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Engagement suite adding live chat, comments, polls and live blogs to publisher and brand sites to grow and monetize audiences.
AI video social-listening platform that scans social video content to surface untagged brand mentions, sentiment, and creator leads.
AI knowledge platform (Alani) that turns files, video, audio and docs into cited, source-grounded answers with persistent memory.
A fast, keyboard-driven Mac/Windows launcher with an extension store and built-in AI commands for power users who live in shortcuts.
AI-moderated research platform for deep customer insights.
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- ✦Threaded comments
- ✦Real-time group chat
- ✦Live blog streams
- ✦AI polls and moderation
- ✦First-party data capture
- ✦No-code website embed
- ✦AI video analysis of audio, visuals, and captions
- ✦Untagged brand mention and UGC detection
- ✦Creator sourcing by niche, audience, and brand fit
- ✦Outbound comment engagement tracking
- ✦Competitive benchmarking across brands
- ✦Brand sentiment and safety monitoring
- ✦Source-cited, grounded AI answers
- ✦Persistent memory across sessions
- ✦Video, audio, PDF and doc parsing
- ✦Choice of LLM (GPT, Claude, Gemini)
- ✦Alani Hub, Connect and Insights products
- ✦Collaboration and sharing
- ✦Enterprise-grade privacy
- ✦Extendable command-bar launcher for macOS and beta Windows support
- ✦Thousands of third-party extensions from a public store
- ✦Built-in AI chat and custom AI command automation
- ✦Clipboard history, window management, and calculator utilities
- ✦Text snippets and quicklinks for repetitive actions
- ✦Hotkeys and aliases for common apps and commands
- ✦Team plan for sharing snippets, quicklinks, and extensions
- ✦AI-moderated interviews
- ✦AI synthesis and highlight reels
- ✦Customizable AI interviewer persona
- ✦Multimodal research (video, voice, text)
- ✦Flexible participant recruitment
- ✦Advanced unmoderated testing
- →Live event coverage
- →Growing on-site community
- →Monetizing audience with ads
- →Capturing first-party data
- →Finding untagged user-generated content about a brand
- →Sourcing creators that match specific audience criteria
- →Measuring campaign impact across social video
- →Benchmarking a brand's social presence against competitors
- →Personal 'second brain' knowledge base
- →Verified research and analysis
- →Content communities and monetization
- →Enterprise data workflows and insights
- →Launching apps and running quick commands without leaving the keyboard
- →Automating repetitive text and file tasks with snippets and quicklinks
- →Getting AI answers or writing help without switching apps
- →Sharing productivity tooling and extensions across a team
- →Market strategy
- →Segmentation & Personas
- →Brand Research
- →Innovation & Concept Testing
- →User Experience & Usability
- →Creative Testing