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Melius, founded in 2025 in New York by three former Ramp engineers, is an AI-native creative operating system: users describe a brief in plain language and its agent, Mel, plans the workflow, picks models and generates ad images, video, UGC and ad variations for agencies, brands and e-commerce teams.

Graphed deploys AI agents for marketing and GTM teams: it connects 750+ data sources, manages a marketing data warehouse, and provides forward-deployed engineers who implement agents for paid media, SEO, cold outbound, link building and reporting within five business days.

OuterSignal is a New York-based agentic customer intelligence platform founded in 2025. It connects to brands' commerce and CRM systems, enriches order data with demographic, occupational and public information to build individual customer profiles, and uses AI agents for VIP detection, segmentation and personalized marketing for consumer brands such as AG1, HexClad and True Classic.

askpolly is the AI market-research brand of Advanced Symbolics Inc. (ASI), co-founded in 2015 in Ottawa, Canada by Erin Kelly (CPA, former COO of ad agency ACART Communications) and physicist Kenton White, who together built the AI system "Polly." The company initially operated as a market-research agency; Polly gained fame in 2016 for correctly predicting Brexit and the U.S. presidential election. Since October 2023 the company has offered askpolly, a self-serve product giving clients direct "zero-shot" access to Polly's analysis. The platform now serves 200+ companies including McDonald's and Mastercard, with a ~10-person team mostly holding advanced degrees in physics or machine learning, and technology protected by multiple patents. Its Microsoft-certified Copilot AI agent is listed on the Microsoft Marketplace, and the company is a Microsoft partner with Azure IP co-sell status.

Profound, founded in 2024 in New York, helps brands monitor and improve their visibility in AI search results. The platform processes over 100 million AI search queries per month, supports six languages across 18 countries, and counts Indeed, MongoDB, and Ramp among its customers.

MoEngage, founded in 2014 in San Francisco, uses first-party data and AI to deliver marketing personalization solutions for consumer brands.