What HearSeek does

HearSeek is a US-incorporated, pre-seed-stage software company building an AI-powered semantic search engine for spoken audio and video content. The platform transcribes, indexes, and embeds meaning across 160+ languages, including native scripts and Roman transliteration, enabling users to find exact spoken moments by concept, paraphrase, or cross-language query rather than by keyword or metadata.

The company operates a three-track product portfolio on a single underlying engine. The Consumer App ($15/month) is a mobile product for personal audio search across voice notes, lectures, podcasts, and WhatsApp voice messages. The Enterprise product delivers on-prem, air-gapped-capable deployment for media houses, broadcasters, and academic institutions, with institutional licensing, data sovereignty, and SLAs; a flagship deployment with the International Iqbal Society covers 700+ indexed videos and a 7.5M-person community. The Creators product indexes YouTube channels and podcasts, with plugins for Adobe Premiere Pro and WhatsApp, and is positioned to help creators monetize back-catalogues through improved discoverability.

Revenue today is effectively pre-commercial: the consumer app is waitlist-only, the enterprise pipeline is anchored by a single reference deployment, and the company is raising a bridge round toward a seed. The stated three-year targets are 3.3M active users and $2.5M in monthly revenue, with language expansion to Arabic and Chinese aimed at reaching 3 billion speakers. No management team, investor names, or funding amounts are disclosed in the available material.

Name

HearSeek

Legal name

HearSeek

Website

https://www.hearseek.com/

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

HearSeek is a pre-seed-stage AI company building a semantic search engine for spoken audio and video across 160+ languages. It serves consumers via a $15/month mobile app, enterprises via on-prem archive search, and creators via YouTube and podcast indexing tools.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Audio Search Software

NAICS

Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (5192), Web Search Portals and All Other Information Services (519290)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Podcast Discovery & Recommendation Apps (MPACAKAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Music Recognition, Lyrics & Metadata Platforms (MPAIADAK), Music & Audio Streaming Platforms (BPAMAJAC)

Keywords

• Audio search engine
• Semantic speech search
• Multilingual audio indexing
• Speech recognition software
• Spoken content discovery

Headquarters

HQ city

Dover

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Consumer App Subscription: Monthly subscription at $15/month for individual consumers. Includes unlimited audio/video indexing, 160+ language support, cross-language semantic search, plugin access (WhatsApp, Premiere Pro, YouTube), private end-to-end encryption, and priority support. Self-serve acquisition via app store and waitlist.
2. Enterprise Institutional Licensing: Flexible institutional licensing for media houses, broadcasters, and academic institutions. Includes on-prem deployment, SLA contracts, semantic archive search, and back-catalogue monetization capabilities. Revenue tied to archive size, deployment type, and licensing terms.
3. Creator Archive Monetization: Creator-focused revenue enabling monetization of back-catalogues through improved discoverability. Content creators gain enhanced long-tail revenue from legacy content as viewers can find every moment, compounding watch-time on historical uploads.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

HearSeek is an AI-powered semantic search engine for audio and video content. It transcribes, indexes, and embeds meaning across spoken content in 160+ languages, enabling users to find exact spoken moments by meaning, paraphrase, or cross-language query rather than by title, description, or tag. The platform operates a consumer mobile/web app for personal audio search (voice notes, lectures, podcasts, WhatsApp clips) and an enterprise on-premises solution that turns private audio/video archives into searchable, monetizable knowledge bases.

Product overview

HearSeek is an AI-powered audio search platform positioned as 'The World's First AI Search Engine for Audio.' The platform operates a dual-track architecture consisting of a Consumer App (app.hearseek.com, $15/month) for personal audio search across voice notes, lectures, podcasts, and WhatsApp; an Enterprise solution (media.hearseek.com) for on-premises deployment enabling media houses and academic institutions to search private audio archives; and a Creators tool for YouTube channel and podcast indexing. All three products share the same core search engine — semantic, multilingual, meaning-based search across 160+ languages — but differ in deployment (cloud/mobile vs. on-prem) and target segment (individual consumers, enterprises, and content creators respectively.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• HearSeek Consumer App

Quantifiable outcome

• 312% average archive watch-time increase for creators leveraging monetization features

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability6 records

Feature7 records

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Otter.ai: AI meeting and conversation transcription/search platform serving consumers and enterprises. Closely comparable to HearSeek's consumer voice-note and meeting search wedge and its enterprise motion, though focused primarily on meetings rather than podcasts/archives.
• Sonix: Automated transcription and search across audio/video with multilingual support and enterprise workflows. Comparable to HearSeek's archive-search and enterprise on-prem positioning for media and academic customers.
• Trint: Transcription and semantic search platform for journalists, media houses, and researchers to search inside audio/video archives. Directly comparable to HearSeek's enterprise archive-search value prop.
• AssemblyAI: Speech-to-text and audio intelligence APIs used by developers and product teams. Comparable as a speech-AI infrastructure layer underneath HearSeek-like search products, with overlapping ASR and semantic capabilities.
• Deepgram: Speech recognition and audio AI platform offering transcription, search, and analytics across multiple languages. Comparable to HearSeek's ASR-plus-semantic-search engine targeting enterprise and developer use cases.
• Speechmatics: Multilingual automatic speech recognition provider with strong language coverage. Comparable to HearSeek's multilingual ASR foundation and enterprise-on-prem deployment model.
• Listen Notes: Podcast search engine and API indexing podcast episodes by spoken content. Comparable as a discovery/search layer specifically targeting podcast audio, intersecting with HearSeek's podcast and creator focus.

Emerging players

• Descript: Audio/video editing platform with transcript-based search and editing, popular with podcasters and creators. Overlaps HearSeek's Premiere Pro plugin and creator monetization wedge, though positioned as an editor rather than a pure search engine.
• Podcastle: AI-powered podcast creation and editing suite with transcription and search features. Comparable to HearSeek's creator and podcast indexing use cases, though focused on creation rather than pure search.

Broad incumbents

• Rev: Established transcription and captioning services with AI and human tiers, plus enterprise integrations. Comparable to HearSeek's transcription-plus-search stack for media and enterprise customers.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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