About Basis
What is Basis?
Basis is building real AI agents doing real work in the real economy — "hundreds of agents behind every accountant, performing tasks, reporting back, and transforming how accounting gets done." The company's tagline captures the bet: "Real agents, doing real work, in the real economy."
The vision: "We believe that the marginal cost of intelligence will trend toward zero over the next decade, creating the largest transformation for knowledge workers since the computer. Basis is leading that charge. We're building agents that autonomously complete work which used to take humans hundreds of hours." The product is deployed today with the top accounting firms in the country, doing economically productive work.
Basis recently raised $100M at a $1.15B valuation — backed by Accel (Miles Clements), GV (Google Ventures), Khosla Ventures (Vinod Khosla and Keith Rabois), plus an extraordinary roster of angels: Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Aaron Levie (Box), Adam D'Angelo (Quora + OpenAI), Amjad Masad (Replit), Claire Hughes Johnson (former Stripe COO), Clem Delangue (HuggingFace), Eric Wu (OpenDoor), Jeff Dean (Google DeepMind), Jeff Wilke (former Amazon Consumer CEO), Kyle Vogt (Bot Company / former Cruise), Lloyd Blankfein (former Goldman Sachs), Noam Brown (OpenAI, co-creator of o1), Scott Belsky (Adobe), and more.
Six operating principles guide the team: Build from first principles ("We love principles... break down problems into their most fundamental elements"), Compound, compound, compound ("To compound is to make every unit of effort a multiplier for the next"), Run toward the problem ("Be a driver, not a passenger... it is always yours"), Why not today? ("Speed compounds"), Seek truth together ("Take pride in getting to the best answer, not having the best answer"), and Think positive sum ("there's more ownership to go around, more problems to solve, more credit to share than any of us can capture alone").
Where will I work?
Basis is NYC-headquartered with the entire team in one office. The careers page captures the culture vividly: "Whiteboards everywhere. The whole team in one room. Not a lot of formal meetings, but interesting conversations happening constantly, about agent architectures, accounting edge cases, what the engineering looks like in five years."
What is the Basis team like?
Open roles span Technical (Member of Technical Staff All Levels, Technical PM, Product Designer New Vertical, Intelligence Architect), Deployed Intelligence (Strategist, Member of Accounting Staff, Solutions Engineer, Customer Education + Customer Success Leads), GTM (Sales Leader, Enterprise AE, Sales Manager, Product Marketer, Channel Sales Leader, RevOps), and Operations (Senior Engineering Recruiter, Founding People + Finance Leads). Most people "eat lunch and dinner together... whether that's accounting, ML, climbing, chess, meditation, philosophy, or ping pong."
The standards are high and the feedback is frequent: "You'll have a ton of responsibility from day one and be surrounded by people who are very good at what they do."
Work-Life Balance
Basis offers Unlimited PTO + 12 paid company holidays. Mental health is well-supported: 6 coaching + 6 therapy sessions through Spring Health are included with the benefits package.
Perks and Benefits
- Unlimited PTO + 12 paid company holidays
- Premium medical, dental, vision coverage + life insurance
- 6 coaching + 6 therapy sessions through Spring Health
- Paid leave for parents
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Daily meal stipends + fully stocked kitchen
- $300 toward your custom desk setup
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Monthly office activities + frequent optional team happy hours