qwant news | Felix launches with $1.7M to reliably automate professional services - SiliconANGLE
Felix, officially known as Spoken Empathy Systems Inc., announced its launch on Tuesday after securing $1.7 million in pre‑seed funding led by XYZ Venture Capital, with participation from a slate of angel investors that includes former leaders and founders from Amazon, Apple, Palantir, FlexPort, Yelp and Midjourney. The capital will be used to broaden the platform’s capabilities and scale the team, positioning Felix as a new player focused on automating complex professional‑service workflows without the need for constant human oversight.
The company’s core offering converts probabilistic large‑language‑model outputs into deterministic, auditable steps, ensuring that the same input always yields the same result—a crucial requirement for regulated sectors such as legal, finance and insurance. Felix acts as a routing layer that invokes AI only when interpretation is truly needed, thereby cutting token costs and providing a complete audit trail. Co‑founder and CTO Mato Vetrak emphasizes that the system builds and continuously runs the automation code, guaranteeing repeatable performance while allowing high‑stakes organizations to codify authority and decision‑making logic around use cases like mortgage‑application processing.
One early adopter, the UK‑based insolvency firm Recourse Collective Ltd., layered a fraud‑detection engine on top of Felix to scrutinise creditor claims for “phoenixing” schemes. Within eight weeks the solution flagged about £1.4 billion (≈ $1.8 billion) in recoverable assets—far exceeding the firm’s initial expectations of finding only a few million. This example illustrates how Felix’s deterministic AI can scale repetitive, data‑intensive tasks, delivering tangible financial recoveries for enterprises operating in highly regulated environments.
Read more: https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/08/felix-launches-1-7m-reliably-automate-professional-services/
I've been a Telstra Mobile customer for probably 20 years - Until today.
Having watched by mobile bill go up 35% in 5 years ($65/mo - $88/mo) and getting no discernible improved value, it just got a bit too much. No more paying the lazy tax.
Have now moved to Felix, on a $40/mo unlimited data plan (throttled to 40Mbps) which as you can see more than half the price.
The transfer was remarkably pain free, all done from within the Felix app and a couple of verification emails.