Sunsama
Founded
2019CEO / Founder
Ashutosh PriyadarshyEmployees
1-10Funding
BootstrappedProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.7/10Website
sunsama.com/
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About Sunsama
Sunsama is a daily planner application founded in 2019 by Ashutosh Priyadarshy and Travis Meyer. The product is designed for individual professionals who want to consolidate tasks and calendar events into a single structured daily workflow.
The application integrates with tools including Asana, Trello, Jira, GitHub, Todoist, Gmail, and Google Calendar, pulling tasks from those sources into a unified daily view. Users plan each day by selecting tasks, estimating time, and reviewing progress at day's end. The product targets knowledge workers and operates on a subscription model.
Sunsama has operated as a bootstrapped company with a small team, publicly stating it has remained profitable without outside funding. The founders have been transparent about the company's intentionally small scale, describing a focus on sustainable growth over headcount expansion.
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Financials
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Competitive Landscape
Who Sunsama competes with, and how they differ.
Motion fully automates scheduling with AI that re-shuffles a user's calendar as priorities and meetings change; Sunsama keeps daily and weekly planning a deliberate manual ritual, with AI limited to its 2026 Sunny chat assistant rather than autonomous auto-rescheduling.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedReclaim.ai runs inside Google/Outlook calendar itself and offers a free-forever Lite plan, auto-scheduling tasks, habits and focus-time blocks directly onto the calendar; Sunsama is a separate planning surface with no free plan and, until Sunny's 2026 rollout, no AI auto-scheduling.
Akiflow centers on rapid task capture from many apps via keyboard shortcuts plus an AI assistant ("Aki") and a bundled productivity-methodology/masterclass layer; Sunsama has no free tier and emphasizes a slower, reflective daily-shutdown planning ritual over speed of capture.
Todoist is the mass-market to-do list leader (50M+ users, free tier, 19+ years in market) built around fast natural-language task capture for a broad consumer base; Sunsama is a smaller, paid-only daily planner aimed narrowly at professionals doing structured time-blocking.
TickTick is a broad consumer to-do/habit tracker with a usable free tier and a built-in Pomodoro timer aimed at students and individuals; Sunsama targets working professionals with an integration-first, no-free-tier daily planning workflow rather than habit tracking.
Company Timeline
Key milestones in Sunsama's history, with sources.
- Milestone
Sunny AI assistant and MCP integration reach general availability
Sunsama removes the "Beta" badge from its in-app AI assistant Sunny and its Model Context Protocol server (voice mode remains labeled experimental); MCP-connected assistants such as Claude Desktop can trigger task automations that sync with Todoist, Asana, ClickUp, Notion, Trello and Gmail.
roadmap.sunsama.com - Launch
Launches Sunny AI chat assistant and MCP server in public beta
Weekly product changelog announces the text-chat version of Sunny (in-app AI assistant) entering beta alongside a public-beta Model Context Protocol server, with Backlog 2.0 becoming the default for all users.
roadmap.sunsama.com - Milestone
Reaches profitability
Sunsama states it became profitable in 2022, allowing the small team to operate independent of further venture funding rather than chase growth to satisfy investors.
sunsama.com - Launch
Launches out of Y Combinator's Winter 2019 batch
Sunsama publicly launches its $10/month daily-planning tool, which pulls tasks from Asana, Trello, Jira, GitHub, GitLab and Todoist into a single calendar-based daily plan. Co-founders Ashutosh Priyadarshy and Travis Meyer describe it as "a methodology for planning your day," not just a bundle of integrations.
techcrunch.com - Funding
Raises $2.4M seed round following Y Combinator acceptance
Company-stated seed round closing in early 2019 after acceptance into Y Combinator; the round followed a near-shutdown in late 2018 when existing beta users chose to upgrade to paid plans rather than see the product close.
sunsama.com - Founded
Founded by Ashutosh Priyadarshy and Travis Meyer
Priyadarshy and Meyer, who met at the University of Virginia, start the company after their first jobs out of school. Between 2013 and 2017 they build and shelve six different products before a 2018 prototype becomes Sunsama.
sunsama.com
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