Besimple AI

Human-in-the-loop annotation and evals, with a voice data focus

Besimple AI (YC) builds AI-assisted data annotation and evaluation tooling (auto-generated guidelines, visualizers, and AI evaluators) with a specialization in voice data for AI labs.

Investors include Y Combinator, Emmett Shear, and Kyle Vogt

Websitebesimple.ai
DomainsData Labeling, Voice, RLHF
LocationSan Francisco
Team size1-10
Funding~$3.5M total

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