Alex Rainey

Co-founder and CTO, My AskAI · 1 appearance on the record.

computed by AI from the episodes · how this works → · full disclaimer →

founderengineerexecutive@RaineyAllDay ↗LinkedIn ↗myaskai.com ↗

Rainey is the co-founder and CTO of My AskAI, an AI customer support agent platform launched with Mike Heap. He previously founded travel insurtech startup Pluto and built and sold three micro-SaaS businesses on Acquire.com.

4statements → 1claims → 0claims resolved → 3.75/5average certainty → 1.5/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated →

1 not checkable as stated how the 1 claim stands · each chip opens the sources

1 assertion · 1 opinion · 1 insight · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 1 claim: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Alex argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Alex Rainey on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Alex Rainey said on Startup Acquisition Stories that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Alex Rainey: Fine-tuning AI models can improve output quality up to 10x
“Fine tuning an AI model is quite a difficult, complex process. It's a little bit tricky but it can kind of 10 X, five X your results in terms of the quality outputs.”
Alex Rainey Jul 11, 2023 ▶ 5:17 Startup Acquisition Stories with Alex Rainey, Founder of MyAskAI.com
Opinion
Rainey: MyAskAI aims to replace traditional site search and Intercom
“The aim of it is to really replace search and to replace having to use tools like Intercom and other things that obviously take a huge amount of time away from a customer support team”
Alex Rainey Jul 11, 2023 ▶ 32:46 Startup Acquisition Stories with Alex Rainey, Founder of MyAskAI.com
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Alex Rainey's passport alert SaaS peaked at over $1,000 daily revenue
“And at its peak, we were doing about a thousand plus dollars a day, just piling money into Google ads as well.”
Alex Rainey Jul 11, 2023 ▶ 3:05 Startup Acquisition Stories with Alex Rainey, Founder of MyAskAI.com
Disclosure
Alex Rainey sold his fine-tuning startup to pivot to AI embeddings
“So that's why we actually sold the business because we just saw a bigger opportunity that was completely, I mean, related, I guess, in the AI space, but fairly different. And that's what drove us to sell it, not, not really anything else. It was just like, oka…”
Alex Rainey Jul 11, 2023 ▶ 29:41 Startup Acquisition Stories with Alex Rainey, Founder of MyAskAI.com

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Startup Acquisition Stories with Alex Rainey, Founder of MyAskAI.com Jul 11, 2023 19m
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 100 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.