Context Scout is a research-led software company developing new information retrieval and machine learning based approaches for web search, automated professional assistance and task based IR. After raising their seed round in 2016 they’ve expanded their team to include PhDs on topics such as NLP, knowledge representation and deep learning. Marc Sloan has a PhD from UCL in Information Retrieval and is the author of the book ‘Dynamic Information Retrieval Modeling’. He has published extensively on the topic of predictive web search, including during his time working at Microsoft Research. Andy O’Harney holds a Master’s in Machine Learning from Glasgow University and worked on computational neuroscience for the Medical Research Council and Medical University of South Carolina before joining fintech startup Singletrack. Marc and Andy met on EF and started Context Scout.