# Rulebase

> Rulebase is a Y Combinator (F24) fintech building AI 'coworkers' that automate back-office operations for banks and fintechs. Its software reviews 100% of customer interactions across phone, email, and chat in real time to catch compliance breaches, policy violations, and fraud - including account takeovers and voice-clone scams - then routes disputes, QA reports, and follow-ups into tools teams already use like Zendesk, Jira, and Slack. Founded in 2024 by Gideon Ebose and Chidi Williams, the company raised a $2.1M pre-seed led by Bowery Capital.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Gideon Ebose (Co-Founder & CEO), Chidi Williams (Co-Founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** 4-5
- **Products:** Coworker, Beam, Voice Fraud Defense
- **Notable:** Selected for Y Combinator's Fall 2024 (F24) batch., Raised $2.1M pre-seed led by Bowery Capital with Commerce Ventures, Transpose Platform VC, and YC., Signed Rho and a Fortune 50 financial institution as customers while still pre-seed.

## Products & services

- **Coworker** — An AI agent for financial-services back-office operations. It monitors 100% of customer interactions across phone, email, and chat for QA and compliance, automates fraud and dispute case management across tools like Zendesk, Jira, and Slack, tracks SLAs with internal teams and third-party partners, and produces audit-ready reports in real time.
- **Beam** — A real-time CX copilot for customer-service agents. Beam provides live coaching during calls, perfect recall of prior context, in-the-moment compliance flagging, and fraud detection for account takeovers, impersonations, and voice clones - with auto-generated QA reports after each interaction.
- **Voice Fraud Defense** — Trained deepfake and fraud-detection models that identify and block malicious voice calls - account takeovers, impersonations, and AI voice clones - plus voice-phishing simulations for employee security training.

## Achievements

- Selected for Y Combinator's Fall 2024 (F24) batch.
- Raised $2.1M pre-seed led by Bowery Capital with Commerce Ventures, Transpose Platform VC, and YC.
- Signed Rho and a Fortune 50 financial institution as customers while still pre-seed.
- Reported up to 70% reduction in back-office costs and ~30% fewer escalations for customers.
- Reviews 100% of customer interactions versus the small sample typical of manual QA.

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Announced a $2.1M pre-seed round led by Bowery Capital to automate financial-services back-office operations with AI coworkers.
- **2024-11** — Launched publicly through Y Combinator's Fall 2024 batch, initially positioning around voice-fraud defense for financial services.

## Links

- Website: https://rulebase.co
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rulebasehq
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/RulebaseHQ

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Last updated: 2026-07-30