VATES is embeddable B2B AI infrastructure. Developers integrate conversational AI into their own product through an API, the way they would integrate Stripe or Twilio. It also runs as a ready-to-use SaaS, as a widget on a customer’s site or as a standalone URL, and as a remote MCP server with OAuth 2.1 so AI agents can query a knowledge base directly.
Knowledge is held as structured plain text and interpreted at the moment of a query. Write a line and it takes effect immediately: no indexing step, no re-embedding, no waiting. This keeps the moving parts few, with no vector database and no embedding API billed per use. Every answer can be traced back to the exact lines it came from.
Billing is prepaid deposit only. No subscription, no minimum spend, no cancellation fee. Console and documentation are localized in 23 languages across 9 writing systems.
Additional Info
| Founder(s) | Shuji Yamashita, Takuya Aoki |
| CEO/President | Shuji Yamashita |
| Bootstrapped or Raised? | Bootstrapped |
| Team Size | 2 |
| Year Founded | 2024 |
| Company Tagline | VATES — embeddable AI infrastructure with a traceable knowledge base. |
| Hiring | No |