Bead AI

Bead AI

Bead AI is building the trust layer for enterprise. An agentic AI that handles audit and compliance in real time, so companies stop discovering problems months after they happen.

London, United Kingdom
2 employees
AI
Pre-seed · $1M

About Bead AI

Bead AI is building the trust layer for enterprise. An agentic AI that handles audit and compliance in real time, so companies stop discovering problems months after they happen. We believe that recent AI advancements will enable a dramatic shift from a checkbox compliance burden to a world where auditors can be trusted risk navigators, providing companies with the assurance needed to continuously adapt to change. We tackle a space that has avoided automation for 30 years due to the highly unstructured nature of audit data.

Bead was founded by Alexey, who previously served as Compliance Lead at Meta, and Tobi, who has spent the last 15 years building and scaling tech startups.

Our agents are already replacing tens of thousands of hours for customers ranging from Fortune 500s to Magnificent Seven companies. The product delivers a 300% ROI and reduces audit time by 70%. With this extremely strong early traction and a rapidly growing pipeline, we are scaling the team to grow from early stage to scaling up.

Company details

Team Size2
LocationLondon, United Kingdom
IndustryAI

Funding

Total raised

$1M

Last stage

Pre-seed

Investors

a16z

Founders

AZ

Alexey Zanin

Exited founder who previously led Compliance at Meta, where he identified inefficiencies in internal audit processes before co-founding Bead AI.

TO

Tobias Otte

Multiple ex-CTO with 15 years building and scaling tech startups; previously a founding engineer at 11x where he built agentic AI systems, and also worked at Gaia Family, Learnerbly, Lyst, and XING.

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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.