Most expertise is not yet legible to LLMs.
The best professionals demonstrate it in private contexts: internal conversations, product docs, meeting notes, and, most often, in their own heads. For too long, the people elevated to “expert” status were those who invested most in their public persona, which doesn’t always correlate with actual expertise.
Today, we’re excited to share our Seed investment in SuperMe, an AI‑native professional network that turns one’s work into a profile others can talk to. SuperMe builds a multimodal AI representation from one’s talks, writing, notes, and more. Anyone can ask a profile question via voice or text; professionals can review and refine answers, further reinforcing their expertise. It’s not a replacement for the individual, but an extension that makes one’s expertise instantly discoverable.
Three shifts make this moment right to rebuild the professional graph.
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- Knowledge moved private. The most useful operator insight lives in docs and conversations, not feeds.
- Discovery is becoming assistant‑led. People want to ask (and then “hire” copilots/agents), not scroll.
- Legacy graphs are noisy. Follow counts are a poor proxy for judgment.
AI enables a new primitive – profiles you can converse with – and a network organized by topics and interaction rather than follows. Some of the best experts are the worst self‑marketers; SuperMe surfaces substance without the performative layer.
Network‑first, by design
Unlike most consumer AI utilities, SuperMe is network‑first from day one. That matters because defensibility in this category will come from network intelligence—the living graph that emerges as credible peers contribute and compare perspectives. SuperMe’s search is built for that: Perspective Search routes a business question to the most relevant experts, answers via their AIs, and lets you compare viewpoints—how advice actually works in the real world. The product has already supported 30,000+ conversations across early clusters in product, growth, and marketing.
When I first met SuperMe CEO and Co-founder Casey Winters over a decade ago, I found him to be the smartest product and growth operator in the world on a very important topic: How to design networks that compound. Casey went on to build growth engines at Pinterest, Eventbrite, and Grubhub – and key advisory roles at Faire, Whatnot, and Reforge. CTO and Co-founder Ludo Antonov led engineering at Whatnot, Pinterest, and Lyft. This team not only has expertise building generational marketplaces and networks over the past decade, but they have experience doing it together. Last year, they camped out in our SF office via Greylock Edge to explore what AI makes newly possible at the intersection of networks & expertise. SuperMe is the answer they chose to build, and is one of the strongest examples of founder-market fit that we’ve seen.
Greylock has a long history with professional networks. We collectively believe AI represents an opportunity to create a durable, conversational presence for the 99% of great operators who do no self-marketing; and thus build a more dense, engaging network than any that have come previously.
Zoomed out, SuperMe is building the AI‑native layer for professional knowledge—profiles you can talk to, search that compares trusted perspectives, and (when it matters) a path to the human behind the AI. If you’re an operator with more in your head than on the internet, spin up your profile. If you’re building and want sharper guidance, ask a question and compare viewpoints.
