A bridge of glowing glass tiles arcing from a miniature Seoul skyline to a miniature Indian city.

About Redrob

Professional-grade AI,
for the next billion.

Redrob builds AI that does real work, and makes it cheap enough that anyone, anywhere, can use it.

2018
Founded in Seoul
$14M
Raised to date
15M+
Users
300+
AI models we serve

The best AI is priced for a few countries. We make it affordable for everyone.

How we work

01

Real work, not demos

We measure ourselves by the documents, code and answers people actually ship.

02

Cost is a feature

The right model for each question, run lean, so the price fits every market.

03

Private by default

AI Firewall hides personal details on your own computer before a question leaves it.

Our story so far

  1. 2018

    Hiring across borders, from Seoul

    McKinley Rice starts in Seoul with a hiring platform for India: Korean companies hire Indian engineers, and we employ and pay them on their behalf (EOR). It becomes the only Korean company with hiring offices across five Indian regions.

  2. 2022

    AI skill tests

    AI skill tests make hiring faster and fairer: a test is ready in seconds and predicts how someone will do on the job.

  3. 2023

    $4M seed, and Redrob

    Daekyo Investment and Wanted Lab lead the seed round. The cross-border hiring platform Redrob launches, used by companies including Mercedes-Benz, Citibank and GE.

  4. 2025

    An all-in-one AI data platform

    Everything it takes to build AI data, in one place.

  5. 2025

    $10M Series A, an AI company

    Korea Investment Partners leads the round, bringing the total to $14M. Redrob becomes an AI research company with 3 million users across 500 universities in India, and teams in Seoul, New Delhi, Mumbai, New York and San Francisco.

  6. 2025

    An ensemble of open models

    Many open models working together, to cut the cost of AI.

  7. 2026

    Redrob Chat and Desktop

    Professional-grade AI for everyone: Chat on the web, and Chat and Code on your own computer.

From Seoul to the world

Teams in Seoul, New Delhi, Mumbai, New York and San Francisco.

A glass miniature of Seoul at blue hour, a tower on a hill above the river.

Seoul

Where McKinley Rice began in 2018.

A glass miniature of an Indian city at golden hour, domes, towers and palm trees.

India

Where more than 3 million people across 500+ universities use Redrob.

Backed by

$14M raised from eight institutional investors.

  • Korea Investment Partners
  • KB Investment
  • Kiwoom Investment
  • KDB Capital
  • DS & Partners
  • Murex Partners
  • Daekyo Investment
  • Wanted Lab

For the work where good enoughisn't good enough.

The AI agent for professionals who need AI at its best.