About Pique
Local media, rebuilt for the future
Pique is reinventing local media — pairing reporters with AI that reads the public record, so every city gets coverage that’s faster, deeper, and accountable.
Backed by
Drive Capital
Investing in the next generation of category-defining companies built outside Silicon Valley.
The mission
Every city deserves coverage that never sleeps. We’re building the media engine that makes deep local content economically possible again — human judgment, machine reach.
Reporting, amplified
AI reads filings, transcripts, and the public record at the scale no desk could — then hands reporters the threads worth pulling.
Anchored to the record
Every claim links to a source. Citations aren’t a footnote — they’re the spine of how Pique reports and how readers verify.
Local-first, always
We cover the council meeting, the zoning board, the water main. National scale serving deeply local stakes.
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Our story
We started where local coverage was disappearing.
Across newspapers, radio, and local TV, the outlets that once showed up to the meetings nobody else covered have been shrinking for years. Pique began with a simple question: what if AI could give a small team the reach of a full bureau — without ever replacing their judgment?
Today our desks cover cities that local media left behind, and our tools are built by the same people who use them every day.
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Help rebuild local media
We’re a small team with an outsized mandate. If you want your work to matter to local communities everywhere, come build with us.