Roark
Test, monitor, and improve your voice agents
Founders
- James ZammitFounder/CEO
- Daniel GauciFounder/CTO
Same space
Competitors
Closest in what they build, same category.
Adjacent
Overlapping tags, a different niche.
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About Roark
Roark helps teams test, monitor, and improve their voice agents. Voice AI is exploding, but reliability is still the #1 challenge. Teams spend hours manually testing agents and still miss failures. In the last 6 months, Roark has processed over 10M minutes of calls, powering monitoring and simulation for teams across the Voice AI ecosystem (including YC companies). We close that gap by combining: ๐ Monitoring & Evaluation - 40+ built-in metrics (latency, instruction-follow, sentiment, etc.), custom dashboards, alerts, and the ability to define your own. Up to 15 speakers with automatic speaker identification. ๐ญ Simulations & Personas - end-to-end phone/WebSocket simulations for inbound and outbound agents, with configurable personas (accents, languages, speech & behavior profiles). Define tests as conversations with a graph-based approach, so you can easily branch into edge cases and variants. ๐ Full lifecycle loop - failed calls automatically become repeatable tests, so every failure makes your agent stronger. Roark is the missing QA layer for Voice AI - helping teams ship agents they can trust.
San Francisco, CA, USA
Roark: questions
Which YC batch was Roark in?
Roark was in Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch (W25).
Is Roark still active?
Y Combinator lists Roark as active.
Who founded Roark?
Roark's founders, as listed on its YC page: James Zammit (Founder/CEO), Daniel Gauci (Founder/CTO).
Where is Roark based?
Roark lists San Francisco, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.
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