Dr. John Ennis - Mathematician, AI Pioneer, Founder & CEO of Aigora

Dr. John Ennis

Mathematician · AI Pioneer · CEO

Founder & CEO, Aigora

About Dr. John Ennis - Leading AI Consultant for Consumer Insights

I've spent 32 years in sensory, starting at 17 writing Fortran code at my father's company. I got a PhD in math. Did a postdoc in computational neuroscience. Consulted with dozens of Fortune 500 companies. Most people pick one of those lanes. I kept crossing them because the problems I cared about sat at the intersections.

Here's why that matters. Anyone can build a dashboard or a chatbot. But if you don't understand how people actually perceive products, the psychophysics, the statistics, the domain, you're fitting curves to noise. The tools I build at Aigora work because they're built on real science and 32 years of doing this work. That's what I set out to do when I founded the company in 2019, and it's what I'm still doing.

AI is going to change how we work. The gap between "AI exists" and "AI helps me" is a knowledge gap. I want to help close it, with tools and teaching built on actual science, not buzzwords.

AI can classify, cluster, and forecast faster than any human. But it cannot care. As machines predict, humans must decide.

Work

Company

Aigora

AI expertise for consumer insights, with deep roots in sensory science.

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Platform

THEUS

A knowledge exploration platform that turns decades of proprietary research into searchable, governed intelligence. Full citation provenance. No black boxes.

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Tools

Aigora AI Toolkit

AI-powered tools for common consumer insights tasks. $1,000/year, free for course attendees.

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Course

AI for Consumer Insights

A 10-week hands-on course where you build real AI-powered research applications. Q2 2026 cohort starts April 28. Early bird pricing open.

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Podcast

AigoraCast

100+ episodes of conversations with industry leaders on AI and consumer insights.

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Guide

From Measurement to Meaning

A free guide on AI in sensory science. Written for people who want to understand what is actually changing and how to adapt.

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Publications

50+

Publications

4

Books

21

h-index

Research spanning Thurstonian models, neural network approaches to human cognition, sensory discrimination methodology, and the statistical foundations of consumer research. Winner of the 2013 Food Quality and Preference Researcher of the Future award.

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Selected Books

2023

Data Science for Sensory and Consumer Scientists

Chapman and Hall/CRC

2016

Readings in Advertising Claims Substantiation

Institute for Perception Press

2015

Travel Every Day

Self-published

2012

Short Stories in Sensory & Consumer Science

Institute for Perception

Speaking

Keynote speaker at Pangborn, EuroSense, and SenseAsia. Topics include AI-augmented research workflows, the future of sensory science, and what happens when the bottleneck shifts from measurement to meaning.

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AigoraCast

100+ episodes of conversations with industry leaders on AI and consumer insights. We talk about what works, what doesn't, and what's coming next.

Contact

Interested in how AI can transform your research organization, or looking for a speaker? I'd welcome the conversation.