# Idiomatic

> Idiomatic is a Palo Alto customer intelligence company that turns messy, unstructured customer feedback - support tickets, surveys, app reviews, social posts, forum threads - into quantified insight. Instead of forcing every business into a generic keyword model, its supervised machine learning builds a custom taxonomy for each client, so a telecom's 'signal' issues and a retailer's 'shipping' complaints are categorized in the customer's own words. Founded in 2015 by Kevin Yang and Christopher Martinez, it raised a $4M seed in 2022 and counted HubSpot, Instacart, Pinterest and Slack among its users before being acquired by Front in November 2024. The platform now operates as Siena Insights.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founders:** Kevin Yang (Founder & Co-CEO), Christopher Martinez (Co-Founder & Co-CEO)
- **Team size:** ~10 employees
- **Products:** Customer Intelligence Platform, Custom Taxonomy Engine, Sentiment & Trend Analysis, Ticket Triage & Prioritization, Voice-of-Customer Reporting
- **Notable:** Raised a $4M seed round in May 2022 led by Freestyle Capital, with backing from Adobe's Scott Belsky and Amazon's Gert Lanckriet., Signed marquee customers including HubSpot, Instacart, Pinterest and Slack., Acquired by Front in November 2024, with founder Kevin Yang appointed to drive Front's AI strategy and product roadmap.

## Products & services

- **Customer Intelligence Platform** — Core SaaS that ingests unstructured feedback from help desks, surveys, app and product reviews, social media and communities, then categorizes and quantifies it in real time.
- **Custom Taxonomy Engine** — Supervised machine learning that builds a granular category structure unique to each client's business rather than applying a generic, one-size-fits-all keyword model.
- **Sentiment & Trend Analysis** — Detects positive, neutral and negative sentiment, surfaces emerging issues and anomalies, and highlights recurring themes across channels.
- **Ticket Triage & Prioritization** — Automatically routes and prioritizes support tickets by feedback category, so teams act on the highest-volume and highest-impact issues first.
- **Voice-of-Customer Reporting** — Dashboards that rank feedback categories by ticket volume and business impact, turning support noise into a product and operations roadmap.

## Achievements

- Raised a $4M seed round in May 2022 led by Freestyle Capital, with backing from Adobe's Scott Belsky and Amazon's Gert Lanckriet.
- Signed marquee customers including HubSpot, Instacart, Pinterest and Slack.
- Acquired by Front in November 2024, with founder Kevin Yang appointed to drive Front's AI strategy and product roadmap.
- Reached roughly $1.1M in revenue with a team of about 10 people before the acquisition.
- Product lives on post-acquisition, rebranded as Siena Insights.

## Latest updates

- **2024-11** — Front acquired Idiomatic; founder Kevin Yang and the R&D team joined Front to lead its AI product roadmap.
- **2025-01** — The Idiomatic product was rebranded as Siena Insights, with idiomatic.com now redirecting to the Siena platform.

## Links

- Website: https://idiomatic.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/idiomatic-inc
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/idiomatic_hq
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/idiomatichq/

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Last updated: 2026-08-06