About Chord
Chord is the analytics harness between AI and company data, helping enterprises across industries scale AI with answers and actions they can trust. Combining data ingestion, AI-powered analytics and activation, Chord works with companies’ existing data warehouses to turn natural-language questions into reliable answers and enable agents to act across business channels. The platform maintains business context and governed metrics, applies existing permissions, validates queries, and gives data teams visibility into agent activity.
Data should power decisions, not create more work.
AI is only useful when it's grounded in accurate, reliable, relevant context.
Every team should have full observability into the questions, queries and data gaps that exist — without an army of engineers.
The Story
Why Chord exists
Chord was founded in 2021 by Bryan Mahoney and Henry Davis, former Glossier executives who saw firsthand how fragile and fragmented company data could be. Building data systems at Glossier, they learned that well-modeled, well-governed data was the difference between a team that moved fast and one that was perpetually stuck waiting for answers.
They started where the problem was most acute: commerce. Data was scattered across 15+ platforms, each giving a partial view, and operators were stitching together dashboards instead of growing their business. Then AI raised the stakes. Every company now wants Claude or ChatGPT answering questions about the business, but the demos fall apart the moment they touch real data. Definitions live in the warehouse, in Tableau and in a few people’s heads, and none of them agree. Ask the same question twice and you get two different numbers. So every answer gets double-checked, and AI never makes it past the pilot.
Chord was built to fix that. Not by adding another tool, but by building the analytics harness between your AI and your data. Chord manages and improves context, applies the permissions you already have, and validates every query, so business users get answers they can trust and agents can act on them.
The best companies build this internally, with large data and platform teams to maintain it. Chord gives every team the same foundation, with no modeling project up front and no permanent maintenance team. Companies like Verizon, Workday, Stanley Black & Decker, Sonos, Ritual and Blue Bottle Coffee already rely on it to make AI work reliably on their data.
Who we are
The leadership team
Alongside this leadership team is a talented group of engineers, designers, and operators who build, support, and grow Chord every day. We're grateful for all of them.
Investors
Backed by believers in the future of commerce
Careers
We're always looking for great people
Chord is a small team building something important. We value curiosity, collaboration, and impact — and we believe growth applies to both the brands we serve and the people who build Chord. If that resonates, we'd love to hear from you.
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