Roark

Roark

Winter 2025

Test, monitor, and improve your voice agents

AnalyticsAIConversational AI

About Company

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: 📊 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. 🎭 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. 🔁 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.

Active Founders

James Zammit

James Zammit

Founder & CEO

James Zammit (CEO) is an infrastructure and AI engineer with 10+ years of experience. Previously a Senior Engineer at AngelList, he built core portfolio infrastructure as the company grew from $10B to $124B in assets under management, and led the development of Relay, an AI-powered portfolio manager processing thousands of financial documents each month. He also co-founded a startup showcased at Google I/O 2016 in partnership with Firebase, and received scholarships from Meta and Apple.

Daniel Gauci

Daniel Gauci

Founder

Daniel Gauci (CTO) is a software engineer with 10+ years of experience. Previously a Senior Engineer at Akiflow (YC S20), he helped scale the company to $1.5M ARR and over 10,000 customers. Daniel spent seven years at Casumo, leading the development of a mobile app used by millions of players, significantly contributing to the company’s growth to over $50M ARR.

Company Facts

LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA
Team Size3
Founded2025
StatusActive