AI-Native Consumer & SocialSeedConsumerSentience
A personal AI built around one person's memory and judgment.
Company snapshot
- Stage
- Seed
- Status
- published
- Updated
- Nov 4, 2026
- Views
- Category
- AI-Native Consumer & Social
- Website
- sentience.com
What they're building
A personal AI built around one person's memory and judgment. Sentience builds personal AI models from memories, relationships, and decisions, helping founders and operators recall context and communicate in their own voice.
Founders
Sam Kececi
Founder & CEO
Foundation model usage
Editorial estimates from product descriptions. Model providers and actual usage are not confirmed.
- Inferred architecture
- Real-time voice, Consumer inference, Agentic loops
- Potential advantages
- Workflow lock-in
- Estimated model demand
- Very high intensity
NYC footprint
- Documented NYC location
- Williamsburg, Brooklyn · Current occupancy not confirmed; see sources below.
Funding
Total raised: $6.5M.
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 independent company, also styled The Sentience Company / The Human Sentience Company. Seed classification is supported by investor Bain Capital Ventures' March 26, 2026 founder story, not inferred from total funding. Company careers says $6.5M raised to date but gives no round size/date or lead, so these are omitted. Current physical office verified in Williamsburg; exact street undisclosed. Mind emulation is long-term mission; blurb describes current personal-memory product.
- https://sentience.com/ ↗
- https://sentience.com/careers ↗
- https://sentience.com/master-plan ↗
- https://baincapitalventures.com/insight/video-every-ai-feels-the-same-sentience-is-changing-that/ ↗
- https://www.southparkcommons.com/companies/the-sentience-company ↗
Williamsburg, Brooklyn · verified office
Street address not public. Current occupancy not confirmed. Company confirms physical office and neighborhood, but no exact public street address was found. Count as a neighborhood-confirmed office; do not place a street-level pin or choose a building.
Careers · Sentience ↗Source checked 2026-11-03
Notes
Sentience is tagged consumer based on buyer clarity, repeat workflow activity, public activity, and fit with the AI Atlas map.
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