The staff that never sleeps, never forgets, and never sends the call to voicemail.
An AI workforce platform where businesses hire agents - not configure software - to answer calls, support customers and run operations around the clock.
Yobi, San Francisco - the logo that fields the calls you'd otherwise miss.
A patient with a toothache can't sleep. They call a dental office that closed at five. In the old world, that call dies in a voicemail box and the patient books with whoever answers first tomorrow. At a Yobi office, Kate answers on the second ring - cheerful, accurate, and entirely synthetic. She checks the calendar, offers a slot, and books it. The dentist finds out over breakfast.
This is Yobi today: not a chatbot bolted onto a website, but a roster of named AI employees doing the unglamorous work that businesses lose money forgetting to do. Kate runs reception. Marie handles support. Carlos keeps the operations humming - syncing data between systems that were never designed to talk.
The conceit is deliberate. Yobi gives its agents names and personalities because the company is selling something familiar: staff. You don't deploy Kate. You hire her. She works nights, weekends and holidays, and asks for nothing in return except a subscription.
For 500+ businesses - many of them dental practices, with hospitality and real estate close behind - that framing has turned into 50,000+ answered calls and thousands of appointments that would otherwise have leaked away.
"Every minute automated is a minute you get back to build, create, and grow." - Ahmed Reza, Founder & CEO
Ahmed Reza - a Cornell-trained engineer, Milken Scholar, and the kind of person the press has taken to calling "Mr. AI" - did a piece of grim arithmetic. A productive working life, he figured, runs to roughly 15,000 days. Then he looked at how he was spending his: coordinating disconnected tools instead of building his business.
Yobi began as the fix. The first version was a customer-communications app that unified text, calls, CRM and team collaboration - complete with real-time translation and call-sentiment analysis. The thesis underneath it never changed: an AI-augmented business app that replicates and supplements human intelligence.
As large language models matured, that thesis grew teeth. The unified inbox became a workforce. The features became colleagues. What started as software to stop switching tabs became, in Reza's words, a way to give founders their days back.
In February 2023, investors agreed. Yobi closed an oversubscribed $2.37M seed round, backed by IRA Capital and HRC2139 Investments, with angels including Charles Annenberg Weingarten and advisor Dr. Edward Zuckerberg - a dentist, fittingly, for a company about to win over dental offices.
Answers calls 24/7, qualifies leads and books meetings. Trusted by 500+ dental practices - and you can phone her live to test it yourself.
Resolves the bulk of customer inquiries instantly across every channel, learning from each interaction instead of forgetting it.
Automates workflows, syncs data and keeps systems in harmony - the quiet ops manager who never drops a hand-off.
The Yobi Agent Marketplace lets any business pick a purpose-built agent and put it to work - no code, no IT ticket.
Figures per Yobi published materials; bars scaled for illustration.
Ahmed Reza founds Yobi to replace tool-switching chaos with a unified, AI-augmented business app.
IRA Capital, HRC2139 Investments and angels back the vision; Dr. Edward Zuckerberg joins as advisor.
Yobi reframes the product as named AI employees - Kate, Marie, Carlos - and opens a public Agent Marketplace.
Third-party data estimates ~$2.4M annual revenue with a lean core team and 50,000+ calls handled.