Julian Pscheid

Founder & CEO, Hedy AI Julian Pscheid spent two decades running EMERGE, a digital product agency, helping other SaaS companies and startups build and ship their products. In 2024, he sold his stake in the agency to build Hedy AI — a real-time AI conversation coach that listens during meetings, interviews, and lectures and surfaces the right question or insight while it still matters, not after the fact. Pscheid has built and scaled Hedy largely as a solo founder, competing directly with venture-backed rivals many times its size. Based in Portland, Oregon, he's focused on making real-time AI support useful across both professional and educational settings — and on proving that a small, fast-moving team can out-build companies with far more capital.