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We're building the voice of the physical world.

Every destination, campus, venue, and museum — turned into a place you can simply talk to. Bae is the voice people meet. The intelligence underneath is the asset that compounds.

"The future of discovery isn't search. It's conversation."

Static maps, signage, and typed search were built for a world where people sit still. People don't. They move through places with their hands full and their eyes up — and the places that can answer them out loud will win their attention, their loyalty, and their stories.

What we're building

Bae is the interface. The network is the asset.

What people meet

Bae — the visitor-facing voice

A guide that sounds like a local who happens to know everything. Voice-first, hands-free, multilingual, and scoped to only the place it serves. Visitors don't fill out forms or scroll menus — they ask, out loud, and the place answers.

"Which gallery do most people miss?"
What compounds underneath

The operator's intelligence

Every visitor conversation — what people ask, what they want, where they go, what they can't find — flows back to the operator as a structured, compounding asset they own. Not analytics about clicks. Intelligence about intent, spoken in visitors' own words.

Top unmet ask this week"quiet place to work"
Fastest-growing topicevening programs
Languages served today11

The two are one system: the B2B value depends on the B2C experience being genuinely great. The consumer isn't incidental — the consumer is the engine.

The Place Intelligence Network

Every place that speaks makes the next one smarter.

Each partner place runs on its own isolated data — your intelligence is yours alone. But the network's shared infrastructure compounds: better voice, better understanding of how people ask about the physical world, better discovery for everyone who joins.

01 Isolated by design

Your data trains your Bae — never a competitor's. Isolation, export, and access controls are built in, not bolted on.

02 Compounding for you

Your intelligence asset grows with every visitor conversation — a moat that deepens the longer you're live.

03 Compounding for the network

Shared advances in voice, language, and place-understanding lift every partner — without ever sharing your data.

Team

Operators who have shipped the last platform shifts.

A team that has built and scaled through search, mobile, and AI — now building through the shift to place intelligence.

Sean Fenton

Sean Fenton

Co-Founder & CEO

25+ years in technology. Led BlackBerry's smartphone app era and its Latin America launch. Past XR partnerships with Qualcomm, Niantic, and Magic Leap. Advised startups and brings over 5 years of AI communications experience.

Rainer Flor

Rainer Flor

Co-Founder & CPO

20+ years in product design and delivery. Co-founded PhotoDay and scaled it to a private-equity exit. Translates concept into shipped product.

Humayun Irshad

Humayun Irshad

Co-Founder & CTO

15+ years in ML, computer vision, and NLP. Deep expertise across LLMs, vision transformers, and diffusion — plus cloud, CI/CD, and MLOps in production.

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Let's build the discovery layer together — before the seats are gone.

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