# Cerebri AI

> Cerebri AI is an Austin-based data engineering and artificial intelligence company that builds purpose-built AI agents for corporate travel, expense (T&E), and indirect procurement. Founded in 2016 by Jean Belanger and Steve Harter, the company originally pioneered a customer-experience metric called Cerebri Values before pivoting to become a leader in AI-powered analytics for the $1.5 trillion corporate travel market. Its AIQ Data Foundry unifies fragmented TMC, corporate card, expense, and HR/ERP data into a finance-grade foundation, on top of which its CAI Agents - a 'digital employee' workforce - automate hotel RFPs, air contract compliance, trip cost reconciliation, and ESG reporting while measuring ROI on every action.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** Austin, Texas, United States
- **Founders:** Jean Belanger (Co-founder & CEO), Steve Harter (Co-founder & Chief Scientist)
- **Team size:** 27
- **Products:** CAI Agents, AIQ Data Foundry, Cerebri AIQ, CAI Air Contracts, CAI Hotel RFP / Hotel Sourcing
- **Notable:** Launched CAI Agents, described as the industry's first 'digital employee' workforce for corporate travel and indirect procurement., Built the AIQ Data Foundry unifying TMC, card, expense, and HR/ERP data into a finance-grade foundation., Selected as a data source for BizTrip.AI's agentic corporate-travel product.

## Products & services

- **CAI Agents** — The industry's first 'digital employee' agentic workforce for corporate travel and indirect procurement. Agents reason, determine tasks, call APIs, browse the web, and manage multi-day missions across the T&E ecosystem, reporting ROI on every action.
- **AIQ Data Foundry** — A unified, finance-grade data foundation that integrates TMC, corporate card, expense, and HR/ERP data into a single trustworthy source for analytics and agent execution.
- **Cerebri AIQ** — A SaaS data engineering and AI modeling platform that lets travel managers slice corporate travel and meetings program data across 15+ dimensions for real-time budget management and program insights.
- **CAI Air Contracts** — Automatically verifies that employee airfares are booked at contracted discount rates and reports the savings.
- **CAI Hotel RFP / Hotel Sourcing** — Automates the end-to-end transient hotel RFP process to source, evaluate, and optimize accommodations.
- **CAI Trip Costs** — Aligns travel and related spending into consistently defined trips across TMC spend, corporate card transactions, and expense reports.
- **CAI Docs** — Audits contracts and policies for compliance and negotiated terms.
- **ESG & Sustainability Analytics** — Carbon emissions tracking and sustainable travel analytics for ESG and DEI reporting within corporate travel programs.

## Achievements

- Launched CAI Agents, described as the industry's first 'digital employee' workforce for corporate travel and indirect procurement.
- Built the AIQ Data Foundry unifying TMC, card, expense, and HR/ERP data into a finance-grade foundation.
- Selected as a data source for BizTrip.AI's agentic corporate-travel product.
- Raised more than $19M across seed, Series A, and Series B rounds.
- Successfully pivoted from a customer-experience metric business (Cerebri Values) to corporate travel and expense analytics.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Unveiled CAI Agents, a 'digital employee' agentic workforce targeting the $1.5T corporate travel and $15T indirect procurement markets.
- **2026-04** — Announced Q2/2026 releases including CAI Trip Costs and CAI Hotel RFP, plus CAI Air Contracts for real-time contracted-rate compliance.
- **2025-08** — BizTrip.AI added historical travel and expense data sourced from Cerebri AI to its agentic corporate-travel offering.

## Links

- Website: https://cerebriai.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cerebri-ai-inc-
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Cerebri

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Last updated: 2026-07-22