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Motives

Motives is a team of AI agents that runs qualitative research projects for consumer brands: moderating and analyzing video interviews to help brands understand consumer preferences and test new ideas, in hours instead of weeks.

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Y Combinator

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Motives is a team of AI agents that runs qualitative research projects for consumer brands: moderating and analyzing video interviews to help brands understand consumer preferences and test new ideas, in hours instead of weeks.

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Motives is classified as AI agents from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

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shared extracted concepts: brands; shared product terms: consumer, brand, understand, runs; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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shared extracted concept terms: consumer; shared product terms: qualitative, research, interview, video; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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shared extracted concepts: brands; shared product terms: idea, brand, consumer

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shared extracted concept terms: consumer, brand; shared product terms: consumer, brand; same category: AI agents

Legends

match 38

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shared extracted concepts: brands; shared product terms: consumer, brand

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match 35

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shared extracted concept terms: consumer; shared product terms: consumer, research, test; shared affiliation: Y Combinator