The start-up builds digital twins of business software, including permissions and webhooks, to test agents on ambiguous situations before any real deployment.
Arga Labs has closed a $10 million seed round led by General Catalyst, with Box Group, Emergence, Gradient and SV Angel. The company led by co-founder Phillip Li is tackling a blind spot in enterprise agent deployment: the lack of a credible test environment.
Where most sandboxes are limited to a stateless API access point, Arga replicates the entire software — Salesforce, Workday, email — while retaining the permissions system and webhooks. The environment can be reset at will and duplicated to run multiple scenarios in parallel.
The point is to confront the agent with what makes him fail in production: ambiguity. Phillip Li cites the case of two prospects entered into two different tools, which the agent must recognize as one and the same company. Yuri Sagalov, from General Catalyst, sums up the issue: a repeatable test environment already counts for training humans, it counts even more for agents.
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