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Outset

Summer 2023 · Active

AI-powered user interviews

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2022

Team size: 30

About

Outset offers AI-powered user interviews to conduct qualitative research. Traditional surveys are fast but lack depth while live interviews produce high quality data but are slow and expensive. Outset uses LLMs to lead interviews and synthesize results so researchers get high quality data 100 times faster.

Founders

  • Aaron CannonFounder

    Co-founder and CEO of Outset. Aaron was previously the head of product at Untapped and Triplebyte and played senior product roles at Tesla, Pebble, and Monitor Deloitte before that. He started his career as a tour manager for a band called Timeflies.

  • Michael HessFounder

    Engineer-turned-firefighter-turned-founder