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Besimple AI

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Founded 2025Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

We are building the data layer for AI, starting with audio.

We start with data collection, curating our own proprietary set of diverse conversational data covering a wide range of languages, dialects and accents. We then leverage human expert audio annotators and our own annotation platform to process audio data for Automatic Speech Recognition.

With human level transcription and diarization, our data help push the audio model frontier. Today we have over millions of hours of conversational data, and growing.

If you need audio data for training or evaluating your voice models or voice agents, reach out! We offer flexible licensing deals that work for startups and enterprises, with minimal process.

Audio data should besimple :)

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Product & workflow

It asks one product-critical question: did the transcript preserve every structured entity a downstream workflow needs?

Source-reported As recorded 2026-10-25

Founders & team

Previously Simple Annotation, besimple ai

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Yi Zhong

Founder/CEO

AI product leader at top-tier tech companies including Meta, Microsoft, and Dropbox, specializing in deploying large scale AI systems to realize business value

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Bill Wang

Founder/CTO

Shenzhen-born, Rhode Island-brewed, Bay Area-domesticated. While at Meta, launched 7 products and killed 2. Most recently, led the GenAI Annotation team, developing an in-house annotation platform for training LLaMa. Previously, managed an engineering organization responsible for improving connectivity for over 300 million users and optimizing 70%+ of Meta's annual SMS spend.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
10team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2025 · Source

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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