Evidence base: 90 company evidence rows (30 each for Doti AI, Akooda and Unleash), 19 expert-profile rows and a 40-row acquisition scan, collected from live web data on 2026-09-03. Three candidates are scored below against all eight criteria; green marks a verified pass, amber an unresolved preference (“not verified”, never “no”), red an evidenced failure.
Product. Enterprise knowledge search — an “organizational brain” with a knowledge-graph backbone, agentic search and an auto-answering layer; available and deployed in several enterprises by 2025-01-22. Named customers Orca Security, Similarweb and Bringg appear in one company-profile source and are source-reported, not independently confirmed.
Stack. RAG over LLMs, knowledge graph, structured/unstructured connectors, Slack/browser/API interfaces, query-time permissions and access controls, SaaS/hybrid/on-prem deployment, bring-your-own LLM and cloud; integrations include Slack, Jira, Notion, Salesforce, Google Drive, GitLab, Confluence, Datadog, Monday and Zendesk.
Size. 15–20 (Globes) to ~30 (profile source); Gartner lists 11–50. Tel Aviv, Israel.
People. Matan Cohen, co-founder/CEO (LinkedIn); Opher Hofshi, co-founder/CPO (LinkedIn). No CTO verified. Site: doti.ai.
Product. AI enterprise search plus operations intelligence with knowledge-graph and LLM elements. A “scrappy prototype” existed before funding; the search platform launched 2024-04-02. Sources report 30+ customers and paid pilots, but named-customer evidence is weak — treat customer scale as reported, not demonstrated.
Stack. AI, statistical modeling, NLP, ML, LLMs, natural-language query and search, integrations/connectors (Slack, Salesforce, Google Workspace, Jira and more), SOC 2 Type 2, architecture that does not store raw customer data; founder interview adds knowledge graphs and digital-footprint analysis.
Size. 16 employees in 2023, 19 in Feb 2024, 8 reported near the acquisition. Boston/Cambridge, US and Tel Aviv, Israel.
People (chronology). Yuval Gonczarowski, founder/CEO throughout; Itamar Niddam CTO and Gal Abramovitz VP R&D in 2023; later org listings show Eli Leon as VP R&D. Page: linkedin.com/company/akooda.
Product. The strongest product fit of the three: explicit enterprise search with permission-based RAG, native AI knowledge agents in Slack and Microsoft Teams, 70+ content connectors, and fine-grained access controls applied at query time.
Why it fails strict inclusion. The captured LinkedIn size is 51–200 and was recorded after the acquisition; the ≤50-at-mid-2025 hard criterion is therefore unverified, so Unleash is not counted as a match.
People. Itay Itzhaki, co-founder/CEO (LinkedIn); Omer Koren, CTO. Tel Aviv / New York. Site: unleash.so.
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Method: three candidate result sets (30 evidence rows each for Doti AI, Akooda, Unleash) plus 19 expert-profile rows and a 40-row acquisition/shutdown scan; live web data collected 2026-09-03. Matrix cells score each brief criterion; amber means no source confirmed or refuted the claim. The remote “Dot” job row (different company) and speculative aggregator stack text were excluded. Other scanned acquisitions (Moveworks, Dashworks, ZeroEntropy, Zive, Starmind and more) failed size, date or product screens and were cut for space.