AskTuring.ai Closes Oversubscribed Funding Round to Launch Secure Personal AI Platform for Small Businesses and Professionals
AskTuring.ai today announced the successful completion of an oversubscribed funding round and the upcoming fall launch of its groundbreaking secure platform that is positioned to capture the rapidly growing demand for privacy-first artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that serve users rather than tech giants.
Unlike traditional AI tools that process data in the cloud and use it for training, AskTuring.ai has created the market's first AI platform that enables users to privately own and control their AI's memory, knowledge, and capabilities. The platform builds a persistent, evolving understanding of each user's unique world through a proprietary patented Semantic Retrieval Augmented Generation (SRAG) technology – all while ensuring that the underlying language models can never train on your personal user data.
'AskTuring is not just another AI tool,' said Neil Senturia, CEO and serial entrepreneur. 'We're delivering what small businesses and professionals have been desperately seeking: a personal research platform that becomes your 'second brain' while giving you complete ownership of your data.'
The platform addresses a critical gap in today's AI landscape. While most solutions lock users into specific verticals like note-taking or document management, AskTuring.ai creates a unified platform that brings together personal knowledge management, collaborative research, and intelligent document analysis – all with enterprise SOC2 security.
To support its ambitious roadmap, AskTuring.ai has expanded its leadership team with Guy Reams joining as Chief Operating Officer, bringing extensive experience scaling software companies. 'There's a massive market opportunity for a general-purpose personal AI layer that puts users in control,' said Reams. 'We're creating the platform that finally makes AI work for you and protects your privacy . '
Key differentiators include:
Complete Data Privacy & Ownership – Users maintain full control over their information with SOC2 compliance and local processing capabilities. The LLM cannot train on your private data.
Team Collaboration – Multiple team members can work together within secure, shared knowledge bases, making it ideal for law firms, financial advisors, and professional services providers.
Multi-Modal Intelligence – The platform supports diverse data types and formats, creating comprehensive understanding from documents, presentations, emails, and more.
Growing Personal Memory – Unlike session-based AI tools, AskTuring.ai builds persistent, evolving knowledge that becomes more valuable over time.
Flexible AI Model Support – Users can choose from different AI models while maintaining the same personal knowledge base.
Early adopters include law firms analyzing confidential documents, financial advisors managing sensitive client information, professional sports teams reviewing contracts, educational institutions, and journalists building research databases.
The company will launch with a freemium model featuring document upload limits to drive adoption, with paid tiers offering expanded capabilities including higher document limits, frequent re-indexing, additional AI model support, and advanced collaborative features.
The fall launch coincides with growing consumer awareness of AI privacy concerns and increasing demand for alternatives to cloud-dependent services that monetize user data.
About AskTuring.ai
Founded in San Diego, AskTuring.ai is developing the market's first truly personal AI platform with patented SRAG technology. The platform enables private ownership and control of AI memory, knowledge, and capabilities, making it ideal for knowledge workers and small business teams. www.askturing.ai
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