Simple AI

Simple AI builds voice AI agents for enterprise phone operations. Its agents handle customer support, order intake and lead qualification over the phone, using speech and natural language interaction to guide callers, make recommendations and upsell within conversations. The stated aim is to convert routine customer interactions into revenue opportunities, and the company reports a +20% conversion uplift on inbound sales, a 25% increase in converted leads from sales follow-up and a 30% uplift in booking rates for appointment scheduling.

The work spans several technical domains: voice and conversational AI, autonomous AI agents, speech and natural language processing, and sales automation with upselling intelligence. Customers are drawn from industries including food delivery, e-commerce and restaurant and food retail, among them DoorDash, xAI and Omaha Steaks.

Founded by Catheryn Li and Zach Kamran, who met while running software teams at Y Combinator, the company is headquartered in San Francisco and employs eight people. It has raised $14m, with backing from Y Combinator and a group of operators and investors including Michael Seibel, Jared Friedman, Alexandr Wang, Matt Van Horn, Suhail Doshi and Scott Wu.