Simple AI

Conversational AI · Speech & Audio AI
4open roles
$200kmedian advertised pay
$14Mlatest round · Venture round · Dec 2024 · 23 mo ago
1backers · Y Combinator

Overview

Deploy enterprise-ready voice AI powered phone agents in days, not weeks. Handle thousands of calls simultaneously with human-like conversations.

How Simple AI hires

Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%

Simple AI scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Funding and backers

Total raised
$14M
1 round on record
Latest round
$14M
Venture round · Dec 2024 · 23 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
10
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Y Combinator
The money's age
Due for its next round
23 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
19/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 17 Partnership Simple AI Joins the NiCE DEVone Partner Program · usesimple.ai Dec 5, 2024 Raised a round Venture round $14M Jun 2024 Went through Y Combinator 2024 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
3
best: 4 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Dec 2024 $14M Y Combinator, Massive Tech Ventures, Samsung Next, True Growth, Conviction, HNVR usesimple.ai
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Jobs

$130k – $280k per year · In office · Full-Time · 4+ years exp · San Francisco
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TypeScript
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Ruby on Rails
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$140k – $250k per year · In office · Full-Time · 4+ years exp · San Francisco
Python
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
Redis
AI/ML
AI Agents
Voice Agents
DevOps
Terraform
Helm
WebRTC
CI/CD
GitOps
ArgoCD
AWS
Kubernetes
Amazon EKS
IAM
Linux
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
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$160k – $220k per year · In office · Full-Time · 2+ years exp · San Francisco
AI Agents
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$120k – $200k per year · In office · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · San Francisco
Python
TypeScript
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Prompt Engineering
AI Agents
LLM
DevOps
AWS
Apply

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$200k
Typical range
$120k – $350k
Open positions
9
9 Jobs
Junior 22.2%
Middle 66.7%
Senior 11.1%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 2 $170k $120k – $220k
Middle 6 $225k $180k – $350k
Senior 1 $120k $120k
Highest paying role Enterprise Account Executive $350k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Simple AI By role, level and city, against the market · 9 jobs with pay

Growth

Hiring Momentum
26/100
Slowing
Open positions
10
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
62 days
faster than 20% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
50% ▲
Solutions
25% ▼
DevOps
13% ▼
Marketing
13% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026

Financials

Total raised
$14M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2024 $14M Details

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Simple AI over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
21
Postings analysed
13
Stack modernity
82/100AI adopter
Languages
Python23%
TypeScript23%
Ruby15%
Frameworks & libraries
Ruby on Rails15%
Databases
PostgreSQL23%
Redis8%
Cloud & platforms
AWS23%
Amazon EKS8%
Kubernetes8%
Linux8%
AI & ML
LLM23%
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Full Simple AI tech stack 21 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Connections

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Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Shared investors1
Y CombinatorVia a fund
6310 portfolio companies

News

Blog 3 months ago
Simple AI Joins the NiCE DEVone Partner Program
Simple AI has officially joined the NiCE DEVone program.We will also be at NiCE World Orlando June 8-10 to introduce ourselves to the NiCE ecosystem. More details can be found here if you want to meet with us and learn about our cutting edge solution.NiCE
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Blog 3 months ago
How to Add Voice AI Without Replacing Your CCaaS
"We just finished a CCaaS migration. We are not doing another one."That is a reasonable response. A contact-center migration touches phone numbers, routing, workforce management, recordings, reporting, agent desktops, security reviews, and training. Addin
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Blog 3 months ago
Stop Counting Deflections. Start Counting Dollars.
Every contact center leader we talk to comes in with the same priorities: reduce handle time, deflect more calls, keep customers away from a human. Those are the metrics the business judges them on. A function under constant cost scrutiny optimizes for th
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Blog 3 months ago
CCW Vegas 2026: CX Buyers Are Done With Mediocre AI
Customer Contact Week Vegas ran on a contradiction this year. Companies are more open than ever to implementing AI, but are also more skeptical than ever of the solutions on the market. Nowhere was this more apparent than in the voice AI category. Accordi
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Blog 3 months ago
How Omaha Steaks turned its inbound line into a sales engine
The full 45-minute fireside chat with Omaha Steaks is available to watch on YouTube.Omaha Steaks has been selling premium steaks and seafood for 109 years. Half of its annual call and chat volume arrives in a single month. From the week before Thanksgivin
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Blog 3 months ago
The Contact Center Workforce Just Hit Its 2034 Forecast, Nine Years Early
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment of customer service representatives to decline 5% between 2024 and 2034. According to the 2026-27 benchmarking report from CMP Research, the group behind CCW Digital, the frontline customer contact workfo
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Blog 3 months ago
Key takeaways from Omaha Steaks' fireside chat
Two years ago, Omaha Steaks hired 5,000 seasonal agents to get through the holidays. This year, the plan is 692.That number is the spine of the conversation our CEO Cat Li had on stage at Customer Contact Week in Las Vegas with Grant Young, Director of CE
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Blog 3 months ago
Why your phone tree data is wrong about customer intent
For years, Omaha Steaks believed 70% of its inbound calls were sales calls. The evidence looked solid: the IVR said "press one for sales, press two for support," and 70% of callers pressed one.Then an AI agent replaced the phone tree and started asking ca
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Blog 3 months ago
The CX Leader's Guide to Voice AI
Most voice AI evaluations fail before the demo starts, because the buyer walks in without a list of questions that separate a really good product from a well run demo. This guide is that list: twelve questions you can ask your prospective solution provide
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Blog 3 months ago
How Omaha Steaks Cut Call Abandonment From 16% to 3%
Two years ago, Omaha Steaks lost 16% of callers before anyone could help them. Last year, the rate fell to 9%. Today it is 3%, measured on a line that handles roughly 12 times its normal call volume in December.That change carries real revenue weight. Rou
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco United States
HQ
10 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 20% engineering 10% remote 50-200 est. staff $213k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Solutions, Backend
seen since Jul 2026 job postings