# Beekeeper: what it sells, price and AI features

URL: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/beekeeper/
Covers: May 13 to July 2, 2025
Updated: 2026-11-11
License: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Cite as: Newsprint, "Beekeeper: what it sells, price and AI features", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/beekeeper/, updated 2026-11-11

> Beekeeper is on the AI internal communications software map. We record 2 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated July 2, 2025.

Beekeeper is a mobile-first app for frontline teams, "purpose-built for the 80% of the global workforce who don't sit at a desk". It carries targeted messages, chat, checklists, forms and training without a company email address. Its AI assistant, Maia, drafts shift updates, translates messages, summarizes shift handoffs and gives managers sentiment reports. Since July 2025 it is part of LumApps. Source: [lumapps.com](https://www.lumapps.com/beekeeper).

## Facts

- Site: [lumapps.com](https://www.lumapps.com/beekeeper)
- Founded: [2012](https://www.newsprint.com/research/internal-communications-software/#co-beekeeper)
- Category: Frontline employee apps
- Status: Active

## On the research maps

### [The AI internal communications software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/internal-communications-software/#co-beekeeper)

Beekeeper is a mobile-first app for frontline teams, "purpose-built for the 80% of the global workforce who don't sit at a desk". It carries targeted messages, chat, checklists, forms and training without a company email address. Its AI assistant, Maia, drafts shift updates, translates messages, summarizes shift handoffs and gives managers sentiment reports. Since July 2025 it is part of LumApps. Source: [lumapps.com](https://www.lumapps.com/beekeeper).

- Category: Frontline employee apps
- Price: not published; sales-led
- AI capabilities: Assistant, Content governance, Sentiment and feedback, Translation and AI writing
- Scale: Established: a public parent, or a disclosed customer base (LumApps says the combined LumApps and Beekeeper group has more than 2,000 clients and over 7 million users (2025-07-02 release); the Beekeeper page states 7M+ users across 2,000+ organizations.)
- Founded: 2012

Sources: [lumapps.com](https://www.lumapps.com/beekeeper), [silicon.co.uk](https://www.silicon.co.uk/press-release/beekeeper-unveils-maia-the-ai-assistant-revolutionizing-the-future-of-frontline-work), [lumapps.com](https://www.lumapps.com/insights/blog/frontline-tools-ai-playbook), [lumapps.com](https://www.lumapps.com/insights/news/lumapps-and-beekeeper-to-join-forces-creating-the-leading-employee-experience-platform-for-the-future-of-work), [lumapps.com](https://www.lumapps.com/insights/blog/the-next-chapter-for-beekeeper-customers), [lumapps.com](https://www.lumapps.com/insights/blog/beekeeper-lumapps-unified-ai-employee-experience) and [1 more on the map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/internal-communications-software/#co-beekeeper).

## Launches and dated events, newest first

### LumApps agrees to combine with Beekeeper

Acquisition, July 2, 2025. LumApps announced a definitive agreement to combine with Beekeeper into one AI Employee Hub for desk-based and frontline workers. The combined company is valued at more than $1 billion, and LumApps stays majority owned by funds managed by Bridgepoint. Beekeeper is now part of LumApps.

Source: [LumApps release](https://www.lumapps.com/insights/news/lumapps-and-beekeeper-to-join-forces-creating-the-leading-employee-experience-platform-for-the-future-of-work). From [the AI internal communications software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/internal-communications-software/#co-beekeeper).

### Beekeeper unveils Maia, an AI assistant for frontline work

Launch, May 13, 2025. Beekeeper introduced Maia, an AI assistant that handles routine tasks, translates messages, flags safety risks and inappropriate content, guides new employees and gives managers sentiment analysis.

Source: [Beekeeper release via Silicon UK](https://www.silicon.co.uk/press-release/beekeeper-unveils-maia-the-ai-assistant-revolutionizing-the-future-of-frontline-work). From [the AI internal communications software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/internal-communications-software/#co-beekeeper).

## Methodology and corrections

How we track launches, and how to report an error: https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology