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Building AI-native Vertical SaaS

SR004Founded 20242 peopleSan Francisco, United States of America

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Labyrinth is an early stage startup founded by Neil Garde, seasoned Google PM, and James Sha, AI researcher and Co-founder / CTO of Onyx (acq. by Curefit). We are currently in stealth, building an AI-powered vertical SaaS application that leverages recent advancements in AI to solve complex, high-impact problems.

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Checkmate Research provides institutional-grade AI for primary research, enabling autonomous AI interviews to conduct expert calls, generate transcripts and memos, with compliance and multilingual capabilities. It targets firms doing due diligence and channel checks, delivering analyst-quality outputs quickly.

The platform defines a project, then deploys autonomous AI interviewers that join calls in parallel, conducts adaptive, off-script follow-ups, and returns transcripts plus a strategic memo. It features built-in compliance safeguards, MNPI scrubbing, SOC 2, post-call transcripts, and multilingual interviewing to access global experts. Users upload their thesis and questions; the AI executes tactics and delivers raw data, big-picture synthesis, and an executive memo with findings and consensus/outliers.

Who it’s for: Institutional investors and professional due diligence teams (hedge funds, private equity, analyst teams requiring primary research and transcripts).

Features
  • autonomous AI interviewing
  • adaptive follow-up questions
  • multilingual intelligence
  • instant synthesis and transcripts
  • MNPI scrubbing and compliance by default
  • parallel interviewing for scale
  • post-call compliance review

Hiring/traction mentions (customer testimonials, pilots) and scale-oriented claims; indicates product-market fit in institutional finance.

Founders Β· 2

Neil Garde
Neil GardeCo-founder & CEO
Google

Co-founder & CEO @ Labyrinth | PM at Google | 8 years leading products in AI, AR/VR, Games, and Platforms

James Sha
James ShaCo-founder & CTO
Google

Co-founder & CTO @ Labyrinth | Previously Co-founder & CTO @ Onyx, scaled to 300k+ users & acq by Curefit | ex-Google | Forbes 30u30

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