Our mission

Make one person's good AI judgment everyone's default.

Verybear exists so that the best way your company does a task with AI is the way everyone does it. Automatically, in the tools they already use.

The story

Two questions kept coming up.

“Which model should I use for this?” and “how do I steer an agent to do X properly?” We heard both questions from almost every company we talked to, asked by someone different every time and answered slightly differently every time.

The answer wasn't a better model picker, and it wasn't another training session. It was routing the task, not the model. Once a task is named and routed well, one person's judgment about how to do it can serve everyone who ever asks again.

So that's what we built: a router that sits quietly behind the tools people already use, and a place for your AI team to write down, once, what good looks like.

What we believe

Four ideas we keep coming back to.

Route tasks, not vibes

A good outcome shouldn't depend on who happened to ask. We route the work, not the person.

Governance, not policing

Guardrails should hold automatically. Nobody should get caught out for not reading a doc they never saw.

Everyone's judgment counts

The best way to do a task is usually already known by someone on the team. We just make it portable.

Boring on purpose

No new tool to learn, no model to pick. The best infrastructure disappears into the tool you already use.

Leadership

Meet the folks at the front.

A small leadership team, close to the problem and close to customers.

Elena Marsh

“A boring, reliable system beats a clever one that breaks under load, every time.”

Elena Marsh sets the direction for Verybear and keeps the company focused on a small number of hard problems. She spent years running operations teams before stepping into general management, and she still starts most mornings reading the support queue. She spends weekends rebuilding an old camper van.

Elena Marsh

Chief Executive Officer

Daniel Okoro

“My job is to make sure a decision made once doesn't have to be made twice.”

Daniel Okoro keeps the leadership team's priorities straight and turns meetings into clear next steps. He came from a background in nonprofit program management, where he learned to run lean with little margin for error. He coaches a youth debate club on weekends.

Daniel Okoro

Chief of Staff

Margaret Chen

“I would rather catch a problem in review than explain it to a customer later.”

Margaret Chen owns the bar for what ships at Verybear and signs off on claims before they go public. She worked for years as a manufacturing quality auditor, which taught her to trust checklists over gut feel. She collects and repairs antique typewriters.

Margaret Chen

Chief Quality Officer

Tomas Berg

“The router only earns trust if it picks the same model for the same task, every time.”

Tomas Berg sets technical direction across the engineering and research teams. He started his career building trading systems, where a few milliseconds of latency mattered more than almost anything else. He races small sailboats in the summer.

Tomas Berg

Chief Technology Officer

Priya Raman

“A feature only counts once a real workflow depends on it.”

Priya Raman shapes the product roadmap and decides what Verybear builds next. She spent early years as a management consultant, sitting inside client operations teams to watch how work actually got done. She grows vegetables on her apartment balcony.

Priya Raman

Head of Product

Sofia Marchetti

“If the interface needs a tooltip to explain itself, the design isn't finished.”

Sofia Marchetti leads design across Verybear's product and brand. She trained as an architect before moving into digital product design, and the habit of thinking in floor plans never left her. She renovates an old bungalow one room at a time.

Sofia Marchetti

Head of Design

James Brennan

“I'd rather publish one honest sentence than ten that oversell.”

James Brennan runs marketing and owns the voice Verybear uses in public. He worked for years as a local newspaper editor, where space was tight and every word had to earn its place. He plays trumpet in a community jazz band.

James Brennan

Chief Marketing Officer

Rachel Thornton

“Operations work best when nobody notices them happening.”

Rachel Thornton runs the operational side of Verybear, from finance to legal to people. She previously managed logistics for a regional retail chain, where small delays compounded fast. She trains for marathons on weekend mornings.

Rachel Thornton

Chief Operating Officer

Amara Adeyemi

“A support reply should answer the question the customer actually asked.”

Amara Adeyemi leads the customer-facing teams at Verybear, from support to sales engineering. She started in call center operations and learned early that most frustration comes from being misunderstood, not ignored. She volunteers at a community garden on Saturdays.

Amara Adeyemi

Head of Customer

The team

The people who make the magic happen.

Engineering, research, product, design, marketing, customer, and operations.

  • Anna Holm

    Anna Holm

    Principal Architect

  • Lars Nilsson

    Lars Nilsson

    Engineering Manager, Router

  • Ben Carter

    Ben Carter

    Software Engineer, Router

  • Sarah Kim

    Sarah Kim

    Software Engineer, Router

  • Ivan Petrov

    Ivan Petrov

    Software Engineer, Router

  • Grace Liu

    Grace Liu

    Software Engineer, Router

  • Hannah Reid

    Hannah Reid

    Engineering Manager, Web and Platform

  • Nathan Cole

    Nathan Cole

    Frontend Engineer

  • Emily Watson

    Emily Watson

    Frontend Engineer

  • Ravi Shah

    Ravi Shah

    Frontend Engineer

  • Owen Donovan

    Owen Donovan

    Platform Engineer

  • Zoe Fletcher

    Zoe Fletcher

    Platform Engineer

  • Robert Mallory

    Robert Mallory

    Staff Engineer, Code Review

  • Wei Zhang

    Wei Zhang

    Staff Engineer, Code Review

  • Tara Singh

    Tara Singh

    Staff Engineer, Code Review

  • Fiona Ashby

    Fiona Ashby

    Quality Engineer

  • Jack Turner

    Jack Turner

    Quality Engineer

  • David Walsh

    David Walsh

    Release Engineer

  • Maya Quinn

    Maya Quinn

    Security Engineer

  • Katrin Brandt

    Katrin Brandt

    Head of Research

  • Oskar Niemi

    Oskar Niemi

    Evaluation Engineer

  • Nadia Hassan

    Nadia Hassan

    Evaluation Engineer

  • Victor Moreno

    Victor Moreno

    Model Analyst

  • Leo Tanaka

    Leo Tanaka

    Product Manager, Router and CLI

  • Olivia Brooks

    Olivia Brooks

    Product Manager, Platform and Admin

  • Ayla Demir

    Ayla Demir

    Product Designer

  • Marcus Hill

    Marcus Hill

    Product Designer

  • Chloe Park

    Chloe Park

    Brand Designer

  • Rebecca Hart

    Rebecca Hart

    Content Writer

  • Sam Fisher

    Sam Fisher

    Content Writer

  • Kenji Nakamura

    Kenji Nakamura

    Developer Advocate

  • Linnea Strand

    Linnea Strand

    SEO Specialist

  • Jordan Pike

    Jordan Pike

    Web Producer

  • Lucia Romero

    Lucia Romero

    Technical Writer

  • Xavier Dunn

    Xavier Dunn

    Technical Writer

  • Minh Nguyen

    Minh Nguyen

    Support Engineer

  • Aaron Feldman

    Aaron Feldman

    Sales Engineer

  • Yuki Saito

    Yuki Saito

    Operations Coordinator

  • Peter Lane

    Peter Lane

    Finance Analyst

  • Helen Grant

    Helen Grant

    Legal Counsel

  • Claire Byrne

    Claire Byrne

    Talent Operations

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