Respan

Respan

Self-driving observability, evals, and gateway for AI agents

San Francisco
23 employees
Infrastructure
Seed · $5M

Company details

Team Size23
LocationSan Francisco
IndustryInfrastructure

Funding

Total raised

$5M

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator
GGradient

Founders

HL

Hanhe Li

CEO @ Respan (formerly Keywords AI) - observability, evaluations, and AI gateway for agents World-class AI teams use Respan to: - trace and evaluate agent behavior without guesswork - automatically surface issues - fix what breaks, faster Previously @ UIUC (dropped out) and Apple Product Design

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Andy

Co-founder of Respan (formerly Keywords AI), met Raymond at the University of Illinois as engineering students and started by building an API to dynamically route LLM calls.

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Raymond

Co-founder of Respan (formerly Keywords AI), met Andy at the University of Illinois as engineering students and started by building an API to dynamically route LLM calls.

Andy Li

Andy Li

CEO @ Respan (formerly Keywords AI) - observability, evaluations, and AI gateway for agents World-class AI teams use Respan to: - trace and evaluate agent behavior without guesswork - automatically surface issues - fix what breaks, faster Previously @ UIUC (dropped out) and Apple Product Design

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Raymond Huang

Raymond Huang

CTO @ Respan (formerly Keywords AI) - the developer platform to for agent observability & evals.

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.