Neal Jean

I started Beacons in 2019 with three friends from Stanford, David Zeng, Jesse Zhang, and Greg Luppescu, and we went through Y Combinator that summer. We began with link-in-bio, then kept building whatever creators needed next: media kits, invoicing for brand deals, email, and selling digital products.

Now we're building AI that handles the busywork of running a creator business, like the inbox, the deals, and the follow-ups, so creators can spend more of their time making things.

Before Beacons, I did my PhD at the Stanford AI Lab, using satellite imagery and machine learning to map poverty. More on my research →