# Miso.ai

> Miso.ai (Miso Technologies) builds LLM-powered search, answers, and personalization for publishers, marketplaces, and content sites. Its flagship product, Miso Answers, sits on top of a customer's own content catalog to deliver ChatGPT-style, citation-backed answers with no hallucinations - fine-tuned to each brand's voice and grounded only in their material. Spun out of privacy-centric 'small data' research at Cornell Tech's Small Data Lab, Miso helps sites like O'Reilly Online Learning and Foundry's tech publications turn their archives into trustworthy answer engines that lift engagement and subscriptions.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Lucky Gunasekara (Co-Founder & CEO), Andy Hsieh (Co-Founder & CTO), Scott Lloyd (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~30 employees
- **Products:** Miso Answers, Miso Search, Personalization & Recommendations API, JavaScript SDK
- **Notable:** Powers over 1 billion searches and recommendations across the web, O'Reilly publicly described its Miso partnership as 'really lucrative,' reaching ~2.5M paying subscribers, Selected as the AI vendor for Foundry's 'Smart Answers' across CIO.com and sister publications

## Products & services

- **Miso Answers** — An LLM-powered answer engine that runs on top of a customer's content catalog, delivering ChatGPT-style natural-language answers that are citation-driven, hallucination-free, and fine-tuned to the brand's voice.
- **Miso Search** — AI-native semantic and instant search built on the same content catalog, replacing brittle keyword search with intent-aware results.
- **Personalization & Recommendations API** — Real-time, privacy-centric recommendations, trending content, personalized homepages, deals, and emails powered by semantic intelligence and clickstream analysis - designed to personalize anonymously.
- **JavaScript SDK** — A browser SDK that lets teams integrate the full Miso Answers and search experience into a website in roughly ten minutes, alongside flexible HTML and REST APIs.

## Achievements

- Powers over 1 billion searches and recommendations across the web
- O'Reilly publicly described its Miso partnership as 'really lucrative,' reaching ~2.5M paying subscribers
- Selected as the AI vendor for Foundry's 'Smart Answers' across CIO.com and sister publications
- Reported 10-25x higher engagement versus keyword search and citation-grounded answers with near-source accuracy
- Technology grounded in NSF- and MacArthur-funded research from Cornell Tech's Small Data Lab

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — O'Reilly Media and Miso feature in coverage on using AI to increase discoverability and pay royalties to sources rather than serving 'sloppy AI' content.
- **2025** — Miso expands publisher deployments via Foundry's 'Smart Answers' across CIO and sister tech sites; CEO Lucky Gunasekara featured in Twipe and Press Gazette discussions on AI and publishing.
- **2022-05** — Reported seed-stage funding tranche of $340K.

## Links

- Website: https://miso.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/askmiso
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/askmiso
- GitHub: https://github.com/MisoAI

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Last updated: 2026-08-03