# Tellagence

> Tellagence is a Portland contextual-intelligence company that turns messy language from social posts, reviews, forums, surveys, and creator communities into explanations of what customers mean and why narratives change. Its 2026 Tellagence Discover platform combines a research-validated text-analysis framework, dashboards, reports, API access, and analyst services for brands, agencies, researchers, and strategy teams.

- **Founded:** 2011
- **Headquarters:** Portland, United States
- **Founders:** Matt Hixson (Co-founder and CEO), Nitin Mayande (Co-founder and Chief Science Officer)
- **Team size:** LinkedIn lists a 2-10 employee company-size band and 29 associated employee profiles as of August 2026.
- **Products:** Tellagence for Twitter, Tellagence Discover (original), Tellagence Community, Tellagence Discover, Research and strategy services
- **Notable:** Built a company around predictive network and contextual-language research beginning in 2011., Released an early stand-alone Discover conversation-analysis product in 2013., Co-authored and published two contextual-intelligence studies on arXiv in April 2026.

## Products & services

- **Tellagence for Twitter** — An early product that predicted how information would move through Twitter networks and identified people likely to spread a message.
- **Tellagence Discover (original)** — A stand-alone social research tool that analyzed large Twitter conversations, surfaced connected themes, and exported supporting posts and metadata.
- **Tellagence Community** — An early companion product for finding people with the potential to engage and spread a message inside a specific audience.
- **Tellagence Discover** — A contextual-intelligence platform for analyzing unstructured language across social media, creator communities, reviews, forums, surveys, and other digital sources; offered through dashboards, reports, and an API.
- **Research and strategy services** — Study design, analysis, interpretation, and strategic recommendations delivered by Tellagence analysts and strategists.
- **Discover Pulse** — Short topical reports that demonstrate how the platform reads volume, sentiment, and narrative together around current cultural moments.

## Achievements

- Built a company around predictive network and contextual-language research beginning in 2011.
- Released an early stand-alone Discover conversation-analysis product in 2013.
- Co-authored and published two contextual-intelligence studies on arXiv in April 2026.
- Reported validation of its framework across more than 433,000 real-world reviews.
- Made the modern Tellagence Discover platform generally available on August 4, 2026.
- Supports language analysis across 140 languages, according to the launch announcement.
- Maintains a longtime social analytics relationship with YouTube and Google, according to its company bio.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Tellagence researchers and university collaborators published studies on sentiment consistency and weighted syntactic and semantic context assessment.
- **2026-07** — The company launched a public science hub and continued publishing Discover Pulse analyses of cultural and brand conversations.
- **2026-08** — Tellagence Discover became generally available with dashboards, customizable reports, API access, expert services, and stated support for 140 languages.
- **2026-08** — Tellagence promoted a 2027 SXSW PanelPicker proposal about how AI misreads slang, sarcasm, and hype without cultural context.

## Links

- Website: https://www.tellagence.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tellagence
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Tellagence
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/Tellagence

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Last updated: 2026-08-22