About Us

Meet the team building the future of brand
management on AI Search

Built with experience from

  • Andrew Yan
    Andrew Yan

    Andrew Yan

    CEO

    Former Google Search product manager.
    Worked directly on the next generation of AI Search with Google's information acquisition team and DeepMind's generative media team.

    Graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in Computer Science and Math in 3 years.

  • Alan Yao
    Alan Yao

    Alan Yao

    CTO

    Former ServiceNow platform team engineer.
    Former founder of AI property management software company Cribbly. Building in AI pre-ChatGPT since GPT-2 in 2020.

    Graduated from UIUC with a B.S. and Master's in Computer Science and Statistics in 4 years.

  • Merrick Liu
    Merrick Liu

    Merrick Liu

    Member of Technical Staff

    Former engineer at Mercury. Worked on credit and debit card processing. Built various AI-powered tools, and did research on biologically plausible deep learning algorithms.

    Will graduate from the University of Toronto at some point.

  • Jason Phillips
    Jason Phillips

    Jason Phillips

    GTM

    Performance marketer and former sales leader at Drift, Quantcast, Pandora, and more. 15+ years of experience partnering with marketers to grow their brands using media, software and AI.

    Graduated from the University of Arizona a long time ago with a BSBA in Entrepreneurship and Business Management.

Our Investors

We are grateful to be backed by
industry-leading investors and advisors.

Firms

Founders and Leaders From

Our Advisors

We are fortunate to be guided by
industry veterans and thought leaders.

  • Rachel Ten Brink

    Rachel Ten Brink

    Co-Founder, former CMO Scentbird.
    Former marketing exec at Estée Lauder and Bacardi

  • Ashley Stirrup

    Ashley Stirrup

    Former CMO of Algolia

  • Ethelbert Williams

    Ethelbert Williams

    Head of Retail Media Search & DTC Marketing, PepsiCo

  • Eli Schwartz

    Eli Schwartz

    SEO leader, advisor to Coinbase, WordPress, Tinder, Shutterstock, and more