Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Code Four is a 2025 San Francisco public-safety startup building AI software for law enforcement, centered on body-camera-to-report automation and investigative search workflows.
Primary product
AI police report writing and investigation platform (REPORT + INSIGHTS + Flash)
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
10-20
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Law Enforcement
Sub-industry
Public-safety AI / police workflow software
Offices
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Business model
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$2.8M
Latest round
Seed · Jun 2025
Latest amount
$2.6M
Leadership
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder & CTO
Director of Growth
Founding Chief Commercial Officer
Founders
Natnael Kahssay
Co-founder
Investors
Mission-driven and highly customer-embedded; the founders emphasize in-person agency visits, hands-on deployments, and close feedback loops with law-enforcement users.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
Public YC job postings showed founding software engineer roles at roughly $130K-$300K with 0.25%-2.0% equity, and a San Francisco/Remote US role at roughly $100K-$250K with 0.25%-1.0% equity.
Pricing
$50 per officer per month; demo-led sales for agency rollouts
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
External coverage raised legal, bias, and human-review concerns about AI-generated police reports using Code Four in Idaho departments; the reporting highlighted the need for careful officer review and potential courtroom consequences if reports are inaccurate.
SourceStateScoop reported that Code Four uses hidden verification prompts in AI-generated drafts to confirm that officers actually review the text before submission, underscoring the company’s attention to human oversight and the associated risk of over-reliance on AI.
SourceStateScoop · Jul 2026
Explains how Code Four inserts hidden verification prompts into AI-generated drafts to confirm officers reviewed them before filing.
Police1 · Jul 2026
Profiles Code Four INSIGHTS as an investigation layer for digital evidence, timelines, and case workflows.
GovTech · Jun 2026
Covers Code Four adoption in Idaho and the legal and operational concerns around AI-generated police reports.
WEAU · Apr 2026
Reports a Wisconsin department trialing Code Four for body-camera-based report drafting.
Bangor Daily News · Feb 2026
Details Code Four deployments in Maine and discusses accuracy, bias, and pricing.