18 August 2026

Relay workflow automation startup shuts down, CEO joins Google Chrome

• Relay, a 2021 startup that automated repetitive business tasks like document drafting, is closing. Paying customers lose access September 14.
• Jacob Bank, Relay's founder, is rejoining Google as VP of Product for Chrome to integrate AI tools into the browser.
• Bank previously sold a scheduling app called Timeful to Google in 2015 and spent six years there before launching Relay.

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Relay, an AI workflow automation startup, shut down, with its CEO moving to lead AI product for Google Chrome.

Reported by TechCrunch