About

Pluralytics is the only content intelligence solution powered by people’s values.

What’s in a word? A lot if you’re a business. The words you choose today are the difference between enhancing your company’s mission and values or turning potential customers away. The team at Pluralytics knows this, which is why we created the only content intelligence solution dedicated to values-based language.

Former Public Radio International executives Alisa Miller and Rick Byrne, along with technologist Morteza Nia, founded Pluralytics in March 2020. We are passionate about helping brands build consistency in their communications and creating more meaningful connections with customers, employees, and investors.

We work with leading brands, including Best Buy and Great Clips, to ensure their words resonate. Our groundbreaking technology also helps smaller brands uncover what their brand voice is — or should be — so they can harness the full power of every business opportunity.

Our hard work hasn’t gone unnoticed. Pluralytics was chosen by the prestigious Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) to be a part of their highly competitive, seed-stage program for startups that employ innovations in technology and business models to deliver significant improvements to economic productivity and human welfare.

So far, we’ve analyzed millions of words and phrases… and we’re just getting started.

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Leadership team

Alisa Miller

CEO & Co-founder

Named by Fast Company as a Most Influential Woman in Technology, Alisa Miller is a tech founder, groundbreaking C-level executive, and board member with experience on a global stage. Before starting Pluralytics, Alisa was CEO of Public Radio International (PRI) from 2006-2018 and was the first woman and youngest CEO to head a major public radio network. Under her leadership, she led product launches, oversaw significant M&A and attracted approximately $50 million from the philanthropic sector. In 2018, she led PRI’s merger with PRX, creating a company that reaches 28.5MM users and has 100MM podcast downloads monthly. She speaks on the power of purpose-driven businesses and on tech/media’s power to shape knowledge and action. Her TEDTalk has 2MM+ views/translated into 48 languages.

Rick Byrne

COO & Co-founder

Rick Byrne is a leading marketing and communications executive with a proven track record of creating compelling digital experiences that leverage technology to drive audience and engagement. His efforts have helped consequential content reach millions of people. Rick has been a leader in digital media from start-ups to established brands, including serving as Digital Publisher for public radio’s flagship international news program, “The World,” and as SVP Marketing and Communications at the award-winning digital news startup GlobalPost. He has headed up communications and digital strategy for the Emmy-winning weekly newsmagazine "Now on PBS,” oversaw the website for “Bill Moyers Journal,” and communications for PBS' acclaimed documentary series "Frontline." He also served as VP of Marketing and Sales for a NASDAQ-listed startup ISP.

Morteza Nia, Ph.D.

Head of Machine Learning and NLP & Co-founder

Morteza Nia has been active in information extraction and recommendation throughout his Ph.D. and tenure in leadership roles at Fortune 500 companies and tech startups. He specializes in machine learning, natural language models and building algorithms. He is passionate about data-driven products and developing new approaches to solving complex problems through machine learning.