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About Zumi

Built for the brands that
refuse to be invisible

Zumi was founded because great brands kept getting left out of AI-generated answers while competitors got recommended by default. The founders built the platform they wished they had as operators.

TeamFounder-led
StageFounding cohort
Every demoWith the founders

The new discovery layer
is already live

Over the last two years, something shifted. Marketing teams that had spent years perfecting their SEO were suddenly invisible in the places their customers were actually asking questions. ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot, Grok, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, DeepSeek. The new discovery layer was live, and most brands had no idea how they were being portrayed.

Zumi was built to close that gap. The job is not to tell brands what is happening in AI answers. It is to tell them why, show exactly where the opportunity sits, and put the tools to act on it in their hands.

The brands that win the next decade of customer acquisition will be the ones that understood this shift early and moved decisively. Zumi exists to make that movement possible.

The brands in the answer compound. The ones left out, recede.

Zumi · operating thesis

Four things that
are not negotiable

01

Unfiltered truth

Zumi shows brands exactly how they appear in AI answers, even when it is uncomfortable. Nothing gets fixed that is not first made visible.

02

Action over insight

Reports that sit in inboxes do not move the needle. The job is surfacing insights that lead to action and measurable improvement.

03

Built for the pace

The AI landscape moves fast. The platform is built to keep pace with new engines, new query patterns, and new optimization signals so customers stay ahead.

04

Agency-grade at every tier

Whether it is a solo in-house marketer or an agency running 50 client accounts, the depth of insight is the same. Scale should not mean compromise.

A small founding team.
Every demo is with the founders

Vidhvan Garipally

Co-founder and CEO

A builder focused on innovation, execution, and creating products, teams, and businesses that solve meaningful problems at scale.

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Karthick Sreedaran

Co-founder

A builder of brands and markets, turning meaningful products into businesses people choose by default.

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See where a brand
stands today

Zumi pulls real answers, live, across every engine. No deck, no pitch.

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