Most AI companies want to sell software to call centres. Yellow.ai wants to buy the call centres. The enterprise-AI firm has agreed to go public through a merger with a blank-cheque company. It plans to spend much of the money acquiring the outsourcing operators it aims to automate.
The deal folds Yellow.ai into Bluerock Acquisition Corp, a Nasdaq-listed SPAC, with the combined company trading as “YAI.” It puts the pro forma equity value at about $550m and expects more than $200m in proceeds. Both boards have approved. Bluerock’s shareholders have not yet voted, and closing is due in the second half of 2026.
Yellow.ai, founded in 2016, sells agentic AI that turns a company’s service procedures into agents that plan a task, act on it and close it out. It says it handles 16 billion conversations a year for more than 650 enterprise clients, and booked over $34m in unaudited revenue last year. Backers include Lightspeed and Salesforce Ventures.
Buying the market it wants to automate
The unusual part is what the cash is for. Alongside the platform and sales, Yellow.ai earmarks proceeds to acquire business process outsourcing firms, the operators that run customer service for other companies, and rebuild them on its own software. It has hired for the job: one new partner brings outsourcing operations, another private-equity roll-up experience.
