Terac
AI platform for sourcing and interviewing verified research experts.
Company facts
- Founded
- 2025
- Employees
- 8
- Headquarters
- United States
- CEO
- Zachary Baker
- Type
- Private
- Funding
- Seed · $9M · 2025
About
Terac's journey began with a vision to democratize market research, transforming it from a slow, expensive process into an agile, AI-driven engine for human understanding. Founded in 2025 by Zachary Baker and Jack Blair, the company emerged from the realization that traditional methods like surveys and focus groups were failing to keep pace with the speed of modern product development. The founders, leveraging their backgrounds in machine learning and infrastructure, set out to build a 'search engine for human opinion'—a platform where companies could instantly query thousands of consumers and receive structured, actionable insights in hours rather than months. What started as a bold idea to automate qualitative research has rapidly evolved into a sophisticated platform powered by memory-enabled AI agents. These agents are capable of conducting natural, voice-based interviews at scale, adapting to participant responses in real-time to uncover deep insights that static forms often miss. By handling the entire research loop—from recruiting verified participants to analyzing hours of conversation—Terac has empowered product teams, researchers, and founders to make data-driven decisions with unprecedented speed. Today, Terac stands at the forefront of the AI research revolution, helping companies across the globe understand their customers more deeply and build products that truly resonate.
Open positions
Accounting Professionals: Evaluation of Core Workflows
What We're Researching We are running a paid study on accounting workflows to understand how financial professionals manage their daily tasks. The goal is to evaluate the efficiency of current software tools and…
Healthcare Data Governance Leaders: Interview on AI Access and Compliance
A paid one-time remote voice interview ($170) for healthcare data governance and compliance professionals. Participants walk through their organization's workflows for governing AI access to sensitive health data and react to hypothetical privacy and risk-management scenarios.
UX and Product Leaders: Customer Research Workflows
This is not a job but a paid one-time remote user interview run by Terac: product, UX, marketing, or insights professionals walk through their end-to-end customer research workflow, tools, budget decisions, and react to messaging concepts. Pays $21 one-time via remote video call.
Software Engineers: Paid Code Review for AI Agent Evaluation
Terac pays practicing software engineers for remote study sessions reviewing coding tasks and evaluation harnesses used to benchmark AI coding agents. Participants verify logic, test cases, and environment structure via guided conversation and screen-sharing, at $65/hour.
Software Engineers: Paid Interview on AI Evaluation Tasks
What We're Researching We're running a paid study on the quality and realism of coding environments designed to test AI agents. We are developing a comprehensive suite of programming tasks and evaluation harnesses to…
Machine Learning Engineers: Scenario Building for Reinforcement Learning
A paid remote study for ML engineers and AI researchers: participants design and build scenario environments for reinforcement learning agents on Terac's platform, configure environmental parameters and reward structures, test agent behaviors, and give usability feedback in an interview. Pays $90/hour.
Full-Stack Engineers (Cybersecurity): Feedback On CI/CD Workflows
Paid remote research interview (via Terac) for full-stack engineers with a cybersecurity focus: you walk through your CI/CD setup and how you verify vulnerabilities before production, then give candid feedback on conceptual secure-deployment workflows. Pays $105/hour.
Technical Accounting And FP&A Experts: AI Training Scenarios
What We're Researching We're hiring technical accounting and FP&A experts to help build reinforcement learning environments for AI systems. This work focuses on creating complex financial scenarios, defining edge…
Sales And Revops Professionals: Interview On Workflow Tools
What We're Researching We're running a paid study on the workflows, processes, and software tools that power modern sales and revenue operations. We want to understand how teams manage data pipelines, align sales…
Head of Projects
Lead a growing team to scale AI data and evaluation projects, manage client relationships, and optimize delivery workflows for high-quality expert-driven outputs.
Founding Engineer
Founding Engineer As a founding engineer, you're building the engine that matches every person on earth to the work they're meant to do. This page covers why Terac exists, what you'll own and how we work. Why Terac…