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
South Asian Software Engineers: Coding Tasks for AI Evaluation
Experienced software engineers in South Asia take part in a paid, AI-moderated study reviewing coding tasks and evaluation harnesses used to test AI coding agents — giving feedback on realism, structure, and difficulty and suggesting test-suite improvements. This is hourly contract-style study work ($35/hour), not a full-time engineering role.
LATAM Software Engineers: Coding Tasks for AI Evaluation
Paid study for software engineers in Brazil or Argentina who review proposed coding tasks and evaluation harnesses used to test AI agents, walking through environments on screen and giving feedback on logic, realism, and structure. $40/hour, fully remote; open to backend, full-stack, and QA automation engineers.
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…
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…