Fast Company just named Dewey a 2026 World Changing Idea, as a winner in the Business Products & Services category for our AI site search.
We couldn't be more proud - and it feels like the right moment to remind ourselves (and you) why we do this.
We're living through a strange, paradoxical time. AI answers stitched together from internet averages and questionable citations are flooding every corner of the web. The dominant narrative says this makes expert knowledge less valuable. We firmly disagree. Experts are more important than ever. We don't believe in AI that pretends to know everything. We believe in humans who actually know something.
Generic AI tools make that knowledge harder to find - that's the gap Dewey closes.
We let experts answer using only their own knowledge library, with citations at the core. When the answer isn't there, Dewey says so. When someone needs a doctor instead of a search result, it tells them that too. The whole point is to get people to the experts, not to speculate or “chat with your mind”.
The proof is in the work. Our pilot with Emily Oster at ParentData hit 91% success versus 28% for traditional site search. We launched fully in 2025 and have now answered more than 1.8 million questions - saving our expert partners roughly 50,000 hours so they can get back to creating new knowledge.
As Emily put it: "Our users need information that is both accurate and immediate, and Dewey has continuously evolved their service to meet that."
None of this happens without the partners who believed early: Emily Oster, Gretchen Rubin, County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, Dr. Lisa Damour, One Schoolhouse, Katy Clarke at Untold Italy, Dr. Noa Sterling, FOUND, Livelong Media, and more.
Thank you – and thank you to our small but mighty team. We're just getting started.