# Outlier AI

> Outlier AI was an Oakland enterprise software company founded in 2015 by Sean Byrnes and Mike Kim. Its automated business analysis platform identified unexpected changes in business data and delivered concise daily insights. It ended its service in May 2022, when SoundCommerce announced a transaction retaining key team members. It is unrelated to Scale AI’s current Outlier contributor platform.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** Oakland, United States
- **Founders:** Sean Byrnes (Co-founder and CEO), Mike Kim (Co-founder and CTO)
- **Products:** Automated Business Analysis platform, Automated analysis for government agencies
- **Notable:** Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Analytics in 2018, according to founder and investor biographies., Company reported analyzing more than four billion metrics in 2019., Raised USD 22.1 million in Series B funding in January 2020.

## Products & services

- **Automated Business Analysis platform** — Connected to business data sources, detected anomalies and patterns, and delivered a short daily feed with visualizations and potential explanations; service ended in 2022.
- **Automated analysis for government agencies** — A 2019 In-Q-Tel partnership targeted analysis of cloud and on-premise time-series datasets.

## Achievements

- Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Analytics in 2018, according to founder and investor biographies.
- Company reported analyzing more than four billion metrics in 2019.
- Raised USD 22.1 million in Series B funding in January 2020.

## Latest updates

- **2022-05** — Byrnes announced the service closure on May 2; SoundCommerce announced its team transaction on May 10.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/outlier-ai/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/outlierai
- GitHub: https://github.com/OutlierAI
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/pg/outlierai

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Last updated: 2026-10-03