SAN FRANCISCO, April 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Cookiy AI today launched a suite of user research tools (Cookiy Skill, CLI and MCP Server) that allow any AI platform to reach real people directly and conduct qualitative and quantitative research, creating what it calls the “human layer,” a new layer in the AI stack that gives software direct access to human opinions, experiences and decision-making.
Until now, AI could search the web, read documents and analyze data sets, but not ask people what they actually think. Cookie changes that.
For the first time, a user can type a question into ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor and instantly transform it into a live research program, recruiting real participants, conducting AI-moderated interviews or surveys, and returning structured human insight in hours.
Any AI. Every person. Any subject.
Traditionally, only trained researchers with significant budgets could design studies, recruit participants, and analyze results. With Cookiy, anyone can start investigating, and AI agents can now access the equivalent of a professional investigation workflow through the tools they already use, wherever real human judgment is needed:
- A product team can validate a feature before launch
- A founder can validate a market before investing
- A consultant can understand how customers make decisions
- A vibe coder can quickly test ideas with real users as they build
- An academic researcher can collect primary human data and validate hypotheses beyond traditional methods
At the same time, people around the world can contribute their experiences, opinions and decision-making, making human knowledge a shared and accessible resource.
This turns user research from a niche function into an always-on “insight engine.”
“Google looks for what people have published. Cookies reach what they don’t have: their emotions, preferences and real-time intentions. Our goal is to make professional-quality user research available to everyone, directly through the AI tools they already use,” said Davin (YC) Dong, Founder and CEO of Cookiy.
From idea to validation in 2 hours
What makes this launch unprecedented is the universality of capabilities – who can ask, who can be asked and from where – powered by Cookiy’s unified user research stack that orchestrates the entire pipeline.
- Cookie Skillthe user research “brain,” embedded in AI tools, turns a vague question into a complete study by defining the research scope, designing methodology, orchestrating interviews and surveys, and delivering a structured insight report with themes, quotes, and statistical validation, along with rich results such as slides and video clips.
- Cookie MCP & CLIthe execution engine, which allows human and AI agents to conduct user research at scale.
A product builder who needs quick concept validation simply uses Cookiy’s User Research Skill in the Claude app:
“Do users want this feature, and how should we position it?”
Cookieiy quickly turns the question into a complete mixed-methods research program, defining the audience, generating the discussion guide, recruiting over 30 real participants, and conducting AI-moderated interviews and surveys in less than 2 hours. It shows that 68% of participants want the feature, with the strongest response from power users, that 3 in 5 prefer time-saving positioning over automation, and that top pre-launch concerns focus on onboarding reliability and complexity.
What’s next: The Insight Engine
Cookieiy starts with AI-driven user research, but the vision goes further: to help any person or AI system get answers when those answers live in people’s heads, not on the internet.
As the platform grows, Cookiy is building an “insight engine” powered by real human conversations, a continuously growing knowledge layer that helps AI better understand how people think, decide and behave.
About Cookie
Cookiy AI is a San Francisco-based company developing an end-to-end AI-driven user research platform that enables faster, deeper, and smarter insights. The recently launched Skill, CLI and MCP Server make Cookiy the first and only service to directly connect AI agents to human cognition on demand. The company raised a pre-seed round of over $7 million, backed by Liquid2, Converge, GoAhead, and UpHonest, and surpassed $1 million ARR within six months of founding.
Contact:
Cookie AI
El Camino Real, Palo Alto
Executive leaders:
Davin (YC) Dong, Founder and CEO
Joven Lee, Chief Revenue Officer
E-mail: info@cookie.com
Website: https://cookie.ai
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cookiy
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