Hum Names Co‑founder Dustin Smith as CEO
For the past five years, Smith has guided Hum’s expansion into AI‑powered audience and content intelligence.
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Five Years of Hum 🎉
Hum turns five! From CDP beginnings to AI-powered publishing intelligence, we're taking a walk down memory lane to see how far we've come.
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IEEE launches pilot with Hum’s Alchemist Review
This pilot expands IEEE’s existing partnership with Hum and represents a strategic initiative to explore how AI can enhance editorial efficiency.
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SPIE to Pilot Alchemist Review Across Two Journals with Rapidly Growing Submissions
With Alchemist Review, SPIE aims to streamline core steps in the editorial workflow—submission triage, scope checks, integrity signals, and decision support—so editors can focus on scholarly judgment rather than manual busywork.
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Emerald Selects Hum’s Alchemist Engage to Enhance On-Platform Researcher Communication
Emerald taps Hum’s Alchemist Engage to power AI-driven audience insights, serving hyper-personalized research journeys that boost discovery, OA growth & impact.
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The Alchemist Future
AI orchestration - not AI tools - will determine winners. Hum is building Alchemist to be the orchestration layer for publisher AI.
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American Society for Microbiology to pilot Hum’s Alchemist Review
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) will pilot Alchemist Review, an AI-driven editorial assistant designed to streamline manuscript analysis, validate citations, and enhance editorial workflows – saving time while keeping editors in control.
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ASM Partners with Hum to Deploy AI-based Taxonomy
American Society for Microbiology selects Hum's Alchemist Taxonomy platform to enhance content organization across 16 scientific journals. AI-powered taxonomy tags 260,000+ articles automatically.
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