Where AI Meets Human Insight
Today's featured startup is turning expert conversations into a searchable source of real-world wisdom
Project Overview
Dexa calls itself “where curiosity meets authority.” It’s a place where people can ask questions and get direct answers from trusted experts across topics like health and fitness, AI and technology, business and finance, and personal growth.
Instead of sourcing information from text articles or web pages, Dexa builds its knowledge base from podcasts. The platform already aggregates and indexes episodes from hundreds of curated experts, continuously expanding its library.
Each expert has a personal page where users can explore their latest podcast episodes — listen in full or read concise summaries generated by Dexa’s AI. These pages also include a list of popular questions the expert has addressed, along with AI-generated transcripts of their answers.
The core feature, however, is Dexa’s AI-powered search engine. Users can type in a question and instantly receive a short video or audio snippet — a direct quote from a podcast where an expert gives their take on the topic. You can search across all experts or limit results to one specific person you trust.
Founded in February 2023, Dexa already attracts around 50,000 monthly visitors and recently raised $6 million in its first investment round — a solid start for a young company carving its niche in human-centric search.
What’s the Gist?
The story began with a simple personal frustration.
Dexa’s founder once heard his favorite podcaster mention that magnesium helps improve sleep quality — but later couldn’t remember the exact recommendation. Finding that snippet meant rewatching hours of three-hour-long episodes.
So he built a quick AI tool to search for answers inside that podcaster’s shows. When he shared it on Twitter, the podcaster himself reposted it, and the founder’s inbox exploded with requests from others who wanted the same thing. That prototype became Dexa.
At its core, Dexa aims to solve a growing gap in the way we search for knowledge. As the founder explains:
“Google is great for finding facts, but not for finding advice. When you need guidance, you want an answer from a person you trust — not a generic paragraph.”
Dexa’s investors see it as more than just another AI-powered search tool:
“They’re creating a new indexing model built around people’s opinions, not web pages. Users don’t want summaries — they want wisdom.”
This shift reflects a broader cultural trend: people now seek human insight more than objective data. That’s why blogs, podcasts, and social media are thriving — because they amplify personal voices over faceless information.
For decades, people trusted what “was said on TV.” Later, they believed whatever “came up first on Google.” Now many take ChatGPT’s answers as truth. But increasingly, audiences prefer to rely on their favorite creators, whose worldviews they already trust.
Dexa captures this transition perfectly — replacing static summaries with living, spoken expertise.
The same principle is emerging elsewhere too.
Take Quench, for example — a startup originally designed as a “learning tool for busy professionals.” It lets users ask a question and get a short video answer from an expert, much like Dexa does for podcasts. Quench later evolved its message to a broader promise: “Turn your content into an AI-powered assistant.”
In both cases, the underlying idea is identical — transforming long-form expert content into bite-sized, contextual wisdom powered by AI.
Key Takeaways
Dexa isn’t inventing new technology — it’s redefining the way we apply it.
Instead of compressing knowledge into generic AI summaries (like ChatGPT or Perplexity), Dexa highlights authentic human perspectives — snippets of real speech from real people.
And this concept can go far beyond podcasts.
Consider Dr.Tail, a pet-care platform that charges $9.99 a month for expert answers about animal health. The funny part? Their consultants themselves use AI to find information — but users still pay for the human touch, because confidence and authority matter.
So here’s the bigger question:
If people value trusted human opinions over anonymous AI summaries — what other industries could adopt the same model?
Where else could personal wisdom be more valuable than machine knowledge?
Dexa offers one answer — but its underlying idea could reshape how we learn, search, and trust information in the AI era.
Company Info
Website: dexa.ai
Latest Round: $6M, 05.02.2024
Total Funding: $6M, across 1 round