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ABOUT US

Who will you trust to build your new strategic thinking partner?

Connectmind AI is built by the strategists, behavioral scientists and AI leaders who ran research, consulting and data science for the world's largest brands in the US and beyond, and pioneered AI in marketing strategy years before it became the conversation.

STRATEGIC CONSULTING ENGAGEMENTS INCLUDE

20+

years leading strategy, research and AI for global brands

2017

first AI strategy tool released, scaled globally

30+

Fortune 500 consulting engagements

global keynote speakers at stages such as CES, Adweek, Vivatech and many more

CO-FOUNDERS

We didn't join the AI wave. We were early to it.

Together, Burcu and Esteban built the Intent Lab, a research unit in partnership with Northwestern University, released their first AI-strategy tool in 2017 and scaled it globally. Both founders are speakers at top-tier global conferences as thought leaders, including stages such as CES, Adweek and Vivatech, and many more.

2015

Founded the Intent Lab research unit in partnership with Northwestern University.

2017

Released our first AI-strategy tool for brand and agency teams.

2018–2021

Scaled it globally across Fortune 500 brands

2025

Connectmind AI: validated synthetic customers inside every decision.

Burcu Agma

CO-FOUNDER & CEO

A thought leader in AI and marketing strategy for over a decade. Burcu has advised Fortune 500 brands in the US on strategy, led global growth practices and taken the AI-in-marketing conversation to the industry's biggest stages.

·Named Executive of the Year by Microsoft (US)
·Advisor to brands and founders on AI strategy for 10+ years

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Esteban Ribero

CO-FOUNDER & BOARD MEMBER

Behavioral scientist and AI leader. Esteban has led data science and AI teams for global brands and platforms such as TikTok and Publicis Groupe. He is well-known in the marketing industry as an innovative force.

·Led data science & AI teams at TikTok and Publicis
·Behavioral science and decision-science frameworks for Fortune 500 brands

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WHY IT MATTERS WHO BUILDS THIS

Synthetic research is not an AI project. It is a strategy discipline that happens to run on AI.

Anyone can prompt a model to sound like a customer. Knowing which customer matters, which question to ask, what a real answer looks like and what a brand should do about it takes twenty years of sitting in the room where the decision gets made.

MARKETING

We have shipped the campaigns.

We know what a brief looks like at 11pm and what a CMO needs on Monday.

STRATEGY

We have advised the boardroom.

Fortune 500 engagements taught us which insight changes a decision and which just decorates a deck.

RESEARCH

We have run the fieldwork.

Behavioral science, not opinion polling. We know what a valid answer looks like and how to test for it.

We built AI for strategy in 2017.

Long before the hype. We know what models can do, and where a human strategist still has to stand.

That is why the founding team sits at the heart of marketing, strategy, research and AI at once. Not one of them. All four.

PRESS HIGHLIGHTS

Connectmind AI in the news.

Business InsiderSep 2025

Connectmind AI launches strategy platform powered by synthetic consumers

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WebrazziSep 2025

The AI startup building synthetic customers for global brands

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This is MADSep 2025

A global launch with a Turkish signature: Connectmind AI puts the consumer at the heart of strategy with AI

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