ABOUT NSPIRE

AI that makes people more capable,
not replaceable.

We build a place to practice high-stakes conversations in a low-stakes, high-accuracy environment. Our leadership team has spent decades building AI, speech and enterprise platforms.

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WHY WE EXIST

Practice has always
been a privilege.

The most valuable people in the next decade won’t be the ones who know the most. They’ll be the ones who can make the call, influence the outcome and have the hard conversation.

That takes practice, and practice has always belonged to people with coaches, mentors and expensive programs. We’re changing that.

LEADERSHIP TEAM

The people
building nSpire.

Decades of AI, speech, enterprise software and go-to-market experience.

Co-Founder & CEO

Sumanta Chakraborty

Sumanta has spent more than 25 years building products in AI, speech and language, cloud, mobile, robotics and smart home, at Siemens, Sony, LG, NVIDIA and Nuance. He ran product at A3 Smart Home, in the security industry, and holds four patents.

He started nSpire to give everyone the kind of practice that used to need a personal coach, and leads the company’s strategy, product and customer partnerships. MBA, UCLA Anderson. B.E., Electronics and Telecommunications, IIEST.

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Co-Founder & CTO

Bani Maiti

Bani has led global engineering teams for about 30 years, across mobile devices, security and healthcare, at Broadcom, Siemens, LG, Motorola and Intel, where he worked on deep learning, and as VP of Engineering at FireKing Security Group. He holds three patents.

He built the nSpire platform from the ground up: the real-time video conversations, the model routing that picks the right AI for each task, and the enterprise stack behind it. Master’s degree, Indian Statistical Institute.

Broadcom

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Founding Head of Research & Customer Success

Dr. Xiaohua Yang

Xiaohua is a research veteran of more than 20 years and a two-time founder. She leads nSpire’s research into how people build conversation skills, and how to measure that growth reliably.

She also leads customer success, and has taken nSpire’s customers from first concept to multi-year enterprise contracts, so the research stays grounded in how people actually practice. PhD, Cornell University.

Two-time founder

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Fractional Head of Growth

Jennifer Ravalli

Jennifer has more than 20 years of experience selling into HR and learning buyers. She was CMO of Harri, where she also ran sales, and grew revenue fivefold as a CMO through an acquisition.

Before that she held VP roles at PandoLogic and ADP, and a leadership role at iCIMS.

Harri

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THE TEAM

The people shipping it
every day.

Product, design and AI agents, working alongside our leadership team.

Sachin GautamAI Product ManagerLinkedIn ↗

Qimei FuVisual Design & User ResearchLinkedIn ↗

RahulAI Agent CommanderLinkedIn ↗

ADVISORS

Guided by people
who’ve built and scaled.

Technology, revenue, coaching and customer leaders who help shape where nSpire goes next.

Jibran JahshanVP Technology, NVIDIALinkedIn ↗

Serge BoudreauChief Revenue Officer, formerly IndeedLinkedIn ↗

LeeAundra KeanyFaculty, UCLA Anderson · Executive communications coachLinkedIn ↗

Kenny DavisChief Customer Officer and CMOLinkedIn ↗

WHERE OUR TEAM HAS BUILT BEFORE

NVIDIA

Motorola

AI FOR GOOD

What “AI for Good”
means to us.

Four commitments behind every product decision.

Democratize access

Deliberate practice used to belong to people with coaches, mentors and expensive programs. We make it available to everyone.

Create a safe space

The people who need practice most are the least likely to ask for help. Practice is private by default.

Prepare people for what AI can’t do

As AI handles routine work, human skills matter more: conversation, judgment and presence.

Measure growth, not attendance

We track whether people can do the thing, not whether they finished a course.

Trust is the product. SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, FERPA and HECVAT. Your data is never used to train AI models, and practice stays private unless you choose to share it.

WHERE WE WORK