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The Hog

The Hog

Fall 2025

AI Demand Gen for Companies

About Company

TheHog.ai is the first predictive intelligence engine for growth. We don't just find leads; we predict your next customer before they enter the market. TheHog.ai maps your ICP, channels, and opportunities across the internet, monitors competitors, communities, keywords, and turns signals into ranked actionable game plans. The future of sales isn't a static dashboard; it is a living, autonomous command center. TheHog.ai gives a single operator the power of an entire sales and marketing teams by compressing weeks of research into minutes of execution. The Hog Mind & Global Graph At our core is "The Hog Mind": a proprietary Contributory Global Graph that fuses real-time social listening with advanced identity resolution. Unlike traditional enrichment tools that rely on stale databases, The Hog monitors millions of live conversations across the internet to identify high-frequency intent signals. This creates a self-reinforcing data flywheel that ranks opportunities and triggers autonomous engagement workflows instantly. What We Do: Predictive Buying Intelligence: We map the "Global Graph" of customer nodes to surface opportunities before competitors know they exist. Autonomous Engagement: An army of AI agents that don't just draft, but identify, verify, and engage with customers across LinkedIn, Reddit, and X. Deep Data Enrichment: We bridge the gap between anonymous social signals and verified contact data, creating a holistic view of your market. The Data Flywheel: A bottom-up network where every user interaction cleans and verifies our dataset, creating a defensive moat that gets smarter with every query. The Result: Win your customers before it’s even a competition

Active Founders

Hudson Liao

Hudson Liao

CEO, Co-founder

Hudson Liao is a growth operator with nearly 15 years in GTM and a 5× first growth and marketing hire. He took one startup from ~$900k to $7M+ ARR in 3 months, led another from two months of runway to profitability, and built repeatable playbooks across search, social, outbound, partnerships, and product-led motions. He is the GTM person you call when outcomes matter.

Paulo Nascimento

Paulo Nascimento

Co-founder

Paulo Nascimento is a AI expert who began winning hackathons at age 14. He began his professional career as Auth0’s youngest hire at age 17, where he later served as the company’s first GenAI engineer under Okta, architecting tools that accelerated developer onboarding. Most recently, Paulo was the first AI hire at Ravenna (backed by Khosla & Madrona), where he built production agents for IT workflows. He is a specialist in autonomous systems with a patent pending in multi-agent management.

Company Facts

LocationRemote
Team Size2
Founded2025
StatusActive