Ethos, a London-based AI startup, has raised a $22.75 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) to build an AI-powered expert network that uses voice agents to transform how people are matched to consulting, research, fractional, and full-time work. The company, founded by former Google DeepMind and McKinsey staff, uses AI to turn an individual’s expertise into a structured, machine-readable profile and then automatically matches that profile to paid opportunities, with a16z highlighting that top users on the platform are already earning over $10,000 per month. Ethos’s core product relies on AI voice interviews: an automated agent conducts a detailed, conversational assessment of an expert’s experience and knowledge, while the system also ingests external signals such as publications, code, talks, and other work to build a richer skills graph than a traditional CV or LinkedIn profile. These profiles are then matched to demand from clients across areas like market research, expert calls, AI training data work, fractional roles, and full-time jobs, positioning Ethos as a software-driven alternative to traditional expert networks such as GLG or Guidepoint that depend heavily on manual curation. a16z frames the investment around the thesis that, instead of making professionals replaceable, AI can make them "irreplaceable" by better exposing and routing their domain knowledge, and Ethos’s funding will be used to scale its matching infrastructure, expand its expert base, and test whether AI-driven expert networks can sustainably improve income opportunities in the AI-disrupted labor market.

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