Michael Duggan

Whisper is building the media company of the future. Each month, over 250 million people across the web consume Whisper stories, videos and posts - which showcase authentic, eye opening perspectives from Whisper users around the globe. Whisper stories and videos are powered by Eliot, Whisper’s AI storytelling technology. Whisper’s mobile app is the largest platform where people share real thoughts and feelings, without identities. Whisper is backed by venture investors including Sequoia Capital, Tencent, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Thrive Capital and Shasta Ventures. The Whisper app is available on iOS and Android.

Canon-Engine is a system being developed by writers, producers, and systems-developers who believe that AI will raise the bar in professional storytelling, not remove it. As creative work accelerates and generative tools reshape the process, Canon-Engine provides a clearer way to explore ideas, collaborate, and build worlds without losing authorship, coherence, or intent. Canon-Engine is an intense effort to give professionals the structure and confidence they need to create at a higher level in the generative era. Canon-Engine is led by two long-time collaborators: a writer–director whose work has lived across film, television, and narrative development – and a systems-designer with decades of experience delivering advanced applications and infrastructure. Both have spent their careers grappling with how worlds are built, expanded, and protected. Canon-Engine is the product of that shared frustration and shared optimism – a belief that storytelling in the generative era can be more coherent, more defensible, and more professionally powerful than ever before.

Whisper is building the media company of the future. Each month, over 250 million people across the web consume Whisper stories, videos and posts - which showcase authentic, eye opening perspectives from Whisper users around the globe. Whisper stories and videos are powered by Eliot, Whisper’s AI storytelling technology. Whisper’s mobile app is the largest platform where people share real thoughts and feelings, without identities. Whisper is backed by venture investors including Sequoia Capital, Tencent, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Thrive Capital and Shasta Ventures. The Whisper app is available on iOS and Android.

Brillstein is the original management-production company, an industry pioneer that for over 45 years has represented some of the industry’s most successful actors, writers, directors, comedians, authors and producers, and has produced an array of television shows, movies, documentaries and podcasts. In recent years, Brillstein has emerged as a leader in the representation of digital creators, podcasters, gamers and personalities. Brillstein has a decades-long track record of successfully packaging and producing television series for major networks and streamers, including such hits as The Sopranos and Real Time with Bill Maher. The company recently launched Brillstein Creative Partners (BCP) as a standalone TV development and production subsidiary, enhancing its scripted television business, including titles set up at Netflix, Disney and Amazon. BCP recently entered into a First Look deal with Paramount Television Studios and is developing shows for distribution across all entertainment platforms.