Why We Invested in AppliedAI
At Wyld VC, we back founders building the next category-defining companies. AppliedAI is doing just that—reimagining enterprise execution in regulated industries with automation that is intelligent, compliant, and human-centric.
The $300B+ BPO market is still 90% manual, dominated by labor-heavy workflows and fragmented processes. AI adoption here is minimal—RPA holds just 9% share, AI-native solutions less than 1%. AppliedAI’s flagship platform, Opus, is built to change that. It has already delivered 10x productivity gains, 99%+ SLA execution, and reached $20M+ in ARR at 80%+ gross margins.
The Market Gap
Generic AI tools can’t meet the accuracy, auditability, and compliance needs of regulated industries. AppliedAI solves this with a vertically integrated stack blending AI reasoning, deterministic logic, and structured human feedback—anchored by its proprietary Work Graph, an indexed map of hundreds of enterprise tasks. This enables workflow reuse across clients, creating a compounding advantage in quality and efficiency.
Prior to Opus, AppliedAI launched a suite of domain-specific products—DeepDoc, Veritas, Covigilance, Nash, and Domicilium—automating high-friction functions in healthcare, insurance, and financial services. This domain depth and infrastructure breadth give the company an unmatched ability to scale automation where it’s most needed and hardest to get right.
A Compounding Advantage
AppliedAI’s growth model compounds through:
Distribution — Acquiring traditional BPOs and transforming them with Opus, onboarding entire client portfolios at once.
Data — Proprietary enterprise datasets that are difficult to source and impossible to replicate.
Integration — Deep embedding into client compliance, documentation, and workflows, creating high switching costs.
These dynamics reinforce each other, producing a defensible moat and sticky, expanding revenue over time.
Founder–Market Fit
AppliedAI is led by Arya H Bolur, a founder uniquely positioned for this market. With a background in Applied Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon, Arya began his career at Goldman Sachs, moved into private equity, and later ran large-scale operations as CFO of RAK Petroleum. He’s a 3-time founder with multiple roll-ups and a $2B IPO under his belt.
AppliedAI is early in its journey, but already reshaping what enterprise automation looks like in high-stakes environments. We believe they are poised to lead this emerging category, and we’re proud to be part of their story.
