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Persado

Marketing language optimized for motivation and compliance.

Company snapshot

Stage
Growth
Status
published
Updated
Nov 4, 2026
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What they're building

Marketing language optimized for motivation and compliance. Persado generates and optimizes marketing language using response and transaction data, pairing personalized content with compliance controls for banks and other regulated businesses.

Founders

Alex Vratskides

Co-founder and CEO

Assaf Baciu

Co-founder and President

Foundation model usage

Editorial estimates from product descriptions. Model providers and actual usage are not confirmed.

Inferred architecture
Consumer inference, Batch document processing, Multimodal processing
Estimated model demand
High intensity

NYC footprint

Documented NYC location
11 East 26th Street, New York, NY 10010 · Current occupancy not confirmed; see sources below.

Funding

Public funding details are not disclosed yet.

Sources & location evidence

Open research desk ↗

Profile source review: 2026-11-04. Current AI product, canonical identity, active operations and NYC presence. Funding not rechecked unless a linked funding correction is recorded. Current About page explicitly lists New York headquarters, both founders, and AI agents combining marketing performance with compliance. A current first-party financing history was not established; mature company founded in 2012 is classified Growth and funding fields are left null.

Manhattan · verified headquarters

11 East 26th Street, New York, NY 10010. Current occupancy not confirmed. Current company About page explicitly labels this address New York Headquarters in Our Offices. No floor, suite, or source publication date is displayed. This is office-location evidence rather than a legal notice alone. Census street match identifies New York County (Manhattan).

Persado - About / Our Offices / Global Presence ↗

Source checked 2026-11-03

Notes

Persado is tagged worth watching based on buyer clarity, repeat workflow activity, public activity, and fit with the AI Atlas map.

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