Garrett Graves

Garrett Graves
Occupation	Software engineer, entrepreneur
Known for	Co-founder of crmCopilot

Garrett Graves is an American software engineer and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of crmCopilot, a startup that participated in Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch. The company developed an artificial intelligence assistant designed to automate and improve the use of Salesforce for front-office sales teams.

Career

Prior to founding crmCopilot, Graves worked as a software engineer at Twitch, the live-streaming platform owned by Amazon. Graves is notably self-taught and built his software engineering career without holding a traditional college degree. In a 2023 appearance on the Degree Free podcast, he discussed his path into the technology industry through self-learning and provided advice for aspiring developers seeking to enter the field without formal university credentials.

Graves co-founded crmCopilot, which was based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The company's tagline was "Give Salesforce the AI upgrade it deserves." crmCopilot positioned itself as an AI-powered tool aimed at reducing the manual, repetitive work associated with maintaining customer relationship management (CRM) systems, particularly Salesforce. The product targeted sales professionals and other front-office team members who spent significant time on data entry and CRM hygiene tasks.

The platform offered several core features. Its automated CRM updates functionality used AI to detect when Salesforce records required attention and drafted updates that users could approve with a single click, replacing hours of manual data entry. A task management feature proactively identified follow-ups, next steps, and deadlines, helping users avoid missed opportunities. crmCopilot also included a global search capability that allowed users to find information across emails, CRM data, calendar events, call recordings, and documents from a single interface.

The company operated in the sales, sales enablement, automation, and AI sectors. As of its Y Combinator listing, crmCopilot is marked as inactive, and the company's website is no longer operational.

Note: This individual is not to be confused with Garret Graves, the Louisiana politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives, nor with Garrett Graves, the former University of Montana football player.