Every major commerce platform is racing to ship agentic storefronts: interfaces where AI doesn't just answer questions, but browses, compares, and transacts on behalf of customers. The brands that win will be the ones whose data is structured for this world. Today, most brands aren't even close.
We're Linen, an applied AI infrastructure company focused on commerce. We partner with premium brands to build the structured data layer that makes their storefronts legible to AI systems and deploy it directly into their stack.
We're working with brands to bring this infrastructure to market: companies with real urgency to get ahead of the agentic shift before their competitors do.
We don't outsource or hand off. Our engineers deploy directly into our partners' infrastructure, working shoulder to shoulder with their teams. Our indexing, agent platform, and tools are all built in-house, allowing us to ship in weeks what would otherwise take quarters.
Our team comes from Stanford, MIT, McKinsey, and infrastructure companies like Vercel. Across enterprise AI, data infrastructure, and premium e-commerce, we've published award-winning AI research at NeurIPS, architected multi-million dollar platforms, and scaled brands on Shopify.
We're backed by over $4M from Andreessen Horowitz, Flex Capital, and angel investors from Apple, Airbnb, Square, Stripe, and Coinbase. Notable angels include Soleio, Terrence Rohan, Lenny Rachitsky, Molly Mielke McCarthy, Michael Curtis, Michael Abbott, and Nemil Dalal.
In short:
• We're building the structured data infrastructure that makes brands legible to AI systems.
• That infrastructure powers the agentic storefronts where the next generation of commerce will happen.
• The brands that ship this first will compound an advantage that gets harder to close every month.
The team is growing and the infrastructure is live. If this resonates with you, come talk to us.
— Sophia and the Linen team
San Francisco, CA