Sola replaces the RPA developers and drag-and-drop scripting that legacy tools like UiPath require, letting business teams in legal, finance, and healthcare build their own automations. Per its own Series A announcement, Sola's revenue grew fivefold in the months before the raise, and it fits enterprises with repetitive, UI-heavy back-office work and no in-house automation team.
Founded in 2023, Sola is an agentic process automation platform that converts a single screen recording into a self-healing AI bot. Unlike scripted legacy RPA tools, Sola's bots use large language models and computer vision to read live screens, tolerate minor interface changes, and escalate only genuine failures to a human for review.
Maker: Sola Solutions · Autonomy: semi autonomous · Maturity: ENTERPRISE
Underlying models: Custom (proprietary)
About Sola
Sola is an agentic process automation platform founded in 2023 by MIT dropouts Jessica Wu and Neil Deshmukh, built to replace scripted legacy RPA with bots that read screens the way a person does. The company has raised $21M total, including a $17.5M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz in August 2025 with participation from Conviction and Y Combinator, on top of an earlier seed round led by Conviction. Instead of a developer wiring up API calls or step-by-step scripts, a business user records themselves performing a task once, in a browser extension or the desktop client, and Sola's combination of large language models and computer vision converts that recording into a working bot. The bot interacts with screens and applications visually, at the UI level, so it can automate legacy desktop software and web portals that have no API to call. When a workflow changes in a minor way, such as a moved button or a color change, the bot adapts on its own; when it hits a genuine failure, it escalates to a human, and that fix becomes part of the system's memory for next time. Sola's stated customer base runs in legal operations (state-specific incorporation and filing work), financial services (hedge fund account handling inside legacy desktop trading software), healthcare (billing and claims reconciliation across systems), and logistics and neobank operations (scraping government and legacy portals). Business users maintain their own bots afterward in a visual, flowchart-style editor rather than filing a ticket with an RPA team. Sola sells exclusively through an enterprise demo-and-quote process; there is no published price list or self-serve signup. The platform carries SOC 2 and HIPAA-supporting controls with role-based access, aimed at regulated industries where legacy RPA tools are common but slow to build and expensive to maintain. Per Sola's own August 2025 Series A announcement, revenue grew fivefold since the start of that year and workflow volume was doubling month over month, with bots described as live in production handling real workflows daily for large enterprises and law firms. The company came out of Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch and remains a small team relative to its funding, per its YC profile.
Pricing
No published pricing. Sola sells only through a booked demo and a custom quote scoped to workflow volume and number of automations; there is no self-serve tier.
Key Features
- Screen-Recording-to-Bot: Record a workflow once in the browser extension or desktop client and Sola generates a working automation, without a developer writing scripted RPA steps.
- Self-Healing Execution: Bots adapt automatically to minor interface changes like a moved button, and escalate to a human only when a workflow genuinely breaks.
- Document and Legacy Data Extraction: Extracts, validates, and structures data out of unstructured documents and legacy portal screens that have no API to call.
- Visual No-Code Editor: Business users in legal, finance, or healthcare edit and maintain their own bots in a flowchart-style editor instead of filing tickets with an RPA team.
- API-Triggered Workflows: Automations can be triggered by an external API call or call out to other internal and external services, letting Sola plug into existing systems.
Strengths
- Already running in production for Fortune 100 enterprises and AmLaw 100 law firms, per Sola's own Series A announcement, not just pilot deployments.
- Reads screens and legacy desktop software directly, so it can automate systems with no public API, a gap most API-first automation tools cannot cover.
- Ships with SOC 2 and HIPAA-supporting controls plus role-based access, aimed at regulated back-office work in legal, financial services, and healthcare.
Weaknesses
- No public pricing. Sola sells only through a demo-and-quote enterprise process, so there is nothing to compare against RPA rivals before talking to sales.
- Sola's own YC profile lists a 5-person team, thin for a company already selling into enterprise-scale rollouts without further hires.
- Runs as a browser extension or desktop client with no listed CLI or IDE integration, so engineering teams that want to script automations programmatically have no direct path in.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Sola actually cost?
Sola does not publish pricing. It sells through an enterprise demo-and-quote process scoped to workflow volume and number of automations, the same model most legacy RPA vendors use. Contact Sola's sales team directly for a quote.
Can you use Sola without paying?
No. Sola has no free tier or self-serve trial. Every deployment starts with a booked demo, after which Sola's team scopes and prices the automation for your specific workflows.
What are Sola's closest competitors?
Legacy scripted RPA platforms like UiPath and Automation Anywhere are the main incumbents Sola positions against. Newer automation tools like n8n (developer-first, API-based) and Zapier (SaaS-to-SaaS) solve an adjacent but different problem, since neither reads a legacy desktop screen or portal UI the way Sola does.
How does Sola compare to UiPath in 2026?
UiPath is the RPA market-share leader, built around a drag-and-drop scripting studio and a large developer ecosystem. Sola instead builds a bot from a single recorded screen session and self-heals through minor interface changes, aiming to cut build time for teams that have no dedicated RPA developers.
How do you set up Sola?
Getting started means booking a demo with Sola's sales team rather than a self-serve signup. Once scoped, a business user records the target workflow using the browser extension or desktop client, and Sola converts that recording into an automation that can then be adjusted in the visual editor.
Top Alternatives
- MultiOn: Pick MultiOn if you need an autonomous agent for one-off web browsing tasks; pick Sola if you need enterprise RPA bots for repeated back-office workflows with SOC 2 controls.
- n8n: Pick n8n if you're wiring together apps that already expose an API; pick Sola if your workflow lives inside a legacy desktop app or portal with no API to call.
- Zapier: Pick Zapier for SaaS-to-SaaS automation between apps with public APIs; pick Sola for manual UI-level work in legacy systems Zapier can't reach.