Basis

Basis builds real agents that do real work in the real economy. According to its careers page, the company develops AI agents that operate for hours at a time, performing end-to-end work for some of the largest accounting firms in the world. Rather than positioning its software as a replacement for either labor or software, Basis describes itself as creating an entirely new segment that expands the possibilities for accounting and economic decision-making.

The company’s product approach centers on long-horizon agents: hundreds of agents can sit behind every accountant, performing tasks, reporting back, and transforming how accounting gets done. Basis states that its agents are deployed today with top accounting firms in the country and are doing real, economically productive work for customers. Its team is racing to deploy advanced applied machine learning at production scale.

Basis has raised $100 million at a valuation above $1 billion, backed by Accel (Miles Clements), GV (Google Ventures), Khosla Ventures (Vinod Khosla and Keith Rabois), and others. Its investor list also includes Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross, Adam D’Angelo, Jeff Dean, Jack Altman, Noam Brown, Kyle Vogt, Amjad Masad, and Clem Delangue, among other operators and technical leaders.

In a testimonial carried on Basis’s careers pages, Prashant Mital, Applied AI Lead at OpenAI, described the company as being on the frontier of building production-grade, long-horizon agents. He said Basis had pushed the limits of what OpenAI thought its models could do on real-world, economically valuable, complex accounting tasks, and had been a great collaborator in shaping the future of agents.

Internally, Basis runs a team called Atlas, dedicated to answering what knowledge work looks like when AGI arrives. Atlas is composed of builders, former founders, and engineers who embed directly within teams to build intelligence deeper into workflows. The group has shipped agent teammates that push code directly to production, systems that keep company knowledge current automatically, and services that diagnose and repair themselves. Its ambition is to build zero-human loops that handle entire jobs end-to-end, freeing the team for higher-level work.

Basis publishes six operating principles: build from first principles; compound, compound, compound; run toward the problem; why not today; seek truth together; and think positive sum. The company says it hires extremely talented people who crave ownership and gives them agency and room to run. It describes its office culture as whiteboards everywhere, the whole team in one room, few formal meetings, high standards, frequent feedback, and shared lunches and dinners.

Basis offers employees premium medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, coaching and therapy sessions through Spring Health, unlimited paid time off plus 12 paid company holidays, daily meal stipends, a stocked kitchen, a custom desk setup allowance, pre-tax commuter benefits, a 401(k) retirement plan, monthly office activities, and paid parental leave. Engineering roles are based in New York City, with a Flatiron office and five-day in-person work for some positions.

Basis’s careers materials state that the marginal cost of intelligence will trend toward zero over the next decade, creating the largest transformation for knowledge workers since the computer. The company frames its mission as leading that charge by building agents that autonomously complete work which previously took humans hundreds of hours.