Built for Modern PR Teams,
By a Founder

The idea for HeyJared started with a simple observation: in a city packed with AI, crypto, bio, and robotics meetups, there wasn't a single place where founders learned how to tell their story. PR was the missing discipline. And because no one taught it, most teams defaulted to expensive PR retainers or legacy tools that required weeks of setup for work that boiled down to the same playbook: map your competitors, find the reporters covering them, read their work, send a targeted pitch.

YC has it right: founder-led storytelling is the future of PR - but only if teams have the right tools. The problem is modern, AI-native tools never existed. Legacy platforms like Cision and MuckRack were built before AI, designed for traditional workflows that required extensive setup and manual research. Modern teams - whether founders, enterprise comms teams, or PR agencies - need speed, clarity, and intelligent automation.

HeyJared flips the model. We give founders, enterprise teams, and PR agencies the intelligence layer PR has been missing: reporters, outlets, stories, patterns, and the context behind them. We automate the grunt work. We make targeting precise. And we help good ideas travel faster, earlier, and farther.

The mission is straightforward: accelerate progress by making earned media accessible, transparent, and effective for anyone building something new.

Before HeyJared, our team led data science, AI, and growth at companies across tech and enterprise software, and invested in frontier startups spanning energy, robotics, next-gen computing, and applied AI. That experience shaped a simple principle: the best ideas shouldn't lose because they couldn't find the right storyteller.

HeyJared exists to make sure the best ideas win - whether you're a solo founder, enterprise team, or PR agency.