Ariso
Ariso builds Ari, an AI management system that connects company strategy, projects, people, meetings, communications and follow-through in one shared context. Its stated mission is to use AI to help individuals grow, teams align and organizations thrive without replacing human judgment.
At a Glance
- Startups and growing companies
- Enterprise teams and people/operations leaders
- Founders, executives, managers and individual contributors
- Engineering, project management, delivery and operations teams
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AI Tools by Ariso
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Oats
Open Source Meeting Notes App
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Ariso's AI management system and AI managing partner. Ari connects meetings, email, Slack, documents, calendars, tickets, CRM and code; manages projects, follow-ups and priorities; prepares meetings, drafts updates, provides coaching, creates team insights and preserves organizational memory.
Free, open-source desktop meeting-notes app for macOS and Windows beta. It records locally without a meeting bot, supports local or Ariso cloud transcription, produces summaries and per-person action items, and includes a searchable library, speaker tagging, exports and Obsidian-vault support.
Open-source AI engineering teammate and CLI distributed through npm. It breaks requests into PR-sized tasks, implements them with Claude Code, has a separate architect persona review the work, opens pull requests, handles review comments and learns institutional engineering memory locally.
AI-powered research assistant platform acquired by Ariso; the announcement says it serves more than 1 million users worldwide and helps researchers discover, understand and manage scientific knowledge.
Market Position
Ariso positions Ari as an AI management system rather than a point assistant, meeting notetaker or ticketing add-on: it manages projects, people and priorities across the real flow of work and connects strategy to execution. Its own comparison set includes Glean, Guru, Granola, Otter, Fireflies, Fathom, Reclaim, Zapier, Make, n8n, Lattice, Culture Amp, 15Five, BetterUp, Valence and CoachHub; Ariso differentiates through shared context across those categories, agentic follow-through, coaching and team-aware governance.
Leadership
Founders
Erkang Zheng
Founder and CEO of Ariso; previously founded and led JupiterOne, and worked in security and infrastructure at technology companies.
Max Heckel
Founding engineer and CTO of Ariso; previously worked at Google, McGraw Hill and JupiterOne, and created SciSummary.
Executive Team
Erkang Zheng
Founder, CEO
Previously founded and led JupiterOne and worked in security and infrastructure at technology companies.
Max Heckel
Founding Engineer, CTO
Previously worked at Google, McGraw Hill and JupiterOne; creator of SciSummary.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Ariso says it was inspired by Aristotle and started to help people understand themselves as whole professionals, not merely workers. The company was created in response to disengagement, overloaded work and the gap between getting things done and doing work that matters; its first AI agent, Ari, was intended as a trusted career and work partner providing proactive support, coaching and context rather than simply tracking activity.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Cloud-hosted SaaS with free individual access and paid per-user Startup subscriptions; Enterprise customers receive custom pricing and enterprise features such as SSO, custom integrations, dedicated success management and SLA support. Oats and Ivan are free/open-source products, while Oats also offers a free Ariso cloud backend.
Pricing Tiers
Up to 6 months; full access to all features, Slack and Google Workspace, meeting notes and coaching, search and automation, and per-user encryption.
Includes $10 in employee rewards, unlimited history and context, advanced workflows, team analytics and pulse, and priority support.
Tailored to the organization; includes Startup features plus SSO and advanced security, custom MCP integrations, dedicated success manager, custom employee rewards, and SLA/uptime guarantee.
Target Markets
- Startups and growing companies
- Enterprise teams and people/operations leaders
- Founders, executives, managers and individual contributors
- Engineering, project management, delivery and operations teams
- Research and scientific-literature users through SciSummary
- Individual contributors managing meetings, commitments, knowledge and career growth
- Managers preparing 1:1s, coaching reports, tracking follow-through and monitoring team health
- Founders and business leaders executing strategy, OKRs, QBRs and investor updates
- Project management, delivery and operations without manual status-chasing
- Onboarding, offboarding and preserving organizational knowledge
- Private or offline meeting transcription and notes with Oats
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