live process across investors. And through strategy iterations, it continuously refines the approach using leading indicators in venture. A built-in research desk maps investor landscapes, market positioning, and comparable rounds between and during raises. Together, these let Metal Autopilot deliver outcomes with the precision of data and the speed of automation.

What makes Metal Autopilot's intelligence different?

Metal Autopilot is trained across large data sets to bring clarity, precision, and data-driven persuasion to the raise. That training is what lets it produce top-decile pitch decks, guide founders on nailing investor calls, and surface insights on round strategy grounded in how real rounds actually come together. Because Autopilot reads leading indicators in venture — the signals that predict which investors move, and when — it helps founders sequence outreach and strategy rather than guess. The result is a capital back office that pairs proprietary intelligence with automation, instead of a static CRM or template library.

Who can access Metal Autopilot?

Metal Autopilot is now open to select Seed, Series A, and Series B companies, available by request access. This focus reflects the stages where a structured, automated capital back office delivers the most leverage — founders raising priced rounds against clear benchmarks, where collateral quality, process discipline, and investor fit materially shape the outcome. Autopilot is built to move top-decile founders from preparation to execution with clarity, structure, and momentum. Metal is rolling it out to this focused set of growth-stage teams first, rather than opening it fully, positioning Autopilot as a high-intent tool for companies actively raising.

What platform does Metal Autopilot build on?

Autopilot launches on top of Metal's established fundraising platform. Metal is used by thousands of founders across 40+ countries, including more than 100 Y Combinator founders who rely on it for post-Demo Day fundraising, and Techstars has adopted it as a default across a portfolio of 10,000+ founders. In June 2026, Metal secured a strategic investment from Rebel Fund, a data-driven backer of top Y Combinator startups. This base of proprietary round data and founder usage is what trains and powers the intelligence behind Autopilot's capital back office.

What do founders say about Metal?

Founders credit Metal for sharpening both investor targeting and messaging — the same intelligence Autopilot now automates. Michael Fasosin, a Metal customer, says the platform's AI helps him identify which investors to target and align his thesis messaging so outreach lands, in his words, "bang on message." Nikolay Tsenkov, founder of Trial Land, was surprised by how Metal evaluated his pitch deck, context, and progress to show exactly what to adjust before raising. That proprietary intelligence — grounded in how real rounds come together — is the foundation Metal Autopilot uses to run the process end to end.

Metal Autopilot is now open by request for select Seed, Series A, and Series B companies. Learn more at metal.so.