What is CURI AI?
CURI AI is an AI Global Growth OS built by Blackhoods Inc. It runs the entire overseas expansion process for a brand. AI deep interviews with local consumers find the real reason they buy or do not. Product, price, and go-to-market strategy are then validated against those answers, and execution follows through KOL sourcing, local campaigns, and sales until the insight turns into revenue. Interview programs that traditionally took 4 to 8 weeks finish in one day, at roughly 90% lower cost.
Why do 90% of brands fail when they expand abroad?
Because they never ask. Headquarters sets positioning, price, and creative from what already worked at home, the launch underperforms, and only then does someone schedule customer interviews to find out why. By that point the answer is a receipt for money already spent. CURI AI moves the asking to the front, before budget is committed, which is the single change that moves the odds.
How is an AI deep interview different from a survey?
A survey asks only the questions that were written in advance, so it returns what people chose. An AI deep interview asks those questions, listens to the answer, and generates the next question from it in real time. That is how you get the WHY behind a purchase, a hesitation, or a churn event. CURI AI runs this one-to-one, in voice or text, in the respondent's own language, with hundreds of interviews running at the same time.
How does Ask-Validate-Connect work?
Ask: CURI AI recruits local consumers and runs adaptive one-to-one interviews. Validate: every response is structured into the same model of purchase intent, rejection reasons, use context, and message reaction, so product, price, and strategy decisions rest on data. Connect: high-intent respondents are pulled out of the pool and routed into KOL seeding, campaigns, and sales. Every step hands its output to the next one, so the work keeps moving after the findings land.
What technology runs the interviews?
An interview engine built on sLM, RAG, and a Vector DB. RAG generates the custom question set from the client's product, market, and category documents. The Vector DB holds conversation context so the interview never repeats itself. The sLM writes each follow-up question mid-conversation from the answer just given. Voice responses are transcribed, structured, and analyzed for emotion, topic, and core need.
Who has used CURI AI, and what were the results?
LG Electronics ran AI in-depth interviews with 300 consumers aged 20 to 40 across 3 European countries and 3 languages. That ran at 1/10 the cost and time of their previous research, and they re-engaged for a follow-on project. From The Skin (Bio Moa Medical) validated US buyers in their 20s and 30s through AI interviews plus review analysis, then turned the findings into a content strategy. Mojo King (Six Letters) collected 2,000 US respondents in a single day at a $0.01 CPA (cost per action). They came back with 5x the budget for round two. Industrial AI EXPO ran QR-based AI voice satisfaction surveys, with follow-up questions generated in real time. At Metabranding, AI voice screening interviews handled a hiring program for women returning to work, and the report came back with fit scores and risk signals.
How much does CURI AI cost?
Three packages. START is $5,000 per project and covers market and customer validation with lead generation. GROWTH is $10,000+ per month plus campaign costs and adds KOL sourcing, local campaign execution, and conversion of high-intent customers into first revenue. GLOBAL TEAM is $20,000+ per month plus a performance fee and runs the full overseas business function including partner management, CRM, marketing strategy, and performance management. Scope, countries, interview volume, and execution depth set the final quote.
How fast can we start?
Business diagnostic, AI customer validation PoC, package contract, execution setup, then execution with performance tracking. Most teams are live inside a week. Customer and market validation begins first; marketing, KOL, and sales follow in stages, with the detailed schedule fixed after a first meeting that settles goals, countries, and scope. Contact peter@askcuri.com or 02-6339-1331.
