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# OUR MISSION

## Answer all technical product questions in the world, instantly and accurately.

## Our story

[Kapa.ai was founded by Emil Soerensen and Finn Bauer, two Computer Science postgrads from Imperial College London, who were exploring the potential of LLMs and embeddings for information retrieval and question-answering systems. Backed by Y Combinator (S23) and a $3.2M seed round led by Initialized Capital.](/content/site-root.html)

In early 2023, tech companies started reaching out about their support teams being overwhelmed with repetitive technical questions, despite having comprehensive documentation. That validated the problem Kapa was built to solve. Today, 200+ teams including OpenAI, Docker, Grafana, and Monday.com use Kapa to power AI assistants across their docs, Slack, Discord, Zendesk, and more.

## Press & Media

Kapa.ai has been featured in leading tech and business publications.

## Join our team

We're a fast-growing team passionate about building tools to help companies provide exceptional technical product experiences. If you're excited about pushing the limits of applied LLMs/AI and want to make a real impact, we'd love to hear from you.

[Careers](https://www.workatastartup.com/companies/kapa-ai)

###### Douwe Kiela
Stanford Professor, RAG Paper Co-Author, Founder @ Contextual AI

###### Solomon Hykes
Founder @ Docker

###### Amjad Masad & Michele Catasta
Founder & VP of AI @ Replit

###### Shyamal Anadkat
Applied AI @ OpenAI

###### Bob Van Luijt
Founder @ Weaviate

###### Chinmay Barve
VP Engineering @ Mixpanel

## Turn your knowledge base into a production-ready AI assistant

Request a demo to try kapa.ai on your data sources today.

[Request Demo](/content/request-demo/index.html)
