Objective, Inc. (acquired by Upwork)

We're excited to share that Objective has entered into an agreement to join Upwork, the world’s largest work marketplace! Our team will bring our skills in AI and search technology to help make it easier for Upwork clients and talent to find the right match and work together successfully. We're all incredibly proud of what we’ve built at Objective and can’t wait to see what we’ll achieve together with Upwork. Here’s to a new chapter, new opportunities, and a shared vision for the future of work!

It’s new SDK day here at Objective HQ! Updates are available now for our Python & Typescript SDKs, rebuilt from the ground up with Stainless (the tooling behind some of our favorite helper libraries). These new releases include full API coverage, including support for V3 Ensembles and Finetuning. Let us know what you think!

Every week is launch week lately here at Objective HQ, and we’re all buzzing about this one. The V3 family of ensembles launch this morning, adding a whole new layer of enhanced intent understanding to your users’ search queries. Upgrading your indexes to the new ensembles only takes a few minutes - jump in! ??3??

Just in time for your weekend hacking, the team has shipped out a Python library that we already use internally here at HQ. Search Evaluator is a tool that makes it easier to evaluate & compare search results across multiple search engines using Anton, our AI evaluator. If you've been looking for a better way to quickly benchmark relevance across platforms, boy do we have the Saturday project for you!

New homepage day is always a great day ?? https://www.objective.inc

We're flattered to be in such good company in this list of the top promising startups in 2024!

We’re sweating out the last days of summer here at Objective HQ with another ship that’s worth a thousand words. We’re stoked to launch Image Search into Public Beta today! You can now use an image as the search input in Objective indexes, enabling all kinds of visual retrieval use cases. If you have an Objective account, it's already enabled for you! And if you haven't signed up yet, make an account on the free plan and give it a try!

The numbers are in! Agora could tell they had "passed the mom test" when they shipped an improved search experience with Objective. Now the data is here to back is up: user retention up 5x since shipping Objective ?? After shipping AI-powered search users are finding more great products, dropping off less & keep coming back for more great results day after day. Stoked for the https://searchagora.com team, and excited to continue to see those numbers grow! Read the case study: https://lnkd.in/gugTsBa8

These success stories are BONKERS! These are lean teams doing a few hours of work over a few days. Getting 5x retention, +10% check out rates. Wow! Put a smart tool in the hands of smart engineers, and boom! Amazing things happen! Happier users, massive return on investment. Check it out: https://lnkd.in/esKXFC9t

This morning we launched Anton, an AI agent that can evaluate search results with near-human accuracy ??. Everyone here at Objective HQ has been anxious to see this one get to the finish line over the past month, after it's been such a game changing tool for how we build search internally. So - thank you for all the great feedback today (and thanks for the coverage Mike Wheatley/ SiliconANGLE & theCUBE!). And keep the feedback coming! We can't wait to see what you build next with Anton.