Mission

Make open weight AI enterprise-ready, commercially viable, and radically more affordable than the proprietary alternative.

Why now

The Red Hat moment for AI is now.

Four things became true at the same time, and weren't two years ago. Open weight models match the leaders on quality. Inference cost has collapsed. Regulation is converging on transparency. And the people whose work feeds closed AI are starting to notice. The window is open — Red Hat moments don't wait.

  • 19×
    Inference cost gap
    Real-world deployments show cost dropping from $95/day on closed models to $5/day on open. Documented in production, not projected.
  • 2×
    Open source momentum
    30% of inference is already on open weight models — doubled from 14% in two years. The shift is underway, accelerating.
  • Auditable
    Regulation favors open
    NIST, SR 11-7, EU AI Act, GDPR. Every framework converging on transparency, version immutability, and explainability. Open source satisfies them by construction.
  • Now
    The window
    The next decade's AI infrastructure is being chosen this year. Red Hat moments don't repeat.
What we do

Open source AI, packaged for production.

What Red Hat did for Linux, BasedAI does for open weight models — packaging frontier-grade open AI as production-ready products, APIs, and agent workforces.

Hirebase
Products
Our first product. An instant AI workforce — 24/7 agents for sales, support, content, finance, and ops.
BasedAPIs
Enterprise APIs
Open source model access for any agent or platform. Drop-in compatible with OpenAI tooling, at margin.
Roll-up
Consolidation
Acquiring and consolidating fragmented open source AI players into one coherent platform.
Co-founders

Operators who've already shipped open AI at scale.

Two decades of combined experience scaling consumer AI products and decentralized AI infrastructure. Now building the commercial layer that turns open weight AI into something a Fortune 500 CIO and a 10-person business can both adopt without an engineering team.

Teana Baker-Taylor
Chief Executive Officer
Teana Baker-Taylor

Venice AI co-founder. Senior executive at Circle, Binance, and Crypto.com; earlier at Citi and HSBC.

Josh Goodbody
Chief Operating Officer
Josh Goodbody

Warden co-founder & CEO. State Street, JP Morgan, BNP Paribas. Early exec at Huobi and Binance

David A. Johnston
Chief AI Officer
David A. Johnston

Morpheus AI lead protocol maintainer. 14 years in AI and open source infrastructure, multiple public-company exits.

Build with us

Open source AI, made shippable.

Hiring across engineering, product, and go-to-market. Open to operators, customers, and partners who'd rather ship on open foundations than rent them. If that's you, get in touch.

hello@basedai.co