
Checkmate
Building AI-native Vertical SaaS
About
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.
From their website
labyrinth.io βCheckmate 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 itβs for: Institutional investors and professional due diligence teams (hedge funds, private equity, analyst teams requiring primary research and transcripts).
- 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

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

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