A managed AI workforce for regulated businesses. Runs on your machine. Stops at your approval. Leaves the audit trail you own.
Regulated businesses are buried in back-office work, and it can't be safely handed to raw AI. So we don't sell you AI to run. We staff you with AI employees: one per role, working on your own machines, with the workflows built, deployed, and operated by us. They stop only at the decisions a human must own. You employ the work. We run it.
Frontier models are powerful enough to run real operations. A model can read a passport, draft a filing, answer a customer. It can also invent a detail with total confidence, and you would not know until a regulator did. Confidence is not correctness.
So the businesses that most need an AI employee, the ones buried in compliant, deadline-driven, audit-heavy work, are exactly the ones that cannot safely adopt one. Their data cannot leave the building. Every action needs a receipt. One wrong move costs more than the automation saves. The blocker is not the model. It is everything around the model: the operation, the controls, and the accountability.
We place a role-specialized AI employee on your machine: a receptionist, an accountant, a general manager. It works inside the systems your team already uses, the right person approves the actions that carry real-world impact, and it leaves a full audit trail in your hands. You do not operate it. We do.
We build the workflows, deploy them to your machines remotely, run the whole fleet, and keep it working, the way a managed provider runs your cloud rather than handing you servers to babysit. You employ the role. We operate the worker.
- Hire a role
- Approve what carries real-world impact
- Own the audit trail
- Build the workflows
- Deploy to your machine, remotely
- Run and monitor the fleet
- Keep it working
Whatever the role, every job follows the same trusted path. Below is that path, then an AI employee running it for real in our first vertical: short-term-rental hosts.
Most AI agents can't be trusted with regulated work. An Obra employee can, because accountability is built into how it is made, not promised in a policy. Risky actions pass three gates, and six properties hold the whole system.
- One read, no second check
- Runs in a vendor's cloud
- No record of what it did
- Acts on anything
- You operate it
- Confidently wrong
- Two reads must agree
- Runs on your machine
- An audit trail you own
- Typed, gated actions
- We operate it for you
- Stops at human approval
We built the whole thing before selling it: the engine, the connectors, the runtime, the gates, the host-owned audit, and the operation that runs the fleet. The officer tools are open source; you can read them line by line on the public registry.
Our proof is the hardest job we could pick: a guest registration filed with the SIBA authority on every stay, where a slip means a fine. Obra carries it end to end, from booking to filing to guest comms to owner report. Two reads must agree, every critical step stops for a human, and every action lands on a record you own.
We did not build a hospitality app. We built a managed AI workforce, the engine, the trust layer, and the operation that runs it, and pointed it at hospitality first. Each new vertical is a new role on the same operation. Only the workflows and connectors change; the trust model, the audit, and the way we run it travel with every role. That is why the next role ships in weeks, not years.
AI is now capable enough to run real operations. Obra is the company that puts it to work where it is needed most and trusted least: where data cannot leave the building, every action needs a receipt, and one wrong move costs more than the automation saves. We do not hand you the AI. We employ it for you, run it for you, and stand behind what it does.
The action your business takes is the one you approved. We run the staff, not your data. That is the work, and we attend to it.
Obra makes AI accountable, so the people behind it are named too. You always know who stands behind the work.
Francisco sets Obra's direction and builds it in public. He is not an engineer. He is the proof of the thesis: with AI as the team, one founder can run a company.
Liliana runs reception and property management on the ground. Her daily compliance work is where Obra's first proven workflow was born, and she keeps the product honest to how the job really works.
Chartered Fellow of the BCS and a security executive with over two decades securing complex organisations across Europe and the Middle East. Founder of Foresight Cyber, he has delivered critical national infrastructure defences and guided financial institutions through PCI DSS and ISO 27001 certification.
We take on a small number of regulated operators at a time, so each deployment gets our full attention. If your data cannot leave the building and every action needs a receipt, we want to hear from you, whatever the vertical.
Tell us what you're trying to automate.
Send a note with your sector and the workflow that costs you the most time today. If Obra fits, we will deploy with you. If it does not, we will tell you honestly.
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