# Ambient

> Ambient is a San Francisco startup building an AI Chief of Staff - a shared brain for leadership teams that pulls context scattered across meetings, chat, email, and docs and organizes it around the initiatives that matter. Founded in 2023 by Lawrence Coburn, Brandon Catcho, and Taylor McLoughlin, the product delivers daily prep dossiers, secure meeting notes, and red/yellow/green tracking on make-or-break initiatives for CEOs, Chiefs of Staff, and BizOps teams.

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Lawrence Coburn (Co-Founder & CEO), Brandon Catcho (Co-Founder & CTO), Taylor McLoughlin (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~13 employees
- **Products:** AI Chief of Staff, Daily Briefing, Secure Meeting Notes, Initiative Tracking, Corporate Memory
- **Notable:** Interviewed 100+ (and by some accounts 400) Chiefs of Staff to define the product before building, Rebranded around a prism identity and narrowed focus to the Chief of Staff role, Reported 50%+ month-over-month engagement growth after public launch in mid-2023

## Products & services

- **AI Chief of Staff** — A shared brain for leadership teams that makes sense of business context scattered across meetings, chat, email, and docs, organizing it around the initiatives that matter most.
- **Daily Briefing** — A daily prep dossier that gets executives ready for their meetings in minutes instead of an hour, surfacing what they need to know before they walk in.
- **Secure Meeting Notes** — Automated, private-by-default note-taking for leadership meetings with content tagging, search, filtering, and action-item extraction.
- **Initiative Tracking** — Red/yellow/green status tracking on make-or-break initiatives, turning scattered updates into a clear picture of what is on track and what is not.
- **Corporate Memory** — A durable decision log capturing decisions, rationale, and owners so leadership teams stop re-litigating what was already resolved.

## Achievements

- Interviewed 100+ (and by some accounts 400) Chiefs of Staff to define the product before building
- Rebranded around a prism identity and narrowed focus to the Chief of Staff role
- Reported 50%+ month-over-month engagement growth after public launch in mid-2023
- Featured on Product Hunt, Ben's Bites, Cliff Notes, and AI for Founders
- Founded by a four-time founder whose prior company DoubleDutch was acquired by Cvent in 2019

## Latest updates

- **2025-04** — Continued product development of the AI Chief of Staff, with context-engineering features mapping meetings, chats, and emails to accounts and initiatives across CRMs and chat platforms.
- **2024-01** — Rebrand to a prism identity, a redesigned mobile-friendly product, new funding, and a narrowed focus on Chiefs of Staff.
- **2023-08** — Seed funding and public launch of Ambient as an AI Chief of Staff.

## Links

- Website: https://www.ambient.us
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/we-are-ambient/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/weareambient
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHJwEmNBJLI

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Last updated: 2026-07-07