A fraud alert is only the beginning. Aithent has spent decades building the less glamorous machinery that connects a suspicious transaction, an investigator, and a decision someone can defend.

At Apple, she learned that abuse evolves faster than rigid software. At Variance, she is turning that lesson into AI agents that investigate the gray areas behind fraud, identity and compliance.
Roe AI builds agentic AI that investigates fraud, disputes, and anti-money-laundering (AML) cases end to end - reading documents, images, websites, and structured data to produce cited evidence and audit-ready dispositions. Founded in 2024 by ex-Snowflake and ex-Meta engineers and backed by Gradient Ventures and Y Combinator, the company started as an AI-powered data warehouse for querying unstructured data with SQL and sharpened into a financial-crime investigation platform used by teams at Affirm, eBay, and a Global Systemically Important Bank.