Quoin

What Quoin does

Quoin is a Chicago-based software company building an agentic research platform that produces verified, fully cited intelligence reports on companies, markets, and topics in approximately 20 minutes. The product is powered by a multi-agent architecture of 18+ specialist agents that run concurrently, with a distinctive dual-agent verification design in which separate research and verification agents never share context, preventing the same reasoning from checking itself. Every claim in a report is traced to a primary source document — SEC filings, transcripts, disclosures, court dockets — that a human can open, and the average report references ~200 sources across ~15 pages of output. Quoin distributes through a self-serve web application at quoin.ai, native desktop clients for Mac and Windows (v1.0.13), an MCP server for agentic-AI workflow integration, and a free daily news product called The Intelligence Brief distributed as a podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

The company is privately held, founded in 2025, and operates with a 1-10 person team. Its primary commercial motion is product-led growth: five free agents at signup, no credit card required, with one-time purchases of agent credits priced from $10/agent standalone down to $3.75/agent on a 600-agent founding bundle ($2,250). An Enterprise tier adds multi-seat licensing, custom research and writing agents, metered pricing, and monthly billing, sold through a demo-led field motion. Quoin targets investment professionals (PE, VC, family offices, hedge funds) as the primary use case, with secondary segments in legal research, consulting, newsrooms, policy, B2B sales, and corporate procurement — customers whose decisions carry liability and where defensible, sourced intelligence is the binding constraint.

No funding rounds, acquisitions, or institutional investors are disclosed. Co-founders are Ted Souder (CEO, two decades at Google) and Brooke Dixon (CPO, 20+ years across The Motley Fool, Match.com, and startups). Pricing is usage-based at the individual level and subscription-based at the enterprise level, with no disclosed revenue, no named enterprise customers, and no published customer counts in the available source material.

Name

Quoin

Legal name

Quoin, Inc.

Website

https://quoin.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Chicago

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Agent Credit Purchases: One-time purchases of agent credits that never expire. Users buy bundles of research, analyze, and write agents at tiered pricing. The more agents purchased, the lower the per-agent cost ($10/agent standalone down to $3.75/agent for founding tier). No subscription required.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Quoin is an agentic research platform that uses a multi-agent architecture (18+ specialist agents) to produce verified, fully-cited business intelligence reports on any company, market, or topic in approximately 20 minutes. Separate research and verification agents operate concurrently to produce reports with every claim traced to a primary source document. The product is delivered as a web SaaS application and a native desktop app (Mac and Windows), with a free tier and tiered pay-as-you-go agent credit bundles.

Product overview

Quoin is an agentic research platform delivering verified, cited, structured intelligence on any company, market, or topic. The core offering consists of the Quoin web application and Quoin Desktop Application (Mac and Windows), both powered by a multi-agent research engine that runs research and verification agents concurrently to produce full cited reports in approximately 20 minutes. Four research modes — Business Research, Topical Research, Due Diligence, and Custom Research — address different depth and scope requirements. Research findings are delivered through the Research Workbench for interactive querying, annotation, and export. The Intelligence Brief is a free daily news product applying the same verification architecture to current events. Pricing is structured as one-time agent credit bundles (Pay-as-you-go, Research, Analyst, Professional, and Founding 600-agent tiers) with no subscription, plus an Enterprise tier for multi-seat deployments with custom agents.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• The Intelligence Brief: A public-facing news product that applies Quoin's research infrastructure to daily news coverage, organized by topics including News & Current Events, Markets & Finance, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Geopolitics, China, Personal Finance, and Sports. Available via Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Products and services

• Quoin Web Application Primary SaaS platform accessible via browser at quoin.ai that lets users run research agents on any company, market, or topic and receive fully cited reports in approximately 20 minutes. Includes user account management, project workspace, and research agent execution.
• Quoin Desktop Application
• Research Workbench
• The Intelligence Brief
• Quoin MCP Server
• Enterprise Plan

Quantifiable outcome

• Research completed in ~20 minutes vs. 25-250 hours manually
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability7 records

Feature4 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Hebbia: Hebbia is an AI research and analysis platform built for financial services and professional knowledge work, with cited outputs and agentic workflows. It is the closest direct competitor to Quoin in serving investment, legal, and consulting research use cases with defensible, source-linked output.
• AlphaSense: AlphaSense is an enterprise market intelligence and research platform used heavily by PE, hedge funds, and corporates. It overlaps with Quoin in delivering cited, decision-grade research for investment professionals and corporate development teams.
• Glean: Glean is an enterprise AI search and research platform that surfaces cited answers from a company's internal and external knowledge. It targets the same enterprise research and productivity budget as Quoin and competes for the same seat-based contracts.

Emerging players

• Perplexity: Perplexity is an AI answer engine with cited sources and an enterprise tier. It overlaps with Quoin's topical research and source-citation proposition and is a fast-moving adjacent competitor for both individual pros and enterprise research workflows.
• Elicit: Elicit is an AI research assistant that finds, summarizes, and cites academic and professional sources. It competes with Quoin's custom and topical research modes, particularly for analyst and consulting workflows that require traceable evidence.
• Consensus: Consensus is an AI research engine that pulls answers from peer-reviewed and source-backed content. It is an emerging player in the same cited-research category, targeting analysts and knowledge workers with evidence-led outputs.

Broad incumbents

• OpenAI (ChatGPT Enterprise): ChatGPT Enterprise is a broad incumbent that increasingly bundles research, browsing, and cited-answer capabilities into a general-purpose AI assistant. It competes with Quoin for enterprise AI research budget at much larger scale and lower marginal cost.
• Anthropic (Claude for Enterprise): Claude for Enterprise is a broad incumbent offering long-context research and analysis tools with citations. It overlaps with Quoin in serving professional research workflows and is a credible alternative for enterprise buyers evaluating Quoin.
• S&P Capital IQ Pro: S&P Capital IQ Pro is a broad incumbent in financial and corporate research, used by PE, banking, and corporate development teams. It overlaps with Quoin's business research and due-diligence modules as an established, deeply embedded alternative.

Others

• Tavily: Tavily is a research-focused API and agent infrastructure provider for AI applications. It is an adjacent, enabling peer that competes in the same upstream research-and-citation capability layer Quoin builds on, and could be both a partner and a competitive substitute.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/quoin-ai

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

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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