Human insight has value.
People carry knowledge that hasn’t made it onto the internet. What they noticed in a store. Why they chose one product over another. What changed their mind. What they need next.
As AI makes it easier to build and act, understanding those people becomes even more important.
We’re building Temple to make that understanding easier to access, and to create value for the people who contribute it.
Where we started
Our first work was collecting real-world field data. We built AI systems to help gather and interpret visual information for some of the world’s largest retail and consumer brands.
At the heart of that work is a simple question: how do you connect the people who need answers with the people who have them?
Today, Temple for Opinions helps teams turn a question into research, find the right participants, interview them, and make sense of what they learn. Participants get paid for their time and perspectives. Teams can keep asking questions as their customers and their decisions change.
The human experience matters
Everyone has some unique insight and experience worth sharing. A person’s willingness to share, the questions you ask, and the space you give them to explain all shape the quality of what you learn.
We’re building around that experience. We want research to feel like a thoughtful conversation, and participation to feel worth someone’s time.
Where we’re going
We believe personal AI agents could help people earn from the knowledge, experience, and perspectives they choose to share.
Research is our starting point: organizations have questions worth paying to answer, and people have something valuable to contribute. Over time, we want Temple to connect that demand with people and their agents.
Our ambition is to bring human insight to the forefront of innovation, while creating more economic opportunity for the people behind it.
The founders
Isha Sharma, CEO & Co-Founder
Isha worked at Microsoft at the intersection of applied AI research and commercial products. Her work spanned video AI, sandbox environments, content provenance, hardware partnerships, and customer research at scale. At Temple, she brings that experience to a question she keeps coming back to: how can technology help us understand people better, while creating value for them?
Tej Lunani, CTO & Co-Founder
Tej spent four years at Amazon building AI shopping assistants for physical retail stores with Alexa and working on internet infrastructure with CloudFront. Before Amazon, he built software across VR, industrial IoT, and indoor navigation. His work has consistently connected software with the complexity of the physical world. At Temple, he builds the systems that turn questions into conversations and useful answers.