Skan AI announced $63m in funding on Wednesday, co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell Technologies Capital. What the money is buying is not a model. It is a record of how people at large companies actually do their jobs. Skan builds that record by watching them work.
Avinash Misra, the co-founder and chief executive, reached for a metaphor. Everyone is chasing the model, he argued, when the harder problem sits elsewhere. “Everyone is obsessed with building a better car,” he said. “We think the bigger opportunity is building a better navigation system.”
What the software actually watches
The mechanics matter more than the metaphor. Skan puts software on employee desktops and takes screenshots. Those images are read on the machine and stay there. “Only anonymized, abstracted metadata is transmitted to the analytics platform,” the company says in its privacy guide.
What leaves is a list rather than a recording. Application usage and switching patterns. Time allocation by process, plus workflow sequences and decision paths. Skan swaps employee identifiers for tokens before any of it goes anywhere. Skan’s security page says personal messages and passwords are never captured.
