About

We're building the AI-native record for every industry.

Recordly Labs is a small, opinionated team based in San Francisco and remote. We've been operators inside the verticals we now rebuild.

Our thesis

Form-based SaaS dies; record-based AI replaces it.

1

One vertical at a time

We refuse to be horizontal. Vertical depth is the moat.

2

AI is the user

Humans approve. They don't enter data. Ever.

3

Outcome economics

We win when our customers win. Pricing follows.

Founders

Operators who lived the pain.

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Aria Patel · CEO

Former VP Sales at a $500M ARR SaaS company. Hated her CRM. Now she's replacing it.

D

Daniel Kim · CTO

Ex-staff engineer on voice models at a frontier lab. Wrote the original capture mesh.

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Lila Aoki · Head of Product

Built three products at hyperscalers. First customer of Recordly when she was an EHR PM.

Investors

Believers in vertical AI.

SEQUOIA
BENCHMARK
FOUNDERS FUND
OPENAI STARTUP FUND
YC W25
CONVICTION
Values

We are unusually opinionated.

1

Receipts > pitches

Demos with the customer's own data, every time.

2

Vertical depth

We hire from inside the verticals we serve.

3

Speed of trust

Six-week rollouts. Not six-quarter.

4

Boring infra

Multi-region, audited, dull-by-design.

Milestones

Short history. Long roadmap.

2024

Founded

Three operators rage-quit their CRMs and started writing what came next.

Q1 2025

Seed

$14M from Sequoia, Conviction, OpenAI Startup Fund.

Q3 2025

First five design partners live

Sales vertical shipping in production.

Q4 2025

Series A

$48M led by Benchmark; verticals 2–4 ship.

2026

Six verticals live

Now hiring across all functions.

Press

What people are writing about us.

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TechCrunch

"Recordly is the clearest proof yet that vertical AI eats horizontal SaaS."

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The Information

"The first credible Salesforce replacement in twenty years."

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Stratechery

"Outcome pricing is the wedge. Vertical depth is the moat."

"We aren't building a tool. We're building the new shape of the work itself."
— Aria Patel, CEO
Where we work

Office in SF, team across 14 cities.

SF

HQ — SoMa

For team off-sites, customer days, and good ramen.

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Remote-first

Async by default, deep-work culture, four-day weeks one week per quarter.

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Global

Engineering, product, GTM in NA + EU.

Want to build the new shape with us?

We're hiring across product, eng, and GTM.

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