Pre-Seed · $2.1M
Rulebase
AI agents that automate compliance and back-office operations for financial services
AI ComplianceFintech InfrastructureAgentic AI
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The Compliance Gap in Financial Services
Traditional quality assurance in financial services manually reviews just 2–5% of customer interactions, leaving the vast majority of conversations unchecked. For banks and fintechs handling sensitive financial matters, this gap creates real risk — compliance breaches, unresolved customer issues, and quality problems that go undetected until they become costly regulatory incidents.
What They're Building
Rulebase builds AI "coworkers" that help banks and fintechs review 100% of customer interactions in real time, flagging compliance breaches, high-risk issues, and quality gaps across calls, chats, and emails. The platform integrates across existing tools like Zendesk, Jira, and Slack to evaluate every customer interaction and trigger correct follow-up workflows automatically.
Traction
Rulebase is already live with clients including U.S. business banking platform Rho and a Fortune 50 financial institution. At Rho, Rulebase cut escalations by 30%. The company raised $2.1M in pre-seed funding and is part of Y Combinator's Fall 2024 batch, positioning it to scale across the financial services industry.
About Gideon Ebose & Chidi Williams
Gideon Ebose (CEO) previously served as a product lead at Microsoft, developing virtual communication platforms for hospitals. Before that, he was Lead Product Designer at Gatherwell, guiding the company from startup through acquisition by Jumbo PLC. He brings over six years of product design and leadership experience, with a degree in Economics.
Chidi Williams (CTO) has over seven years of engineering experience, including four years as a full-stack engineer at Goldman Sachs in London working on private wealth management. He is also the creator of Buzz, an open-source speech-to-text tool with 300,000+ downloads and 12,000+ GitHub stars.
Both founders are Nigerian engineers who met in London before relocating to New York to build Rulebase. Their combined experience across Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, and the open-source community gives them deep expertise in both enterprise product development and engineering at scale.
Sources: Public press releases, SEC and state business filings, published interviews, news coverage, and company disclosures.
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