The professional networking landscape, long dominated by LinkedIn's sprawling feeds and often performative public personas, is facing a new challenger. Today marks the SuperMe launch, an "AI-native professional network" that promises to fundamentally change how we access expert advice by turning real work into conversational AI profiles. Co-founder and CEO Casey Winters, a veteran of growth engines at Pinterest and Eventbrite, announced the platform's 1.0 release alongside a $6.8 million seed round led by Greylock.
SuperMe's core premise is straightforward: ask a question, and the platform finds relevant professionals whose AI profiles instantly provide answers, grounded in their actual work. This isn't just another AI assistant spitting out generic information; it's designed to deliver "Perspective Search," offering multiple viewpoints from people who have genuinely tackled similar problems. The idea is to replicate how advice truly works in business – through diverse, experienced human perspectives, albeit mediated by AI.
Winters highlights a critical gap in the evolving search landscape. While AI assistants offer instant answers, they often obscure the human knowledge behind them, losing the crucial context and individual perspectives that make advice valuable. SuperMe aims to bridge this by making the expertise of professionals "legible to LLMs" without forcing them into constant public self-promotion. Instead of curating a public feed, professionals contribute their talks, writing, and notes, which SuperMe then uses to build a multimodal AI representation. Users can query these profiles via voice or text, and the professionals themselves can review and refine the AI's answers, further solidifying their expertise.
The AI-Native Shift for Professional Knowledge
This isn't just about slapping AI onto an existing network. SuperMe's founders believe three major shifts make this the opportune moment for an "AI-native" rebuild of the professional graph. First, valuable knowledge has moved private, residing in internal docs and conversations rather than public feeds. Second, discovery is increasingly assistant-led, with users preferring to ask questions rather than scroll. Third, legacy networks are noisy, with follow counts often being a poor proxy for genuine judgment or expertise.
SuperMe positions itself as a network-first platform, emphasizing that its defensibility will come from "network intelligence" – the living graph that emerges as credible peers contribute and compare perspectives. The platform claims to have already facilitated over 30,000 conversations across early clusters in product, growth, and marketing, suggesting a strong initial engagement.
The $6.8 million seed round, led by Greylock's Mike Duboe, signals significant investor confidence. Duboe, who has a long history with professional networks, notes that SuperMe represents "one of the strongest examples of founder-market fit that we’ve seen." The investor list reads like a who's who of tech, including product leaders from Microsoft, Meta, and Shopify, alongside founders from Superhuman and Reforge, and growth experts from Doordash and Shopify. This deep bench of strategic investors and advisors underscores the industry's appetite for a fresh approach to professional knowledge sharing.
For users, SuperMe promises a path to sharper guidance by allowing them to ask questions and compare viewpoints from a curated pool of experts. For professionals, it offers a way to make their deep, often private, expertise instantly discoverable without the constant pressure of self-marketing. In an era where AI is rapidly reshaping how we find and consume information, the SuperMe launch represents a bold attempt to ensure that human perspective and grounded experience remain at the core of professional advice. It's a direct challenge to the status quo, aiming to build a more dense and engaging network than any that have come before, where substance truly trumps performative layers.
