Dot Product is a San Francisco AI startup founded in 2024 by Usman Masood (former CTO of Pipe and engineering manager at Stripe) and Maksim Stepanenko (previously at Coinbase, Primer, Locu, and the MIT Media Lab). The company builds "Operator," a platform of voice-first AI coworkers (agents) for operations and customer-support teams: AI agents that follow company-specific playbooks, provide 24/7 phone/voice support, and scale to fluctuating demand as an alternative to traditional call centers. Dot Product raised a $6M seed round led by Index Ventures with participation from Lachy Groom. As of this enrichment pass the company operates in stealth: the product surface (operator.xyz) does not resolve publicly and dotproduct.xyz is parked, so no public API, developer docs, SDKs, or machine-readable specifications could be verified. Sector: ai-ml.
Dot Product is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, Voice Agents, Customer Service, and AI Agents.
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Machine-Readable Auth+10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey) Ask about this →
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aid: dot-product
deliveryModel:
model: unknown
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
source:
- security
generated: '2026-11-13'
method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/dot-product.png
name: Dot Product
description: 'Dot Product is a San Francisco AI startup founded in 2024 by Usman Masood (former CTO of Pipe and engineering
manager at Stripe) and Maksim Stepanenko (previously at Coinbase, Primer, Locu, and the MIT Media Lab). The company builds
"Operator," a platform of voice-first AI coworkers (agents) for operations and customer-support teams: AI agents that follow
company-specific playbooks, provide 24/7 phone/voice support, and scale to fluctuating demand as an alternative to traditional
call centers. Dot Product raised a $6M seed round led by Index Ventures with participation from Lachy Groom. As of this
enrichment pass the company operates in stealth: the product surface (operator.xyz) does not resolve publicly and dotproduct.xyz
is parked, so no public API, developer docs, SDKs, or machine-readable specifications could be verified. Sector: ai-ml.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dot-product/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- index-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Voice Agents
- Customer Service
- AI Agents
- Conversational AI
tags_raw:
- Company
- Ai Ml
- Artificial Intelligence
- Voice Agents
- Customer Support
- Operations
- AI Agents
- Conversational AI
- Customer-Support
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/dot-product-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://dotproduct.xyz/
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-07-19'
status: backfilled
pass: local-v1
note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence
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