Jibril Gudal

I studied Mathematics at Oxford, then co-founded Lobby (YC S21), a platform that helped medical tourism clinics onboard international patients, scaling to $50k monthly GMV.

I co-founded Banter AI, which let people have live voice conversations with AI personalities and grew to over 1 million users. It was featured in the Wall Street Journal and The Guardian. We later acquired CarynAI, an early example of an influencer turning herself into an AI companion fans could pay to talk to. It generated $71,000 in its first week, before our acquisition. This allowed creators to monetise personalised conversations at a scale they could never deliver themselves.

I also spent time as a contract software engineer, working with companies including Xtonnes and others, before founding LocalIntent. Using AI agents to identify demand for home services across social platforms, I built infrastructure for large-scale social monitoring and proxy management, using low-cost open-source LLMs to identify job opportunities and conversational LLMs to engage and qualify prospects. This turned scattered requests for recommendations into a repeatable customer acquisition channel, selling leads to buyers including Angi, reaching people precisely when they needed a contractor. LocalIntent generated over $6M in booked jobs and reached $40k/month in profit before I exited.

I'm now building Perim, a UK and EU bank with self-set spending limits.