AI for the era of Marketing to the Machines.
Control what AI says about your brand
Own the real-time social moment.
NIOS is built for this new reality. In stealth mode, launching soon. Invest or join the growing customer waitlist.
A product by 8ight Ventures · In stealth · By invitation only
— THE SHIFT
The biggest change in brand history is happening right now.
AI is replacing search. The systems that decide what people believe about your brand — AI engines and viral social — are operating without you in the room.
Most brands won’t notice until it’s too late. There is so much more going on you can read on the password protected pages.
63%
Decline in search click-through as AI takes over discovery
68%
Of buyers trust social and creators over brand advertising
800M+
Weekly active users on ChatGPT alone, and rising
Sources: industry analyst reporting, 2024–2026
— THE SHAPE OF THE SOLUTION
One platform. Two problems most brands haven’t solved yet.
NIOS is purpose-built for the era where AI interprets your brand and something else we can not share yet. We are in stealth mode, and if you’re a founding customer or early investor, you should have the password by now.
Full product details are released first to waitlist members, founding customers, and qualified investors under NDA.
— BUILT BY EXPERTS AND OPERATORS
People who have built and shipped before.
Haifa Barbari
Founder & CEO
Former Head of AI & Technology Innovation and Saatchi & Saatchi alumni — launched the first-to-market AI visibility product. Twenty years building and launching AI and brands with global reach. Two prior exits. C-suite relationships with the exact buyers NIOS sells to. Named Top 50 Women in Tech and Innovator of the Year. Keynote speaker on “Marketing to the Machines.”
Jason Valdez
Co-Founder & COO
Twenty-five years scaling operational systems across growth-stage companies. Drove 80%+ revenue growth and material EBITDA expansion through a nine-figure sale. Brings execution velocity and investor-grade infrastructure to NIOS. Now building the operational backbone that takes NIOS from first customer to category leader.
McVal Osborne
Co-Founder & CTO
Builds AI products end-to-end, with a background spanning ML engineering, platform infrastructure, and full-stack development across consumer and enterprise AI. Leads the technical vision for NIOS — the agentic intelligence layer, multi-engine AI ingestion, and per-customer private data architecture — with a builder's instinct for what actually works at scale.
— EARLY ACCESS
Get on the list. Get ahead of the era.
Customer waitlist members get product updates, market insights from our team, and first access when NIOS opens beyond founding customers. Investors should use the investor inquiries link in the hero.
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— WHAT’S AHEAD
Billions of customers will be machines.
By 2034, the AI agent economy is projected to be worth over $69B — agents talking to agents, and agents influencing humans, humans buying from agents. Marketing to the machines is not optional. It is the next category of and NIOS is being built for the brands that intend to lead it.
8ight Ventures · Mission — Advancing AI and human progress together. We’re building for the co-existence era.