Maya Ai

Maya Ai is a Tampa, Florida machine learning company whose core product is "Maya," a conversational, self-learning AI robot marketed as a virtual business assistant. The system combines a customer's private data with external market research and real-world data that changes in real time, and returns conversational answers, insights and assessments. Users can ask questions in natural language — for example how to increase sales by a given percentage — and receive responses derived from market data points. The founders describe the technology as patent-pending and as a "robotic brain" modeled on how memories and neurons produce prompts and responses, and position it in contrast to static, decision-tree chatbots because it performs deep learning on external data without guidance.

The product has been offered through a web interface and a phone app, and a multimodal capability gives Maya "eyes, ears and a mouth," enabling it to see a speaker and read vocal tone and frequency to infer whether a user is happy, sad or angry and adjust its interaction accordingly. The company says it applies ethics and responsible-AI practices, restricting data sharing and working to remove platform bias. Planned work described in 2022 included a "Generation 3 Maya" with sentiment, feeling and emotion detection, and having the system take virtual college courses by ingesting video into its knowledge base and sitting tests. Earlier positioning centered on advising startup founders: analyzing a business idea, predicting its likelihood of success and deploying operations, with a focus on legal, finance and marketing use cases.

Founding story

The company was founded by three brothers from Tampa — Sat Ramphal, who serves as CEO, and co-founders Sean and Shivam Ramphal. The team describes the work as building memories for robots, which they characterize as an initial level of machine consciousness, and says the system had been trained for roughly two years before its public launch.

Business model

Maya Ai sells access to its AI platform to businesses, sitting on top of a customer's systems to ingest private data such as clinical or patient data and combining it with real-time external data. The company also described plans to license Maya to venture capital groups, accelerators and incubators in its third year.

Traction

The company reported multiple companies using the platform, with its largest customers in the enterprise pharma space, and six employees plus 14 interns at the time of 2022 reporting.

Latest developments

Following the rebrand from XiByte, the company said it had targeted a $600,000 pre-seed round for product completion and distribution and was planning to pursue $1.5 million in seed funding, with fundraising travel planned to New York and Silicon Valley. It also planned a "Generation 3 Maya" release adding sentiment and emotion detection.