BasedAI Emerges From Stealth With Hirebase — Moving AI From a Chat Experience to a Doing Experience Across Google Docs, Slack, Notion, and More
BasedAI (Wilmington, Delaware; CEO Teana Baker-Taylor, formerly of Citi, HSBC, Circle, and Venice AI; COO Josh Goodbody, formerly of J.P. Morgan; backed by Arche Capital), has emerged from stealth to build enterprise-ready infrastructure and applications for open-source AI — beginning with Hirebase, its flagship AI workforce platform. Currently in closed Beta, Hirebase enables businesses to deploy autonomous agents that execute work across everyday productivity tools including Google Docs, Notion, Slack, WhatsApp, and Telegram — turning raw AI capability into managed, persistent execution. The stealth emergence follows BasedAI's strategic acquisition of Warden App's platform IP and proprietary multi-agent orchestration stack, integrating its technology into BasedAI's vertical AI stack to support persistent, multi-agent workflows across productivity, developer, and digital execution environments.
"With Hirebase, we are moving AI from a chat experience to a doing experience. Businesses do not just need another interface for prompting models. They need agents that can research, coordinate and execute tasks across the tools their teams already use. By building Hirebase on the BasedAI stack, we are creating a more persistent, private and practical way for companies to scale output without scaling headcount."
— Josh Goodbody, Chief Operating Officer, BasedAIThree-Layer Platform — Hirebase, BasedAPIs, and Warden App Technology
BasedAI's platform brings together three integrated layers. First, Hirebase (Productivity): the flagship application layer enabling the deployment and management of specialised AI agents within standard business workflows — targeted at founders and businesses seeking to automate execution and scale output without the associated increase in headcount. Second, BasedAPIs (Infrastructure): the enterprise-grade open-weight model API layer providing developers with OpenAI-compatible access to leading open models, enterprise SLAs, and significant cost savings versus closed-model providers — addressing the market dynamic where too much AI infrastructure remains closed, costly, and difficult for companies to effectively control. Third, Warden App Technology (Agentic Finance): the acquired platform IP and proprietary multi-agent orchestration stack, originally built to support complex agent-led workflows across digital finance environments — now supporting the deployment of autonomous agents capable of coordinating and executing tasks across multiple systems within BasedAI's broader platform.
"AI is quickly becoming core business infrastructure, but too much of the market remains closed, costly and difficult for companies to effectively control. BasedAI is building the open, enterprise-grade alternative — starting with Hirebase and the tools businesses need to put AI to work, not just to prompt it."
— Teana Baker-Taylor, Chief Executive Officer, BasedAILeadership Pedigree and the Open AI Infrastructure Thesis
BasedAI's founding team brings an unusual combination of financial services, regulated infrastructure, and open-source AI experience. CEO Teana Baker-Taylor's background spans Citi, HSBC, Circle (the stablecoin issuer), and Venice AI — a career arc that combines global banking, digital assets, and decentralised AI infrastructure. COO Josh Goodbody brings executive experience from J.P. Morgan alongside deep knowledge of digital asset and compliance-grade infrastructure. This financial services DNA directly informs BasedAI's core thesis: AI is becoming core business infrastructure, and the market needs an open, enterprise-grade alternative to closed-model providers — one that gives companies control, privacy, and cost efficiency alongside the agent execution capabilities that Hirebase delivers. The closed Beta positions Hirebase for initial deployment with founders and operators seeking to automate high-volume execution tasks — research, coordination, document creation, and communication — across the productivity tools they already use, without building custom integrations or managing complex agentic infrastructure themselves.
BasedAI emerges from stealth with Hirebase. Wilmington, Delaware; CEO Teana Baker-Taylor (formerly Citi, HSBC, Circle, Venice AI); COO Josh Goodbody (formerly J.P. Morgan); backed by Arche Capital. Announced 13 May 2026. Hirebase: flagship AI workforce platform in closed Beta. Strategic acquisition of Warden App platform IP and proprietary multi-agent orchestration stack. basedlabs.ai.
Hirebase — what it does. Enables businesses to deploy autonomous agents that execute work across everyday productivity tools: Google Docs, Notion, Slack, WhatsApp, and Telegram. Moves AI from a chat experience to a doing experience — agents that research, coordinate, and execute tasks across the tools teams already use. Persistent, private, and practical agent execution. Targeted at founders and businesses seeking to automate execution and scale output without increasing headcount. Currently in closed Beta.
Three-layer platform architecture. (1) Hirebase (Productivity) — flagship application layer; specialised agent deployment and management within standard business workflows. (2) BasedAPIs (Infrastructure) — enterprise-grade open-weight model API layer; OpenAI-compatible access to leading open models; enterprise SLAs; significant cost savings vs closed-model providers. (3) Warden App Technology (Agentic Finance) — acquired platform IP and proprietary multi-agent orchestration stack; supports autonomous agents coordinating and executing tasks across multiple systems; originally built for complex agent-led workflows in digital finance environments.
Leadership background and the open AI infrastructure thesis. CEO Teana Baker-Taylor: Citi, HSBC, Circle (stablecoin issuer), Venice AI — global banking + digital assets + decentralised AI. COO Josh Goodbody: J.P. Morgan executive background + digital asset and compliance-grade infrastructure. Core thesis: AI is becoming core business infrastructure but the market remains closed, costly, and difficult for companies to control. BasedAI is building the open, enterprise-grade alternative — prioritising control, privacy, and cost efficiency alongside agent execution capability. Financial services DNA informs the governance, security, and compliance-aware architecture of the platform.
Strategic significance — from prompting to doing as the 2026 agentic AI frontier. Josh Goodbody's "chat experience to a doing experience" framing is the defining distinction between first-generation AI tools (LLM interfaces for prompting and generating content) and second-generation agentic AI platforms (agents that execute persistent tasks across existing systems). Hirebase positions itself squarely in the second category — not another AI chat interface but a workforce deployment layer that puts agents to work inside Google Docs, Slack, Notion, and messaging tools without custom integration. For HR leaders and workforce planners, Hirebase represents the early market signal of a platform category that will reshape what "AI workforce" means: not AI that helps humans do work faster but AI agents that execute defined work autonomously within the tools the human workforce already uses.