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Bluefish AI

bluefishai.com

Bluefish helps Fortune 500 brands track, optimize, and measure how AI platforms represent them.

HQNew York City, New York, United States
Employees11-50
Funding$24M
22 active roles
Profile 6mo agoJobs checked 18h ago
AI / MLAI ApplicationB2B SaaSSeries A$10M-$50M

About

Bluefish builds an Agentic Marketing Platform for Fortune 500 brands that tracks, optimizes, and measures how AI platforms represent their products and services. Its differentiation is enterprise-grade control, customization, and workflow automation across AI search and agentic commerce channels, including tools for Answer Engine Optimization.

Market

Bluefish competes in the enterprise Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), and AI-marketing-platform market, helping large brands monitor, influence, and measure how AI systems represent them. Its positioning emphasizes enterprise-scale brand intelligence and control—custom audiences, tailored prompts, millions of analyzed AI responses, and visibility, favorability, safety, and accuracy metrics—while competitors such as Scrunch and Adobe LLM Optimizer differentiate more around delivering AI-optimized content directly to AI agents.

Target Customers

Bluefish primarily serves Fortune 500 and other large enterprise brands, including companies in regulated and reputation-sensitive sectors such as pharmaceuticals, financial services, insurance, travel, CPG, luxury, and beauty. Its primary buyers are enterprise marketing leaders and cross-functional AI marketing, brand, communications, and compliance teams.

At a Glance

Problem

Bluefish addresses the risk that generative AI becomes a major brand-discovery and commerce channel while misrepresenting the brands, products, prices, specifications, or safety information it discusses. The pain is particularly acute for large companies managing hundreds of products across markets: Bluefish reports that 30% of AI inaccuracies come from incorrect source material rather than pure hallucination, while incorrect numbers such as prices, rates, counts, and dosages account for 64% of inaccuracies. In a March 2026 survey cited by the company, 58% of shoppers said incorrect AI product information reduces their trust in a brand.

The main use case is enterprise brand and product governance across ChatGPT, Google AI, Claude, Perplexity, Amazon Rufus, and similar systems. Marketing teams need to know when an AI answer is inaccurate or harmful, identify the source and channel causing the problem, and improve the information that AI systems use to describe or recommend the brand. For an enterprise, the potential economics are lost conversion, reputational damage, and reduced customer trust when AI search becomes part of the purchase journey.

Product / Service

Bluefish sells an enterprise AI marketing platform for the “generative internet,” positioned as an orchestration layer for monitoring, diagnosing, and improving how AI models represent a brand. Its platform combines AI visibility monitoring, GEO measurement and optimization, AI brand safety, and agentic commerce capabilities. It evaluates brand-relevant prompts across major AI channels, benchmarks performance, provides impact-ranked optimization recommendations, and supports analysis of citations, source influence, sentiment, safety, and accuracy.

The product is delivered as an enterprise platform with customized tracking and data integration, supported by demo-led sales rather than publicly posted self-serve pricing. Brand Vault ingests first-party brand content to create a continuously updated source of truth, while AI Accuracy provides claim-level accuracy data and citation root-cause analysis. Its Agentic Campaigns capability uses AI agents to automate repeatable Answer Engine Optimization workflows, including generating targeted content and data tactics. The benefit is an operating system for marketing teams to move from merely observing AI answers to systematically influencing, measuring, and governing them.

Market

Bluefish competes in the emerging AI marketing, AI search visibility, Answer Engine Optimization, and Generative Engine Optimization market, with an enterprise-first angle that it calls Agentic Marketing. Its alternatives include established SEO and marketing platforms such as Semrush and Conductor, as well as specialized visibility and GEO tools such as Peec and Profound. These competitors generally overlap on monitoring brand mentions or AI visibility, while Bluefish differentiates around multi-engine enterprise monitoring, model-aware diagnostics, brand-data governance, and workflow automation.

Bluefish is not pre-revenue. NEA reported that the company’s revenue grew 10x over a six-month period, with more than 80% of customers coming from the Fortune 500. Bluefish’s May 2026 announcement said it served over 100 enterprise accounts across 15-plus verticals and processed millions of prompts daily for 10% of the Fortune 500, including Adidas, Hearst, and Ulta Beauty. The company raised a $43 million Series B in April 2026, bringing total funding to $68 million, and has also named customers including American Express and LVMH. Public ARR and detailed revenue figures were not disclosed in the researched sources.

Founders & Leadership

Alex ShermanFounder
CEO
Jing FengFounder
COO
Andrei DuncaFounder
CTO

Funding History

2024-05
Seed$4M (inferred)

Crane Venture Partners

2025-08
Series A$20M

New Enterprise Associates (NEA)

2026-04
Series B$43M

Threshold Ventures, New Enterprise Associates (NEA)

Recent News

2026-07-06product
Where Retail Media Budgets Go Next

Bluefish’s analysis argues that AI shopping has become a meaningful e-commerce channel, citing rapid growth in AI-driven retail traffic and conversion. It positions AI shopping alongside search, social, and retail media in the commerce mix.

2026-06-18product
Bluefish Launches Agentic Campaigns to Power AI Optimization Workflows for the Fortune 500

Bluefish launched Agentic Campaigns, an automated workflow tool for optimizing brand visibility and performance across AI channels. Customers can set targets, select channels, and automate analysis, recommendations, content tactics, and KPI tracking.

2026-05-05product
Bluefish Launches AI Accuracy, Bringing Brand Verification to AI Channels for the First Time

Bluefish introduced AI Accuracy, a capability designed to track whether AI channels represent brands factually. The company described it as a brand-verified data pipeline connecting enterprise brands with AI channels.

2026-04-14funding
Bluefish Raises $43 Million Series B to Power Agentic Marketing for the Fortune 500

Bluefish announced a $43 million Series B co-led by Threshold Ventures and NEA, with participation from Amex Ventures, TIAA Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, and existing investors. The round brought total funding to $68 million and supports expansion of its agentic marketing platform.

2026-04-03product
A Better Approach to AI-Optimized Content

Bluefish announced Content Briefs as part of its AI Activation Suite. The capability gives marketers an AI-informed blueprint for creating content, including guidance on what to write and why.

2026-02-02product
Introducing Collections: Measure the ROI of Your Digital Marketing Campaigns in the AI Channel

Bluefish launched Collections to help Fortune 500 brands measure the holistic impact and ROI of their digital marketing activity in AI channels. The feature uses metrics including Impact, Frequency, and Influence Rank.

2025-11-01product
Introducing the Industry's First Measurement of Authority in AI

Bluefish introduced AI Impact and Influence analytics, designed to show which sources most influence AI-generated narratives. The company said the metrics address the limitation of relying on citation frequency alone.

2025-10-27
Bluefish Named a GEO Market Leader by CB Insights

Bluefish announced that CB Insights named it a category leader in generative engine optimization. The company highlighted its full-stack GEO platform, including audience-level visibility and source-influence analysis.

2025-10-07
Advertising and Media Veteran Peter Naylor Joins Bluefish as Strategic Advisor

Bluefish appointed Peter Naylor as a strategic advisor to support growth, go-to-market strategy, and expansion across Fortune 500 customers. Naylor brings experience in advertising, media, and scaling ad businesses.

2025-08-20funding
Bluefish Raises $20M to Power AI Marketing for the Fortune 500

Bluefish raised a $20 million Series A led by NEA and Salesforce Ventures, with participation from Crane Venture Partners, Swift Ventures, and Bloomberg Beta. The financing brought total funding to $24 million and was intended to expand the company’s enterprise AI marketing platform.

Active Roles

22
Berlin, Remote in Germany/Data & Analytics/44d ago
London - Remote in the UK/Engineering/65d ago
New York, Hybrid/Data & Analytics/86d ago
New York/Engineering/119d ago
New York, Hybrid/Marketing/143d ago
New York, Hybrid/Professional Services/160d ago
New York, Hybrid/Operations/169d ago
New York, Hybrid/Product/171d ago
New York, Hybrid/Marketing/192d ago
New York, Hybrid/Sales/196d ago
New York, Hybrid/Product/196d ago
New York, Hybrid/Customer Success Manager/196d ago
Berlin - Remote in Germany/Engineering/196d ago
New York, Hybrid/Sales Engineer/196d ago
New York, Hybrid/Sales Engineer/196d ago
Berlin, Remote in Germany/Engineering/196d ago
London - Remote in the UK/Engineering/196d ago
New York, Hybrid/Product/196d ago
New York, Hybrid/Professional Services/196d ago
New York, Hybrid/Professional Services/196d ago

Business Model

Bluefish generates revenue through custom, quote-based enterprise subscription and platform contracts with large brands. Its enterprise terms require customers to pay service fees, while public pricing plans are not listed.

Products

Agentic Marketing Platform / Agentic Marketing SuiteAI MonitoringGEO/AEO Optimization and AI Activation Suite, including Content BriefsGEO MeasurementAI Accuracy and Brand VaultAgentic CampaignsAI Commerce / Agentic Commerce

Customers

AdidasAmerican ExpressHearstLVMHUlta BeautyTishman Speyer

Tech Stack

Large language models (LLMs)Agentic AI workflows and AI agentsLarge-scale prompt-response analyticsFirst-party content ingestion and verified brand-data pipelinesAI-channel integrations across ChatGPT, Google AI, Claude, Perplexity, and Amazon Rufus

Competitors

Profound
Scrunch
Adobe LLM Optimizer
Conductor

Key Investors

New Enterprise Associates, Salesforce Ventures, Crane Venture Partners, Bloomberg Beta, Swift Ventures