Dr. John Ennis - Mathematician, AI Pioneer, Founder & CEO of 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
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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Aigora AI Toolkit
AI-powered tools for common consumer insights tasks. $1,000/year, free for course attendees.
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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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AigoraCast
100+ episodes of conversations with industry leaders on AI and consumer insights.
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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.
Google Scholar ProfileSelected 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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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.
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Interested in how AI can transform your research organization, or looking for a speaker? I'd welcome the conversation.
